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'm not often exposed to snobs honestly as I live in a housing association building and all my friends are from similar backgrounds to me, but I did use to work with a woman who reminded us DAILY that she did not need to work as her husband was wealthy, but she liked to "get out of the house."

“We thought it would be good for him to mix with the ordinary children” brayed mum of lad in my primary school about 50 years ago at the school gates. Dead ringer for Joan Collins in an ankle length fox fur. She drove a yellow Jag.

My mother was a terrible snob and often talked about the 'locals' but she nearly spat the word out with a look of disgust. If one of us spoke with any trace of accent she would say 'oh! You sound like a local'. She was born and bred in that town as was her mother but never saw the irony.

A recent one, when discussing whether we'd always wanted to go into our chosen vocation. Colleague says, "No, I wanted to travel and see the world first". Which would be fine, if it weren't for the fact that she said it to our proudly WC, raised by a single-mum, self-made colleague, who got a 6K bursary and is still paying off her student loan 20 years later. She was Not Impressed.

Erm…who wants to hell her about the rampant anorexia in girls’ boarding school?

Similarly - one of my mums friends once commented (1970's) that you tell what type of family her students came from by asking if they watched Blue Peter or Magpie - Magpie obviously being the 'lower class' ITV show

One of ds2's friends mum's years ago when she discovered my house only had two loos and one bathroom / shower
' not sure I could cope with that ' !
She Didn't speak to me when she discovered Dh wasn't on a six figure salary. Wasn't a loss tbh.
I'd have bought the wedding dress for that price ! Who would waste 1000 on one dress anyway ? 😂

That doesn't even make sense, as there are a lot of competitive eating disorders among the upper class. 'Obese or in a gang' would have made more sense.

Sounds fair enough to me

I worked in a posh private school. A colleague asked in a meeting for staff to accompany a choir trip to.....(stifled laughter)..Sheffield! Many colleagues smirked and rolled their eyes.

😆😆

We moved house and needed to get a new landline number. Phone numbers in my small town are either 123 xxxx or 124 xxxx (123 for illustrative purposes...). There is no way of knowing which part of town you live in from this.

My mother, on hearing the new number: "I'm so pleased it starts 123 instead of 124. That's a far better number; what would people think if it started 124!".

Neighbours either side start 124.

How is that snobbish, though?

A woman I worked with son was dating a girl from a rough council estate. She said she was worried that the girl would get pregnant but if she lived on a private estate then she would worry at all ! She also was surprised at how clean the girls house was . What she didn't know was that I was brought up on the same road as the girl in question .

Another comments was that all people who lived on that estate were planning their next shoplifting trip every time they came to town ! That is so vile stereotyping the vast majority of people who lived on that estate and worked hard .

ds and his year (year 2) had performed an array of east end London songs (I had wondered why he kept saying ‘av a banana’ but he said I would find out) along with a play about poor but happy east end people

it was excruciating little prep children pretending to be cockney 🙄 singing knees up mother brown and any old iron

after many of the parents were gushing at how marvellous and what super fun it was was this was only 10 years ago and I still cringe thinking about it

Years ago I had a colleague that had what we then called airs and graces. She had a sister whose accent was completely non posh. The colleague got married and kept her name for professional purposes. Her surname was very neutral, her married name was Haddcock.

She said “We did think of combining our names, but we though Hadd-co Smith was too long” Reminded me of the popular port brand Cockburns which is pronounced Co-burns.

Ex boyfriend asked for a certain wine in a restaurant. The sommelier was a lovely man and replied yes we do but it's at the expensive end...the BF said "Do I look poor?"

My parents are both doctors (in the context of me asking a person who runs an exercise club why they’d given us no notice of a huge fee increase).

Do you live in Rutshire?

The irony of that statement about anorexia

I've got bad news for that person about private schools...

I work for a housing association, sometimes we have properties on mixed tenure roads or even just 1 or 2 properties in an otherwise private owned scheme..

Honestly, the way some of the privately owned residents talk about the social housing neighbours is disgusting. One complains constantly that our tenant parks her car on the road, he hates it and frequently complains. Funny that he sickly gold coloured range rover also parked on the street isn't a problem for him.

"I just don't understand, why doesn't everyone get an au-pair?". Said by a dad when speaking to other parents he had never met before, during the first get-together in the beginning of reception year (local CofE school).

Colleague’s sister, a primary school teacher, said kids from the council estate bring nits into the school.

I overheard a conversation years ago in Tidworth Tescos where a Corporal in uniform picked up the last package of sliced ham and a woman approached and told him he should give it to her, as her husband was an Officer. 😂😂😂