1983: Are YOU a POSEUR? | RPM | Retro Fashion | BBC Archive 

Funny thing is that I was only 1 to 11 during the 80s but I was following the music for most of that time and really enjoyed it. Obviously couldn't understand a lot of the lyrics but you could tell the music was fantastic even at the age of 5 or 6.

Were roughly around the same working class backgrounds honestly would you want to be these people? Me hell no

Not everyone at university was posh. The grant gave well-read, super intelligent , over-achieving, working class kids like myself a way out of the misery of physical labour...just in time for physical labour to start paying much better than intellectual work. I couldn't believe it when I heard about thick kids from my school buying flashy cars and decent houses. If I could go back in time I would learn a trade and become a Loadsamoney

@@IAmSoMuchBetterThanYou thick kids...theres nothing worse than reverse snobbery ..more fool you

Yes you did. You could have worked a bit harder to go to university

A free education should be available for all highly intelligent pupils. Select them at primary level, and give them the best secondary education they deserve, whether they be middle-class or working-class. Let those children with mediocre intellects or who are just plain stupid do apprenticeships.

Absolutely!

How this channel this what?

I mean.....it is a Crombie, after all?.. He still has that coat - or his son wears it.

oh gawd these avatars styled like how we grew up

Best comment. Since then it's as if most have rebelled against being rebellious!

The Punks, Rockers, Goths with their hair style and Dark dress used to scare the hell outa me

uh now literally raids 80's styles

That sounds so awesome. I was similar, and hate that I 'toned down'!

Really? What do you think a name dropper is? A person who poses as a celebrities friend, to get clout. Clout anther poser-like word. How about a troll on the interiorweb? Aren't they mentally posing, as people who actually think differently than they really do? How about at the workplace? People are constantly being posers at work. We just tend call them, brown nosers. How about any time, you've heard someone say, "that person is so fake"? Every time that happens, someone is using a different term for somebody being a poser. Religious people would call it, being a hypocrite. There are too many of those that exist. Just because you specifically don't use the word poser, doesn't mean the idea isn't still in full swing. Any time you've said, "I don't like the way your acting", what you are actually saying is, I don't like how you're pretending/posing to be the way you are? You feel the person isn't being normal or real, aka they are being a poser. Around the time of the video, people used words like rad, or bogus and ralph. Just because those words aren't popular anymore, doesn't mean we don't think things are still cool, or other things are ungenuine, and that we've stopped puking. Don't worry people are just as shallow today, as they were in the 80's. If anything more people are shallow these days. That's why so many people are called, phonies, to this day. People only concentrate on what seems obvious. Though they can't see what's truly obvious, even if it's spelled out for them.

Perhaps this was just a California variation on a theme, but it was used then and there to signify a person who dressed like a a punk or a new wave music fan without knowing anything about the music. I think there are a lot of young people today who misrepresent themselves on social media, for example, by faking being rich, posing with a private plane or in first class, ad nauseum. The 80s use of poseur had more to do with not being hip to a scene.

lol because they raid all our generation's and culture's and cultural heritage's styles why would they want to face that

@@northernsnow6982 None of these things are a 'poser'. Vaguely related things isn't the same. Based on this video 'poser' sounds like some undefined group with affected fashion they all know and have in mind, rather than literally saying someone in particular for a particular reason is fake or affected, which you would only say if it was really obvious and obnoxious, or you feel threatened. As if you could be a poser with something like clothes anyway, the only qualification to begin with is that you're wearing them. From this video, it seems more like tribalism. Which is a classic thing that happens with popular labels. The posers are a supposedly clearcut group everyone knows is worthy of derision, yet no one is really sure who is a poser and what makes them one, because the notion is removed from specific context and made into a tribe. A bad word to escape.

@@skyworm8006 look up the definition of poseur, and the synonyms for the word. You'll find the definition says, "a person who pretends to be what he or she is not." You'll find some of the synonyms, support the words/scenarios I used. Words like, "pretenders, fakes, phonies, hypocrites, impostor, impersonator, imitators, mimics", amongst many other similar words, including "poser". Then come back and try and say, whatever it is you were saying. Try to say it more clearly, and precisely. Try to understand the word, before teaching a lesson on it. Or just try to save face, and make yourself look more of a tryhard. Whatever you do, just don't try to fool me, when you haven't got a clue, ya intelligence poseur/poser/faker/pretender.

The young ones was filmed in Bristol

Because up until about 1990 it was fashionable for young people to try to seem or look older than they actually were. From about 1990 onwards the opposite started to become the case. Take an 80s band like Heaven 17 for example. They all look like they're in their 30s at the height of their popularity (in about 1983) but were actually 10 years younger. One of the members of the band actually dyed his hair grey.

2:09 sounded like one to me, although I'm from B'ham.

@@ajs41 Possibly at 2:09 but definitely at the end.

styled like our cultures

lol Pewdiepie represents the exact opposite

theyre all posing in parliament now..

Sunak was 2 years old at the time of this video.

LoL You mean now looks like Imitators

'' the mid 90s dad rock '' what

... Oasis look. @@aaof-d-mio-fv2fb

" the mid 90s dad rock Oasis look." 😀

Oh piss off

@@carlaconnor8347 🤣 someone having a bad day?

i love this preppy fart and imitation era now terrific 😙🤌

Erasure, a little respect!

@@fidelcatsro6948😂