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

[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 🤣

Oh another one.
A few years ago an old friend of DHs invited himself to stay at our house because there was an event he wanted to attend near us. (He stayed for 8 fucking days).

Man in his 50s. He criticsed everything. One corker was standing over me while I was making spagetti bolognese and commenting; 'Mummy doesn;t make it like that'.

But the last day when he was leaving we were all having lunch at the pub. He proceeded to give me a rundown of everything he thought was wrong with our house, culminating in the classic line 'I would throw out all of your books and only keep first editions'.

My sister was present at that lunch and she very astutely commented afterwards that he likes to pretend to be an affable eccentric, but actually he was not nearly charming enough to pull it off.

I was told off my friends mum.

Apparently, it is very unladylike to say "I'm stuffed" if you are full.

You should say "I'm Complete"

My parents were killing themselves laughing when I told them.

We all still say it 25 years later

@Toasteh

Ok maybe the opposite of pretentious, but I was with my husband on a business trip in Saudi, and since he used to travel a lot we often stayed in an extremely nice hotel where got to access the lounge for unlimited champagne, wine and dinner + breakfast. Think top of the top (no need for a menu) and then a bit more. 😂 Anyway, every night there was an American business man in his 60’s sitting by himself in his very nice suit talking loudly on his phone sounding very important drinking his champagne. And then every morning for breakfast (as usual in nice suit and tie) he’d tell the waiter what he wanted, looked around and when he thought noone was watching he took out this giant tub of Peter Pan Creamy Peanut Butter from his bag to spread quickly on his bread and put it back again. It just made me smile, and not feel so out of place after all. 😂

Which hotel in Saudi Arabia serves alcohol????

@minou123

I was told off my friends mum.

Apparently, it is very unladylike to say "I'm stuffed" if you are full.

You should say "I'm Complete"

My parents were killing themselves laughing when I told them.

We all still say it 25 years later

I thought it was ‘replete’? My ex-boyfriends’s dad used to say this in an ironic way, along with ‘a scamper up the Ben’ if he was going hill walking. At least, I think it was ironic - he was super posh, but very lovely. Complete is a new one on me!

@SirChenjins

A trousseau was a normal thing though, in the past

Although others may have referred to it as their 'bottom drawer'

Or going back even further., their "hope chest".

DS is at his first formal halls dinner at Cambridge where male students must wear suits.

@2bazookas, this is odd. I thought Cambridge colleges were all about widening participation nowadays, not limiting attendance at formal hall for men to those who have access to a suit.

DH didn’t own a suit until he graduated, and I’d eaten at formal hall with him in his very traditional college every week for three years by then.

Friend went to lunch at this posh hotel place. Came back and said everyone was ‘so impressed’ by their older and second hand ‘luxury’ car in the car park.
By a twist of fate a mutual friend was there the same day and said the place was full of footballers /wives driving Porsche’s and Maseratis.

She also told everyone her husband is a university lecturer, he’s a technician who occasionally helps out.

SirChenjins

My dad said the same and thought it should be "replete"

But she definitely said "complete", because she said it a number a times

I had a work colleague who was very upset that his friends who were due to visit him may have to drive past some graffiti on a wall a few roads away from his home.
He worked out a route to avoid the graffiti and emailed it to them as a better route.

"But I should have the upgrade Mom. You know I can never sleep in coach!"

My own 10yo DD in front of everyone else in coach. Haha, as if.

coach? What's that? I don't understand what your post is even about!

@Yogsgirl coach means standard seats on a plane

@Yogsgirl

My friend came round for a drink in the garden during lockdown. She brought her own glass and Pimms with her- all fine. She put her glass and bottle on the table, then she said, "DH darling, will you come and pour my drink?" To which he dutifully came over from where he was chatting to my DH and poured her drink. The mind boggles!

Quoting myself, but same friend just messaged to say the theme for her birthday get-together is fur coats- she even expects teenage dd to wear one- we are going for a woodland walk! It's not happening- I will feel like an idiot dressed up in a fur coat when everyone else will be wearing walking boots and outdoor gear!

[quote MintyGreenDream]@Yogsgirl coach means standard seats on a plane[/quote]
Oh, I see- makes sense now- never heard it called that before!

My mum thinks that if you have a trampoline in your front garden and GOD FORBID a tv on your wall (instead of on a stand) then you are a chav 😂

At a festival a woman talking in full volume to her 2/3 year old clearly very sweet and bright little girl. "Well done for getting to colours right Maeve darling (patting on the head) private school is obviously paying off". All said very loud while looking around to see who was watching.
Her little Maeve was lovely and I also loved her name.npity about the parent.

Someone I know whenever she said she'd been to a restaurant, pronounced it in the proper French way 😁

@minou123

SirChenjins

My dad said the same and thought it should be "replete"

But she definitely said "complete", because she said it a number a times

Oh no!!

@Yogsgirl I think its an American term

At my school Speech day everyone brought picnics to eat on the cricket pitch in front of the school. These picnics were ridiculously show-off. However the family that equipped their picnic table with a candelabra definitely won the Pretentious Nouveau Riche award that year.

Oh and one of my very dear friends told me a story once while pissing herself with laughter. Her husband works in oil and they are VERY well off, living in the UAE. part of his work package is a set number for first class flights per year if he is travelling with his family.
DF and her DD travelled back to the UK without him one year and, shock horror, had to sit in economy. Dd had never flown economy and asked the stewardess when they would be bringing the menus around.

You could sneer but my friend is so lovely and self deprecating that I can't resent her good luck 😄

@DressBitch

He lost a glove which I found for him "I should be more careful with £80 gloves. If someone said that to me now, I would suggest he gets his mum to put his gloves on a piece of elastic and thread them through his coat. 😂 (Although I’m not sure I would have had the nerve to say that to a manager at 20)

I miss not having my gloves on elastic as am always losing one (of a cheap pair though).

@heywassuphello
Tbf
She is not wrong

@minou123

I was told off my friends mum.

Apparently, it is very unladylike to say "I'm stuffed" if you are full.

You should say "I'm Complete"

My parents were killing themselves laughing when I told them.

We all still say it 25 years later

It's definitely 'replete'. Unless you are my grandmother, who used to say that a lady should only ever have 'an elegant sufficiency' of a meal.

When I went to Totnes once there was bunting in the fucking car park. What's that all about?

I used to be a bit snobby about TV, hated shows like EastEnders and Strictly an d proudly said I love documentaries, and for a while, didn't own a TV. Now I love strictly and it's the highlight of my Saturday. Sad cow.