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Warning: May contain traces of football, video games, and musical ramblings... It's mostly the latter, in truth.

Friday, 24 September 2010

Am I...Posh?

It's come to my attention recently, that I may be getting, or have had for a while, a strange reputation. Now, let's get this out of the way right at the start. I'm not posh. I'm just not. My upbringing has been civilised, to a degree (as in, civilised enough to know that I probably shouldn't eat with my mouth open, and that killing/rape/necrophilia is wrong), but it certainly hasn't been an upper class upbringing. My mum comes from Norfolk, and my dad comes from Wales. Not exactly two places that you would associated with being rife with posh people. In fact, combine the two and you get a place that revels in incestuous woolly sex...fun, fun, fun! And, breaking away from the rigid and (mostly) hideously inaccurate stereotypes for a second, they're not posh anyway. So why and how have I gained this reputation (sort of)? I've thought about it, and it's probably partly because I've effectively become an old man at the tender age of 16. I'm very opinionated (often stupidly so), I follow many traditionally morals and beliefs, and crucially, I'm an absolutely pathetically devoted grammar nazi. Also, I'm often very very grumpy indeed - like your mum when she's been told that she can't have a cream cake (which I'm assuming, if exposed to her, would be devoured in 2 seconds flat), and I recently got told that I dress like an old man. What's wrong with shirts?! Anyway...the signs are pretty conclusive. But how does this make me posh? Well, it doesn't. It's to do with the bit about being a grammar nazi...because I'm that way, I always attempt to write in the best possible English, with unnecessarily long words and excessive punctuation. For this, I seem posh. It would be fine, but in this day and age of seas of abbreviation and hopelessly poor grammar (you know, illiteracy) I stick out like a sore thumb. It's not the standard 'done thing' to talk, text and type in Queen's English - it's weird, apparently (according to the new generation of up and coming youths just a few years below me, that I like to call Fucktards). So the answer is, no, I'm not posh. I just look like a fucking snob in comparison to the majority of the detritus that lethargically roams this doomed planet. Wait, does that mean that I AM posh?

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