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.

Pissed me off so much I sold the beemer...

But you couldn't resist slipping that nugget in there

A lido is just an outdoor pool isn’t it?

Overfinches.

Signs saying ‘polite notice’. Clearly not.

The words perused and apoplectic.

This thread was worth reading for the peacock post

Also love the tasting menu, food variety is always awesome!

Do actually do that love you to the moon and back thing a fair bit, (although not particular one!) Claireandlilly but as irony though maybe just sarcasm

Range rovers (=killing the planet whilst showing off - not all, some do put them to good purpose, as need the functionality, pulling horse wagons, off road capability, but certainly not most!)

Find it odd and perhaps pretentious the recent fad for wearing leather riding boots just for the expensive fashion... Just looks weird to me! Try not to interpret as pretentious, but..

BigStripeyBastard

That made me laugh way too much

That is a beautiful Cire Trudon candle Bertrand. I'm just coming to the end of this one from Christmas and I've got a Abahna vetiver and ceadarwood lined up.

I quite like a bit of wankery, and 'performance' in life, I like fancy drinks in big glasses, tasing menus, opera, poncy home-cooking and all manner of things that have been mentioned on this thread (I even have internal conversations with myself in an arch voice about 'curating my wardrobe).

However, these are private pleasures, and the gravest mistake DH and I ever made was moving to a place that I can only describe as a world-beating centre for the encouragement of tossers. It. Was. Too. Much. We went rogue and juvenile and spent much of our time utterly trolling people. Which was kind of fun until we realised it was actually really unhealthy for us. So we moved to somewhere much more down to earth where we can indulge in minor wankery where it belongs. In private.

I also don't think liking opera is pretentious - it just falls into the category of things some people hate and some people love and that's ok.

I worked with someone who said things like 'highly spiced' of food, 'somewhat comic' for funny. I'm not sure if it was pretentious or if she was desperately trying to sound refined in a Morningside/Kelvinside sort of way. Bloody irritating though, if somewhat comic.

Self confessed troll!

Cire Trudon is not pretentious in itself. Enjoying a trip to Versailles then buying a Solis Rex so your terraced house smells the same is. Not that I’ve ever done this ever, not at all.

Oi Smother ya big dobber. It was real people, not internet people!

'Folks' fuck off

Ha ha! hairy . Step away from the tossing mob!

high end from that stupid ad. Calling self an 'influencer' (someone who gets paid for posting loads of shite ads)

We did Smother. It was fun whilst it lasted. The apogee was being physically lobbed out of The Groucho Club for our hilarity.

We're reformed characters these days. (As long as I stay away from FB whilst 'relaxed').

Quooker tap? Always make me cringe when I see the ad with DC putting their faces under the running water after watching boiling water pour out of it for coffee and teas!

On my way to work last week I was waiting at lights and noticed a house I pass every day had had some work done. It's a very ordinary 1970s house, a bit run down, not a very nice area and they've had a wall built out front with 2 tall pillars topped with large 'stone' lions. Now that's pretentious. And common. Or taking the piss possibly. Can't wait for the gates to arrive, I'm anticipating something like Buck house.

What benefit, I mean, or just a 'must-have' thing?

Dog ice cream 3.5

Mind, I probably am an unbearable wanker (probably? I know I am), I just poured a taster of wine and proclaimed to DH, 'Wow, it's tarl, liquorice and tyres'. Wot a nob.

Anybody arty farty who talks in an awed voice about My Work. She has My Studio in a converted garage and is terrible busy preparing My Pieces for an exhibition. She commands a hefty fee to deliver a talk on My Journey.

DH and I went to a newly opened restaurant recently. The waiter brought menus, then sat down next to us (he actually pulled a chair from the nearby empty table and sat backwards on it with his arms folded on the chair back. Like David Brent) and asked if he were familiar with the concept of the restaurant.

I’m a complete restaurant nut. I spend a stupid amount of money on eating out. I adore trying new food. The only restaurant concept I need is the one where they bring me lovely food, and I give them money in return.

Himalyan salt or Achill Island sea salt.

Salt is sodium Chloride...no matter where you get it.