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"

that is cheap if its in any way decent. I'd be in there buying two as well!

Friend (at the time) shopping with me at the street market I used to buy all my fruit and veg from. Partly because I liked it (and still do), but largely because at the time I just couldn't afford supermarkets.

'Are you finished? Good, let's get out of here before I catch poverty.'

I replied to the effect that, as I bought all the food there that I gave her and others at my (not infrequent) BBQs, brunches etc, she had probably already caught it off me.
The car ride following that was... tense.

She is no longer a friend, not really because of that incident, but it was a harbinger.

I cant send my child to the local school because they'd have to mix with my tenants's children.

I wasn't allowed to watch Grange Hill.

I wasn't allowed to have a Barbie ('what a horrible common little American thing' my DM would say) but I was allowed to have a Sindy (she was a UK equivalent and didn't look any bloody different!) 🙄

Genuine question....is accommodation a part of the salary package? If so I could see why people might be upset as its actually a salary cut.

The council house posts have been great and feature a lot in this thread. I have a few but will pick just one from memory right now.

My best friend in senior school (a hundred years ago 😏😁) lived in a c h as many of us did. One day she proudly announced that she and her parents were moving into a new house very soon and it was "private not council" so we all waited for this momentous occasion to happen.

It did and her new address was the "private" estate next to our perfectly respectable council one. Overnight her accent changed from the one we all had to a posh affected one. I can still hear it decades later. 😁

Is it possible she was referring to you getting into Oxford? In which case you did do 'terribly well' if you went to a state school.

I grew up on a council estate and I now live in a private rental, The funny thing is I'm now actually really jealous of people who are in social housing, it's so much cheaper!

I grew up in an owned house and my mum was always jealous of council house tenants. She really wanted one!!

South Asian friend thinks the only good universities in this country are Cambridge Oxford LSE Imperial UCL and if her son didn't get into a "globally prestigious university" he'd just do an apprenticeship and she wouldn't fund him.

Scoffed at my DD going to Nottingham because "who has heard of University of Nottingham before". All she cares about is the "prestige" of a university.

Well, I could afford it and regretted it. Being a product of a state comp, I thought that private schools deliver and are in a class of their own. My husband was a day boy, and he had reservations, he thought a comp with private tuition (since we could afford it). Against his better judgement private school (day) was chosen. As it turned out, the teachers were not special, the tuition was not special, they did not feel incentivised (don't know why) to explain properly, they bullied children to drop subjects if the children did not immediately understand and achieve the desired results. Overall, very sobering but negative experience. On the positive side? It was a jolly nice social club with much benevolence, no chair fights, no stabbings, good uniforms. But worth it? Sorry, no. Oh, yes and upon leaving school, blatant discrimination by universities, which prefer (rightly, I must add) state school applicants. So, I stand by my choice of teh word 'silly'.

I find this interesting. When I did my marketing degree last century, things will have moved on, it was always said it cheapens a brand if it was available at a sale price.

This was before the popularity of eBay etc and when outlet stores were a very new thing. I am now reluctant to pay full price for anything “designer” as I know I can probably get the same item now much cheaper if I wait a month or two.

The ratio depends on your catchment area, surely?
And presumably the posh anorexic girls get private health care.

I was allowed to watch The Monkees but had to turn the sound down when the pop songs came on - pop songs being evil :( So not snobbery, just religious zealotry.

I can relate!!!! We live in a flat in a big cottage (ex council) which is split into 4 flats (3 privatised and one council). So the dwellers of one private flat call their neighbours downstairs 'those people in the council flat' - they share the same floor/ceiling!!!!!

I wonder if it’s because they usually go private.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I worked in a wealthy catchment area with at least 3 of the most famous pushy independent schools easily within our catchment.
Look Im not saying girls (and boys of course) in independent schools don’t get anorexia but people are deluding themselves if they think that send their DD to a state school means they won’t get it. Anyway as I said later I could go to the must pushy girls school in the country and be surrounded by girls with anorexia and not get it I just don’t have that sort of personality (thats not to say I’m better than them I’m just going to get it).

I heard exactly the same thing, except I was in Aldi and the bloke on the phone was a business man in a suit.

The children in that schools just don't look like the children in our immediate area

The children there are really rough

As an upper middle class person

Exactly this. I know people renting private apartments in the same block as people renting from the council and their rent is 3x higher. For the exact same thing. You're very lucky to live in a council house. Wild how many people on this site think it makes you a peasant

"Oh no I don't need ketchup, it's frightfully common."
Friend of friend while tucking in to a full English.

I was at a work event when I was younger and we were out with a team from another company we worked with (professional services). We were talking about living in London, when a young woman on the other team loudly proclaimed "eugh, imagine living in xxxxxxx!!" Which was were I lived at the time in a beautiful, three bed semi on a lovely quiet street!! I was too stunned to say anything, but often wish I could go back to that point and pull her up! The irony is, she probably lived in a shitty one bed flat in an area she considered upper class!!

This was said years ago by a friend who, despite what you will think, is extremely kind and spends nearly all her free time volunteering in charity shops, meals on wheels (when that was still a thing), food banks etc.

As mums of young children, we used to go on group walks and one day we came across a row of what was clearly social housing overlooking a stunning view of a wooded valley on the edge of town. This woman exclaimed 'But they're council houses! Look at that view!' and her face told us what she was thinking which was: council tenants shouldn't be allowed to have a view like that!

We all burst into indignant laughter and she got roundly and sarcastically admonished. Her point was (put a bit more reasonably) that people don't usually get much choice as council tenants, and if you got one of these houses, you'd be thrilled.

We have never allowed her to forget it, poor Hyacinth Bucket reincarnation that she is!!

Re the Grenfell Fire
'Well, that's why it's so important to live in a detached house'.