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"

This is so bizarre to me. Have zero experience of military life and don’t know anyone in it whatsoever. I just see it as a job choice, surely everyone does in 2024?! This is the comment that’s shocked me the most from this whole thread 🤣 literally never heard of it before

Years ago I got chatting to another woman at a toddler group and it came up that my house didn't have a playroom. She said that'd she never never be able to relax in the evening if she was surrounded by toys. I said that it was fine, me and the kids always did a quick tidy up at bedtime. She said she wouldn't be able to cope if she had to live under those conditions.

Towards the end of my child being in Year 6, heard a dad talking to a mum about sending his son to a particular boys school (it was a grammar like, 40 years ago. Some people like to think it’s posh, it really really isn’t) smugly going on about its reputation. The mum said she went to the girls school nearby. The dad scoffed and said “ah yes, we used to call it the maternity ward” (meaning a lot of girls got pregnant there!).
I wanted to turn around and ask who he thought got those girls pregnant? Smug twat!

@MinervaMcGonagallsCat I took DD to a party last month for a kid on our street who goes to a private school and I'm not kidding, my DD was by farrrrr the best behaved there. The rest were jaw-droppingly rude to staff, badly behaved & plain disrespectful and it wasn't until I had a conversation with another parent that it became apparent that every other child there was from the private school. I was genuinely stunned. I don't know if it's my own misconceptions, as if I expected aristocratic level behaviour from private school kids but not this! One kid even pushed a staff member out of his way! The parent I was talking to was complimenting me on my child's behaviour and noticeably paused in surprise when I said which school she goes to. At which point a lady on the next table said "but....isn't that an academy??"

Yes love. Yes it is and a bloody good one which my DD is thriving at. The Headteacher is AMAZING!

Years ago when trying to book a privately owned caravan for a holiday.
The owner asked for the names of all family members. I explained we fostered and couldn't be sure of names at that point.
She replied "oh I'm not sure I want that kind of child in my caravan"
I, not so politely, told her I didn't think I could book a caravan from someone like her.

Woman and toddler walking down the road

toddler: mummy, mummy, look! It’s an Aston Martin!

woman: and whose Aston Martin is it?

toddler: daaaadddddddyyyyy!!!

I would have thought most people would know it's considered bad manners to lick your knife, so not really snobby.

Probably fair enough to be honest

To be fair, he probably reads MN where getting an au pair or having a spa day will solve all your problems.

Brilliant. That sounds like a line from the Catherine Tate posh family sketch

DD infront of a lot of rich private educated children "are they allowed to act like that?" We lived on a council estate and she had better manners

Not sure if this was snobbish or racist.
I worked in a very posh private school. There are many stories that were bad but the worst was when the headmaster was talking to me and a parent arrived to collect her child from after school care. I smiled. The head master shouted "cleaners should use the back entrance by the kitchen."
He had assumed she was a cleaner as the was a little Indian woman. Wearing joggers and trainers, hair a mess. Actually she was a cardiologist and had just finished a very long surgery.
I was mortified and apologised. She laughed it off and said she clearly should put on an evening gown before collecting the kids.

A good friend (rip) was doing her weekly shop at Aldi. She was trying to park her old fiat. This women In a fancy big Land Rover stole her space. When my friend got out her car to quiz her, the Land Rover women, whispered to my friend, go away with your heap of shite, I have a more superior car. I’m more entitled!! My friend was godsmacked and lost for words. That was years ago.

What a dimwit!

That’s why I said there’s something in it, not a direct cause, but there’s a correlation but of course that doesn’t prove causation

i myself was one of those numbers so appreciate the nuance but from my experience there is an increased likelihood in all girls single sex environments.

now could that be that private school educated kids are more likely to be that type A over achiever type (we know that this personality type is more likely to develop an eating disorder) pushed to perfection by their parents, more bullying? More focus on body type through specific sports such as dance or gymnastics I don’t know, the pressure to achieve so start restricting as a means of having control, who knows but as I said I think there’s something there

Was it one of the Mitford sisters who coined the terms U and non-U?

In my university's alumnae news publication a few years ago, a couple posted news of their "very high-end wedding".

School mum acquaintance ‘I’m so looking forward to ( her DS) James studying at Oxford’

What she didn’t tell everyone was it was Oxford Brookes Uni …. ( nothing wrong with that at all but she never once corrected anyone when they asked about it)

Wasn't it soap on a rope, the go-to Christmas present for any male over 10 years!

Or just very self-aware of their privilege.

My very materialistic and moneyed Stepmum said this the other day about the dress code (smart casual) of a family birthday party coming up - 'no jeans. Unless they're Gucci jeans, but definitely not M&S jeans'.

As I am not moneyed myself, Gucci jeans are out of my price range. I will be wearing my M&S ones out of spite.

Was having lunch with DH in Wetherspoons, two older ladies walked through the entrance and after a few steps, on turned to the other placed a hand on her arm and said, with full sincerity and concern, “will you be alright to eat in a… Wetherspoons?!”

Great story highlighting how sad some humans are. I worked in the higher end wedding industry for several years and attended many expensive weddings where you could see the stress of the event was taking its toll on the bride and groom. One highlight of this was cutting the sleeves of a wedding dress that cost £1000s as the bride has not bothered doing final fittings and she could not fit her hands through the sleeve of the dress. Best dress Ive seen was my cousin's, stunning, £150 in Army & Navy sale.

Yes, Nancy Mitford popularised it

Oh, this makes me sad...I'm so sorry for you and your birth mom.