Thread: Ever wondered why H&H takes years to make a gun?

Originally Posted by Carlsen Highway

I have a commission from the Queen, and was an officer at one stage, but you need more than that to be upper class!
The English class system your refering to doesnt really exist anymore. WW2 caused its death, and the Sixties finished it off. There are still vestiges of remaining, but you can no longer get hired because your carrying the right kind of umbrella...
Us NZ'rs didn't bring the class system with us, so its a foreign notion to Kiwis anyway. If your proud of being working class in NZ, it means you don't really know what working class means, for example.
Who's middle class? Basically everyone in NZ could be considered middle class, but the term becomes muddy and referenceless since society has changed so much since the 1930's. And we don't really understand the subtleties of it in this country to be honest.

@Carlsen Highway,

Except you clearly understand it sufficiently well to call out 'middle class' at someone whose opinion (right or wrong, about what is a sad waste of money) offended you - but who you otherwise don't know from Tom, Dick or Harry.

"Us NZ'rs didn't bring the class system with us, so its a foreign notion to Kiwis anyway."

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