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

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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

I have. Tastes the same as my Dualit. But the Morphy Richards broke quickly. The Dualit will go forever. And is easy to fix if necessary.

100% not "posh" & never thought to be

I like Miller & Carter for a family meal out. It's decent food and not massively unaffordable, although I wouldn't say cheap.

Wouldn't call it posh though.

putting the milk in first - this is a crime no? 😂

We have gold taps (plus a huge corner bath, wood paneling and feature tiles with ladies with their tits out) because our bathroom is from the 70s/80s and the landlord wont updated it... no one has ever called it posh.

If anything the shitty ancient extension is barely a step above a slum, everything broken and its riddle with structural damp (confirmed by 3 of the landlords own builders) and woodlice.

Black taps are the fashion now don't you know.

I think I was confusing it with Caviar House & Prunier - those seafood bars at the airport.

Aren't the things where people are saying none of those things are posh/considered posh about the people who do them and think they are 'posh'? We've all seen the type with the designer handbags, white range rover, immaculate hair and make up who think they're above everyone else when really only a particular demographic is impressed by this.

Surely it’s a 4 slot dualit toaster? 😀

As I said, it's a style as well as a movement and A&C elements are very apparent in a lot of interwar suburbia, often w 'Tudorbethan' details too. Eg Deansway in Hampstead Garden Suburb

Not necessarily - there are a few words developed from 'backronyms'!

Another one being legal jargon of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge - I'm sure there are a few other kicking around. It's how languages develop over time.

Titles that only trace back to a few generations.

I do this! It isn't to 'look posh' though, It's because to me, hand wash is hand wash and I think the expensive one I bought last year looks a lot better than one from Morrisons (and it matches my bathroom) plus it uses less plastic as I'll buy a huge bottle of the cheaper thing, so why not?
I agree though-soap overall is better for the environment and that is what I mostly use.

I'll add;

Designer clothes with the logo visible.
Bragging about £/where you live
Refusing to shop at charity shops/buy second hand
Top of the rang everything.

Agree on snobbery (I have never, ever met a truly 'posh' person who isn't down to earth and pleasant to everyone)

(I eat at the Ivy because I like their vegan options, 'faux posh' or not. But then I also like wetherspoons so I am clearly common as meck.

Mumsnet

New build houses/estates

Landrovers in suburban London

Dog walkers

Peanut butter
Sleeping
Drinking water
Brushing your teeth
Sweating

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A lot of the 'posh' things on here are actually nouveau riche IMO.

We have a range Rover albeit a 20yr old one as it fits us all including 2 big dogs in. Hot tub in the garden and it's been game changing for my husbands back as he no longer needs as much medication since he started using the hot tub each night after work

This, is another one. If you're truly 'posh' (agree with a PP that 'posh' isn't something 'posh' people say anyway!) you wouldn't care if muck got on your carpet. You wouldn't care because your peers wouldn't nor would they mention it. They'd know you just probably haven't got around to replacing it/cleaning it yet and there's no problem affording it. It doesn't really matter and no desire to 'keep up with the Jones' because you're confident in who you are.

Same with buying expensive clothing that you'll only wear on occasion e.g. a pair of designer trainers that you'll only wear if the ground is clean wherever you're going. A truly 'posh' person wouldn't care, they'd wear them for stomping around in the mud if they wanted to-they can afford to.

I genuinely didn't know. I only really know of The Deanery and my friends A and C fire dogs. I personally wouldn't demolish a 1930s house though... I'm very make do and mend.

All the 'posh' folk I know are like this!

My nieces are at private school. Many of the 'old money' parents turn up in muddy wellies, or have scruffy old jumpers/coats on and drive old bangers, when they drop their children off. They're very pleasant and polite to everyone. They just have no desire to impress.

Not sure what they'd say if I picked up wearing pjamas, like the MN bugbear but I am tempted to try it!

I do agree, but also lots of "posh" people are actually broke and couldn't afford to replace. Brodsworth Hall near Doncaster is a great example of this. But yes, absolutely wouldn't care what anyone thought and friends in the same position.

That is true, should've mentioned. Just as a lot of very much 'not posh' people have a lot of money, a lot of 'posh' people do not. They are not necessarily the same thing at all.

Thanks, HeyPA! I used the live in the UK in the a long time ago...

My parents would have been fans of Harvester, Beefeater, Wetherspoons, Little Chef, that sort of thing, so if they were there now, this would surely be right up their street!

Haven’t been to any Michelin star places, but I don’t understand designer burger joints. Suppose it all started with Planet Hollywood, etc… But Gordon Ramsay burger? Nah!

Poor old Nicky Haslam and his novelty tea towels.

I doubt anyone could cap that.

Old crumbling slum-like houses are definitely posh and not 'trashy' dontcha know. Trashy things are always shiny and new it seems. Things that the 'new' rich people like, ie the people who earned their money in one generation not 10 generations then inherited it from grandad. The footballers, the tech startup millionaires, the film stars etc. it's backwards I will freely admit. It's much more respectable to have earned it yourself but twas ever thus. Isn't there a theme in pride and prejudice where people look down on the rich who earned their money through industry rather then via a title? Nothing has changed.

Black taps though...