To ask how often you encounter snobbiness?

Yeh - and her and DB are proud of her behaviour. Like shes a cut above because she will just walk out when servers don't meet her lofty standards.

Dick.

This type of snobbery is just laughable to me.

I grew up around very, very wealthy “old money” people. Scruffy as hell, old beat up cars and yes, some of them had really awful teeth 🤣

Yes and I grew up in a council estate myself and had lots of horrible comments. I couldn't care less what people think now but as a child it really got to me.

My SIL (who is a multi-millionaire because of my brother), was raised in a a very deprived area in a council flat. However, she is the worst snob ever. We had a huge argument because she makes comments about people who look scuffy, but I take particular exception when she complains aboutservice staff who have poor/missing teeth. It f*cked me right off because she would walk right out of restaurants if that was the case. She has clearly lost sight of how much these things cost, dental work is eye wateringly expensive, and to refuse to go to a restaurant and be served by someone for having missing teeth is just so ignorant. As if people on those wages can afford that! Grrrr.....

Another relative is an education snob. Basically anyone without formal education is an idiot to them. Including youngsters. I couldn't disagree more.

I love them all but sometimes people can be dicks.

I work in the community and spend a lot of time in deprived areas… not much phases me nowadays and I’m supposedly “posh” because I’m pretty well spoken… (I’m not, I’m from a working class background). I also push the trolley back from Aldi when I do a big shop as I don’t drive, I couldn’t give a shit what anyone thinks of me tbh! I don’t judge others, kindness and manners cost nothing, neither does a smile or saying hello!

I believe that.

Years ago where I used to live, I was told by a very excited woman at a toddler group, how lucky we were to live in the catchment area of X school as it was the only school in London with no council estate in the catchment area 🙄

Personally I've never encountered snobbishness.
The only snob I know is my sister who has nothing to be snobbish about.

Oh for sure it was always the other poors saying snobby stuff to me. I didn’t really know any adults who were middle class as a child apart from my aunt who was “very posh” (owned her home and had a stocks and shares ISA). When I had kids I was so worried to put them in second hand stuff but now I’ve met rich people (real rich people, not the ones with big financed cars on a council estate) they’re all bragging about their vinted finds!

Quite frequently, when people find out what I do for a living (farming)! Bonus points if they have seen (and smelt) me in my work clothes. Some people are funny about where I live ("THAT'S not a village!" No, it's not; it's in the middle of nowhere with very few houses, no shops, etc. and I prefer to live there than in town or a village). Very few people come into my house, as they are usually appalled that it is very basic and DIY projects take forever around work.

Also, people get sniffy about my wild hair and lack of make-up or stylish clothes, and my tiny car (which, OK, looks like a tip, as dog hair gets everywhere). Fortunately, cows do not care about what I look like, or what I drive, which is why I find them easier to work with than people!

See, I’ve found things like second hand clothes to be the other way round.

When I lived in a very affluent area, everyone would scrabble to get to the second hand uniform sale at the schools. They would always haven their children in hand me downs, we would pass them through friends children for years.

I now live in an area that’s the complete opposite. I naively tried to set up a second hand shop at the school when I started volunteering. Immediately shut down by staff who told me that no one would have second hand stuff here, people have tried it before and no one wanted it.

They even put the lost property out at the end of term, all sorted into sizes for free, hardly anyone goes for it. It would have been like flies round shit in West London for free uniform.

Recently my son was playing with his friend. Another neighbour approached me afterwards and said I might not be aware but that child was from a council estate and might not be a suitable friend. Just ridiculous.

A few years ago I was at a party and a man asked me what I did for a living. He replied “How interesting! “ and drifted away when I said I was a cleaner. Obviously cleaning is not a job most intelligent women choose! I ‘may’ have accidentally displayed my Mensa card later….

When I was a kid I was poor and I vaguely remember some comments from adults about how they would never put their kid in second hand clothes ect. At the time I just thought “alright you mug miss out on the bargains then” but looking back it’s weird to say that to a child and a bit snobby. Now I’m a grown up I do sometimes look back on some adults and how they treated me and I just think they’re mega weird for it.

From strangers/ acquaintance, rarely

from friends… pretty much never!! I think you need better friends

We’ve recently moved to the posh bit of Glasgow (humble brag) and people can be a bit snobby. DH has always said being snobby is an English thing (??) but since we’ve moved here he’s admitted some Scottish people can actually be really snobby as well so tbh I feel a bit smug about being proven right.

You should’ve said ‘are they? They don’t look it!’

I do sometimes. I ignore it when it's directed at myself but I always speak up when it's directed towards any child. I really can't stand it when someone is snobby towards a child.

You mentioned minor C list celebrities.. I wouldn't worry about their opinions. It's not real snobbery, it's more like intense insecurity forcing them to say ridiculous things to remind people how rich they now are. Like why they tend to wear clothes with 'designer' names written in large font, bold, capital letters so the people in the back know for sure they're not poor now.

It's also a sign of poor manners so further proof they can't be real snobs because they're not actually posh themselves.

Real snobs wouldn't behave like that to your face, because they pride themselves on having enough class to do it in private.

I don't know if you're joking, but it's true for me!

I'm not snobby in a materialistic way, but I do judge others (in my head) about their manners on the daily. I don't live in a well off area but I do think 'oh Christ' at some of the families round here, because they don't seem to have good standards.

People might say that having standards is not snobby, but it is when you are using others as a yardstick. I find myself often saying to myself 'thank God I'm not like THAT,' while it's definitely true that people would say that about me.

I often find it’s the people whose circumstances have changed later on who are the snobbiest. Like people who came into money later in their lives and didn’t have much education or wealth themselves growing up .

At a Christmas party a couple of years ago, friend A was banging on about how brilliant her new estate agent was. Friend B said “you’ll have to give me the details, we’re looking to sell soon”. Friend A replied - “oh they wouldn’t deal with you, they only handle properties valued at over a million”. 🙄

Ironically friend B sold very quickly & friend A’s house is still on the market.