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 🤣

I went to a play date and a friend of a friend was with her toddler, while the other toddlers had, squash, water or milk in their beaker cups her 2 year old had a clear beaker of green tea, with some weird leafy bits floating around in it. Poor kid kept trying to steal all the other toddler's drinks at any given opportunity

My neighbour reeling off item by item where the clothes her kids were wearing came from. I loved the look of horror on her face when I told her my three were dressed by Primark and Oxfam.
Oh and when they went camping she told me they’d got a “designer tent”. Is there actually such a thing? 🤔😂

Talking of cake forks, when my sons were small, one of them went through a stage of disliking getting his hands dirty with food.
He was at a birthday party, aged around 4, birthday cake came round and he looked around and then said to the party host primly; “is there a cake fork I could use?”
She’s totally lovely and, being Chinese, seems to think that all British people are very cultured and fancy and this totally reinforced her view of us forever.

@myfaceismyown

My mum has apostle spoons she inherited from her mum. Not many left now but you just reminded me to ask her to keep them for me

@EdenFlower

Everyone I know removes the skin from a roast chicken before carving it! I wouldn't eat chicken skin either! I don't think that's pretentious! It's unhealthy!

What’s unhealthy about it?

@HangingOver

The person that wrote this review:

"Having arrived on a solo expedition out prior to the streets heating up on a friday. I was shunned to a small table away in the corner at the door where if theres a smoker outside youll benefit their habbit drafting through the door. Left to my own devices for 15 mins my patience broke and ordered a classic carbonara. It arrived without the bs of a overly shallow presentstion, instead relying on its own merit. Sauce and seasoning were better than most, the pasta cooked to perfection... Where it has fallen down though is in the use of good ole fasioned cut fatty back bacon rashers in place of pancetta. So eat responsibly and eat around the fat, it'll take some time cutting it off too, but ask for a spoon; it's easier to fork wrap that way. Almost 20 minutes after finishing packed up my phone, donned the jacket and went in search of the bill. Smells from the kitchen and tables near by still had me salivating. Id still have to find faith in ingredients choice to be honest. If you're not a regular fan of eating out Italian, you won't be disappointed or know the difference. All in all, tasty but lacking"

Awkwardly for them carbonara should be made with guanciale not pancetta.

@Mackmama

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!!

Ha ha! this is amazing

@Ionlydomassiveones

Round where I live - buying period properties and turning them into modern grey and glass monstrosities with huge, naff concrete fountains and fake grass.

I utterly hate those grey glass monstrosities. They are supposed to look chic, but I think they look cheap.

Here is a funny story about pretentious or snobbiness that you might find interesting:

When Princess Diana was dating Prince Charles the paparazzi were all over her from day one. She was getting pestered wherever she went and this was annoying the queen, so she summoned a couple of journalists to court. She told them off for following Diana around everywhere and the girl couldn't even go to the shops in peace.
Apparently one of the journalists said, "doesn't she have servants to go to the shops for her?"
The queen replied, "that's the most snobbish thing I have ever heard!"

@EdenFlower

Everyone I know removes the skin from a roast chicken before carving it! I wouldn't eat chicken skin either! I don't think that's pretentious! It's unhealthy!

I don't like the taste or texture of it, but there's nothing unhealthy about it.

[quote myfaceismyown]@allmumwon I am not sure you get the complate picture, but I get where you are coming from. The list must surely include: lost teaspoons, egg spoons, demi tasse spoons, grapefruit spoons, dessert spoons, soup spoons, marmalade spoons, coffee spoons, honey spoons, latte spoons, syrup spoons, knickerbocker glory spoons, caviar spoons, table spoons, serving spoons, sugar spoons, porringer spoons, mustard spoons, salt spoons, gravy spoons, horseradish spoons, béarnaise sauce spoons, mayonnaise spoons, ketchup spoons, soda spoons, latte spoons, chocolate spoons, entree spoons, olive spoons, ice cream spoons, fruit spoons, apostle spoons, Kanji spoons, Chinese spoons, salad spoon, baby spoon, cocktail spoon, tasting spoon... and please don't get me started on wooden spoons or ladles... :D[/quote]
Wetherspoons

😂

@SpindleWhirl

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.

This is just brilliant!

"Try using an ASDA bag in Waitrose. When I did, the checkout lady pulled a face like I'd spat on the conveyor belt."

In This Thread: a bunch of fabricated anecdotes copied and pasted from the infamous Overheard In Waitrose facebook shitpost page...

I guarantee this never happened. I often end up in the Waitrose branch of a very-ok part of London, (and I worked at checkouts for years), and I guarantee that staff aren't interested in either your bags or their brand identity.

In fact, the more I see this exact story being rehashed here, the more it starts to look like snobbery on the poster's part (unfairly caricaturing shop staff while clearly not understanding the nature of service-based jobs at all).

Some of these posts are genuinely funny and surprising. Some are just blatant signalling!!!

Agreed, @rainbowmash. Plus, the snobbiest supermarket cashier I've ever encountered worked at ASDA.

When I had DD1 she was small for dates and had to stay in SCBU and I was in the postnatal ward.

The lady in the opposite bed was so horrified to be in an NHS hospital. Her DS had been born prematurely and was jaundiced and she told everyone every day as loudly as possible that 'he was supposed to be born at the Portland but we were staying at our country home'

Her husband worked in the city and turned up every night in his pinstripe suit, red socks and shiny shoes. She was an events manager and she was constantly on her mobile very loudly to colleagues saying things like 'yeh yeh I think 20 crates of bolly at least'. She was very upset when her DS pooed all up his new Dior babygro that her sister had sent.

They were such a parody that I would not have believed it if I didn't see it.

I was heading into a supermarket when a noisy open topped shiny sports car squealed up in the car park and its ultra glam young driver got out, strutted into shop and came out again, a matter of minutes. Arrogance personified. She sashayed up to the car, noisily started it up and backed it into the guard rail of the car park with a loud crunch. She'd attracted quite a bit of attention in the short time she was there and earned herself a lengthy round of applause from the spectators.

@Longwayoff That reminds me of a man I saw driving his cabriolet with the roof down.
In a heavy snowfall!

I moved to a city in The North from London, once when I was back down south for a party someone asked me if they had Sushi in Manchester.

My DS was at a talk about journalism for young people. A girl behind him asked if the news was dumbed down for northerner. DS was the only northerner in there.

ohgiveup you win!

LivingDead, in 1986 or so, visiting US singers asked my workplace to provide them with 30 new white bath towels and, oh bugger, sushi for 15 people. Sushi? Had to comb London for it. Think we found some at a West End hotel eventually.

My neighbour used to take Waitrose bags to Aldi to 'hide' the fact people wouldn't know that they shopped at a budget supermarket.

She also used to decant Aldi sauces into brand named bottles.

I also experienced I suppose an almost inverted snobbery at Asda when I returned some children's shoes and had them in a marks and spencer's shopping bag.

The very brusk, angry lady behind the counter and asked what was wrong with them. I honestly said the quality wasn't good and I'm going to buy something more long lasting - I think they were faux leather/faux suede winter boots that scuffed when you breathed on them.

She lifted the empty bag off the counter and gestured it to the equally rude lady next to her, shook the bag and said 'you hear this Julie, not the quality she's used to' and laughed with her before processing my refund.

I was so taken aback I joined it too, but I was mortified. Spent ages thinking I'd somehow insulted her but now realise she was that way out. I saw her a few times after and although not quite as rude was never anything warmer than frosty.

I've never had any kind of snobbery/poor treatment from higher end supermarkets but plenty of sneering from the ordinary ones.

I'm missing out. I've never been sneered at by a supermarket employee and I've shopped across the whole range. Perhaps they all snigger behind my back when I've left.

@longwayoff

I'm missing out. I've never been sneered at by a supermarket employee and I've shopped across the whole range. Perhaps they all snigger behind my back when I've left.

I can confirm that shop assistants have much, much worse behaviour from customers to bother sneering about! I've been shouted at, had things thrown at me, and been told to "get a job" while wearing my uniform and name badge...

And in my experience, floor staff in "fancy" shops aren't paid nearly enough to regularly shop where they work, so they're hardly the ones who are inclined to be snooty! Trust me, we're right there in Asda with you after we clock off from John Lewis.

I think some people here are being reverse snobs - all these Working Class Hero stories of being insulted in M&S WHILE tacitly insulting people in low-paid service roles. Fascinating!