What Is Your Definition Of Posh?

[EcclesCake]

When I was growing up I thought our neighbour was posh because they drank coffee, ate brown bread and shopped at M&S!

What is, or was, your definition?

[Mamyalynne]

Maydup, my Mother was always waxing lyrical about those who 'owned' their own homes, my Father had to constantly remind her they had just taken out a huge loan.

[DTCwordfan]

August the 12th, a pair of Purdey shotguns to hand, plenty of grouse. Then a lunch of lovely onion soup with croutons and Emmenthal, a delicious steak and stilton pie, the wine a 1966 Chateau Lynch-Bages or Margaux, a Pavlova with a 1959 Chateau d'Yqem and a selection of cheeses à point with a 1955 Warres port. Then a bit more social blasting.....

[tamborine]

Middle names are saints names, chosen at RCs confirmation. Double barrel surnames are posh

[berniecuddles]

having proper toilet paper and not newspaper!

[factor-fiction]

Regarding middle names and catholics- maybe that's why, mamya. Even in England there were clear divisions between catholics and protestants in terms of schools, linked churches/sunday schools/scout groups and locations (the catholics lived on a different estate), so I never met any until I was a teenager. I didn't meet anyone with (or who admitted to having) a middle name until I went to university and met lots of wonderful people from all sorts of backgrounds

[Peaspeculiars]

When I was growing up in Liverpool a neighbour had Pampas Grass (posh & exotic) and one of those lady figurine indoor waterfall's that lit up and beads of water trickled down plastic thread around the lady - I think she may have won it at Bingo, but we thought it was posh.
My dad says when he was growing up, if you had real paper rather than newspaper for the outside shared loo it must have been a posh area.
Funnily enough, when I moved out of Liverpool and lost my accent, my family who still lived there told me I was getting 'posh'

[ummmm]

Not so, Tambo. I have a middle name that I was given at birth and a confirmation name that was chosen at the time. I don't use it though...

[Peaspeculiars]

Oh Bernie - Snap! lol

[berniecuddles]

lol hi peas

[factor-fiction]

Oh, I'm certainly posh now, then. Not only do my children have middle names but I also have a double-barrelled name (Mr Factor-Fiction)

[bert_h]

In Glasgow in the 1950s, people who lived in flats in tenements were counted as 'posh' if the walls of the entry passage to their common stair was lined with pottery tiles. That passage was always called the 'close', and a tiled one was called a 'wally close' (same as for wally dugs). Us common folk lived where the walls of the close were just distempered, or painted. Regular posh people usually had tiles halfway up the first flight of stairs, then painted or distempered walls, but extra-posh folk had tiles all the way up to the top of the stairs!

[EcclesCake]

It's really quite amusing what we all have considered to be posh at one time or another.

According to some of the definitions here I am posh.....LOL!

[Buenchico]

Posh is putting your baked beans on a plate instead of eating them straight from the tin.

[EcclesCake]

Would it be uber posh if you you heated them before putting them on the plate Chris?

[ethandron]

Fitted carpets were definitely considered posh when I was a child, I only knew one person who had them. Her mother was French too, which made her seem not only posh but very exotic.
I'm considered posh by some because of the type of job i did and the people I worked with, I'm also considered the total opposite of posh by others because of my hobbies and interests. I can do 'very posh' if I want to, I can also do 'slutty and common' if I want to too.

[EcclesCake]

Eth, being a chameleon is what gets us through life IMHO!

[ethandron]

Sure is Eccles ;)

[Buenchico]

>>>Would it be uber posh if you you heated them before putting them on the plate Chris?

Only the Queen does that, surely?

[EcclesCake]

The Queen, a can opener and a tin of beans.......I'd love to see how that one would pan out ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Posh way to buy your beans...


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