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Are you "to the manor born"?
Born with a silver spoon in your mouth never really had to worry about money and knows what cutlery to use at a banquet.
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Hyacinth Bucket.
Grounded in the realms of middle class and have delusions of grandeur?
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The Boswell's ( working class family from the sitcom bread)
Definitely working class,hard working and don't expect hand outs respectful but love a good night out at the local workingman's club?
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Wayne and Waynetta slob, never done a day's work in your life and expect the government to keep you?
Don't know a spoon from a fork
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I don't see class I'm too cool for all that right on mkay, peace and love x
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By *hilloutMan 17 weeks ago
All over the place! Northwesr, , Southwest |
I hail from what in the U.S.A. is called a blue collar background.
Both parents were (still are!) very frugal. I grew up without extravagance or high levels of creature comforts. I never had want for any basic needs however.
I'll blame my parents for being such a tightwad with myself😅🤣 |
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I was brought up in an upper-middle class environment from hard-grafting parents who came from poverty.
I am grateful for everything they did, but it was very hard to keep up at school with spoiled brats who were just used to luxury. I never had nice clothes to wear to birthday parties haha. And I was excluded from most things. But my education was elite, and I have my folks to thank for that.
Now, I’d say we are middle class. But ai make a point to not let my children take things for granted or to be entitled. |
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By (user no longer on site) 17 weeks ago
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Very much grew up working class. Both parents owning a corner shop that my siblings and I would work in after school and on weekends but would say I'm creeping into middle class due to where I live now and the job that I have but fully appreciate that what I have now wouldn't have been possible without the work my parents put in when I was younger. |
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Was bought up with a working class background, both parents had jobs and worked hard to give us a life.
I work hard for a living now and get a decent wage for it, I can holiday a few times a year off the back of it all. But I've never forgotten where I come from |
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My Mrs says I'm posh but I don't see it that way as I didn't grow up in the UK. All this class rating is just bullshit and doesn't define who you are. Manners and respect goes a long way no matter where you come from or your background. |
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By *r.XratedMan 17 weeks ago
Liverpool/New York |
If someone born with a silver spoon in their mouth ends up living on the street are they still upper class likewise if a kid from a council estate becomes a premier league footballer living in a mansion with a fishing lake is he still lower class? |
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Definitely Hyacinth Bucket.
I’m an outrageous snob but with no right to be. I come from lower middle class stock and was raised with high standards, many of which I choose when to apply according to my own agenda. I look down on and judge everyone but have but just try to live as well as I can with the nicest things I can afford.
I regularly observe, listen to or read people and think “Urgh.”
I hate upper class nonsense and pretensions. The level I’m at is perfect and is where everyone in the nation should be. I may start up my own training courses. |
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By *abluesbabyMan 17 weeks ago
Gibraltar/Cheshire/London |
"Jeeves! Call one of the scullery maids to go and get a gamekeeper to pull one of the groundsmen off his duties go to the village to send a telegram to reply to this post with all haste!"
Haha! No, I've never had a butler etc...but I do come from a wealthy family who owned lots of mills in the Industrial Revolution so I am very fortunate that I have never had to worry about money. Something I have never taken for granted though. Class is such an odd concept really that I only use for a comedic (well... I try) purposes as people are people to me and their background/bank account doesn't influence my opinion of them much at all. |
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I was born into abject poverty but now have an ample sufficiency.
I don't think anyone would ever describe me as posh but I'm also not particularly rough.
I might buy branded biscuits rather than smart price, but I eat them from the packet rather than a doily on a plate. |
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By (user no longer on site) 17 weeks ago
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I’m definitely working class, Boswells, however my income and status according to google make me upper class 🤷🏽♂️
But you can take the man out of wolves but you can’t take wolves out the man 😂😂😂 |
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By (user no longer on site) 17 weeks ago
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"I just had a vegan treacle tart with an oat latte.. Make of that what you will 
I guess you’ll be getting a knife and fork and an apron next time you have a cum dinner! "
Only if it's been made into a Terrine |
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"I just had a vegan treacle tart with an oat latte.. Make of that what you will
I guess you’ll be getting a knife and fork and an apron next time you have a cum dinner!
Only if it's been made into a Terrine "
Yep you’ve passed the posh test! A Terrine, not a Pâté I can make that work |
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By (user no longer on site) 17 weeks ago
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Grew up never having to worry about money or cost.... but man, im really embarrassed by it as most people I know are not in that situation, and like the other forum post says, are struggling for living expenses.
Trying to hide it is difficult. Always downplaying everything.
That said, im not posh in the slightest. |
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"I'm a champagne lifestyle on a lemonade budget kinda girl ✨
Aren’t we all darling I’ll bring the Prosecco we can cry over the poor lifestyle together 😂"
Make it Whispering Angel and you've got a deal  |
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By (user no longer on site) 17 weeks ago
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Been in a position where I’ve mixed with the poor and the VERY rich. Both groups were comfortable in their own skin and mixed together with no issues. It’s those in the middle that are a pain, way snobbier and nastier than the actual rich.
But, I never thought I was a snob……..then I went to Cleeethorpes……… |
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By *r TriomanMan 17 weeks ago
Chippenham Malmesbury area |
"I really want to be a Wayne but in reality I'm somewhere between the Boswells on the Bucket woman... without the illustrations of grandeur. "
Meant illusions of grandeur; although I do have a Monet and a Rembrandt hanging in my bog  |
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By (user no longer on site) 17 weeks ago
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I have lived in a manor over 25 years and your always seeing things need doing and heating is loads each month and gardens take staff so its hard work . Never posh just worked hard . |
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"I don't know. What defines class? Other people think I'm posh, I think I'm normal.
Normal is relative, you will always think your own experience is normal
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True, that's why 60% of Brits claim to be working class including 47% of middle class professionals |
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By *tew008Man 17 weeks ago
edinburgh |
"I have standards, but no airs and graces 💜
What you have is class.
Not middle class, working class or upper class. Just class. Pure and simple."
It means she has everything categorized by some perspective qualifier |
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"I have standards, but no airs and graces 💜
What you have is class.
Not middle class, working class or upper class. Just class. Pure and simple.
It means she has everything categorized by some perspective qualifier "
I'd like to understand that comment. |
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"I grew up in poverty. I still feel working class but I live in a middle class world.
Me also. Sometimes feel I don’t fit in."
I'm still waiting to fit in here ha ha I've one of those middle class wannabe toff personas.
All I have is the light in the fridge, mortgaged up to me bollox. Designer clothes, flashy car, thinking I'm one of the lads.
In reality I'm a sad lonely bastard, thinking the same delusions over and over.
Groundhog Day, hoping to validate my existence to people who don't care about me. But I want to fit in with the people I deem to be the ones to be associated with.
Indeed I'm one sad man, lonely insecure and fucked up....
An absolute loser
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"Only in the UK are people so restricted by issues surrounding class "
Several Asian cultures are known rank class as a valid barrier to interactions too. It is not only a British thing by any means. |
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Mr. Got a scholarship and went to a posh public school on the bus while living in a council house. What did I learn? That there are nice people and nasty people at all levels of society and to tar all of the folks in any social "class" with the same brush is a bad mistake.
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I think I'm a bit unusual were class and culture mix. Raised on a council estate to working class parents who both had a basic state school education. Yet both of them very cultured and worldly. My mother knew all the etiquette of high society for my Grandma who'd worked in service from childhood to start of the war in one of the big stately homes and in upper middle class town houses. So my Mum was always knowledge of these practices and great with her massive vocabulary and grammar (which as a dyslexic was often lost on me). She was always very strick on things being done correctly. My dad was from a very poor broken home. He had a hard upbringing. He was honestly one of the most smartest men I've ever met and always had an insatiable thrist for knowledge and exploration. He moved in some expeditioning circles and through that he made great freinds with a mix of people including Lords and British Army Officers who were incredibly posh and also incredibly good men. I know that also enriched his understanding of the world and cultural knowledge. He likewise passed on to me great wisdom and importance of questioning the world. As well as lots of knowledge.
So here I am a working class male from a council estate with the knowledge and cultural capital that enables me to feel at ease and engage in conversations in well to do and circles. To know which way to pass the Port, to select the correct cutlery for correct course/dish, to talk about culture (and more importantly to understand what others are talking about). Yet I am not posh, neither do I wish to be. Neither am I educated at a University level. I can also I swear like a trooper, apprentice a good working mens club and the joys of a proper greasy spoon cafe. My application of language is not posh, neither is my voice. However in terms of terminology (bar the expletives) and the nature of my conversational range my cultural wealth still comes through.
So no I am not posh but perfectly comfortable to be around in posh circles without being a fish out of water. But I'd much prefer to be in a greasy spoon or a knees up in the British Legion any day.
Mr
Oh just on a side note on the current situation in society class, culture and wealth is being turn on its head more than ever. Especially as we see the middle class being evaporated as wealth defies gravity and trickles upwards strait to the top %. We now have lots of our youth educated at a University level. We have lots of very cultured middle income earners who are now struggling to even pay the mortgage. A whole load of people who are in essence and culturally posh but haven't got the finances meet the material needs of being posh. Will this culture survive the material starvation over time or will be become a society of simple poor and the 1%? |
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"I think I'm a bit unusual were class and culture mix. Raised on a council estate to working class parents who both had a basic state school education. Yet both of them very cultured and worldly. My mother knew all the etiquette of high society for my Grandma who'd worked in service from childhood to start of the war in one of the big stately homes and in upper middle class town houses. So my Mum was always knowledge of these practices and great with her massive vocabulary and grammar (which as a dyslexic was often lost on me). She was always very strick on things being done correctly. My dad was from a very poor broken home. He had a hard upbringing. He was honestly one of the most smartest men I've ever met and always had an insatiable thrist for knowledge and exploration. He moved in some expeditioning circles and through that he made great freinds with a mix of people including Lords and British Army Officers who were incredibly posh and also incredibly good men. I know that also enriched his understanding of the world and cultural knowledge. He likewise passed on to me great wisdom and importance of questioning the world. As well as lots of knowledge.
So here I am a working class male from a council estate with the knowledge and cultural capital that enables me to feel at ease and engage in conversations in well to do and circles. To know which way to pass the Port, to select the correct cutlery for correct course/dish, to talk about culture (and more importantly to understand what others are talking about). Yet I am not posh, neither do I wish to be. Neither am I educated at a University level. I can also I swear like a trooper, apprentice a good working mens club and the joys of a proper greasy spoon cafe. My application of language is not posh, neither is my voice. However in terms of terminology (bar the expletives) and the nature of my conversational range my cultural wealth still comes through.
So no I am not posh but perfectly comfortable to be around in posh circles without being a fish out of water. But I'd much prefer to be in a greasy spoon or a knees up in the British Legion any day.
Mr
Oh just on a side note on the current situation in society class, culture and wealth is being turn on its head more than ever. Especially as we see the middle class being evaporated as wealth defies gravity and trickles upwards strait to the top %. We now have lots of our youth educated at a University level. We have lots of very cultured middle income earners who are now struggling to even pay the mortgage. A whole load of people who are in essence and culturally posh but haven't got the finances meet the material needs of being posh. Will this culture survive the material starvation over time or will be become a society of simple poor and the 1%?"
What a delightful and insightful post! |
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"Only in the UK are people so restricted by issues surrounding class
Not really many countries are engrained in a class culture India's cast system has been in place for centuries."
It’s not a class system as in the UK
Also it was introduced by the British |
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Class shouldn’t be confused with having money although in the past if you had money you were generally considered upper class or aristocratic- that doesn’t apply any more
Class these days is more about education, having social graces, your mannerisms, the vocabulary you use
A class system is also a strong barrier to social mobility in a country |
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By (user no longer on site) 17 weeks ago
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"I’m Welsh.
You’re never Welsh AND posh.  "
True, they say an Englishman will ask a fellow Englishman pretty early on - what do you do for a living? (code for what's your social standing) , whilst a Welshman will ask a Welshman where are you from?
The Obsession with class in this country is getting old and tiresome.
Cymru am Byth |
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"Only in the UK are people so restricted by issues surrounding class
Not really many countries are engrained in a class culture India's cast system has been in place for centuries.
It’s not a class system as in the UK
Also it was introduced by the British "
Formalised by British colonisation maybe, but since it existed over there since 1500 bc I'm not buying that they introduced it 💜 |
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There is no one posh on here...
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"Are you "to the manor born"?
Born with a silver spoon in your mouth never really had to worry about money and knows what cutlery to use at a banquet.
.....
Hyacinth Bucket.
Grounded in the realms of middle class and have delusions of grandeur?
.......
The Boswell's ( working class family from the sitcom bread)
Definitely working class,hard working and don't expect hand outs respectful but love a good night out at the local workingman's club?
.....
Wayne and Waynetta slob, never done a day's work in your life and expect the government to keep you?
Don't know a spoon from a fork
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Or
I don't see class I'm too cool for all that right on mkay, peace and love x
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Constantly getting told I’m posh, however I’m really not! |
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"The 3 question posh test
1 Do you take your brew from a cup or a mug
2 is your lawn mover petrol’ electric and neither
3 Youve just got in the shower and need a wee…what to do ya do"
1. Mug.
2. Neither, the caretaker looks after the grounds.
3. Hold it until I'm out of the shower.
So am I officially posh or not? |
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By *929Man 15 weeks ago
bedlington |
"The 3 question posh test
1 Do you take your brew from a cup or a mug
2 is your lawn mover petrol’ electric and neither
3 Youve just got in the shower and need a wee…what to do ya do"
1 cup
2 neither I have no grass dog kept digging it up so paved it
3 open the shower door slightly, stick tiddler out the gap and aim in the general direction of the toilet. |
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By *YDB75Man 15 weeks ago
East Yorkie |
"The 3 question posh test
1 Do you take your brew from a cup or a mug
2 is your lawn mover petrol’ electric and neither
3 Youve just got in the shower and need a wee…what to do ya do
1. Mug.
2. Neither, the caretaker looks after the grounds.
3. Hold it until I'm out of the shower.
So am I officially posh or not?"
Good evening Hyacinth 😂
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By *AJMLKTV/TS 15 weeks ago
Burley |
"The 3 question posh test
1 Do you take your brew from a cup or a mug
2 is your lawn mover petrol’ electric and neither
3 Youve just got in the shower and need a wee…what to do ya do"
1. Tea from a cup, coffee from a mug - I have never called either a "brew".
2. petrol sit-on.
3. A wee in the shower is acceptable, if alone. |
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By *YDB75Man 15 weeks ago
East Yorkie |
"The 3 question posh test
1 Do you take your brew from a cup or a mug
2 is your lawn mover petrol’ electric and neither
3 Youve just got in the shower and need a wee…what to do ya do
1 cup
2 neither I have no grass dog kept digging it up so paved it
3 open the shower door slightly, stick tiddler out the gap and aim in the general direction of the toilet. "
Sounds like ya have a small caravan and travel round with the fair ground 😂😂 |
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"The 3 question posh test
1 Do you take your brew from a cup or a mug
2 is your lawn mover petrol’ electric and neither
3 Youve just got in the shower and need a wee…what to do ya do"
Cup.
I am 27 and I live in London. I don’t have a lawn. I have debt.
I ALWAYS sit on the toilet before a shower just in case. |
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