What is the most pretentious thing you've seen someone do?

Dibble135 · 05/10/2021 22:44

My old boss used to speak about himself in the third person 🙄

lifecoachingandotherbollocks · 05/10/2021 22:47

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DaveCoaches · 05/10/2021 22:49

I don’t know if this classes as pretentious or just snobby, but overheard a woman bragging that she knew all the quiz answers about books but none of the ones about TOWIE and reality TV - fair enough but she was really sneery about it.

GreySweater · 05/10/2021 22:54

I have the misfortune to be working (distantly - she is based in USA) with someone on a project (basically we pay her / her team loads of money for consulting and they don't do a lot). She is very well connected with many senior leaders in my company, hence the reason she has the project. She often name drops - for example she has referred to wonderful moments 'of clarity' she has had when with her very good friend 'Michelle' (Obama). I love Michelle (but her 'friend' is a dick).

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 05/10/2021 22:54

I was in a waiting room once with my dd, she was there with her Peppa Pig shoes on playing with the toys.

Another mum came in with her child, he was about 3 or 4, and he went off to play with my dd.

The mum then said "Oh, peppa pig shoes, does your dd like peppa pig" I replied that she loved it. She then said "Oh how did you manage to get her to like that, my ds simply refuses to watch anything except David Attenborough documentaries, I wish he would dumb down and watch cartoons sometimes". It was so pretentious it was funny 😂😂

Ionlydomassiveones · 05/10/2021 22:56

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katesbushh · 05/10/2021 22:57

A parent at another childs birthday party (at their house I should add) tipped away the beaker of water provided to their child by the hosts
And re filled it out a bottle of acqua panna from her bag
And took the Quavers from his plate and gave him a handful of organix also produced from the bag of wonder.
He was 8 ish at the time.

She had form though. Ha

CarolynMartens · 05/10/2021 22:57

I was making bored small talk at a conference, it was mostly local businesses so I asked a woman if she mainly worked in the area and she looked down her nose and said “darling we’re international”.

OVienna · 05/10/2021 23:00

@kinzarose

Inspired by another thread. When I was at university there was an older lady who thought she was vair posh, was very keen to have her designer labels on display and loved name dropping brands into conversation. We had a group tutorial over lunch once, so we all ate together. This woman took a two foot (yes, literally) wooden salt and pepper mill out of her bag, stood up and started grinding pepper onto the shop bought sandwich she had with her. It was just the most pretentious thing ever, she was a "food snob" apparently 🤣

This is hysterical. I love it.

godmum56 · 05/10/2021 23:23

@kinzarose

Inspired by another thread. When I was at university there was an older lady who thought she was vair posh, was very keen to have her designer labels on display and loved name dropping brands into conversation. We had a group tutorial over lunch once, so we all ate together. This woman took a two foot (yes, literally) wooden salt and pepper mill out of her bag, stood up and started grinding pepper onto the shop bought sandwich she had with her. It was just the most pretentious thing ever, she was a "food snob" apparently 🤣

sounds like Mary Poppins carpet bag :)

Suddenlyfamily5 · 05/10/2021 23:32

My MIL telling me about her trousseau.

JazzyBBG · 05/10/2021 23:39

We have a friend who likes to tell us "I paid cash for it" but it isn't his cash, it's his father in law's!

SheikhLaBootie · 05/10/2021 23:45

Not seen but heard male colleague gushing about how 'delightfully unpretentious' Lidl wine was unlike him

earsup · 05/10/2021 23:46

An ex colleague at work who bragged about her 3 cars....small, medium and large....apparently she needed 3 as she had a 2 year old son and his safety on journeys was paramount hence different vehicles for different types of journeys....all on finance and payments juggled constantly to avoid the repo men.....!!...Hilarious....glad to never see this awful self entitled woman ever again..!!

CheshireLife · 05/10/2021 23:48

One which springs to mind for some reason.

At a relatively trendy religious festival, I was waiting for it to begin with some friends, when I noticed two late teen girls and a young lad walking towards the front. One of the girls, assisted by the other, began a chant and started to throw sweets into the crowd. She made a big show of doing it and mostly towards a noisy group who joined in with the chant. Later on was standing much closer to the stage than she was really meant to be, as of she knew the guys in the band.

I assumed it was staged to help whip the crowd up but later found they never did this.

noblegreenk · 05/10/2021 23:51

@Suddenlyfamily5

My MIL telling me about her trousseau.

I don't even know what trousseau is!

Twofurrycats · 05/10/2021 23:54

Complaining that the garage had given her a mercedes saloon as a courtesy car when her children were used to an SUV. And yes she insisted they swap it.
A relative so determined to show off his new, gold curb bracelet that he wore it over the cuff of his jumper so it could be seen at all times.

Tulips15 · 05/10/2021 23:59

Drove their 'A-B' car home and returned in their new expensive car- A 2min walk from house to bus stop, to collect their child.., to make all the other parents 'jealous'at the bust stop where we collected the primary age children.
Their exact words were ' Can't be seen in the cheap car'🤣

Tulips15 · 06/10/2021 00:04

Another one, a group of Mums were at the park when one mentioned their daughter had got into the uni of choice to study law.

Another Mum piped in 'oh she's done well considering she went to Comp'
The above mum sent her kids to boarding school, the other mum sent her kid to the local High school.
Such a dick comment!

AdoptedBumpkin · 06/10/2021 00:14

I once knew someone who would give fake addresses when buying stuff to sound more upmarket. Then she'd have to collect it.

SpindleWhirl · 06/10/2021 00:15

The man who forgot how to speak English having spent the summer in France. He couldn't actually speak French though, so communicated to us in mangled franglais.

God that was funny.

AdoptedBumpkin · 06/10/2021 00:20

@SpindleWhirl

Fleshmechanic · 06/10/2021 00:26

@DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult

I was in a waiting room once with my dd, she was there with her Peppa Pig shoes on playing with the toys.

Another mum came in with her child, he was about 3 or 4, and he went off to play with my dd.

The mum then said "Oh, peppa pig shoes, does your dd like peppa pig" I replied that she loved it. She then said "Oh how did you manage to get her to like that, my ds simply refuses to watch anything except David Attenborough documentaries, I wish he would dumb down and watch cartoons sometimes". It was so pretentious it was funny 😂😂

Fucking LOL that is too good holy shit. What a c*.

Ulelia · 06/10/2021 00:27

A headteacher who described himself as an 'education revolutionary'.

Perching · 06/10/2021 00:28

Family gathering, summer, multiple generations. This male family member puts on his varsity jacket and tie for a small welcome speech and to say grace, all of 7 minutes tops.