What things do you see and think are just pretentious?

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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.

Buggerbuggerbuggerargh

So glad you mentioned Avocado. My parents are from the Caribbean so I've had Avocados all my life and even now at work people peer and say 'ooh that's posh' ....erm no it's just food...Also Quinoa and Kale been eating them for years. It's all perception I guess.

*disguising not negating.

Definitely giant hipster beards which my friends and I childishly refer to as merkins.

@Loungewearfan I guess it's all in your name.

Wow, folk hating Range Rovers and personalised number plates....I have both number plate sais my name and I bought it nearly 10 years ago, and the Range Rover because I’ve always loved them and wanted 1, and am now lucky enough to be in a position to own one. I didn’t get it for the ‘show off value’. It’s a nice, big , safe car to ferry my toddler around in

What does get on my goat is the word ‘bespoke’ and the people who use it. It’s ‘bespoke’ so it costs roughly £500 more than something the same as it.

Give me peace, and shove your ‘bespoke’

Range Rovers are utterly ridiculous, ugly, great brutes of a car. Why you need one for a toddler is beyond me.

Range rovers are one of those cars that people almost universally cringe at. Other than those who own then of course.

Spending £££££ on clothes, footwear and bags

Why???

Uh yaaah, daahling, you're nobody unless you've spent absolutely repugnant amounts of cash on wearing average/unattractive fabric with the name of some designer on them.

No no no, you don't pay for the fabric, the workmanship of its manufacture... thats a mere fraction of its cost. You pay 100's to wear the name of some fucker you've never met, because that for some weird reason that gives YOU some worth in society.

Wearing New Look? Eurgh... peasant!

Double barrelled names, either first or surname.

There are excellent practical reasons for giving DC both the father’s and the mother’s surname when families travel a lot.

I agree with all the Range Rover hate. They are ridiculous-especially in white.
I live in a county with about 2 hills so what’s the point. Be easier to hold a sign up with ‘I’m very rich’ on it.

bunting
extra points for lacy bunting

As if selfies are annoying enough, people who pout for their selfies.

I have even seen grown men do it, and I despair.

Yes, GIFTED who the hell started that one? Hate, hate, hate it. It's GIVEN, all right? It's not "I was gifted this", it's I was GIVEN this. Someone said that this thread is all about what people don't like, rather than what is pretentious. Well I don't like "gifted", but at the same time - what could be more pretentious than someone f*cking with the English language, just to show that they're slightly more artsy-fairy & refined than the rest of us?

Picking a type of gin - like it matters - but worse, picking a type of tonic - are you insane - the thingy Tree stuff - don't tell me you can tell the fuckin' difference!
Don't like cheating fuckwit husbands either, but he isn't pretentious hes just an arse....

mrskeats most of those grim Range Rovers will be on lease

I got to the second page and read ‘jade fanny eggs’ and 😳 what? And I daren’t google in case I get retargeted ads for whatever these are.

On restaurent menus, saying where the meat came from eg Pork fresh from Farmer Browns East Sussex small holding.

I read one once a menu that said the steak had been "lovingly reared" !!

Something about the texture of couscous makes me feel ill.

Yes to mentioning where stuff from restaurants comes from. It's on posh packaging too 'West Country cheddar and braised Red onion crisps' all bollocks. Similarly, 'crushed Black diamond and peony breeze' fabric conditioner. So really tell me.. What does a diamond smell like again? In particular a crushed black one? People fall for this tripe though! My worst of all on thar note.. 'hand picked' or worse still 'lovingly hand picked' it's lies! Tbh I'd rather have a machine pick the bloody Charlotte potatoes up out of the ground than someone's (underpaid and flogged) grubby mitt.

Range rover for a toddler this is the right thread for that.

I have been doing bespoke design for well over a decade. Cannot say what for, but it is something I advertise that I can do bespoke work. In my profession its the best descriptor for it. Certainly not a new thing, or pretentious, but maybe it can be used as a pretentious term also.

Making a point of telling people your dog is a “rescue” dog. The most obnoxious kind of virtue signaling.

When people use "I" instead of "me" bc they think it's correct but it's not.

He went with the dog and I.

No!!

He went with the dog and me

Because if you take off "the dog and," the sentence would be "He went with I."

The dog and I can go with him, but he goes with me.

EllenMP I tell people we have rescue cats all of the time. For two reasons mostly. I despise when people buy cats or dogs, so I want to make sure that no one thinks that of me. Because our cats are rescued, that implies that they have been abused or feral for some time. This helps when guests come over, because some are very skittish or have behavioral problems.

Those new LED down lighters everyone is sticking on their houses on every inch of render I mean come on less is more it’s meant to be subtle not bright enough for Richard dreyfus to land the third encounters space ship on or burn pedestrians retinas out

School mothers who wear sunglasses in in the rain

New house owners who name their houses

YOonie voices

I hate curated. It really grates when I hear it on 6music. Curated, really Lauren?

As to panko breakcrumbs, mentioned on the first page, aren't they grated breadcrumbs?