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over a year ago
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Think you're posh? A cut above? Do your shopping away from the masses?
How do you act posh or do you prefer to tackle life like Eddie Yates diving a chip van? |
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over a year ago
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No, I'm not posh.
I buy my food in Aldi, don't wear expensive clothes, I'm a pretty average guy.
As someone said above I do like nice cars though and watches, if anyone thinks that makes me posh then that's up to them. |
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Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people. |
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people."
I dont even know what living on the drip means ?? |
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people."
'Fur coat, nae knickers' as my gran would say  |
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people."
That attitude is snobbery not poshness. |
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people.
That attitude is snobbery not poshness. "
Yes it is. There is also reverse snobbery... |
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people.
That attitude is snobbery not poshness.
Yes it is. There is also reverse snobbery... "
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over a year ago
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"Darryl....... those that think they are posh aren't ( as a rule )
Are you basing posh on money ? New money? Old money ? Or is posh a modus operandi ...... ooooooo Latin ... is that posh ?"
I suppose posh is often no money but doing everything to loo like you have . |
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"Darryl....... those that think they are posh aren't ( as a rule )
Are you basing posh on money ? New money? Old money ? Or is posh a modus operandi ...... ooooooo Latin ... is that posh ?
I suppose posh is often no money but doing everything to loo like you have ."
That's keeping up with the Joneses. |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
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I'm not posh, but some would say where I live is. I rent part of a riverside country mansion.
But, I know my place - I live on the ground floor of the servants' quarters. |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people.
That attitude is snobbery not poshness.
Yes it is. There is also reverse snobbery... "
I don't think I'm posh in the slightest but the almost look down/sneering about those who are is a bit  . |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people.
That attitude is snobbery not poshness.
Yes it is. There is also reverse snobbery...
I don't think I'm posh in the slightest but the almost look down/sneering about those who are is a bit ."
Punching up. Not down.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Think you're posh? A cut above? Do your shopping away from the masses?
How do you act posh or do you prefer to tackle life like Eddie Yates diving a chip van?"
Posh is an upbringing not what you're describing ... you can be posh and live on the streets, posh and poor!! But people who think themselves posh without the upbringing are very very funny! Not necessarily in a good way ... |
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This is open to interpretation and is about varying perceptions.
Am I posh for example?...
Well, I'm very well educated, I speak reasonably well, and I've achieved many successes professionally.
I don't (and wouldn't) shop in Asda.
Some might think posh upon meeting me, others certainly wouldn't. There'd be some who'd consider my attitudes and outlook as snobbery.
Personally, I think I'm neither.
Oh, and I don't drive (or dive) a chip van like some bloke named Eddie... |
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I am not posh at all.
However, the way you conduct yourself, and your attributes and behaviours speal volumes about your class regardless of whether you live on a council estate or a castle imho. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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So I don't think I'm posh in the slightest. However where I work they all say I am because I pronounce things properly. I would say I'm just middle ground but I like the good things in life |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing. "
I’ve always linked posh with voice to be honest. If someone speaks like Prince Charles they’re posh |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing. "
It's just an upbringing really ... can't change it whatever you are/wherever you are |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
I’ve always linked posh with voice to be honest. If someone speaks like Prince Charles they’re posh "
Isn't that just an accent though? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A bit like cool, if you tell people you’re posh, you’re almost certainly not."
Yep and classy. I think there’s some very odd definitions of classy on here. |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
I’ve always linked posh with voice to be honest. If someone speaks like Prince Charles they’re posh
Isn't that just an accent though? "
Yeah. A posh one!  |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
I’ve always linked posh with voice to be honest. If someone speaks like Prince Charles they’re posh "
I've been called posh quite a lot but I have a sort of London/Sussex accent. |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
It's just an upbringing really ... can't change it whatever you are/wherever you are "
Why do people dislike it so much? Is it a bit like "professional" do you think? |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
It's just an upbringing really ... can't change it whatever you are/wherever you are
Why do people dislike it so much? Is it a bit like "professional" do you think? "
No idea but I've never once been judged badly because of it ever! But I'm just me ... happy |
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people.
That attitude is snobbery not poshness.
Yes it is. There is also reverse snobbery...
I don't think I'm posh in the slightest but the almost look down/sneering about those who are is a bit ."
Quite, old bean. Quite ......... |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
I’ve always linked posh with voice to be honest. If someone speaks like Prince Charles they’re posh
I've been called posh quite a lot but I have a sort of London/Sussex accent. "
Me too. I just pronounce me words all proper like. |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
I’ve always linked posh with voice to be honest. If someone speaks like Prince Charles they’re posh
I've been called posh quite a lot but I have a sort of London/Sussex accent. "
Same. I grew up on the border of London and Surrey then moved to near Liverpool as a kid. I was bullied horrifically for it as a kid because they thought I was posh and therefore somehow up my self. The reality was my dad was a window cleaner and my mum a nurse and we'd lived in a two bedroom flat in a bit of a rough area which is why my parents had decided to move up north as they were worried about the local high schools and couldn't afford to move to a better area down south. My accent is massively watered down now though. Some northerners still call me posh but southerners can pick up the slight scouseness  . |
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Slightly of topic but I knew a lad with a full on Geordie accent who was a big arsenal fan season ticket holder in fact and when he went to the arsenal games with his cockney mates he changed from a jimmy nail sounding bloke into Del Boy |
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The New Forest is also full of very nice normal people. Just come out to a hunt meet one day and you would be amazed.
The true meaning of posh is “ port out starboard home” which was all about having a cabin on the shaded side of the boat on the way to and from India in the days before air conditioning. Posh is all about inside knowledge and the ability to “pull rank”
"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people."
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
It's just an upbringing really ... can't change it whatever you are/wherever you are
Why do people dislike it so much? Is it a bit like "professional" do you think? "
I don't understand the dislike of 'professional' in profiles,surely it's just another preference.
I don't use my professional standing in any way, personal or even in seeking employment, I don't like the negativity it brings, as can be seen on here. |
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The New Forest is also full of very nice normal people. Just come out to a hunt meet one day and you would be amazed.
The true meaning of posh is “ port out starboard home” which was all about having a cabin on the shaded side of the boat on the way to and from India in the days before air conditioning. Posh is all about inside knowledge and the ability to “pull rank”
"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people."
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
It's just an upbringing really ... can't change it whatever you are/wherever you are
Why do people dislike it so much? Is it a bit like "professional" do you think?
I don't understand the dislike of 'professional' in profiles,surely it's just another preference.
I don't use my professional standing in any way, personal or even in seeking employment, I don't like the negativity it brings, as can be seen on here."
I don't understand the dislike of professional or posh. I know why people dislike the two things I just don't understand why they feel so strongly about it |
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I've been popping in and out because I have been waiting for a workable definition but as yet there hasn't been one and people continue to say whether they 'are' it or 'are not it' that thing that no one knows what they are basing their opinions on.....
I think nicecouple asked ( im paraphrasing ) why people worry when they perceive others as posh....
I'd say that most of it is due to ignorance and some to low self esteem.
P.S. The bloke further up ... shopping at ASDA or ALDI doesn't dilute one's poshness but the idea that not doing so confirms class is delusion. |
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
It's just an upbringing really ... can't change it whatever you are/wherever you are
Why do people dislike it so much? Is it a bit like "professional" do you think?
I don't understand the dislike of 'professional' in profiles,surely it's just another preference.
I don't use my professional standing in any way, personal or even in seeking employment, I don't like the negativity it brings, as can be seen on here."
Yeah I’ve always wondered what the problem with that word is too. Strange. |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"What does posh actually mean? I know the 'port out, starboard home" thing.
I’ve always linked posh with voice to be honest. If someone speaks like Prince Charles they’re posh
I've been called posh quite a lot but I have a sort of London/Sussex accent.
Me too. I just pronounce me words all proper like. "
I really hope you see "me words" in real life.
I've got a very Home Counties marmite accent. |
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"Slightly of topic but I knew a lad with a full on Geordie accent who was a big arsenal fan season ticket holder in fact and when he went to the arsenal games with his cockney mates he changed from a jimmy nail sounding bloke into Del Boy "
I do that though but not purposefully. I’ve lived in quite a few places and when I go back to Manchester you wouldn’t know I’d left by my accent! Equally when I go back to Devon it’s the same. My kids always know who I’m talking to on the phone by the way I talk but I can’t help it! |
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"I've been popping in and out because I have been waiting for a workable definition but as yet there hasn't been one and people continue to say whether they 'are' it or 'are not it' that thing that no one knows what they are basing their opinions on.....
I think nicecouple asked ( im paraphrasing ) why people worry when they perceive others as posh....
I'd say that most of it is due to ignorance and some to low self esteem.
P.S. The bloke further up ... shopping at ASDA or ALDI doesn't dilute one's poshness but the idea that not doing so confirms class is delusion."
Always found it to be a particular upbringing nothing to do with personalities or behaviour ... you can be posh and poor or posh and live on the streets |
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"I'm just myself.
Some would see that as posh. Some wouldn't. I don't hurt anyone.
Exactly! Some people feel hurt by it though"
I think it depends on how you do it. Some people take aspects of upbringing, training, or money and use it to exclude others who didn't or don't have those. That's hurtful. |
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"Who’s Eddie Yates ?
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Stan and Hilda's lodger in Corrie. A binman, good hearted but a bit of a slob.
Played by the late, great Geoffrey Hughes. is that the bloke from keeping up appearances?"
Yeppers....... He played Onslow.
He was a voice in Yellow Submarine too and did loads of other stuff. |
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"I'm just myself.
Some would see that as posh. Some wouldn't. I don't hurt anyone.
Exactly! Some people feel hurt by it though
I think it depends on how you do it. Some people take aspects of upbringing, training, or money and use it to exclude others who didn't or don't have those. That's hurtful. "
Yes they do but it works from both sides. Lots of people exclude those they think of as "posh". People feel able to comment on some of the things I do and ridicule me because they think it's posh and pretentious when it's just something I've always done. If I ridiculed them because they didn't do it they'd darn soon cry foul.
I don't say anything because I don't care. |
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"I'm just myself.
Some would see that as posh. Some wouldn't. I don't hurt anyone.
Exactly! Some people feel hurt by it though
I think it depends on how you do it. Some people take aspects of upbringing, training, or money and use it to exclude others who didn't or don't have those. That's hurtful.
Yes they do but it works from both sides. Lots of people exclude those they think of as "posh". People feel able to comment on some of the things I do and ridicule me because they think it's posh and pretentious when it's just something I've always done. If I ridiculed them because they didn't do it they'd darn soon cry foul.
I don't say anything because I don't care."
I agree it happens both ways. It's all ridiculous. Be yourself, accept and accommodate difference rather than ridicule it, life will be better. Meet each other in the middle sort of thing. |
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"I'm just myself.
Some would see that as posh. Some wouldn't. I don't hurt anyone.
Exactly! Some people feel hurt by it though
I think it depends on how you do it. Some people take aspects of upbringing, training, or money and use it to exclude others who didn't or don't have those. That's hurtful.
Yes they do but it works from both sides. Lots of people exclude those they think of as "posh". People feel able to comment on some of the things I do and ridicule me because they think it's posh and pretentious when it's just something I've always done. If I ridiculed them because they didn't do it they'd darn soon cry foul.
I don't say anything because I don't care.
I agree it happens both ways. It's all ridiculous. Be yourself, accept and accommodate difference rather than ridicule it, life will be better. Meet each other in the middle sort of thing. "
Quite!
Just because I do something and you don't doesn't mean we won't get along. |
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People think I’m posh due to my accent, job and having been to private school. I don’t think I am and will talk and have fun with everyone that catches my eye.
Funny how often I hear ‘well you’re not posh at all really are you’ as if posh is a nasty word |
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"This is open to interpretation and is about varying perceptions.
Am I posh for example?...
Well, I'm very well educated, I speak reasonably well, and I've achieved many successes professionally
Some might think posh upon meeting me, others certainly wouldn't."
You’re a London boy - there is nothing ‘posh’ except in your ego! |
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"This is open to interpretation and is about varying perceptions.
Am I posh for example?...
Well, I'm very well educated, I speak reasonably well, and I've achieved many successes professionally
Some might think posh upon meeting me, others certainly wouldn't.
You’re a London boy - there is nothing ‘posh’ except in your ego! "
im a london boy but ive been described as posh lol  |
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"This is open to interpretation and is about varying perceptions.
Am I posh for example?...
Well, I'm very well educated, I speak reasonably well, and I've achieved many successes professionally
Some might think posh upon meeting me, others certainly wouldn't.
You’re a London boy - there is nothing ‘posh’ except in your ego! im a london boy but ive been described as posh lol "
But you don’t fake it |
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I’m not posh but I have been described as it because of my accent by family and at work. My family have broad Yorkshire accents, I don’t, and where I live accents are very “farmer” like, I don’t sound like that either.
I have been outcasted at work because I’m a “snob”, my interests and background are very different to many there and a lot I cannot relate to. I certainly wouldn’t describe myself as posh! |
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I’m not posh but my family are.
I have never paid for my own car or house. My education was taken care of as well.
My work is more a calling rather than a profession.
I do however like nice things so spend a silly amount of money on clothes food and bubbly.
Certain appearances need to be kept up when I’m with them but normally I am just me. |
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"Some folk live champagne lifestyles on lemonade wages... Up to everyone i suppose "
Worse I suppose are those living lemonade (although mostly Irn-Bru) lifestyles on no wages at all ...get a bloody job! |
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"This is open to interpretation and is about varying perceptions.
Am I posh for example?...
Well, I'm very well educated, I speak reasonably well, and I've achieved many successes professionally
Some might think posh upon meeting me, others certainly wouldn't.
You’re a London boy - there is nothing ‘posh’ except in your ego! im a london boy but ive been described as posh lol
But you don’t fake it"
thats true i dont........ how did you know lol |
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people."
I'm not posh, I choose to speak properly because I like to use varied vocabulary in my communication.
I am also quite happy to f and blind at the chickens when they wont go to bed. |
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I'm not posh . My eldest son says I am because I speak well and I've insisted my boys do too.
We live in a nice part of the world and I do have a bit of a phone voice.
That said I'm far from a snob. |
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When your ex takes n destroys alm you ever owned leaves you in 25k debt (paid off now)
Value in life changes
I guess I hold standards.
That's better than posh.
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"I’m not posh but my family are.
I have never paid for my own car or house. My education was taken care of as well.
My work is more a calling rather than a profession.
I do however like nice things so spend a silly amount of money on clothes food and bubbly.
Certain appearances need to be kept up when I’m with them but normally I am just me. "
I would say, based on that you probably are posh
Not that it matters.
I don't judge people based on accent, income or lifestyle. |
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over a year ago
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Have no money, totally uneducated and would give away my last penny (been known to on occassion)..
I bet a certain stunning liverpool woman will come along and bash me.....at some point if she reads this lol |
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I have always found truly posh people don't think of themselves that way and are actually really down to earth.
I knew a really posh lady, friend of my Gran's, had a proper title, had stables etc. but played down just about every aspect of her existence and loved a trip to the charity shops above and beyond a trip to harvey nichs and the likes ... She did have a boot room though... An entire room fully dedicated to taking your coat and your shoes off... Generally, snobs are middle class... Truly posh people are generally quite straight forward, they just don't have much to resent about life the way most folk do. |
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"Posh really is just an attitude. Often people living on the drip but with condescending attitudes to everyone else. The New Forest area is alive with such people.
That attitude is snobbery not poshness.
Yes it is. There is also reverse snobbery... "
And this place is awash with that  |
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Posh is basically a polite word for being a cunt
Incidentally i come across "posh" people everyday of whicj the majority have nearly no cash and put everything on credit. They appear to be overly worried about their cars being around common people like me |
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"Some folk live champagne lifestyles on lemonade wages... Up to everyone i suppose
Worse I suppose are those living lemonade (although mostly Irn-Bru) lifestyles on no wages at all ...get a bloody job!"
Why should anyone work ? |
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"Have no money, totally uneducated and would give away my last penny (been known to on occassion)..
I bet a certain stunning liverpool woman will come along and bash me.....at some point if she reads this lol "
I guess I will. |
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I think it's a one sided viewpoint. In that one person sees someone else as living beyond what they are familiar with.
But the 'posh one' is just getting on with life as they know it. However they may view someone else as 'posh', relative to them.
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"This is open to interpretation and is about varying perceptions.
Am I posh for example?...
Well, I'm very well educated, I speak reasonably well, and I've achieved many successes professionally.
I don't (and wouldn't) shop in Asda.
Some might think posh upon meeting me, others certainly wouldn't. There'd be some who'd consider my attitudes and outlook as snobbery.
Personally, I think I'm neither.
Oh, and I don't drive (or dive) a chip van like some bloke named Eddie..."
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