“We used to live in this tiny old tumbled-down house with great big holes in the roof.”

“House? You were lucky to live in a house. We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture,… we were all huddled together in one corner…”

“You were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in the corridor.”

—MONTY PYTHON, “FOUR YORKSHIREMEN”1

I’m not as thin privileged as I used to be.

—“SAVAGE LOVE” (DAN SAVAGE’S SEX-ADVICE COLUMN), ONLINE COMMENTER J.R.2