ukilxors arent u posh?

theory: uk ilx used be very posh, now the poshos dont wanna be seen as poshos and the wannabe poshos just want bits of it

nb prod = posh

what

we look fwd to an era of poshos feigning confusion when they dont like the question now that bojo is in

this is just the sort of doggerel we expect from the lower orders

poshspice.jpg

squire as long as ye are paying a sou for it me and mine are here and willing to churn it

tis said at home that at the height of devs catholic-mandated censorship four ships full of dirty jokes were leaving irish ports for consumption in workingmens clubs oop north

'Posh' is the nickname of football team Peterborough Utd, can we work that in somehow

i like that you included an option for me

might still vote top-hole tho

not voting because I'm not scum nor do I want your fiver altho if you're going to the bar

the idea that being posh has anything to do with hard work is absolutely absurd

No 'posh tankie' option?

I'll put it this way, the reason I've never been called for jury service isn't because of the "criminal records" I listen to.

the idea that being posh has anything to do with hard work is absolutely absurd

― ogmor, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 09:53 (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its delivered in the voice of that purported voter obv

voting 'im posh and its simply top-hole'

*adjusts monocle, beats servant*

the new poshos beat civil servants iirc

No 'posh tankie' option?

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 09:56 (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

smdh "im posh its beastly" lads i cant do all the work for youse

^ two cardinal sins in that last sentence, note

smdh "im posh its beastly" lads i cant do all the work for youse

Apologies, as a filthy foreigner I can't help but scan 'beastly' as potentially positive.

To wit:

https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-just-unveiled-a-beastly-56-core-112-thread-cpu-but-its-not-for-gaming-yet/

I'll put it this way, the reason I've never been called for jury service isn't because of the "criminal records" I listen to.

― calzino, Wednesday, July 24, 2019 10:06 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

calzino, are you on 77? I was looking for advice about spiking tires yesterday and posted a question for you in a thread there, but now see that you don't have any 77 posts.

not posh enough to meet the entry requirements obv

xp

no I'm not on there peace, and don't do exclusive clubs. But I would recommenced a pocketful of inch and a half 8's screws and a decent pozi driver. Then just simply screw them in to burst the tyres or get smaller (maybe some 1/2 inch 8's?) screws and angle them into the tread low down as possible so it hopefully the driver won't notice them and it won't burst the tyre until the car moves .. ho ho ho!

Just the sort of advice I was hoping for. Cheers!

obv knacking up the tyres with a pistol drill fitted with a good sharp hole saw would be much quicker and more destructive, but will make noise.

I'm middle class, which I would say isn't posh, but as I'm also crappy poor and incapable of being an adult, I voted "im descending from a life of childhood posh and confronting my new reality it will probably be good for me". My grandparents were pretty posh tbh, so it works out.

the reason i've never been called for jury service is that no one in court will be able to see past my gold top hat

I feel like "middle class" has posher connotations in the UK than it does in most European countries.

Is 'lower middle class' a thing outside of the UK? It's where I've always rested my peaky blinder.

I always felt like middle class had a bunch of gradations and *somewhere in there* is pretty definitely where I am, each tempered by elements increasing or decreasing poshness.

emil.y i think that you have read that eminently correctly and i commend your honesty

a few could follow yr example itt tbh

rory stewart thinks he's 'lower upper middle class' bc prince charles teased him about his tweeds being too new

'nb prod = posh'

huh

my family of three are currently living a fairly typical middle-class lifestyle, not that much different to the typical middle-class lifestyle that i had growing up

a key difference tho is that my current middle-class life requires the income of both my wife and i to maintain, while when i was a kid my dad could support a family of three on his income alone while earning probably about the same as i am today

Obvs in a UK context there's distinction between being materially middle-class and being culturally middle-class and nobody will agree on where the lines are. As BG notes above, the materially middle class lifestyle is highly dependent on multiple incomes or great jobs that are, one way or another, much more precarious than they might have been in the past. You can be materially middle class and not posh, i guess you can be posh and not materially middle class.

Poshness is relative, though. I am probably perceived as posh in Chatham, not posh elsewhere.

just put down posh and its beastly lads we understand

too late, i've already voted 'top-hole'

i will never not tell the truth in the thread abt my enormous gold top hat, it's good not bad, you love to see it

ah you

gold top hats are frightfully vulgar, dear

I have two girls at uni, one doing English lit, the other doing Song composition.

Mentioning this, prob means we're midcl

who's posher beethoven or goethe

Def. Goethe.

Beethoven was def

i'm thinking about the famous making way/barging through the austrian empress & her entourage, trying to work out the role of self-regard/disdain in this, but i think that's mostly down to the difference between early modern courtly manners and modern romantic individualist manners

Goethe outposhes Beethoven with one hand tied behind his back.

van < von

Goethe was ennobled, Beethoven was not. Case closed.

posh digression

Growing up I always thought a sign that someone was posh was that they had the radio times instead of one of the cheapo TV guides, daft maybe but so are a lot of the ways poshness is defined - I think some of the area covered by these poll options if I understand them is like posh in the same way that walkers sensations are posh

I grew up on a council estate and today I still live in social housing in the same postcode so I’m not displaying much in the way of mobility upward or down. My dad was a builder and now works in a Tesco, mum worked nights at an old folks home but got a degree when I was in secondary school and moved into the middle class profession of teaching at an fe college (we still never had any money tho). Dad comes from an Afro-Caribbean immigrant family in east London - he’s never really talked much about it but I think he had a rough childhood before joining the army. Mum’s folks come from the Glasgow tenements - to hear them talk, growing up poor but happy chugging mince n tatties in an open midden - and my grandparents came to Cambridge to look for jobs with nothing but the mattress on their backs, and the rest of the clan (a lot of them, they’re catholics) eventually followed them down. Underclass cred side note btw, that side of the family has some dodgy crims and I could tell some calzian stories about the degenerate fucking villains and thugs in my extended family!

Having said all that my current job is the first one I’ve ever had where the pay was expressed to me as an annual rather than hourly figure - it’s just another drone job really and doesn’t pay that well but it’s undeniably a more middle class industry, most of my coworkers are university educated (unlike me). And I don’t feel “culturally working class” I don’t think, I’m pretty sure I eat whatever the wealthy columnists have decided the middle class foods are now, plus I do the guardian xword.

tldr it is stupid to pretend that posh means the same as “a bit middle class in some respects; I’ve no doubt most ilxors are the latter; if I’d voted in this I’d have hovered between not posh honest and scum but like, crème de la scum

Growing up I always thought a sign that someone was posh was that they had the radio times instead of one of the cheapo TV guides

fuckin truth bomb right here

xp Anyway these matters are programmed so deep into us that wrong-feeling* class signifiers often produce a fathomless disgust deeper by far than mere language, one that manifests as different kinds of contempt.

*I know what I mean. Somewhere between unnatural and undeserved but the word I first wanted to use was unearned.

a very fine answer

the poll is ofc to be taken in as light or as accusatory (heh its a pun in context look) a tone as one prefers to habitually ascribe to the starter

love to ask ukilxors about class and money obv

politics just makes ye seethe and i get nervy for whomever is the current mayor of cork or whatever

(additional wrinkle in the truthbomb digression: radio times ONLY carried BBC-related info before 1991)

well yeah, nothing of any worth on the other channels

wait the circulation of the radio times for the first half of 2018 was 577,087?!

what the fuck

of course, any former 80's paperboy knows the TV Times was the dedicated Itv/Ch4 guide, then the berlin wall came and down and peace broke out between them or something. Many of the poshos I delivered to got both!

I did about 8 paper-rounds to feed my addiction to comics amphetamines. I'm probably still carrying back injuries from when the Sunday papers suddenly got fucking massive in '87 or something.

My granny got TV Times AND Radio Times, don't remember the BBC being on in her house much though.

Not only did my grandmother take the Radio Times (and never the TV Times) she had a special leather-bound folder thing to keep it in. (She also took the Birmingham Post (broadsheet) and never the Evening Mail (tabloid). These things mattered to her.)

Saturday morning/afternoon was Western/gangster movie, the wrestling, World of Sport.

... boring horseracing on for hours at a time.

the in-joke in our house used to be about how my dad was a typically thick as fuck Kerryman, because his justification for not getting a coloured tv was that he only watches the snooker on it!

keeps u guessin tbf

early Saturday memories = round the back of my nan's sofa wreathed in her cig smoke, also wrestling, World of Sport, possibly an old movie

Oh God, yes, my Granny smoked 80 a day.

... didn't do her any harm too... apart from going blind, as good as.

my Gran from Tralee use to give me booze and fags from the age of 14, she used to be a chainsmoker with this exotic looking cigarette holder - well I'd seen one before. She was the only family on my dad's side I had much affection for. I can still remember playing her the pet shop boys Disco album and she was saying: this is real grand music is this. I think lots of people had inspirational chainsmoking grans back then.

My gran: that, but posh - retired fashion buyer, cigarette in deco holder, very good at mixed drinks and after-dinner schnapps in tiny red glasses.

(additional wrinkle in the truthbomb digression: radio times ONLY carried BBC-related info before 1991)

This is true – and the TV Times ONLY had ITV/Channel 4. What's more, before that year no other magazines (or newspapers) could print a whole week's worth of TV – only that day's. So more or less everyone in 70s/80s Britain who had a TV bought bought Radio/TV Times if they wanted to know what was coming up. It was amazing when the papers suddenly could print their own TV guides – a big tabloid hullabaloo.

It was obligatory, you had to buy both, every week.

When they got to publish each other's schedule, most people (I believe) went Radio Times. TV Times was more about Soap Opera coverage. Mind you, the RT definitely got more gentrified, particularly when you get an indication of the target market via the adverts : Statuettes, ceramic plates, commemorative gold coins of 3 mm wide from obscure islands with suitably "ROyal Minte" type names. (I think it's like this now, innit?)

So, it got to only buying the Christmas edition, then not even that.

Yeah, we only had them at christmas, can't remember what we'd do the rest of the year if we wanted to know what was on a few days in advance... use ceefax maybe?

But you tell young people today about the TV Times/Radio Times closed shop, they won't believe you (at least, that's how I interpret the glazed, bored look in their eye)

At what point did those trailers between shows of what was coming up that evening/tomorrow/later that week, stop?

a special leather-bound folder thing to keep it in

I remember seeing an advert for this in the Radio Times and thinking that it was pretentious wannabe posh posturing.

POSHturing!

basically calz the only one sure enough in not being posh to answer directly, rly

darragh u forgot an "im an american and waht is this" option

― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:37 (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

You can wait in the anteroom until we finally get this sorted out.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 22:47 (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

antebellum shurely

got to keep a bit of ambiguity in case need arises to poor mouth it to win an online argument in future

― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 25 July 2019 22:06 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

absolute facts

― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 July 2019 22:13 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Last good thread on ilx imo

No way ye answered honestly neither

i answered 'top-hole' ffs what more do you want, blood

*keeps eye out nervously for guillotines*

I'm happy with sweat, but im an awful easygoin type

never behead ban l0u1s jagg3r

For a period of time after its invention, the guillotine was called a louisette

louis' 'ead

dance! and drink and! screw!

ogmor
Posted: 24 July 2019 at 09:40:01
what

Only otm comment itt

gosh these results will make for wonderful fap talk

― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Wednesday, July 31, 2019 2:16 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

This one's otm too, tbf

I voted Bobby Gillespie, that was very honest.

Tbh I have lived here over a decade and the intricacies of the UK class system are still a mystery to me, the one thing I can say is that they’re really really into it.

by current social standards I was dragged up but my mum says my upbringing was soft as shit compared to hers, her mum's parenting motto was "a bit of neglect does them no harm" lol.

i'm upper lower-middle class scum

top work from me up and down this thread tbrr

Sorry did you say toff or toff

Pop your top toff love I've got an idea

Lol

i'm actually the poshest brit on this message board fwiw

Whatever PRINCE HARRY

The Windsors are not really considered posh by real posh people, of course. There was that thing about how some people thought Lady Diana was marrying beneath her by marrying into the Royal Family.

we shant kid ourselves they said