To think I am not posh???

[LadyShirazz]

Our lodger has just informed me that I am "the poshest person he has ever met". Not in a nasty way at all, but at the same time in an entirely genuine one too.

Fair do's - I have the most plummy cut-glass accent imaginable which I hate. God only knows where I've acquired it from, as the rest of the family don't speak anything like this - I can only put it down to having moved around a lot as a child, and therefore never having picked up a particular accent. It's not even one of those "smooth as silk" Joanna Lumley accents either - think more the Queen with constipation (but also shit-faced, so lots of 'shits' and 'fucks' thrown in to the mix too...).

I do speak well and write well. I did go to Cambridge. I do work for a "big name" in The City that is a traditional haunt of the public school types many of them wankers - am new - that's another topic.

But, really, I come from true salt-of-the-earth stock. My mum is a Yorkshire farm lass, and my dad grew up in the slums (true sense of the word there) of the Black Country, and was the first person in his family to go to university (where he met my mum).

His choice of degree (engineering) has afforded the family until it went to shit a fairly "middle class" lifestyle, but certainly not a "posh" one. I went to Cambridge from a bog-standard comp on the basis of my grades (and a lot of hard work) - not my background. I only wish I had a trust fund, but am just working hard, alongside my OH, and caring for my elderly MIL - more or less like all the rest of us. We're okay financially, but by no means rich.

Anyway, surely - if we were that posh - we wouldn't be renting out our main bedroom of our two-bed flat to a lodger in the first place...???

I am definitely not taking this as an insult and am not offended - nor am I intending to cast aspersions on any one from any background at all.

AIBU though to not like assumptions being made on me or my background on the basis of my accent, when a) it's something I can't help and b) actually the very opposite is true...???

[Gabilan]

I use Sainsbury's ecological range. Both middle class and a liberal. I did try using their basics range but it's so thin that you have to use enormous wodges to keep your hands clean so it doesn't really save you any money. Also, it's unpleasant.

I am talking about loo roll btw, in case the conversation has moved on by the time I post this.

[derxa]

their toilet paper.
Did she really say toilet paper!

[Chippednailvarnish]

I'm having a daja vu Izal moment!

My vvv Posh boss was telling me earlier today about having to use Izal as a child both at home and at public school.

Clearly Mountain's DM was correct as we had Saintsbury's loo roll and I'm as common as muck!

[BertrandRussell]

Toilet is all right in the context of paper. Not when it refers to the utensil or the room containing it.

[Shockers]

These 'posh', or MC threads make me chuckle.

Why on earth would having diet coke in your fridge make you posh?

I am intrigued as to what posh, or indeed 'common', people call the bit above the fire though (question on one of the first pages). I can't think of any other word than mantelpiece.

[Kangenchunga1]

Joules you are just well off not posh.

[Dawndonnaagain]

Shockers It's a Chimneypiece, or Chimney breast.