To hate when people are clearly trying to suss out what social class you are?

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I often have to attend black tie dinners etc for networking for work. It's part of the job, albeit pretty nice.

Over the years I've noticed a clear set of questions people ask when they are trying to ascertain what social class you are, how rich/posh you are, your background, how you fit in with them etc.

Do you like to ski? Where have you travelled to? Where are your parents based? (NEVER where are you from) How well do you know London? Oh it's like boarding school!

Gosh it gets so tiring. They're clearly only interested in you if you are similarly living off 'London money' and do things "properly".

Am I the only one that gets sick of people trying to find out what your social class is? No I'm not aristocratic nor rich, I'm solidly middle class but who cares!

Whenever I get a taxi (not that often) and they ask for the address, they say 'Why are you going there at this time of night, it's a prison'.
Oh the laughs we get!

I love it when someone asks me where I went to school. The answer of "Stevenage" tends to stop them in their tracks

Good grief. Are people really so classed trapped as this?

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings. Cary Grant

I'd come out with a load of funny answer in a 'mind your own business you cheeky sods' way.
Those sorts of events would do my head in. I'd be the one who rocks up in a vintage party dress/ballgown that cost less than £20 while they're all in expensive posh designer frocks and not give a toss what they think.
Snobby Londoners...ugh.
But yeah, I'd get thinking of some witty answers to their questions.

I work in the city of London and have never been asked this sort of shit at a function! 😆

That's because everybody in the city is from st johns wood or Billaricay. I did not fit in at all!

Ha ha. Going to a posh nob do on Sat. Our table host is my best friend. We had a chat today about what to wear. She's got 100 buy to lets in London. Contemplating a velvet skirt and top from Mill shop. She'd never pay full price. Who gives a fuck? Not us. Our table will have two kts and a Baron. We'll be scruffy bastards and I'll love it when we are announced! Two DH's are gritty northernors. As is she. We are now the old bags who are the backbone of this stuff.

The amount of times I’ve answered the ‘where are you from?’ question at an event and replied ‘Oh I’m from South Wales’ - and the person in question has either very rudely answered ‘Oh that’s a shame for you’ or swiftly turned their head and found someone else to talk to! I am their ‘equal’ by the fact that I am there at the same event - but no, we’re still judged by where I happened to be born / grew up

Work Christmas meals at my old job. Every year I was placed next to the Chairman. Every year 'what does your father do?', every year I replied 'not much, he's dead.' He was always digging, trying to see if I was proper posh and who I voted for.

Wow. "Im scarlet for ya" is the only response to that.

...and I am very proud of where I come from before you ask! There still seems to be an English snobbery about Wales (I’m sure there are exceptions)

The only time I've found these questions irksome is about my maiden name. Posh but forrin. what an unusual name, where does that come from? "My father, doesn't yours?" Went down like a ton of bricks!

Yes some english people think it is inherently 'posher' to be English.

Lots of you are stealth bragging like crazy. 🙄You have all forgotten one does not do that, especially if one has a foreign maiden name.

How utterly despicable.

TheMagician

English as in actual English or English used erroneously instead of British?

So foreign cant be posh?? My name is Angustias Hapsburgo de Astúrias y Burbón con Fuegos Artificiales 😂😘

SilentIsla i understand that completely.

Is “cant” a surname you have neglected to capitalise? I’m

So am I 🤔

I think I'm too posh. I don't understand peasant. No hablo peasant.

Silent I think Magician definitely meant English, she was responding to my post about some English attitudes to the Welsh

🤣

@veryfinethreadmyfriend yes yes

Cool.