Brixton news, rumour and general chat - February 2014
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teuchter
je suis teuchter
Teuchter's super duper Brixton chitter-chattering classes class analysisAh. You just know.
Here are the top 20 posters on this edition of the chitter-chatter thread along with my analysis of their class based on posting history.
Dexter Deadwood - self-declared WC
Editor - not analysed for diplomatic reasons
Onket - MC
Truxta - MC
Leanderman - MC
Rushy - MC
Brixton Hatter - not sure
Violent Panda - not sure
Teuchter - MC
el-ahraihah - not sure
CH1 - not sure
T&P - MC
Colacubes - not sure
Boohoo - MC
SarfLondoner - not sure
Quimcunx - MC
Winot - MC
Crispy - MC
Manter - MC
Smick - no idea
Results of Teuchter's super duper Brixton chitter-chattering classes class analysis
55% definite Middle Class
35% unknown
5% definite self-reported Working Class
5% other
When considering any responses to this study we should remember that on urban75 it is much more likely for a middle class person to be in denial of their actual status, than it is for a working class person.
(edited to correct arithmetic error)
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The results are in! We reckon you're
lower-lower middle class
You're basically Lister from Red Dwarf.
lower-lower middle class
You're basically Lister from Red Dwarf.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
The results are in! We reckon you're
solid working class
You're basically Peggy from Hi-de-Hi!.
that's almost a haiku.
solid working class
You're basically Peggy from Hi-de-Hi!.
that's almost a haiku.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
based on teuchter's excellent analysis i have unignored him for good works done for The Files.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
what's interesting is that most of his' not sures' are working class people - at least, those i've met anyway. i suspect that he finds it hard to be sure because those posters are articulate and literate, thus confusing the middle class poster as to their origins - they're not the semi-literate numbskulls the WC are meant to be, but are clearly also not one of us... hence, confusion.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
My apologies. You are quite right and I have edited it to correct.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
What's boring about this post is the way it makes presumptions about me and my prejudices, based on my class.
They can do basic maths as well.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
those aren't presumptions, i've been doing an analysis of your postings for many years.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
I am working class and I don't care what that quiz or teuchter say.
he's not right about everything. he reckons onkey is MC, but no MC person would have a tattoo of a lower league football team. Marx said that, and he was right.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Feel free to present the evidence for your highly unpleasant accusations.
editor
hiraethified
It's seriously unhinged stuff, and the sort of obsessive behaviour that makes some of Anna Key's wilder excursions almost seem normal.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
as if life wasn't short enough already.
it's not your fault you underestimate the working classes, it's a fault common to the british middle classes based on a biased media and the stratification of the class system itself. no need to feel bad.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
c'mon, everyone loves the let me guess your class game, surely?
AKA pseudonym
Well-Known Member
oh my...
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Sorry, but you have to be put in a pigeonhole. And you're either in the one marked "despised" or not.
Manter
Lunch Mob
You may be a hipster....
editor
hiraethified
There's got to Charter Marks coming soon, surely?
boohoo
No.
I did get an asymmetrical bob haircut.
boohoo
No.
But I don't feel like I fit in with either according to the ideas of class in my head. (I had this conversation the other month on here btw - come the revolution we will be arguing on the internet about class and whether the bloke in that band is a racist
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Manter
Lunch Mob
<<shakes head sadly>>. There is no hope for you
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
another common misconception that the british middle classes have is that the working classes despise them. this is because the middle classes are well aware that, were they to find themselves subject to the structural inequalities that the working classes face, they would hate the middle classes.
curiously, rather than empathy or an improved class analysis, this seems to result in viewpoints that either fear the working classes and so seek to keep them down, or blaming their lack of revolutionary behaviour on some sort of inherant weakness - laziness,fecklessness, or greed.
the simple truth is that we may feel annoyance at the middle classes for various reasons, good or bad, we don't loathe individuals for their class. no-one can help what class they were born into, or the society into which they grew up. we might make sweeping statements about how awful the middle-classes are, but come the revolution you'll probably be alright if no-one denounces you for going into champagne and fromage.
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