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 are many Waitroses up north!

To be fair I get this.

It wasn't until I became I mum that I found out swim nappies don't absorb the wee.

Oh, darn it. Online doesn't count...

Some bits of The North but they arent as prolific here.
Only in the posh bits

I've just been discussing this thread at church coffee morning with a couple of the mums. They've reminded me of a couple of snobby things seen in church.

Some people think it's is absolutely VILE to put only coins on the collection plate. You must put notes or it's just embarrassing. This isn't because they think they should donate more, just that donating less is embarrassing.

Another one from my American ex BF:

He was at a bar in the US to see a cover band of his favourite band. He was wearing a ‘rare’ t-shirt from his favourite band. The he spotted a grossly obese redneck woman wearing the same rare t-shirt as him. He couldn’t bear it and went home to get changed.

Tangent from the thread, but who ever says while proposing "Will you marry me, with this 1.25 ct, FL, D, princess cut diamond ring?"

It's an assumption, and in my opinion, purely a symbol. I think someone who demands a diamond, especially one that is of a certain size or value, most certainly ticks the snobbish box of the OP's thread! I've known women who received £15k rings, and never even wore them. It was all status and snobbery that they received one... but ended up being a very expensive box in a drawer.

Friend from my school days always aspired to be a snob! She wasn't in the least bit wealthy and was from a wc family, however she had relatives who had started a business and done very well from it. She could not resist bringing them up at every opportunity, she would mention that "oh 'Harriet' is picking me up in the mercedes later" or that 'Tarquin' & 'Harriet' were chatting with their good friend 'Lord Snottington' at his castle the other day etc.

Anywhere we had been on holiday Tarquin & Harriet had also been there "but in the better, more expensive part and for a longer time period! On one occasion she told us all cheerfully about what wonderful people Tarquin & Harriet were because they had gone on holiday to a very poor country where children were starving and they had been throwing sweets into the dirt for the poor little children as they drove past and the poor little starving children were SO HAPPY YAY!

Bit daft of her. The money saved could have gone towards something else. People are weird.

The woman who said the things about not sending her child to the school with all the council houses nearby is a horrendous snob and has said a lot of snobby things, snubbed some of her long-term friends after they split with their husbands and had less money and said very racist things about her sister's boyfriend who apparently isn't good enough but they all knew she would end up with someone like "that". She's really not a particularly nice person.

BUT she sent her child to a different primary school which wasn't surrounded by council houses and it ended up being absolutely horrible and the poor child was getting bullied. So she moved him to the primary school she originally snubbed, where as it happens my children go.
We are not friends because of how snobby she is. I avoid her. But I do sometimes see her in the playground and I can feel her looking down her nose at me, even through her massive raybans 😄

Yay, but Booths is way up there. Lytham St Anne's has one (the very wealthy end of the Fylde Coast, nearish to Southport).

Good on your BF the waiter was insulting

I was chatting to my neighbour about 20 years ago about decorating the outside of houses with Christmas lights/animated figures (which had just taken off in a big way) and she came out with “I do like to put the children in the car and drive to the not such nice areas to look at the lights”. I was 😳 at the time but it has made me titter ever since.

'A lasting friendship did not materialise.' Perfection! 😂

Not words but body language.

I used to attend yoga classes at a very posh studio. It was mostly yummy mummy's in the full Lululemon/Sweaty Betty outfits. We were quite a close knit bunch. One day, unusually, a very fit and attractive man attended and stayed for coffee afterwards.

He was quite clearly smitten with our equally fit and attractive yoga teacher and the two of them were having a lovely time chatting and flirting and complimenting one another on their amazing flexibility and muscle tone.

It all went pear shaped when the instructor asked him what he did for a living. On hearing he was a bus driver she swivelled around in her seat so fast I'm surprised she didn't get whiplash and started talking to the people on the other side of her. The poor man was presented with her back and she studiously ignored him until he eventually gave up and left.

It was so blatantly rude I was shocked and I pulled her up on it later. She thought it was hilarious that I'd noticed and didn't feel bad about it at all. She ended up with a man who works in the music industry and so she gets to go to all the big gigs/events, mingle in the VIP areas/backstage access etc . Much more her style. Karma should make her miserable but she seems very happy.

Anorexic girls tend to be the daughters of professionals and high achievers who will often have high expectations of their children in terms of academic performance, sporting performance etc. These young people are often high achievers themselves and self discipline is seen as a huge virtue.

The need to be slim, sporty, active and 'healthy' is often something reinforced strongly at home. Being overweight is akin to laziness and a lack of self control and is something that is very much frowned upon in families of a certain class.

Go into any super-selective state grammar school or fee paying school and you'll be more likely to find stories of anorexia than you will in a sink school.

A colleague once told me she enjoyed going on a Christmas walk with her family and laughing at other people’s crap Christmas trees…. Not even sure it’s snobby but certainly one of the meanest spirited things I’ve heard

At a livery stables where my friend keeps her horse. Lady with the horse in the adjacent stable was feeding it carrots from Waitrose (in a branded plastic bag) .... "Oh Dobbin only likes Waitrose carrots ... he won't eat the ones from Morrisons ..."

I agree, terrible thing for the sommelier to say. In this case it was him who was the snob, not the customer.

I do that, but to be fair I also take Aldi and Lidl bags in Waitrose or Sainsbury's, it just depends what I grab hold of first out of the car boot.

A woman talking about her school holiday when she was thirteen. She was on a ferry back from France, and their food was served on a plastic tray, and her drink in a plastic cup.

'I couldn't wait to get back home to get a proper cup of tea in a bone china cup'.

(I am not coming into work with holes in my clothes or nan-knitted cardigans either - any charity shop clothes I do buy are nearly new and designer or high end high street).

Lmao!...the bolded part is ironically snobbish while talking about a snobbish boss. Sounds like this sort of talk is you guys' general work culture. Lol

Where do you live to come across these people? I don't live in a poor place (small town at the sea side) but I've NEVER met a single person that is described here.

Shit maybe the reason I've never met one is because IM the snob

They don't have many waitrose,s in the Northwest ,I live in Bolton the nearest one to.me is about 30 miles away we have loads of other supermarkets just not waitrose .