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[DGuller]

Thankfully garbon never got drafted.

Not understanding why one would be sad for dead vermin = someone with a murder boner?

If you had empathy, you'd understand. 

[Sheilbh]

That's probably more accurate than the self-reported class where I think over 60% identify as working class (and that's more or less unchanged since 1980).

Edit: And I'm apparently 39.5% WC, 38.6% MC and 21.9% UC

[celedhring]

https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2022/01/quiz-which-class-are-you-according-to-the-great-british-public

QUIZ: Which class are you, according to the Great British public?

Take the New Statesman quiz to find out whether you're working class, middle class or upper class in the eyes of voters.

The British public's idea of what makes up social class is complicated. Does a high income make you upper class – or is it to do with your parents' wealth? What about lifestyle – what does where you shop, or whether you pay for private health insurance, say about your class?

The New Statesman recently commissioned exclusive polling from Redfield & Wilton Strategies, which ran a list of crude "class markers" past a representative sample of the British public.

For a bit of fun, the New Statesman data team thought we would turn these polling results into a quiz.

We only included questions about people's lifestyles, excluding what respondents said different careers tell them about social class. We then weighed each answer based on the proportion of people in the survey who associated each activity with each class.

So how well can the British public judge your class given only the following information?

I got 48.9% working class. I'd certainly consider myself middle class, but I guess the British public may think otherwise 

[garbon]

Thankfully garbon never got drafted.

Not understanding why one would be sad for dead vermin = someone with a murder boner?

If you had empathy, you'd understand. 

That was a question.

[Josquius]

The ground worker is doing drains as well.
I've no idea exactly what he'll be doing, maybe there will be a layer of stones first, though definitely not 40cm.
Its just a single story, 2 meters out from my house, so doesn't need to support a huge amount of weight. All OK according to building control.

Interesting. Will you build on a concrete slab or what will be inside the foundation? Shouldn't the earth/clay be dug away?

Dug away to where? Until bedrock?
I at first dug a certain depth but building inspector said it wasn't enough and made me go 90cm from the nearby lawn rather than the house.
The colour of the clay changed at that depth to this bluer stuff which seems better for building.
Concrete will be poured directly on this clay I gather up to a certain depth, then it'll be some foundation slabs and then brick and block.

[Tamas]

The ground worker is doing drains as well.
I've no idea exactly what he'll be doing, maybe there will be a layer of stones first, though definitely not 40cm.
Its just a single story, 2 meters out from my house, so doesn't need to support a huge amount of weight. All OK according to building control.

Interesting. Will you build on a concrete slab or what will be inside the foundation? Shouldn't the earth/clay be dug away?

Dug away to where? Until bedrock?
I at first dug a certain depth but building inspector said it wasn't enough and made me go 90cm from the nearby lawn rather than the house.
The colour of the clay changed at that depth to this bluer stuff which seems better for building.
Concrete will be poured directly on this clay I gather up to a certain depth, then it'll be some foundation slabs and then brick and block.

https://youtu.be/aNaXdLWt17A?t=24

[The Brain]

I'm middle class.

[crazy canuck]

It put me firmly in the middle class - I don't spend much on myself so I think I avoided detection - let's hope my luck holds when the revolution comes.

[Josquius]

Working class. Obviously. Though was interesting to play with it and see which would switch me to middle class.
As said when I posted the original article only my definition is correct and theirs is wrong. :p


Tamas- the part of town where I live in its natural pre urban state was a swamp

[mongers]

Working class. Obviously. Though was interesting to play with it and see which would switch me to middle class.
As said when I posted the original article only my definition is correct and theirs is wrong. :p


Tamas- the part of town where I live in is temporarily a drained swamp /floodplain

YFP.

[Josquius]

Working class. Obviously. Though was interesting to play with it and see which would switch me to middle class.
As said when I posted the original article only my definition is correct and theirs is wrong. :p


Tamas- the part of town where I live in is temporarily a drained swamp /floodplain

YFP.

Nah, it's not a flood plain. It has been drained for a very long time.
Come rising sea levels it's pretty high on the to be fucked list but it doesn't get any flooding problems. It is still pretty high above the Tyne.

[Syt]

Apparently, the Kurz government at one point authorized spending 150,000 on a survey asking "If Sebastian Kurz was an animal, what animal would he be?"

[garbon]

Apparently, the Kurz government at one point authorized spending 150,000 on a survey asking "If Sebastian Kurz was an animal, what animal would he be?"

A mouse

[Syt]

Apparently, the Kurz government at one point authorized spending 150,000 on a survey asking "If Sebastian Kurz was an animal, what animal would he be?"

A mouse

Actually, the leading replies were dolphin and squirrel. 

[DGuller]

My rapid ascent in the chess world continues.  I played Andrea Botez on live stream tonight.  And I won!!! 

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1270348295?t=02h35m00s