to think 'posh' and 'rich' are two completely different things?

[Floogel]

being wealthy does not make you posh, IMO

posh - rich + time (a lot of time)

What is the Wright Stuff?!

But posh doesn't necessarily go hand in hand with snobbish.

indeed not- snobbishness is a very lower middle class thing. Hyacinth Bucket is a classic snob.

It was Michael Hesletine who said the thing about being "the sort of person who buys his own furniture"

Irrc The Wrightstuff is a piss poor programme full of desperately gurning z listers attempting to be provocative and amusing

it fails dismally on both counts

Labootin Theres something about Matthew Wright that really annoys me, not sure what it is.

Seeker She acts posh, as im sure others do aswell, some are posh, some fake it.

I sound posh but I'm really middle-middle.

It's great, speaking properly gets you so much further than a regional accent does.

It was Michael Hesletine who said the thing about being "the sort of person who buys his own furniture

I am pretty sure it was Alan Clark who said it about Michael Heseltine whom he considered to be new money.

I really don't buy the whole poor but posh sctick 99% they have extrodinary assets in terms of land and property which they don't want to sell. No one makes them live in these vast stately piles crumbling around them. they could sell up and live in a modest home in relative comfort. but no their absurd moral code condemns them and their children to live beyond their means.

it is not poverty in the sense that anyone who was truly poor would understand.

David Mitchel= Posh
Ashley Cole= Rich
Kerry Katona= Chav

Me, Not rich,not poor but I would'nt call myself a chav though. Whats a chav? Tulisa? >

Correction= I am poor for now, on benefit! Am I a chav then? I went to private school and got a degree though!

"Seeker She acts posh, as im sure others do aswell, some are posh, some fake it"

No she doesn't. She thinks she does. That's the point!

You only have to walk round Badminton, any country fair etc. to see that there are two different kinds of posh: the ones bedecked in Hermes and bling, and the ones who look like Helena Bonham-Carter on a less-groomed day. I think it's a misnomer to suggest that all posh people drive old bangers and wear mud-splattered clothes. That Tara Palmer-Tompkinson girl doesn't exactly fly under the radar with cheapo clothes, does she?

In America, I would say that the "posh" are no different to the "posh" in England. My friend's grandfather (shipping magnate) wears Timex watches, and another friend's parents (famous lawyer, WASP-y background) delight in gifting one another $5 presents for birthdays and living in a dusty old house with six-toed cats.

Quite stop.

The idea that the rich posh all drive battered landrovers is absolutely not true.

The idea that the rich posh all live in the country is also untrue.

I went to some open days at English boarding schools last year, with a friend from NY and two Parisians. My party were at the large expensive new cars in the car park, and the badly casually dressed families that emerged from them.

dryjuice David Mitchell isn't posh, he's middle class. Not even 'upper middle class' I'd say. I've met a couple of people who describe themselves as 'upper middle class' and their families both had castles/ estates covering entire villages, and were at Eton. I'd call them posh, they'd call themselves 'upper middle class'

I do hope they are different, we are quite well off but dirt common. I like it that way

Compared to me even lower middle class is quite posh

I suspect I am a chav ( although it is a vile term but that is how you lot would see me) , I like the fact that it riles people so much to seeme enjoying sparkly things.

My family background is very working class but I seem to mix with posh people fairly often for work. My accent gets a bit posher when I do. I've always found the posher the person, the less common they make you feel. Really good manners are wonderful for putting one at ease

YANBU

Of course not

Totally different

YANBU, we are rich (certainly by MN standards . But we are bogans.

I quite like being a CUB. Cashed Up Bogan.

Best of both worlds.

What exactly is rich by MN standards. Just wondering.