mark 'n' joe

Think she was a midwife, wasnt she?

Nice Guy

I have absolutely no idea what their names were, but I recall something about not being able to buy a decent (?) pair of knickers (presumably the ones that she wears now are indecent) and really missing Marks and Sparks and Tesco.

Personally I miss those places like a hole in the head.

Well if it’s that bad…….I suppose they could always move back richer for the experience of decent knickers and a couple of high street shops.

I know I should not say this but………….I am wetting myself with laughter at the banality of it all.

Vash the Stampede

In her own words:

Click here for the full transcript. I had a right old laugh.

Nice Guy

Hmmmm……….yes thanks for that Vash the Stampede (cool name by the way)

I stand by one of my original comments about different planets, isn’t it strange how a conversation when put into a transcript leaves the narrator at the complete mercy of the person reading the missive allowing the reader to decipher the messages in their own sweet way!

Wendy

PMSL

I'd send you K, but I'm firing blanks

Wol

You DO have to be joking, do you not?

I haven't seen a society on the planet that doesn't have some form of class system, whether it's based on pedigree, occupation or just plain old cash. The difference in some places is that it's kept hidden under the carpet - but it's there all right!

Vash the Stampede

No worries mate; my pleasure.

If you read it carefully, I think you'll find that the interviewer is ever-so-subtly taking the mick out of Ms Skeggs. Just look at the way she constructs her questions and responses; most of them are double-ended, and could be taken in two completely different ways!

Read in one direction, it sounds as if the interviewer is entirely sympathetic; read the other way, it seems obvious that she's thinking "You great Pommie plonker; I can't believe I'm being paid to help you make a complete idiot of yourself on national TV - again!"

Vash the Stampede

Not to worry; the thought was there.

Vash the Stampede

If it's based on cash, it's no longer a class system; it's just good old fashioned "rich people/reasonably well-off people/battlers."

The entire concept of "class" is based entirely upon pedigree and privilege. Remove those two factors and you no longer have a true class system.

Tiawamutu

I woudn't care....M&S Knickers are a load of Cr*p!

Wol

I take the point but I think it's splitting hairs. The good ol' US of A for example likes to think of itself as classless but is just based in the most part by how many billions you have in your checking account. The fact that if you lose the lot no-one in your social circle will talk to you any more doesn't IMO alter the definition of "class system". It's just different.

renth

I guess there is a class system, it's just based on cash and influence not the way you speak or what your father does. It's nothing like the British one though.