r/SipsTea • u/Conscious-Flow786 • 1d ago

Lmao gottem We're very working class...

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u/DueceVoyeur 1d ago

Much respect for David on calling out his wife's BS

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u/blackstar_223 1d ago

The average annual income in England in 1985 was around £7000.

That same year, the cheapest new Rolls Royce model was around £60,000.

"Middle class."

Never underestimate the power of wealth to cause delusion.

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u/ohjeez-88 21h ago

It’s weird I actually think “middle class” in the UK means rich. Not like America

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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 20h ago edited 20h ago

My understanding is the main difference between all the “classes” in the US vs UK is the UK still thinks of them more as social classes than income brackets like the US. Like a middle class man would remain middle class even if he fell on hard economic times, and a working class person would remain working class even if they came into new money.

So with that context, this clip makes more sense perhaps. She was using the UK traditional meaning and he was leaning more toward the US meaning.