Page 24 | What's the most snobbish thing you've heard out loud?

Applescruffle · 2024-04-29T16:33:59+00:00

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"

WaltzingWaters · 30/04/2024 12:20

AngryBird6122 · 29/04/2024 17:36

We will be sending her to private school, I don’t want her ending up anorexic or in a gang

I’d imagine private schools have far more problems with anorexia, with the drive for perfection and added stress.

SandyIrving · 30/04/2024 12:22

"Where do the privately educated kids stay?" at a university open day accommodation talk.

"That's where you'll end up if you don't study" said to her teenagers whilst ordering food from my DD at McDs. Supervisor heard and made my DD recite her exam grades to the customer (teenagers were pissing themselves laughing).

NonPlayerCharacter · 30/04/2024 12:22

Temushopper · 30/04/2024 12:11

I don’t really get it even if it’s clearly a thing but it would be weird if everyone was excited about exactly the same things. I’m always really pleased to find something second hand or reduced. I will happily pay more for something better quality or more durable but not for the sake of it. I remember being super happy having found a sofa that perfectly fitted the bill for our living room for 1/2 of the budget I had in mind as it was ex display. I still love it years later and it’s definitely the same sofa it would have been if bought brand new after doing service in a busy family home. I think it’s mainly as given a choice I’d almost always save on things to spend more on experiences. What I saved on the sofa funded a week in a nice holiday cottage for us and my parents. What I saved by getting a £52.50 wedding dress we spent on extra activities and eating out some amazing places on our honeymoon. It was still a lovely dress and it had originally been £350 (in the 00s). It was just end of line and they’d whacked 85% off the last few left and it was really pretty. I dyed it navy blue after the wedding and wore it a few times as a ball dress before passing it on for someone to make into a Halloween costume.
I’d get the same kick from booking into business class for a flight or buying really good seats for a concert or the theatre and I suppose that’s a bit the same as practically you travel to same place/see same thing but just experience it differently.

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If nothing else, all these very long, detailed and personal responses to a dispassionate explanation of a recognised and common buying psychology prove that people really do invest a lot of themselves and their sense of self in what they buy.

People buy from their emotions. Selling works on that basis. Including reductions.

BollockStew · 30/04/2024 12:22

I've NC for this because I sound like a complete twat.

Me and DP went to view a house that was advertised with a 'high end' estate agents. We showed up in our usual clothes and with our usual faces. In other words, we looked poor, rough as fuck, and not in market for a £1m house. We grew up, we are rough as fuck, but we've made money.

The guy was waiting for us just outside the front door. He looked us over like we were two bags of on-the-turn mince. Then he turned around, locked the front door and started a spiel about how they didn't tolerate time-wasters who just wanted a look around a house they could only ever dream of living in. He ended his rant by actually flapping his hand and saying "Now run along".

Mothership4two · 30/04/2024 12:23

@LLMn

Highly selective private? Usually private takes anyone who is silly enough to pay 30K for boarding.

Usually there is an entrance exam and often competition for places is stiff. There are still schools where you have to get names down early. Parents will pay £30k+ for the results and the ethos of the school.

PeanutsLunadexter · 30/04/2024 12:31

We were invited to a Polo match from my husbands work, he worked for Bentley ( we are both from council estates) on our table for lunch a husband and wife a Lord and Lady ( who we later heard had brought their titles) asked the waitress did they have any vintage Perrier water!

Blondiebeachbabe · 30/04/2024 12:32

BollockStew · 30/04/2024 12:22

I've NC for this because I sound like a complete twat.

Me and DP went to view a house that was advertised with a 'high end' estate agents. We showed up in our usual clothes and with our usual faces. In other words, we looked poor, rough as fuck, and not in market for a £1m house. We grew up, we are rough as fuck, but we've made money.

The guy was waiting for us just outside the front door. He looked us over like we were two bags of on-the-turn mince. Then he turned around, locked the front door and started a spiel about how they didn't tolerate time-wasters who just wanted a look around a house they could only ever dream of living in. He ended his rant by actually flapping his hand and saying "Now run along".

Rich people can sometimes be really scruffy! They have nothing to prove. I know someone who is worth millions and he dresses like a tramp.

Radiatorvalves · 30/04/2024 12:32

My son goes to a private school and they were playing Eton at rugby. Someone from my son’s school swore and the Eton captain said, “No need for language like that. You’re not at a comprehensive school!” It was outrageous.

BollockStew · 30/04/2024 12:32

Blondiebeachbabe · 30/04/2024 12:32

Rich people can sometimes be really scruffy! They have nothing to prove. I know someone who is worth millions and he dresses like a tramp.

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I see you've met my DP 😅

BlueMoanday · 30/04/2024 12:34

BollockStew · 30/04/2024 12:22

I've NC for this because I sound like a complete twat.

Me and DP went to view a house that was advertised with a 'high end' estate agents. We showed up in our usual clothes and with our usual faces. In other words, we looked poor, rough as fuck, and not in market for a £1m house. We grew up, we are rough as fuck, but we've made money.

The guy was waiting for us just outside the front door. He looked us over like we were two bags of on-the-turn mince. Then he turned around, locked the front door and started a spiel about how they didn't tolerate time-wasters who just wanted a look around a house they could only ever dream of living in. He ended his rant by actually flapping his hand and saying "Now run along".

@BollockStew
What the actual FUCK!!??
What did you say to him??

Blah12345678999 · 30/04/2024 12:34

MinervaMcGonagallsCat · 29/04/2024 17:56

All the people I know in real life with eating disorders were privately educated and more than one blames the toxic environment and bully at their private school for it.

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I was going to say something similar, also when I speak to people they seem so associate anorexia more with wealthy people, I’m not saying that’s the case btw just that I think it’s more mentally associated with wealthy people

BlueMoanday · 30/04/2024 12:35

sockarefootwear · 30/04/2024 11:57

I really, really wanted to but sadly I knew that he would just have taken it home and complained about how busy he was etc until his wife (my ill friend) dragged herself out of her sick bed to do it.

This same man discovered that his wife had been shopping at Aldi and told her that he would 'allow' her to continue doing so but she must use Waitrose bags for life to get her shopping in from the car so that the neighbours wouldn't know. On another occasion I was looking after his their DC at my house whilst his wife got some rest. The agreement was that he would collect them on his way home from work. When he arrived he phoned to ask me to bring the DC and all their stuff (buggies, changing bags etc) out to him as it was too big a risk to leave his car unattended on my street whilst he came to the door. I didn't live in as posh an area as them but it was hardly the ghetto and his car was not even that nice. I really have no idea why my lovely, down to earth, friend is married to him

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@sockarefootwear Your poor friend. At least she had you!

Kandalama · 30/04/2024 12:36

SeanBeansMealDeal · 30/04/2024 11:36

How on earth would she properly hide that from her friends, though? Wouldn't they see the Aldi branding on all her food when they come over?

Or did she save the posh-branded bottles and packets and decant every single one?!

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Don’t think she ever had anyone in her house.
I went round but didn’t go through her cupboards 😆

Woodandsky · 30/04/2024 12:38

We sent our kids to private primary school for a few years in desperation because the local one they'd been at was so bad and we couldn't get a state spot anywhere else.
Doesn't quite fit the bill of a snobbish comment but literally the first thing they said when I picked them up on day 1 was 'mummy what's an au pair?'

LLMn · 30/04/2024 12:39

Animatic · 30/04/2024 12:17

is this an example of reverse snobbery or what?

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well spotted my attempt at a joke!

JustEatTheOneInTheBallPit · 30/04/2024 12:40

BlancheSaysYes · 29/04/2024 20:32

I admired a woman's bag once and she said 'you do realise it's a Radley and probably beyond your means?' I obviously look poor.

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Ah, so you've met my mum then. I'm so sorry.

Calliopespa · 30/04/2024 12:40

BollockStew · 30/04/2024 12:22

I've NC for this because I sound like a complete twat.

Me and DP went to view a house that was advertised with a 'high end' estate agents. We showed up in our usual clothes and with our usual faces. In other words, we looked poor, rough as fuck, and not in market for a £1m house. We grew up, we are rough as fuck, but we've made money.

The guy was waiting for us just outside the front door. He looked us over like we were two bags of on-the-turn mince. Then he turned around, locked the front door and started a spiel about how they didn't tolerate time-wasters who just wanted a look around a house they could only ever dream of living in. He ended his rant by actually flapping his hand and saying "Now run along".

Please tell us what happened next!

GingerPirate · 30/04/2024 12:40

BollockStew · 30/04/2024 12:22

I've NC for this because I sound like a complete twat.

Me and DP went to view a house that was advertised with a 'high end' estate agents. We showed up in our usual clothes and with our usual faces. In other words, we looked poor, rough as fuck, and not in market for a £1m house. We grew up, we are rough as fuck, but we've made money.

The guy was waiting for us just outside the front door. He looked us over like we were two bags of on-the-turn mince. Then he turned around, locked the front door and started a spiel about how they didn't tolerate time-wasters who just wanted a look around a house they could only ever dream of living in. He ended his rant by actually flapping his hand and saying "Now run along".

Wow 😁

LLMn · 30/04/2024 12:40

Mothership4two · 30/04/2024 12:23

@LLMn

Highly selective private? Usually private takes anyone who is silly enough to pay 30K for boarding.

Usually there is an entrance exam and often competition for places is stiff. There are still schools where you have to get names down early. Parents will pay £30k+ for the results and the ethos of the school.

You must be joking! Where we live minor schools advertise on buses - they are desperate for clientele!

3peassuit · 30/04/2024 12:41

“It couldn’t work between us. She is from Maidstone, I am from Tunbridge Wells.”

Calliopespa · 30/04/2024 12:43

PeanutsLunadexter · 30/04/2024 12:31

We were invited to a Polo match from my husbands work, he worked for Bentley ( we are both from council estates) on our table for lunch a husband and wife a Lord and Lady ( who we later heard had brought their titles) asked the waitress did they have any vintage Perrier water!

Are you totally sure they didn’t mean the champagne? I can’t really believe anyone is that stupid …

Projectme · 30/04/2024 12:45

@FourSteeples
@x2boys

I never noticed a difference between the two of them; just goes to show it didn't matter to me what she looked like! 😂and yes, I had Sindy's horse, wardrobe, dressing table and car. Hark at me bragging...

It was just the fact that DM wouldn't let me have a Barbie because of her snobbery; hilarious!

I'm de-railing here but DM let me have another plastic doll character called Havoc. Havoc was a female equivalent to Action Man I think because she had things like a helicopter, canoe, dinghy, night vision goggles etc. She was ace; I loved her. Again, couldn't tell you whether she had big boobs/slim waist etc!

usedtobeasizeten · 30/04/2024 12:46

SandyIrving · 30/04/2024 12:22

"Where do the privately educated kids stay?" at a university open day accommodation talk.

"That's where you'll end up if you don't study" said to her teenagers whilst ordering food from my DD at McDs. Supervisor heard and made my DD recite her exam grades to the customer (teenagers were pissing themselves laughing).

And she stood there and listened?

Kandalama · 30/04/2024 12:50

LLMn · 30/04/2024 12:39

well spotted my attempt at a joke!

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We paid £40,000…..that makes us incredibly stupid obviously because the state system offers exactly the same doesn’t it.🤣🤣🤣

SpanThatWorld · 30/04/2024 12:52

My colleague and very close friend was telling me about her husband's new hire and how useless he was proving to be.

"And I don't know why he doesn’t get it; he's got a proper degree. Not from a polytechnic ha ha."
"And where is my degree from?"
"Ah... oh no... well... you know... um"