[jocky85]

Hey! what's wrong with Essex??

[Johnny 1989]

He's also from Essex.

Jade was actually from Bermondsey, South London. However it seems that once she became rich & famous she moved to Essex and seemed to forget that she came from South London (although to be fair considering Bermondsey I don't blame her )

Hey! what's wrong with Essex??

Depends on the part, Romford is a shit hole, I should know I live in Ilford (which says Essex on the address but is generally accepted as East London these days, some of the business are actually campaigning to get the postcode changed to E19) although having said that Ilford, Barking, Romford, Dagenham, there's not much between them all to be honest, there all dumps and all bad for their own reasons (Ilford for stabbings/shootings, Romford for drink related violence, Barking for rising crime & general dilapidation and Dagenham, well Dagenham is just a dull shit hole anyway )

[Johnny 1989]

He's also from Essex.

Jade was actually from Bermondsey, South London. However it seems that once she became rich & famous she moved to Essex and seemed to forget that she came from South London (although to be fair considering Bermondsey I don't blame her )

Hey! what's wrong with Essex??

Depends on the part, Romford is a shit hole, I should know I live in Ilford (which says Essex on the address but is generally accepted as East London these days, some of the business are actually campaigning to get the postcode changed to E19) although having said that Ilford, Barking, Romford, Dagenham, there's not much between them all to be honest, there all dumps and all bad for their own reasons (Ilford for stabbings/shootings, Romford for drink related violence, Barking for rising crime & general dilapidation and Dagenham, well Dagenham is just a dull shit hole anyway )

However, to add, there are some nice parts, Woodford, Epping & Ongar to name three towns

[Yudster]

I was born in Epping and now I live in north east Essex, near the Suffolk border (but on the safe side....). Its absolutely rural where I live, and totally beautiful.

[jocky85]

Hey! what's wrong with Essex??

Depends on the part, Romford is a shit hole, I should know I live in Ilford (which says Essex on the address but is generally accepted as East London these days, some of the business are actually campaigning to get the postcode changed to E19) although having said that Ilford, Barking, Romford, Dagenham, there's not much between them all to be honest, there all dumps and all bad for their own reasons (Ilford for stabbings/shootings, Romford for drink related violence, Barking for rising crime & general dilapidation and Dagenham, well Dagenham is just a dull shit hole anyway )

However, to add, there are some nice parts, Woodford, Epping & Ongar to name three towns[/quote]

No way Ilford! - you'll know where I used to live then which was Buckhurst Hill, went to school in Loughton. My dad used to have a company based in Romford, opposite the Ice Rink, but that was like 10 years ago before it got really bad.

[Nicola_Red]

Circumstances being different, I think I could have ended up married to an Essex boy. Even tho it makes me chortle when he says "I ain't got a fackin' Scooby, mate", I'll probably always carry a torch for him.

[jocky85]

Ok I'll state now I do not talk like that!!

[Yudster]

Me neither! Apparently I'm "posh". My properly posh friends would laugh if they heard anyone saying that though.

[jocky85]

I get called 'posh' too! Think I got out just in time before I gained the 'proper' essex accent. Then again my sister works at an insurance company and when she heard her voice back during training calls she thought she sounded very Essex!

[Yudster]

Thing is, the sort of general London Estuary accent that most people associate with Essex isn't an Essex accent at all. A proper Essex accent is a real rural bumpkin job, worse than Norfolk!

[jocky85]

Ok so I lived in Essex and now I live in Norfolk, I'm screwed!!

[MK Chris]

I don't think Yudster's posh.

[Blinko Glick]

I am though, despite having lived in or around Plymouth since I was seven.
I thanks my Parents, who had a typical middle of the road forces accent which rubbed off on me.
That and my absolute hatred of the Plymothian accent - no offence to any Janners here!

[Munki Bhoy]

You haven't lived until you've heard a posh Geordie.

[MK Chris]

Is there such a thing?

[Yudster]

My friend Francesca is a posh Geordie. She just sounds - well, posh.

[Munki Bhoy]

My ex's roommate in her first year at St Andrews Uni (explaining the poshness) was one. So yes.

[Yudster]

I know a few people who go to St Andrews. They certainly aren't posh. Extremely clever (although not quite clever enough for Cambridge.....), but definitely not posh. But people often mistake intelligence for poshness.

[MK Chris]

I know someone who is extremely clever academically, but not at all posh. He goes to Imperial, but he could have gone to Oxford or Cambridge (so I'm told by somebody else, not him), apparently the engineering courses are better at Imperial.

The pre-conception I usually have of posh people - and I readily admit that it's not necessarily true, it's just something I struggle to get out of my head - is that they're mainly haughty, hoity, stick it up your toity, high and mighty, tight nosed, toffee arsed, sun dried tomato eating lah-de-dah-dy lah-de-daas (to use the words of an excellent Ben Elton character.)

[Bonanzoid]

I've heard a posh Scouser, but never a posh Geordie.

[TIAL]

The pre-conception I usually have of posh people - and I readily admit that it's not necessarily true, it's just something I struggle to get out of my head - is that they're mainly haughty, hoity, stick it up your toity, high and mighty, tight nosed, toffee arsed, sun dried tomato eating lah-de-dah-dy lah-de-daas (to use the words of an excellent Ben Elton character.)

Is that just a long-winded way of saying you don't like them?

I'm not connecting you with this, but I'm getting a bit sick of all the inverse-snobbery we have in the UK. Knowing pretty much an equal amount of Brookes and Oxford students, I hear so much more from Brookes students about how they dislike the Oxford lot rather than the reverse. Other people have noticed the same thing.
It's a case of the 'victims' becoming the very thing they claim to hate - someone who bases judgement on class or position rather than personality.

[Yudster]

I know someone who is extremely clever academically, but not at all posh. He goes to Imperial, but he could have gone to Oxford or Cambridge (so I'm told by somebody else, not him), apparently the engineering courses are better at Imperial.

The pre-conception I usually have of posh people - and I readily admit that it's not necessarily true, it's just something I struggle to get out of my head - is that they're mainly haughty, hoity, stick it up your toity, high and mighty, tight nosed, toffee arsed, sun dried tomato eating lah-de-dah-dy lah-de-daas (to use the words of an excellent Ben Elton character.)

I'm very glad the extremely posh people I know aren't like that at all. They aren't all even rich. But even the ones that are, whilst they do have more money and therefore can afford more things than I can, I have found that they dont have anything that they wouldn't give me if I needed it. I am very lucky in some of my friends.

[MK Chris]

Yeah - I think because I don't really know any posh people, so I immediately have an idea in my head of what most of them are like. I know it's wrong though.

[Johnny 1989]

Hey! what's wrong with Essex??

Depends on the part, Romford is a shit hole, I should know I live in Ilford (which says Essex on the address but is generally accepted as East London these days, some of the business are actually campaigning to get the postcode changed to E19) although having said that Ilford, Barking, Romford, Dagenham, there's not much between them all to be honest, there all dumps and all bad for their own reasons (Ilford for stabbings/shootings, Romford for drink related violence, Barking for rising crime & general dilapidation and Dagenham, well Dagenham is just a dull shit hole anyway )

However, to add, there are some nice parts, Woodford, Epping & Ongar to name three towns

No way Ilford! - you'll know where I used to live then which was Buckhurst Hill, went to school in Loughton. My dad used to have a company based in Romford, opposite the Ice Rink, but that was like 10 years ago before it got really bad.

Buckhurst Hill & Loughton also have some nice places as well, however some of the *cough* "villians" *cough* have moved into the areas since, however these are the "decent" villains not the shytey little villains we have in Ilford who'll stab you is you smile at them

Circumstances being different, I think I could have ended up married to an Essex boy. Even tho it makes me chortle when he says "I ain't got a fackin' Scooby, mate", I'll probably always carry a torch for him.

I have a more * accent than Essex (there is a slight difference between the two) but then again half of my family are *'s, plus I was born in Whitechapel Hospital so techinally I am a *

[Johnny 1989]

I've heard a posh Scouser, but never a posh Geordie.

Yep, Tom Baker, and he can go back to common Scouse with ease