Who on NSC do you think might be posh?

[brakespear]

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.

To be honest I nominated buzzer for his arch manner. And I nominated bushy because I thought it might irritate him which was very childish of me and I regret it

 

[Lord Bracknell]

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.

Having lived most of my adult life in rural Sussex, I can easily acknowledge that the politics in agricultural areas is very different from the politics that my mother was brought up with in docklands Rotherhithe (SE16). I think we saw the extent of the politically committed core Labour vote in my neck of the downs when I stood as a Seagulls Party candidate in the Ouse Valley ward by-election and Labour managed to achieve just 41 votes, out of a total of 1,631 votes cast (a magnificent 2.5 per cent).

 

[brakespear]

Pater

Sir.

 

[Leighgull]

Buzzer is a working class lad made good.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

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...

I'll bite ... and prove that I'm not posh, by naming Hugo - NSC's very own public school boy.

 

[TSB]

I'll bite ... and prove that I'm not posh, by naming Hugo - NSC's very own public school boy.

Is that 'Hugo from the phone in' back in the Withdean days?
That bloke was an utter tool.

Is he on here? Excellent.

 

[Franks Wild Years]

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

No, simply on stilts.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Is that 'Hugo from the phone in' back in the Withdean days?
That bloke was an utter tool.

Is he on here? Excellent.

He was permanently banned in September 2012.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Isn't that saying that the working class shouldn't have a political opinion other than socialist? Aren't they allowed to agree with capitalism? There are no "classes" in the UK, there are vile, pious, lazy wealthy and poor people, there are some great people contributing to society in various ways from a variety of perceived social backgrounds, we now put more emphasis on wealth and achievement other than class. We also value celebrity, but this will be sort lived in my opinion.

How very perceptive. I have known plenty of working class people over the years who have been dyed in the wool Tories. I also don't think either wealth or class is a guide to altruism or philanthropy. I also agree (hope) that the "cult of celebrity" will not last. People being famous just for being famous is just silly. Who are these Kardashian people anyway. There was a good bit in the Guardian today about Nicholas Lyndhurst, who is joining the cast of new tricks, bemoaning the prevalence of Reality TV, saying that Only Fools and Horses would not be made now, because TV bosses are too wrapped up in viewing figures, which is all about "celebrity", I guess.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Don't forget the old Welsh proverb ...

"Getting married, and not even pregnant? There's posh".

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I'll bite ... and prove that I'm not posh, by naming Hugo - NSC's very own public school boy.

If, as you mention a couple of posts later, he was permanently banned in September 2012, wouldn't he be considered not to be on here any more.

Not that I'm bothered - just nit-picking.

 

[TSB]

He was permanently banned in September 2012.

*looks through moderating decisions section*

The only person I can see who received a perma ban in September 12 was toostonedtocare. Can't imagine he'd choose that as a username.
Falkor?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

If, as you mention a couple of posts later, he was permanently banned in September 2012, wouldn't he be considered not to be on here any more.

Not that I'm bothered - just nit-picking.

His influence will endure forever. That's just one of the things that makes him posh.

 

[Icy Gull]

*looks through moderating decisions section*

The only person I can see who received a perma ban in September 12 was toostonedtocare. Can't imagine he'd choose that as a username.
Falkor?

Public school boy? Or a similar user name

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Professor Gavin Henderson. That's the man.

I don't think Gavin was ever a professor. He was artistic director of the Brighton Festival when I worked in their press office. A friend of his once told me that he had a lot of front in that he would invite all sorts of posh people to parties when he was at some minor public school or other - Brighton College, probably -and some would actually turn up.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I don't think Gavin was ever a professor. He was artistic director of the Brighton Festival when I worked in their press office. A friend of his once told me that he had a lot of front in that he would invite all sorts of posh people to parties when he was at some minor public school or other - Brighton College, probably -and some would actually turn up.

Blimey. You might have worked with my mum. She was Administrator when Gavin was artistic director. I didn't think he was a professor either but a google search turned up different and the photo was most surely him - once met never forgotten.

 

[Uncle Buck]

Yes. Couple of years below his brother Sam. I'd quite like to catch up with JW. Not sure if the feelings are mutual!

He still lives down here, got married last year.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Seems to remember there were some Brighton Collegers on NSC which gets your posh quotient up. As a scholarship boy who got 'asked to leave' at the end of only two years at the Junior School I think Im exempt.

Is Brighton College posh, then? I thought its main function was to turn out estate agents and shyster lawyers. Or maybe I've been unlucky in the Old Brightonians I've met ...

 

[Biscuit]

I'm terribly posh. Terribly.

 

[Questions]

True dat. Not posh at all. Son of a mechanic and home help, comprehensive schoolboy from Worthing. Westside.

If you come from West Worthing, you're well posh and snooty in my book.