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So that proves my point that posh is only a matter of opinion. But so maybe is rich. Can't believe people on here who think they're quite hard up on £100K plus per year.

The word "posh" is so subjective that it has virtually no value in determining anything. I've been accused of being "posh" on the basis of little more than my disinterest in reality TV. It has nothing at all to do with how much money you have.

Obviously.

i HATE the word posh.

Well I'm definately rich, but I'm as common as muck if that helps. I do have good manners and high moral standards, but still very much working class!

I suspect I approach the lack of fish knives from the opposite end of the spectrum.

Don't get many fish where I come from.

"I am thankful to say I have never seen a spade"

I don't think I had ever even heard of fish knives before coming on MN maybe I am posh after all...

But fish knives are fraightfully common!

A girl I was friends with at school always had fish knives and forks when they had fish and special butter knives for the butter. I thought they were frightfully posh but they weren't really any better off than we were which was just average. But much posher. I was angst ridden about it.

MN is a bit mental about most things wealth Viviennemary, you must have noticed that if you are not on the breadline then actually having any sort of problem is not allowed because there are many people worse off then you.

DH is a banker and I work in the mining industry, so our gains are pretty ill gotten as well by lefty standards, and to make it worse, we are not even sorry.

Rich, but definitely not posh - that can make people a bit crazy as well. We are very much new money, which I find works just as well as old money.

I've always figured that if you're truly posh you don't care what anyone thinks, toffs & proles have a lot in common that way, it's only the middle classes that are angst ridden about it.

Different things to different people....You can def be posh but broke, but being rich does not make you posh. If you speak 'posh' then most people who don't, will consider you posh!

No idea, we are well of in the real world, properly poor little church mice by MN standards!

What exactly is rich by MN standards. Just wondering.

YANBU, we are rich (certainly by MN standards . But we are bogans.

I quite like being a CUB. Cashed Up Bogan.

Best of both worlds.

YANBU

Of course not

Totally different

My family background is very working class but I seem to mix with posh people fairly often for work. My accent gets a bit posher when I do. I've always found the posher the person, the less common they make you feel. Really good manners are wonderful for putting one at ease

I suspect I am a chav ( although it is a vile term but that is how you lot would see me) , I like the fact that it riles people so much to seeme enjoying sparkly things.

Compared to me even lower middle class is quite posh

I do hope they are different, we are quite well off but dirt common. I like it that way

dryjuice David Mitchell isn't posh, he's middle class. Not even 'upper middle class' I'd say. I've met a couple of people who describe themselves as 'upper middle class' and their families both had castles/ estates covering entire villages, and were at Eton. I'd call them posh, they'd call themselves 'upper middle class'

I went to some open days at English boarding schools last year, with a friend from NY and two Parisians. My party were at the large expensive new cars in the car park, and the badly casually dressed families that emerged from them.

Quite stop.

The idea that the rich posh all drive battered landrovers is absolutely not true.

The idea that the rich posh all live in the country is also untrue.