I love how the poem highlights how the middle class fake feelings of sentimentality for the working class when, in reality, they actually fear and loathe them
David Thomas agreed. Post Brexit hysteria shows. This the northern working class were blamed for Brexit. Called thick racists. When in fact Home Counties Tories were big supporters of leaving the EU. The working class English the least empowered people get the blame for the mess created by others.
@@TrueGritProductions The 'middle-class' are an interest group, or subculture, not a social class imo. Besides, wealth does not in itsself define social class. It doesn't matter how many cars you own, or how much you have in the bank, that doesn't make you even gentry.
@@vornamenachname594 Your definition is arbitrary. The concept of a middle class actually has its origins in early Victorian France. The 'culture of the living room'. A subculture of snobbish commoners who gave undue importance to the collection of tasteless frippery. So, not much has changed. There is no 'middle class', unless you define it as a social interest group, or subculture.
As a builder for the last 30 years most of my clients are middle class and I can now truly say the do not like working class folk. They really do think their better. How do I know? Because they get a bit loose with the chitchat after a time...
Nothing gets people talking like a feeling of familiarity. Of course the middle class is afraid of the lower class. They, are what the Middle class is afraid to become. No one is more hateful of the workers then someone who thinks they made it themselves.
I had a guy mistake me for one of his type one time. Started complaining about having to contribute to the School Lunch program because he didn't want to, "Pay for poor kids food". Talked about how disappointed that the kids from the poor neighbourhood went to the same school as his kids. Real Scuzzy experience.
They're just frightened, because (scientific fact) middle-class men have no testicles. I bet they start nervously calling you "mate" and referring to "Manchester Rovers" and "Liverpool United".
Comments on Partridge videos can be divided into two types - the strange rants by Dossers and Dwads who think he's real, and the endless Partridge quotes by those who know he's not - Ooh, mince!
@Pedro Abreu nah it’s a piss take out of peoples who’s only knowledge of the working class is stereotypes usually of them being dangerous but who still pretend to care about them
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@@zapkvr0101 And sincere. Coogan is more concerned about the rights of uninvited worldwide parasites than he is for aspirational Brits or ex servicemen sleeping in shop doorways.
Eee, thanks Alan mate, it's good ter see someone standin up for us working folks. None of them posh lot. And yer reminded us- ah must go ter poundland fer a new dog rawp.
A very well made parody of something is occasionally nearly indistinguishable from the real thing. Also he gave a very subdued and dead pan performance, so well done that sometimes people might not realise he's just acting at points
“CP30” i can almost hear a nerd fixing the bridge of his glasses with his index finger, preparing his tirade of matter of factness. Which is exactly what Steve would want
Something poignant about the poem. Alan Partiridge is this anti pc character with all these stereotypes about working class people but that last line of the poem shows that for all that, the character isn't "done" in a mean spirited way and its coming from a place of appreciating the humanity in people- like the humour that comes from people's "faults" in the Alan Partridge shows and in other Steve Coogan comedies makes them more likable if anything. Like all the working class people Alan runs into. Alan can be spiteful, selfish, spineless but he's not an evil character and he's so funny.
I've been listening to the Alan Partridge audibooks (and the new podcast), and I definitely think there is a very faint part of the poignant parts that is Coogan speaking as himself. Those bits stand out from Alan's usual mockery of people he considers beneath him. Many people might disagree, but needless to say I had the last laugh.
Lol I was watching the Yorkshire Ripper programme on Netflix the other night and listening to the obviously upper-middle class reporter talk about a "hard-working (or was it respectable?) Working class girl" victim made me roll my eyes, those two statements are ALWAYS put together when mentioning working class, reminds me of this.
I was going to say something like, "My marriage fell apart after watching this" or "Back of the net" but instead I will just say this is beautiful. Not crying with laughter but crying with the sheer ruddy bloody sentiment of it all can only mean one thing: "I am Partridge"! Lynn... I've gone again.... Lynn... LYNN.... LYNN!!
The internal conflict between Alan and Steve goes on, this isn't AP it's just some strange (yet still pretty funny) mutation of characters. Not the same but still ok.
I love Steve Coogan as a performer and as a person ... Let Me Tell You, that's Alan Partridge the character but what he is saying is Steve Coogan's words !!!
reading the comments is scary......you do know this is satire? BRILLIANT satire? Commentary on the vacuous modern media and the banality of it all? THINK people. THINK!
but the point is soccer is NEVER a word associated in British football culture, simply because there is no other logical, reasonable use of the word 'football' for a sport. He actually did spoil this using the word 'soccer'
Crisps for dinner and a pint of Best, Our soccer club’s better than the rest City, United, Albion, Rovers Cobbled streets that advertise Hovis Knuckle-busters, ASBOs, car park fights, Poundland, Asda, bingo nights Matchstalk men, Matchstalk cats, Matchstick dogs and council flats Community centres and spray painted swearing, Harassed policemen, and teachers past caring Unions, strikes, everybody out *I don’t want to,* *You’ve got to,* *We won’t earn nowt* Cotton mills and cooling towers, Old tin baths, no power showers A certain pride, a certain swagger A fist, a stick, a gun, a dagger Giros, glue sniffing, dogs on ropes But I see people, with dreams, with hopes
As empty of sincerity as Alan Partridge is (which is actually what is so funny about is character, and this clip) the threadbare old view that the so called underclass (or lumpenproletariat as Marx called it) are lazy scroungers without hopes and dreams, is totally unfounded, and based purely on the ignorance of people who haven't experienced it first hand. I've met many people in the so called underclass, and they just want a bite of the cherry like everyone else. When the means to a sense of fulfillment or success in life is blocked, people can become downtrodden into depression, addiction, and low self-esteem, and crime. Cohen (1955) noticed deviant behaviour in underprivileged youths was actually a type of 'status frustration' and that frustration created a type of criminal subculture. It's pretty sad when someone is honest with you enough to tell you that they don't feel they have any worth or value in society, and can't see their way out of it through the means others have been afforded. But that's the truth whether people like it or not. It's a lot easier to look down on people and say, "they choose that way of life because they're good-for-nothing scumbags". It makes us feel better about ourselves, and gives us someone to pin the blame on for society's problems. Or another one you hear, "I know a guy who came from poverty who is now a millionaire". That's great, good on them I say, but that's not a reality for everyone, and not the answer to a problem created by a system that shits on it's own brothers and sisters so it can get rich. Poverty and inequality is created by the wealthy, but no one will tell you that, because they want you to blame those who can't fight back.
Niko ....as someone in their fifties it has saddened me how the media has heaped abuse on those less fortunate for the last few decades. I think it is a sinister campaign t divide and rule. Don't look at the rich man with 90 per cent of the cakes...blame the bloke who is stealing the crumbs from your 10 per cent. ....
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.....
Textbook Partridge. I like this new version of Patridge. Alan would have aged and adapted. He is now portrayed more like Steve Coogan himself perhaps, as Steve has commented in interviews. Coogan seems more at ease now he has done more serious acting. Like the film Philomena. Patridge may be more comfortable to play as a character maybe and more opportunities to subtly comment and still be humurous. This clip seems to me quite movingly about Manchester, as i lived there, and every British city. Aha!
