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

That’s a myth that won’t go away
https://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq-posh

Anti social, that's what they are, unless your nearest neighbour is half a mile away. I work in landscaping and naturally most clients are the wealthier side of society so I see a lot of things that are desirable by the folk that can drop 100k on a garden.

More power to them I guess. If you have all that cash you must start running out of ideas to spend it on, that's the only explanation I can see. I reassure myself that I would be a bastion of good taste in the same position but maybe I would be installing 3 dishwashers in one kitchen or transplanting a 100 year old oak tree or paying for a company to move my entire newly built garden and babysit it for a year while I extended my basement (all true things that clients have done).

That’s because it’s impossible to get decent fruit in the UK. If you tried one from outside the UK you’d understand. I had one in Spain not long ago that I still salivate over.

Oh it's not that serious. I'm a "povvo" as you call it (had to look that word up) I'm not offended!

Loo is fine

It's got to be a ten from Len...

I've seen them where I live in Melbourne. The height of un-neighbourly behaviour.

Crushed velvet
children dressed in boutique clothes.
Michael Kors

cant believe those of you saying M&S food! What’s wrong with you!!!!

Dubai is an utter aesthetic abomination
Dull malls Like Brent Cross with the heating on full pelt
Building glass fronted towers in a desert, just because you can, that is not progress. Creating a glass and towering edifice because you can, isn’t in itself a good thing

Who thinks Strictly is posh???

Having a lot of Botox/fillers but I’m sure this happens whether ‘posh’ or common like me 😂

^^ this

“Stop in the desert” a novel by Mustapha Wee-wee. Well, it made us girl guides laugh.

I bought a dragon fruit once and it was mouldy inside, I was furious, outside was beautiful.

I'm going to have to have a few stunt items now I've been told where sells them. I can't wait. They can go next to my stunt cook books I'm yet to make a recipe from 😂

@twigletsandradishes are you Nigella? Your kitchen sounds very nigella!

New use of pineapples.

You love slave labour and human rights infringements? Delightful!

The brief was 'supposedly posh things that you think are common'. If you think they are 'posh' then the brief is fulfilled - I think they are all unspeakably naff.

Molton Brown is cheap as chips. Deffo common.

I have an outside TV - I get into my outdoor pool, lie on my outdoor lilo and watch Wimbledon (for example) on my outside TV. It is bloody brilliant and I wouldn't swap my life for a bunch of people sneering at me!

Where do you live @m00rfarm ?

Er, no. I kind of assumed that was covered by the use of ‘no one’, which I stupidly didn’t think needed defining.

So to make it REALLY clear:

what this thread actually proves is that no one [the definition of which is ‘not a single person’ and I do consider myself to be a person] on MN [the website which we are currently posting on, with ‘we’ including me] has a clue about what’s posh and what’s not.

I’m not quite sure how you came to the conclusion you did unless you think (a) I’m not a person or (b) I’m magically posting on here while not actually being on MN? Fascinated to know which it is.

Yes, the greatest place on earth to be a woman for sure.

I'm not offended!

And that’s absolutely fine for you. Doesn’t mean other people who have experienced real poverty and hardships won’t be offended though.

Dull malls Like Brent Cross with the heating on full pelt

They’re actually really bloody cold but I agree with most points! You forgot the ski slope in the middle of the desert (well, mall…) too. 🤦🏼‍♀️

But the point of the thread is what do people think is 'posh' that's actually common.

I don't think anyone thinks it's posh to say 'my kitchen' or 'my lounge.'

Botox