to think it's bizarre that it seems acceptable to slag off posh people

[fartattack]

simply because they are posh. And to show not compassion for the well off with issues unrelated to wealth simply because they are well off.

I overheard someone today call a well spoken guy a "posh twat" in such a nasty way simply because he was well spoken.

I also see posters on here become dismissive and rude to posters the minute they find out their children are at private school or are high earners.

AIBU to think it's wrong that this reverse snobbery is almost acceptable within society?

Yes, YABU. Some have more money, others have more friends.

Yanbu at all.

Loopyloops
I honestly don't understand your reply

Well there are enough benefit bashers to even it out!

YANBU - it is a view that is particularly prevalent on MN

It's just plain all fashioned green eyed envy

I do think some people think it is ok to mock people with more money or a plummy voice yet you get some people who think it is such a giggle to mock the poor and common it works both ways,

'old' fashioned

Blackberry

I would hazard a guess that the benefit bashers and the posh bashers are one and the same group.

Mrsjay

You are right but I have never on hear heard someone be nasty simply because the are average earners.

I think it's crap.

I had a horrendous time at my old workplace because they all had broad Glaswegian accents and I didn't.

There was constant sniping about where I lived, (not the shittest area.) and what I got up to with DD (I took her to the theatre to see Charlie and Lola, not a fucking Opera!!!)

It makes me a bit paranoid about dealing with people, so I'm extremely guarded now.

Ridiculous that being brought up properly marks you out as 'Posh'.

Ridiculous that being brought up properly marks you out as 'Posh'.

I too am scottish and went to a 'rough' school with broad accents and was called posh I'm not just was brought up to use manners and what not ,

fartattack the average earners are plonked in the the middle as average and posh and common is the extremes IYSWIM

oh its only acceptable if their kids wear twatty school uniforms

boaters etc

easy prey
;)

"being brought up properly"

But that's the sort of statement which annoys people, surely?

tudorjess

being brought up properly costs nothing and is conducive to a nicer environment to live in.

It shouldn't annoy anyone.

YANBU.

I've been a victim of nasty comments for nothing more than some people think I'm posh

I'm not.

There is an example of this behaviour from a poster on the school shoe thread yesterday.

Agreeing with fartattack. (Even though her name is GRIM! )

Being brought up properly is about instilling values, morals and a decent level of care and support. It has nothing to do with income or class.

I do not think its ok to be nasty to anyone just because of their background.

I dislike the assumption (often seen on MN) that those with little (relatively) are resentful and jealous of the more affluent.

IME the most resentful are those who are comfortable. They seem to live in a world where everyone wants what they have and everyone has things they do not deserve (apart from them of course).
I feel sorry for people like that.

If someone is pleasant and polite they can be as rich as whatever. I am happy for them.

If they shut themselves away in a gated 'community' and object to their children mixing with mine. They are twats.

"Being brought up properly"

As above, if that's your attitude then you can't possibly be surprised when people treat you with a lack of respect.

I used to get this all the time. I was often mocked for being posh.
I come from a middle class background, nothing special about where I grew up, we lived very comfortably in a nice house but that was about the only 'posh' thing about us.
I think its because I live in area where a fair few people have broad Yorkshire accents and I don't- I have a fairly mild Yorkshire accent with a hint of a summerset accent (my mother lived there and some words rubbed off), and I was taught to pronounce all my words properly- which is the only reason I can think I was mocked.

yes, I hate this. XH had a mild cockney accent as did many of his mates, and I was often called 'posh' by them because I was 'well-spoken' (I do have quite a cut-glass accent, not sure why as my parents surely didn't!) and went to private school, in a ribbing but slightly snidey way. I would never have dreamt of commenting on their accents. Oddly, some people at my school mocked my accent too, and their were plenty of 'well-spoken' people there! I guess they just didn't like me .

Honestly OP what you took from those dreadful school threads is that people are meant to posh people?

really? There have been several threads of that type and they are about how utterly ghastly it is to have to be in close proximity to commoners.

YANBU, and I agree with you in a big way. Inverse snobbery is very ugly, and I've never seen more of it than on MN.

I was bullied for being. 'posh'. Went to school in a mining village and it didn't help that I was from an outlying village which was in the good pub guide AND that my parents were in the papers every other bloody week!