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"

Not sure this is snobbery or something else. A woman I knew a while ago set up a business that relied on creating an image to go with it. She posts photographs and descriptions of her perfect family and her wonderful man and their delightful animals on their fabulous westcountry farm. The farm is actually a small bungalow on a main road opposite Asda. I don’t know what the postman makes of the name of said bungalow, XXXXX Farm, but I do know her online customers frequently write about how much they envy her lifestyle and how they'd like to swap their humdrum lives for her perfect one. Maybe I'm being a snob for finding it funny..

My DF refusing to.meet my first serious BF because his parents were divorced and they lived in a council house

The sun shines on the righteous, Beatrice!

"What car do you drive" and after asking me and dp if we owned or rented, he said "I own my own home, I own my own home"
He was a dick and spoke to his girlfriend like she was stupid in front of other people.

There's that awful phrase often used by my mother's generation after meeting a new (presumably up-market) friend. "Yes, I really think she would be worth culltivating".

Haha! Mines, we will be sending xxx to private school because she won't pick up as many germs there as state school as less low-lifes, but we'll settle for a Catholic school. Erm.. I was sent to Catholic school & picked up all the bugs going dear.

i worked for a private surgeon who would adapt his prices, the higher the cost, the more the people preferred it

@JustBec i think we live in the same village. I’m trying to get out 😊

Hopefully she was permitted to fraternise with her own dad

When my cousin, who was a CPO in the Navy, the highest non-commissioned rank, was talking to his son who had just got into the Navy on a commission, the son told him, only half joking I think, You'll have to salute me now Dad!
I've often thought that the family dynamics in Military life would make a brilliant comedy TV programme.

An acquaintance once said of a newly single parent “Her house is nice and clean, at least”.

'I would never contemplate buying a bottle of wine less than £35.'Me sat with my cheap but highly acclaimed aldi plonk...😄 A long discussion ensued, I know my wines and educated him on tax in the UK!

Oh boy, well... these are some nuggets from an ex's dad:

"Poor people all smell like sour milk"

"Buses are just peasant waggons"

"Children from broken homes are damaged and will drag you down with them" (extra funny because he split with ex's mum)

And there is a friend's wife who went to a spa day in a family hotel, during a half term, and made a complaint there were children there ruining her day & got the whole day comped & free champagne as an apology (she is a mother herself) - she also refuses to let her child play with other kids with 'poor' or 'exotic' names as it suggests either deficiencies in the parents, or likely a troubled future. Oh and that if you have any kind of tattoos, bright hair or 'edgy style' then you are instantly lower class and she utterly despises the lower class.

Neighbour to her friend: "Darling, I only shop at my little butcher's and M&S". Later, her husband to his friend: "yes, we always shop at Lidl or Aldi, that's where our bbq stuff is from today". 🤣

Damn.
I'd never contemplate buying a bottle over £8 😂

Was this a long time ago? £15k isn't a high salary.

Is that in Shropshire? If it’s where I’m thinking, my DM’s lovely aunt and uncle lived there, and it was chocolate box lovely.

Having taught children with extra needs I am quite good at deciphering poor spelling!

When my daughter started primary school one of the parents accosted me one morning a few weeks into the first term to ask why I didn’t collect my daughter after school and why she went to after school club? I said it was because I work full time, and she asked if I was divorced? I said that my husband also worked full time too which is why we used the after school club every day! She looked absolutely horrified by this and said ‘You poor thing, I bet when you got married you were expecting that your husband would be able to get a better job so you wouldn’t have to work, do you even have a cleaner or au pair to help?’

I didn’t reply…. I didn’t know how to tell her we didn’t have staff or that I had another daughter who was a year old too!

I also really have always liked my job and couldn’t have imagined quitting work because I got married!

A friend recounted how when considering a couple of private schools for her child, mine were in the state system, when I mooted one of her choices which I thought had a good reputation, she said "yes, but I know several hairdressers who send their children there " and then with an absolutely straight face she added "not that I'm a snob"

Same! My friend was relentlessly bullied right from her first day at a private all-girls school. A crazy proportion of the girls had issues with eating disorders and/or SH and bullied her and others to do the same.

I don’t think that’s snobby at all.

i don't see this as snobbish; more of an indication that it would be really crowded. The same way I would say "we better go on holidays before state schools break for summer" meaning the flights would still not be as outrageous as when everyone is on holidays.

It was in the context of them not being mugged, but sure.

From my SIL whose DC go to a private school. “If you don’t work hard you’ll end up at name of local state senior school,” which, all the children who live around them (and the children are friends with) go to.