To find my family a bit common and embarrassing

[holdonfor1moreday]

Or am I just pretentious?

They love the cakes at pat Valarie and go on about them. When I think these are vile made off site factory cakes that are frozen.

They played the sam smith album and went on about how good his voice is and all that. Sounds like music for people that dont like music IMO.

They are wolfing down cadburys chocolate saying how delicious it is. Over sweet waxy stuff - give me Mr Roth any day.

I just don't feel on the same level as them. Really average lives and I just have nothing in common with them.

I think the OP is long gone but I have 2 general observations about relatives.

1. they sound enthusiastic. I'd far rather spend time with people raving about naff stuff than moaning.
2. no one but a twat judges anyone on their relatives, rather the way they treat them. If you turn up to my event with Auntie Pat Butcher and you introduce her kindly and maybe even steer the conversation away from the silly things she says to include other people 'oh yes there were no shops before Iceland moved in, you lived there then Clarissa where did you go?' You're showing you're kind and thoughtful. If you snap at her or say I use Ocado I will judge you.

You are related to them and that is what you have in common.

I share DNA with members of my family too. I've never fallen out with them over cakes though. I don't like my brother's taste in music, but it's not bad enough to go NC with him.

Yabatwat.
Although I have gone off Pat Val, they have definitely gone down hill since they branched out, the last time I had one it tasted like my sisters Costco birthday cake, all overly sickly.

Bollocks.

Just been on the PV website and found that my nearest one is more than 20 miles away in Cambridge. So I can't just pop over there for lunch and return to regale you all with my informed opinions.

I fancied the look of some of those cakes too.

Really average lives and I just have nothing in common with them.

What a horrible thing to say. Shame on you OP. No life is 'average'. Every person has their own tales and experiences, their own likes and dislikes, their own dreams and aspirations, etc. Who are you to decide that theirs simply aren't good enough? By whose standards - yours? What makes you believe you're so much better than these people? You sound pretentious, judgmental and unkind. If I were your family, I'd be glad to have nothing in common with you based on those traits alone

I can't believe this post!

Do you listen to bands that don't exist yet made me actually laugh out loud!

I wouldn't judge other people for what they like.

PV has gone from 6 stores to hundreds, the cakes have changed to cater to the mass market. It's not surprising that people that used to like the place don't rate it these days. Loads of people slate them online for having bland cakes.

food.list.co.uk/place/45004-patisserie-valerie/
pettygripes.com/discussion/1074/patisserie-valerie-served-me-a-half-frozen-chocolate-eclair

You knew you were going to get flamed, didn't you?

Maybe OP can be found at Flouncers' Corner now.

I find it funny that the op doesn't think her life is average.

At the end of the day 99.9% of the worlds population lead average lives, very few will make history, the overwhelming majority will be a part of the forgotten masses within the next four generations of their own families.

OP, if you are a sixth former and / or Adrian Mole then you are permitted to feel this way until you grow up and get over yourself, but please learn some basic grammar.

PS I like Sam Smith, and I like Wilson Phillips - but you can't be snobby about the former if you're named after the latter.

What is so,fantastic about OP life to make it above average?

You like Wilson Phillips op! It doesn't get more mainstream than that! If you are going to snear at anyone else's taste in music, you have to pretend to like something like, y'know, really deep and that. Wilson Phillips doesn't cut it, Steve Reich or Ornette Coleman might.

Off subject I realise, but are the emojis that look like boobs that loads have people have posted meant to be cakes? Very confused by what looks like lots of nipples. Never seen cakes like that in PV!

It's a jammy dodger biscuit Xena.

I suppose could also be used for calling somebody 'a right '

probably me as nobody will know what I mean.

I think you have a HUGE chip on your shoulder, haha.

Holdonforonemoreday - was this just a wind up to see how bad it copied get?

Ha you'd love us op, we have a car that smokes from the exhaust like Onslo's in Keeping up Appearances and [whispers] it's a Skoda... dh draws the line at string vests though. I don't have sisters named after flowers, but we do have cats called Lily and Daisy - how common!!

As long as you don't show your dislike, there's nothing wrong with feeling the way you do.
What's is frustrating is to see the huge number or self righteous, judgmental comments about your feelings, because as I understand it, you're only expressing them, you're not asking for advice, forgiveness or condonance.
The world is full of all sorts and so long as you respect your family/friends regardless of how they present themselves all is well.
Note to self: don't write that sort of post when you know we live in a world where everything you say is judge before taking time to exercise comprehension.

If you don't want comments back why make them - total waste of life.

Common and embarrassing is what I feel when people burp and fart in public, (and fail to say, "Excuse me," or "Pardon me"), swearing loudly, getting stupidly drunk, or wearing inappropriate clothes that are way too revealing. I love Cadbury's chocolate, Sam Smith, and Pat Valerie, and East Enders. As for referring to people as having 'really average lives' I think your remarks are really rude and offensive - your family must think you are incredibly pretentious and a snob. We are all different and have varying tastes in things, which over the years can change. I suggest you try and find something positive that you can relate to with your family and work on your grammar.

I think you have a HUGE chip on your shoulder

I agree, although I suspect the op will be keen to tell us that it is a Heston Blumenthal triple cooked in duck fat chip on her shoulder. Whereas her family have Iceland crinkle cut on their shoulders.

Ha ha I have just come out of hospital today and this has cheered me up no end!

Verily I conclude;

• The OP has such an amazing life (developing cure for cancer/ambassador to UN/spending partners money on labels that her narcissism is normal and it far more worthy than the rest of us plebs

I feel really sorry for her - there is absolutely nothing worse than an aspiring middle class narcissist. She deserves our pity.
Poor self esteem is an awful thing.
I bet she feels amazing every time she visits members of her gene pool.
Is she a reincarnation of Marie Antoinette! Let them eat cake!
I would love to go out on the piss with her folks - providing she stopped ay home and put the lidl salad cream into Marks and Spencer bottles