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 🤣

My BIL is one whole mass of pretentiousness. He's actually quite a nice guy , and he makes me laugh but sometimes he just can't help himself . Big on his local parish council , name drops where he stays "I was very disappointed with breakfast at the Savoy , personally I find the Dorchester has that extra finesse ". - you know ?

When he came to my wedding , he cornered my BF because she'd rushed back from her last job to make it - a trip of some 300 miles . " Oh what were you doing ?" He trilled . " Delivering a boat " she replied "Golly ! " says he " And what part of the crew do you play ? "

" Architect " she replied .

She is in a team that designs super yachts for the super rich . The perk is that she gets to deliver them . She'd just returned from Tahiti .

I'm not sure why asking for goose, for Christmas, is pretentious, or posh?

@Whattheduck

I became acquainted again through my dd’s weekend activity with someone I worked with many years ago.There were a group of us and we’d sit and have a coffee and catch up whilst our dd’s we’re off doing their thing.The lady I knew said she’d got to pop out to pick a parcel up from John Lewis so off she goes she returns with said parcel and puts it on the table as I glance at it I notice it’s addressed to a ‘Lady X’ instead of ‘Mrs X’ which she was known as when I worked with her.She must have noticed that I’d seen it as she said “oh I’m not a Mrs anymore we are both Lord and Lady X as it gives you a better class of service and people are intrigued by it”.

Was her surname Muck!? Just asking ...

What is an egg spoon? I thought everybody used a teaspoon?

@Hdhdjejdj

What is an egg spoon? I thought everybody used a teaspoon?

But not a silver spoon as the silver oxidises with egg and tastes farty!

@plominoagain

My BIL is one whole mass of pretentiousness. He's actually quite a nice guy , and he makes me laugh but sometimes he just can't help himself . Big on his local parish council , name drops where he stays "I was very disappointed with breakfast at the Savoy , personally I find the Dorchester has that extra finesse ". - you know ?

When he came to my wedding , he cornered my BF because she'd rushed back from her last job to make it - a trip of some 300 miles . " Oh what were you doing ?" He trilled . " Delivering a boat " she replied "Golly ! " says he " And what part of the crew do you play ? "

" Architect " she replied .

She is in a team that designs super yachts for the super rich . The perk is that she gets to deliver them . She'd just returned from Tahiti .

Actually no….just the big house….. apparently replacement staff are easy in the squires.

Wrong quote - soz

@mm40

Wrong quote - soz

Can’t get the staff these days 🙄😂

@mm40
🤣🤣🤣🤣 brilliant

This one is more from a self-importance point of view than ‘poshness’. In fact, I think the person it concerns probably considers himself very down to earth, so would be surprised to find himself on this thread!

Some years ago, when a colleague of mine returned from sabbatical, we had a ‘welcome back’ lunch. He’d had his first tattoo whilst off - a logo/symbol associated with his favourite band. Another colleague, very heavily tattooed, was saying ‘Oh, you must really love [band] - it’s really important to only have tattoos that really mean something. All mine mean something special to me’.

I was desperately willing Colleague 1 not to rise to the the bait - but he made the fatal mistake of asking ‘Oh; what does that one mean?’, pointing at the most visible. We learned about that one and all the others - even those we couldn’t see - in the most excruciating detail. But then came the moment when I was nearly reunited with my lunch. He showed us his most recent one and said, without a trace of irony, ‘This is my most recent one. I’m not ready to tell anyone what it means just yet. When the time is right and I know I’m ready, I’ll tell people.’

After we left, another colleague - also heavily tattooed - said to me, ‘I’m so, so sorry.’ When I asked what for, she said, ‘If I’ve ever been anywhere NEAR as wanky about any of my tattoos as that.’

@ACNHMAMA

I used to work with a lady who "pan fried" everything she made for her tea.

One day someone asked her if she had a deep fat fryer, because otherwise why did she feel the need to distinguish the method of frying.

Well I always fry everything in a teapot and I'm not pretentious at all

It really irritates me when people try to make out that ‘pan fried’ is prentious/wanky. It isn’t. It quite rightly differentiates between frying in a pan and deep frying.

@Hdhdjejdj just raided the kitchen drawer! Egg spoon on the left, standard teaspoon on the right. I popped an egg in the pic for reference. The little egg spoon is really useful if your eggs are small. Please be kind and don't comment adversely about the design of the spoon! I have chrome Apostle spoons that belonged to my Aunt, not a stylistic choice, but the kids love them and seems to be a family thing as my mother had them as well.

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Overheard by my friend who was ahead of me coming out of a mother and toddler group....

Mother leaning in the car brushing crumbs out with her hand
Jack darling don't make a mess you know daddy will have a car full of executives tomorrow

That’s wonderful. Thanks @myfaceismyown. I can see they are quite different. How lovely to have something that has passed down the family that you can still use everyday.

@NatashaRf

David Jason

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

"Don't you know who I am?"

What? No please tell me this isn't true, I adore David Jason. It's not true is it?

@Hdhdjejdj that was a lovely thing to say. I agree, its nice to use family things for their purpose and keep happy memories alive.

A relative who I am now NC ......
Thinks she is above rest of family but as we are related we know different and could certainly tell some tales about her and her husband....

On the phone to him she was saying in a snooty voice....oh I know we would never act like these people .
These people were family she was spending the day with and there was absolutly nothing for her to be complaining about

I am clearly challenged on the culinary front. I thought that deep frying was for chips and mars bars and just frying was eggs and eggy bread.
Probably not going to ever say pan fried, just feels a bit too masterchef for me.

The pan fried thing is a bit of a weird one. I would say "pan fried plaice/salmon/tuna" but not "pan fried eggs". I think with the fish I am thinking I have only fried it in a pan, I have not breadcrumbed, floured, battered, or otherwise coated it as I might if it was called fried fish. But then I wouldn't coat an egg, so on Sunday I might surprise the family. Pan fried eggs anyone?

@AmySnowlish

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

I've managed fairly successfully to eat cake and soup without specialist cutlery. It's really not too tricky.

(Although I'm not trying to suggest they are pretentious items. I don't think they are)

Group of school mams insist on speaking to each other in french at the school gate. We all live in northeast England and I’m pretty sure the one from furthest away is a scouser!!

@allFluffyBooBoo congratulations.

@mumwon

Me aged 5 (eons ago) when visiting an aunt & when given some cake "Can I have a cake fork?" This became a family joke - I was given some cake forks next birthday (Blame my dm she made a big thing of tea time when setting the table)

Just remembered that both my boys do this. The youngest was almost two when he started! 🤣