Happy people don't have sex

Father Christmas kindly brought me Swings Both Ways, and I have been listening to it with delight (and foxtrotting merrily up and down the kitchen) at the mixture of self-awareness and who-gives-a-fucked-up-ness of Robbie Williams. He swings rather well.

Er. Does anyone know if anybody has made a vid using any of the tracks from this album? It feels like territory that should be mined.

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I followed a link through to this very interesting look at the American class system, which looks at the difference between economic class and social class. Here in England, we are much more aware of the social class system. Its importance is fading somewhat, but it has been around too long not to be relevant, even these days.

Which is probably why I have always interpreted Nsync as being differentiated by their social class as well as other things. Chris is at the bottom, coming from a very lower class background. Justin is next up—Lynn has never struck me as anything other than a lower class mom, which probably plays into the ‘stage momma’ encouragement she’s always given him.

Joey is firmly in the middle, a well-off, comfortable, top-end-of-working class kid.

I’m not quite sure which way round JC and Lance go, though I would tend to put Lance at the upmost end of the heap, as a child of emphatically respectable middle-class parents. Look at him now, with his fancy cuisine and his art collection (okay, so he married an artist). I’m not sure what Roy and Karen do/did, but they definitely seem middle class to me, so I put JC just 'below' Lance.

Anyone else see them this way? Where do you put JC? Should Justin be higher on the scale?

And thanks to turlough for the awesome icon.

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I suppose it comes as no surprise to see Richard Dawkins being a complete and utter dick. It's pretty much standard behaviour for him.