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 rurally & the local villages all despise each other - it's really odd.
My village (E) is poor but has Secondary school which 6 other villages feed into.
One of these villages (M) is enormously pleased with itself.
A sports teacher (from E but wants to 'be' M) at the school was picking the team:
'all those from M raise your hands, all those from E just grunt'.
People locally actually think it's funny! I think its depressing as hell.

I’ve experience of both sectors.
I dont know why people are so reluctant to accept that anorexia only exists in the independent sector I guess it suits their agenda’s. I spent 13 years looking after children who were hospitalised and sectioned with a severe eating disorders the overwhelming vast majority went to bog standard state schools not even pushy big standard state school..
I’m not saying children independent schools don’t get it because obviously they do but unlike others I don’t have an axe to grind in the independent versus state school argument. I worked in independent schools and state schools so I know what Im talking I’m just tired of people making statements when they don’t actually know what they are talking about.

I picked my friend up from the station in my rather old VW and we discussed cars - I'd recently bought this one for a few thousand and was delighted with it. She said she couldn't possibly consider anything but a BMW again when she changes cars because they just have a sort of 'feel' that's different to any other car, cheaper brands just wouldn't be the same, though obviously they are fine for other people...

IME whatever budget you show up with some of the agents tend to pull that "now your budget won't quite stretch in this area" ; I am talking about 800-900K budget SW London.

Is she Singaporean?

A Singaporean niece (SiL is Singaporean Chinese) was very upset after her IBAC results, because although they were good enough for her preferred RG university, they weren’t in the Oxbridge/Imperial College league, and the general reaction from Singaporean friends and family was , ‘Oh, well, never mind.’

It was down to me and dh (and her Brit dad) to congratulate her on doing so well.

After many years of hearing of it, it would seem to me that academic pressure in Singapore is positively brutal.

Politics attracts narcissists so I am not surprised.

A guy I was seeing from St Albans in my early twenties can to visit me in my northern Lancashire town. He came out to dinner with a group of friends. I remember after him telling me he was shocked that everyone had good jobs and were buying their first homes as talking about the nice holidays they were going on. Yes we don’t all work downt’pit.

A housing office told me the 'cheaper, affordable houses aren't for release yet' when going to enquire and also when I went to look at a car garage they made some comment about them having nothing I could afford. They missed out on a sale when I went to another garage instead and bought a car!
I can't believe how judgemental some people are!!

My elder sister, we grew up in Hackney in central London. Both parents were from Hackney, my late father grew up in the Old Nick slums. My sister said she’s upper class. We almost died laughing 🤣🤣

You pay rent for military housing.
Ironically... officers were actually going to see a rent decrease under the new system because they pay extra for the same size house currently.
Soldiers already can apply for bigger houses if they have more children... it follows similar ideals to council housing (two children of same sex can share at any age, two younger children can share regards of sex etc)

I went for a Christmas job once at a large department store in my University break. The woman interviewing was very old school and asked what my parents did for a living. She then said given my WC background, they must be so proud I've try to better myself by going to University. I was offered the christmas job, but turned it down based on the snobbery shown towards me!

Hahaha! That’s a good one.

Your friend wasn't called Gail, was she? Only I remember the exact same thing happening to a girl I knew in childhood, once she and her family had moved off The Estate to a private house. I'm sure it was her mother driving the snobbery, but she was encouraged not to play out with us estate dwelling ruffians, and was forced into tennis and piano lessons.

This isn’t snobbery. Your colleague was just answering the question. Nothing wrong with what she said and not her fault if the other colleague had a different life path. What you’ve said actually sounds like reverse snobbery so perhaps that should be added to this thread!

We down sized from a 6 bedroom house in a sought after village to a 3 bed terraced house in town - near a Lidl & a council estate . Reason being we wanted to retire early and use our over seas holiday home more .
One of our friends said “ whatever made you choose to move to the ghetto. I’ll give it 6 months “ 7 years later we are still here . We love the house , the friendly ( not snobby) neighbours and the proximity to everything we need . we are no longer friends . I don’t think she could bear the thought of associating with us once we weren’t outwardly well-off !!

I had the same thing! I was allowed Sindy but not Barbie. In fairness, I can now see the latter was a little less sexualised and had a flatter chest, thicker waist and more modest clothes! 🤣

Of course state-educated children develop eating disorders. But the poster who originally brought it up was quoting someone who said they were sending their child to a private school precisely to avoid her developing one, as though private schools were somehow immune.

Not in my bit of the North.

At a parent and baby group years ago with my then toddler. The organiser of the group had asked for ideas on how the group could be improved - I think she was aiming at whether the days/times were good or suggestions for specific toys. One mum said, and I kid you not, “increase the price so we get a better class of people”. Awful.

I think she did ,sindy was more wholesome towards the glamorous Barbie 🤣

I had a brunette Sindy (by choice) — from memory, she was a marginally less unrealistic shape and her accessories were more home-related than clothes? I think I had a bed and wardrobes…

We live across the road from a large state co-ed secondary. In our area there is also a large girls school and boys School which are part of the same academy and both are excellent schools with great A-Level results. By any national standard however, the co-ed is really very good too and has in fact been massively improving itself over the last 10 years as a result of a new head and significant investment. Traditionally, the co-ed had a much larger catchment as it was not as popular. As a result, it can have a wider range of diversity with children coming from a bit further away.

However, this has started shifting and now the catchments for all three schools are very similar in terms of size. For children in our area, the girls are now often outside of catchment for the girls school but can get into the co-ed and there are a few boys who can't get into the boys school but can to the co-ed. By nature of where our village school is in comparison to all three schools, this can flex up or done year on year for the two single sex schools, especially the girls school.

Oh. My. Word. I have lost count of the number of parents over the years who have said things to me like, "If my child gets a place at [co-ed] I don't know what we will do." or "We considered moving to ensure child goes to single sex and doesn't get forced to the co-ed".

I have found this offensive from day 1. Even more so now that DS is at that school.... by choice!

On plus side, I think there is a slow shift in perception as this year I've had a few families say they are really looking forward to it and haven't even put the single sex down as their first choice.

DH and I had booked our first holiday to a far flung place, and we were feeling so excited. We had managed to get quite a good deal from the local travel agent, and told FIL what we had paid. He threw his head back and let out a long laugh, before exclaiming "That wouldn't even pay for our business class seats to X" (X being somewhere far more exotic than our destination).

I'm not from Singapore and I would have been disappointed not to have got into my university of choice, which was UCL. I was actually accepted to Oxford as well but I chose UCL because I wanted to stay in London. I don't think it is 'snobbish' to want to be the very best you can be.

Two neighbouring villages. One larger, has transport links but also small factories, the other smaller, nicer but no land available to build new houses.

Overheard conversation:

• where do you live?
• Lower nicer village

There is no "Lower Nicer village", only a new housing estate (mainly 4-5 bedroom houses, annual service charge for the park on the estate, a few social housing tenants hidden away at the far end) built on the outer edge of "factory village" on the road that leads to nicer village. Every time I drive past the estate, I think of "lower nicer village" and it makes me smile.