Are British people really as mean as the stereotype suggests?

I...don't think I want to know where your furniture has been.

Mine has been on the curbside and in basements. Like a solid third of the furniture and clothing in my house is actually stolen.

Ah, inheritance. Now I get why some middle-class and working-class people really want a bigger inheritance tax.

Is property (houses, farms/fields, etc.) a big denominator in the class structure?

edited 28th Nov '14 2:47:12 PM by Quag15

This is where it gets even odder, because there's so many loopholes to stop that, it gets silly. It's also actually a sign of being old money that most of what you have isn't in liquid assets, but in land or similar. All a bigger inheritance tax would do is entrench the aristocracy we have now even more, and throw out lots of those who did work their way up.

Most middle class people are against an inheritance tax, even though most proposals only begin at £1m.

Now I see why, say, some Scottish lords were very keen on the No side in the Scottish referendum.

Or things like gentrification being very common.

Possibly because they fear that their hard (or "hard", depending on one's perspective) earned money might be taken away from them?

Mellor, Mitchell and Thornberry - snobs who expose the classlessness myth

edited 28th Nov '14 3:00:30 PM by Quag15

The system of land ownership in Scotland is absolutely scandalous.

Sorry Ach. I absolutely understood what you meant with the furniture thing without even reading the spoilers. It is even a trope!

Then hopefully you got what I meant with my pagebottomer on the last page.

You are either a sadistically kinky person or you are just refering to the time they came from! perhaps Industrial vs Medieval style of things?

Did I get it right?

The latter - and the fact that my family were involved in the slave trade quite a bit, as merchants.

Muh...maybe they were...just really progressive people in their past and uh....uh...they were into BDSM back then and that explains it...?

The more progressive sorts became dedicated abolitionists and sought to redeem themselves that way.

That does sound good

The class system is weird. Because while it is incredibly a big part of social fabric, its not actually as relevant as it once was. A big part of the class system is your perception of it. If I was a trademan who made a fair bit of money, I might see myself as working-class.

But I, even though I am a not-very-affluent young adult, still consider myself middle-class without many of the financial trappings of it.

Merry Polandball Christmas, British tropers.

D'aww. Cornwall with Wales <3

SATW Comic - British Isles.

Wow, Wales really misses New Zealand.