There's a Spokes stall at Edinburgh Farmers' Market this Saturday. Your chance to buy the new Edinburgh map (along with organic buffalo mozzarella and squabbit pie).
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Spokes Stall - Farmers' Market Castle Terrace
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Out of interest - do Spokes reach out to social classes other than the affluent bourgeoisie?
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Yes they were down at Easter road with a stall at the queen of the south match as a few of the doon hamer's fans had actually cycled up from Dumfries and had bought some slabs of membrillo from valvona and Crolla as it is tricky getting decent quince jelly in the far south west of Scotland. They took three new shiny maps and a spokes carrier bag to put the quince in for taking it back home.
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Gembo: "it is tricky getting decent quince jelly in the far south west of Scotland"
I bet you can find it in Wigtown. That's one middle-class town.
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I once spent new year in Wigtown. It has a family butcher, which scared me.
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"It has a family butcher, which scared me. "
If I were of a butchering inclination I would move to the lakes just so that I could call my shop "Fell Meats" in the hope that the odd passing LotR reader would notice.
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If I were of a butchering inclination I'd carve tiny chops out of rabbits.
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@saddle
Spokes has its own class analysis. Instead of:- bourgeoisie,
petit bourgeoisie,
proletariatit's:-
pro cycling
anti cyclingPosted 8 years ago # -
Wigtown is only middle class during the two weeks of the festival. The rest of the time, tumbleweed blows through the streets. Castle Douglas is the food town, but more of the butchering inclination than the quince jelly kind.
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I was quite struck by the poverty of the Wigtown area when Hogmannaying there some years back. (Perhaps not poverty, but lower-than-expected affluence levels)
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I believe it is a source of constant amazement in other countries that everything in Britain appears to be related to class. Sad, really.
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Meanwhile it's a source of constant amazement that other countries pretend issues of inequality aren't related to class.
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Hmmm. I'm not sure that is the case, because wealth is clearly related ot class based inequality the world over. What other countries don't have is this hyper-awareness that everything you do identifies you as being a certain class, and the snobbery/inverse snobbery thang which goes with it.
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Now that's a bit more like it... Heroic levels of thread drift. Thought CCE was slipping...
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Be it religion, ethnicity, family name, wealth - you can be sure that the people on either side of any of these divides know exactly who to look down on and who is the "standard" they should aspire to.
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The United Kingdom is governed by the hereditary sovereign allowing powers of their crown to be used by the houses of lords and commons.
Classless.
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Clearly, Britain is a long way from being classless. But not everything immediately needs to be related to class. It is the all pervasive nature of the attitude that is so stifling.
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I prefer to think of it as tribal.
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Stay classy IWRATS
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I don't know about class but when I'm there I feel shame that society has reached the level where so many don't seem to baulk at paying a vast sum for an amount of porage that I wouldn't think it worth dirtying a bowl for at home.
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IWRATS is always classy.
Guy at my superhero gig looked a bit like Algo this afternoon.
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I hope you managed to avoid offering your condolences....
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I don't know about class but when I'm there I feel shame that society has reached the level where so many don't seem to baulk at paying a vast sum for an amount of porage that I wouldn't think it worth dirtying a bowl for at home.
I will confess that I have never actually been to a farmer's market. But for all that the stuff is (apparently)overpriced, is it the case that the people selling it drive off afterwards in their Bentleys? If not, what is the problem? Surely the high price reflects the cost of production.Posted 8 years ago # -
@algo he was slightly younger than you, a little chubbier, puppy fat and weaker of chin. Also when I smiled at him he looked right through me.
@stiltskin, never seen a Bentley at Balerno farmer's market. Though never seen a farmer either. Food retailers, and soap manufacturers dominate. Same at the castle terrace one. Both are on this Saturday should you wish to break your duck.
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when I smiled at him he looked right through me.
In a superhero way?
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Ha ha, no in a super hero fan sort of a killing me softly lyrics sort of a way.
I am also looking for he looked right through me in a Phil Spector or Motown girl group song
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@algo
I will endeavour to remain bohemian bourgeoisie déclassé.
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Well the UK does have lower social mobility than the Netherlands or German , scores poorly in the oecds social mobility index some years amongst the worse so possibly back ground plays a greater role in united kingdom. The uk also runs an official class system the house of lords and peerage system so an official class system may be considered more than countries where in theory everyone is equal. I suppose could also hypothesis the uk is less competitive less merit based as background appears to player bigger role than say Germany or Netherlands. Would a top European university ask Oxbridge style application form if your parents attended? If a German head of state drove their car through a speed camera would they get a ticket?
https://www.oecd.org/eco/public-finance/chapter%205%20gfg%202010.pdf
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