High brow or low brow?

So did mine!
The biggest compliment I have ever been paid is "there's no side to me".

Oh no, Ariadne, I've just bought a rather expensive navy blue coat!

I nearly bought it in red. Is red a common colour?

but I'm sort of serious. Surely red is more common than navy blue, especially in hats!

But Jeni people only say that about posh people

petallus - you would have been a scarlet woman!
Thank goodness you went for navy!

I've never really considered the height (or depth) of my cultural brow. Does it matter?

I'm a mixture. I hate soaps but I love vegetable TV like Four in a Bed, Come Dine with Me and.....should I admit this .......Snog, Marry, Avoid. I try to catch Jeremy Kyle most days because it makes me realise that no matter how bad my life might seem I don't live nextdoor to the people who appear on the show.

I also love documentaries, political programming and need my regular news fix (BBC News of course).

I listen to Radio 2 and Radio 4. I enjoy music that ranges from plain song to arctic monkeys.

I think high brow and low brow is a form of snobbery or inverted snobbery. If you only allow yourself to be interested in one form or the other for whatever reason you miss out on so much.

I didn't go to a convent school so don't feel qualfied to join in!

"vegetable TV" – chuckle!

Hey, I didn't go to a convent school either; so that makes two of us

absentgrana of course it doesn't matter in the great scheme of things; just fun to think about.

Hmm - as a consequence of my early life experiences I grew up in dread of being thought common. So, from a very young age I learned my manners, wore modest clothing and minded my P's and Q's in public and in private - but tried very hard not to make judgements about how others (including my own family members) live. With a modicum of self-awareness I came to realise that I am actually an okay person and my background was nothing to fight against or be ashamed of. I have sloughed off the Hyacinth Bucket in me and become comfortable in my own skin. So I would say that I'm neither high nor low brow and am truly eclectic in my likes and dislikes.

Delivery to Bags , hope u like them ? Cost an arm and a leg , well we all know how much flowers cost from the petrol station , dam meant to cross that out really meant interflora [big cheesy grin] [flowers flowers flowers]

I AM NOT POSH! I'm dead common, or so my MIL thought

Who gives a toss what she thinks

Bet you don"t Jeni

Sister Saint Paul told us that it was common to whistle. What's more, it made the Virgin Mary blush. I ask you! What a load of trollocks.

The Virgin Mary is nearly always portrayed with eyes modestly downcast, so she might well blush.

There is one painting though which is lovely, she stares right at you. Can't remember the name of the artist, but one of the old ones.

I've got a postcard of it,from the National Gallery.

Have I deviated?

petallus...feel free! The rest of us do it all the time.

Not now! She's dead I'm alive

Ooh, lovely! Thank you for the flowers, nonu Such tasteful beauts with those psychedelic colours! Mwah!

The nuns used to say that eating icecream in the street was common and would hit your hands if they saw you. A friend was holidaying as an adult. She was eating an icecream when she saw a nun coming towards her. In a panic she stuffed her icecream into her handbag. As my friend passed the nun she looked her up and down in a way only a nun can. My friend quivered waiting for the rebuke. The nun said 'Ice cream is no longer deemed to be a sin'. My friend relaxed then the nun continued in a stern voice, 'but wasting food is.'

jeni someone told me that the old navy blue dyes faded quickly, thus looking shabby; so mother would have thought that it showed one was poor, which for her equalled common. Oh dear, Mum! We were poor, but she was desperate not to be thought so.

I don't know about nuns Vampirequeen my grandmother disapproved of eating anything, including sweets, in the street as common. As for seeing a lady smoke in the street - well!! What would she think of the almost 4 course meals people eat in the street these days?

I don't like soaps I just can't get into them. I am very fussy about what I watch usually something historically orientated so watch a lot of BBC4. I do like Timeteam. I enjoy nearly all types of music and Radio3 is a favourite with Radio4 another. I can have those on while reading

But at the moment am enjoying the Olympics the Men's Road Race is on.

Oh, come on. What is this high brow/low brow thing? Surely people like what they like and it is nobody else's business. To stand in judgement of other people's tastes must be terribly boring and my mother always told me that to be bored demonstrated a lack of intelligence. The list of common things that appeared on Gransnet a short while ago made me cringe. I think it was to do with clothing and make-up. I was horrified to find that I was terribly common on several counts, one of which was painting my toe nails. Everyone in my Pilates class, where it is usual (I nearly said common!) to go barefoot, had a really good laugh at that one as we compared the vast array of colours adorning our feet.

I didn't go to a convent school either, but what's it got to do with the price of fish?