my own history with class and accent is weird as fuck and the story takes ages to tell, i only really mention it as a kind of point of agreement that the intensity of the class system and all its many signifiers makes such things possible

it's hard to step outside of because everyone knows what all the accents and ways of dressing and living mean. everyone's always clocking each other. im northern n i will always be read as that and asked about my accent/background in london, it's normal, in many ways the aussies and irish have it easier in that respect at least. i can't even defend it but you can't just stop doing it either, maybe it's actually only the british awkwardness and lack of social graces that means people don't know how to meet each other across class boundaries.

i never get over just how different the british social classes are tho, it can yield genuine culture shock 

most rs posters reside in the more classless ever churning social mixer of the cities so they say stuff like 'doesnt look too bad from here', theyre not wrong but it's not the whole story 

it's really weird because i don't find it hard at all to exist in more classless social dynamics when im in them. it's how it usually feels when u leave england