What’s classy for rich people but trashy for poor people?

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This is such a great post -- so interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:Breast implants.

Always trashy. Cutting open your body to stuff sacs of silicone or saline into it is always tasteless, no matter how much money you have.

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Anonymous wrote:This is an old Adam Carolla bit called “rich man poor man.” A few I either came up with or have seen over the years:

Multiple dogs on the property
Getting married at home
Lawsuits against extended family
Lives by a river
Suspicious of the Fed
Sleeps till noon
Lives in a hotel
Complains to his congressman
Has great fireworks
Searches for buried treasure

I have to laugh about the lives by a river one. I lived and worked in South Carolina for several years on the coast in the North Myrtle Beach area.
My husband and I looked and looked to purchase our first house. We looked and looked extensively at property along the intracoastal waterway in Horry County. We learned there is virtually no zoning along the intracoastal waterway in Horry County. We'd look at nice newer builds along the intracoastal waterway and they would be rusted out broken down trailers with people still living in them as neighbors on each side and numerous cars/trucks on blocks on the property with the rusted out trailers.

For hundreds of years the poors lived on the water as it was marshy, bug ridden and disease ridden.

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eating "farm to table" food

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Wife swapping

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Anonymous wrote:having more than 5 kids

More than 3 = Always, always trashy. Always.

You must not know any truly rich people. Your view is quintessentially double income middle class/umc view on number of kids.

NP here European and yep, over 2 is trash or religious nut, unless one is royalty or has a bunch of girls. It's acceptable to keep dropping kids if you want a male heir. It has to do with self-control around sex and also birth control. It's like being fat, another huge sin. It shows lack of self control.

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Exactly. Excessive procreating due to narcissism = trashy.

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Anonymous wrote:having more than 5 kids

More than 3 = Always, always trashy. Always.

You must not know any truly rich people. Your view is quintessentially double income middle class/umc view on number of kids.

NP here European and yep, over 2 is trash or religious nut, unless one is royalty or has a bunch of girls. It's acceptable to keep dropping kids if you want a male heir. It has to do with self-control around sex and also birth control. It's like being fat, another huge sin. It shows lack of self control.

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Exactly. Excessive procreating due to narcissism = trashy.

Well population growth is tanking. Immigration is down. I hope both rich and poor have some babies. We have a very tough future economically.

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Kids are now a luxury good.
There is no longer the social imprimatur in place, making women feel obligated to marry and bear children.
MGTOW movement.

So many factors.

I really believe that my parents, if they existed as current 20-30 y.o. singles, would never marry. Silent Generation folks.

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LV, Gucci, fendi and Versace.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a thread about this phenomenon one time and it fascinated me. That 2 people could have the same thing (a job, a car, whatever) and if that person was rich, it was classy or indicative of wealth and worldliness, but if they were poor, it was trashy or indicative of lower class. (In the eyes of general society/ NOT in my own eyes! Just to clarify!)

Ones that come to mind for me:

Speaking a second language at home

Owning horses

Having 4 kids

I don't understand the "horses" one with regard to "poor people." Do you mean "Country people?" Or "Farmers?" They aren't poor. My BF growing up was a farmer's daughter; they had 2 horses at a time. She competed in shows. It was $$. They weren't rich, but they were far from poor.

Having chickens, however, would be a good substitute. Lots of UMC people are getting chickens now for "better eggs." But poorer folks with chickens.... yeah, I can see that out of necessity.

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I knew 2 women in my hometown. One was named Candy. The other was Bunny. I always laughed when I heard their names.

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Hair weave or extensions
White tee shirts
Children selling water, lemonade et al
Porch dwelling
Letting kids get dirty, be barefoot, wade in river

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Drugs

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I have known two men, one rich and one poor, who were both called Bunny.

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False eyelashes