General Chat

I have been called posh, snob and lots of other names, i started life in a council house and worked hard to get were i am now. My motto is 'TAKE ME AS YOU FIND ME ' Lizz x

I wear a top hat around the house. What else can I say? :-) Us Longmans are common and have been for the past 300 years. Will I break the trend???

I am the first in my family to buy a house. I have reaches a 'Managerial' position. I come from a 'Working class ' family and I am proud of the sacrifice my parents made for me.(They allowed me to stay on an extra year at school even though money was tight). I am just an Essex boy trying to make a living but still as common as muck and proud of it.

POSH, RICH, WELL BRED, AND CLASS...........well, maybee not! I don't think having money can buy you class, either you have it or you don't. it's not about where you live, how much you earn or who your family are, it's about how you carry yourself as a person!

I'm down to earth - will that do? Jack x

I'm still a council tenant.

I am just ordinary - but - I can do posh and I can do common we are all the same. We come into this world the same way and go out the same way ie with nothing. Liz

Lets put it this way I would have gone down on the Titanic!!! Working class and proud of it! Jacquie

Breeding = result or qualities of upbringing (Little Oxford Dictionary!)

Why do so many of you think that coming from a Council House puts you in a particular bracket? Some of the nicest people I've met, do. Breeding has nothing to do with where we come from, and that's what counts! Lily

I'm as common as Smith

Im better looking than Posh! sorry no im your average common scouser, sorry love, well thats a bit posh to be more common in Liverpool Ill say Sorry Girl (that is so common it makes me feel sick) Yep Im in a ex council house, I went from a private estate to ex council house, why you may ask, cos on the private estate I was over run with kids charging over your private lawn, here on this council estate no problems whatsoever. so thumbs up for council estates. Im typing this with a fag hanging out my mouth. Tara Yvonne

I was brought up in a council house. My parents bought it and my mum still lives there. We were considered a bit posh by our neighbours because we read books. 'common' was a word my mum reserved for people that spoke with a fag hanging out of their mouths, or women who appeared in public with their rollers in. But now that Posh spice is posh, I don't think it means much. nell

Bit of both really, depends if I'm in company or not!

ive been brought up well, i know how to treat others and definatley know my manners, but i have also grown up living at my nans house, then in council property, i dont think i could say whether im posh or common, just that i am down to earth, know my roots and have had a brilliant upbringing xx

I'm neither, somwehere in the middle I guess. Came from a working class background, but have a good job and a nice house. Does that make me middle class nwo ? who cares.

I'm as common as muck. When i left school and started work, people used to think Lorraine Chase was using my voice. Julie

Depends who you ask! I don't see myself as either....middle class, definitely, grew up in average semi-detached properties. I don't have an accent that's in keeping with where I was born, as some of you here will testify. In my last job where I was working with people who had fairly typical Teesside accents, I stuck out like a sore thumb and was regarded as talking posh on the phone! It's true that I have moved around a fair bit and it's possible I may have picked up slight traces of different accents on the way but I haven't refined my accent in a major way and reckon I've always sounded pretty much as I do now.

I think that people equate being 'posh' with being wealthy these days. I used to work for members of the nobility and I think that it's more important to be able to mix with people from different backgrounds than to be 'posh' or 'common'. I've also worked for people who had famous footballer friends who were obviously very wealthy but lovely with it. I think that it all hinges on whether you want to be a snob or not. Louise

I think I must be posh because through this site I have found that my g.g. grandfather was named Sir Alfred.