We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.
This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
How posh are you?
Comments
-
40% posh.
I notice the one regular poster that I believe to be actually posh hasn't posted on here which says more than any quiz!Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)
December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.100 -
40% posh.
I notice the one regular poster that I believe to be actually posh hasn't posted on here which says more than any quiz!
I have never really thought about how posh you all are.. I think it's pretty hard to tell unless they make threads like 'Henrietta is refusing to ride her pony' :rotfl::rotfl:0 -
40% posh.
I notice the one regular poster that I believe to be actually posh hasn't posted on here which says more than any quiz!
I was thinking about the poster who recently had a meltdown, but I am not sure they are a regular.
I am sitting here listening to opera and eating Pringles so I am not sure what that says about me!0 -
-
When I worked in a factory oooop North, they said I was posh as I didn't use the f word several times in every sentence and didn't have a northern accent!0
-
Buzzybee90 wrote: »I'm not sure why you think marrying a Frenchman is posh.... :rotfl:
It's only a bit of fun!
Ermmmmm.....I don't, that's exactly the point. I don't think any of these things are 'posh', they are just things people do. There was a question in the quiz about speaking French - I speak French, not because I'm 'posh' but because I'm marrying a Frenchman and have learned French over the last 8 years with him.
It might all be a bit of fun in this instance, but the underlying message it carries is not; it's based on real prejudices. As someone who has been on the receiving end of this, for not having gone to the 'right' school, I think it's one of the last acceptable prejudices remaining in the UK. We wouldn't dream of looking down on someone for being black, or jewish or gay for example (and rightly so), but it's still ok to discriminate on the basis of class. As I said, it is so very sad in this day and age.Remember Occam's Razor - the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
32 and mortgage-free
0 -
I forgot the double barrelled names one: there are loads in Wales, people who are too up themselves to be plain Jones, Davies or Williams !Member #14 of SKI-ers club
Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
(Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)0 -
40% posh.
I notice the one regular poster that I believe to be actually posh hasn't posted on here which says more than any quiz!
Its being discussed in at least one other place on the forum, maybe the person you are thinking of is discussing it somewhere else?Buzzybee90 wrote: »I have never really thought about how posh you all are.. I think it's pretty hard to tell unless they make threads like 'Henrietta is refusing to ride her pony' :rotfl::rotfl:
No, I just think of posters I recognise as people with personality traits. I might remember things about them like interests, or views, sense of humour . I neither care nor consider relevant various other things, neither do I among people I know and my friends. ( edit, actually, that's not quite true, being strictly fair and thinking on it further. I know which of my friend's belong to which socio economic bracket, just as I can see which are black, and I know who in the family (roughly) is religious or not , but it doesn't mean I feel differently about the whole of them because of a part. If they are an SOB they are an SOB regardless of background.
)Ermmmmm.....I don't, that's exactly the point. I don't think any of these things are 'posh', they are just things people do. There was a question in the quiz about speaking French - I speak French, not because I'm 'posh' but because I'm marrying a Frenchman and have learned French over the last 8 years with him.
It might all be a bit of fun in this instance, but the underlying message it carries is not; it's based on real prejudices. As someone who has been on the receiving end of this, for not having gone to the 'right' school, I think it's one of the last acceptable prejudices remaining in the UK. We wouldn't dream of looking down on someone for being black, or jewish or gay for example (and rightly so), but it's still ok to discriminate on the basis of class. As I said, it is so very sad in this day and age.
I do not think its just a UK issue. I know its popular every where to say it is, but I have seen it almost every where I've been. Its not necessarily called 'class' but essentially it boils down to much the same thing.
Snobbery and inverse snobbery both pretty ugly concepts to my mind. Neither serve one self nor others well and I have no space for them in my life. If others choose to engage in them so be it, but I don't see it bringing them much contentment and its not something I care to indulge in.0 -
Buzzybee90 wrote: »Oh do get over yourself, it's based on fairly normal things in order to not discriminate. There are no questions about schools or wealth. It's harmless, light hearted fun.
You listed some degrees (not an indicator of poshness at all) and marrying a French person as reasons you may have placed higher...
Why do people have to suck the life out of everything?!
Aren't you and top quark arguing the same point? That things like linguistic ability and education are not an indicator of 'poshness'?0
This discussion has been closed.
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply
Categories
- All Categories
- 351.7K Banking & Borrowing
- 253.4K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
- 454K Spending & Discounts
- 244.7K Work, Benefits & Business
- 600.1K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
- 177.3K Life & Family
- 258.4K Travel & Transport
- 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
- 16.2K Discuss & Feedback
- 37.6K Read-Only Boards