The Grumpy Guide To Class - Part One
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The Grumpy Guide To Class, a fascinating and amusing look at the sometimes confusing British class system.
Broadcast Date: 02 October 2007
Princess Anne is great, she recycles her clothes and tells people to naff off! Good for her.
she's a real one for that
My family's landed gentry but we are dirt poor. Our house is a ruin. The only nice stuff we have come from before World War II, anything after is just cheap stuff we can afford with the remaining of our money. People would envy me when they walked into my house, but once they're in they glad they lived in small, warm, clean houses instead of a freezing gargantuan dillapidated mausoleum.
@bill Bloggs who cares
Congratulations your a certified gentleman from a landed gentry family.
@@stellamatutina7945 You, evidently.
gutted
maybe, you could just get a job
I grew up poor working class, no car, no holidays, council house, few bits of horrid furniture and a tiny garden. My mother had worked with the Ladies of the manor, real old families who were as simple as you could imagine. They treated her like family, confided in her and never looked down at her, after all she was cleaning up after them. One thing mum told us that when you hear people talk of money and value you just know that they are 'jumped up money', no 'class' and if they spoke down to waiters or servants they were also jumpted up. She said that good old families were simple people with just a different Outlook and education. Later in life when at college I met a friend whose family was really top drawer as we say and was invited to live with them and they became my family despite my poor clothes and scottish accent and simple manners. I never tried to fit in as I felt that with them there was an exchange of culture. Also at college I worked cleaning houses for the rich and the jumped up class with all their fancy houses and huge cars were terrible to work for, luckilly there were many upper class clients who made me meals, invited me socially and told me their life stories. I have wonderful memories of those people.
Thanks for your extremely interesting perspective, as an American, I enjoyed your story.
So true in my experience
So completely true.
This is the best , because it's the most knowing , summary on here. Flaunting is insecurity. Although taught , real manners , class , etc , are so ' known ' , through an education and , I hold , genetically inbred , as to appear first-nature , natural , not taught. It doesn't vaunt , because it's sure of it's position. Of course , it sometimes appears insufferably arrogant , and is so , to those who feel inferior. That might be felt by a less poised working class person suddenly feeling self-conscious inadequacy ; hopefully , it shouldn't have been deliberately communicated by any class-less behaviour of the person with more savoir faire , as one mark of Grace is polite acceptance of your company , before quickly moving on if it proves distasteful.
Well said! My family have had people working for us for generations. When I was a child if I was ever in any way rude or uppidy towards them my nearest relative would make me apologise immediately. We're a farming family and I have employees now . I would never dream of treating them with anything other than respect .I have coffee with them every morning and they do know my whole life storey and I they'res! You are completely right anyone from an old family would never be rude to a waiter or in anyway demanding I would consider it to be beneath me...... also pretentious people tend to call a lavatory a toilet and they're granny they're nan have heard people with the poshest accents using both those words makes me smile.....
When I was a director for a national charity I met many people in the "upper class" and as a working class Brummie felt quite at home. I remember the Queen Mothers ladies in waiting cooking me lunch at Prince Charles hunting lodge at Sandrigham and they were lovely.
HOWEVER.... I also met those lower down the social scale, those who aspired and tried to emulate the upper class, and they were quite vile, real nasty snobbish pieces of work.
They are called the grey men..!!
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@Israel Casen Instablaster =)
The aristocracy are likely to be the nicest, as they are secure in themselves - they have nowhere to climb TO, and nothing to "aspire" to. The Royal Family are delightful.
@eleveneleven572 I agree and have had similar experiences.
I've noticed over a lifetime that genuinely treating people kindly, graciously, never as if they are of a lower status or as if they are of less worth is a marker of true, innate class.
treating others with dignity and respect will always make you a welcome guest or friend, no matter your 'class'
Reciprocating according to your means, thinking of others before oneself, never allowing another to be embarrassed; this to me is class, and anyone can do so.
@@ohmyblindman In other words, anyone who demonstrates empathy, decency and human kindness is a real aristocrat.
Allan Hegyes This is class...almost literally. At least in America. Real upper class is sent to finishing school which teaches you to dress, act, talk, and move with the utmost regard to manners, and the comforts of those around you. I think a 3-month course in NY is something like 20k. But if you want to see what finishing school can do for a person, look at some top actors and the way they speak and hold themselves. Actors often go to finishing school.
They left out the fact that women are the Touchable class or caste, as Mary Daly put it. Everything else is part of Divide and Conquer.
Well said! Just be nice to people
Class to me has two different meanings. There is class as in social standing due to financial or other power. Then there is class which has more to do with what kind of person you are and how you treat others around you. You can have millions of dollars in the bank but it won't give you class.
Harmony Miller well said!
Spot on!
I agree 100%. All you have to do is look at trump: a bragging "self-made millionaire" with all the class of a sewer rat. Actually, I have more respect for the sewer rat.
Harmony are you under 35?
The only thing trump deserves is contempt.
I wonder how class markers have changed since this was made? Like have “posh” names/homes changed? How has technology impacted class? How does the upper, middle, and lower classes present themselves on social media? So much potential for an update.
The further up the class system you go the less technology they use in the UK.
The Margo Leadbetters of 2007 and today would be distraught that tradesmen are now in the middle-class bracket and even able to afford to send their kids to public/private school! She would still be looking through her nose at Arthur Baileys though.
Respect for Princess Ann if she re purposes old gowns. 🙂☘️🌲
eliz donovan I was just thinking
Well done, her! Now, why won’t the young royals learn from Princess Ann in these austere times?🤔 Meghan, the climate change activist, went to her baby shower party in New York & back on private flights [albeit paid by the Clooneys] & Harry was mocked recently in the Private Eye for his hypocritical contradictions - hilarious! No one does it better than Private Eye. These young royals are an embarassment to the nation & really do need to take a leaf out of Princess Ann’s book.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Didn't Princess Anne refuse titles for her children?
Who was the PR genius that thought of that?
The truly upper class drive twenty year volvo estates and wear clothes so old there are more holes and patches than original material. They have nothing to prove.
That's exactly what my Father says.
Too right my friend
That is a very accurate assessment. My personal observation is that those who marry "up" into the really old families tend to pull a "Markle" and rub their newfound "nobility" into everyone else's noses every chance they get. Expensive new wardrobe, expensive new jewellery, expensive cars, hired help for everything, no longer driving themselves anywhere.
Those who were born into the upper crust don't worry about what other people think. Those few who need to know already know, and don't need reminding.
My posh aunts who straddle the upper middle class and lower nobility line aren't talking to me since several years ago. I committed the cardinal sin of eloping with an American with no family history, and now run a hobby farm in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Gave up any possible claims to hereditary titles when I became a U.S. Citizen. I've never been happier in my life. Some of my upbringing comes in handy, though. I can throw fancy tea parties for my five year old and her friends. 😁
Volvos: my father had it right - Solicitors and wife-swappers!
@@TheReturnOfStephan1 Hehehehehehehehehehe wow Prince William almost escaped that fate and then there went his hair
Odd that this documentary goes straight from toffs to the middle class, but what about the upper middle class, which is on a level all its own? And there's the middle-middle and lower middle. This show goes from the toffs to the middle and working classes. There's more nuance than that.
Terry Pratchett wrote about how rich people save money -- b/c they never have to buy anything. Grandfather’s boots and waxed cotton coat are still functional. (Sir Terry did not address the central heating or plumbing issue!)
Tina Sam Vimes did work that out correctly.
Sir Terry was a genius. We miss him.
Yes it's true
Which is worse Princess Anne's wardrobe or spending your life TRACKING Princess Anne's wardrobe? This cracks me up; my fathers family moved from Ireland to England in 1532 with the reformation and this is spot on! Ruddy daft gits!
Rich R her wardrobe for sure
naff off
Such a shame that self loathing has been taught into so many people, that you wish to continue a system to just give money to people who also think that you're not worth the dirt they walk on.
The only book anyone ever needs to read about class is "Class" by Paul Fussell. Hilariously funny, and dead on target.
I just started reading it. It's good so far!
Jeff Green at 5:06 They do mug you, you just don't notice it and you never have.
Class is simply being genuine and kind being gracious and knowing nice manners.. I was in Dance Class from the age of six,,,and when I became an Adult, I recieved a Salary for the Shows I was cast in... It isn't really to climb a ladder,,,It's well because it's fun..
Good on Princess Anne....... recycle perfectly good clothes from the past. Most people are heading to the op shops to do the same. She is one step ahead.
She refused titles for her children too.
Well, I"m hooked. Very perceptive and very wry. Looking forward to part 2.
No matter who you are rich or poor! You either have ethics or you dont! If you have money help programs that will help others! This wouldn't hurt any of the rich it makes you feel really warm inside when you see your help going to good. Value yourself like someone is watching you, not out of judgement but ask yourself if someone was to see how you act in public, work, home, family, private moments would you act the way you do around them?? Ethics and treating others with kindness is the best human!
My grandmother always said, “don’t flash your wealth around. The people who matter know what you have. The people who don’t know, don’t matter.”
I get that this is satire, but sometimes the general hate for rich people can get obnoxious. I’ve never met someone who is truly high class that I haven’t liked. They literally go to school to learn to be likeable - it’s called finishing school. FYI, people running around flaunting things like Gucci are seldom old money. Ditto people running around going on shopping binges and otherwise lavishing in media and entertainment. Those are all aspects of the middle and lower classes. One percenters do things like learn to play multiple instruments, travel to other countries, learn multiple languages, and host charity fundraisers. They don’t plaster brand names and logos all over their person, and they don’t waste away indulging in media and crap food. Moreover, it’s not really allowed. So be grateful rather than jealous. You have the freedom to live and behave however you would like to, and you can write your own story in whatever way you wish. Daddy big bucks isn’t there to cram you into finishing school and marry you off to some old money family.
The outdoors is great fun when you're not shoveling snow, pulling leaves out of the gutter in the teeth of a 40 mph wind, and mowing the lawn on a day with 96% humidity. LOL
This was both amusing and amusing at the same time. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Hint: putting on several layers of clothing instead of heating would reduce the amount of emitted CO2 by a lot ... and it might get rid of the stupid fashion industry that tries to sell women new stuff every year. I mean people are complaining about "planned obsolescence" on lightbulbs and printers and coffee machines while missing the most obvious one.
Muck006 .. Actually it wouldn't reduce by much. The same amount of electricity would be produced if maybe 100,000 people did this.
If 1,000,000 people did it maybe a few less megawatts would be produced.
Muck006 The fallout from the fashion industry affects so much else...slave wages & bad conditions, pollution from manufacturing of materials, animal skins..
Solar energy hurts nothing and no one. You have a limited view of what energy is and how it is made and you are also married to the fact that doing good in the world = human suffering. We actually have all we need to live luxuriously. We just divide it up so the rich people get more and poor people get less.
I dare you stayed in a marble house with little to no sunlight without any central heating. Heating is a blessing.
@Justine carrington Justine are you under 35?
Watched this by fluke chance, enjoyed it a lot! So utterly different than the USA! (USA is classless, lots of money but no class!)
i think it's good that Princess Anne recycles her clothes. We'd be whinging if she were a clothes horse too
kr...I love that Princess Anne lives as my Grandmother used to say, "Waste not, want not". It was fashionable once. Why not revive it? I have seen much worse "fashion" each passing year,
k r
I agree with you 100%. Only poor people and want to be rich people throw clothes away. Besides, clothes are a personal thing. If you like something, it's a part of your personal style. But today people believe in buying lots of very cheap clothes, throwing them away, and buying new. It's dumb.
That was the most vulgar comment. The fat slob should diet first
Exactly. Thank you.
@@michelleann8613 Michelle are you under 35?
What pisses me off is that everyone bashes the upper classes, but fails to realise that with true class comes huge responsibility. Landowners are responsible for the livelihoods of their tenants, often providing housing (which incidentally is usually much higher quality than anything the council might be able to offer). They maintain thousands of historic buildings across the nation at no cost to the taxpayer. They maintain vast swathes of countryside and are often vociferous campaigners when it comes to environmental matters and the protection of rural areas. The alternative is having Russian and Chinese crooks buy up all our national heritage with dirty money, for use a few days a year. They would have no interest in running estates, so everyone working there or operating as a tenant farmer would be out of work and likely a home too. Historic homes would be tarted up to look like something an African dictator might appreciate- all bling and helipads. The upper classes do a great job keeping things ticking along quite nicely. Shame successive governments have tried to tax them out of existence- the biggest scandal in historical terms was the distraction of hundreds of great houses during the 50's and 60's when sky high death duties meant families could no longer hand estates on without incurring crippling tax, estates were broken up and stately homes were being pulled down at a rate of two a week for years.
My family's ancestral seat was sold to a hotel chain in the 70's because of those taxes. Not that an insignificant cousin from a cadet branch like me has any say in the matter, but It's still a shame.
Fuck off idiot!
Well I admire Anne for wearing the same things, though hardly more than twice. Why do they have to have a new, and usually expensive, outfit every time they go out to wave at the peasants, open a biscuit factory, or whatever? If the royal ladies took what they spend on clothes in just one year they could donate this to a worthwhile cause. They must have acres of clothes.
At least she can still get into her clothes a lot later...good for her.
alice hudson FOR GOODNESS SAKE ,, I COME FROM THE LAKE DISTRICT SO PLEASE STOP CALLING WINDERMERE. .......LAKE WINDERMERE. ...IT'S JUST WINDERMERE.
Forgive me, but I don't see anything about Windermere in my comment, lake or not, so I have no idea what you are talking about. The world is falling apart and your knickers are all in a twist because of this? ...
alice hudson SORRY FOR THAT , NOT MEANT FOR BUT COMMENTED ABOUT SOME PSEUDOS THINKING IT'S "POSH" ONE SOMETHING I WAS WATCHING, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION I AM POLITICALLY AWARE REGARDING SYRIA, PALESTINE, FAR AND MIDDLE EAST, I ALSO TEACH ADULTS WHO LEFT SCHOOL UNABLE TO READ OR WRITE .
My dear mics. wickedwitch ... Apology accepted. Good luck!!
So funny. "I'm stonkingly rich! Up yours"! Etc amusingly informative! ❤️ More please.
When Germaine Greer makes derogatory comments on anyones dress sense...you have to laugh ! This from HER!...and I'm sorry if the royals are frugal...Then its to be applauded... Heavens if they were wasteful and extravagant...People would have even more to say... Ms Trent Hughes laughing hysterically at Princess Anne for wearing her clothes more than once...makes me wonder...Doesnt she wear her clothes more than once... I know I do.
Nigel Havers makes fun of the Christmas presents given to family at Christmas...My Family have done the same every christmas for threee generations its become the highlight of our Christmas...silly but practical gifts...and yes I got a loo brush one year... Tell me ...IF Prince Charles had bought a Faberge Egg for his Granny each Christmas ...& The Queen bought Phillip a new Bentley Car each year...and he in return bought her a New Tiarra each Christmas...what do you thjink the Public would say about that ? I know its all meant to be fun and we should all lighten up...but ...knocking people who you know will never / can never reply to you is poor humour...its too easy.
We all know the so called "Working Classes" who hate and envy the Middle Classes who hate and mock the Upper Classes who in return hate "The Aristocricy" who hate Royalty...T'was ever thus. I Guess its called ENVY.... and that gets you nowhere.
This proves once again that the best thing about the British is their ability to make fun of themselves.
lb1770 I Agree..!!😊
Every nation can do it.
@@nonkonform1st @nonkonform1st So sorry, but that's not quite true. Rubbish, indeed. Americans in particular have absolutely NO sense of humour whatsoever when it comes to their country. Just try to tease them or their institutions, even mildly ( they WON'T do it themselves! ) and you'll see. Muslims countries do not score that high on this subject, either..and let's not talk about China..
Yeah no one does that quite like the British!
The ability to see through most of the bs is their thing the comedy is after that fact .
This is so foreign to me, being in Alberta Canada. Of course we had rich and poor, but pretty much everyone mingled together. In schools you had cliques and pecking orders, but that is a totally different thing really...
Yeah, although I've often thought the high school social system was a reflection of society as a whole.
Same in the U.S.. It is very, very subtle in the U.S. and people mix and mingle freely in day to day life. People always have their preferences, of course, but they are determined on personality and interests in common or a common work place.
@Misha Minute Owning guns has nothing to do with social importance in the US.
I'm a nanny in Canada. Trust me, there's a class system.
@@LynxSouth Yes, it is -- people who are most fervent about gun ownership generally have less education. They also tend to live in the South
@AirlockMinibus I always considerd those born into money as upper class and posh. People who are self made and gained their riches in their lifetime are usually exactly the same as they were before personality wise. Alan Sugar for example. Basicly you can have as much money as you like but unless you inherit it then you are not upper class.
But the line between working and lower middle class is much harder to understand.
"my name is bouquet...thats B U C K E T" LMFAO
- “The Queen Mum is the one on the right, by the way…”
That's the funniest thing I've heard (3:45).
Is there anyone in Britain (born before, say, 2001) who wouldn't know exactly which one she was?
That's certainly brought a little humour into an otherwise boring day (what is today, anyway, Tuesday or Wednesday?)
You know it's a slow day when the Queen Mum makes you laugh…
Geoffrey Palmer and David Attenborough, have the monopoly on narration and have had for as long as I can remember, what will we do when they retire? Things will never be the same again!
I'm so glad Matthew Parris is back in this one, thanks for uploading :)
I always turn posh when I answer the phone for some reason.
W-James u have a batman.
I only turn posh when I answer the phone for no reason.
Like Mrs. Boo-KAY
@@rainbowgirlism Ms. Bucket
You answer the phone still! Steady on there!
There's only 2 classes in this world first and non at all
That rushing off to various after school activities is so spot on and has only gotten worse.
a true well to do family doesn't outwardly show it
that is to say, they don't "flaunt" it...hear hear! well said!
What is so funny about the class system it exits everywhere
EXISTS
Yes yes..ok.. R R
What's wrong with swanning about? I'm frightfully fond of swanning about in my dressing gown until tea time...it's simply marvelous!
"We all need people to look up to", I never look up to nor do I need any "royal" to be a role model. They'd be the worst type/kind.
@IngLouisSchreurs What?
Well I do, To remember what this country represent I don't find very it appealing to take inspiration from some celebrity who hasn't achieved anything significant in their life except dancing like clowns .
When i was 9 i was called a certain name by a teacher in school . I reported it to my grand mother the following Friday when i went back home (I always spent the week-end in her house in London) . The following Monday when i went back to school, we were informed that this particular teacher was no longer going to teach there. I was also asked to visit the director of the school in his office, where i was surprised to see my parents who worked abroad . The director and the entire board apologized to me . I didn't understand at all what it meant at that time .
I do now.
What did the teacher call you?
@@angliase He called me a half breed and then a patchwork because i explained that i was more than a half breed since i have 6 distinctive backgrounds . It didn't even hurt me and i mentioned it to my nan as a joke . But she didn't find it hilarious and nor did my parents.
Your grandmother pulled strings to make someone unemployed he might have had children too. SNOB¡!!
I guess better to repurpose already solid and originally expensive items, than burden taxpayers with new incredibly flashy items all the time. I never understood the concept of having to be "seen" in or around some new thing every day.
Thanks so much, I've been dying to watch them
The Class System: The ultimate scapegoat for everyone's woes.
Carl Marx and his Maxism
Pancake Circus ,Max who?
why do many Brits consider only those who went to elite / expensive schools as being competent , haven't they heard of the expression ( often used in Australia ) - " thick & rich " ?
So funny ...one person is complaining that they have all this money and they're spending too much and then the next person is complaining that they keep wearing the same clothes😂
yes i know I saw the video but all love to you luv xx
Will you please upload all the grumpy guides? Fantastic!
Real class is something we rarely see anymore. It disappeared by the '80s. All the contributors here are full of misconceptions about it. Has little to do with money or standing.
Igaluit
You are absolutely right. Class is a based on values and beliefs.
Agree.
I agree. I was always told that real class is how you carry yourself and how you treat others.
Please explain.... what is real class then ??
@@KaranSingh-xt5bz real class is based on assets and social status. The misconception is the idea that breeding creates better behaviour. Not really integrity. Never was about integrity. That's something else.
The Rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud and strident voices...
The Poor arrived in Fords,
Whose features they resembled;
They laughed to see so many Lords
And Ladies all assembled.
The People in Between
Looked underdone and harassed,
And our of place and mean,
And Horribly embarrassed.
LOL very good, is this yours? Or something that I'm the only person in the world who hasn't heard of it? Whichever, thanks for sharing, I'm already memorizing it so I can recite it at the next party I attend.
OK, it's Hillaire Belloc. .
@@slowpainful I wish! It's one of Hilaire Belloc's :D
Barbara Donegan , Barb, can I use it?
The hallmark of toffs is that they ridicule the middle class because they know the middle class does not stand a chance to ever attain to their aspirations. A toff is a toff by chance, pardon me, by birth. The middle class should have created something for its own but didn't. It is kept in place like that by the upper-class which profits immensely from all that striving below them. I love it.
Spitting Image; turning the Queen Mother into Beryl Reid. Ha! I was sent to Toff training school, but resisted most of their attempts to toff me up.
Where are the Upper Middle class who pretentiously send their children to public school and pronounce morality like political correctness to the lower classes who they utterly despise and want to keep where they are.
They are the worst !
Luqman, are in the UK? I just wondered because I'm in the U.S., and I know that in the U.S. and the U.K. public/private school have opposite meanings. What we call private the UK calls public and vice versa.
@@rainbowgirlism UK public schools are or were listed as top private schools...
They're running the Labour party and pretending they're common as muck to get votes.
A circle of established Houstonians in particular with a global elitist demeanor matching their innately perverted nature
Thank goodness, no class in New Zealand. Irritated the hell out of me. Sat in the train first class in the Netherlands when I got accosted by a snobby tart asking whether I knew this was first class. I just replied are you in the right cart, looking her up and down. When she said yes in her plummy voice I said are you sure? The conductor just about peed himself laughing hahaha!!!
I have no idea what you are going on about, but I am amused.
You made that up.
Tineke, goederdammerdag. Are you under 35?
I think they're loud because they live in enormous houses and have to shout in order to hear each other
In “Occupying Chairlifts” a simple rule tweak on inheritance ends up changing the direction and purpose of modern human life! Here’s a fair way to transition forward to where we’re rewarded for cooperating and creating instead of competing and conquering.
It's something specific we can demand. If this isnt the best answer, at least we’re thinking about what might be. Are we really just this close to having it work right?
Oh yeah, it's a Ski movie! “Occupying Chairlifts” on TH-cam!
Well, I really believe we are all God's children. However, the middle class seem to be the most snobby. Upper Class people are much more down to earth.
+Meade Skelton I'm afraid that's a myth, perpetuated by...'The Upper Classes'.
jaye see
In my experience, lower class people are meaner.
Apple Bee
There are some very kind and nice people of the lower classes. I don't mind them. But there is "reverse snobbery" So to speak. If you are thought to have the least bit amount of money some people can be very curt and ungracious. I try to treat everyone with respect. Even the plain folk.
Apple Bee the average types of people
yeash course they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just replace class with money and you'll have it .
My family has roots in English, Scottish, French, Danish, Norwegian and Russian aristocracy, we still own 7 castles in Europe and 11 titles. But today people who have money and no background identify as people with that "pedigree". I find it hilarious, because i know many people with a family tree dating back to Mathuselah and not a penny to their name. I think money has replaced class in many sectors. Money can buy you a castle or 20, money can buy you a particle to add to your name, money and marriage can buy you a title by alliance and a certain status. So people have come to see money as the modern form of class and social status (which are two completely different things).
But as my grand mother says, there is a difference between buying a 16th or 17th century castle and owning one since the 16th or 17th century and having it build for your ancestors. That is why truly rich and powerful people do not buy old castle but have them build for them , which in modern days is equally silly to buying an old one to pretend to be some sort of king or queen. I do not like people of a certain upper aristocratic class acting superior, i find it incredibly vulgar since we haven't earned our position we just inherited it. But i also find vulgar people with no such background acting as if they deserve a certain form of respect due to their rank, especially since they do not have any real rank, and are either nouveaux riches or Hyacinth Bucket pronounced Bouquet.
Kim Kardashian is richer than my aunt but my aunt didn't have to leak a video tape of her giving head to some rapper to get where she is. I think it is difficult to call that class , regardless of the hundreds of millions filling the vaults of some Swiss or offshore bank accounts.
I do not have a jet , i do not need one, i do not have a yacht , i do not need one either, i do not have 50 sports cars ,100 wristwatches or have my suits handmade in Italy along with my shoes, because i do not need all that. I also work because i can't imagine myself not working and being completely useless to society, or giving this example to my kids. I also married completely outside the circles i grew up in and nobody had an issue with that. Something Nouveaux Riches never do, unless of course trying to marry above their pedigree.
Class and money are also not about eccentricity. Usually the eccentric ones do not have much money and/or much class, or way too much money and no class at all, and the IQ of a fried oyster . But people from a certain upper background usually tend to be extremely discreet, and you will not hear of them as they know that to live happy it is better to live hidden.
People who seek exposure are usually the ones who need exposure to make money.
People who see me everyday and do not know me could never tell where i come from. I do not talk about it, i do not give my full name to people and certainly do not use my titles, i do not wear or use anything extravagant and i tend to avoid questions, the answer of which could be a giveaway. I am a simple veterinarian and ethologist living and working in Switzerland and as long as people do not ask why in spite of having a British passport i speak fluent French and German or why i seem to have obtained Swiss citizenship faster than most people who ask for it, or why i disappear a few months a year , then i do not need to lie or explain that i went to l'Aiglon and le Rosey as a kid and learned the languages there, or work for the WAP (world animal protection) , a branch of the UN on my spare time and therefore know some people who can accelerate and facilitate the demand of citizenship, without all the tedious and litigious paperwork or have my lawyers take care of it.
This to me is the real advantage of belonging to a certain class, the connections you have since birth or make over the years as you grow up if you play your cards well. These circles are very VERY exclusive and no Kim K or other new comers will be given access to it, regardless of the money they have. These circles function a bit like the Ichirikitei Ryotei in Kyoto in the Gion district. No matter how rich you are, if you are not introduced by a member with a good reputation, you will never pass the door of the establishment.
True privilege is really not privilege money can buy. Same with class.
The layers of cashmere line made me laugh - perhaps it's a bit too close to home. I'm not a bit posh, but I do love my cashmere. I get old cashmere sweaters at thrift shops and wear-and-darn-and-wear-and-darn and eventually just give up and cope with gaping holes. Right now I have one with holes in the underarms layered beneath one with holes in the collar.
Me too. Haha... I stitched elbow patches over the holes and wore it atop another cashmere, just today.
Me too!! I have a cashmere fetish!!
Thanks for the vid. Interesting to watch.
My favorite part of this is the rant at 2:20-2:30 about glass animals XD. Getting some low-key “Devil Wears Prada” vibes there ha ha.
Oh some of you need to stop, it's just a bit of satire and fun, not a documentary
victoriabeckfinat225 Thank you!
i didn't find any 'fun', just a lot of tedious bland judging
@@marcokite That's because you're an idiot.
@Alter Ego Usernames have nothing to do with being wannabes but I'm sure that's lost on a fool such as yourself.
@Alter Ego *yawns* Oh I do. Here's a suggestion though. Go busy yourself with taking the stick out of your unimportant ass sweetheart. I'll just be over here continuing to laugh at a great show that's still funny all the while ignoring your comments and existence.
I was a secondary modern schoolboy and I got the opportunity to go to a posh boarding school. When I was in my first term I was called guttersnipe by the posh white kids. However, there was a lot of Middle Eastern boys there including a Prince of Kuwait who could have bought and sold the posh white folk. I became good mates with Ahmed and the posh kids shut up after that. I also got a few of them in the boxing ring in the winter term, I was good at that! That was in the 1960s and the funny thing about being an ex "public schoolboy" seemed to hold water in some circles years later. I became friends with Viscounts and Earls and the like, I even ended up living with with a "Lady" at one point, she was the eldest and her dad wanted her to get married, I wasn't up for that. she eventually married an old mate of mine and she even asked for my blessing to marry him.
Damned if they do and damned if they don't.
I like the bling-free example of the Royal Family. I think they set a good example.
Yes, the crown and sceptres they have with jewels taken from other countries are very bling free
So funny how you summed the class thing up so clever could not stop laughing.
If you have money; a title, or a position, you CAN be an eccentric.
If you have none of the above, you're just a run of the mill weirdo.
True. Though I understand there is now an affirmative action programme allowing yobs to be members of the High Court. Problem is that they are still youb.
@Kaththee1 Kath are you a single lady under 35?
This is hilarious! Just as the channel hosts intended!
Keeping ones clothes and remaking them over are the height of old money behavior. World over.
PLUS Australians -non-urban-don’t move their lips when they speak either. They do that to keep the many varieties of flies and mosquitoes out of their mouths.
Ventriloquists?
Plus when one keeps a motorcar that’s not current. As ones daily drive. Not that I’d know anything as my car is only twenty plus years old and and is that pretty colour of racing green. I am in Australia and I don’t come from any privileged stock. I think that trope of not moving your mouth is rather outdated.
I was taught to fix things as that saves you money in the long run.
It is an olympic sport ... it's called skeet !
Great song called Move On Up by Curtis Mayfield.
I can't stop watching this! Love this!
how hilarious. I was a farmer's daughter - now ask, a gentleman farmer or a farmer farmer!
Virginia Giuffre better keep well away from the back of Mercedes or Paris tunnels,right ?
If the MI5 Windsor tool want your body then you ain't got anywhere to hide, right ?
Interestingly, in spite of the mythology, the UK has greater social mobility than the USA.
wrong
www.nationalreview.com/corner/economic-mobility-united-states-compared-europe-scandinavia/
Actually, it looks like US and UK (plus Italy) are both dismal in terms of economic mobility, behind even France and Germany, and far behind Canada, Denmark, Norway, and Spain. Please see: www.brookings.edu/wp-content/ uploads/2016/07/02_economic_mobility_sawhill_ch3.pdf
www.forbes.com/sites/aparnamathur/2018/07/16/the-u-s-does-poorly-on-yet-another-metric-of-economic-mobility/#4934675b6a7b
@@curtbarnes4294 You call THAT a credible source?
@@patricias5122 I trust the Pew Project. As to the National Review, since the Project upends the meritocratic mythology that should be part of the the Review's own, I would trust their publishing it.
Lol was in Winchester years back as I worked there. I'm from the Welsh Valleys and as I stood looking in a shop window I heard toffs talking behind me😂 I turned around to look and couldn't believe that 18 year old boys would talk like this😦
The pheasant shoot was bang on. Except they dont pay the beaters. They all hold tenancies from the landlord who owns the shoot. The beaters do, however get a couple of birds to take home
Have you been to England or are you just basing your knowledge of it on Downton Abbey?
We are using this in an Anthropology class here in Canada - this makes me miss home!!
I think the posh ruling and upper classes are more relevant today than ever before. Where else do the working and middle class have left to go but up!
Nice channel keep up the good work.
Good for her keeping the same clothes ! 4:25 sooo great !! "Toff"
means not only rich but superior-acting.
Let's sneer at the toffs, let's sneer at the middle class, let's sneer at the traditional working class, let's sneer at the penniless immigrants, let's sneer at the old, the young, the homeless, the disabled, but don't let's sneer at the sanctimonious and hyspocritical pundits who foster a sneering pomposity.
7:28 The British nobility has more in common with rural American Southerners, but with much much more money.
How so?
Steve Punt is really funny but he can never stop banging on about how he is so middle class and posh. Half the Now Show is him going I am posh, I am middle class
Thank you for uploading this! I've been trying to find it since it was on last year.
unbelievably crass smoke screen on reality presented by the middle class...
This program says far more about the middle class than the class system in general.
However what can be construed from this is how absolutely evil the class division is and how it distorts humanity and thus is a dehumanizing process.
The best reason to visit Britian and live elsewhere the class system!
This documentary is quite hilarious 😂.
Well how much more down market can you get, airing comments from Germain Greer?
Whole concept mystifies me... Half of my English background will be 400 years removed from there within my lifetime. The rest around 300.
I love the reaction that I get telling people from the UK that I'm 5 % class and 95 % style
"Ever since the seeking of preference and distinction came into play, the world hath been laid waste. It hath become desolate. Those who have quaffed from the ocean of divine utterance and fixed their gaze upon the Realm of Glory should regard themselves as being on the same level as the others and in the same station." ~The Universal House of Justice, Baha'i Writings
Pompous, the only country left with this left. quite hilarious, or rather comic/sad.
So, who won "Upper Class Twit of the Year" this year? I know the field was very strong.
I really like the fact that Princess Anne recycles her clothes.
"They haven't got the LUXURY of a trust fund, and they haven't got the LUXURY of not caring." Welcome to hell.
Miss Streeter r u under 3t
Grumpy Mission Control - beautiful!