What things do you see and think are just pretentious?

[SneakyGremlins]

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.

Gifted instead of gave

Mysterian believes that people who talk in the third person are pretentious.

Well...if we are talking swimming what about lido? What's wrong with just plain old swimming pool?

Does she....?

Silly jobs with silly job titles, often in PR.

And don't get me started on designer blooming dogs. Whatever happened to the Heinz 57 variety? £800+ for a neurotic over designed dog? Why just why?

Because Lido conjures up delightful art deco images of lithe bronzed bodies lounging under the searing English sun.

(Even if the reality was chunky corned beef bodies shivering under a drizzly English sky)

Cupcakes aren’t buns, surely, just giant fairy cakes with lots of icing?

I mean surely this is the most glamorous depiction of Blackpool there's ever been.

I don’t understand how cupcake businesses survive, most adults and DC I know dislike them due to excessive icing.

Mumsnet is obsessed with cupcakes.

Wanky job titles. Was watching a programme the other day with a fella who described himself as a professional charity fundraiser. Nah mate, you’re a chugger. He was rumbled when the woman he was with asked about his tan and he mumbled something about working outside 😂

A pp mentioned influencers. I still can’t get my head around someone having a career going on Instagram and telling people what to buy. You’re not an influencer, that’s called an advert and most sane people would be getting up to put the kettle on at this point!

Scandaloso

That is magnificent! I wonder what ‘Q’ Ray Radium pads did? I imagine they were carcinogenic and glowed in the dark.

Sounds bloody terrifying now doesn't it, Kissing! Still, life limiting radiation was a small price to pay for that glamorous frazzled look

"organic".

I actively avoid buying anything with it on.

People who put their phones on loudspeaker and hold it near their mouths/faces.

@Scandaloso BRINE?

As in hot dog brine??

I have to read my thread now

@SneakyGremlins as in seawater which is why it was cheaper!

Aren't lidos always much bigger than your regular pool though? I remember Surbiton lido as a kid, swimming a width of that was a marathon for me. I remember the surfeit of sticking plasters that used to float about, along with other sundry rubbish because in those days they never used to clean the water much.

So called wine experts.
My DP is one of theses, I take the piss constantly.
We were away last night, he stayed down in the bar whilst I went to the room for a shower.
I'd been to tescos to buy a bottle of £5 wine as I wasn't prepared to pay £9.50 for a small glass of Sauvignon whilst in my room getting ready for dinner.
When I came back down, with the glass I'd took up with me, DP commented firstly that he couldn't believe I'd still got the wine I'd took up with me from the bar (I carried on letting him assume it was the same one lol) and secondly commented on the lovely aroma of this 'expensive wine from the bar.

One day I might tell him that gooseberries he could smell in the so called expensive wine were exactly the same as they must use in the cheapo shit from tesco.

@weaselwords - I could have written your post. Pisses me off soooooooo much! Totally agree about the doing some work bit.

Laughing at all the peacock angst. I was chased by one on Brownsea Island a couple of years ago. Total self aggrandising twats.

I’d like to add not just accepting or declining an invitation: one of my closest friends is amazing but does have form for breath taking pretentiousness. Her latest was accepting an invitation for lunch but shoehorning in that it was a good job it wasn’t three days before as she was taking her DS to a “very high level chess competition”. Er, ok then.

The inflection at the end of every sentence as though they are asking a question, but it's not a fucking question! I can't decide if that is pretentious, but it's bloody annoying!

BMWs. So far up their own arses they have leather heated seats,electric boot shutters, special lights inside the back door you can change the colour of, automatic head lights and windscreen wipers, but not an adjustable seatbelt height. Pissed me off so much I sold the beemer after 3 months and got a Skoda instead.
Much better.

I knew Bertrand would appear actually want that candle

So basically - people like hipster stuff and personalised stuff is OTT and pretentious.

Bigstripybastard

I've not even got a few posts into this thread but I've had to stop to comment on the most hilarious post I've ever read on MN. I'm in tears. Fucking mauraudering peacock cunts. Oh my lord hahaha. I've died. Best post I've ever read. You've made my day!!!

Right, back to RTFT