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Comment author: RichardKennaway 27 October 2012 06:54:13AM 14 points [-]

Ok, I was engaging in a bit of their proudly proclaimed SPOV. If they hand it out they'd better be able to take it as well.

As context for the joke, the most middle-class of the national supermarket chains in the UK is Waitrose. (Middle-class as opposed to working-class; the upper class would not be seen in such places.) Number two is Sainsburys. So, some comedian remarked, what's the point of Sainsburys? To keep the riff-raff out of Waitrose.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 28 October 2012 04:42:45AM 3 points [-]

LOL apparently I am the riff-raff.

Comment author: cata 27 October 2012 09:04:57AM 1 point [-]

Aha, thanks for the explanation. Being an American I didn't know the reference and interpreted it as a generic snark.

Comment author: gjm 29 October 2012 01:20:05AM 3 points [-]

I'm from the UK and didn't know the reference either.