General Chat

Sharron ~ there's a second line to that...

They think their s**t doesn't stink...

But their f*rts give them away

:-D

Paula - it's a bit of an urban myth and actually comes from Romany gypsies.

The "port out starboard home" explanation didn't come about until some 20 or so years after the term was first used, possibly longer.

I'm dead common - 23% :-D :-D :-D

Oh I thought it meant that, Stephen Fry told me :-D :-D :-D :-D

AnnCardiff - if you read the thread you will find it about eleven posts in.
Just click on the link whilst holding down Ctrl

I think people very often misunderstand what the term posh actually means.

Many mistakenly think it comes from the term "port out, starboard home".

Its on the link below Ann

I got 46%, I would sooner be repectful to all those around me and to those who are dear to me , have manners and always remember to be grateful than ever worry about being posh........

Be who you are and not who you think you are

how can I do this test?

My mother. She even looks down on her own siblings. Thinks we've all married beneath us. Thinks she's better than the neighbours. Talks down to shop assistants, waiters and tradespeople.

I'm 36% posh :-D

53% - Not a Chav, definitely not Posh though. Maybe learning to ride a horse will help.

Errr..........I used to be able to ride a horse :-S

Although my mother wasn't a true Mrs Bucket, she certainly had aspirations. There were certain things that 'we' didn't do. It was probably a response to her N London working class up bringing where the extended family lived cheek-by-jowl. When her mother died at an early age, she felt that no one wanted her (siblings were taken in by older relatives) and she was left to be brought up by a stepmother and alcoholic father.

Apparently I am 76 per cent posh - "You have a learned mind, but you could be posher! Maybe learn how to play polo and you could be properly posh!"

Learn how to play polo!!!!!?

I jolly well KNOW how to play the darned game and have been known to watch a few chukkas at the Cheshire Club.

Pimms anyone?

You have all just described my so called mother. :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-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?!

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

Lol

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" !!!

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

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!!!

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!

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

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!