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"

There were 2 anorexics in my class in private school!

I was having this conversation recently with some friends. One of our friends is very open about the fact she won't buy from the sales. I once found a Burberry trench (still with tags!) in one of those shops that sells second hand designer stuff for clients for a commission and she said perfectly seriously she would never ever buy from a shop like that- she wanted to buy it from Burberry itself or nothing. My trench cost £50 compared to several times that she seemed to think it was really distasteful.

When the kids were younger, we belonged to a children's group and one of the mum that we had got quite friendly with invited me, dh and another friend to her dinner party. Nearer the time, she uninvited me as her dh likes to socialise with 'educated people' but if I'd like to, I could go and help her prepare the dinner!!! (Not stay for the dinner)

I am not joking!!

Your parents obviously love you very much if they didn't let you watch cilla black the professional Scouser.😀

JFC

That's bloody mad!

I was at an RHS garden with a friend and all our children and they were playing and having fun when this couple walked past, the woman with her nose in the air muttered "it must be a free day!!"

DP’s uni friend is the biggest snob I’ve ever met and has come out with loads over the years.

”I’ve only ever been into B&M once… the smell of poor put me off.”

”She (their next door neighbour) thinks she’s a cut above us but we saw her working on reception when we took our son swimming. Tells you everything you need to know.”

It’s hilarious because he lives in a really affluent place and we live in an extremely deprived area about 30 minutes drive away, yet he is still desperate for our friendship. I genuinely think he keeps us in his life to look down on us but it’s water off a duck’s back and we always take the piss out of him, which infuriates him.

Thanks, Doormat. I too live here and couldn’t for the life of me understand that post.

I always try and bring the wrong bags in to the store as I find they sometimes try to make you pay for your ones. So I look like a snob in Aldi and a pleb in markies

And it’s not those with the rank, rather their partners who assume their partners rank.

The sales assistant should have said it was £2000 and pocketed the difference.

I'm from the Midlands.

When I was a student I visited my boyfriend in Guildford and one of his friends said to me 'I thought you would have a Northern accent but actually you speak quite well'.

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She isn't looking for a bargain (getting something for less than it's really worth). She wants the experience of buying something when it is desirable enough to go for full price, brand new, from the maker, and the high of having spent that money and owning something that's objectively worth that much since it's selling for that much. Not second hand, not end of season sale that is reduced because it's no longer selling so well. That's a different experience and a different item.

People actually rarely buy something just because it's cheaper; they'd rather get what they want and selling/buying are hugely psychological. Retail is an art. That's why shops are so careful about their marketing and displays and some people are so good at selling. People buy from their feelings.

I'm not sure what a woman who was that materialistic would be doing in a shop that potentially sold wedding dresses for £100.

I can see a wedding dress being reduced by £100. But the dress must have been a more modest price to begin with?

Surely, she's heading straight a nice little designer's boutique?

Do people have time to clock what bags people use in the market, or care?

I use all supermarkets from time to time and have a vast collection of plastic bags in the boot of my car including: Sainsbury, Waitrose, Co-op, M&S, Morrisons, Tesco, Asda. It isn't something I've ever thought about but the big Tesco shop is usually packed into a selection of bags.

FWIW Aldi isn't open when I pass it on my way to work. On the way home, it's on the wrong side of the bypass without a two mile detour. There are often queues so I know I'm missing a trick.

I mean they may have done it for snobbish reasons but we had an extension built & a new roof and various internal rearrangements at same time and builders just brought a portaloo. I think there may have been some rules around them having to provide one if more than a certain number of people working. Definitely in our case it wasn’t because we cared

I had bought a fast track pass for my family so I could get through security quicker at the airport. I had my tickets printed and I was faffing about trying to get the barcodes for the gate to open. I was struggling and a Middle Eastern man at the gate next to me said " these gates are for first class only", looking down at me and my family.

Just as he said that, my gate opened. I stared back at him and said "and", with a smirk. He was so embarrassed and I had such enjoyment from that, even though we were flying budget!

I do hope you told her what she could do with her dinner!!!

I hope you refused to do the washing in case it was tainted by being in a poor persons machine! Why the hell didn't he do his families washing?

Some people may shop like that, others among us have a bit more sense!! My friend and I both like quality clothing, shoes, jewellery etc. We rarely buy it brand new, if we can find it second hand or on sale we are overjoyed. Maybe we are just old enough to be past all that nonsense.

Exactly. Are table manners ‘snobby?’ To be honest though, I’m sure half of these stories are completely made up.

Re military spouses hierarchy…

Officers’ ladies, NCOs’ wives and ratings women

It's a recognised sales psychology. It's not about getting a bargain. I'm pretty sure that if I watched your spending habits long enough, I'd see you displaying it at some point; possibly not with designer dresses costing megabucks, but doing something to experience the pleasure of spending and gaining something rated full value. A lot of people misunderstand this kind of thing to think it applies only to very expensive stuff (which is itself subjective too! For many people, £1000 isn't an expensive wedding dress.).

My (awful snobbish) parents moved into their (brand new) house in a pricey village. My mother was heard saying of course she'd not be close with anyone on x (brand new street she'd bought on) Road as she was far more the 'speed' of long term residents. Sure enough she's jumped into the WI and is only spending social time with people who live in 'original' properties.

She's also made comments about how ridiculous it is that the 'affordable' housing that the builders had to include doesn't have separate access.

one of our fellow students from Public School told us he had refused Oxford or Cambridge and come to Leeds to "mix with the Common People".

For 'refused' read 'failed to get into' I suspect.