Tony Walker
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So there was all sorts of rules and manners and it showed what class you belong to.
Or you could talk about you're going to have your dinner.
When you mean your lunch, because the working class have dinner at lunchtime because they were traditionally they were servants.
So the main meal of the day was at lunch because their masters would eat their main meal in the evening and have to serve on them.
So they couldn't have the main meal.
That's how I've heard it described anyway.
So it's all about class.
Yeah, she was working class.
And she's a criminal, of course, because as... This is a slight aside here, talking about the 1940s and intelligence work in the Foreign Office.
Of course, the great thing, there were the famous KGB spies, the Cambridge spies, Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt, etc.
And they couldn't believe they would be spies because they were...
gentlemen.
So they were of the upper middle class.
So this idea that a working class person could be a criminal, of course, they would be, but one of us couldn't be.
So this is pointing there.
So we talked about a funeral, ablative absolute.
So if you went to an English public school, which is an English private school, you would be taught Latin.
So you would be taught about your ablative absolute.
And those people in his class that he's talking to, who would be listening to it, would know very much what he was talking about.
But he's a funny guy.