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That some people are smug about odd things?

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thefirstmrsDeVeerie · 21/10/2010 17:03

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?

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thefirstmrsDeVeerie · 21/10/2010 20:19

Just remembered another (probably shouldnt be outing myself like this). When DC2 loudly asked 'mummy can we go to Tate Modern again soon?' I found myself looking around to see if anyone heard [hgrin]

Mind you I am sure the smug quotent was pretty low in Safeways in Holloway.

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5Foot5 · 21/10/2010 20:49

I feel smug tonight because I have just made myself a new watchstrap (the previous one broke this afternoon) out of pieces of soft leather cut from an old, discarded pair of DDs dancing shoes. It doesn't look half bad and I think I have saved myself at least £15.

We don't shop at Asda either. But that is neither smugness nor snobbery but because

a) There isn't one very near here
b) If there was DH wouldn't be keen because years ago he worked on a project for them and they were absolute gits.

cupcakebakerer · 21/10/2010 21:29

My mum and dad get very smug about how early they get up and make a virtue of saying they don't drink (they do) when me or my siblings have a hangover. My mother in law gets smug about loads of stuff - only making tea in a pot and putting the milk into teacups first. I get smug about using proper grammar in text messages.

minouminou · 21/10/2010 21:37

Ayyyy know hebsoluuuutley NOTHING about "Oooooop nooooorth". Crowed loudly over me as I responded to her asking me where I'm from.
Yeah, except your son, who you can't bear to be parted from for more than a week or so, studied at Preston for three years and you visited regularly.
This was a friend's mum. She asked me to sign a visitors' book at the end of the visit. Their house was nice, yes, but hardly an experience, and she was a twat who constantly talked about money.
Disclaimer, visitors' books can be fun - in the right hands.

minouminou · 21/10/2010 21:42

Mind you, I got v smug last week when DS said, and I quote:
"Not mah like Co-op olives, they're TOOOOO rubbish. Mama get Waitrose olives 'omorrow?"
Thankfully, we were on our own at the time.

withorwithoutyou · 21/10/2010 21:42

Being smug about living in a yurt.

The yurt had no running water or toilet facilities.

I was a feckless capitalist heathen for asking where the showers were.

MillyMollyMardy · 21/10/2010 21:49

Thread hijack with question for MrsDV. How do you get the dust from behind your radiators?
My radiators are objects of shame not smugness.

BarringtonWomble · 21/10/2010 21:50

I sometimes hear people saying they'd never have a dishwasher. Like there's something terribly noble and self sacrificing about washing up by hand.

They may wish to sound smug. I dunno..I think they sound crazy Confused. The more things they invent to make life easier the happier I am.

Eliza70 · 21/10/2010 21:52

I am smug about making a list and doing a proper shop. I know it irritates my sister when I mock her for her random shopping.

I cannot stand people being smug about watching TV as someone above pointed out they always know the plot of what you were talking about. Or the 'we do watch it but only the history channel and BBC4' naff off.

I heard Audrey Niffeneger (?sp) on Women's Hour yesterday talking about how she doesn't HAVE a TV but a second later she was saying that she watched Dr Who on dvd??!??

TimeForABrew · 21/10/2010 22:07

A former colleague was smug about eating fresh vegetables (I was going through a frozen veg phase at the time). I thought it an odd thing to be smug about as he was older than me & still lived at home. Thinking about it now though, living at home is a good thing if you can get it. My maturing palate prefers fresh veg now LOL.

MIL in a singsongy voice saying "I've got birds in MY garden" when we had no birds visiting at all in spite of the food offerings.

Sis being smug about baking, I commented that I'd made a cake, cut it into portions & frozen it (so there would be cake in the weeks to come without having to bake another), she said her cakes never lasted long enough to freeze. I was making conversation, not announcing a new competition. Snarl!

Jafina, I amused myself by imagining their expressions if I'd said to any of the above "& does that make you morally superior?" hee hee hee

ChippingIn · 21/10/2010 22:12

TFMDV - Mind you I am sure the smug quotent was pretty low in Safeways in Holloway - very true - I love your dry sense of humour!

I never see as much smugness IRL as I do on MN !!

Diziet · 21/10/2010 22:15

I can't think of anything to be smug about! Sad

muminthemiddle · 21/10/2010 22:16

I am quite smug about my garden, which is still alive with colour after growing all plants/flowers/fruit myself from seed :)

I do think more people should make an effort and not tarmac over everything in sight.

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thefirstmrsDeVeerie · 21/10/2010 22:17

Milly Kleeneze sell a long handled brush [bit like a bottle brush] this does the job along with the skinny tool thingy on the hoover.

Warning, you have to do it a LOT.

Oh yes!

Getting up early. My dad used to directly attribute how early you got up to the quality of your character. i.e. 5am = moral standing of Ghandi, 8am = Katie Price.

Dishwashers - I have never heard anyone with a dishwasher say they are a waste of time. Ditto tumble dryers. Once you get them you realise what a fool you were for not having one!

People who say 'we have a tv but only for DVDs' WTF? It is somehow superior to watch Dora the explorer on DVD rather than on Cebeebies [or whatever]

I think we should all just say 'what an odd thing to be smug about'

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MillyMollyMardy · 21/10/2010 22:23

Thank you MrsDV, will google it.
I'm smug that I had both dc in bed and asleep before 7.15pm. That'll be why I'm here.

Diziet · 21/10/2010 22:27

We didn't have TV (as in, arial disconnected - my husband cut it so we wouldn't be tempted) not because of any moral anti-TV stance
(although he hates most stuff on telly)but because we were too skint to afford the TV license!! So we did DVDs for a year instead.
No-one ever came round to check!
I'm not smug about that though. Still thinking...
We don't have a dishwasher. Or a tumble dryer.
And we've only two operational storage heaters in the house.
I'm not smug about that either. I hate washing up, damp clothes on the airer, and being bloody cold.
Hmmm...struggling here...

loubielou31 · 21/10/2010 22:27

I'm feeling smug that when I stood on the scales last night I'd lost 9lbs in three weeks.
I have this evening undone all my good work by eating a chinese take away and I supect the batteries in the scales need changing anyway!

jacksmomma · 21/10/2010 22:28

I used to work with a woman who would smugly say I have never had a day off sick in ten years , but she did come in and pass on every virus she ever had to everyone else and complained all the live long day that she was Ill and did no work whatsoever !!

TheMeow · 21/10/2010 22:32

I have never been drunk. The majority of people may see this as a bad thing, but I am quite smug about this. Especially when saying it very very LOUDLY and repeatedly to my very hungover friends.

Diziet · 21/10/2010 22:34

Oooh hang on!
I can knit socks in the round and turn a heel, too.
[hgrin]

magicmummy1 · 22/10/2010 01:11

Ooh, I'm smug about a few things:

  • smug that dd really likes most fruit & veg and eats tons of them voluntarily (somewhat less smug about her passion for chocolate cake Hmm)
  • smug that I'm quite well-travelled & fluent in a number of languages
  • smug that dh and I have been together for 15 years, haven't killed each other yet and are still on speaking terms
Grin

Aspire to be smug about having a clean and orderly house (it's a pigsty), about getting up early (i'm a lazy cow) and about watching no junk on tv (don't watch much actually but have slavish addiction to x factor)

Can't stand people who are smug about religious faith, staying at home with their kids, only buying organic food etc etc

greenbananas · 22/10/2010 01:53

I am smug because my highly food-allergic DS has only ever had to ride in an ambulance twice. My family told me he would have many more trips to A&E than that. I am proud that I have managed to keep him safe.

I am ashamed ( only on MN!!!) because I shop at Asda - it's v. cheap and the closest supermarket to my home (I don't drive).

I would be smug about not using a diahwasher... except that we would use one if we could afford to buy one and have it plumbed in Grin

chefswife · 22/10/2010 02:12

I'm totally smug about my fabulous hair, its length, thickness and shine and that it is all real... no extensions, but only when its some trixie type girl with bad hair. I'm terrible. I'm sure karma gets me a little bit each day.

QueenStromba · 22/10/2010 02:17

victoriascrumptious:

You realise that you're probably going to break something now that you've said that? I mentioned that I'd never broken a bone a couple of months ago and broke my toe a few days later. I also have what I think is a fractured finger from separate incident.

PlentyOfPockets · 22/10/2010 09:15

Being smug about getting up early ... I used to think this was a generational thing - "early to bed and early to rise ...", then I became menopausal last year (rather early :( ) and realised it's an age thing. I no longer seem to be able to sleep past about 5.30. I don't feel smug, just bloody knackered.

It's weird though, isn't it? Nobody is smug about staying up late ... except kids :o