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| hythloday Rank: Toyah | Them what live in luxury posted on: 5/20/2004 8:25:27 PM Has anyone else noticed how those people who live in luxury residential apartments in the city centre all look really sad and lonely? I pass several huge blocks of these apartments on my way to and from work every day and always take a peek inside when possible. They are invariably minimalist (i.e. empty of worldly possessions) and I very rarely see any sign of multiple or even double occupancy. Sometimes I see them sitting on a balcony crying. I think they have all been sold a lie. Sorry, but I find this really funny. Maybe Albert Bore has a sense of humour after all: the whole point of the regeneration of the city centre is to humiliate the middle-classes. |
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BrummieExpat
Rank: Jasper |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/20/2004 10:19:17 PM Do you look at the ones just on the ground floor? Maybe they're depressed because they thought they'd get a decent view and all they see is comuters trundling passed every day. Perhaps they get pissed off seeing people dressed better than them or walking with a girl/guy better looking than anyone they'll ever get in the sack. I really think I should feel sorry for these people but just can't so I'll find them funny as well. As for the minimalist look, that's one thing I hate. I moved all the furniture round in my house the other day and am now absolutly gutted that I've got 3 empty shelves, it's almost depressing, so I'm off shopping tomorrow to fill them (Yay for retail therapy!) |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 5/22/2004 3:39:50 PM by NH350Ariel |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/20/2004 11:38:08 PM They sit and watch the great unwashed masses get pissed and honk up on their doorstep every weekend. They are suffocated by the traffic at five ways and they get pissed off with my bike rattling the windows of their over priced rabbit hutches as I rip past on my way to the pleasant green pastures of Small Heath. Bunch of Wankers. A lot of those apartments are now being turned into knocking shops as they are convenient for the business men in the respectable hotels on Hagley Rd. |
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hythloday
Rank: Toyah |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/21/2004 10:25:04 PM At 4.45pm today I returned home from work and stopped to observe a pre-observed middle-class once again fiddling in his minimalist kitchen. Since, on a previous reconaissance mission, I had already determined that there was very little in the aforementioned kitchen, I thought I would stick around to find out what the dim-wit was actually doing. After approximately five minutes of covert surveillance, it transpired that the middle-class nit-wit was wanking. Into a mug. |
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BrummieExpat
Rank: Jasper |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/22/2004 12:57:43 PM How long did you continue observing for after you'd figured out what he was doing? I would have rung the doorbell just to make him panic. |
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Russ-L
Rank: Jasper |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/22/2004 1:26:28 PM Nah, the doorbell isn't enough. You have to knock on the window to really get his heart going. |
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BrummieExpat
Rank: Jasper |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/22/2004 1:40:46 PM Good point. Thinking about it, if you rang the doorbell he might invite you in for a drink. |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 5/22/2004 3:42:59 PM by NH350Ariel |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/22/2004 3:38:33 PM Do you have any idea of who designed the mug? My bet is Terence Conrad . |
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hythloday
Rank: Toyah |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/23/2004 11:56:46 AM quote: If you are referring to Terence Conran, that's an affirmative. Rothko paintings on the walls too. |
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racheymaus
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/23/2004 7:18:07 PM Although I live in a cluttered old poor person's house I like Rothko and have an unconventional relationship with items of crockery. Does this make me the enemy? |
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BrummieExpat
Rank: Jasper |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/23/2004 8:10:42 PM quote: Depends on whether you meet the other criteria. Do you go for the minimalist style of decor? |
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hythloday
Rank: Toyah |
Them what live in luxury
replied on: 5/24/2004 6:43:22 PM quote: Nobody actually likes Rothko. Rothko prints are just passe fashion accessories for those who know little or nothing about art. Saying that you like Rothko is like saying that your favourite artist is anaglypta. |
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racheymaus
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Them what have minimalist souls
replied on: 5/24/2004 7:06:42 PM To say that saying you like Rothko is like saying your favourite artist is anaglypta is like saying if left alone without external stimulus you'd die of boredom. Some of the more modern of art requires the viewer to give a little in order to gain something from it. That requires having a litle in way of imagination and emotional ability. Anyone who disagrees with me is obviously barren and soulless. |
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hythloday
Rank: Toyah |
Them what have no taste
replied on: 5/24/2004 7:48:56 PM Obviously. I refuse to accept that you are the enemy, however, since you appear to have rather good taste in music. That's the other thing. These middle-class types all appear to have no musical taste whatsoever. And I bet that if you were to ask them what type of music they prefer, say at some informal do in a city cellar bar that you never knew existed because you haven't got the middle-class credentials, the majority would reply that their musical taste is 'eclectic'. From the dwelling of another middle-class that I have been observing of late, for example, I have heard Enya, Radiohead and the Bhundu Boys all played back-to-back. Wankers. I might shoot one. |
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Gravy Hole
Rank: Oddie |
Them what have no taste
replied on: 5/25/2004 12:29:18 PM Ah ha! So what about "She's Eclectic" by Oasis? Don't tell me that's middle class. All this anti-middle class stuff does my head in. I was born middle class and I'll die middle class and there ain't nothing I can do about it. You might as well tell me to become black. There is and always has been a very large proportion of people in Brum in the middle class. Millions of formerly working class people have taken their opportunity and improved their lot. I can't really see what is wrong with that. Of course, I'm not suggesting they do anything quite so vulgar as to buy a canalside appartment, but are you suggesting there's something romantic or wonderful about living in a high rise in Nechells? I used to work with a guy in Birmingham who twenty years ago used to bore for England about his working class values. I saw "Red Mac" about a year ago, he's now got a sucessful career in the financial markets, drives a new Porsche 911 and his son goes to Bishop Vesey Grammar School in Sutton. I asked him what happened to his values and recieved no adequate reply. I therefore put forward the argument that essentially there's no such thing as a working class anymore; they have become thre new middle class by default. Ok, many of the first generation are similarly tasteless, spending fortunes on Burberry jackets and designer track suits. To my mind, I can't differentiate between that and spending money on draylon floral print sofas and net curtains for your bijou semi on the Chester Road. That the former working classes are suffering from an obesity crisis is testament to their new-found spending power. Previously, it was rickets, ringworm and malnutrition. Now it's McDonalds poisoning and skin diseases caused by hamburger fumes. Going round shooting people is not the answer. I mean, if you did, where would I find a good accountant? However, if you meant to refer to an "underclass" and not working class then that is a very different matter and one worthy of serious consideration. |
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KingoftheHeath
Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 5/25/2004 1:28:50 PM by KingoftheHeath |
No class - yeah baby, no class!
replied on: 5/25/2004 1:16:58 PM There may be a good possibility that hythloday's postings regarding class are as incoherent as his views on music and art... |
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