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How do you define posh?
Where you live?
The school your children attend?
The car you drive?
Your social circle?
The material things you own and the shops you bought them from?
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"Ah, OP, don’t make the mistake of equating large amounts of money to being classy, well bred or ‘posh’.
I don’t but I know others that do."
Someone said I was posh because we have a south drawing room (as well as a north one) and asked if I had stables. It’s knowing what to say if someone says ‘how d’ye do?’  |
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Shit not posh we both come from crappy part's of that London place, both got working class families,lived on council estates...
But we have and do work bloody hard,have nice things and a niceish house all be it very modest.
We have manners and polite.
To some we may seem posh to others complete scum! |
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We live in the countryside, in a house with a large anount of land attached, we have Sainsburys deliver our groceries, we drive an Audi, a Ranger and own a big 4 x 4 vehicle. We have nice clothes, have nice holidays and a great social life. We also have our own sucessful business.
Does that make us posh?...
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No it does not.
What's more, we wouldn't want to be classed as posh either. |
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"Ah, OP, don’t make the mistake of equating large amounts of money to being classy, well bred or ‘posh’.
I don’t but I know others that do.
Someone said I was posh because we have a south drawing room (as well as a north one) and asked if I had stables. It’s knowing what to say if someone says ‘how d’ye do?’ "
How do you do.
And I don't have a drawing room at all. That's not posh, that's manners. |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe |
I must be posh as I have a very long driveway. To walk to the end of the drive to put rubbish in the wheelie bin and walk back again takes over 7 minutes, and that is at a brisk pace. |
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
Maldon and Peterborough |
"I’m Ocado delivery level posh.
I feel like I should courtesy or something
I'd love you to bow in front of me. Pwoah. 
I can touch my toes...probably not necessary but I'd insist  "
No. You will need to hold on to something sturdy.  |
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At school i was classed as posh as lived in a 4 bed detatched house on a new estate. I hated it but now realise with age i am not posh, just a girl whose parents worked bloody hard to provide the best they could for their family. |
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"I’m Ocado delivery level posh.
I feel like I should courtesy or something
I'd love you to bow in front of me. Pwoah.
I can touch my toes...probably not necessary but I'd insist
No. You will need to hold on to something sturdy. "
Get a room !!!! |
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"I’m Ocado delivery level posh.
I feel like I should courtesy or something
I'd love you to bow in front of me. Pwoah.
I can touch my toes...probably not necessary but I'd insist
No. You will need to hold on to something sturdy.
Get a room !!!!"
a suite |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I hate this kind of thing.
POSH is a construct, designed to be devisive.
Yep. I agree. People who think about this kind of thing clearly have issues.
Again  "
Did you not understand what I said the first time? |
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"I hate this kind of thing.
POSH is a construct, designed to be devisive.
Yep. I agree. People who think about this kind of thing clearly have issues.
Again
Did you not understand what I said the first time?"
Honestly just leave it. You’re not my type  |
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I have two houses..... 1 in Devon, 1 in Cornwall
...that doesn't make me posh. I was born and brought up on a council estate, I can still get into an 89' Astra using the strapping from newspapers and start a ford fiesta with a screw driver.....
... I eat olives though, because I am a class traitor |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I hate this kind of thing.
POSH is a construct, designed to be devisive.
Yep. I agree. People who think about this kind of thing clearly have issues.
Again
Did you not understand what I said the first time?
Honestly just leave it. You’re not my type "
Too posh? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Am from East Belfast my house growing up didn't even have a indoor toilet till I 9 or 10. Having a pickle egg and a bit of tomato and lettuce with your fish and chips you thought it was posh.
So a big fat zero points |
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"So far Rachel xx is poshest bird we’ve found so far is that cos I said I’d do her? 
Yes in your stables, and she likes it up the bum I don’t have fucking stables!!!! 
I do.
I take it up the bum too "
My underpants have just fell off |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I don't think I'm posh but my sons say they think I am.
I don't like slang and I speak properly so I think that's where it comes from.
I don't mind if people think I am though |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The people in my office think I am posh but that is because of my home counties accent.
I used to go to school with people who had money that didn't make them posh in many ways it made them arrogant or entitled.
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If anyone says that POSH means Port Out Starboard Home for when people have been on a cruise i'll spit ! That's one of those sayings that is made up , passed on and then falls into general usage and people believe it.
You have to differentiate between breeding, old money and new money.
Some think manners and breeding make a person posh and others think wealth makes a person posh.
Maybe you need both. A high quality item that costs thousands is posh.....
An item that costs thousands and is tawdry and vulgar is not posh.... just expensive.
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
Maldon and Peterborough |
"I’m definitely posh I have scented quilted toilet roll
I must visit you. Just to see what it's like.
Are you still on that crappy tracing paper stuff you used to get at school? "
Yes, but only because it's best for the outside loo. That new stuff gets damp. |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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I'm as common as muck.
Honestly, why does it matter if someone is posh? It's not like they automatically assume they are better than you. And yeah, sure, it's a social construct but one that seems to get knickers in a twist. Reverse snobbery is a thing and threads like this show that. |
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"I’m definitely posh I have scented quilted toilet roll
I must visit you. Just to see what it's like. "
I’ll book you in the day after the cleaner has been just so your experience in the bathroom is epic
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm not posh, just a geezer.
I do like the sound of a posh ladies voice though.
Imaging someone with a posh voice saying to me..
"oh gosh darling you seem to have an erection"
Yes ma'am |
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
Maldon and Peterborough |
"I’m definitely posh I have scented quilted toilet roll
I must visit you. Just to see what it's like.
I’ll book you in the day after the cleaner has been just so your experience in the bathroom is epic
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Let me know. I'll give the valet the day off. |
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"I’m definitely posh I have scented quilted toilet roll
I must visit you. Just to see what it's like.
I’ll book you in the day after the cleaner has been just so your experience in the bathroom is epic
Let me know. I'll give the valet the day off. "
I’ll get the dog walker to get the dog out of the way and send the chauffeur to collect you from the station |
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
Maldon and Peterborough |
"I’m definitely posh I have scented quilted toilet roll
I must visit you. Just to see what it's like.
I’ll book you in the day after the cleaner has been just so your experience in the bathroom is epic
Let me know. I'll give the valet the day off.
I’ll get the dog walker to get the dog out of the way and send the chauffeur to collect you from the station "
I'll check the map for the nearest helipad.  |
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"I’m definitely posh I have scented quilted toilet roll
I must visit you. Just to see what it's like.
I’ll book you in the day after the cleaner has been just so your experience in the bathroom is epic
Let me know. I'll give the valet the day off.
I’ll get the dog walker to get the dog out of the way and send the chauffeur to collect you from the station
I'll check the map for the nearest helipad. "
Oh it’s ok I have one
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
Maldon and Peterborough |
"I’m definitely posh I have scented quilted toilet roll
I must visit you. Just to see what it's like.
I’ll book you in the day after the cleaner has been just so your experience in the bathroom is epic
Let me know. I'll give the valet the day off.
I’ll get the dog walker to get the dog out of the way and send the chauffeur to collect you from the station
I'll check the map for the nearest helipad.
Oh it’s ok I have one
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Sounds like we have this loo paper meet all arranged. |
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Some days I make meals for homeless people and other days I dine with millionaires, I can chat shit and talk properly.
But at the end of the day I can honestly say I am what I want to be
Now bend over James darling as I am feeling a little spanky  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was raised posh by parents who did well with working class ethics,went to a school a royal went to and proudly consider myself working class and don’t judge anyone |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"So far Rachel xx is poshest bird we’ve found so far is that cos I said I’d do her?
Yes in your stables, and she likes it up the bum I don’t have fucking stables!!!!
I do.
I take it up the bum too
My underpants have just fell off "
That happens when your shopper buys you cheap ones. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm not posh, just a geezer.
I do like the sound of a posh ladies voice though.
Imaging someone with a posh voice saying to me..
"oh gosh darling you seem to have an erection"
Yes ma'am "
I'm so going to do a video saying this! |
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"I'm not posh, just a geezer.
I do like the sound of a posh ladies voice though.
Imaging someone with a posh voice saying to me..
"oh gosh darling you seem to have an erection"
Yes ma'am
I'm so going to do a video saying this! "
Let me know when it’s done |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm not posh I grew up on a council estate but for some reason because I can talk properly people up north where I've lived almost 20yrs seem to think I am posh which I find hilarious myself |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Parents sent me to private school; but i hated the fucking place.
If i had children i wouldn't do the same, i don't think it's good for the child. (Perhaps I'll write a book about it when I'm older..) |
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"I'm not posh I grew up on a council estate but for some reason because I can talk properly people up north where I've lived almost 20yrs seem to think I am posh which I find hilarious myself "
This is what I mean. Posh to some is the way you speak, others is where you live and others the things you own. I have no idea what posh is?? |
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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago
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"Not as posh as some people think we are"
I imagine you in jodhpurs at the stable, driving a range rover around your estate, salmon fishing in your t jackets, then retiring to your private library with a snifter of brandy |
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"Not as posh as some people think we are
I imagine you in jodhpurs at the stable, driving a range rover around your estate, salmon fishing in your t jackets, then retiring to your private library with a snifter of brandy "
Have you got us bugged |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Never something that has ever bothered me.
I'm not out to impress anyone.
The car I drive, I chose because I like it, and for no other reason. Doesn't bother me what other people think about it.
For the same reason I refuse to drive anything produced by any of the German marques. They do nothing for me.
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"Would I be classed as posh if I told you I live alone in a house with 17 rooms, 2 en suite bedrooms plus a main bathroom and an extra toilet making 4 toilets in total. There is a good sized dining room, large living room with log burner and a summer room with a small orangery type roof.
I have a canal in my back garden with my own private 60ft mooring and have 2 integral garages both with electric doors.
I drive a BMW coupe and work for an extremely well known worldwide brand.
Would that be enough to class me as posh because what I think it would class me as is a little stupid with some choices I've made and skint hahaaaa
Posh...meh! What a waste of a life if that's all you aspire to be.
Be good, be kind and be liked by others, now that's what I'd like to be "
If only everyone could be good abd kind, the world would be a better place. |
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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago
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"My telephone voice is posh and my kids are like but not posh, just work hard for my money and a normal girl  "
I think most people are slightly different on the phone.
I'm not recognised by my own family at times. Lol |
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"I'm not posh I grew up on a council estate but for some reason because I can talk properly people up north where I've lived almost 20yrs seem to think I am posh which I find hilarious myself
This is what I mean. Posh to some is the way you speak, others is where you live and others the things you own. I have no idea what posh is??"
I'm not sure you'll work it out through a thread like this either. Social status is always elusive, temporary and performative rather than objectively defined. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"How do you define posh?
Where you live?
The school your children attend?
The car you drive?
Your social circle?
The material things you own and the shops you bought them from?
Let’s see if we can find the poshest person on Fab "
I don't know, probably some combination of the above.
I don't think I'd call myself posh though. |
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"How do you define posh?
Where you live?
The school your children attend?
The car you drive?
Your social circle?
The material things you own and the shops you bought them from?
Let’s see if we can find the poshest person on Fab "
So I have a 20 yr old cottage in the country up a lane, 50yrds from a 16thcentury pub, I drive. Mercedes, my daughters both work in education. Wife’s a bank manager, I was supply chain manager of companies in Far East.
But no way am I posh |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Posh has nothing to do with material things or even money! Posh has nothing to do with how nice or horrible you are ... it's just an upbringing!! It's pretty simple - you can't buy into being posh same as you could live on the streets and still be posh if you were posh |
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"How do you define posh?
Where you live?
The school your children attend?
The car you drive?
Your social circle?
The material things you own and the shops you bought them from?
Let’s see if we can find the poshest person on Fab "
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Posh, as we can see from some of the comments on here, isn't usually a compliment. No idea why doing things differently, living in certain areas or talking a certain way is a bad thing but that's the way it is. People are just people whatever accent they have or car they drive. Someone in an Aston Martin can be just as nice and friendly as someone in a Ford focus of indeed just as nasty.
I worked in a new office briefly and was called "posh totty", not in a nice way. It was because I used cloth napkins instead of paper and proper cutlery instead of plastic. I just smiled and realised just how judgemental people can be.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Posh is a state of mind..
I dought many " posh " people see themselves as posh because they don't know anything else, it's all just natural to them.
In some circles having a wheelie bin that's not been set on fire and a doorbell that works makes them posh snobs...
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Own an ex council house, degree educated, shop in Aldi, watch a lot of BBCFour, poor as a church mouse at the moment, don't own a Brie knife, or any cheese knives for that matter. I'm a class conundrum. |
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It seems I maybe one of those non posh posh people or is it one of those people who is posh but not
So here would be my take
Using an idiotic false dichotomy i dont condone
There are so called common
And so called posh (and a vast spectrum between)
They both have positive and negative traits
I hopefully possess a greater proportion of the stereotypical positive traits from both false dichotomy than i do their stereotypical negatives
Does that make me posh hmm naw just fucking awkward |
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