Macbourgeois or Mirking Class?

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what's the better name for the beautiful amorphous lump we call modern classless aspirational Britain?

― arthur woodlouse (arthur woodlouse), Thursday, 15 May 2003 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

DAVE. CALL IT DAVE

― alix (alix), Thursday, 15 May 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

dave has already been taken

― arthur woodlouse (arthur woodlouse), Thursday, 15 May 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

oh. Let's call it 'China' then. I don't think there's a place called that yet.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 15 May 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Class threads make me want to go and live in a cave. I think Joe has the right idea. I need to see this Themroc film now...

― kate, Thursday, 15 May 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I fail to see the point in class threads myself, which is why the sarcastic thread ridiculing person comes out. I'm not going to say why I find them pointless. I'm not articulate enough.

― alix (alix), Thursday, 15 May 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i think people talking about class is very tedious if they are talking about themselves. who gives a shit what you are persuading yourself is your true nature - for whatever reason.

i have left several parties due to this conversation taking place in the kitchen. another favoured technique is to pretend to pass out under a table.

but i do think that thinking about the way the society is changing is interesting. i do think people are a lot more alike these days.

may be i should have expressed it differently

personally i think hate threads where everyone just says "so and so is cool". may be i am grumpy old git but i dont see the point in a random bigging up of someone in this manner, however nice they are.

― arthur woodlouse (arthur woodlouse), Thursday, 15 May 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

'Momus Class'.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 15 May 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

on reflection i think i take back what i said about the bigging up
someone threads

let them be.

what is really pointless is writing into a thread to say you think the thread is pointless.

just dont bother if you arent interested.

sorry.

― arthur woodlouse (arthur woodlouse), Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think we're saying "the thread is pointless" - I think we're saying "we have SO MANY threads about class, and they always end up either in arguments or Momus-pointification-fests so, erm, please can you explain in more detail what exactly different aspect of class are we discussing?"

I'm really not trying to diss you, Arthur, because so far I've really been enjoying your contributions to the board!

― kate, Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

ok sorry
i had an altercation with the bloke on the till in the canteen at work who seemed to think i was taking the piss by how many chips i put on my plate. unsupervised self service!

so perhaps i came back after lunch a little bit too sensitively

what i was originally trying to do was coin a phrase/start a discussion about how similar people are these days.

may be i am being a bit fuzzy but people dont aspire to culture or education anymore do they? everyone seems happy with soap operas, travel books, makeovers, self help sex guides, and reality tv no matter what there background was. not that some of these things arent good.

isnt it all boiling down to different perspectives on the same product?

there only seems to different levels of material happiness rather than class. is that the only difference in the modern world?

well i think i have succeeded in being even more vague and fuzzy than before. this posting sounds as bad as one of my old university essays. tangent city!

― arthur woodlouse (arthur woodlouse), Thursday, 15 May 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I was under the impression (all this is from someone in England, so I'm mostly thinking of that) that more people than ever are spending longer times in education. As for culture, I'd be surprised if literary classics or modern literary novels had ever sold much better, and art galleries get record attendances, so I'm not sure there's much truth to this.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

thread title and first response kinda flow seamlessly into this debacle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trqdYTtx6XI

― Black Sabbath - violence, religious obscurantism (imago), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:08 (thirteen years ago)

(I blame The Sun, really)

― Black Sabbath - violence, religious obscurantism (imago), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:09 (thirteen years ago)

what search term brought you to this thread

― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:14 (thirteen years ago)

'or'

― Black Sabbath - violence, religious obscurantism (imago), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:15 (thirteen years ago)

do you want an Innocent Smoothie with that?

― sarahell, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:33 (thirteen years ago)

innocent smoothies purvey a different and less evil (albeit more parodiable) form of marketing - it's all self-consciously bourgeois, by and for

― Black Sabbath - violence, religious obscurantism (imago), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:38 (thirteen years ago)

i'm sorry, dave

― sarahell, Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:45 (thirteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j6hhA4vOjo

― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 19 February 2013 21:50 (thirteen years ago)

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