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What things do you see and think are just pretentious?

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SneakyGremlins · 01/02/2019 13:23

For me it's cafés with "no WiFi here, talk to each other!" signs.

A) I'll probably go elsewhere thanks

B) My best friend likes to sit on his phone anyway because they don't realise mobile data exists.

I just find it so wanky - if I'm going out to spend money on a drink and several pieces of cake then I'm going out to relax. If I want to be on my phone then I will be.

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Original poster
SneakyGremlins · 01/02/2019 21:27

Just me then Grin

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Bloodybridget · 01/02/2019 21:29

Ingredients being "sourced". I have to just buy mine!

ethelredonagoodday · 01/02/2019 21:30

'Artisan' anything...

slimthinpin · 01/02/2019 21:31

many many instagram accounts!

Original poster
SneakyGremlins · 01/02/2019 21:31

@Bloodybridget also recipes that tell you to get the "X" you've sourced.

I went to Aldi? Grin

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Bloodybridget · 01/02/2019 21:33

And any recipe calling for panko breadcrumbs! Try asking for those in my local Morrisons!

Drogosnextwife · 01/02/2019 21:34

Range rovers. I love them but most of the people I know who have them just get them for show off value. I just feel so jealous don't see the point.

slimthinpin · 01/02/2019 21:35

@Bloodybridget - I believe you can make your own easily by putting breadcrumbs in the oven to dry a bit! they are just drier versions of normal ones. Have a google!

halfwitpicker · 01/02/2019 21:35

Everything. It's all a bag of wank.

mooncuplanding · 01/02/2019 21:36

Gin and tonic piled up with an entire fruit bowl costing a tenner

MissCherryCakeyBun · 01/02/2019 21:36

Disassembled anything...coffee...food....it's just Shite

slimthinpin · 01/02/2019 21:37

Oh god men with plucked, over styled eybrows. Just weird.

mooncuplanding · 01/02/2019 21:37

'Tasting' menus

Original poster
SneakyGremlins · 01/02/2019 21:38

I've never heard of a tasting menu - what is it? Is it an edible menu?

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TheDogsMother · 01/02/2019 21:38

Not very good personalised number plates

UbercornsGoggles · 01/02/2019 21:38

Jus

guessing · 01/02/2019 21:38

DPs father!

MrsGrindah · 01/02/2019 21:39

Restaurants proud of their “ small plates “
Pubs or bars advertising free tap water
Mixed gender toilets

Scandaloso · 01/02/2019 21:40

And any recipe calling for panko breadcrumbs! Try asking for those in my local Morrisons!

Ha. Bought some in Morrison's this week!

LahLahsBigBand · 01/02/2019 21:40

Overuse ignorance about the word ‘curated’. It’s ‘chose’, you wanker

ShouldHaveListenedInBiology · 01/02/2019 21:42

halfwitpicker

Grin I read that in Dianne Morgan (aka Philomena Cunk)’s voice.

Drogosnextwife · 01/02/2019 21:42

TheDogsMother, I just hate personalised number plates. Just had an argument with do about this yesterday!

Bloodybridget · 01/02/2019 21:42

@Slimpinthin really? I never knew what they were, I imagined they were made from some rare and wonderful (Japanese?) bread! Thanks for enlightening me! But tbh just going to the trouble of making breadcrumbs is a rare event for me, I can't see myself going as far as Pankoising them!

rslsys · 01/02/2019 21:43

Anything served with a 'foam'.

Scandaloso · 01/02/2019 21:43

I find Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop shtick pretentious. But worse than just being pretentious it's getting people (women) to spend $$$ on expensive yet pointless (and possibly harmful) shite under the guise of 'medical advice'. Like steaming your fanny. Or buying jade fanny eggs.

Paltrow needs to stop monetising women's fannies.

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