Page 8 | Do you ever find yourself having to defend your snobby interests? (light hearted)

CharlottenBurger · 27/05/2023 13:47

I first bought some in a little North African superette round the corner from Nice railway station, which, I daresay, has some snob value?

CharlottenBurger · 27/05/2023 13:48

'Le Phare du Cap Bon' harissa I mean.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 27/05/2023 13:54

CharlottenBurger · 27/05/2023 13:47

I first bought some in a little North African superette round the corner from Nice railway station, which, I daresay, has some snob value?

Ooooh, get YOU.

Framboisery · 27/05/2023 13:59

GirlySwot73 · 25/05/2023 14:51

....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?

God Capital radio is dire!

I have a similar background to you , can't play any instruments bar a few notes of the recorder, but do like a bit of radio 3 at times. It can be very calming and nice to have purely music with a bare minimum of words.

I have to defend my radio 4 listening.

Shannith · 27/05/2023 14:11

Horses. Makes me posh and rich. <<hollow laugh>>

I can kind of see where people are going when you chuck my new hobby of carriage driving into the mix - it's actually me helping out my neighbour for free but yeah, that's a bit niche

CharlottenBurger · 27/05/2023 14:16

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 27/05/2023 13:54

Ooooh, get YOU.

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We used to get that exact response when we said we went to Nice twice a year for our hols. But it was always budget. For about 3 years we went to the Hôtel Lyonnais in Rue de Russie because it was so cheap. Not too clean, quite often bugs, etc, but we thought that was cool. Jammed berets on our heads, lit up Gauloises and thought we were existentialists. It used to be run by a lovely bloke called Serge, he used to have us to tea with his Senegalese wife and kids. Then he sold up and went to Paris.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/05/2023 08:50

CharlottenBurger · 27/05/2023 14:16

We used to get that exact response when we said we went to Nice twice a year for our hols. But it was always budget. For about 3 years we went to the Hôtel Lyonnais in Rue de Russie because it was so cheap. Not too clean, quite often bugs, etc, but we thought that was cool. Jammed berets on our heads, lit up Gauloises and thought we were existentialists. It used to be run by a lovely bloke called Serge, he used to have us to tea with his Senegalese wife and kids. Then he sold up and went to Paris.

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I've had that response as well and it's infuriating (hope you get that mine was in jest 😀). OT but when I'm fully retired I'm planning to spend winters in the south of France - a little studio for a couple of months to dodge the British winter.

CharlottenBurger · 29/05/2023 08:58

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/05/2023 08:50

I've had that response as well and it's infuriating (hope you get that mine was in jest 😀). OT but when I'm fully retired I'm planning to spend winters in the south of France - a little studio for a couple of months to dodge the British winter.

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I totally got that you were jesting. We fell in love with a house called Villa Rosa in Villefranche-sur-Mer that we walked past. If it was ever for sale it'd be multi millions, and our budget would maybe stretch to a pink concrete villa in the rough part of St-Laurent-du-Var, the sort you see from the train, where every wall is tagged.