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"

You sound like what we would call “all fur coat and no knickers” 😂

We have an Aldi right next to our Waitrose and shop in both regularly (Waitrose is usually just to grab lunch) so could imagine getting them mixed up if I’d just come from the previous one. But lol if she was deliberately being snobby - Aldi and Lidl are waaaay more ‘socially acceptable’ than they were 20+ years ago when we first started shopping there and ppl would look down on you. My mum was ahead of the game and couldn’t believe the amazing bargains and thought it was hilarious when her snobbish friends would sneer at the mere mention of the name and compliment her on the wine/food she’d just given them that was actually from there 🙄☺️

A few years ago I witnessed a friend of mine (not a ‘cheaper’ supermarket fan) exiting the Aldi having parked her more expensive car at the Waitrose - I like to think there was more parking but I suspect it was probably down to her car’s ‘image‘ 🤭

Probably my brother saying that getting a swimming pool would be good as you would then get a better class of friends

Ha. That does sound like something i would say tbh. I don’t take my baby to my local leisure centre pool as it’s FREEZING and seeing several parents in there with their babies who are clearly shivering and one where their lips were turning blue was enough to make me be really picky about pools.

My cousin being horrified that someone walked up to their front door and posted a leaflet through it. Their big electric gates were not working and had been left open allowing someone to see through to and walk up to their house! 🙄

I think i sounded snobby to my son’s key worker at nursery when she told me they’d taken the bus to the library that day, and i’d said that would have been his first time on a bus.

I don't see that as "snobby" tbh...more annoyed that your gates aren't working.

Many years ago I house shared in London with a very posh girl who came from a lovely stately home in the country. She told me once that her Mother was coming up from the country for the weekend to stay in their city house in Tite Street. I remarked 'Oh wow, Oscar Wilde used to live in Tite Street', and she responded with 'Darling, everyone has lived in Tite Street.😆As a girl coming from a council estate in Northern Ireland, I had to bite my tongue! My husband and I drawl it to each other still, some thirty years later, when we're pretending to be posh. Same girl also had a beautiful immaculate convertible Beetle, which she had had flown in from Arizona, as apparently it was the only way to get a rust free Beetle! I mean, who knew?😆

I was in hospital.

I'd been taken by ambulance and admitted through A and E and shunted about while they found a bed on a ward.

So I'd been awake for 20+ hours and was actually on a discharge ward so just trollies with curtains. I finally thought I could sleep.

I couldn't see because of the curtain but there was obviously an elderly lady and her daughter.

Elderly lady kept asking when X would be back and where he had gone.

Daughter: He's gone to get the Audi mother, the Audi.
EL:Is he getting the car?
Daughter: It's the Audi mother, the Audi.

And on and on for about half an hour until X turned up.

How I didn't tell her to shove the bloody Audi up her bum I do not know, it must have been the morphine.

And I don't know who was supposed to be impressed?

I know someone who said they went first class on a cruise so they didn't have to mix with the plebs.

I was once talking to a neighbour who I had met in Aldi. She started on a massive and really quite unexpectedly aggressive rant about how snobbish and pathetic people are to bring Waitrose or Sainsbur carrier bags to Aldi because they 'just want to pretend' they were shopping there instead of in Aldi. It's not a snobbish thing to say- perhaps more reverse... But I was a bit taken aback to think she thought anyone paid any attention to whatever bag they were dragging out of the bag stash in their car when they shopped.

Doubly snobbish as cruise ships don't have first class. There are areas only people in suits can access but that's basically a pool and a dining room and a deck. They all have different names.

If you want to go to the theatre or cinema then you are sharing with plebs.

<puts on snobbish voice> Darling if you don't own a yacht you can hire one with crew and set your own itinerary. Obviously one takes one's own chef.

It's so useful to be able to go to the delightful small bays rather than those frightful cruise terminals.

First day of university, "Well done, if you'd not already middle class, you are now". Never liked that tutor!

Maybe just tell your friend you don’t like her instead of coming up with an excuse for a thread to repost her words online? If I was paying a fortune for a house I wouldn’t want it to be beside a council estate either. And I say so as someone who has lived on a council estate 🙄

I'm Australian and DH is quite posh. Mostly his friends are delightful but one is a complete arse. Once when I was quite new there was some sort of conversation about class and so forth and I commented I had no idea what class I was according to the English (I was interested enough- then- to try and think about it). This arse said perfectly seriously; 'Oh, you are from the Colonies so it's harder to place you. But I am sure we will come to like you despite that'.

I never came to like him, which may not have even crossed his stupid little mind.

In the Sales office of a new housing estate (mix of affordable e.g shared ownership and normal housing) "I hope you're putting the social housing plebs right at the back where they belong, so they can't be seen, we don't want to buy near them".

My comment as I walked out to my friend (after being ignored by the Sales lady who was all over the rude twat) in my poshest private school voice "I may only be buying shared ownership but my money is just as good as everyone elses, I have more class in my little finger and wouldn't want to live next door to such a boring snob either".

Every builder where I live will put a portaloo on the driveway, they do it as part of the build so so not have to go into the customers house.

We hosted a party in the garden on Saturday and had posh portaloos that guest used. If that makes me a snob, then so be it.

All builders put up portaloos. There's even one outside my council flat lol

A few years ago I was really struggling as I was working full-time and caring for elderly parents who both had terminal cancer. One Friday afternoon one of my colleagues asked me what I would be doing over the weekend and I listed all the housework, shopping and other things I needed to do for my parents.

A very privileged girl who shared our office looked up and said "Well, I've got a busy weekend too . . . . I've got to take my diamond earrings to the jewellers for valuation for insurance".

I'll never forget the silence that descended over the office . . . . .

DH wasn't allowed to watch ITV growing up ...

I wasn't allowed to watch EastEnders or Cilla Black.

At uni I was friends with someone whose family was wealthy. He was pretty grounded about it but his little sister was a massive snob. I remember she was talking about shopping one day and said “Why would anyone buy designer clothes in a sale. Isn’t the whole point that they are expensive”. People have really odd ideas about quality sometimes.

They weren't concerned about quality, at least not as a standalone thing. It had to be high quality and objectively high value, with the "high" of having spent a lot on it. It's a very real sales psychology phenomenon and talented salespeople work with it. When I got my first decently paid role, I decided to buy myself something completely indulgent (jewellery) and I absolutely wanted it to cost a certain amount. I can't remember all the details of my search but I don't think I'd have bought anything in the sale; I wanted to feel indulgent and spendy. And I still have it and love it.

I’d started a new job and met some new people. Another girl and I went out for a drink. We were walking along the high street thinking about where to go next, walking past a pub. I was looking inside then she linked in to my arm and pulled me away saying NOCD! NOCD!

Someone I know proudly told me about the time she was having some sort or argument with a lady. Probably someone quite officious, possibly a you can't park there type of exchange; can't remember.

Anyway this person told me how she 'won' the argument with a withering putdown and turned on her heel, beaming at the superiority:

"Listen love, my education cost more than your house"