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

251 replies

Takver · 14/04/2009 20:13

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 ?
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FiveGoMadInDorset · 15/04/2009 00:19

I am Posh and I am proud and Twinset's DD is my friend

twinsetandpearls · 15/04/2009 00:24

she is being a complete madam tonight. My sister sent us some hotel chocolat goodies ( I think that makes me greedy rather than posh ) and she must have sensed she was missing out so keeps getting up with various health complaints.

twinsetandpearls · 15/04/2009 00:26

She is also a complete raving tory! Is making her hippy liberal parents despair. When she came with us to view a house last week she was delighted to find out that the neighbours had a pool and horses and announced that we needed to make more rich friends as we are the poorest people in Dorset!

brimfull · 15/04/2009 00:30

The truly posh would cetainly not post on a thread that they thought they were posh.

twinsetandpearls · 15/04/2009 00:38

Not strictly correct , true posh types would get their butler to post on this thread.

Tortington · 15/04/2009 00:41

"I think your roots are showing, luv" Ironically Helena darling, i think you have shown us yours!

helena99 · 15/04/2009 00:58

I was attempting a bit of vernacular.
Does that mean that I was convincing and I got it right? Must be due to my (MC, natch) education.

Tortington · 15/04/2009 01:04

ahh MC schooling - private ( but not posh) Yes, that explains things perfectly

helena99 · 15/04/2009 01:16

I said MC education - that means selective, not private. Do keep up!

Tortington · 15/04/2009 01:18

Yes, it's obvious it's selective now you mention it.

TrillianAstra · 15/04/2009 08:36

LOL, ABetaDad you are our resident posh denier, just like twinsetandpearls is in middle class denial

fizzpops · 15/04/2009 08:59

abroadandmisunderstood - when I moved back to England from Holland I couldn't shake the habit of replying no in Dutch 'nee' pronounced 'nay' - sounded like a yokel! Never had trouble with 'Ja' though funnily enough!

GooseyLoosey · 15/04/2009 09:12

The truely "posh" people I have met in my life have no concept of the value of money. They have been brought up without really needing to think where it comes from (even if they do live in castles with holes in the roof).

I have also found that young posh people do not tend to regard themselves as "superior" but rather assume that everyone comes from a similar background and have similar issues and are slightly bemused when they discover this may not be the case. Older posh people are impeccably well mannered and whilst clearly perceiving that you are not of the same social class, pretend that you are.

twinsetandpearls · 15/04/2009 09:14

at middle class denial , you would only need to speak to me for 2 minutes to know I am working class al the way through

noddyholder · 15/04/2009 09:25

Would anyone want to admit to being MC? Although in RL I have found they are the only ones who discuss class thus showing they have none

Kathyis6incheshigh · 15/04/2009 09:42

You wouldn't want to admit it on here, anyway. I once admitted to being middle class on Mumsnet (when I was a new and naive poster) and got accused of showing off.

noddyholder · 15/04/2009 09:50

There is a new class named by dp he refers to them as the 'dunalrights' they are the worst

AdoAnnie · 15/04/2009 10:00

My Cockney Dad was fond of saying 'The working class can kiss my arse. I've got the foreman's job at last'. He was straight out of the East End but in a class of his own. Lawd luv 'im.

FairyMum · 15/04/2009 10:10

Posh gentlemen wears red socks and working class people can be as obsessed with class as anyone else.

Swedes · 15/04/2009 10:11

LOL at HMC's chippiness.

I told DP last night about this thread and asked him to classify his own class, after explaining my class clock face. He writhed and said 'Ahhhhhhhh' a lot.

LOL at thick hair. And often big hair. I'm always telling my sons (17 and 13) they have toff hair, which normally makes them run directly to the barber's shop.

MarshaBrady · 15/04/2009 10:17

Posh men have big bouffant hair..

...and posh women have big teeth.

That or big ol' ruddy cheeks.

noddyholder · 15/04/2009 10:19

My ds has big hair and speaks like Prince charles I think he was switched at birth!

pointydog · 15/04/2009 10:20

it's all relative, innit.

If someone is surrounded by 4+ bed detached Luxury Homes with a good 'plot' and some lovely living spaces, with local kids going private or to good grammars then they will be far more inclined to think of themselves as working class if they grew up in a bog standard terrace and went to the local comp.

If someone lives in a small 2/3 bed box of a semi, on a nondescript estate with regular rowdiness going on at the local park and is getting tired of hearing of the most recent suspension at the kids' school, then they might think of themselves as so much more middle class.

TrillianAstra · 15/04/2009 10:20

Actually all the ra teenage girls around here have rather bouffant hair. It's usually just off-blonde (ash blonde? dirty blonde?), long, sort of straight but somehow big and poofy. Oh, and in a side-parting where the hair has to go right over the top of their heads. Straighteners are for chavs, apparently.

hf128219 · 15/04/2009 10:20

There's another thing - you can put common people in posh clothes and they still look common. Just look at 'celebrity' wedding photographs in Hello!