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"

This thread gets my golden buzzer!! 🌟 and I wish I had time to read every post.

Over the years there have been many comments either said to me or overheard but a recent example is a relative who insists she's never set foot in Primark and will never do so. (I 've seen her in there but didn't approach her) but a while back I admired a lovely candle in her home and she said it was very expensive from John Lewis.

Guess what? It was £4.50 in Primark. I have the same one.😁

After 76 years on this earth I honestly think that women are far worse at snobbery than men, probably get shot down but there it is1

Serviettes is the epitome of MC try-hards!

I am sympathetic to women of a certain age though.

My mother (70's) and most of her peers were very much WC girls who married WC men and thanks to being boomers, did alright thank you very much. So as a kid we could afford (on my fathers factory wage) to buy a 3 bed detached with garage etc on a naice street. Most of the other families were the same. Only one mum worked full time when we lived there and that was the bank managers wife (and mother to my best childhood friend) who was a tight was a ducks arse, refused to pay anything towards her and the kids needs so she had no choice.

But, they all had imposter syndrome. They all assumed that although that individually they had worked and scrimped and saved to be where they were, all the others were "posher" and had more money and were genuinely MC. So they were desperate to follow the "Serviette" rules in order to fit in. Of course over the years it came out that they were all doing the same thing. There are still some who, depsite all moving from the street, meet up and its like a fishwives convention! They laugh about how they used to be.

Ma has said to my sister and I that she genuinely admires how we dont care what people think of us. My sister lives the life my mother ached for when we were young, she lives in the same village on the road that was very the "posh" road. But she has no airs at all, they moved there for practical reasons not because they were aspirational. I bought a three bed terrace and never moved so was mortgage free pre 50 (which my parents very much were not thanks to their upwardly mobile desires) and have been judged by other snobs but zero fucks given. I think that she wishes should have just ignored all the snottiness but didnt feel, at the time, like she could.

Overheard at a childrens' birthday party many years ago.... "we considered staying [abroad] longer, but the way the cost of champers in Dubai was going, we figured we might as well come home."

I don't think it was ironic.

Well, both are valid views.

It may be snobby, but I can see both of their points.

I'd feel the same.

Sorry, OP.

Pleeeeease tell me you told him she was a cardiologist

And why would you feel the same?

Will your kids, or your car, catch the common?

The use of the word 'champers' tells me an awful lot about them, it's verging on 'shampoo', a Del and Rodney word!

Prep school where I worked briefly had an idiot of a headmaster with an equally silly wife. She took it upon herself to redesign the uniform choosing expensive items that couldn’t be bought in Next (chose grey socks with a green band around the top meaning they cost three times the price and had to be bought from the school).

I asked her about sports clothes and what about fleeces for sport. ‘Oh no’ she immediately said ‘we don’t want the children looking like state school kids’. I said, ‘I’m a state school kid and one who has clearly got a lot further than you in life, so I’d like you to explain exactly what you mean’. She went red, stammered, burst into tears and never spoke to me again. I got the feeling she had never been challenged in her life. Thanks to the pair of them the school went bust and all those £20 pairs of grey socks with green bands around them went to waste 🙄

I know someone who taught the children of very wealthy people. They were going on a school trip and one girl was very nervous. My friend asked her what was wrong, and she said she was nervous the flight and going through the airport. My friend then asked if the girl was ever on a plane before. The girl replied that she flies all the time, but she had never been in a public airport. She was afraid of flying on public transport.

@penjil Excuse you??? You wouldn't want your child to associate with a child who lives in social housing?!?! Wow. I am immensely grateful I am not your child....

Imagine raising your children to behave like that! Many children from private schools are the worst behaved and I think you'd faint if you saw what percentage of prisoners went to private school 🤣

I hope not, he would probably have marked her down as someone who deals cards in a seedy casino.

Overhearing a bunch of private school girls on the train, who were otherwise chatty and very entertaining, talking about their ski holidays planned that year.

"My dad said we're only skiing three times this season - we're basically poor"

*cue sympathy sounds from the other girls.

Just remembered another one...

SIL's snotty mother, on learning that they'd done the primary school application for their 3 year old, but had been warned their first choice would likely be oversubscribed "But you did put on the form didn't you that you as her mother went to Alderley Edge Girls Grammar?" 🤣🤣 This was for a primary school in Bolton, not Harrow or Eaton. 🤣

Once worked with a mean girl who bought a big detached new build and was thrilled to tell us all. Until she found out the official address was XX2 rather than XX3 postcode. So she organised a petition to get Royal Mail to officially recognise their estate as being in XX3 which was a bit more of a 'village' than their actual location in town opposite the council estate. The fact it didn't change the location, and everyone within 10 miles knew EXACTLY were it was was lost on her. Petition was rejected by Royal Mail and estate remained XX2. 🤣🤣

And me.

How are basic table manners snobby?

I have to say I agree.

I mean there are times when its ok, like making a cheeky marmite sandwich (YES!!!! I LOVE IT!!) for me and no one else is around, damn right I lick the knife. I am not wasting any of its deliciousness (also, have you seen the price of it lately?! About 50ps worth is left on the knife!). Same with peanut butter.

But in company, "at table" as they say at Downton? No. Grim.

And the book thing....if its shared, borrowed or in some way communal, that is grotty. I dont want to turn a page with someones saliva on it. If its my own, read by me and not shared? I can suck the whole page if I choose, and thats ok!

I play poker as a hobby and one player always licks his fingers before dealing and its horrible. Me and a couple of others always use sanitiser when its his deal. It was brought up but in a terribly British "dont mean to offend" type way, and he totally ignored us so what else can we do?!

I was a ward sister in one of the big London teaching hospitals. The one in the East End. Chatting to a new houseman over coffee one morning he asked me where I grew up. Round here I said, at which he expressed surprise that I had done so well ie. a local girl becoming a ward sister in a prestigious London hospital. I told him I could do joined up writing and ate with a knife and fork too!

Hmmm...seems there are at least 2 people on MN who were in the same Lidl on the same day and overhead the same comment. What a coincidence!

These threads always drag up all the attention seekers wanting to add their most outrageous comment to make it interesting usually picked up elsewhere on the internet.

Perhaps she was on the phone to her husband Guy, pronounced Gooey.

Although I rewatched series 3 of Auf Weidersehn, Pet fairly recently and Moxey mentions this as his nephews name, so Dick Clements and Ian la Frenais had obviously heard it too!

@Topsyturvy78 There is a Waitrose in Hexham. And one in Otley.

Although in fairness.......

I remember my mother going absolutely crackers at me and my sister once because there was something or other going on, coffee morning or something, and we had to take a cake. One of us said "Oh thats that cake you bought at Tesco!" and she was going on about how funny we were "Oh no that was for so and so who asked me to get it, she much prefers it. I dont know why, if we buy cake we always go to Birds, but usually I make my own!" and the other one of us saying "Oh no, you did buy it there, dont you remember?!" Tesco, in our then 2 supermarket town, was very much the "common" supermarket. People Like Us shopped at Sainsburys for the supermarket stuff and the bakers/butchers for everything else. Getting your meat or bread at the supermarket implied you could only afford to get them from there.

The bloody bollocking we got for that shit! How dare we embarrass her?! We didnt know we had, we didnt know the rules, think we were about 8 and 6 at the time.

So yes I can well imagine her and her fellow aspirational neighbours doing that!

There are still people in Windsor, Maidenhead and Eton who are furious at having a SL (Slough) postcode.

Nobody is ever suggesting to them the 'horrific' idea that they might actually live in Slough; it just happens to be the largest nearby town to them.

You'd have thought they'd be thrilled to have Slough nearby, so they have something for their petty, small-minded snobbery to feed off and supposed inferior people to look down on: the fact that they 'aren't anything like those sorts who live in Slough'!