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  Classism in America?

  by under74 in

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  i recently had an experience at school where i felt like the one odd poor class in the room.

  the conversation started with homelessness and then gravitated to poor people in general.

  there were a lot of weird and false assumptions laid out like "those people walk hunched over" and " they" .....well you get the picture.

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  I?m with you on that pep, my point is the social divide has become blurred, starting after the Great War and then further after WWII. If anything by creating a greater number of intermediary steps in the class structure the opportunity for snobbery has increast and as the natural human state is a smug sense of one up man ship, it been duly filled.

  Little fact. The tern snob is actually an acronym. It was the shorthand used in place of an heraldic title in public school (private school in the U.S) registers and stood for sans nobility.

  74: they have a totally wrong idea of what it's like to be without money

  It saves on having to worry about the poor when they?re spending all there lovely cash on tat for there pointless lives.
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  Classism in America?

  by under74 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i recently had an experience at school where i felt like the one odd poor class in the room.

  the conversation started with homelessness and then gravitated to poor people in general.

  there were a lot of weird and false assumptions laid out like "those people walk hunched over" and " they" .....well you get the picture.

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  mtbatoon

  Your English professor was in a sense right but what he should of said is that in America you don?t have the same class structure. Firstly class isn?t about money, well OK it is but it isn?t if you see what I mean. In the 70?s a group developed in the UK known as the affluent worker. They where factory workers who due to the changes in working practices became skilled labours and commanded the same pay as clerks, a staple middle class occupation. It was thought that they would evolve from working class to middle class. This was not the case, even thought they lived in the same houses and had the same goods as their middle class counterparts, culturally they stayed working class. They still followed the same working class pursuits, their children still had the same educational aspirations as their parents and they didn?t mix with their middle class neighbours. The class structure in the UK has blurred over the last couple of decades but the link between class and culture is still strong. Using myself and my family as an example though my job is not well paid the type of work I do puts me in the middle class band. The house in which I live is in a working class area but my hobbies and the aspirations I have for my children?s education is again middle class. It may put me on the bottom rung of middle classdom and there are many who are better off financially that remain working class but I remain middle class.
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  REPENT

  by homme perdu in

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  repent your sins and return to the guidance of jehovah's faithful discreet slave.

  that is the only way you will find truth and salvation.

  just kidding

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  mtbatoon

  You nearly made me say bo**ocks
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  Apos-T-shirt II

  by mtbatoon in

  1. social
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  like many others here with family still living in dubland, i have the awkward relationship where they feel quite within their right to proffer mind altering literature yet any mention of the wtbts shenanigans sends them into a fit of apoplexy.

  what to do i hear you ask?

  well i have, to quote the popular pimpled lackey ?a cunning plan?.

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  mtbatoon

  Blank shirt
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  Apos-T-shirt II

  by mtbatoon in

  1. social
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  like many others here with family still living in dubland, i have the awkward relationship where they feel quite within their right to proffer mind altering literature yet any mention of the wtbts shenanigans sends them into a fit of apoplexy.

  what to do i hear you ask?

  well i have, to quote the popular pimpled lackey ?a cunning plan?.

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  mtbatoon

  Like many others here with family still living in dubland, I have the awkward relationship where they feel quite within their right to proffer mind altering literature yet any mention of the WTBTS shenanigans sends them into a fit of apoplexy. What to do I hear you ask? Well I have, to quote the popular pimpled lackey ?a cunning plan?. What's more this cunning plan comes in a range of sizes, styles and a genuine cotton/polyester mix. Ladies and gentlemen I offer for your perusal the Apos-T-shirt.

  Please add to my most stylish collection by offering you own unique designs.
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  Power of hte human mind-See if you can READ THIS.....................

  by Jez in

  1. jw
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  i cdnuolt blveiee taht i cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht i was rdgnieg.

  the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.

  aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

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  Read what??
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  Power of hte human mind-See if you can READ THIS.....................

  by Jez in

  1. jw
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  i cdnuolt blveiee taht i cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht i was rdgnieg.

  the phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid.

  aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

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  Ttahs fcnkuig amzanig.
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  A Balti With A Difference..

  by Englishman in

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  just heard hoots of laughter from hl.

  she's been looking through the menu of our local balti house.

  i thought i'd share it with you before going down the pub:.

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  mtbatoon

  No wonder she laughed, everybody knows the prawns should be fried not roasted.
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  Please say hi to my 6 year old...this is his first post.

  by FreedomFrog in

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  booooooooooooooooooooooooo.

  hee hee hee hi i'm zach this is my frrst post

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  mtbatoon

  Hello Zac, I think you?ve got the longest thread saying hello ever.
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  Are UK JWs more faithful the US JWs?

  by Qcmbr in

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  do you find there are significant differences in religious commitment across the atlantic?

  feel free to chip in if your from another country which is even more die hard / soft and slushy than the us /brits.

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  To franklin Oi gezer wot you goin on about Kings English? It?s er majesty not im.

  I remember some US dubs that where friends of the family I met once and they had holy spirit shining out of every orifice. With England becoming a more secular society and the way Christianity seems (by the reports we get from the media) to be a major factor in US society/politics I?d say it was the other way round but then again I think it even varies from cong to cong.