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

Well said!

Are you seriously suggesting that's where the word 'fuck' comes from, or have I misread your post? It's of 16th century Germanic origin, it's not a backronym.

Who do you know who thinks apples and cheddar are posh?

Apples literally fall off the tree in my garden and you can buy cheddar everywhere....

Totally agree, could not have read a truer word on this thread.

Thank you

Range rovers and DUBAI AND VEGAS
Turkey teeth
Pug dogs

@JustEatTheOneInTheBallPit I bet though that your Ferrero Rocher cake was the best in the world. I wish I had thought of that back when we got married; i would have given the professional fruit cake to the guests and eaten the Ferrero Rocher one with DH. Damn, our 20th is coming up. I'm going to enquire! ❤️

My mum doesn't need to know jack! She can get on with pleasing family and friends while I enjoy my cake! 🍰

But anything can seem
posh if it’s not normal to go to/have/use/own etc and is expensive to you. Giggling because some people think Miller and Carter is posh sounds very condescending. You sound a right snob.

Like the op who, as a child, thought having kitchen roll was posh, I thought houses that had downstairs loos as well as upstairs were posh. I assume blonde women who wear gilets and hunters wellies are posh (or want to be).

No idea but it was part of a list of “common” words. I’ve only ever seen trifle at children’s birthday parties so I’m struggling to work out how it fits into that list!

Stunt pineapples. https://jeffreyrubel.substack.com/p/rental-pineapple

I love trifle but can't imagine anyone thinking it was posh unless they'd done the Elizabeth David thing (ratafia biscuits, marsala and syllabub I think, but am prepared to be corrected). In which case it would be posh and very uncommon.

Yeah I thought the kitchen roll anecdote wasn’t very sweet. And it goes to show ( as does this thread) that the whole businesss is really a bit pointless anyway because people clearly have totally different concepts of posh.

Pizza ovens
Hot tubs
Bars in the back of the garden
Salon nails
Nespresso
Stanley mugs
Radley
Hunter wellies

I have to have an SUV because I can’t bend due to spinal issues (It's not 4x4 though). I've had so many remarks like yours aimed directly at me, simply because my disability isn't visible and I'm under the age of 50....especially as it's brand new (it's a Motability car so it has to be brand new)
therefore I must have it as a status symbol, right?!

In my experience - and I've had a lot - the 'poshest' people I've met (as in titled families who have hereditary wealth over multiple generations, i.e. pre-1850s) were obnoxious, papered over their wealth being derived from exploiting other people, were obsessed with who was related to who to a mind-boggling degree, held on to historic resentment about certain nationalities, were racist, anti-intellectual, anti-Catholic (or completely enthralled by it), tight with money, indulged their own eccentricities often at the expense of other people, and never used the given names of their staff - 'mrs thing' 'nanny' 'her' and so on. So - aspire away. And if your middle class insecurities make you so curtain-twitching that you are continually categorising other people, well that's just sad.

There’s quite a bit of truth in that summary of “ real” poshness.

I think true poshness looks very different from the general perceptions: not a Dubai holiday in sight ….

The one thing I would say is that calling nanny nanny is actually not seen as obnoxious but as a special gesture of being part of the family and it differed from the use of surnames for other staff. Servants were called by surnames for the simple reason that it helps to keep a sense of distance when living under the same roof. Most MNers today would prefer their DH to address the svelte, sexy lady’s maid as Brown not Eliza or Effie.

True but also no more 'obnoxious' than anyone else. Classing a whole swathe/ generations of people as ' obnoxious ' could get you cancelled, who else do you consider ' obnoxious ' 🤨

Again nobody thinks any of those are posh!

In my experience

What about the rest of the list?😉

I had one of those. I bought it in Lidl😁. I liked it but the pineapple eventually fell off.

Yup, cancelled.💯

ThomasPatrickKeatingsDegas
Paved or tarmac driveways instead of loose gravel
Big blown up family photos rather than small framed pictures grouped together on one side table/desk

I read this as large inflatable family photos, for a minute. I thought “wow that does sound a little common” like my uni halls decor, circa 1998 😁

They are all available on the Motability scheme as they (usually) have very large boots and are spacious and lovely to drive. They're also very well built. Those which are Motability vehicles have not been leased because of anything to do with image or lacking in imagination ffs.

My mum on the other hand just loves Audis and has been driving them for almost 60 years now. She couldn't give two hoots hat anyone thinks 🤣

Le Cruset … unused and on display

I had no idea that word was banned I didn't see it the talk guidelines