What's the most snobbish thing you've heard out loud?

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Online doesn't count. It has to be something said in person.

Here's mine, from two separate people:

"The house was perfect, but if I'm paying that much for it, I don't want to have to drive through a council estate to get there".

"We looked round (school) and it was our favourite, but there's so many council houses round that area so he would just have too many council estate kids in his class with him"

We will be sending her to private school, I don’t want her ending up anorexic or in a gang

When I was trying on wedding dresses, I was listening to the group next to me. The bride to be had found the perfect dress. She was over the moon with it and nearly in tears, proudly gazing at her reflection at all angles. Her mother and friend agreed that it was the best one she'd tried on and it already fitted her perfectly.

The lady in the shop said "And to make it even better, it's in the sale and is just £100!" The bride to be's jaw dropped and she shouted "I am NOT getting married in a £100 wedding dress!" and proceeded to take her 'perfect' dress off and dump it on the floor.

The shop assistant tried to change her mind, seeing as she had fallen in love with the dress before she knew the price, but she wasn't having it. She said "If you'd told me it was £1,000, I would have bought it."

You don't want to send your DD to Xschool (5 minutes walk from our house), in your position you need to be sending her to Y. (20 minute drive).

My position... my husbands Army rank.
The person... the Health Visitor!

In reality that school had a whole range of Army children, from Private up to senior officer.

I've hears such wierd things about how army families behave towards one another because of rank

This is not as unusual as you might think. Not wedding dresses specifically, but there is a complex and definite psychology behind sales and it's not usually based on the cheapest option, in fact that's rarely the priority. People often do want to spend more to have the feeling of owning something valuable and get the pleasure of spending money. Remember Stella Artois? "Reassuringly expensive"....

@PuttingDownRoots this doesn't surprise me. A friend used to live on a patch has mentioned some very weird rank of husband based behaviour!

All the people I know in real life with eating disorders were privately educated and more than one blames the toxic environment and bully at their private school for it.

In real life mostly snobby comments about people who live in council estates

Pretty much what I was going to say!

"We were looking forward to the cruise because we thought it would have our kind of clientele, but it was all fat Americans."

A friend once said, with a straight face, that she was always grateful to arrive at her child's smart prep school because it was hard for her to drive through the nearby housing estate and suffer all the bad driving.

A lady behind me in the supermarket queue answered her phone and said "I won't be long, I'm just in waitrose"

We were in Lidl 😂

😶 can't believe! Her mother was probably was the one paying for the dress
OMG

This is brilliant! 😂😂😂

Re a motorway breakdown, "Of course the police came back to us quickly, we're a young middle class family in a Volvo!"

My parents are members of a club you have to be proposed and seconded into. My in-laws wanted to join and I asked my Mum if she’d second them. My mother actually said “I need to think if they’re the right kind of people”. I was horrified.

Yes, I’ve just come from seeing a friend in her late 40s who’s currently hospitalised with her organs on the point of shutting down, and she always says her highly selective private school was her anorexic training ground.

A member of my family teaches at a top-end private girls school. The place is notoriously elitist and anorexia is a major problem.

for those of you old enough to remember Grange Hill: at my very posh boarding school one of my classmates told us she was allowed to watch Grange Hill in the holidays so she "could see how common people live."

Not sure this entirely fits the brief but when I mentioned to a work colleague that I'd stopped eating meat, she exclaimed "But you'll still eat game, won't you?!"

A friend was unwell and stressing about keeping on top of the washing for her DC so I offered to do a few loads for her. Her DH insisted that I use the washing powder that he sent. This is fair enough, I would have done the same as I have allergies and some brands make me itch. But he loudly said that I must use his powder and particularly not any own brand powder because he didn't want his family to 'smell of poor people'.

I was a WC student at Oxford and had gone home with a friend in the vac — small manor house in Derbyshire, elaborate dinner party for her parents’ friends. Afterwards, clearly relieved I hadn’t eaten with my hands or grunted or something, her mother patted me on the arm and said that ‘considering where I came from, I’d done terribly well.’

I did also once hear a group of latter-day Sloanes saying ‘NQOT’ (‘Not Quite Our Type’ about someone.

Read one on here I often remember. The op said she was in Aldi and someone in there answered their phone and said to the caller ‘we’re just in Waitrose’.

Why were you surprised, when it was one of those clubs?

Heard a woman on the phone on the train talking about going to some kind of charity ball saying, "it's to raise money for poor people, not that there'll be any poor people there of course..."