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"

The only reason I was doing the laundry was because I knew that knowing it was not done was causing stress for my friend when she was very unwell. I also knew that her DH was likely to make a huge issue either of the fact that it was not done, or the fact that he had to do it and my friend would end up making her self more unwell trying to do it when she should be resting. I would usually be the first to tell a useless man to get on with doing things for himself but in this situation (and several others relating to friend's DH when she was ill) I felt I had to bite my tongue and just do what was necessary to allow my friend to recover.

Sorry, I meant middle class.

I don't buy that rich people have no idea how poor/ordinary people live - unless they're maybe royals, when they only ever see the good side of everything (and it always smells of fresh paint!)

They must sometimes read/watch/hear the news and/or interact on online forums - and indeed with ordinary folk in meatspace, when they serve them in shops and restaurants, clean for them, service their car, cut their hair, tradesmen etc. etc. Other than maybe their very young children, they know full well that they're very privileged compared to the majority.

In fact, even Prince William has spoken out about homelessness and wanting to try to tackle it. Whether he actually does anything effective remains to be seen, but even a from-birth royal knows and acknowledges that there are loads of people in the UK who live dramatically less luxurious lives than they do.

Reverse snobbery.

new young receptionist made a bit of a deal of her grandparents living in the local council estate. Dropped her off there once, and they didn’t, they lived in the very very nice road that led up to the council estate.

Lol same here! Thing is I've been to France a lot and the markup up on a decent bottle of plonk is ridiculous! Before covid and brexit I was getting wine for £2.50 which were being sold for £7 here. Xx

MIL making a point of saying about her other grandchildren 'they speak very well' meaning they spoke with a 'good' accent and my DCs didn't.
It was one of the many things that identified her as an arrant snob and made me really dislike her.

Ha, some of these are hilarious.
Mine is actually from my Mother's mouth.
When I told her that I was getting divorced she said, "Oh thank goodness Anithos, now you can marry someone from your own class!"
There have been plenty more exquisite comments too. 🤣

Handed a friend a bacon sandwich after cooking it on a camping stove- where did the bacon come from? Lidl … oh x how awful I can’t eat it ….

same bacon I reckon as M&S or Waitrose and just as nice

I shop at heron which is B&M express family - love winding my friend up as she’s a real snob…I love it great prices and good food

It's entirely because of the private school thing that it's snobby.

She isn't just saying that she obviously hopes her DD won't end up in negative circumstances at school; she's suggesting that those negative circumstances are normal and to be expected amongst children who go to state schools.

Giving another parent and child a lift to a party, we drove past a rough area, the other mum said to me that her mother use to drive her past this area all the time and scare her if she didn’t do well she’d end up living in one of these houses. I didn’t even look at her when I pointed to one of the houses and said I grew up in that one. I’d never heard her stutter before. I actually didn’t but my house looked just like it on an equally bad street at the other end of town and the house I pointed out was the house my best friends husband grew up in. Still makes me chuckle every time I pass that estate.

many would tell things implying that they have no clue on purpose....somehow there is a type that believes overt ignorance is a sign of class....

"I don't talk to the people who serve me". Said in a sainsburys by a posh woman to the checkout lady who merely said "good afternoon".

Oh and also, in a shocked tone "You shop at Aldi? I could never do that!"

I am the local gp I couldn’t possibly send my children to the local school.

Could it be that she only eats outdoor bred pork and thought that Lidl wouldn't be? I only eat outdoor bred pork sausages and bacon which you can get at various supermarkets, but I wouldn't eat bacon or sausages at a friend's or at a cafe or restaurant unless I knew it was outdoor bred. Not snobbery at all, it's to do with welfare of animals.

"There's a lovely school round the corner but council house children go there so we're avoiding that one".

Said by my sister to me. Knowing my children live in a council house and are shock horror kind, clever, rounded children...

Why is this snobbery? If they went to the local school then she'd be meeting other parents in the playground when they were highly likely to be her patients. It would be embarrassing for the other parents knowing she knew all about their various illnesses and problems. Seems sensible to send the children to a different school.

Years and years ago we had gone to see friends of ours who were having a birthday barbecue for someone, the wife went on and on about how she never bought processed food, she was a devotee of raw food which was that year's fad and so on. As we were talking her husband came through with a box of cheap, frozen burgers and she never batted an eyelid at the irony.

I never get the idea that reading the Daily Mail is some kind of moral failing.

The Mail has so much money they often get the first and most detailed coverage on new news. I do verify it on the BBC though 😂

A former boss about a new reqruit: Oh, she's much better than the other candidate. It's not like we employ some some 20 something college students here.. whilst my 20 something college student colleague who was there before any of us was sat right next to me..

Imo it's not the 'real' news that's the main issue with the Fail. It's all the tacky gossip mongering, and the criticising of people (majority seem to be women) about how they look, or in the case of Meghan Markle, how they touch their baby bump, when Catherine was treated very differently.

It also has a very specific viewpoint on certain issues, and I suspect they never print a balanced piece on those issues - such as anything that involves Islam immigration or Europe.

And the number of things they have lifted from this forum to print in their rag is ridiculous! It's like they've forgotten what journalism is supposed to be.

Yes! I agree with this. You can get a good game of beach body bingo going over summer: flaunting, stunning etc. Fuxake just let the women get a suntan in peace.

Overheard in street: ‘why would you have a personalised number plate on a Kia, it’s like buying caviar from Lidl?’

😂😂

FIL about SIL’s fiancée: “He’s a nice man. I mean he’s only a mechanic but he’s a nice one.”