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.

Anybody arty farty who talks in an awed voice about My Work.

Fuck ... You've tracked me down ...

She commands a hefty fee to deliver a talk on My Journey.

Some uses of the word 'journey' can be very pretentious indeed. It's badly overused in corporate-speak.

Oh God yes. My Journey is unbelievably wanky. A colleague once wrote a thank you card for all of us expressing her gratitude for our help and support while she was on her ”pregnancy journey”

Things that are artisan or commissioned pieces!

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

Yeah but table sale and salt flakes serve different purposes. I wouldn't use salt flakes in my baking and I wouldn't scatter table sale on a salad.

Aren't lidos always much bigger than your regular pool though?

Cheltenham is 50 metres, one near Worcester is 33 metres so I think so.
I think they are called lidos as many are art deco 1930s.

hereforthepoo I hear you, the most pretentious

JustHere, I now want to know what the concept was.

There's a programme about investing in new restaurants where "the concept" features a lot.

Surely the whole point of a restaurant concept is that it should be invisible to the customer, creating the pleasurable experience in a mysterious way. If the marketing scam is clearly visible I’m not going to be taken in by it and will be resentful of the cost.

I now want to know what the concept was

Nothing too exciting, and pretty much the same “concept” every new restaurant seems to have at the moment- small plates/tapas in a cuisine other than solely Spanish.

In this case, it was Spanish/Italian fusion. Picture a frittata with parma ham and Parmesan cheese, and milhojas with marscarpone and poached prunes. It was delicious, to be fair.

Probably been said already but Pan fried.
What else would you fry it in? A shoe?

I'm not sure if its pretentious or just plain annoying but any experience lasting more than 2 minutes being called a journey.

Meal with 'foraged' weeds, no, I mean greens.

"I'm a very spiritual person". Run.

I don't mind the word sourced but add it to locally to get locally-sourced and I'm done. Don't care. In fact I'd rather it not come from round here as am fully aware of all the dubious practices tbh.

Slimthinpin you are right, a personalised house name is horrible. Near me is a lovely Queen Anne house with a tree in the garden that must be as old as the house, if not more. Always named Chestnut House until it was sold a few years ago and re-named to suit the new owners by combining their names. Brianora House. Am irrationally infuriated every time I see it.

That's just hilariously tacky. Brian and Nora thinking a portmanteau of their names would be more fitting than the house's centuries long name. I'd insist on asking them 'and how are you finding life at CHESTNUT HOUSE?'

@Wierdlookingbricks - I think it is pan-fried as opposed to deep-fried or shallow-fried.

Weirdlookingbricks What else would you fry it in? A shoe?

Don't give the spade-as-plate lot any ideas.

@TheSilveryPussycat you know, like Nandos, but different! Not even enough different!

Quietly seems to have annoyingly slipped into modern celeb speak. As in "we quietly got married" or "I quietly launched my new lifestyle blog". Well I didn't think you were whistling a tune while you did it, love.

People who describe themselves as "empaths".

I can't actually be pissed off with people who do stuff when they get money. It's a bit horrible and snobbish to reject people for that.

That's why we moved from the bad place.

BigStripey not yet got past your peacock rant, absolute classic

When parents name their children so that they go together in a obvious, derivative way ie; Stormy and Misty., Amber and Jade, Rose ands Violet. It just rubs me the wrong way. God, how I hate it.