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.

People being snobby about Aldi and Lidl. It makes me cringe.

I think these days people are more likely to be pretentious in a pro Lidl and Aldi way.

'oh I found this fabulous Balsamico di Modena in Lidl the other week...'

To all the candle comments; a family member worked for the lovely smelling 'white' high street store with expensive candles, diffusers and room sprays. So lovely they must be worth their expensive tag right? At a staff meeting a comment was made by a visiting senior member of staff that they cost around £2 to produce and that the margins are huge. Think about that the next time you have one in your hands. Put t down, head to Aldi or make your own (the later being far cheaper and far far healthier).

Healthier? What's unhealthy about a candle?

I don’t think any of us pick up a £48 candle, have a sniff and think ‘Mmmmm, that’s £46 worth of essential oils, wax and glass’. Aldi candles may be cheaper but they quite often have very typical smells which don’t meet your needs if you want something unusual and the cold throw is non-existent (I have tried them).

No one buys a candle not expecting The White Company of whatever to make a profit on it, especially given it’s made from some pretty basic ingredients. Thank you for trying to teach us to suck eggs though.

“I think these days people are more likely to be pretentious in a pro Lidl and Aldi way.

'oh I found this fabulous Balsamico di Modena in Lidl the other week...'”
Yep-ours are full of LAMFARTS buying wine!

Posh telephone voices!
It's usually women who have posh telephone voices.
My mother has it down to a fine art. Not quite ' good morning, the bucket residence, the lady of the house speaking ' but not too far off.
Every time my mother answers the phone, in her posh telephone voice, my dad sits there extracting the urine while my mother glares at him and tries to carry on the posh voice.
If it's someone who she thinks is a V.I.P, then the telephone voice is ramped up to a level that makes the queen sound common.

So, telephone voices. Pretentious idiot twunts who sound like they've swallowed an entire bag of plums.

Any printed words on walls...you know the sayings such as ‘Love, Laugh, Live’ etc.

Wedding photos up years after the event and used as Facebook photos. It’s like ‘Look at me...I’m married!’

Most stuff on Facebook especially all the ‘checking in’....I would not have the time or inclination to ‘check in’ at every cafe, pub, leisure centre, concert venue I go to....

Anyone who strides about in a Barbour coat with a chocolate Labrador.
Take your fucking flat cap and your orf orf laugh and shove it up your arse Dave. We all know that you were dragged up in a council house in Barnsley and worked as a postie before renting a fucking cottage in the countryside. You pretentious boring bastard.

Oh god my sister does the wedding photo one. She got married in 2012 and at least once a month changes her profile/cover photo to one of her in her wedding dress ffs

Any printed words on walls...you know the sayings such as ‘Love, Laugh, Live’ etc

That's not pretentious. It's not like anyone is going to look at your wall stickers and think, wow they must have a great appreciation of art.

It’s nice that she had a good day and felt she looked good and so wants to remember it and present herself in that way to the world. Not sure how that’s pretentious given just about anyone can marry.

Metal water flasks. I work in a large office and every meeting I go involves everyone bring in their metal water flask. The meeting is 30 minutes, can they really not do without a drink during this time?

Keen-wah!!!!
It's quin-oh-a

Most of these examples aren't pretentious at all, just things that irritate people.

Fusion to describe bloody food is though.

Bugger there are all sorts of nasty chemicals in cheap candles. I know White Company is expensive, but the packaging etc is all part of it. Their Winter candle is gorgeous. Never buy them but have been given one as a present (not 'gifted' grrr)

I do think the metal water flasks are 100 times better than people using a plastic bottle or plastic cup every time they have some water though.

MudCity that checking in thing is really annoying, it's sometimes because they get free Wi-Fi. There's a cafe near me that does it, so you have to check in everytime. But there's also this magic little thing called "private" in Facebook, so you don't have to share it with the universe every time you go for a coffee. It seems to the oversharers have not discovered that icon yet.

People posting on facebook about how theyve helped their elderly neighbour whose stuck in because of the snow.

Just do it, dont brag about it though, makes it look like your just doing it for the glory.

who is, not whose, before the grammer police assassinate me

before the grammer police assassinate me

It’s “grammar”

Bowler hats on primary school children

Bow ties on small children

When I was a sixth former there was a fifth former (so age 15/16) who used to smoke a pipe and wear a flat cap. He looked pretentious. He thought he was cool.

"Artisanal"

I know someone who has a TRIPLE barrell surname - she is as awful as her name would suggest...

Scandoloso, I think that must have happened often as, about 6 months in, they put a handwritten notice in black marker pen in their front window THIS HOUSE IS NOW CALLED BRIANORA.