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Thursday, April 25, 2002

A bitter taste: The Edwardian Country House, Channel 4's latest reality history TV series, has an online annex, a quiz that's supposed to gauge your snobbery. Like its big brother, it echoes the current upstairs chatter about the end of history and class. Once you've ignored its cod sociology, it's mildly entertaining. Then it gets irritating. [Channel 4 - Thanks to Abraxas].

So, I reached 50% on the C4 snob scale. What's that supposed to mean then, gov?

Isn't this mania to classify the classes by consumption patterns a bit, well, common, a bit lower middle class? Or do I mean upper working?

Confused? Just like everybody else in the country.

Far better to take heed of the wise words of the former head of the Joe Stalin fan club (NME-Face). Still spitting vitriol after all these years, 'hip young gun-slinger' Julie Burchill recently carved up the classes good and proper, and in a trad Marxist way, in, naturally, the Guardian.

Her much funnier, much more useful prole quiz:

'Is your job boring? Is your job vital? If you went on strike, would the country very quickly revert to a state of primeval slime, literal or otherwise? Is your job badly paid?

'If you answered yes to three of these, congratulations - you're working-class! Go forth and make your million with a clear conscience, my son. But never, never go to Tuscany on holiday.'

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