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iitick 
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Joined: 09 Sep 13 Location: Tunstead Milton Online Status: Offline Posts: 392 |
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 Topic: Sailing is for posh peoplePosted: 19 Nov 13 at 8:23pm |
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I am sure we are all familiar with the term 'fur coat and no nickers'. I see an atmosphere of sense and reason taking over this topic. Stop it. Some one from a 'council estate' playing polo, well I never. I come from a council estate many years ago and one of my sons is an accountant, I never talk to the little sh*t though.....class traitor!
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rogerd
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Posted: 19 Nov 13 at 9:11pm |
  Keep going and I will be back at work in no time. Laughter is the best medicine
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Noah
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Posted: 20 Nov 13 at 4:48pm |
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Nothing changes. As a mere whippersnapper back when Granny was a boy, I witnessed several teenage tearaways (aka Cadet helms) park another helm's bubble car on the balcony of the RCYC at Burnham. The owner wasn't impressed, but neither was the club! These reprobates were a mix of public and state school educated, well-off, comfortable and less so. Offspring of all sorts of self-employed, business owners, civil servants, middle management... I can't see much difference in the behavior - only the toys they play with.
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iitick
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Posted: 20 Nov 13 at 5:47pm |
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RCYC?.....Royal Corinthan Yacht Club. Come on, give me a break. Back in those days Isetta, Hienkell and Goggomoble were the playthings of wealthy youth. Your working class oik had a Bantam or a bike....if he was lucky.
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2547
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Posted: 20 Nov 13 at 5:53pm |
None of them were posh though ... They is from Essex init ...
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Noah
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Posted: 20 Nov 13 at 7:14pm |
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You've got it all wrong! They / We wasn't members woz we! It was Nationals week where 400-odd kids and their parents descended on Burnham and took over the town. Not a B&B or camping space to be had. We - cheapskates - were in a borrowed a caravan! (Does knowing rich(er) people make you posh by association?)
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iitick
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Posted: 20 Nov 13 at 7:26pm |
No but it makes you a class traitor.
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gordon
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Posted: 20 Nov 13 at 7:29pm |
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No it doesn't - it just means you are essential part of their world. Posh people need people to run their sports, to compete against, to crew for them...
There was French academic going by the wonderful name of Gay-Para who theorised all this. Rich people are happy to pay for the "parasites" if they are good-looking, provide a service (crewing) or are entertaining. It doesn't mean the "parasites" are necessarily posh. And when organising an evet one has to cater for these essential people (cheap food, cheap places to stay...) other wise the posh people have no one to play with. |
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iitick
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Posted: 20 Nov 13 at 7:46pm |
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Well, I made a living from the rich for many years. They appreciated my homely, down to earth charm and allowed me to re design their homes and drop concrete on their floors. They treated me as a friend. It may have looked to outsiders that I was befriending them....but no...little did they know, I was exploiting them.
For a number of years I crewed for a 'professional' man. He master, me servant. I was paid in beer but one day when his back is turned......
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yellowwelly
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Posted: 20 Nov 13 at 11:22pm |
Yep, 'cos of course you'd have to yacht the fine stretches of the Medway to make it into Debretts these days .... |
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