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"

No, no, I don’t claim that it’s the problem of independent schools, far from this. I knew personally 2 cases and one person was in independent and the other was in state school (like grammar school). In both cases parents went private as they had money for this. Independent schools mean richer parents so I wonder if it’s the usual approach for them and it affects official statistics.
But I’m not saying that eating disorders don’t exist in state sector.

As a proud eastender this has made me cringe too

Blondiebeachbabe · Today 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.

I worked with a girl once whose family were very, very rich. She wore awful old things and her coat was a disgusting smelly and stained old wax Barbour jacket.

One day after work she went to the jewellers in the local (small market) town to look for a present for her parents' anniversary. When I saw her the next day she told me that as soon as she'd entered the shop, the assistant went into the back room and emerged with a floor brush and made a great show of actually sweeping the floor in front of her - effectively sweeping her out of the shop, and all the time with a look on her face as if there was a bad smell!

Silly woman - this girl was ready to spend over £500 and this was in the 1980s, so you can do the maths! And it wasn't Asprey's - it was a local independent jewellers who presumably could have done with a nice big sale.

I’m guessing something completely different….

Also one from my long passed mama. She had been brought up working class though happened to live in an area that became gentrified. She was elderly and needing to move to somewhere with a bit of support and was being very particular that she wanted to live in the same (very small) area. We were trying gently encourage her that she needed to be open to more areas or she was at risk of becoming homeless.

After long consideration, she reluctantly said 'well, I suppose I wouldn't mind living in Prestbury'. If I had to'.

(For those who don't know it, famous for being a very expensive area of the Cheshire set/footballers, not so much supported social housing!)

This happened when my auntie, who was a market trader,needed to give her address to a customer. The customer looked taken aback and said "but that was such a good house".

Sigh. No one has suggested they don't, only that the person who said she was sending her daughter to a private school to avoid her becoming anorexic was demonstrably misguided.

One memory which still makes me angry is finding myself at a dinner party (full Hyacinth Bucket) at the home of a couple of which the husband was just awful - actually far more of a pillock than Alan Partridge. He liked to sit at the top of the table and hold forth with off-colour jokes, borderline racism and outright sexism.

He was blathering on about how the local town (a super-wealthy and characterless Home Counties commuter town) had much prettier women than might be seen in a working class town.

I got into an argument with him but I knew I wasn't going to get anywhere - he enjoyed goading people. I really despise his attitude, but if I'm honest...there is a grain of truth in it for very obvious reasons: rich men and trophy wives*. This was clearly a situation he was very comfortable with.

• If you think of 'attractive' as meaning glamorous, expensively dressed, made-up and coiffed, which he clearly did and I don't! I was never going to win that argument.

That was the last time we had to endure his company though.

DH opened a speeding fine notification when his Mum was visiting us . She told him to ring them and cancel it , you’re an airline pilot !

Mine was surprised that he understood what my family were saying and they didn't sound like Rab C. Nesbitt at all (we're from Scotland)

There is another MN thread about a mum being hurt when she found out her (adult) daughter had only spent £2.50 on her Christmas present. A fair few posters called her grabby and materialistic. I couldn't think of how to bring in the psychology of value being linked to worth in the way @NonPlayerCharacter has done on here.

Good grief, can't believe it.

Can’t see anything wrong or snobby in what she said. ‘I used to live in a small council house’, that’s just a fact surely? It’s the opposite of snobby in fact because she’s openly admitted she lived in a council house.

It would snobby if she said ‘I used to live in a small council house with the dregs of society.’

In a similar vein, my MIL was once complaining to DH about the 'bad attitude' of a street-sweeper she'd encountered in passing. 'He was just pushing the broom along, not putting any pride or energy into it...'

To which DH responded along the lines of the guy's doing a crappy job for a crappy wage, how motivated can you reasonably expect him to be?

MIL: 'Oh, but if he took a pride in his work... if he cared enough to want to become the best street sweeper... then he'd get promotions and raises and then he could start his own street-sweeping company!'

O-kayyy, then... because it's really that simple.🤔

worst Comment actually came from my normally opposite-of-snobby ex-DP, who, when our baby was in the neonatal unit, seriously wanted me to ask for our baby to be moved to another cot cos he didn’t want him “hanging around with the addict in the next cot.” Poor newborn in the next cot was withdrawing, and was only days old.

Holy fucking shit. I think we're related. We'd better both name change!

I think many people don’t understand humour and taken the comments too literally. All these people referring to ‘poor’ people will have been joking. The person who said ‘no one with an en suite would eat in the Harvester’ will have been JOKING.

I booked a holiday last week, cost a bomb as it’s in the school holidays, but I’ve taken the hit and that’s that. I was telling a friend and she said ‘It costs so much to take children away in the holidays, it’s so unfair!’ I replied something along the lines of ‘Yeah it does, but it is what it is, and hey, it’s cuts out the riff-riff’. Now of course I was joking, I don’t genuinely mean that. But reading these comments, I think a lot of people have no idea when people are just mucking about.

“Do I look like the kind of person who’d go to the launderette?” From some wannabe in the office who didn’t have a pot to piss in but wanted others to think she did

And I was too!

Oh, I love that and also the thinking fast enough to get the right answer at the right moment...that must feel great.

I had something similar working as a waitress - we were short staffed and me and deputy manager were delivering items to table and they made similar comment though unclear with they meant me or him or both.,

I just carried on but when I went back to the table they did a half arsed apology to me for some reason - I hope you didn't think us rude but education matters - I shrugged smiled and said I agree I graduated last month from red brick name uni and will start masters next month at different red brick name uni - I thought I was just being factual.

They tried complaining to deputy manger on way out about my impertinence - he'd been very upset by their comments- he was my age hadn't gone to uni like me but tried to get on in this workplace - so thought my comments were great went on rest of shift how well I'd put them in their place.

😂😂😂

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

No they don’t. Some of them actually are highly selective and you have to pass entrance exams to get a place.

I have a regional accent. I was out for dinner with a group of colleagues - mainly south-east. One of them remarked loudly : "isn't is amazing that everyone at this table has been to Oxford or Cambridge, except them" (and points at me). In the interests of giving a fool enough rope to hang themselves, I said nothing. After a pause, a third person patiently explained to them that , actually, one of my postgraduate degrees was from Cambridge. I couldn't help but smirk a bit. But as far that little oik was concerned, anyone with a regional accent couldn't possibly be properly educated, and was fair game to be belittled in front of everyone else.

I asked my friend if she’d like to go to the local Playhouse to me to watch a musical

her response - if I’m going to see a musical, I’m going to the West End & see it professionally.

I must admit, I was super shocked. She doesn’t seem the type to come out with that.