This is one of those stupid quizzes on Facebook that we sometimes take part in for no reason other than to waste two minutes. The results are as far from scientific as it is possible to get. This particular quiz on how posh we are was one of the worst. It came with such gems as “have you ever been to or participated in a game of polo?”.
That doesn’t make you posh. Well playing the game means you are rich, but that doesn’t make you posh. And you can get in to watch polo for a tenner. So that is a nonsense question. Other, equally ridiculous questions include:
(let’s ignore that typo at the end of question 5 as well shall we?) because that made me rage in a very unposh way. Or the glaring omission on question 7 that says “drink gin”.
Doing this quiz reminded me of a great story Mr B told me soon after we met. He has a bunch of friends he met at uni that played a game of “how posh are you” one day, the questions still make me chuckle when I hear them today. Set by Mr B’s friend Jonnie Rob it came about one night when they realised one of their group would score higher than any of the rest them.
So here goes. Here is a real test of how posh you might or might be.
What is the name of the room you sit in when people come and visit:
a) lounge
b) living room
c) sitting room
d) parlour
What is the name of the piece of furniture those visitor would sit on:
a) couch
b) settee
c) sofa
d) chaise longue
Where is your washing machine?
a) laundrette
b) kitchen
c) utility room / scullery
d) boiler house
What do you call the last course of your meal?
a) afters
b) sweet
c) pudding
d) dessert
What do you call your evening meal?
a) scran
b) tea
c) supper
d) dinner
Pigeons
a) kept in cages by your Uncle John in his back yard
b) vermin
c) to be cooked for 20 minutes on gas mark 6
d) clay
Suffice to say if you scored all d) you are unbelievably posh and if you are mostly a)s well you are not quite so posh.
Probably.
Where are you on the A-D mix?
Don’t you mean you’re unbelievably posh if you have all Ds, not As?? I’m sure the chaise longue is fairly upper class… And it turns out from this excellent test that I am much less posh than I think I am!!
oops, well spotted. Now changed.
Well I’m A and D but I also think it depends where you live and age, my great grandma would call the lounge a parlour but she wasn’t posh or even proclaimed to be 🙂
Doesn;t that just prove how ridiculous these sorts of quizzes are?!
3 Bs, 2 Cs and BC&D on evening meal, depending on who it is with and what time we are eating…
Ha ha this made me chuckle – obviously I am a D 😉
Ok maybe not…
evening meal one a conundrum as it rather depends what time and who is eating but otherwise absurdly almost posh.
You have an Aga.
You win the whole internet 🙂
Baha. Nicely in the middle! I remember in a sociology lesson the teacher judged our class on the jobs our parents had – that was an interesting generalisation on his part!
Evening meal one is my B, the rest are all C’s – what does that make me??
BCBDDC 😉
I think ‘pudding’ is the ‘posh’ choice! Or so posh friend once informed me…
And, sunflower: I once had a teacher who judged our potential for grammar school based on father’s occupation!
All b’s apart from the What do you call the last course of your meal? I say C – Pudding 🙂 x
hehehe love it, I got CCBCDB so somewhere in the middle (innit)
Amanda x
I use a mixture of lots of them..for ex my kids says afters, I say pudding but here in the US I have to say dessert or no one knows what I’m talking about!
Really lounge is common? You sure?