Now we know who is middle class - next, who is posh?

[Takver]

following on from this thread I was tickled yesterday by two definitions of what is posh:

• talking to a friend about croquet, which I think is a really tedious game, her answer was that only posh people play croquet, and that the problem was that I was not posh enough . . .
• and description by dd's friend (age 8) of the woman her mum cleans for that she is 'really posh, she has double sky that you can record on as well as watch, and a fountain that looks like stone but is really made out of plastic, and loads of trophies from horseriding' So now I want the collective wisdom of MN - apart from croquet playing and fake stone fountains, what is really, really posh ?

LOL at the agricultural surveyor. Land Economy was the true haunt of toffs in Cambridge in days gone by. They always boasted of having the lowest post-degree unemployment rate - probably because all their students went off to manage Daddy's estate.

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proper posh people have dogs
they smoke ( a lot)
they go to schools like Oundle 'doesn't everyone?'
they holiday in devon (months not weeks) 'doesn't everyone?'
their kids get into oxbridge 'how?'
they cook supper on an aga
they wear wellies

AAAArggghhhh - I can't stand it any more!

I confess - I am a toff.

they are related to families like 'The Attenburghs' but they REALLY dont give a flying fig that they are

Now we know! You are called Toby!

They also know a surprising amount about art history, having simply absorbed it from all the Old Masters on walls of relatives' houses.

they frequently appear not to to actually work

they may not be fabulously wealthy but generally some family member coughs up school fees

they can indeed be quite tight with cash

lol Swedes ds has about half a dozen Toby friends!

the name toby is a fairly reliable indicator in my neck of the woods

Hector Toby Gregory Hughie Rupert Graham Barney James William Teddy etc all indicate here too

our next door neighbour is called toby....not always that reliable

Come to think of it the only Toby I knew hid it pretty well (including calling himself Bob) but he was proper posh

graham?! jeezo, that used to be a common name

ABetaDad is your name Alan?

UC women are also, in addition to Bunny, called things like Plum and Pumpy

lol lol at back passage as we have one!!!!!

We also ( no joke) have 'Ruperts room' in our house as it is currently empty and the previous occupant had that name!

No scullery -although i am about to re- build it!!

we do have a dumb waiter!

not posh though

odd i know ...17 year old Graham

not many of them to the pound

I also have super posh neighbour. He's NEVER worked in his life because he's loaded - he's 61 - he's retired from not doing anythign in London to not doing anything in the country - he apparently just used to have 3 day parties once a month. Is another weld innit.

I love proper posh folk
i find them immensely entertaining

Posh is when the paying public traipse through your house to keep it going.

Sorry typo I meant Hice

They don't realise there are state and private schools. There is just Eton and everywhere else.

Ooh, my granny has paying public but only in the garden. It gives some sort of tax break I think.

I have been to Balmoral, Holyrood and Buck Pal for Dinner/Drinks! Oh and DH's Investiture!

always have thick hair too!