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mousethief
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Are you posh or chav? Take this test and find out. I ended up being 8% posh. I think the test would be more convincing if they didn't misspell words in the questions.
How Posh Are You?
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Lyda*Rose
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I'm surprised that you even got 8%, mt. Being Americans, I'm not sure that we can be posh. The shopping options alone stymie us. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
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42% Posh - a number low enough to humiliate my mother - erm, sorry, my mummy!
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Kelly Alves
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I came in at 19%.
Friend of mine took the test (which I posted on my FB wall) and the test, thinking she was not posh enough, suggested she learn to ride a horse. She owns a ranch.
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lilBuddha
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Test is a bit wonky, though. Should be 100% Chav to 100% Posh with 0% either in the middle. I suppose one could count 50% as that point. No enough questions and at least one of the questions should have allowed multiple answers.
39% Posh. Don't like polo and would rather watch football than cricket.
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Welease Woderwick
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
... would rather watch football than cricket.
Definitely chav!!
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Zoey
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I am genuinely wondering if I hit a bug or if the test is particularly badly designed. I came out as 0% posh. Somebody once assumed that I vote Conservative based on my middle-England accent (much to my horror as a self-identified socialist). I wasn't expecting to be 100% posh, but thought that there'd be a little posh-ness in there, even if only 5% or so. Off to test it again...
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Zoey
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Hmmm. Changed about 3 answers where there were genuinely 2 options for me and got myself up to 25% posh. Overall, I think it's just not a brilliant quiz even for this type of trivial internet test.
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Cara
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Exactly, not a v g quiz. There should be more questions...city vs country, for example, doesn't tell you that much, does it? Anyway surely the REALLY posh have a residence in both!!
I came out 39% posh but I didn't answer the last question as I don't much like watching any sport. Though I guess if I think about it, football would be my choice out of those offered, if I had to choose, so I should have put that--might have dragged me down a bit!!
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Welease Woderwick
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I did it for me bruvver and 'e came art 100% chav!
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Sioni Sais
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I came out at 59% posh and the quiz reckoned I should learn to ride a horse. In England the posh term would be "learn to ride"; one would not specify "a horse" because no posh person would ever ride a bike (motorised or not).
I honestly think I could design a better quiz myself and I might even do so.
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mousethief
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Test is a bit wonky, though. Should be 100% Chav to 100% Posh with 0% either in the middle. I suppose one could count 50% as that point. No enough questions and at least one of the questions should have allowed multiple answers.
There is no measure for "middle class." I find that positively poshchavian.
As for city vs. country, what about suburban?
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Test is a bit wonky, though. Should be 100% Chav to 100% Posh with 0% either in the middle. I suppose one could count 50% as that point. No enough questions and at least one of the questions should have allowed multiple answers.
There is no measure for "middle class." I find that positively poshchavian.
There are at least three middle-classes and many from the middle- and upper-middle-classes have far more income and sometimes more wealth than "posh" people.
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As for city vs. country, what about suburban?
No "posh" people live in the suburbs. The suburbs are for the aspirational working-class, the lower-middles and those of the middle-class that haven't escaped to better city neighbourhoods or the country.
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Adam.
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Originally posted by mousethief:
As for city vs. country, what about suburban?
Pond difference, right? If I'm remembering correctly, in the US a suburb is a city that isn't very major (an urb that is sub). In the UK, the suburbs are the parts of a city that aren't very developed (that parts of a urb that are sub). So, in the UK sense someone who lives in the suburbs lives in a city, not in the countryside.
Hart // 36% posh. (I think it's all due to the shoes).
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Adeodatus
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29% posh. But they get some of the answers wrong -
One doesn't go to a polo match to watch the polo: ones goes to picnic. People can go to polo matches for years and pay so little attention to the actual polo that they're amazed when they finally find out it involves horses.
They put Marks & Spencer above Waitrose.
And the only posh answer to "city or countryside" is ... both.
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Adeodatus
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
And the only posh answer to "city or countryside" is ... both.
Oops. Just noticed Cara already made that point. Which just goes to show there should be another question - "Do you ever pay attention to other people?"
And anyway, it shouldn't be "city". One works in the city; one lives in town.
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L'organist
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Most amusing.
I got more than Sioni...
I disagree with the label it gave me.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Test is a bit wonky, though. Should be 100% Chav to 100% Posh with 0% either in the middle. I suppose one could count 50% as that point. No enough questions and at least one of the questions should have allowed multiple answers.
There is no measure for "middle class." I find that positively poshchavian.
As for city vs. country, what about suburban?
Yeah. I wound up picking "city," but it didn't feel adequate.
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Bob Two-Owls
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83% posh. Not bad considering aah used ter werk dahn't pit...
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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by Hart:
quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
As for city vs. country, what about suburban?
Pond difference, right? If I'm remembering correctly, in the US a suburb is a city that isn't very major (an urb that is sub). In the UK, the suburbs are the parts of a city that aren't very developed (that parts of a urb that are sub). So, in the UK sense someone who lives in the suburbs lives in a city, not in the countryside.
ISTM, it is similar on both sides. Though possibly a bit more loose a definition in America.
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Jay-Emm
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Reading seems to be marked as the only posh displacement activity. [22% initially]
Also a bit bemused by the shop pairings (living in a middle-sized town I rotate round Sainsbury/Morrisons with occaisional Iceland/Farmfoods/Lidl/Asda)*
*I'm a bit thrown out as they've all increased their prices.
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Ariel
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There was no option for "I don't shop at supermarkets, I take the Range Rover off to shop at small independent artisanal/organic delicatessens, farmers' markets, and buy straight from the estate/vineyard."
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
There are at least three middle-classes and many from the middle- and upper-middle-classes have far more income and sometimes more wealth than "posh" people.
Yus yus. But my point is, aren't there people in Britain who are neither posh nor chav? I should think, in fact, most of Britain.
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ArachnidinElmet
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0% posh whatever that means.
V. odd little quiz. I'd definitely quibble with Morrisons/Iceland being interchangeable. Also not quite sure what difference your age and gender make.
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Pancho
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quote:
Originally posted by Hart:
quote:
Originally posted by mousethief:
As for city vs. country, what about suburban?
Pond difference, right? If I'm remembering correctly, in the US a suburb is a city that isn't very major (an urb that is sub). In the UK, the suburbs are the parts of a city that aren't very developed (that parts of a urb that are sub). So, in the UK sense someone who lives in the suburbs lives in a city, not in the countryside.
The way I understand it, in the U.S. a suburb is a developed area that contains a lot of residential neighborhoods, usually with lots of single-family homes, inhabited by many people who work in that city or area's downtown or in a larger, neighboring city.
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
I'm surprised that you even got 8%, mt. Being Americans, I'm not sure that we can be posh. The shopping options alone stymie us.
Yeah. That and the school one were tough to figure out. I'm not sure I did but I tried my best. My results:
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You are 0% posh!
U R CHAV! I THINK YOU IS WELL COOL BRUV. If you want to be a posh person, one should begin by learning to speak English.
Ha!
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ken
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Another 0% posh here. But seeing as a similar quiz doing the rounds made me out as 100% northern, even though I was born and brought up in Brighton and I now live in London, I suspect that the underlying model is very broken.
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Pancho:
The way I understand it, in the U.S. a suburb is a developed area that contains a lot of residential neighborhoods, usually with lots of single-family homes, inhabited by many people who work in that city or area's downtown or in a larger, neighboring city.
Yeah, and these areas will have their own town charter, their own mayor and police force, etc. They are not under the same jurisdiction as the city they are sub-urbing.
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80% posh. They must know I've got a dirty little rugby league habit, that'll be what dragged me down despite not being in the quiz....
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I got 66% posh.
However I may have skewed the results with my yes to having watched a game of polo. The polo that I watched was played in its original home in the far north of Pakistan. I can assure you it was not in any sense of the word posh! It is played there ferociously by tribal men and was absolutely exhilarating to watch!
I don't think this was the kind of polo envisioned by the writer of the quiz!
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Lyda*Rose
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Maybe I should have said "yes" to polo....if water polo counts. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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It's definitely poorly designed - it advised me to learn to ride a horse despite the fact that I already know how, and there was no option for 'sing an aria' in the leisure activities.
And I only came out as 53% posh, whereas everything I do is by definition posh, doncherknow. Because it's me doing it.
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0% posh ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
I'm surprised that you even got 8%, mt. Being Americans, I'm not sure that we can be posh. The shopping options alone stymie us.
Of course Americans can't be posh, you were a colony you know. I'm that this Auhstralan (Some English people have the most delightfully patronising way of saying Australian, it dismisses us as a load of lower class riff raff in one word) scored 66% posh. Definitely something wrong with the whole premise of the test. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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mousethief
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Lyda*Rose, I piked "Marks & Spencer" because it's mentioned as a place to buy towels in H2G2.
I picked "football" because it's the only one of the four that I fully understand. It's boring as Hell, but i get it. They didn't have baseball. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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I came out as only 12% posh: I've never ridden and I'm a townie. I'd probably have done better if tennis had been an option in the sports question.
I clicked "Sainsbury's" in the shop question because I did shop there when I lived in the UK.
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22% posh. Living in the countryside (well, a rural village) probably helped.
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Oh, 12% posh, which means I am a chav. Damn.
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Sir Kevin
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49% posh - I prefer football to polo, although there was a polo ground near my mother's house. I learned to ride a horse at age eight and I'm still a good rider!
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Sir Kevin
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
They put Marks & Spencer above Waitrose.
Last time I was in London, I bought clothes at M & S and groceries at Waitrose because it was right across the street from the flat we were staying in.
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Bob Two-Owls
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Originally posted by Boogie:
73% Posh - I win!
What's the prize??
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No you don't, at 83% oi'm considerabloi posher than yow!
ETA - oops, already did this and got the same result. I didn't recognise myself reading the thread! I blame Christmas...
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29% - so almost a chav. But they've apparently never heard of Aldi, where I and all my posh friends shop.
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I got 12%, not even living in the countryside and shopping at Waitrose could save me from my Lutonian background ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
They spelt wear 'were'.
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LeRoc
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It's been a while since I've lived in the UK, so I don't remember well if I shopped at Tesco's or at Sainsbury's at the time. Which of the two is the more posh?
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Tescos is a little downmarket of Sainsburys. Waitrose a little upmarket.
Marks and Spencer's is odd - its a clothes shop for some people and a food shop for others and they are different sorts of people.
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Ariel
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I'm not elderly and I buy both food and clothes in M&S as do quite a lot of people - in fact I wouldn't say the demographic was elderly at all. I find their clothes can usually be relied on to fit and look flattering, where other retailers rarely quite get it.
(I'd like to know who made the decision in one shop to make trousers of different waist sizes but all with the same leg length.)
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Not at all Leo. The food seems to be bought by lower-middle-class 30 and 40-somethings who live in tacky flats and don't cook. The underwear is more "respectable working class", of any age, and in London very often black.
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LeRoc
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(Part of me is curious about what 'respectable working class underwear' would look like, but another part really doesn't want to know ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) )
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