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"

I live in London, once heard a woman talking to her friend about having been to Brixton. She said "It was certainly colourful, but they do insist on wearing tracksuits you know" 😂 😂

Clearly misunderstanding the girls private school environment too...

Because it's normally just a formality to prove that you work in the industry! And it was my inlaws - people they've know and respected for a long time!

People clamouring for one of the schools in an area I used to live in as it was the only school in London without a council estate in the catchment area.

I used to wonder if they would say that in front of me if they had known that housing benefit was paying the majority of my rent.

When our DC were in primary school, a very MC friend was very keen to virtue signal by letting everyone know that she was happy for her DD to mix with (selected) less well of people. One world book day she was gushing to everyone who would listen about how great another child's home made costume was compared to the (very expensive) bought costume her DD had and said 'You see, these benefits families are just SO resourceful, I just couldn't do it!'

Was travelling on a train through Brixton (and well after it had become quite fashionable) and an American person loudly said: 'Brixton sucks, Brixton is, like, a slum!' 😮

Estate agent, on hearing my budget - looked me up and down, and said "Sorry we only deal with the better end of the market" - strong emphasis on better

I did manage to get a flat for the money I had, not that far from her estate agents, in an up and coming part of town. Over the time I was there, prices went through the roof as it became a v. desirable place to live for one reason and another. Did I use her agents to sell it? Did I fuck!

I should have gone in there, all Perry Woman-esque and refused to let her sell it, shouldn't I

Aren't many people like this with engagement rings?

He proposed to me with a fake diamond!!! 🤬🤬🤬

Somebody I knew moved out of our town to a small barracks village - reasonably nice but not that fancy - just rural.

She proceeded to us the term 'the village' in every sentence as in 'we have a delightful shop in the village' 'of course we have to drive the children to school now we are living in the village', 'can you come to X's birthday party, in the lovely hall in the village' god it went on and on - it was a tiny rural place with a huge army barracks, a co-op, army housing and some new builds

When it was in the local paper due to some anti social behaviour outside the shop every weekend I did say 'oh I see the village was in the local paper' 'oh yes' she replied, 'but they aren't children from the village oh no village children would never behave like that' I did point out that unless their parents were bussing them in they had to be from 'the village' - it did not go down well

My adoptive mother, when I gave her a Sainsbury's candle my birth mother had bought for her (adoptive mum refused to meet birth mum) sniffed and said "Well, it's hardly Jo Malone, is it?"

and in a similar 'village' theme the town I live in is a smallish market town - roughly divided into 4 quarters with each quarter having 2/3 separately named bits - people have started to refer to their small bit of the same big town as 'X Village' like FFS it's just a small bit in a large town you idiots

Looking to buy a house in a nice-ish place, but was only looking at the cheapest one as that's all could afford, my own cousin and her snobbish jumped up husband were also looking and said to our faces in front of about 20 odd family members - 'you can't afford a place like that there, we can, we have 3 million dollars to spend, you dont have that money.' We never bought and i try not to speak to them if i can. Never felt so small in my life.

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I have to admit to this psychology but absolutely only with food! I would have been thrilled by the £100 perfect wedding dress. However reduced/ bargain cheap meat, I don't want to buy, I absolutely need it to be reassuringly expensive, the same with restaurant food, if it's too cheap I'm worried. I'm not sure this is the same thing though, because obviously I'm thinking how can it be that cheap, poor welfare etc

My uni boyfriend, after his first visit to my hometown (a coalmining area): "I didn't expect it to be so clean."

Did you turn round and smirk at her or take the higher ground 😂

I went to a private junior school, not many were allowed to watch Grange Hill.

Are some of these snobbish or what people have experienced? My relatives all lived on council estates, the estates that made the news in the 80's because of night after night of rioting, you could watch the fires if you went near. Whilst I know that's not all council estates and obviously not all people on council estates, if you talk about certain ones in certain towns then I wouldn't want to live near them.

That doesn't sound snobbish, it's sounds like she was commenting on the irony of it.

Used to work somewhere with a very snooty woman, always liked to brag on and on about how much money she had, how much her huge house cost, what luxury holiday she was going on next etc. One day we were all talking about our jobs as the company was talking about possible redundancies/moving people around and she turned around, literally her nose in the air , and said 'well of course I'm not worried about it, I don't NEED to work with how much my husband has, its more of a little hobby' and when I was pregnant with my first child she asked me where I was planning on having the baby, when I told her she looked at me in horror and said 'you mean your not paying for a private hospital?!'

I was at work one day when it was heavily snowing. I shared an office with my boss (S) and a few other people. One of the other bosses (C) was having difficulty getting her car out and there were no taxis so she was getting - HORROR of HORRORS - a bus!!

My boss was horrified that she would have to get a BUS and kept saying POOR C, she has to get a BUS in this big exaggerated voice like she couldn't beleive it. She kept ringing C and asking if she was alright and making fun of her like it was SUCH an ordeal "So how is the BUS? Are there any smelly people on the bus today? Hahaha" and then when she arrived she was hailed like some sort of hero and everyone was offering her lifts home so she didn't have to go through such a horrific ordeal again.

I did not drive, I got a bus every day, and C lived two roads away from me. S was saying all this while sitting on the desk right next to me. Guess I'm a smelly bus wanker then.

Many years ago, when DC were little one of the mums when asked if 'Phillipa' was going to the village school, said,'Good god no, she's going to 'The Grange'.' a local prep school, she didn't, she went to Grange Primary..( names all changed) . She avoided all of us for a long time. Apparently, her husband vetoed paying for private.
She was visibly shocked to hear my DS won a scholarship to another top prep. We lived in a council house! 😂

I think this is a quote from something on TV but I can't remember what. Anyway she may have been tongue in cheek.

Priceless!

On first meeting with MIL, she said "and where do you work?" (She knew I was teacher) and when I told her I was excited to be starting a job at X school in the new term, she said "urgh" at the name of the school. It wasn't great but it wasn't THAT awful 😢

And everytime I go to a wedding I make sure to check the price tag on the bride’s dress 🤣 like wtf? Like anyone would even know how much it was unless you told them, in which case tell them it was £1k. It’s the stupidity that gets me more than the snobbery 🙄

My unbelievably high handed friend to a chap that was trying to chat her up;

My dress cost more than your house

I remind her of it often. She cringes inside out every time.