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         |  Ceri JC
             from Jefferson City (United States) on 2005-07-14 09:45 [#01662691] Points: 23533 Status: Moderator | Followup to marlowe: #01662641 | Show recordbag
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 | "By that, I'm asking whether your parents had jobs that were
 menial or unskilled or involved labour (plumber, sparky,
 driver etc)."
 
 Again, an unclear area: They were both from working class
 backgrounds. When I was little, my mum was a nursery nurse,
 the very bottom rung of 'teaching', upper lower class, or
 lower middle class, depending on your point of view, I
 suppose. My dad was a bit more complex: He started training
 as a librarian, but by his mid-twenties had had enough of it
 and quite to be a bricky in a london building firm. He
 stayed at home to look after me as a sprog (couldn't afford
 a nursery) and then became a lorry driver, followed by
 working at a builder's merchant/diy place.
 
 I suppose it's a funny mix of middle class intellectualism,
 combined with working class means, attitudes and a decided
 lack of snobbery (despite their intelligence and education,
 they never looked down their noses at other people and we
 had and still do, have a lot of working class friends).
 
 
 
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         |  Drunken Mastah
             from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-07-14 09:46 [#01662692] Points: 35867 Status: Lurker | Followup to Ceri JC: #01662631 | Show recordbag
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 | hahahaha! wonderful plan! 
 
 
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         |  gay_dad
             from 5 go mad in Dorset (Chile) on 2005-07-14 10:52 [#01662722] Points: 635 Status: Addict
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 | Yeah, I've gone right off of qrter, I'm all like "Are you f'real?"
 
 What happened man, you used to be cool?
 
 
 
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         |  virginpusher
             from County Clare on 2005-07-14 11:20 [#01662756] Points: 27325 Status: Lurker | Followup to hedphukkerr: #01662157
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 | wrong because there is a slang meaning to it aswell 
 
 
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         |  virginpusher
             from County Clare on 2005-07-14 11:25 [#01662760] Points: 27325 Status: Lurker
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 | nice avatar ceri! 
 
 
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         |  marlowe
             from Antarctica on 2005-07-14 16:45 [#01663102] Points: 24636 Status: Lurker | Followup to Ceri JC: #01662691
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 | I have a similar mix, since my mum was a single mother living in a council flat in an estate bringing up two kids
 and then met my step-father who has two degrees, works for
 Shell and now brings home probably over 100 grand a year.
 
 
 
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         |  marlowe
             from Antarctica on 2005-07-14 16:46 [#01663104] Points: 24636 Status: Lurker | Followup to gay_dad: #01662722
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 | There's no getting things past YOU, belchy - that was the very reason I started this thread.
 
 
 
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         |  Gob Beldof
             on 2005-07-14 16:49 [#01663116] Points: 54 Status: Addict
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 | *plays the worlds smallest violin* 
 
 
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