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

Say what you want about Americans but we don’t do this stuff.

Pineapples have been the stunt fruit of choice for a few hundred years! Perhaps now just pipped by dragon fruit.

Yes, was just about to mention the pasta! Mind you, I have a row of kilner jars filled with dried pulses and rice etc, and artily hand written labels on the shelf over my Aga and although I fully intend to cook with them all, I never do. I leave them on show and take the remainder of the pulses from the plastic bags with the plastic freezer clips on them, that live in the cupboard rather than disturb my lovely display, so I am in no position to mock or judge other people's stunt ingredients.

I'm going 😋

Fish knives
Saying desert
Any euphamism for lavatory!

This ^

That's fake information.

Camping in Cornwall or Devon (you know the ones I mean)
saying that you’re ’going out’
private schools (if you know, you know)
Safari (unless you are friends with the owner and you are a non-paying guest)
telling people you’re flying first
getting up at 7am to go for a run/cycle
leasing a car
Flying lessons (unless it’s your career)
helicopter tours
cruises
trying to be ‘alpha’ (we can see through it)
gym-modelled inverted triangle men (lots of upper body weight, thin legs)
fake eyelashes, plumped lips
polyester clothes
place mats
big tvs

No one thinks a single one of these things is posh. Literally no one.

So you do, I guess. <all bow>

Yep pudding! Fish knives ok if have family initials on & been passed down at least 3 generations

Snobbery.
Bizarre nose-up-against-the-glass threads on Mumsnet who attempt to characterise upper class taste and laugh at what they deed 'tacky'.
Calling something 'lighthearted' when it's just a pointless excuse to bitch

Anybody using the word “posh” or “classy”.

Against the grain, I'm saying I love Dubai. Think of an idea and Dubai works out how to deliver it. A canal through the city, we will build it. The exuberance is intoxicating.

I’d say yes - sorry..

Support independent bars!

Let's be honest, photographic modelling and stunt work is the only thing a dragon fruit is good for. Never in the history of food has anything promised so much and delivered so little.

You sound fun.

Eh, this is actual snobbery

10 year old me who only had family holidays in caravans on the East Coast, definitely thought Disney World was a posh holiday.

In fact, there will still be some 10 year old kids out there like I was, holidaying in caravans, wondering what it’s like to go abroad and thinking all the kids who have Sky TV are the height of the ‘posh’.

This thread is so wrong. Let’s all laugh at the povvos, but claim it’s okay cause it’s only lighthearted and we grew up “working class” too 🙄

And Ferraro Rocher arranged in a pyramid served high on a tray

Outdoor tv room? You what??

I would never share what's classy now.... because I don't know. I can only say what I like or dislike. You are free to disagree

Even lavatory is a euphemism as the word is about washing, not eliminating.

I'm guessing the whole function is so bleurghhh that only round about ways of naming it could be used politely.

I've googled because I hadn't heard of Miller and Carter and there's one in Kingston and one in Worcester Park, neither far from Surbiton. I quite fancy trying one now 😀

Covid times, outside bar area with TV screen on the wall.
dart board, bar fridges and chairs made out of beer barrels