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"

Sounds like a scene from "the help" 😬

😂 brilliant

I remember when I was a kid I had a friend who lived in a council house on a road called Claverly Street.Around 5 miles away there was an actual village called Claverly which was a very posh,well to do area.My mom and I overheard my friends mom talking to someone in a local supermarket one day (she didn't realise we were behind her)in her best Hyacinth Bucket voice saying "Oh yes,we live in Claverly now darling"
We were pissing ourselves when we heard her.We lived in a council house too but found it so funny.

Where I live travellers are something very different

My mother in law on Christmas Day when sitting down to dinner says “The Brigadier doesn’t do paper serviettes”

’The Brigadier’ had been retired from the army for over 25 years.

She’d not lifted a finger all day or offered to help at all.

I gave her my death stare and told her she was welcome to pop to the shops if she could find anything open & purchase some fabric ones.

Heard on the radio:

"I don't want no scrub. A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me. Hanging out the passenger side of his best friend's ride, trying to holler at me".

I always remember watching an episode of Location, Location, Location in which the house buyers were bemoaning how terribly stressful it had been to win the Lottery.

Personally my ex BIL and SIL were the worst snobs. I was younger than them by some way, in my 20s, had a little old MG Midget that I loved. BIL asked me about it one day and before I could answer, SIL snapped, “Why are you interested in that thing, darling, we have a Mercedes in the garage, much greater resale value!”

Our builders arranged that without even asking us....they also boarded up the internal door for security so they had no access to house and no guarantee of access to loo if we weren't in. I believe it's a requirement to ensure welfare facilities are provided...but as I say, their standard practice not our request.

Oh gosh they were so rife at the private school we went to. When we switched to state school parents were so much better at combing and avoiding problems

She absolutely right though.

I only know two families who have experienced it. One still in the military and one ex military. I don't know either of the families very well.
But it's very very real. When getting to know family B, I mentioned some of the things family A had told me and they earnestly nodded their heads like they knew exactly what I was talking about.

For example, the wife in family A left standing alone at functions because no other wives would talk to her.

It's like something out of Edwardian England. Very bizarre.

My in-laws were in a (nothing special) mid-range pub-chain-type family restaurant and they had to work so hard to suppress their laughter when they heard a very young, plummy-voiced child from a nearby table pipe up: "Mummy, what are working-class people reeeallly like?"

My friend and I once worked part-time as students at a museum tea room (more a cafe, really - not a posh place at all) and the woman who managed it was a hilariously ridiculous snob.

She constantly made it very clear that she only did the job as a little hobby, to get her out of the house, because she certainly didn't need the money.

My friend's Dad drove her there and picked her up at the finishing time every day (it was a few miles from home and nowhere near a bus route) and she pointedly asked her once: "Why does your Father always bring and collect you every time in the same car?" Erm, probably because that was his car and he wasn't a car thief!

She once offered to drop my friend off after the shift and she was visibly aghast when they arrived at her terraced house (in a perfectly decent WC area) - she was shocked to discover that only a small part of the terrace (i.e. one of a row of 8 houses) was hers!

She was talking once about university plans for her son. She made a point of saying "We'll buy him a house for when he's there, so he doesn't have the bother of renting. Just a small place - something around £50,000 or so, that you don't need a mortgage for." Bear in mind that this was the best part of 30 years ago!

Since my post has garnered a lot of interest... most Army "wives" were normal people. Only a few were snobs or reverse snobs. Generally most people got along fine, especially with children. There was only 16 children in DD2s year for example... they all played together, did swimming lessons together, Rainbows, football, beavers... all together. And so the Mums socialised.

The first Waitrose I ever went into was just outside Manchester, if that counts as North!

Obnoxious private school dad bragging about the Public School his son would be going to. He asked about my son, I told him name of my son’s school (school much better academically than his son’s). Obnoxious dad gave disapproval face and said “hmm, that’s a rather new school, isn’t it? Don’t know anything about it” and walked off.

The school is over 100 yrs old. What an Ass.

I once heard someone telling their friend about how her boyfriend had proposed to her on a surprise trip to Venice and she was saying how disappointed she was by the unoriginal choice of holiday destination. The friend was agreeing with her. I felt sorry for the fiancé.

My mother in law on Christmas Day when sitting down to dinner says “The Brigadier doesn’t do paper serviettes”

'Serviette' is a bit of a common word for somebody like that to use, isn't it (I call them serviettes, but I'm 'common' anyway!) - not napkins?!

"The champagne was so cheap, reduced to £30 a bottle, so we got two!"

Squirrelsnuut is being a snob. She obviously looks down on Sheffield not realizing what a fantastic city is to live in. It's the greensst city in Europe, more trees per person than any of the city, close to the Peak District. fantastic music venues, brilliant concerts. Amazing university.

A cathedral with divine acoustics that your choir could learn from.

I found it quite ironic that one of the biggest snobs on the on the thread is actually writing about what she thought herself. Sheffield would be embarrassed to have her here; stay where you are please we would be grateful. Thanks.

Dress code… at… a family birthday…

[clutches pearls] I just don’t KNOW people like this!

A parent at school I worked in once said to me, after it was clear that I wasn't going to excuse her darling from something or other, Yer a right snooty bitch! My reply, So pleased you recognise that. Her brow is probably still furrowed after all these years, trying to work that one out.

My builders did this! It was not my idea.

Now I'm wondering what my neighbours were thinking when they saw it

@MNdoormat no she's not being a snob, she's reporting the way the conversation went ie the other people in the room sniggered, not her.

Being in the Services life is slightly different, your life is very tied up with the soldiers job, especially if you're posted abroad. Your living environment and social environment are close, where you live is determined by rank, usually the man's, and their wives can be very territorial, far more than the men.

Ah, OK, sorry