Do you ever find yourself having to defend your snobby interests? (light hearted)

[GirlySwot73]

....which are actually far from snobby? I'm an ordinary working class girl, and I happen to like classical music. I am currently being driven insane by Capital radio in the office at work, including bloody Capaldi seven times a day. But if I dared to suggest having a change to Classic FM, or, god forbid, Radio 3, I'd be seen as 'posh' or a snob, or just plain weird. I'm really not! Is this just me? Am I so unusual?! What do you have to defend yourself for?

Studying. I really enjoy it and have obtained a number of qualifications in the last few years. I like finding things out, learning how things work. Quite enjoy essay writing too. It’s not snobby though, I just like knowing things

It's depressing that people look down on each other this way. The snobbery/ inverse goes both ways and whichever way you lean you don't aspire in the other direction. I like both Love Island and Radio 4 and my reading covers a similar spectrum. So I either fit in everywhere or nowhere depending on perspective. More the snobby end probably though 😁

I completely agree with you.

Define ‘snobby’.

Although I wouldn't necessarily define it as 'looking down' on other people. I just judge them as being very, very different to me and that our chances of having anything in common would be vanishingly small.

We like some high-brow stuff I guess you could call it and some absolute trash you could call it.

We like to mix up the culture we consume.

Where do you place The Great British Sewing Bee? It's reality TV. But because it has posh hosts does it slip into "snobby" TV or is it still what it is which is trashy TV with a haberdashery department?

I think some people like to think what they like is high brow even when it's not.

When one thinks one's interests are better than other's interests?

Classic FM is not posh…

So many people on this thread putting down activities that other people enjoy. Which is kind of why they're perceived as snobby, I guess.

I love classical music and radio 4. I have friends who love football and others who enjoy so called trashy TV. I don't sneer at either of those things (my friend took me to a premier league match and I loved the atmosphere, even if I didn't know what was going on). That's probably why my friends don't think my interests are snobby.

That is vile. It is not possible to defend that.

See, there's the problem. I don't think listening to Radio 3 or reading classic lit or going to the theatre is better than anyone else's interests, they're just mine. The problem comes when people - out of insecurity or anything else - think that I'm looking down on their interests when in truth I'm not giving them a thought.

Classic FM is not posh…

Better in the later evening, I find. No (or fewer ads) and more interesting and less well known composers.

“I don't like snobbery or inverted snobbery.”

Is there a type of snobbery you do like?

I wish I knew you in real life as I would love to try quince paste.

@MrsDanversGlidesAgain might not apply to you but that is what snobby essentially is, the thinking what you like/do is just nice and better than what other people like or do.

No culture is "snobby" just some people think what they consume is just so eclectic and thought through and others are just consumer pigs lapping up pop music, football and Jilly Cooper novels. It's nonsense.

Ceebs?

You've put it so much better than me. I make a quick assessment and think of people as very 'other' to me and my interests, and then don't think of them again. But equally I don't expect 'other' people to give me or my interests more than a moment's thought either.

Is there a type of snobbery you dolike? I'm a stationery snob, I lean into that hard. Don't come at me with your substandard highlighters and sticky notes, consider me appalled. <sticks nose in air>

JKR is God on here. That's the real reason why.

She is an awful writer.

This is exactly right @MrsDanversGlidesAgain I like the things I like, other like what they like, but it seems that they don't think twice about having a go at me (good natured, but still making me feel different) when I don't say a word to them about what they like to do. Or even they'll make comments on how quiet I am, but I wouldn't dream of calling anyone gobby 😅
Just to add, I used to go to football home and away for years, and was a bit of a metal head in my younger days. So not all opera and libraries. But when I came back from a holiday a while ago and told everyone at work about going to the opera and the national library, it all just went silent 😅

I had no idea that so many other people don’t like crime thrillers. I thought I was the only one.

On topic: I am a member of The Wine Society. Each month I have 6 bottles of wines delivered that are selected by their head buyer. These are not wines to knock back. They are to be swished and slurped and discussed.
I have turned a small room just off the end of my kitchen into a room for wine tasting. It has bar stools and wine maps and an integrated wine fridge. I jokingly refer to it as “the wine parlour” … except it’s not actually a joke.
I genuinely enjoy champagne. I like trying to identify the grapes in even the most ordinary wines. I don’t think Riesling is passé. I think you CAN match a wine with a curry. I have special extra wide glasses for Pinot Noir.

With surprising frequency, I find myself agreeing with derisory comments about “wine wankers” even though I am a secret wine wanker. 😢

At work events, I pretend to laugh along with jokes such as “There’s only two types of wine, mate: red and white! Hahahahahaha”

I’m a fraud, sipping upper-mid-end wine in the shadows of society.

It is when you have seen what a fox does in a hen house ( or when you see how the horses and dogs adore being out together)

@ArbitraryHaddock Have you tried the U3A?

I tend to keep quiet about the books I read - about 1 a week and both fiction and non fiction. I don’t understand why it’s seen as so unusual.

Precisely.