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"

I invited one of DS's friends over for the day when they were around 6/7. The boy walked up to the door by himself but I could see his parents car over the road. I asked if his mum wanted to come in for a coffee (first time I'd met her) but he replied that she had said didn't want to come in as our house was too small. She's avoided me ever since in the playground, thank goodness.

You'd get a similar thing in Devon where I grew up @ThreePointOneFourOneFiveNine (mainly in villages and small towns) where it would be seen as a major insult for a local to be assumed to be a tourist especially amongst those who had moved to the area - the born and bred there were much more relaxed about it.

You're not wrong.

However, they are weapons grade assholes out there.

This includes a 'friend' from university I am still in contact with very, very tangentially through another dear friend who really rates her (a mystery as this girl is lovely.) Too many examples of snobby/ horrible things she's said to me in past years - glad we're an ocean away now.

One of my old colleague's mum was a snob, and apparently used to refuse to tell people that my colleague lived in town X because it was not to her liking. Thankfully it neighboured town Y which was posh enough, so she would tell people her daughter lived in "town Y borders" bit of a mouthful if you ask me!

Wow! @FourNiltotheArsenal What an earth did you reply to that?

Students age 21 being fussed about drinks and food.
"Oh Gregory, not the smoked salmom again! Why they always make canapes with them?"
"Brunhilda, I would not suggest red, I imagine Aldi wine tastes like that".
"No roasted olives? Pitty."
All with that thousand years old stare and wrinkled nose.
Obviously, two hours later all are rolling in their own body fluids.

“I’m not staying in anything less than a Four Star” - My Dad.

I'm guilty of being a snob. When I had one child, me hubby and baby in the $1200 Joolz pram that I just HAD to have, walking around the shops. As we passed a couple and their child under a year old in their cheap stroller with the dad holding a box of Krispy creme donuts I said "they spent more money on their donuts than they did on a proper pram for the baby" insert us laughing.

2 years later with 2 kids now, I bought the same cheap stroller for $20 because my $1200 pram was too bulky and annoying to take out 🙈🙊

@LondonFox not the point of the thread but just googled roasted olives to see if they are a thing. Bloody hell they look delicious - what a brilliant idea.

A pram for twenty dollars (about 14 pounds)? REALLY? KK doughnuts are extortionate though so I agree there.

this is so sad! If I were buying a fancy dress for a special occasion and my budget was something like £1000 but I found the perfect one for £100 i’d think the gods had blessed me that day!!!

@gettingbackonit23 absolutely! In Australia Kmart is our cheap store. $25 now but several years back it was $20 so my snobby bum would have to pay more if I bought it now 😂

I once overheard a daughter of a man who worked for a royal say "Daddy, can you imagine me being poor" (say this in your head with a really posh accent). Then she added..."Like all the commoners?" . She said this in front of 'commoners' being hotel staff and guests. This was a girl who's dad was the son of a shopkeeper 😬!

My very nice, but exceptionally posh and out of touch head of department, a few years back. One of the account managers had been given a bottle of Bollinger by a supplier as a sweetener. He was teetotal, so gave it to me as a thank you for helping with the original deal. HoD said, “Oh, do you like Bollinger? I never think it’s particularly amazing myself. It’s like birthday champagne”.

Manager and I - who were very much on Prosecco salaries - share a wry raise of the eyebrows at that one… 🍾

Thanks for that. I've just spat soup all over my phone! I certainly won't be dining with the likes of Brunhilda anytime soon 😆

I stand corrected! Looks like a good one that.

Why is that being snobby? the services in a 3 star hotel are very different to a 4 star or 5 star hotel. Maybe he wants one with wifi in the rooms rather than just common areas? maybe he wants concierge service because he doesn't want to carry all his luggage by himself? perhaps he wants a restaurant that's open to guests and visitor's with 24hrs room service everyday who knows but there are specific differences between the star ratings hotels.

@Applescruffle thank you for this thread, I love it.

Mine was real, more's the pity.

Lol especially as many of the jobs working for the royals pay an absolute pittance and you are essentially their servant. Working for them would not impress any upper class people in the slightest. Hopefully her dad was properly embarrassed by her.

I'm this person also! But only because in Oz hotels less than 4 stars are grossor dodgy to stay in and if I'm spending money on a holiday, I would want to be comfortable. 🙂

I ignored it when he said it, it wasn't his fault that his mum was a raging snob. But I did message his mother and tell her that I was bringing him home early as he'd refused to put his clothes back on after going in the pool, and then repeatedly wiped his willy on the sofa while laughing, despite being told not to. The DM didn't reply but the nanny just rolled her eyes and said "not again" when I dropped him home.
Funnily enough there hasn't been another playdate since.

Moveoverdarlin
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.

I'm not a fan of 'written signs' as decor, but I did once have one which said 'No riff-raff. But I'll make an exception for you!' I do hope people realised it was a joke....

Some people have definitely missed the humour gene!

'Of course, it's not really meant for us.'

Said quietly on the steps by the exit, by a colleague whose father was a Navy officer, about the Xmas party at a college of the U of London. Meaning it was for the non-academic plebs working in the administration, I guess? I'm not British so was still cottoning on to all this.

Note that this man was nevertheless allowed to run with what passed for the cool crowd of the younger academics, whereas I was not.

Officially, because my tastes were too highbrow (they just weren't British) but really because I was a youngish female who wasn't shaggable as coupled off. Being sexist was OK in this world, liking opera wasn't.

Can't list a particular comment, but over the years we've had people comment we must be posh/well off because of where we live - I guess house prices are slightly above average, but we're certainly not posh, just ordinary average people living in an average house.