That some people are smug about odd things?

[thefirstmrsDeVeerie]

General thread, not directed at anyone but perhaps inspired by a few recent threads [and my mum]

What odd things have you heard people be all smug about. When my dear mum is about to be oddly smug her voice gets really loud and she puts on a weird posh voice [bless her]

The sentence almost always starts with 'of course'

i.e. 'of course we never watch Coronation Street' Now why on earth would you think that was something to be smug about particularly as [at the time] she did watch Treasure Hunt [v.camp and odd game with Aneeka whatshername]

TV often comes into this sort of thing. NOT having a tv at all is often smugged about [not everyone who doesnt have a tv is like this obviously and this is not a thread to attack non tv watchers honest )

Heard any good ones lately?

People like to feel good about their choices, don't they?

Oh yes, my mum is also very smug about not watching TV. Except she does. How else would she know what "dress" scrap of material Ola was wearing and how awful Brucie's "jokes" were?

'We've never been to Blackpool' in my loud, posh voice.

I once had someone tell me that their toddler had NEVER seen the tv on...apart from watching Obama's inauguration...

I think its lovely that people are happy with their choices but sometimes it seems a bit strange that they expect others to admire them too.

'We have sold our house and given the money to the local old peoples home' WOW well done!

'Of course we wont have cheese spread in the house' erm yes well jolly well done...

someone told me i was being smug because i said i dont watch much tv and certainly not "reality tv"

i am unsure as to why that makes me smug.

i was smug yesterday when a school mum was boasting about her Ds calling the postman a dickhead. without thinking i said " i don't think ds has ever heard the word" then realised i sounded reeeeeeally smug.

We had some friends, who in the end fell over the "too annoying" horizon, who talked about having neither a computer nor a debit card as though we were supposed to say "oh, I wish I had your clarity of moral purpose, but no, I'm so slatternly that I have no choice but to be able to buy things from Amazon". Personally, I don't see either having a computer or means of payment as being moral choices.

They then started coming over, asking us to take cash so that they could buy things from Amazon.

In the end, we told them to stop expecting us to do their Amazon orders, especially as it was messing up my Amazon recommendations. They then whined about how hard it was to buy books these days if you didn't have a computer or a debit card. As they were perfectly well off (better off than us), but just trying to make some Good Life point, in the end we stopped seeing them over it.

I am smug about the fact that I have never broken a bone, only ever had flu once and never get stomach bugs.

I don't know why I like boasting about these things but I do

I prob sound smug when i say DS (5) has never tasted fizzy juice (although amount of sweets and crap he eats is certainly nothing to be smug about )

I think people often say what they think you want to hear. I know I'm guilty of this. For example, with my family or certain friends I would probably say "Oh, I'm really sorry to be a pain but DD doesn't drink Fruit Shoots" whereas with certain 'yummy mummy' friends of mine it would be ore like "of course she doesn't drink FSs".

Does that make sense?

I'm surprised at how quickly people are to be mean for no reason, especially on here, but in real life too.

Loads of people I know are smug about not watching tv or much tv - it's hilarious cos when you do mention anything you've watched or adverts or whatever, they can always join in the converation!

Incredible, eh?

There is a difference between being justly proud and weirdly smug.

I myself do not seem to have anything to be proud or smug about at the moment.

Perhaps this thread is a projection of my current crapness?

I'm smug about the fact I have naturally blonde hair with no sign of grey - how ridiculous is that? It's not like it's cos of any action on my part, it's just genes.

And that my kids have never been to McDonalds - but I happily buy them meatballs and chips in Ikea. In my defence I'm aware I'm being both smug and ridiculous!

I was smug about none of my babies having ever had thrush.

Then DC2's birth auntie 'cleaned' his dummy with her noxious gob and she ruined my reason to be smug, the cow.

EXps sister was smug that her ds had teeth before mine. i still don't get it. she had no involvement whatsoever in his teeth growing. they were going to grow regardless. how can you be smug about that?

I have just remembered that I DO have one!

I dont have dust behind my radiators.

Weird to be smug about something that clearly marks me out as an obsessive loon.

be proud MrsDV

:)

I'm smugeroo about not watching soap operas

I'm smug that my DD doesn't know what McDonald's is

People are quite smug about their kids not watching TV aren't they? I work in this area and even my colleagues in the industry boast talk about how they restrict their kids TV watching. I remember reading an interview with Juliet Stephenson about how she had NO TV in the house and her children would never watch the evil gogglebox. Bit of a hypocrite aren't you love? Given that is how you make your money and you were promoting a TV show at the time.

TV is one of the primary communication channels - it links you in to all sorts of communities and areas of interest and tells you what's going on in the world. How very odd to want to avoid it...

Anyway I'm quite smug about DS never having a dummy. It's irrational and annoying I know.

Sprogster - I'm smug about my natural blondness and never having taken DD to McD (she has been once for someones birthday) but I've also never taken her to Ikea. Actually I've only been to Ikea once and that was when we lived in America because american furniture is hideous. Smugger yet!

People are smug about cookery stuff which I find wierd. Surely if it tastes good that is all that matters.
Some quotes from a lovely (though annoying) friend of mine:

"I don't own a garlic press
Oxo cubes! Yuck, its just so eaaasy to make your own.
And the best part? Making tagliatelli from scratch without a machine!
Then... we had a meeting to decide how I could go back to work and still make te bread every day
I don't understand why ANYONE ever buys tomato sauces when you can make your own.
Its just so superior when you make mayonnaise by hand rather than in a blender you know. How do you do it?!"

(I have NEVE made mayonnaise even though I am, if I may say so myself, a v accomplished cook!)

Quite a lot of Odd Smuggness on MNs about not going to Asda.

IMO

Thanks Loopy not sure I get to be smug about her being so fab though

the whole point of making your own mayo is that you don't do it by hand - what the hell is the point in that - /yes lets whip cream/meringue etc by hand but not use the machine. Weirdo's. [hhhm]

I like my machinery and so wil use it willy nilly!