Ahh I like a good moan about other people! Good thread!
1. Not picking up after your dog
2. Having an England flag hanging out your window (controversial?)
3. Dropping litter
4. Hanging around in your front garden, when you have a perfectly usable back garden
5. Walking your dog off the lead where other people are running, cycling, kids playing etc.; or having an extendable lead out to the max, so you may as well not be bothering
6. Not taking the trolley back to the proper place in the supermarket (already been said, but a good one!)
7. Taking up the whole path in a group and expecting other people to go around you
8. Playing music out loud on your phone, on a bus or train or anywhere in public
9. Shirts off in public (except at the beach or pool)
2. If anyone not in your car can hear the music playing in your car, you are low class.
3. Not returning your shopping cart to the stall in the grocery store parking lot.
4. Not washing your hands after using the bathroom.
5. Going shirtless in public.
Wrong. You’re born into class. It’s about pedigree. It’s about upbringing. It has nothing to do with your present circumstance. I can smoke, play my music loud and run around shirtless and still be high class. Nothing I do will take away my father's degree from Yale law school or affect my legacy status at my family's swim and tennis country club in Bethesda. Good manners are for peasants who can't afford to do whatever they want.
This is the correct answer, unfortunately. People are confusing class with manners.
As for manners, I'd say grabbing at food, eating way too fast, making noises when eating, being late without a good reason or telling someone, talking over people, forgetting birthdays, being overly loud in public (shouting or screaming across rooms), being rude to staff in shops or restaurants (hate this), queue jumping, trying to get on the bus without paying, trying to get on the train without paying, trying to get on the tram or metro without paying, not saying thank you.
One time I was in Tesco and a woman hadn't got enough money for a bottle of vinegar she was trying to buy at the self-scan. I put a £ into the machine for her, and she paid for it then took the change out of it for herself (didn't give it back to me) and walked off, didn't say thanks or anything. I thought that was a bit rude tbh! She could've just said 'oh cheers' or anything.
Wrong. You’re born into class. It’s about pedigree. It’s about upbringing. It has nothing to do with your present circumstance. I can smoke, play my music loud and run around shirtless and still be high class. Nothing I do will take away my father's degree from Yale law school or affect my legacy status at my family's swim and tennis country club in Bethesda. Good manners are for peasants who can't afford to do whatever they want.
This is the correct answer, unfortunately. People are confusing class with manners.
2. If anyone not in your car can hear the music playing in your car, you are low class.
3. Not returning your shopping cart to the stall in the grocery store parking lot.
4. Not washing your hands after using the bathroom.
5. Going shirtless in public.
Wrong. You’re born into class. It’s about pedigree. It’s about upbringing. It has nothing to do with your present circumstance. I can smoke, play my music loud and run around shirtless and still be high class. Nothing I do will take away my father's degree from Yale law school or affect my legacy status at my family's swim and tennis country club in Bethesda. Good manners are for peasants who can't afford to do whatever they want.
No way. Jack Kennedy, Rest In Peace, was low-class, the way he behaved.
Wrong. You’re born into class. It’s about pedigree. It’s about upbringing. It has nothing to do with your present circumstance. I can smoke, play my music loud and run around shirtless and still be high class. Nothing I do will take away my father's degree from Yale law school or affect my legacy status at my family's swim and tennis country club in Bethesda. Good manners are for peasants who can't afford to do whatever they want.
This is the correct answer, unfortunately. People are confusing class with manners.
You would only think that if you were born poor. There are examples of wealthy people acting poorly, or the young acting out (or are just nouveau riche), but you know how you are suppose to act and what is acceptable, particularly in social situations. Even at the lower tiers, go to a membership club, and you just will not see people acting like these television characters who you think are real life. It's the exact opposite, little things matter way more than you think.
This is the correct answer, unfortunately. People are confusing class with manners.
You would only think that if you were born poor. There are examples of wealthy people acting poorly, or the young acting out (or are just nouveau riche), but you know how you are suppose to act and what is acceptable, particularly in social situations. Even at the lower tiers, go to a membership club, and you just will not see people acting like these television characters who you think are real life. It's the exact opposite, little things matter way more than you think.
But the point is that how someone acts is not definitive. There are a lot of people from the higher classes in society who have acted badly. Your social class is not actually defined by things like how loudly you speak, your manners and so on. It may be correlated with it (arguably) but it isn't what automatically qualifies you as low class (what the thread is titled). You're joking if you don't think there are old money families who act badly or have bad manners., or indeed treat people poorly.
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