Safe space or free speech?

[derspiess]

I got Established Middle Class.

[Martinus]

According to the test I'm:

Result: the class group you most closely match is:

Elite

This is the wealthiest and most privileged group in the UK. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:

Enjoy high cultural activities such as visiting museums and listening to classical music
Went to private school and elite universities
Socialise with people who do a wide variety of jobs

[Martinus]

But on the pie chart comparison, I'm poorer than Elite in terms of assets - but I match it in terms of income. I guess Mono is right and I just waste too much money. 

[Gups]

Nobody who was truly elite/upper class would be so vulgar as to mention it to anyone else.

[derspiess]

No shit.  Act like you've been there, Marti

[Agelastus]

The British class system has got so confusing that even the British no longer understand it. I certainly have no idea which class I belong to.

Well there's what you think you are.

What other people think you are.

What the government thinks you are.

And now, thanks to Shielbh, there's what the BBC and Buzzfeed think you are...not that I belong to either of the classes they suggested.

[the BBC said "technical middle class" but my circumstances and the limited responses possible to the questions fudged that, I'm sure...I don't understand how Buzzfeed came up with me being "Upper Class" though! ]

[Sheilbh]

Same way it pegged me as lower working class?

[Siege]

Upper class suck.
They don't drink light beer or listen to heavy metal, let alone play civ 5.

[Agelastus]

Probably.

I suspect in my case it was the idiot "pick a festival" and "which of these is your favourite club" questions that got me.

Anyway, the tests are pointless. All that matters is how you identify yourself; I always self-identify as "Middle Class", no qualifiers. What more do I need? I'm not trying to sell myself something or make a political point etc. etc. etc.

[Valmy]

But it means you are destroying Britain with your middle class ways.

[crazy canuck]

Result: the class group you most closely match is:
Elite
This is the wealthiest and most privileged group in the UK. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:

Enjoy high cultural activities such as visiting museums and listening to classical music
Went to private school and elite universities
Socialise with people who do a wide variety of jobs

They kind of got my educational background wrong...  But I guess with social mobility being what it is these days that isn't very surprising.

[Agelastus]

Upper class suck.
They don't drink light beer or listen to heavy metal, let alone play civ 5.

No.
No.
And No.

So maybe I do qualify under those guidelines. Or does playing CIV II, III and IV give me a pass on the third marker?

[Eddie Teach]

Upper class suck.
They don't drink light beer or listen to heavy metal, let alone play civ 5.

I am listening to Iron Maiden right now.

[Barrister]

I got "elite" according to the BBC as well, whereas the less-accurate, but not asking any questions about income or asset Buzzfeed, gave me Traditional Middle Class.

[Siege]

Upper class suck.
They don't drink light beer or listen to heavy metal, let alone play civ 5.

I am listening to Iron Maiden right now.

Your' mah man.

Rymth of the ancient mariner and Ghost of the navigator gives me the chills.