- You can't park in your garage because it is so full of junk.
- You bandit a race. I knew a guy whose wife died of cancer and he did a local run/walk 5k for cancer in her honor. Went to look up how he did and it turned out he bandited the run.
- You think passing gas is funny.
I feel sorry that life has robbed you of being able to laugh at ripping @ss. Farting in the car and locking the windows? Funny. Farting on a run? Funny. Ripping one and pretending it was the floorboards or the dog? Classic.
Stop taking yourself so seriously.
If you think it's funny or cool to make it so someone has to smell your nasty ass gas, then you win a white trailer trash award.
Paul Fussel wrote the book on class in America (literally). He points out that there are upper, middle and lower class behaviors and provides examples of each. Lower class behavior includes eating dinner early, being overweight, baseball hats (especially worn backwards), non-natural fabrics, religious themed house decorations, saying "takin' a Limo." Middle class affectations include eating dinner on time and keeping one's bathrooms spotless, Minivans with your college decal and saying "Ride in a Limousine", while upper class includes eating dinner late, anglophilia, going to prep school, being thin, and saying "Bring the car."
SWEARING because you think it's cool. (I'm not talking about accidental swearing as in when you drop a ten pound weight on your toe. It's not really a new thing to swear because you think it makes sound confident, but many think it's the "in" thing. It's snot.)
If someone is clean of Tattoos they are immediately assigned to a higher class of people than someone with tatts. I know that many people with Tatts will take offense but you need to be honest with yourself. If a woman bends over and that Tramp Stamp gets exposed there is no doubt that your opinion of her immediately changed.
(1) Wearing anything camouflage that is supposed to be camouflage. If you're ironically wearing camo as a fashion statement then that's ok. Camo skirt ok, Camo hunting vest, not ok.
(2) inserting "fu*kin" into any empty space in one's speech. Ex. "I went out to get my [fu*kin] uhh, car from the shop to day. They charged me like [fu*kin] $200 dollars."
(3) not running. Not running, and even worse not "getting" running, is very low class. Every person with class runs at least a little bit.
(4) Calling any man a "b*tch" or a "p*ssy". Low class. Actually calling anyone a "b*tch" is low class.
(5) Going to jail. Going to jail is a low class thing. You only get a pass if it was a white collar crime that made you at least a million dollars. Then, it's nice jail for you.
(6) Fighting. Physically fighting is low class. Upper class people get others to do the fighting for them. Unless you're a pro MMA fighter or something but even then it is low class.
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.
His point was "good manners are for peasants who can't afford to do whatever they want." You agreed, stating "That is the correct answer". It is not the correct answer. Yes, people born into class can treat others poorly, show no regard to concern, be dismissive etc., but to think that manners "are for peasants" is only what a poor person could possibly believe. The kind of person who would attend a Diner en Blanc and think they are somehow being fancy and feel important. Manners very much matter. I will agree to a degree that they are more important depending on the company, but behaving well is generally ingrained and behaving badly is never seen to be positive.
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