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Original poster

ooooh. a posh kids vs commoner types dispute!

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DameHermione · 27/04/2012 18:23

DD does tennis. The courts belong to the posh public school and the tennis club rents them for lessons/games etc as the town doesn't have courts for us commoners.

DD has just phoned me to tell me the posh kids are refusing to leave and the teacher is taking them on.

I hope it doesn't end in fisticuffs.

I know i'm not unreasonable at all but as we all love a private vs state controversy i decided this would be the ideak place for it.

Off you go.......

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DameHermione · 27/04/2012 21:16

I'm afraid my left wing leanings forbid me from entering the public school system.

Clarinet is a bit lower-middle and trying-simply-too-hard. Flute is def posho.

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SunflowersSmile · 27/04/2012 21:23

Bassoon?

shockers · 27/04/2012 22:55

Right.. drums with sound pads on , gathering dust in the corner of bedroom, whilst in another bedroom, the strangled sound of a trumpet can be heard. I can't work out what class we are from that... can anyone help?

Leave your answers with the butler.

sairygamp · 27/04/2012 23:09

We are ever so posh, us. My mummy had maids and a cook and an orchard and everything. Then her bastard stepfather married a well common woman who sold all the land and stuff. THEN my mother got up the duff by a rough'un who squandered all the money away, got himself killed and left her with all sorts of debts so she is now living in a well common sheltered housing place and we are ex council with the kids up the local comp and prim'ry. Still, we all talk nicely, so it's all ok. Oh and youngest dd is taking a scholarship exam thing for one of the 'proper' independants in january next year so that's ok.

Moln · 28/04/2012 07:32

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Catherine Cookson would love this. Some one always had to get pregnant and usually with someone they were married to (shocker!)

OP you a big old poshy aren't you, though you are just like the man in the Thames a poshy protesting about posh people.

Well except your name in the Thames right now I imgine

SunflowersSmile · 28/04/2012 07:48

Our family is a bit Catherine Cookson in parts. Some 'marrying down' plus big house going to oldest son [in not too far away history] has resulted in us being the church mice of the family. [Well spoken mice mind you- got the piss ripped out of me at secondary school- Sunflowers sits on the Grarrrsse on her arrrrrrrrrrrse]. Happpppy days .

Mrsjay · 28/04/2012 17:50

My nana had a bit of a catherine cookson story she went into service at 15 the local big house and she ended up marrying a friend of the masters son ( im sure they didnt call him master ) the friend was the son of a grocer so posh for where we live
, her husband was apparently a brute and drank all the money and favoured his sons and hated his daughters , he died at 47 , nana had to go to work to feed her 7 kids worked 3 jobs didnt end up loaded or meeting her first love or anything ,but apparently my grandfather was a horrible man to his children ,

crazynanna · 29/04/2012 01:31

My Gran came from a well orf family..and then she married grandad who was basically a pauper with a bitch of a mother. My Gran's family cut her off without a penny. She ended up with 9 kids',everyone born without a midwife 'cos the bitch mother in law refused to go and get her...and grandad was a lazy git and never worked...so my poor Gran had to work her fingers' to the bone.

Catherine Cookson? I've pissed all over her....

CaoNiMa · 29/04/2012 04:11

Threads like this are pathetic, and indicate a huge chip on the shoulder for the OP.

SunflowersSmile · 29/04/2012 07:30

I think most people on this thread have been very tongue in cheek and good humoured Cao.
Don't think DameHermione wanted a 'proper fight'. Think whole thing came to nothing in the end anyway!

TandB · 29/04/2012 09:53

My family are also thoroughly Catherine Cookson - assisted by the relevant generation actually living near Catherine Cookson in South Shields.

My several times great-grandmother was the daughter of a baronet and she and her sister eloped with commoners while he was away one night and were disinherited. The non-disinherited lot died out and the estates passed to some in-laws, whereupon the eldest son of my ggggg-grandmother and his cousin launched legal battles to get the estate back. One of them somehow managed to get a few houses out of it which he later had to give back as it turned out he had been lying about his mother being the eldest daughter, and then the rest of the family felt sorry for him and paid him a small allowance. Which he squandered.

Meanwhile, there was another massive inheritance battle going on with another set of in-laws. My family lost and stopped speaking to the other family. Until my great-great-grandmother married one of their descendants. But by then she was running a dockside pub in South Shields so no-one cared that much.

And the upshot of all this was that I had to pay £2 to go and look round the ancestral home when I should be swanning around in fancy clothes and sleeping in the four-poster bed in the master bedroom.

Not at all happy.

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 29/04/2012 10:02

What a pathetic, nasty, horrible thread. It well and truly proves the reverse snobbery that is alive and kicking on MN.

If someone had posted about a load of council estate kids from a sink school refusing to leave somewhere this thread would be full of posters telling the op not to generalise and be so judgy. Yet the other way round creates six pages of people congratulating each other for being 'common' and baying for the blood of those who are perceived to have more than them financially.

This is really not one of MN's prouder moments, and it makes many posters appear as thick as pig shit.

MariahScary · 29/04/2012 10:13

Really, some people need a sense of humour bypass.

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 29/04/2012 10:20

If it wouldn't be funny in reverse, then it's not about sense of humour. If this was re posted in the reverse situation and it got the same reaction, then I would be very happy to be proved wrong.

MariahScary · 29/04/2012 10:23

Can't you see that's a half baked point?

difficultpickle · 29/04/2012 10:27

Ds wants to learn the harp and currently wears a stripey blazer. Does that make him posh? Will he be less posh when he moves to his new school and the blazer is a plain colour (although there will be royalty in his class)?

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 29/04/2012 10:29

No, not really. But I'd be open to an explanation and changing my mind.

TwllBach · 29/04/2012 10:32

bisjo as far as I'm aware, if your DS ignores the royalty in his. Lass, then he is posh. If he is in awe of/seen to be friendly with the royalty, then he is common.

seoladair · 29/04/2012 12:31

I see recorder has been classified as common. Can the recorder student become posh if he/she plays nothing but Baroque music with stylistic awareness?

sairygamp · 29/04/2012 13:17

kate middleton must be well common then, because not only did she not ignore royalty, she married into it!!!

TwllBach · 29/04/2012 14:26

Sairy I thought maybe the way she got to a position to be able to marry in to it was probably because she was so calm and collected around him to begin with? She even broke up with him for a while...

sairygamp · 29/04/2012 14:32

Um, I was joking...

difficultpickle · 29/04/2012 14:39

I don't think he will be paying any attention to them at all unless they show interest in him first (he is more fickle than posh/common)

Moln · 29/04/2012 20:24

Well I just didn't know that accussing someone of blazer wearing was blood baying.

I do think though if we were going to do it Catherine Cookson proper we would need a few from a sink estate. We'd need a young girl who was made to marry for some reason or other (for the family most likely aka Peggy Mitchell) to a right mean man. She would of course have a true love who'd gone missing (most likely a war) and she'd catch the eye of a sixth former form the town 50k private school. He wouldn't be nice either but would pretend he was....

....I'm over thinking this aren't I?

Moln · 29/04/2012 20:26

Now on Kate Middleton, she didn't ignore royalty inthe most unignorable way BUT she wears a blazer.

Confusing.

We need to know if she plays the recorder

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