Sailing is for posh people

The reason it has been running so long is because, Rupert (and with a name like that we all know where you came from, unless they put worms in your spaghetti hoops at school,) it has touched a sensitive nerve. All you affluent coves (is that a word you use in your society, Bertie Wooster did) are desperate to proclaim your superiority  without letting it show. Worry not! As a carbuncled son of toil I am not offended, and, in true northern working class tradition we have our AGM tonight in the Mechanics Institute Whaley Bridge. Posh?

Originally posted by Peaky Is there anything wrong with being posh? Not that I am...

Mechanics Institute - a reminder that the Industrial Revolution was lead by craftsmen, having benefitted from apprenticeships and self-education. not by the university educated and the beneficiaries of inherited wealth and priviledge.

Unfortunately the posh, having demonstrated their gross incompetence by wrecking British industry got their revenge in the great British Counter-Revolution which started in 1979!

Originally posted by yellowwelly Originally posted by Peaky Is there anything wrong with being posh? Not that I am... no, we should all aspire to being posh; or take up kitesurfing.

"One can learn to enunciate clearly, work hard in the free education our society provides and thus access a higher educational level than many a generation of working folk could never have hoped for in decades past."

That was the case, and Britain can be proud of having once acheived a high degree of social mobility. Alas, one has to use the past tense as the closing of the grammar schools (the wrong solution to the wrong question), huge student fees and the development of private schools geared not to education but to exam results has allowed the affluent to pull up the drawbridge and keep the oiks out.

Sailing is suffering as a result. Arguably sailing was far more accessible when we all sailed in Mirrors, Ents, GPs etc