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Book Review: Fussell on Class

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136 points DaoIsTheWay | 1 comments | 05 Mar 21 02:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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gadders ◴[05 Mar 21 10:32 UTC] No.26355240[source]▶
You think America is bad, try living in the UK :-)

It's funny to see Scott laugh at the hierarchy of flowers in a garden, but things like that are common in the UK. I mean, they can be ignored to a greater or lesser degree but they do exist.

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1. patwolf ◴[05 Mar 21 14:54 UTC] No.26357451[source]▶
Not from the UK, but I grew up watching the British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances". Reading this reminded me a lot of the main character on the show who was constantly doing things like that to try to signal her class. I always wondered how true that was in the UK.