Just when I thought she wasn't going to say it!

"Letters after your name" has less qudos these days as they're much more common. Someone I know likes to boast that he is a NQAT (which turns out to stand for " no qualifications at all"

Crazyh "taken up needlework" wasnt, sadly, my line!

My friend when discussing her daughter always mentions that she is a PA to Professor****** then she says, you know the daughter I am talking about. I should do she has only got one!

I loved the advert with Maureen Lipman....forgot what it was about, but I remember something about her grandsons ology.. sorry my iPad is not doing inverted commas or brackets or anything ...Grrrrrrr

'Perhaps the other son has taken up needlework '
Great line Phoenix ?

Muffin, my friend, the Doctors' mother, would have been very proud to announce you to the world...

Nice one lindiann

I loved those BT ads with Maureen Lipman coast35

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Every time my friend mentioned her daughter it was, “ When Claire was going out to Uni/ coming back from Uni/meeting her friends from Uni/ buying new coat for Uni.

I was once asked at a very formal event by a pompous man who had circulated around the room asking the same question to see who he wished to chat to - "And what do you do my dear? " I leaned in, stroked his shirt and said "Anything you want me to if the price is right." Some people sneered, but I then had a very pleasant evening with the ones who laughed and had a sense of humour

A very dear friend, alas now dead, used to say "I'll pick you up in the Rover." She drove an ancient and very battered Landrover complete with bales of straw.

Yes, I have a friend like this. She often says ‘Of course I dressed accordingly - keeping up standards’.

What - even when Flossie Turner wasn't 86??!

My user name is inspired by my Mother. She would have the most elaborate ways of describing people. The one we loved the most was, “My friend Flossie Turner, who’s 86”. She was friends with this woman for years but never changed the description.

My mother used to tell neighbours/friends that I worked in the accounts office as she thought it sounded better than an Insurance Underwriter.
My hairdresser has a room for her hamster.

I detest the thinking that you are only identified by the job you do, rather than as a complete person. I mean no disrespect to those who have worked hard to succeed in their professions and to whom their career is everything. However at training and other works meetings when introductions were being made, I refused to say "I am the manager of X office" but instead used to say "I work as the maager at X office and have a range of other interests as well " . Caused much eye rolling by higher management but I am the sum of many inputs, not just a hum-drum job!

Being from the north, that means nothing to me, Bijou!

When I first married we were poor and lived in an attic flat inLewisham. My mother always told everyone that we lived in a house in Bromley, Kent.

She !!!

I'm laughing all the way through this thread! My M.I.L was such a snob, everyone she met was treated to a potted history of her family.... as long as they had a few letters after their name, I've got a few but alas I was never mentioned s, he made Mrs Bucket look "common" !!

I work for the NHS and it's quite amusing to watch the interactions between the Drs (medical) and the Drs (PhD)

Soda Pop I was at SIL's do and someone said to me "Oh are you one of the BMW family" "Nah I came in the clapped out old Mini in the drive" His face was a picture my Daughter couldn't stop laughing

I always think it is so sad if people need to parade these things in order to feel worthy. Many professionals never mention their profession unless asked, as they feel 'good enough' as they are

Our neighbour refers to all of her friends, adding their educational qualifications. Such as, our friend Dave . He’s a got a PhD in ‘doughnuts’. I think she’s an educational snob.?

It reminds me of the old joke about the proud grandmother showing a friend the large framed photos of her infant grandchildren with the comments "This is my grandson, the doctor, and this is my grandson the dentist"....and so on. The joke is so old I don't think it included professional female offspring.

I often reflect on the deeply perceptive observation made, I think by Jung, that one of the biggest influences on a child's life is the unlived life of the parents and that probably includes grandparents and other family members.