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muriel_volestrangler

(101,644 posts) Wed Apr 3, 2013, 05:36 AM Apr 2013

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New 'class groups', with 'calculator' [View all]

Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22007058

Calculator: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973

I tried it; it tells me, laughably, that I am 'traditional working class'. Out of the 7 categories, that is probably the least like me but one. Even the pattern of 'wedges' it shows for me, which is pretty simplistic, should make me 'technical middle class', just going by eye. Have I ever struck anyone here as 'traditional working class'?

So I'm inclined to go with the people who say this new classification is a load of bollocks.

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New 'class groups', with 'calculator' [View all] muriel_volestrangler Apr 2013 OP

So much for that dipsydoodle Apr 2013 #1

I refuse to be wedgied by anyone, and I have no class nt Xipe Totec Apr 2013 #2

That test is utter bollocks T_i_B Apr 2013 #3

If you play with it, you discover enlightenment Apr 2013 #4

Life is too short to waste even a second on this drivel fedsron2us Apr 2013 #5

Don't knock it - someone made something out of it: muriel_volestrangler Apr 2013 #6

ROFLOL! non sociopath skin Apr 2013 #7

That is probably as acccurate as any of the other assessments! LeftishBrit Apr 2013 #8

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