What behaviors or things do you consider to be bourgeois?

"..attitudes and behaviors which are marked by conformity to the standards and conventions of the middle class."

Lots of middle class people use those things. :eyes:

but really, i guess my number one example of bourgeois behavior is an over-inflated sense of self importance.

It's getting hard and harder to find people who don't look for ways to BRAG about themselves!!

As I said in my remarks as keynote speaker at the recent Save The World awards banquet, just before accepting the "He's Our Savior" Award for curing world hunger, you'll seldom meet a more humble perfect person than me.

That's not bourgeois is it?

movie. Credit card debt. 401(k)'s. Buying an SUV. "Not having the time" because you're "taking the kids to soccer practice." Old Navy. Watching Fox News and voting Republican. Cell phones. Buying anything you see advertised on TV. Reality shows. Gaining lots of weight. Trying to lose weight.

On edit: Wal-mart.

oooo ooo! TRACT HOUSING. Forgot that one. Commuting.

Isn't that wild?

Good thing we do IHOP on Fridays.

:rofl:

Let's see--we've just gotten rid of our credit card debt, and have no plans on going back to that shit. We do have 401Ks. We don't have an SUV. No soccer practice here, it's violin lessons. No Old Navy for us. No Fux news and CERTAINLY no voting like a hateful asshole. No buying what we see advertised on TV, we barely watch TV as it is. No reality shows (except I will cop to having seen Supernanny). No gaining lots of weight, though being vegetarian for the last month has caused me to lose a few pounds. No Satan's Five and Dime for us (Wal-Mart).

Cell phones, yes.

I am not officially middle class because I usually get my Chili's fix on a Sunday afternoon???? Despite my lower income, I thought I could pass pretty well.

El Presidente Margarita! I'm comin' home!

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

beer and watching football with your buddies or heading over to your local home improvement warehouse (Lowe's) to get the sealant for your new deck after you ripped out the old one.

I really thought I had it figured out. <sigh>

No wonder the neighbors keep telling me I'm odd. At least the merlot glass did get re-filled...

On Edit-- I do need a new deck. Do I get points for that?

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

at chain stores and malls.

i met a guy a few years ago. we had a lot in common and had a lot of fun. but i noticed he did all his shopping and dining at chains. i was shocked! he seemed so unique, but this made me realize he was very ordinary. i go WAY OUT of my way to NOT shop or eat at chains, so needless to say, this relationship did not last very long. it was a small difference between us but a huge message about what the rest of this person was going to be like - dull as shit.

and such.

Where I live, I'm hard-pressed to even find a restaurant or store that ISN'T part of a big chain. The ones I do know about, I patronize, but they are precious few.

That doesn't make me dull as shit (I know you weren't saying that about me, just making a point), just a person who lives somewhere with very few other options, sadly.

I wish chain stores would go away or scale back or something. The mom and pop places don't have a prayer around here. They go under in the wink of an eye.

he could not think outside the box. there was no originality in him at all. the chain thing was just another manifestation of that.

you are not dull as shit! you are quite vivacious!

Now I know what you are talking about. I am surrounded by such people. The idea of independent stores isn't even something that occurs to them.

:eyes:

All the chains, Chili's, TGiFridys, Outback, Olive Garden, Applebees, Benigans, etc. Not that there is anything wrong exactly with those places; they are just all the same everywhere. I thought variety was the spice of life. So I got to Snoopy's for good fish and chips or La Playa for fish tacos. Of course we have a gazillion (I believe that is the techinical term) mom and pop Mexican food places. They all have basically the smae menu (and some actually are chains in that there is more than one of them but it isn't quite the same).

I am so sick of every town and city being identical. All the suburbs with their box stores and strip malls. All new houses are identical too these days.

I should have qualified it with "when you don't have to."

My sister lives in a town east of Los Angeles that used be mostly desert but is now fully built up with a corporate chain commercial sector. Of course, in her case, all she has to do is drive west a few towns over to find something not corporate. But many people in smaller towns do have that problem.

And thinking it's a great way to spend time with the family.

Speaking of which, time to refill the glass.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

Or Corvettes.

Just feel those arteries clog!

OR

For the Petit Bourgeois

I can feel it.

Milwaukee has some great restaurants, but when we got a Cheesecake Factory, the local "news" media were all over the opening...

Need I say more?

It's where parents take their starving college students out for a nice meal :D
(I can see if you go there a lot how it might be considered to be really lame...but I heart their crispy orange chicken!)

and DAYUM that place is expensive. Especially for the quality of the food. I was pissed.

...and besides, it's rare treat.
I usually order 3 drinks and share a dinner =)

How'd you end up at a Cheesecake Factory?

I spent about a month in Austin while "finding myself" after college. I never did find myself (in fact, I lost quite a few neurons on Sixth Street).

And winding up back in New England after all my roaming around has NOT improved my odds of finding a good Tex-Mex restaurant. What they call "spicy" up here would barely register on the tastebuds of anyone who's sampled the real thing! :)

I was at a professional conference and the hotel where I was staying (and where the conference was) was in this retail area and The Cheesecake Factory was within walking distance.

We had already eaten everywhere else nearby and it was the last day. We had no car that day, so we had to settle for something we could walk to.

:shrug:

Fortunately I have a lot of friends in Austin and they ALWAYS take me to the great restaurants there. The Cheesecake Factory is the only time I've eaten at a chain place in Austin.

Once more, and it WILL go on your permanent record, young lady. ;)

is a pretty good tip-off. :P

"Marge, ya got any o' dat booz-garage beer left over?" is not often heard in the homes of the lower classes.

bourgeois means. I'm going to go ask Mr. Bouncy and see if he knows.

He said "something about middle class?" So he was pretty damn close!

:D

Besides, there's something charming about having a hubby named "Mr. Ball." :evilgrin:

and that Mr. Bouncy sounded WAY better. :rofl:

People might think you're Lucy - you could call him Dezi. :)

Besides, "Mr. Bouncy" might give him ideas, eh? ;)

I'm fairly certain that it's not really 2:53 am Sunday in your time zone. How do we set the clocks on these things?
btw, good to meetcha at Papa's!

At the menu on the top of the page, click Options, then Preferences. Set the appropriate time zone, and you should be all set (BTW, it's "Central Time" here :P)

Nice to see you, too. And glad Scruff got on the computer, too. :)

insistence.

My father in law wants to spend his birthday with all of us in Vegas. Go figure.

Not exactly a child-friendly place, but whatever.

I've never been, and I'd like to keep it that way.

They're paying for the airfare and hotel, so I can't complain.

The only thing is, I can't see how we'll be able to do much together with a 10 year old. My in-laws don't want to do anything but go to casinos and gamble and see some boobie shows.

Er.....

I think the pronunciation is Tar-ZHEY... and to me, those are bourgeois wanna-bes. :)

If it is just you and your spouse, and you have 2500sf of heated space, you're bourgeois.

(Three of us.)

Whew!

LOL!

but my daughter is in college now, so mostly just her stuff stays with us.

Our house is 16ft wide and our lot is about 30 ft wide.

in our house by that measure. lol. I wonder which ones they are? I'm willing to try an undisclosed location....

Glad I had a pickup when I lived in Boston - the potholes in the Spring would eat the escort I have now.

I laugh and laugh when people try to park their pickups and SUVs in places like the North End or the South End. Serves them right for haveing a car as wide as the 17th century streets.

I honestly don't know which brings me more pleasure :)