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 had a colleague when I first started working in the sticks and we were going to a meeting in a nearby market town, and I suggested getting the bus, as parking was north of £25 a day. She almost had a coronary and said ‘I earn £15k a year, I shouldn’t have to get a bus like a pov’. The fact I earned 3 times what she did and took the bus every day mattered not.

Another colleague (who knew what I earned) was gobsmacked I had neither Cable or Satellite telly. When I told her I just had Freeview she said ‘So you only have pov telly?’

Why didn’t the husband do the washing??!

Agree :(

On a school trip to France. Teachers loudly telling their students not to associate with the "Brummie scum" (us) as we all steal.

On collecting his Sun from the village bus stop, A neighbour said 'I wondersd who ordered that' My father was a Major (retired) but liked his horses. The "Sun has excellent racing pages. Having worked his way up he just laughed. If you asked him he would have said just soldier.

My close friend on hearing we had to sell in the crash 'I'll have to introduce you as Genteel Impoverished'

My son on joining a state secondary. 'Mummy you never told me about free school dinners'. He's had that knocked out him thank goodness.

that's actually somewhat true. I was brought up on a new build council estate, moved in in 1965, and it had pretty much zero recognition of the need for parking or even for access to the centre of the estate by car. There was a block of bike sheds that could be rented but not nearly enough. I mean we were happy (and delighted to be out of the condemned private rental we had before) but yes....some truth there.

Oh, gosh, you must take her to the Hockney museum at Salts Mill in that most northern of northern places, Bradford!

On a train into London Waterloo. A definitely Waitrose lady was recounting an adventurous visit to Lidl. "It was very CLEAN…”

Yes but the person saying it obviously was under the impression it wouldn’t happen in a private school

Years ago I started a new job.
A colleague mention she lived in X village.
There wasn’t much in the village, but it did have a small supermarket. I asked her if she lived near the supermarket.
’Good grief no! That’s (insert name I’d never heard of,) I live in Upper X!’
The entire village is very nice and it’s all expensive. The bit she was referring to is just slightly less posh.
Whenever dh and I drive through it one of us will say ‘ Good grief, I live in X.’

I'm sorry, you must have been on a bus with my mother! She says things like that.

A friend (for a while) who referred to someone in a derogatory way as “HHKLP”, which she then explained means “holds his/her knife like a pen”.
Now she is married to a viscount or something so I’m sure she doesn’t mix with HHKLP people!

Catching another parent gossiping about me and saying she couldn’t believe I’d been at private school - combination of her being a snob and me not being a typical ex private school student 😂

Someone told me they'd only allow their teenage DC to go to Westfield 'before the state schools are on holidays'. My DC are state educated.

St Pauls by any chance? At one time they were famous for the percentage of girls with ED during and after their time there.

Exactly the same where I live

Said loudly and aggressively as she walked past my desk “All Australians are f*cking convicts. There is no such thing as a posh Australian.”

Mine has to be on a Christmas do at my DHs old work when the bosses wife was asking us about our wedding plans (which was 6 months away).
We explained village church followed by a lovely rustic reception venue and a band pretty chilled....she responded with "my god I would never let my daughter not have at least a 4 course wedding breakfast why on earth did your parents agree to pay for that???" When I pointed out my parents weren't paying we were she followed it up with "you poor dear let me speak with "Nigel" I'm sure we can find you something more fitting".....

At which point I politely declined and we had a epic wedding of our choice! "Nigel" meanwhile forked out about 100k for his daughters wedding in a French château only for them to be divorcing 6 months later!

My BIL said he thought the parents of a girl we know who went to private school must be so disappointed in her choice of career - she’s airline cabin crew. Oh, and my main career was airline cabin crew 😙

I think you sound marvellous!

When we first moved to our house, we purchased it using shared ownership. It backs on to the biggest most expensive private detached houses on the estate. One of these neighbours was overheard telling her husband that they needed to have the patio moved as she didn't want the "social housing" being able to see her sitting on their patio from the windows - and they actually did it. Not long after we all moved in, they had their brand new patio ripped up and moved to the corner of the garden so we can't see them from our windows - the house the other side of us can see them, but that's apparently ok as it was private (it actually is now rented out so she probably doesn't like that either)

The other house behind us had one older lady move in a few years ago, she told us she had downsized after she lost her husband and the new house was so small, it was like a cottage to her and she didn't know if she could live in such a small house. It was a four bedroom, and she was saying this to us - living in a house half the size with two adults and two kids...... She lasted about a year before she sold it and moved to what I assume was something far bigger.... probably a bloody castle

This was actually me, and I am happy to be told I was an idiot.

My husband took me to a Cafe, in East London, where the police knew the criminals and came in to have breakfast before they arrested them and the owner may have had stolen items behind the counter.

I said Wow this is really the East End and another customer just looked at me as if I was stupid, I have never seen my husband eat so fast and apologise on the way out.

My husband ate there every Friday meeting his employees.

When talking to someone about where they lived and they named the street and then said 'we are at the top you know the names not the numbers'.

I had one like this as well.

”It’s amazing, I’ve been here three weeks with all these state school kids and haven’t been stabbed yet.” Said to me, a state school kid who was sorely tempted at that moment.

I have to say that I've known more eating disorders in private schools, though I wouldn't put it down to the same reasons.