What makes someone posh?

[WilmaHun]

What Per Cent Posh Are You?

Time to find out for real.

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I got 9%

I got 19%

I think it's relative really. I know people who own horses but I'd never in a million years call them posh. It's really hard to actually say what I think is posh as everytime I think of something I think "oh no, so and so does that and they're not posh" etc

 

[watermelon sugar]

My Mum is from a little village somewhere in the Midlands but spent most of her life in Liverpool with us. When she speaks to someone who she wants to think she is posh, she speaks posh. Like one day she'll be like 'Arrrrrntie' then the next she puts on a rough scouse accent and its 'aunnnnnnntiiiieeeeeee'

 

[StephenTJackson]

There are people I work with who like to think they're posh because they live in the expensive villages in the East Riding and shop at Waitrose but come on mate, you practically grew up in Hull, you aren't fooling anyone when you open your mouth and that accent comes out. These people don't know what posh is!!
I've lived in Hull my whole life, and once got called posh for saying lunch instead of dinner. I suppose it's a low bar where I live.

Be fair, if you live in one of those big posh houses in Swanland that is quite posh. Even with the Hull accent.

 

[hanq2021]

For me it’s someone who speaks proper, has a large house with a lot of land, has horses, drives something like a Land Rover, goes to private school, goes skiing, goes hunting.

 

[Definitely Maybe]

I knew someone who I considered 'posh'. She would eat apples and pears with a dessert knife and fork !

 

[Mememe9]

Your mum has done well
I know about a dozen of Oxbridge grads, all very smart and hard working, but none of them are posh.



Agree with this.

It’s true. Money can’t buy class

 

[kittypaws]

I get called posh purely based on where I’m originally from! I live in a city now, about half hour away but everyone who knows where I’m originally from thinks I’m posh and I’m bloody not

 

[HankMcPrank]

Pronunciation.

It’s not grass it’s Gr-arse.
It’s not scon, it’s sc-own.
it’s not forehead, it’s forrid.
it’s not brass, it’s br-arse.

I could go on for days

 

[tsuyu]

Interesting! I ride horses (too poor to own one of my own, it's a dream though) and I wouldn't consider someone who owns a horse posh, but some people definitely are!

Well spoken and someone with a lot of money, who lives in a big house is what I'd consider posh

 

[Rbarb-bkini]

There are people I work with who like to think they're posh because they live in the expensive villages in the East Riding and shop at Waitrose but come on mate, you practically grew up in Hull, you aren't fooling anyone when you open your mouth and that accent comes out. These people don't know what posh is!!
I've lived in Hull my whole life, and once got called posh for saying lunch instead of dinner. I suppose it's a low bar where I live.

 

[Tilly Kister]

Haha! I'm surprised I got 18% tbh but I suppose having been to the races & the opera did that. It's not totally accurate though. I certainly did go to a state comprehensive but I spent my childhood riding a hand-me-down bike through every ginnel in Manchester and my teenage years drinking cider in the cemetery. Still got into Cambridge though and left with a tidy First so I'm no stranger to poshery and the insipidity it engenders.

Be fair, if you live in one of those big posh houses in Swanland that is quite posh. Even with the Hull accent.

No that's not posh. That's being "All brass and no class." Very different things.

 

[Lanavalentine]

Having a Mercedes, sauna and room for a pony. Also a musical bidet. And a country cottage.

Having a Mercedes definitely isn’t posh. Tons of average people have them on finance these days, and my own dad used to own a Mercedes because he was a professional chauffeur (who drove actual posh people!)

All the posh people I’ve known generally drove to town in their messy old Landrovers, full of Labrador hair, covered in mud.

I don’t think having a country cottage is necessarily posh, either. I suppose it depends where you live, but I’d say country estate is posh, country cottage could easily belong to an entirely average person depending on many factors.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

For me titled aristocracy or landed gentry with a stately home or country pile that’s been passed down through the generations. Boarding school education, yes to hunting and shooting as well. It’s something you are born into and can’t buy, having loads of money doesn’t make you posh (and certainly can’t buy you class either).

 

[Bitofthebubbly]

I have an image of what I consider ‘posh’ in my head but I’m not sure if that’s reality or just how I imagine because I am certainly not posh in any way I think even if I was rich I wouldn’t be posh so I don’t think it comes down to just having money although I’m sure it helps.

I feel like posh people are people who are often very well presented, hair done well, clothes always ironed and outfits well coordinated - probably didn’t buy their clothes from George at Asda. I imagine they are also quite house proud and keep a clean house as much as possible, or hire people to keep it clean for them, they might own a large mansion and/or a fancy flat in the city. Probably have a holiday home abroad too. They might be into more ‘sophisticated’ hobbies like classical music or going to the theatre and horse riding rather than football. They eat fancier food. Their kids go to private school. They use a knife and fork to eat pizza.

(That doesn’t mean i think those of us who aren’t posh aren’t well presented or have clean houses however)

 

[TheScarletgirl]

I shop at the 'posh' supermarkets but i am as working class as they come.

For me it is someone who lives a manor house, has staff and reads the lady magazine.

 

[Gym&Tonic]

I’m 22%. But only because I can ride a horse and have been to the races once!

 

[FoksiOska]

I get called posh purely based on where I’m originally from! I live in a city now, about half hour away but everyone who knows where I’m originally from thinks I’m posh and I’m bloody not

You and me both i grew up in Buckinghamshire so apparently that makes me posh even though I grew up in a normal area and went without so many things whilst growing up. I moved to a city further north and as soon as people found out where I was from they automatically assumed I was posh. It started off as a bit of banter but actually got pretty annoying in the end. Bucks is a lovely area but there are plenty of non-posh people who live there too!

 

[Kim Mild]

I've known plenty of women horse enthusiasts. The only male one I have known was from the Traveller community, where I think it appears to be more of a male hobby.

I think the males I refer to are wannabe travellers , except their dads/ grandda probably worked down the pit like everyone's in the mining villages.

The jockeys must Class themselves as professional sportsmen .

An ex-colleague of mine either owned or sponsored a racehorse with his mates, none of them were posh, or considered themselves to be .

 

[Chewingthefat]

Aga
30 year old Barbour jacket
Battered old range rover
Antique furniture
Kids can play piano
Nanny
Live in a village
Old telly
Expensive rugs
Cellar

 

[MyLittlePony25]

I got called ‘posh’ when I worked at a restaurant in another town due to the way I talk and because I was at uni and had a horse. I do not class myself as posh, especially when I used to stick my boots on over my PJ’s to go to turn out the horse and come back covered in hay, straw and

My parents didn’t pay for anything, I worked full time hours whilst doing full time uni, having a horse and taking my mum to and from her hospital appointments. I was always skint!