I'm sure that a lot of you will recognise this sketch from the 60's tv show "The Frost Report":
'I look up to him because he is upper class but I look down on him because he is lower class.'
'I know my place.'
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"I look down on him because I am upper-class.
I look up to him because he is upper-class; but I look down on him because he is lower-class. I am middle-class.
I know my place. I look up to them both. But I don't look up to him as much as I look up to him, because he has got innate breeding.
I have got innate breeding, but I have not got any money. So sometimes I look up to him.
I still look up to him because although I have money, I am vulgar. But I am not as vulgar as him so I still look down on him.
I know my place. I look up to them both; but while I am poor, I am honest, industrious and trustworthy. Had I the inclination, I could look down on them. But I don't.
We all know our place, but what do we get out of it?
I get a feeling of superiority over them.
I get a feeling of inferiority from him, but a feeling of superiority over him.
I get a pain in the back of my neck. . "
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