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I agree Wordsy, I do know posh people who used to have money, now don’t, but still maintain their manners. I also worked (not for sexual favours!! lol) for one of the richest men in the World, didn’t make him posh though!
I think posh is the old-fashioned landed-gentry, with, or, without their money, they have doctrined manners, and so therefore, posh!
Manners maketh man.
William of Wykeham, Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford
(1324 – 1404)
Yes Anc, but then the landed gentry didn’t depend on cash for their power, that’s why they held the developing bougoisie in such disdain in Victorian times, while having to marry off their progeny to the nouveau riche in order to avoid penury.
And yes, Manners maketh man, but look who said it . . . .
You don’t want your yeomanry too well mannered if they need to be out in the fields gathering the harvest before the rains come (from which you’ll take your taxes of course). And you certainly don’t want them too well mannered if they’re going to stand in a field ‘sticking it up’ some foreigner who won’t let you take over their territory – you just want them compliant.
Now, where did I put my copy off The Red Flag, I know I was singing it a moment ago . . . . .
@wordsworth60 wrote:
Yes Anc, but then the landed gentry didn’t depend on cash for their power, that’s why they held the developing bougoisie in such disdain in Victorian times, while having to marry off their progeny to the nouveau riche in order to avoid penury.
And yes, Manners maketh man, but look who said it . . . .
You don’t want your yeomanry too well mannered if they need to be out in the fields gathering the harvest before the rains come (from which you’ll take your taxes of course). And you certainly don’t want them too well mannered if they’re going to stand in a field ‘sticking it up’ some foreigner who won’t let you take over their territory – you just want them compliant.
Now, where did I put my copy off The Red Flag, I know I was singing it a moment ago . . . . .
Was it up your arse?
@simplysu wrote:
Was it up your fundamental orifice?
You’re kinky enough to be posh Su
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
“Now in modern English, the word’ manners’ means outward behavior. Of one who knows and observes the etiquette of good society and behaves politely, we say `he has good manner’s; while one who is rude and rough and clownish in his behavior, is said to have bad manners. In this sense we might say that manners make a gentleman; for gentlemanliness, in the ordinary meaning of the word, consists largely in correct, courteous and considerate behavior towards others. But mere politeness scarcely makes a man; for many a so called `gentleman’ is at heart selfish and mean, cowardly and weak. What, then, did Bishop Wickham mean when he said, `Manners Maketh man’?”
The word `manners’ had a much deeper meaning than it has today.
It did not denote merely polite behavior, but that what we should call good moral conduct, or morality. And the old Bishop means that it is good moral conduct based on sound moral principles that made boys and men, men. This shows that founder of Winchester School and New College, Oxford, did not regard education as merely mental training and the acquisition of knowledge, but especially as moral training. He wanted his school and his collage to produce true men-good, honest, fearless, God fearing men.
In other words he recognized that the only thing that really mattered in life was character. Wealth, rank, fine clothes, polite manners, learning-none of these things alone or together can make a man; it is only character that can do that. A man of character, however poor, low-born or ignorant he may be, is more of a man than millionaires, princes and scholars of no character.
@pepsi wrote:
“Now in modern English, the word’ manners’ means outward behavior. Of one who knows and observes the etiquette of good society and behaves politely, we say `he has good manner’s; while one who is rude and rough and clownish in his behavior, is said to have bad manners. In this sense we might say that manners make a gentleman; for gentlemanliness, in the ordinary meaning of the word, consists largely in correct, courteous and considerate behavior towards others. But mere politeness scarcely makes a man; for many a so called `gentleman’ is at heart selfish and mean, cowardly and weak. What, then, did Bishop Wickham mean when he said, `Manners Maketh man’?”
The word `manners’ had a much deeper meaning than it has today.
It did not denote merely polite behavior, but that what we should call good moral conduct, or morality. And the old Bishop means that it is good moral conduct based on sound moral principles that made boys and men, men. This shows that founder of Winchester School and New College, Oxford, did not regard education as merely mental training and the acquisition of knowledge, but especially as moral training. He wanted his school and his collage to produce true men-good, honest, fearless, God fearing men.
In other words he recognized that the only thing that really mattered in life was character. Wealth, rank, fine clothes, polite manners, learning-none of these things alone or together can make a man; it is only character that can do that. A man of character, however poor, low-born or ignorant he may be, is more of a man than millionaires, princes and scholars of no character.
Pepsi, I fink I luv you . . . . .
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Back to … Posh..
” The first recording of ‘posh’ in print that seems unequivocally to fit the current meaning of the word is a cartoon which contains this dialogue between an RAF officer and his mother, also in Punch, September 1918:
Oh, yes, Mater, we had a posh time of it down there.”
“Whatever do you mean by ‘posh’, Gerald?”
“Don’t you know? It’s slang for ‘swish'” “:P
@wordsworth60 wrote:
Pepsi, I fink I luv you . . . . .
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Sorry, I’m emotional and impressed by eruditeness . . . . . . .
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
Pepsi, I fink I luv you . . . . .
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Sorry, I’m emotional and impressed by eruditeness . . . . . . .
You dandy ! …..
:lol:
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