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’m too good for that place.”

ex neighbour about her workplace.

Speaking of which , anyone been listening to “ what’s the story Ashley Storey?” on radio 4? She invariably starts every episode mocking “ you radio 4 audience in your gated community/ Saltburn sized kitchen etc.” I don’t know if she’s being literal or what but it’s also a trope with Janey Godley’s comedy: you’re not from the east end of Glasgow ergo a total snob and I’m gonna show you up.

I grew up happily on a council estate. When I started work my boss gave me a lift home one day. As he weaved through narrow streets lined with cars he said "these estates were built for poor people, you're not meant to have cars".

In a Morrisons car park next to a private school (all of the kids pop over to Morrisons on their lunch break to grab something to eat, for context)
I heard
"Emily, do you want to know why Jonathan was laughing at me over lunch?? - it's because I had bought a Yazoo instead of a shaken udder milkshake"

Now I'm wondering what poor people smell like. Personally I use unscented laundry products.
Was that the last time you offered to help with laundry?

I think that's a joke. I have a couple of friends who live there who call it St. Evenage to make it sound posher – but they do it as a joke. It's like when I was younger people called the area in London St. Reatham (maybe they still do?).

My very working class husband has the same attitude to buses… I, I guess Upper Middle Class, love a bus and used them constantly growing up and still do given a choice.. He and his parents/friends have a weird inverted snobbery about all sorts of things I would consider incredibly normal!

This annoys me purely because why were YOU doing your friends washing following HER husbands orders when HE could have done it himself 🤣

The postcode snobbery comments reminded me of the Cherie Blair property "scandal" which caused quite the fuss at the time (I can't remember the details but something about buying properties before a tax came in and there was a dodgy man involved, not TB!😂). Anyway, a couple of the properties, two flats, where being widely reported as being in the Clifton area of Bristol (a highly desirable and pricey area), however, when the address was released later I realised, as a Bristolian, it wasn't in Clifton at all and in a much less desirable area. So someone seems to have tried to 'posh' it up, either Cherie, the estate agents or the journalists!

What does "MC" mean here, please?

I really don't know when people will realise that private schools are nothing special, they they are staffed with teachers who roam from state schools to public schools, furthering their careers, that private school teachers don't care about their jobs with very very few exceptions, that human nature is to seek maximal reward for minimal effort and that nobody cares about a child apart from his parents.

Two favourites (same culprit):
'It's one of those poorer primary schools where they wear the printed sweatshirts'

'She wants the middle class lifestyle without doing any work for it' (i.e., wasn't born into it, so doesn’t deserve it).'

Do they seriously not realise how many girls at private school have eating disorders?? As well as drug problems and self harming 🙄

When I first started uni I found myself living in halls with wealthy students. They were saying ‘god I really miss having an Aga’ and were horrified that I had never even heard of one never mind owned one. They thought everyone had one in their kitchen apparently

"Middle class"

Eh?

All of these happen in all schools.

Looking round law faculties of universities with dd1. We'd come out of a talk and we heard a mum say to her husband, "Darling, do you think we should go back in and let them know we have a yacht?" Daughter looked mortified.

Absolutely. My mum told me that I should watch Blue Peter because Magpie was for rough people (or words to that effect). We were working class, my dad worked in a factory ffs 😂

Classmate: "Your mother must be so proud of you being accepted to [name of university].
Me: "She's pleased for me. How about yours?"
Classmate: "Where I come from everyone goes to university."

When we graduated, her parents were whisked away and nobody met them. I often wondered if she thought her parents were actually too common. She would have been showing them off otherwise.

Another time I was reading a newspaper in the presence of a different classmate:
"Shouldn't you be reading the Daily Mail."

In both cases they were from nouveau-riche social climbing families, and seemed desperate to appear "posh".

It's a bit silly spending 30k on any school

I was born and brought up in central London, but have spent my adult life in Yorkshire. My sister does not in see stand why I'd want to live here and makes stupid comments about "grim oooo naatth", whippets etc at any opportunity. Still. After 25 years. She also fancies herself as an undiscovered artist.

She came to visit a few years ago and we went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park , which is very local. She was all full of "what's that then, a field full of garden gnomes" type remarks. I said nothing until she got out of the car and came face to face with a collection of Barbara Hepworth sculptures. Then Henry Moore etc etc etc. she couldn't believe that all these sculptures were on display in Yorkshire of all places! Despite Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore being local. She would not stop going on about why they should be in London.

When my daughter was little and we’d just moved into a village,a neighbour invited me and dd to meet other mums around and about. I’ve never gone for labels on clothes and dressed clean and ordinary.
She Asked me if I was a cleaner as I didn’t have designer clothes on!
I didnt even bother answering her, what a snob!
Once she found out my job I was suddenly worth talking to,she could sod off!

When I was younger it was the local independent school that was known for having eating disorders :(

I hope you turned around so she knew you'd heard her! That is hilarious.