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"

It’s been well over 35 years, but I still have the second hand cringe from this. My Mum saying to her SIL in her very best Hyacinth Bouquet voice ‘Well this is our investment house’ like she had just bought a 5 bed detached house.

It was a right to buy 2 bed council house on a dodgy estate in South London 😬

I didn’t quite take that scene that way actually. I thought that given the way his background had been painted the “ snob” thought it didn’t look that bad after all.

Everyone I’ve known from oop north mining towns/ background including uni flatmate, colleagues and DH has been scrupulously clean both personally and in their environment. My from down south family on the other hand, seems to view lack of hygiene as a sign of higher intellect.

I was at my daughter’s gymnastics class and complaining about having to go home and do the housework because I was tired. Another one of the mums responded with “oh I feel your pain. My cleaner is on holiday for a fortnight and I have to do the housework myself”.

Mines is "£3.50 for prawn crackers!" And that was in said council estates! 😂

Apart from the private school thing, how is that snobby?

I once worked in a private junior school and there were a couple of times when little kids said things, with no idea how it might have sounded. On one occasion one heard a noise and when I explained it was the lift they said (actually, declared 😆) ‘Oh! That sounds like my dumb waiter!’ Another time, some year one kids were having story time and one of them pointed at the picture and said, ‘That looks like my granny’s castle!’

Yeah that's right the main character made out he was really poor and his dad had died and his mum was an alcoholic or something like that. And that he had no siblings. The viewer has no idea this isn't true until that scene, then you realise the main character is an unhinged bullshitter. Such a brilliant psychological thriller imo

During lunch this attendee came up and was making small talk and asked which university I went to and I said I didn't. She looked me up and down like a piece of shit, turned on her heel and walked off. I had this. I was living in a fairly posh commuter town, trying to make friends by joining a women’s group. Woman I was in conversation with asked me where I was living, and when I gave the “wrong” answer, turned on her heel and walked off.

I work on a supermarket checkout (stop gap until l retire later this year) and l once asked a customer what her perfume was, as it was so gorgeous.
She told me what it was, then added "It's very expensive, though. They only stock it at Harvey Nicks...."
I was wearing a watch that cost over £1000 over 20 years ago and a 2 carat diamond solitaire engagement ring, but they had clearly gone under her radar. 🙄

I had arranged for a mother’s help 2 afternoons a week over the summer - 3 children under 4.
I heard my 3 year old telling a neighbour, “we’ve got a Nanny AND a dishwasher!”

I know. It was yuck.

"I'm upper class and you're undy class"

Australian relative telling me how the British class system ranks us.

I love Sainsbury's, it's great because it keeps the scum out of Waitrose...

To be honest I don’t encounter these snobby attitudes in my area as it’s a bit of a rough area and I am probably the one who seems posh in comparison

An old school friend who married very well and moved to a town in Surrey with her new husband said to me she would have to introduce me to her 'new council house friend - as she was really nice'

When we were getting ready to go out one night as teens she asked me to show her how to do my slutty make-up.
We aren't friends any more 😂

Imagine how terribly upset she would be if Waitrose had empty shelves - all because the 'useless' lorry driver hadn't bothered to do his 'useless' job!

I heard a councillor say that building new homes gave the people hope
it wasn’t what he said it was how he said it very patronising

blueandgreenandyellow Many years ago the academic young man I worked with in a high profile office told me his mother had said he should watch Coronation Street to see how the other half live. I said why bother, you're working with me. (I am a working class Lancastrian).

‘I do know what dynasty means….its diarrhoea’

"Um, it is quite a... departure for me, going out with someone from a ...background like yours" although he did go on to say that he thought I was "super"

When was this? Back in the 80s and earlier, Sindy had a vaguely realistic body shape, in comparison to Barbie's ridiculous figure. I can see why a parent might choose Sindy; I always had Sindys (and my family is dead common).

@Houseinawood I think that's actually quite adorable!

Yes, this is a fair point. I despise petty snobbery. Really despise it. The British middle and upper classes at their worst are repulsive, and some of the stories on this thread have made me boil with rage.

But...I have witnessed a fair amount of vicious, hate-filled, small-minded bigotry from working class people as well. And I say that as someone who went to a crappy comprehensive in Essex. I remember the 'comedian' Alexi Sayle, for example, casually referring to "public school c–nts," as if every single person who went to a private school is automatically awful. You can't help where you're born, full stop. You can't help being born to heroin addicts on a Manchester council estate, and you can't help being born to Eton-educated landowners in Surrey. I know people from wealthy, boarding school backgrounds who are absolutely lovely – kind, self-mocking, and full of guilt about their privileged upbringing. Judge people as you find them.

Yes you do understand. You understand perfectly well.