One wonders what it is like not to be posh?

Question

Good day.

One is awfully posh--not to mention frightfully well off--and one has just been pontificating with a few of ones cohorts as to what it is actually _like_ to be a member of the proletariat. At the risk of coming across as rather supercilious, would any of you plebeians care to fill one in?

Awfully grateful.

Answer 1

I beg you pardon darling. I must say that I have no idea as to whom you are referring my good lad because may I say I am so delightfully POSH lolololololol :)

Answer 2

First and foremost life is neither different nor the same from one socioeconomic class to the other. Second, if you are as you state one of the "posh" upper class why bother asking on an anonymous forum, when you simply could spend your idle time reading a book on the matter and not sully your hands with such common folk. Third, though highly entertaining that your ruse is, the tact you have so eloquently feinted at leads me to believe that you are more pleb then those you supposedly are trying to learn from. The usage of large and complicated words are not what define the upper class as a whole, especially if we are speaking of people who are bound within the catagory of HNW or those elite individuals in the UHNW catagory. So I'd be "Awfully grateful" if you would be honest with your cohorts, aka lacheys and stop trying to make the upper class seem like something it is not.

Thank you and Good day...

Answer 3

Get your nose out of the dictionary my good man. Your teminology is overkill. I dare say, Pish, Posh and all that sort. No wonder North America developed their own culture and identity. You say "Would you be so kind as to pass over the gravy and I thank you". We say " hey, pass the sauce". Shorter and to the point. I wouldn't go to any restaraunt that expects that kind of European etiquette. It's rehearsed, phony and I'm more likely to punch you in the head if you ever talked to me like that. And actually I wouldn't know what it's like not be wealtlhy having never been wealthy in the first place. How can I compare the two? Still as a " Pauper " I'm content with my life and have no regrets with the simple things in life. And don't get me wrong, I do have very good etiquette should the situation arise. It's just not something I practice in my own time or around my "common " friends. Frankly I am well off. Thank you, that was "Awfully splended, I dare say" Tah, tah.

Answer 4

One would care to fill you in, yes.

I too ponder the oddness of not being well off. One asked a poor friend to outline how they live their life - this is what they told one:

"We have to do a thing called 'work', for which we are paid a very small sum of money - usually less than £50,000 per annum..."

This was when one stopped listening. Can you imagine earning a living, and for that living not to exceed the £50,000 mark?? It must be absolutely frightful for the poor souls.

I offered to buy the next round of pimms - but they insisted, so how could one refuse?

Answer 5

Well E By Gum Lad, Tha only as to ask ? I just finished mucking oot ma pigs and gonna sit in front of the box wid me T on a tray. Good old bangers n mash wiv mushy peas. It be a grand life iffin ya dont weaken as me old da woudda sed!
Canna ya see yous way clear to sending an old gal a littley bit of ya dosh cos ma grankids need wellies this time o year an a canna get um on the pension like!

Answer 6

We poor people need to work to live, that is, unless we pay for our own housing and food, we don't eat with any regularity. So we don't apply for jobs we are interested in doing, we do jobs that are availiable. We take vacations of 10 days, two weekends and five work days, then back to the daily commute. When we get posh, we retire and generally just do what you do, wonder about the workers. lol, its quite the life.

Answer 7

I say old chap, you are undoubtedly taking the mickey, are you not? I find it hard to believe in the circumstances that someone who has plagiarized their screenname from a popular television show can actually in fact be a member of what we so casually refer to as 'the upper class'.

Answer 8

One would find the whole experience rather colourful, and is sure to cause some guffaws at the next dinner party, and I'm sure you could dine out on it for years.

Toodle pip.

Answer 9

It's much the same, execpt we proletariats go to work through tunnels under your roads and our houses are smaller and smell slightly worst.

Answer 10

I am sorry, as you know I am a member of the Royal family and have no idea how peasants live.