How do you define someone as being posh?

Clean, appropriately dressed, good teeth, good manners, minimal tattoos or piercings ( well hidden). Ability to converse without swearing or saying 'you know' or 'like'
And an air of confidence

Eating Asparagus: green with fingers, white with knife and fork.
Or the other way around
Or just one way
Or the other way
Or not at all.
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Exactly Jalima and always picked up using (hopefully clean) fingers.Yum.

We do like asparagus but it has to be British, in season and preferably local
and as a starter.

TY, jal. I usually use a knife and fork. I happen to think asparagus is vastly over-rated. I prefer Brussels sprouts.

I pick it up, dripping in butter and eat it like that.
You need a napkin tucked under your chin when you eat asparagus

Will nobody tell me how to eat asparagus?!!!

We use cotton damask napkins bought from charity shops. Sometimes I iron them, sometimes I don't. My mum made napkins by cutting up and hemming an old cotton tablecloth.

I don't call my friends any of those choices.
I don't either, but I knew the right answer so I must be posh

Done it....I am an out and out U ??cheers!

once, not one. You pipped me at the post lemongrove.

Not having to buy one's furniture, it's passed down the generations. I believe some chap one snorted about Michael Hestletine, "he has to buy his own furniture don't you know" Clearly nouveau riche Tarzan didn't cut it with some of his peers

Haven’t looked at the quiz as yet, but I think of posh as living in a large, old house which has been inherited through the family and not having to buy your furniture( again, inherited.)It doesn’t mean having pots of money, (although they may have lots).Posh also means having grounds and not a garden, and a butler!
Hmmm, what else? In a minor posh way, starched tablecloths, translucent china cups and saucers, ornamental silver fruit knives.

Here's the link to the quiz again:
www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/11396961/How-posh-are-you.html

I am apparently fully-fledged middle-class. I lied about the asparagus because I know that in the UK you eat it with your fingers, but here in Germany it is eaten with a knife and fork.

It would have been nice to know which answers defined me as middle class. And, as some have said, some answers were all wrong - e.g. I don't call my friends any of those choices.

Because of the cultural differences it is hard for me to say what is posh, as in Germany people aren't defined by class so much. What does annoy me is that Germans, when faced with a bread roll, attack it with a knife, and cut it horizontally in half. Now that is something I could never bring myself to do. Apart from the fact that I still wouldn't be able to get it in my mouth at half its original height, I was always taught to tear elegant little bite-size pieces off, and I still do this whoever's watching.

When I was little we were considered posh as our tin bath (kept in an old sideboard outside on the ‘bricks’) was a full size bath and not one of those short efforts.

I was told serviettes are paper and napkins are linen. Napkins are posh.

We decided our future DiL was posh as her family never put sauce or mayo bottles on the table, it had to be decanted into little dishes with their own spoons and one never used ones own fork to dig out the onions from the designer pickle jar.

My daughter's friend, both aged about eleven told her mum we were posh because all the veg were in serving dishes, my children didn't like veg but ate some or more if they served themselves, still do it now, old habits die hard, but am most definitely not posh

gilly Yes we had an outside toilet too (I was born in the late 40s). Ours had whitewashed walls and spiders' webs too and ripped up newspapers nailed to the door for toilet paper. Oh petra now I feel posh as we had room for the tin bath!

Posh is using a paper napkin and not just a piece of kitchen roll.

We do have some somewhere and I try to use them if we have guests.

KatyK
You were lucky. There wasn't room for a tin bath in our 'living room'
Ours was in some old outhouse joined to the scullery.

Me too KatyK I was born in the 60’s and remember having a toilet st the bottom of the yard that we shared with 3 other flats. I remember the white washed walls and the spiders webs . Yuk . No wonder I’ve got “toilet issues”

My young. Niece thought we were very posh because we have a hatch from the kitchen into the dinning/sitting room and I also put bottles on the table, can’t be bothered with all this faff and more junk. My sister is the biggest snob I know and thinks we are uncouth because we put the toilet roll on the holder the wrong way. Actually that’s been sorted as the holder came away from the wall and the toilet roll now sits on the pipe end on the radiator

I don’t buy or eat bottled sauces?

When we were children, anyone who had a bathroom was posh. It was a tin bath for us which was kept on a hook in the yard. We had a bath once a week. There were 6 of us, cleanest in first then the rest followed one after the other and the water topped up. The bath was placed in front of the fire to stop us freezing and the bath water was boiled in kettles on the stove. A very long process!

"The meaning of a word is its use" (Wittegenstein)

Annieback People who live in council houses are as good as anyone.