Supposedly ’posh’ things you think are common *trigger warning this is light hearted*

[ReadingWorm]

Obviously lighthearted and no need to explain your rational. But what are things that some people consider high end/ posh/ classy/ aspirational (I know they are not necessarily the same thing) that you don’t like/ think are tacky/ common / etc.

Again this is light hearted. We can complain but we must never explain!!!!!!

Here is my list.

Molton Brown hand wash
M&S food shop
American Style Fridges
Having a tan
Talking about exercising
Beauty Advent Calendars
Designer toasters and kettles
House of Fraser department stores
Posting photos from 1st class travel on instagram
Referring to your car by its brand name
Talking about your ‘forever home’
Shopping in Space NK
Visiting Disney World
Listening to Classic FM

Just "the garden". Because if you're really posh, your house sits within its own grounds, and the garden isn't just a bit of grass round the back.

It’s not that expensive to get my initials …they are used a lot in a town in the north east….I have even considered going there to buy a used car 🤣🤣

Pop corn
Sweet Potato chips!
😉😁

Somebody with the ability to
buy a dressage horse only tells you that they have cash in the bank or a Lon. Doesn’t tell you anything about their background.

Surely you’re not including Peter Jones in that!

Salcombe
Julian Barnes novels
Wine
Radio 4
Organic food

OMG this. I live in Zone 2 London, absolutely NO NEED to have a car. Saw a dozen or more personalised number plates today. Largely on cars that are not required in 20 mph zones: Range Rovers etc
I despair... this is 10am on a weekday and all parked up, so they are hardly being used for essential travel.
They are vanity purchases.
Possibly have strayed from light-hearted because they make me so mad.
Light hearted and staying in south London mode: St Reatham, Bl'ham etc. Itchy just writing it out!

Trust me, you don’t fall into dressage by accident - nor is anyone getting a loan approved to buy a horse.

I can only agree with two of those. Posting photos to show you are travelling first class and referring to your car by the brand name, although I've only ever known one person who has done that, and that was in the 80's. The rest are absolutely fine, not necessarily 'posh' or particularly aspirational anyway, just nice things to have in your life, if that's what you enjoy.

I'm saying any sort of nail art, obvious lip fillers, Range Rover Sports or Evoques, Stone Island clothing, stupidly expensive but ugly designer trainers, virtually anything by Dolce And Gabbana anything that marks you out at a probable Drug Dealer or Drug Dealer's girlfriend.

Those buttoned upholstered dining chairs with the weird, huge metal rings on the back. Furniture that is mirrored or gloss, or covered in crushed velvet. Beds with TVs that pop up out of the end. Glossy tiled floors anywhere but a bathroom. Having an interior designer in to do your whole house and ending up living in something that looks like a generic, modern city hotel with no personality, and no history or personal attachment to anything in it, whatsoever. That is the epitomy of expensive yet common to me.

Posting photos on Instagram of your day/night out with strategically placed bottle of veuve clicquot and designer handbag on the table 😂

Helford.

don’t know, but knowing the difference between ‘rationale’ and ‘rational’ maybe says something?

Peter Jones is my safe space. Haberdashery or stationery are very safe spaces. (non light-hearted but needed to be there the pm of 7/7, really needed that moment of the John Lewis/PJ staff showing me some curtain material apropos of nothing, we just all needed something nice to focus on)

Real tan not fake tan in winter
Dry robes and posting pics of self in lakes midweek in day time
Income to indulge lifestyle but no 9-5 job
Giving off spring daft names from literary classics
Years of psychiatry for kids but no diagnosis
Boarding school
Vegan diets of expensive ingredients
Barristers and NDAs

💯

Going to Google maps both of these places…never heard of them

@Lwrenn were they bath pearls or perles though? I remember buying different shapes and colours for around 10-20p back in the day.
Stunt oil is definitely still a thing too I always see the stunt oil sets at Christmas in the shops, Full of weird ingredients and often with a balsamic vinegar partner!

Oh that's interesting. I live in Edinburgh. In an undeniably posh part of Edinburgh. I have "my garden" - meaning the garden behind my flat that belongs only to me.

But, like everyone else in the undeniably posh parts of central Edinburgh, I also have "the garden" or "the gardens" meaning the locked private, communal gardens which are owned jointly by every owner in the relevant street or streets.

Does anyone actually say settee?
I don’t know what Miller & Carter is.

calling it a lounge is even worse 😣

Loads of people say settee

Miller & Carter were Princess Diana's divorce lawyers.

Saying ‘ I don’t knows what miller and carter is’