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Do you have or have you had one of these types of people in your family?
I have two or three one of whom had changed her maiden name because she was ashamed of her council house upbringing, thinks she is better than us till I said no matter how many letters you have after your name you can't change who you are, but then I'm far to common to be her SISTER but I am proud of who I am. :-P

that was my mother in law to a tee
she was far to up her own butt :-D :-D

not quite MY family, but my sister in law could qualify........

Someone I know, described herself as a Housekeeper.

She was the cleaner.

I don't know why she is so snobby, she has nothing to be snobby about.

And there is no shame in being a cleaner!

a friend of mine who moved to an "up market" part of South Wales whereupon she changed her voice, pronouncing my name as "Enn" instead of "Ann" - her mother and father had previously been "our Mam" and "our Dad", but overnight they became Mummy and Daddy

She still made the most appalling faux pas gramatically - she was having problems with her chimley, and a boy they knew was receiving an absolute pickance for the job he was doing :-D :-D :-D :-D

A new neighbour moved in and as soon as we met she behaved exactly like Mrs Bucket. What she had , her holidays her meals out, her soirees.

So I called her Mrs Bouquet. I must have mentioned her to another neighbour a couple of times.

To my embarrasment my neighbour saw her in her front garden one day and called her it.

I kept out of her way for a bit but ***** is a really lovely lady with a heart of gold.

:-D :-D :-D

Lolol @ Ann

My friends parents had a green grocery shop. One customer tried so hard to be posh but always got it wrong. One day she asked in a very posh voice, for five lbs of potatoes one lb tomatoes, and a bunch of BANANOES. :-D :-D :-D

my oldest aunt ... her problem was that she was the eldest and remembered that the family once was a bit posh through the success of her great-grandfather in trade and his son's more genteel occupation ... until her father, my grandfather (the eldest child of the genteel chap, born in the 1890s), became the black sheep and then lost what money he had through bad investments

I have recently learned by finding a still-posh cousin of my dad whom he never knew ... he tells me (as if it were perfectly normal) that when my grandfather's father remarried in 1920, he and his new wife were known to his younger children and the new batch, and their children, as 'mater' and 'pater'

now beat that for posh ;)

I'll bet none of them knew that 'pater's' granddad died in the workhouse only 15 years before he was born ...

My mother - she was Isabella (known as Bella). However, after we moved to a different part of the county, her name became Belle! She was always referring to others as common.

I found an account after she died, written by a friend, of a Med cruise they had taken. Mother must have been in her glory -
friend referred to being at the Captain's cocktail party - it was wonderful but Belle must be used to all of this as her husband had been a sea captain!

Yes he was but never of a passenger ship and throwing cocktail parties.

I have so wanted to tell her that her g.father she was so proud of died in an asylum of syphillis. I did not find out until it was too late.

Oh Chris! is that worse than 20 years in the workhouse :-)


http://www.gotoquiz.com/how_posh_are_you_2

how did this happen ... I even know how to ride a horse ...

'You are 2% posh! U R CHAV! I THINK YOU IS WELL COOL BRUV. If you want to be a posh person, one should begin by learning to speak English.'

and I can speak English better than whoever wrote that last sentence :-D

Joonie - it must have been a great disgrace as he and two younger brothers had opened a foundry and their products were exported.

The brothers cut him out of the firm also his eldest son who was an engineer in the company (he went to sea) and there was no further contact with the brother's family.

Reckon it was worse than workhouse!

and your mother knew nothing of it ?!

I will likely never know how my 2xgreat grandfather came to spend 20 years in the workhouse ... while his son was a prosperous French polisher in another county whose children all made excellent matches ... I wonder whether each of them even knew where the other was, as the wife/mother had died not long after the son was born ... but all before censuses ... so I can only imagine they were like the men in the family I have known (my dad excepted, and only because he swore never to be like his own) ... a bad father who might have been left in the workhouse - and a son who might have left him there - without hesitation

My uncle's wife - I don't call her 'auntie' as I've only met her a few times as she never wanted much to do with our side of the family. I think she thought herself a cut above us - apparently she cut Mum and Mum's sister out of her wedding pics!

Like you Chris, my mum was a bit of a 'Mrs Bouquet', with a spot of narcissism thrown in. Apparently so and so's child was much better behaved than me, and I didn't behave 'properly' at certain people's homes. I could never work this out - it's not as though I f*rtd, or swore :-(
She preferred my dad's mum to her own. Mum's mum was treasurer of the local Labour party. Dad's mum was a down to earth smallholder - but she'd been married to the agent of a Tory MP (dad's stepfather from when he was 16 - which was when dad joined the services :-D)

I further 'disgraced' mum by not re-marrying, and being quite content in a council house - but it was in Winchester, so she could brag about that. Two siblings own their own houses, the third is a well known potter (in particular circles)

I did the chav test - and I'm 22% posh!!!

Both my sisters in law are like that, one more than the other.

I remember my mother saying once about one of them, I don't know who she thinks she is, she only comes from a council house as we do.

Both have ended up in huge expensive houses thanks to the efforts of my brothers, but looked down on me as I was, and still am, a single parent and for a while was on benefits.

People like that make me sick!

Lizx

I used to work with a "Mr Bouquet"

He used words like "plawstic" :-\

He thought he was posh, but he just sounded ridiculous.

If you're wondering......... he meant "plastic" !!!

Lol

My Dad had a phrase to describe these these types "fur coats and no drawers" :-D

There is another phrase to describe them "they think their s**t doesn't stink".

As the daughter of a turd hearse driver I can tell you two things without fear of contradiction.

One is that my old dad knew it did and two is that that test is very inaccurate. I scored 46%. What?!