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 🤣

Why on earth is it pretentious to order an expensive bottle of wine?

@HollyandIvyandAllThingsYule

Why on earth is it pretentious to order an expensive bottle of wine?

No, it's just stupid.

Trousseau isn't a pretetious word. It is old fashioned and was used by bride's to describe her oufit of clothes to begin her married life. In the same way as "bottom drawer" described the things she put away towards her married life and new home.

Sweet really

Somewhere there is a waiter who thinks we're the most pretentious nobs he's ever met....

When in the throes of the terrible 2's we took my daughter out. We were planning pizza and had lured her on the promise of olives which she weirdly loved (only the tinned black olives, nothing fancy though).

Original plan was scuppered because the place was shut so we went elsewhere.

Anyway, DD didn't do well with the change of plans and hurled herself on the floor pounding her fists and wailing about the lack of olives.

The rest of the restaurant were sniggering and I wanted the ground to swallow me.

We're in a big University city so if we have coffee in town we're often sitting near a group of students discussing MEANINGFUL THINGS in VERY LOUD VOICES. Recent examples:

• The boundless wonder of obscure old bands (Guns'n'Roses)
• Arriving at lectures in style: unicycle or skateboard?
• The boundless woes of having more job prospects than you know what to do with
• What to spend one's book bursary on

A mum who told me that they had just had to splash out on a brand new large Mercedes to transport her daughter’s harp. She was so serious telling me and didn’t appear to be bragging. She said they simply had no choice!

my sister! all thr her life, shes now 52 married and has 2 teenage daughters, my sister has been a fussy eater from a toddler and she was always pandered too, which then carried on with her own kids until about7 years back at my daughters wedding we saw the girls scoffing down platefulls of food while their mum wasnt looking, then running back to the end of the que for the buffet and getting a fresh plate and having yet more stuff, until mum walked in and was in that high pitch voice that comes with nose in the air, oh girls! here you are have a nice healthy carrot stick! well we just fell about laughing at her, the girls had been ramming sarnies and cream cakes and sausage rolls and scotch eggs down their gobs 5 mins before hand, and once mums back was turned one of the other bridesmaids handed them a plate full of the stuff they liked yup you guessed it sarnies scotch eggs trifle, you name it, the carrot sticks got binned!

"I do wear a cardigan every day you know"

That is too Les Dawson for words, love it!

People who put stone lions outside tiny houses as if they are aristocracy. Cringe.

People who think things like 'correct' language and spelling denote intelligence. (Tell that to any poet etc pre Dr Johnson)

People who say they don't like txt speak as its low brow (don't read any Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs then lol all vowel free).

So many really! Loads of everyday 'common sense' that is actually pretentious waffle.

@kinzarose hahaha that’s brilliant! She wears a cardigan 😂😂😂

Apologies, I meant "pretentious" and "brides "

@lcl

A friend of ours ordered a £95 bottle of wine when we were out having a meal with them . Absolutely pretentious.

Utterly stupid, you mean!🤣

Some of the women here are utterly vulgar.
Oh dear…🤢

Silly woman at work who used ‘awesome’ nonstop after spending 6 weeks in Florida

When in laws moved into their new home I commented how nice their new flat was, 'flat???- said MIL 'it's an APARTMENT not a flat, flats are for council estates'. ....
I grew up on a council estate

Local online mums group where somebody asked how they could stop their children from pinching too many snacks and treats from their kitchen. One mum commented that in her house she ‘had a drawer in her island’ containing snacks that’s the children would never dream of accessing without her say so!

@84Win

Met someone through work, who when asked, said she lived in a place she pronounced as "Batt-ErhSeeUh" Turns out (after some perplexed inquisition) that she lived in Battersea, and was just a bit of a knob. Can't rename a place just because you're embarrassed, love.

Or like a former work colleague who referred to the place as ‘South Chelsea’...

@TheOnlyMrsM

fried potatoes Surely for Cam22 only pomme frites would do?

Pomme frîtes, sin sal, avec oui oui!

I'll get my coat...

@MummyG44

A mum who told me that they had just had to splash out on a brand new large Mercedes to transport her daughter’s harp. She was so serious telling me and didn’t appear to be bragging. She said they simply had no choice!

Honestly. I wouldn’t say that was bragging either. Sometimes things just happen as ridiculous as they may sound.

I grew up in the US Deep South and I am a woman of a certain age. It used to be part of pre-wedding rituals in the South for a bride to have a "trousseau tea," usually given by her mother or other close relative for close friends and relatives to come to the bride's home to have light refreshments and view the trousseau, which was usually new clothes that had been purchased for her new married life. I went to a few when I was in my late teens and early 20s, but I think the practice has died out.

I have a relative that shops in Lidl & Aldi but takes Waitrose carrier bags with her 'in case someone from the church sees me'

@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 😂😂

How did you keep a straight face!

Do you live in Enfield?

I used to be a twat and said some twatty things.

For perspective, I grew up with very little amongst fairly wealthy friends.

I, luckily, fell into an industry that paid well and I felt like I had a point to prove to all those in my past with money. The irony is, no-one ever made me feel bad, it was all my own problem AND I moved far away and haven't seen these people since my late teens.....

I try not to be a twat any more, I have nothing to prove (and never have 😀)