Who on NSC do you think might be posh?

[Tricky Dicky]

One doesn't think that one is posh.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

@ReadingPosh.

 

[brakespear]

Why did no-one laugh at my joke?

I didn't realise it was a joke at first. I do now.

I think Buzzer is a bit posh And bushy.

 

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

One doesn't think that one is posh.

One knows if one is posh!

 

[Shirty]

Hove Born & Bred.... Clearly comes from the right area, and must have some sort of trust fund to allow him to p1ss about playing journalist rather than having to do a proper job

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Whaa!!! Explain yourself Lord B (or your mum more accurately) - the man is as pious as a saint, whether you agree or strongly disagree with the politics.

She had opinions about saints as well. St Theresa of Lisieux - good saint; St Teresa of Ávila - waste of space. Piety didn't come into it.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

My mum, daughter of a brickie, brought me up to believe, like her, that there are two sorts of people not to trust: working class tories and aristocratic socialists. Her personal view of Tony Benn was quite the opposite of most people's opinion: good politics, nasty man.

This has a nice ring to it but I think your mother was wrong.

Part of my childhood was spent in a world of farms and farm workers, ordinary country people who flogged away at making some sort of living. I suspect that to a man they were Tory voters - even today rural Lincolnshire remains solidly blue - not because they wanted a new Ford or a plastic front door but because they thought the Labour Party was for industrial workers and the public sector. They saw themselves as independent souls standing on their own two feet, relying on no one and helping those around them. Voting Conservative was and is an expression of that. I'm not saying they were right or wrong - I'm neither working class nor Tory - but that's how they felt then and I suspect still feel now.

The chronic error that so many people of leftish inclination make is to assume that people - particularly 'ordinary people' - vote Tory only for base and selfish reasons. It is a mistake that has ill-served the progressive parties over time, and still does.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I think Buzzer is a bit posh And bushy.

I wondered whether anyone would nominate buzzer. Don't be fooled by the long words, and the fact that he is well read. Articulate does not equal posh - at least not in his case.

Bushy is very much NOT posh, either.

Hove Born & Bred.... Clearly comes from the right area

Wrong again. (Unless you consider Hangleton, to be 'the right area'.)

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Simster and Stumpy Tim are a little bit posh.

 

[Puppet Master]

I'm from Rottingdean but I let myself down by always making that hacking up phlegm noise.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Well, I think the word 'Banter' is a horrendous one so at least I know I'm not COMMON.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I'm from Rottingdean .

I'm going to base my rating of your poshness on which pub you would choose in Rottingdean.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Anyone on here that lives in Reigate is by definition posh.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I like to smugly look down on people. Am i in?

 

[Puppet Master]

I'm going to base my rating of your poshness on which pub you would choose in Rottingdean.

Ooh. Pressure.

Erm, it would have to be the Blackie, although Plough if I'm after a more relaxed night.

Either way, I've gone up in the world since the days of drinking in Kipling Gardens.

 

[Buzzer]

I wondered whether anyone would nominate buzzer. Don't be fooled by the long words, and the fact that he is well read. Articulate does not equal posh - at least not in his case.

True dat. Not posh at all. Son of a mechanic and home help, comprehensive schoolboy from Worthing. Westside. My ex-wife is VERY posh though. They have hereditary titles in their family.

I can think of one or two posters on here that can definitely lay claim to being at least upper side of midde class but shan't say. It's a state of mind though nowadays isn't it?

 

[Goldstone1976]

I can think of one or two posters on here that can definitely lay claim to being at least upper side of midde class but shan't say.

Isn't reticence about naming people who might be posh in itself a small sign of poshness? It's polite not to name them, and politeness could possibly be an indicator of one element of poshness...

 

[Simster]

Simster and Stumpy Tim are a little bit posh.

Anyone on here that lives in Reigate is by definition posh.

Cor blimey guvnor. I'm state educated I'll have you know. Mind you, my house is worth a LOT more money than hove moron and inbred's little place - which is nice.

 

[WhingForPresident]

I imagine BHA Deb to be a bit posh, like Hyacinth Bucket (bookaaay) dusting off the photo of a seductively-posed Wendy Wilkins atop her mantlepiece.

 

[Trufflehound]

I went on holiday to Bournemouth in 1971. I'm not whether that makes me posh.

Or just old...