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[Oracle]

Great amusement for us imports, the "immigrants" to view the jostling for upgrading of all and sundry to "middle class". Identity? They wish they were something better than they were born! That's the crux of the "Class System! We immigrants just go in at the top -- After all, that's the source of all the Aristocracy -- from abroad!





Do they still know "their place"?

Seems like some runaway, fugitive Brits have upgraded themselves from toilet-cleaning scrubbers to Colonial Governors ...

[Gasman]

Imports to the UK?

Stellabomboulinaphoenixchimerabobsyouruncle - You've lived there longer than I did! But still insist you are Greek Cypriot through and through with the emphasis on GREEK.

You love it there really. Must do or wouldn't have stayed since you were a toddler. You don't even spend all your holidays in Cyprus like some 'Brits' do and have done for years.

Do you slag off the French when you are over there? Or are they OK because hardly any French people desire to live in 'your' Cyprus.

You are typical of the sort of 'Cypriot' who sees Cyprus much as someone sees a vision of an old aunty they haven't seen for 20 years. She appears in their mind as she was then.

Except in your case, your vision of Cyprus has been formed by others for you - you were too young to have formed much of one yourself by the time you left.

And your occasional short returns to a Brit outpost of the shithole Paphos makes you an expert eh?

I think not - you let yourself down when you express surprise and disbelief even at some stuff that is COMMON KNOWLEDGE to people who actually DO live in Cyprus and have got to know a lot about the island.

Shoulda stuck with Chimera - it's the one that best describes you!

Toodle pip pip

[Oracle]

This was turning into a nice thread - but once again trolled into personal assaults from a lonely retiree amusing only 'itself' with an unrestrained imagination for made-up accusations.

Apologies to pushdaddy, who gave us the impetus for analysing the class system; but we obviously got too close to the bone and aggravated the vicious dog, who has been shunned at home and abroad.

[SSBubbles]

This was turning into a nice thread - but once again trolled into personal assaults from a lonely retiree amusing only 'itself' with an unrestrained imagination for made-up accusations.
Apologies to pushdaddy, who gave us the impetus for analysing the class system; but we obviously got too close to the bone and aggravated the vicious dog, who has been shunned at home and abroad.

You know you love each other really!

(I know my place. Do you? )

[fig head]

bah

[EricSeans]

Pneumatic drills and ripped up concrete,
baby wailing stray dog howling
the screech of brakes and lamplight blinking
thats entertainment....


Days of speed and slow time Mondays
pissing down with rain, boring Wednesdays
watching the news and not eating cold tea
reading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs....

Two lovers kissing in the scream of midnight
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude....

Extracts from The Jam.

Can Paul Weller write about social deprivation when coming from middle class Woking?

But he does have council estate cred!

[PushDaddy]

Council estate cred?

Please explain ?

( Genuine in what your perception is)