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 🤣

@DarlingFell

Some of these posts are not concerning examples of pretentious behaviour, they are simply describing every day occurrences

I agree. And some of the posts are definitely wishful thinking.

@Malin52
I don't think it's pretentious to think that at all. It's part of a first class experience to get straight to your seat with no impedance. It's the whole point! There should be your own airbridge and ticket check and no queue.

DH and I flew BA First class to LAX and I was raging that they'd fucked up the gates and we had to be bussed to the plane somewhere at the arse end of Heathrow which was essentially a 20 minute bus ride. Not only that but it was a bun fight to the bus with economy passengers and we had to stand the whole way to the plane while a seated child kicked my shins. I was FUMING! DH still refers to it as my princess moment but I think I was extremely restrained!

I think he was extremely restrained in calling you a 'princess' rather than anything else.

[quote PowerNap]@Malin52
I don't think it's pretentious to think that at all. It's part of a first class experience to get straight to your seat with no impedance. It's the whole point! There should be your own airbridge and ticket check and no queue.

DH and I flew BA First class to LAX and I was raging that they'd fucked up the gates and we had to be bussed to the plane somewhere at the arse end of Heathrow which was essentially a 20 minute bus ride. Not only that but it was a bun fight to the bus with economy passengers and we had to stand the whole way to the plane while a seated child kicked my shins. I was FUMING! DH still refers to it as my princess moment but I think I was extremely restrained!

I think he was extremely restrained in calling you a 'princess' rather than anything else.[/quote]
Well the point I was making is that I'm the least 'princessy' person ever. I take London buses everyday for a start. The promise of a first class experience that involved a brief, packed bus ride however suddenly turned me in a raging pseud. So yes. It was me being pretentious. Although I still think I wasn't unreasonable!

David Jason

Shouted at a paramedic as the ambulance was holding him up.

"Don't you know who I am?"

@Hdhdjejdj

I’m really enjoying this. I think my favourite is the nanny who had to refer to crumpets as pikelets.

In the vey slight defence of the parents the names of things can vary in different parts of the country though I'm sure that's not what they meant! I recall being a bit puzzled when future MIL asked if I would like a tea cake with some ham on it, where I lived, 40 miles away, a tea cake was sweet with currants!

@SisforSoppy

"what did you read at university?". I've been asked this more than once. Its such a fucking pretentious question that only people who've been to oxbridge ask. The rest of us study at university and have fun.

That used to be the norm, University Challenge always had Blah Blah from Somewhere reading Something.

@JudgeJ yes but in this case crumpets are quite different from pikelets. The mother obviously felt the word crumpet was far too common for her darlings

@EdgeOfTheSky

Er Ecover, not Exocet!

Lol they really need to add an edit button to these comments

@NatashaRf

David Jason

Shouted at a paramedic as the ambulance was holding him up.

"Don't you know who I am?"

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tell me that's not true please

Used to work in a village in Berkshire, turned out that both me and the other woman in the office lived near each other in Slough, on discovering this one of the men we worked with visibly shuddered and announced, "Oh I always have to lock the doors on my Porsche if I ever have to drive through Slough!"

@minou123

I'll admit to my own recent pretentious wankery.

Spring cleaning my house, I found I own small forks to eat cakes (or cake forks, if you will).

Much hilarity, I rang my mum to tell her and found myself asking her if she still had the Grapefruit Spoons and if I could have them, as its the only way I'll eat grapefruit.

Snob, moi? Never

I recently managed to prise open a tin box that had come from MIL's house when she died years ago and inside were some beautiful silver fish knives and forks. I cleaned them and went out and bought myself a Dover sole to be able to use them! Similarly I inherited some cake forks and took them into work when I took a cake in, my department were very puzzled, Where's the spoons? Bloody plebs! I also have some grapefruit spoons, from my late parents so not at all silver, they do make eating a grapefruit easier though, nice and pointy. When we were with the military and they equipped quarters we also had on our inventory 'spoons, egg: spoons, coffee'. The egg spoons were very small and ideal for a boiled egg.

It was me. Styling a photo of my cosy night in but really just showcasing my Gucci slippers. Ditto boiling hot washing car. Really just me in front of my Camero I am that shallow fool..

I don't even wash my car myself

@MedusasBadHairDay

Used to work in a village in Berkshire, turned out that both me and the other woman in the office lived near each other in Slough, on discovering this one of the men we worked with visibly shuddered and announced, "Oh I always have to lock the doors on my Porsche if I ever have to drive through Slough!"

My OH would always insist on the windows being up whenever he got lost and we found ourselves in Moss Side! Not snobbery, more self-preservation.

Sorry @PingoPingoPingoPingoPingoPong very true.

He's local and heard other just as unpleasant stories about the guy.

The cardia is part of the digestive system, the top of the stomach near the oesophagus......Latin for heart is Cor. The core of the community would be a nice little pun. Yes it's Greek for heart but cardia in English is part of the gut

That was to a comment on p fifteen lol

I remember when I was young, but old enough to go to the grocers to get a few bits of shopping, waiting behind a lady having her bacon sliced, who was talking to another lady waiting behind her. This is when colour TVs had just come in and were really expensive. Talking about a TV programme she had watched and didn't a certain tv person have such beautiful blue eyes
A member of the family at a mutual family member's funeral. We knew someone called 'Fred Bloggs' who had been knighted for various charitable endeavours and business acumen or something. , and had worked with the deceased, known to our family as Fred. Fred could not be there, sadly but family members felt it necessary to say he had spoken to Sir Fred Bloggs yesterday, as and this is Sir Fred had said xyz nice things about the deceased, which family member would like to let us know. Lots of other people had said nice or interesting things about deceased family member, who couldn't be there as it was holiday time, which were just as interesting and more amusing. Very cringeworthy

I am really confused about all the references to pretentious cutlery in this thread. Surely you use the right tool for the right use? An egg spoon is small as eggs are small. Cake forks have a flat edge to cut a portion of cake and then stab it to eat so you don't get messy fingers. The knife of fish eaters is wide and flat so you can press the soft fish onto the fork, there is nothing pretentious about this, its just useful and sensible. Just laughing at the thought of someone trying to eat a boiled egg with a soup spoon.... !

"Felicitations! Let's have a decco at the sparkler""

That and a few other postings on this thread I can see Jim Royale, or Onslo (keeping up appearances) come out with them.

Cake forks and soup spoons useful, imo. You can manage without the rest.

Spindle, I went to Welsh camp when I was in the sixth form. English was banned , when I came home I couldn't speak English unless I translated it from Welsh so these forgetting English things do happen

I love my cake forks, they're not fancy silver or anything it just makes it more fun when there's an occasion to use them!

@myfaceismyown

I am really confused about all the references to pretentious cutlery in this thread. Surely you use the right tool for the right use? An egg spoon is small as eggs are small. Cake forks have a flat edge to cut a portion of cake and then stab it to eat so you don't get messy fingers. The knife of fish eaters is wide and flat so you can press the soft fish onto the fork, there is nothing pretentious about this, its just useful and sensible. Just laughing at the thought of someone trying to eat a boiled egg with a soup spoon.... !

Yes I agree with this.

It’s not pretentious to have, and use, cake forks and/or other purpose-made cutlery for goodness sake.

Just like it isn’t automatically pretentious to enjoy eating good food or drinking good wine. For many people it’s just part of who they are -they’ve got the means to appreciate the finer things in life; they can afford it so why not! Of course doing so purely for the sake of showing off or boasting, or deliberately making others feel bad or inferior for not having that appetite or the money to buy it, is another thing entirely. I’d never spend £95 on a bottle of wine, but if a friend or relative of mine did so I’d not find it obnoxious nor pretentious (in and of itself, anyway) and I’d happily drink it and appreciate it.

My wife always insists on calling my car the Rolls and her car the Bentley rather than my car and her car, she is ok otherwise and quite nice to the staff.

@mm40

My wife always insists on calling my car the Rolls and her car the Bentley rather than my car and her car, she is ok otherwise and quite nice to the staff.

I hope that's the staff in all of your houses and not just in your main residence.