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"

Yes at work. One of my colleagues was talking with another. They're both upper middle class and friends. They were talking about an area near where we work which is quite deprived. Some how the conversation swung to one's weekend plans on his boat and he chimed in ' You know Timothy (not real name but similar), its a case of the haves and have yachts'. They both found this quip hilarious.

We have a rescue mutt that looks a bit like a small, mutant German Pointer. I was very bemused when a very posh woman in the village looked disparagingly at her and asked "does she pick up?" Pick up what? Bad habits? Discarded socks? Diseases? Her own poo? It suddenly dawned on me I was being asked if she was a trained gun dog. Not a skill in high demand in our family, and she'd be in the next county if anyone fired a shot within a mile of her.

Stevenage pronounced as “St. Evenage”. How the poor receptionist kept a straight face I’ll never know because I didn't manage it!

I properly laughed out loud at that one.

"Pick up" means something very, very, very different to me. I'd assume she was asking whether I sent my mutt off to the local drug dealer's corner to score some weed for me 😂

I've had (ignorant) people be very rude about the university one of my children attended. It's a fairly old university but not one that's famous for, say, cutting-edge science or medieval French. In its field, it's a leader and my daughter was studying textile design - for which it's one of the best places in the country (and a lot better in terms of student experience/contact time and facilites, industry connections etc than some of the London art schools).

I've learned the hard way to shut up about universities! I'm from the generation where you were always interviewed for university and I had a horrible experience at one prestigious uni (not Oxbridge). It was in the 'oooh, a young woman - let's bully her for fun' era. I was offered a place, but I wouldn't have touched it with a bargepole. I've put my foot in it many a time by saying I'd never want a child of mine to go there (quite unreasonably - I'm talking a generation ago!) and found that no less than 5 of my friends went there. It's not really snobbery - it's a very good uni...just bitterness and impotent rage!

I might have finally found a use for her!😂

Oh my goodness!

Also, this would be my fear. We live in quite an affluent area in a two bed and I find myself not too keen to invite other mums for playdates as our house is tiny compared to theirs 🙈 Stupid, I know but we don't see a point/need to upsize right now.

We thought of putting dining table in the living room to set dining room up as a playroom and my friend said 'you'd eat in the living room??? That's a bit strange I think ..'.

Not keen to invite her anymore as I wouldn't want her to suffer by having to eat in the living room. Yes, I'm petty.

Is that snobby? Surely that's just a genuine mistake?

I don’t believe most of them either, the millionaire ‘tramps’ people sweeping the floor in front of you, people ‘literally’ looking down their nose, what? They actually threw their head back to do that? Loudly being insulting to teens working in fast food restaurants etc. Never happened.

The most amusing one was from my Aunt who said “well you did go to X school…” when I was telling my Gran about an old teacher expressing genuine, genuine surprise that I’d gone to university.

Her tone was so sneery as she’d got really snobby since marrying a rich man. I went to school with my cousin. Her daughter…

My Granny just laughed at her for it.

There's postcode snobbery in my area. So the desirability of SE21 supercedes SE22/23/26. I've even heard of people turning down excellent houses because it's in the wrong postcode.

Adjacent to SE22 is the SE15 postcode which is Peckham. You literally cross a road and the houses look exactly the same, but because of the postcode people need smelling salts to visit.

Some people put Dulwich Village on their postal addresses even though they are in SE24, which is Herne Hill. It's all BS.

My friend said 'I've not had a proper holiday since 2019, you know, one where you get on a plane.'

I swear it's true

The bike shop in question was a new build,men wearing suits/ties and doing that daft fast breathing if people got too close to the bikes while looking down their noses at you

The one he bought his bike from was the exact opposite and exactly as you describe,scruffy,bit grubby from getting their hands dirty,knew their bikes inside out,where friendly and keen to not only do a fair part exchange and sale but to leave a good impression too

He's been back every 3 years to upgrade and is on first name terms with all the staff-he buys all the other bits he needs from them

(Which must mean something-my father hates small talk and just wants to get in then out again within the smallest amount of time)

That’s not snobbery and I agree with her. It doesn’t really feel the same when you’re in your own country. And a lot of the time a break in the UK is way more expensive than a cheap package deal to Spain.

I was really just thinking about your comment about wanting something expensive to feel spendy/indulgent and thinking no I really don’t feel like that. Sorry I tend to ramble a bit even in writing 🙈

oh I definitely believe you! people trying to sell bikes as though they were cars!

My deceased mother, would NOT allow me to interact with friends who lived on a council estate.Got packed off to private boarding school age 11.
Not anorexic but learned to swear like a f trooper, much to her disgust.

Well the benefits do really depend on picking a decent school. I suppose it is a bit silly spending £30k on a crap school.

@VenetiaHallisWellPosh don't get me started on the NW3 snobs! I know people who bought a really horrible flat that is practically in the middle of the Finchley Road, rather than a nicer one a few streets away, because they had to be in NW3.

A friend giving me the details of her new bunch of mates that i'd met that weekend when I stayed over, all linked to the kids' school and new village where they'd moved. All of them rich, one with a helipad in the garden (🙄) and then one who lived in a 3 bed semi.

"She's only got a 3 bed semi, but we include her because she's really nice."

Fuck me, did she covet that helipad! And no, I'm not friends with her anymore.

In Waitrose, with an acquaintance who said to me, as I approached the self-service checkouts: 'i don't think you can use those unless you're a member.' Because you're clearly not the kind of person who normally comes here.

2 very posh mums on a campsite.

First one says: ‘Oh God, your children always look so put together. Mine look as if they live on a council estate’ 😱

Surely we have to add this comment to the list!

Was it the scan pay go ones? I’ve
made that mistake before thinking it was a normal self-checkout and then having to join the back of the queue. I’d say the same if it was the Sainsbury’s smart shop till as I’ve mistaken that for the normal self-checkout too. I doubt it was snobbery because anyone can get a Waitrose card - it’s not like it’s a private members club.

Me either! I thought adopting hoards of feral dogs was a bit of a tacky thing to do to be honest, judging by the posts I see about it on FB.