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 who get me and I mixed up. Eg. ‘Jane will be going with Bob and I’ when it should be ‘Jane should be going with Bob and me’

regarding curated Much as it gets on my nerves, what is the definition? Is it not something carefully selected/chosen.
Lauren Lavern uses it all the bloody time on the radio 📻

Pretentious? The twats who put every breathing moment on social media as a grand boast. Like, Julie you might be loaded but you’re still living on a council estate, love. If you’re so rich why haven’t you moved?!

Totally agree with this; this is why I really don’t “get” Facebook. If you know someone reasonably well (you know where they live, where their family lives, what job they do, what job their DH does), then you have a pretty good idea - just intuitively, even if you don’t sit down and try to work it out - of how rich they are or not. So what on earth is the point of showing off on the Internet about stuff you’ve bought to people who probably already have a good idea of your particular circumstances?

People who say "myself" and "yourself" when "me" and "you" will do. A lot of my colleagues are guilty of this and it does my head in!

regarding curated Much as it gets on my nerves, what is the definition? Is it not something carefully selected/chosen.

It is....but the context matters, I think. An exhibition of ancient Peruvian vases at the British museum? Curated is fine. Your car playlist? You’ve chosen it. A bit like, I suppose, you’d say that you decorated the Christmas tree but you wouldn’t describe yourself as “decorated” if you put a pair of earrings and a scarf on before leaving the house.

Pedlars.

YES to Peacocks. We have Peacocks on our neighbours farm. They are bastards that start screaming at 4.30am in spring and don't stop until September. If only I believed in bloodspots. I'd have a great sightline from my bedroom window to take those bastards down.

Talking about the 'provenance' of your food

Turmeric lattes

Gluten free beauty products.

Are you supposed to eat the shampoo to get it to clean your hair?

Oxblood and burgundy are different colours (the latter being more purple).

Concur is a perfect acceptable synonym for agree.

Hen’s egg is entirely reasonable in the context of a menu when you could just as easily be served a duck egg, a quail egg and so on.

Opera goers- nobody could possibly like all those caterwauling singers

My mum's an opera singer. She raised 4 kids on her own on a council estate. She used to take me along with her to music lessons which she paid for with her early morning cleaning jobs.

Maybe re examine your own prejudices. Opera is changing. There are some beautiful shows out there.

Sorry for derailing, that just got my goat.

A lot of the things mentioned here aren't pretentious, they are just things people find annoying.

Avocado is something that gets seen as pretentious these days which also hacks me off as I'm half Latina and where I come from it's proper peasant food - we used to eat it with lemon and salt on toast back when no one else did and they cost bugger all. They are only pretentious now because the hipsters have commandeered them!!

Blokes dressing like they're in Peaky Blinders - it's not 1926

How else would you fry anything?

Deep fry it? Shallow fry it?

I’m moving house at the moment. HOUSE. I cringe every time estate agents say ‘property’. I deliberately use the word house to bring them down from their pretentiousness a bit.
Disclaimer - someone may have already said this but I skipped to the end of the thread as I needed to write this. It’s very cathartic.

"reaching out"....no you've not "reached out", you've text me...or phoned me...or in fact just emailed me!

GAH just the typing of those words is making me want to throw my phone out of the window!

Agree this is just a list of stuff people find annoying, it's funny though!

Also want to defend tasting menus.

They should be the equivalent of the chefs greatest hits. If the restaurant is really good of course I want to try a little bit of everything.

What's not to love when you can legitimately have three puddings?

Non-alcoholic ‘spirits’ at £25 per beautifully designed bottle. Just get a glass of tap water, stick a few cloves in it and Bob’s your uncle.

I also don't get small plates being pretentious. These are things that have been done by many different cultures for millenia.

Interesting that some of the things people are posting as “pretentious” are what I (inwardly, not out loud )would call “common”

Same, bertrand.

Snape Maltings is an entire shopping centre of pretentiousness. As DH said, this is a place where stupid people go to get ripped off trying to be posh.

in a cookery book when reading the list of ingredients takes longer than actually making the thing!! If I have to turn the page to get to the last ingredient, its not going to happen.

Wagonwheelsandjammydodgers

"Reaching out" is the start of the awfully pretentious and absolutely cringe worthy 'Execuspeak'

Like 'touching base', I hate that phrase..