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Anonymous
Do you need to ask? A host without a wine cellar is low class. |
Anonymous
Even I have one -- it's a cooler under the blocks that hold my double-wide up. |
Anonymous
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I wish Jeff would add a feature to the DCUM forum page that is a button you could simply click and it would auto-post Why do you care??????????? and Get A Life!!!!!!!!!!!! for each and every thread.
Do you think he'd do that? I get so much out of those responses in particular, I'd like to see them on every thread several times. Except in the Special Needs forum, where you can only be supportive and sweet. |
Anonymous
Maligning entire communities = ignorance = low class So my husband and I, Prince Georgians who have advanced degrees and have enjoyed much professional success are "low class?" Well, thanks. Since that remark comes from an obvious half-wit, it's a badge I wear with great pride. For the record, there are plenty of well-educated, gainfully employed families in "PG" County who enjoy living here, thank you very much. I love it because there aren't the throngs of materialistic, nouveau riche airheads running amok. My neighbors are hard-working, intelligent people who aren't so concerned with appearances and the appearance of wealth and class. We live in an EXTREMELY well-run city with a triple A bond rating, excellent municipal services and wonderful amenities. I leave my door unlocked (in spite of all the "low class" unwashed surrounding me) all the time and my kids have the best friends. What more could I want? Maybe snottier neighbors would make my life complete. |
Anonymous
Which city do you live in? My biggest concern with the County is the government sucks and public services aren't provided well, but I've never looked into incorporated cities. I grew up in Laurel, but that's too far away from our jobs now. |
Anonymous
Close, its not low-class its no-class. Seriously with this crap? |
Anonymous
We associate with some neighbors in which the wife will routinely single out my hometown/NOVA neighborhood as her example anytime she cites something as 'low class or white trash". My husband always chuckles, but I get more and more pissed...esp because my parents and my best friends' parents still live there on the same street where we grew up. There is nobody that meets her description of 'low class/white trash' in their entire neighborhood. It's funny too since she isn't even from the USA. The last comment was how everyone listens to 'country music' from there....ahhh...now the place is a 10-15 minute drive from DC proper. My parents moved there in the mid-late 60's when it was the place to be because the city was too dangerous, Arlington/Clarendon area was--at that time--a complete slum---everybody with a family went to the suburbs. All of my neighbor's parents worked for the State Dept or were Pentagon officials...etc. New neighbors on my parents cul-de-sac include a former White House official..turned big Green environ company CEO, a few lawyers, etc. Don't let the idiots like the PP get to you. |
Anonymous
Shhhhhh....all the jerks will want to move here now! |
Anonymous
| If you have to ask... |
Anonymous
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I was married when I was 24 and had a baby at 27. I am pretty sure many people on this board would consider me low-class for those reasons alone. When I was pregnant women in NW looked at me like I was a zoo animal. I may as well have been wearing cutoffs and a belly shirt when I was 8-months along just to enhance their experience.
Nevermind that I am the college-educated daughter of college-educated people that grew up in an upper-middle class area and so is my husband. Not that, as these boards would point out, education or income have much to do with "class." This makes me sing the RHONY's Luanne song in my head, ugh. Anyway, we make less than $350K combined and live in Gaithersburg. I never get my nails done (I hate the feeling of the nail file and REALLY hate people touching my feet!) and yes...I have clothes from Chiccos. Oh well. I guess it weeds me out of those mean Mommy groups everyone's complaining about on the General Parenting board! |
Anonymous
We must be neighbors. I too live in a nice area of PG county where I not only leave my door unlocked but I let my children play outside. I don't worry about drive-by shootings nor do is my neighborhood one where eye contact equals justifiable homicide. |
Anonymous
The under 30 comment was hilarious. 10 years from now, under 35 and pregnant will be trailer trash to that poster. Nevermind fertility. |
Anonymous
| All the money in this area simply can't buy class. Truly classy, refined individuals don't waste their time worrying about it. |
Anonymous
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22:51 - someone who actually gets it. Few and far between here. Class has to do with how on treats others. Humility anyone? Didn't think so. |
Anonymous
| The irony is killing me. |