Who on NSC do you think might be posh?

[BuddyBoy]

Having thought about this subject for a while, on a personal level I feel poshness is relative.

For example, when I'm around a gritty old part of London such as Bethnal Green, where the guys have broad cockney accents, I feel a bit posh. However, when I've been around, say, public school educated people with cut glass accents, I feel quite (hate the term) common. It's not just the accents though - I'm conscious of my sense of humour around the posher types and have felt a little crass at times, but I've also felt some of my humour is lost entirely when I'm in a Bethnal Green boozer.

So, although my point here doesn't add much to the debate, I think poshness is relative - especially these days.

For the record, I think I'm probably your typical lower middle class type. Too common for some circles and far too posh for others. It's a complex society.

 

[Willy Dangle]

I'm rather miffed that I have been mentioned. Not even a mere titter.

Scoundrels the lot of you. Nothing but yobbo's.

 

[BuddyBoy]

Pretty spot on to my own view of it, not posh but nice, even if it's rather boring! The only area that's pretty crap is Roffey, like an extension of Crawley, horrible horrible place

If it's anything like Crawley, then yes, got to be a dump. Crawley is a place I just cannot bare. Sprawling, soulless hellhole.

 

[Mowgli37]

If it's anything like Crawley, then yes, got to be a dump. Crawley is a place I just cannot bare. Sprawling, soulless hellhole.

Filled with scum, chavs, hooligans, criminals, the uncouth, run-down houses, awful post war estates, dog sh*t everywhere, pollution and death. I avoid it like the plague. I've seen shanty towns in South Africa I'd rather live in.

 

[skipper734]

How many do you have to have to qualify? I'd have to admit to about 1.75/5; a 1.0, a 0.5 and a 0.25.

I know you can have pretensions to be posh, but without a 5/5 on each of the requirements I have found from personal experience. You can't be partially posh.

 

[BuddyBoy]

Filled with scum, chavs, hooligans, criminals, the uncouth, run-down houses, awful post war estates, dog sh*t everywhere, pollution and death. I avoid it like the plague. I've seen shanty towns in South Africa I'd rather live in.

Sounds like a deprived place. Why people can't clean up their dog poop is beyond me. A Google image search of 'Roffey, Sussex' brings up the most idyllic pictures. Never trust the internet, clearly!

 

[Mowgli37]

Sounds like a deprived place. Why people can't clean up their dog poop is beyond me. A Google image search of 'Roffey, Sussex' brings up the most idyllic pictures. Never trust the internet, clearly!

I was talking about Crawley, don't get me started on that unsightly blemish Roffey is to my wonderful town!

 

[BuddyBoy]

I was talking about Crawley, don't get me started on that unsightly blemish Roffey is to my wonderful town!

 

[TSB]

Public school boy? Or a similar user name

I remember that tosspot. Couldn't find his banning in the decision section. Would be an apt username though (as would TOSSPOT, as it happens)

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

I was born in Frimley Green, Surrey and moved to a manor house in Mannings Heath near Horsham.

That's posh.

Well not actually. Frimley Green is just a provincial town and the manor house was a children's home.....

 

[Seagull on the wing]

We must have been posh...during an air raid a bomb dropped in our road....ours was the only house that did'nt have bomb damage...apart from cracking the radio and knocking the handle off Mums best teacup..

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

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 ...

It was posh to me. Bloody hated the place! And they made sure I knew I was from the wrong side of the tracks.

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

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.

Sorry Lord B your mum was wrong concerning Tony Benn. Tops bloke and top politician.

 

[KZNSeagull]

During my time here in South Africa, I have met 3 genuinely posh people (a Lord and Lady of the realm and a relative of the future King) and loads of people who think that they are posh because they have loads of money and (falsely) clipped English accents.

The 3 poshies are extremely pleasant, genuine people and the relative of the future King is a mad football supporter, who actively supports his local (local to his family home in England) non-league side and likes a beer or 10. He has been here for 6 years, teaching at local schools, unpaid. One of the nicest blokes you could meet (he was educated at Harrow when David Elleray was teaching there, who he did not get on with, put it that way!). The Lord and Lady of the realm are local Pig farmers who drive around in a battered old Toyota Hilux, who you would not know are Posh until they give you a cheque and you find out who they actually are!

The would be poshies are rude, disrespectful and a waste of space. I could do without meeting them. A generalisation I know, but one that holds up 99% of the time.

Myself, I am not posh.

 

[DJ Leon]

I am an aristocrat.

 

[MJsGhost]

I like a posh w**k, does that count?

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Heard Mrs Beckham is posh.......

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Sorry Lord B your mum was wrong concerning Tony Benn. Tops bloke and top politician.

She liked his politics.

 

[BuddyBoy]

She liked his politics.

Out of interest, why did your mum think Benn wasn't a nice man, despite liking his politics?

 

[ROKERITE]

Sorry Lord B your mum was wrong concerning Tony Benn. Tops bloke and top politician.

Actually his mum was wrong about Tony Benn, horrible bloke with poisonous politics.