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

[Applescruffle]

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"

@contrary13
I do have a rescue dog from Greece, though

😂enjoyed this!

I love this!

I sorry to disappoint but I spent 13 years working with adolescents with severe eating disorders all were sectioned under the MH act only 1 came from a private school.

hahahaha

I think there is something to the argument of private/ single sex schools and high prevalence of eating disorders.

i was in a habs school and in my year of around 80, at least 10 had an eating disorder

I'd have thought it was a made up name? {Potterpea}- so not snooty.

''Ignaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatius'' 🔥was the name of a sex~pest giant Poodle in the park.

Woul dhave picked up my own phone and said very loudly "Oh I am just in Lidl, I will be with you shortly!!" But I am an arsehole like that,

To a girl I went to school with, from her mother (who had delusions of grandeur), apropos nothing and in hushed, faux-humble tones: "Darling, if anybody asks if we're rich, just tell them we're comfortable".

Reader, they were not 'rich'.

I think you may post about me if you were in Twickenham recently - told my husband that I refused to carry an Iceland bag. We were in Lidl. In my defence, I am five foot one and Iceland bags are vey large and I literally can't carry them!! Must have sounded a right snooty bitch though!!

Potterpea= ptomley?

Being told by my boss she was middle class cause her Dad was management and she thought I was poor because I was brought up in a council/LA house, cheers for that was my response! Had happy childhood BTW , she didn’t , in her words.

Walking down the high street and I overheard two women discussing jewellery, and saying there was nothing nice in Argos as it was all cheap. I'm currently wearing a necklace I got in Argos that was £6 in the sale and it's done very well. 😊 I hardly ever take it off!

Eating disorders are exceedingly complicated I could attend the most pushy girls only grammar/independent school in the county and be surrounded by girls with anorexia and I am no more likely to develop one that I am to turn into a penguin. This doesn’t make me better than them but I just don’t have the sort of personality you so often see with eating disorders.
Many on MN like to make sweeping statements about eating disorders often to suit their particular agendas but as with most things in life it’s far more nuanced.

Our extension is nearly finished, with the new kitchen we’ve paid out half a million. Said to me by a neighbour.

"Not a bad house, must have been quite a nice area once."

A close relative says it's very common to lick a knife when eating (well, maybe it has a greater risk of cutting the tongue!) The same relative doesn't look too fondly at those people who lick their fingers before turning the page of a book either 🤔

My ds got friendly with a boy at toddler group, who came along with his nanny. I got friendly with the nanny. They lived near us, we used to go to each others houses or to the park together occasionally. The boys started school, my ds to the local village school and this other child went to a prep school 10 miles away. Ds was invited over one day in the holidays, but the nanny messaged in the morning to say they might have to cancel. Messaged later on to say it was all back on.

I got there and asked what the problem had been. Apparently the cleaner had called in sick, so the mum had said to cancel any visitors. But when she found out it was a village child and his mum, and not one of the prep school friends, she said she thought it would be ok.

....and that was the last time I agreed to any playdates with that child. I wonder if he still has any token poor friends.

Yeah I'm with him on this one. Very bad table manners.

Not sure I understand you.

Some of the wives tend to wear their husband's rank and expect to be treated according to his rank although that may have changed since I lived among them as fewer families are overseas and more wives have careers. I recall a neighbour telling me that they were hoping to get his majority soon, ie he would get his promotion to Major.

Oh I totally agree with you. My DH likes to lick his knife and I always have to say something as I find it infuriating! Very bad manners indeed!

In Joules and a lady trying on a jacket asked if it was suitable for an urban setting. Not snobby, but entered our family comedy folklore on the daft things posh people say.

@ForeverDelayedEpiphany

Your post has reminded me of something. Some time ago now, I corrected one of my step children’s table manners, something like licking knife, chewing with mouth open etc. They told their mum at some point thereafter and then merrily told me that their mum thought I was a “snobby cow”. Clearly bothered her immensely that I was actually bothering to teach her children basic table manners 🙄

“I won’t be sending her to the state secondary I can’t think of anything worse than her walking around with skirt up to her bum”

erm I think most teen parents have a few more worries than that 😂

my cousin to me when I told her that she needs to face up to the fact that her cat is a murderous psychopath and not a baby "he only started behaving like this since the cats from the council estate starters coming over here and being a bad influence" !!!!!!