Things Mumsnet is consistently snobby about..

[Thedarkmode]

I always find this fascinating.

AI holidays
Period features
SUVs
Buying new baby clothes/decorating a nursery.

What else?

MOTHER IN LAWS!

Not sure that’s a snobbish thing though, people from all classes can have MILs and snobby / non snobby people have them is equal measures I would say

Whole countries/continents if they didn't like a particular area/town.

LOLL Absolutely spot on.

Its like my late DDad but it was Actors in his case.
He did not like, for example, Frank Finlay's sinister character in Bouquet of Barbed Wire, so he did not watch anything after that with Frank in it .... until The Pianist came out that is.

Not working enough hours / being poor because you choose to work part time.

Children spending any amount of time unsupervised, before the age of 19.

Americans
Having a group of girlfriends
Weed
Family photos
Christmas cards
Womens bodies

I like Radley. Radley and Russell Group universities are 2 of the few genuine examples given.

Most of the others are just things some people like, which others don't.

For some of the things (holidays in UAE, Shein) there's very good reason for not liking them.

I had noted any snobbery around those issues. Maybe you have very strong views on them which is making you defensive about some remarks - that is often a type of snobbery.

People are entitled to have different opinions but, seriously, are any of those things worth getting worked up about? Live and let live, what other people do is up to them.

People that work from home

Anyone upset that they didn't receive a card from their young children and the dad forgot (you're not his mum gets me every time).

People that don't drive

People with more than 2 children

People in a relationship with children who are not married

Which makes the vast majority of women total snobs then 😂

What they should really be like is:

"Oh your meeting Harriet tonight for a catch-up & a few drinks. Have a lovely time. I'll do the shopping,see to the children & have dinner myself this evening & don't worry if your late, I'll wait up 😂

Choosing to become a single mother
Stepmothers
Not cooking from scratch
Having a job rather than a career
Not driving
Pensioners
Baby boomers

Dogs in your field of vision.

Have you stopped buying petrol?

*Autumn

Any form of modern home decor (media walls and grey furniture etc.)
TVs on walls
Having you DCs names in the top 50 list
Naming your DC with a lesser known spelling

You’re bang on the money with Bayliss and Harding! I do enjoy their handwashes, mind. May have to deactivate my MN account now…

Cockerpoos
Grey interior decor
Blended families

Christ. Yet another fucking stupid generalisation.

MN is not a hive mind. It is individual posters with individual views.

Toilet brushes..

OMG my dream, I'd love a cat again but my whippet would deffo 'get it'. We're the other animals there before the whippets?

Step Mothers
Mothers In Law

Childless women

This thread is reminding me why I'm so glad I moved to America years ago. There is none of this snobbishness and class obsession. I tried to explain how bad it is in England and used the example of fitted carpets being deemed common. They didn't believe me. (It also helps that I live in a very blue state where Trump's name is mud and guns aren't allowed. I might feel differently if I lived in deep red country.)

But what's wrong with Bayliss and Harding? I think their stuff is pretty nice, and a much more intelligent buy than Molton Brown!

Dyeing your hair to hide the grey. Posters claim they've never looked younger or better since they started sporting a snow white bob.

@TurtleJellyFence I could ask...I do know several Whippet owners with cats, and they actually curl up together!
It looks so gorgeous seeing them intertwined, but one of these owners said their Whippets can chase strange cats out of their garden...so it seems as if they get used to ''their'' cat and can be sillier with cats they don't know.

I took my Whippet to my brothers house, he has two Burmese, and they advanced in a pincer movement towards my Whippet so I picked her up as didn't want her scratched..Brother's Cats live with a dog and are very bossy with the dog
The cats were there first, and the dog was swiped into submission by the cats.

One friend says her family had a Burmese cat with Whippets who was Queen of the household.

Burmese and Bengals and a big fat fluffy Ginger cat are the cats I know who live happily with Whippets.

However, if your Whippet has a strong prey drive, it might be tricky and unfair on a cat to bring one in to the house, as your Whippet will be quite territorial.

A fox kit entered our house a couple of summers ago- The Whippet chased the Fox out - thankfully both were unharmed. {they were about the same size but the fox had a larger set of teeth} Whippet wasn't wearing a collar so I couldn't grab her - she spotted the fox before I did.

Probably because it’s a knock off Molton Brown.