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581. Posh or not posh? (Part 1) Understanding Posh People and Posh Accents

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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The Queen's Inbuilt Supremacy

I think that the queen and probably other members of the royal family have this kind of inbuilt sense of superiority where they kind of talk down to people. I mean, there is actually, funnily enough, there's an example from a film. Terry Gilliam made a film in the 80s which was called Time Bandits. It's a group of dwarfs who steal a map from God. They use the holes to travel through time and steal things from people throughout history. So they're basically time bandits, they're robbers through time. In the film Robin Hood is played as if he's kind of like Prince Charles. He meets all of the robbers and talks down to them.

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