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"

Drove past the back of a holiday camp with a friend recently, first she asked if it was an army camp - I said it reminded me of happy childhood holidays, to which she replied "oh, we never went to those sort of places, we always holidayed in Italy or the south of France" 🙄

I think I actually know him …

i felt like this going in to town for a work christmas lunch last december. two colleagues and I got on the bus and they were both so jolly ''how much?'' ''really?'' 3.80? Gosh. do you take debit card? I was dying. It was like such a novel experience for them. They assumed the driver was on board with them for their new experience. I just tapped on and sat down. Strangers were tapping on for them just to make the pain stop.

Cecily, Lettice run along with the au pair darlings!!! Said by a snobby mare quaffing champagne at a picnic at Longleat!

overheard at school Christmas play. ‘Daddy, can we go skiing this weekend’?
we live close to a ski centre!!! So that’s what I was thinking until Daddy replied ‘yes of course darling I’ll see what flights I can find’!!!!!! 😳

In fairness he probably had staff who brief him after going out to research 🧐 these existences.

Overhead in IKEA: 'Penelope Jane go and find your brother Sorley'

I have several businesses in mind that could be this one… I will be perusing their marketing from now on - looking for an Aldi at the edge of the shot !

Maybe, but sadly I don't think he's a unique case!

Late 70's/ early 80s

Absolutely nothing wrong with a Nan knitted cardigan.

Why would someone who teaches sen be so disparaging about spelling?

Luxurious, indulgent, indicative of a lot of money and a cavalier attitude to carbon footprint, sure, but there’s nothing ‘snobbish’ about the latter, surely.

Eh? people with this disorder aren't all from private schools

Durham?
I know several working class kids who left there (recently) as they felt horribly mocked.

Not sure if this is snobbish or just oblivious.

In the 80s my dad was an accountant in a factory, which paid its office staff monthly and factory staff weekly. They changed to paying everyone weekly, but had a transition period where factory staff could ask for an advance to tide them over while they adjusted to being paid monthly. The managing director didn't understand why my dad was approving all these salary advances, and asked why if the factory workers needed £100 or so, why didn't they just look in their wallet? He thought everyone carried a float of £100 or so in their wallet all the time. My dad had to explain that £100 was 2 weeks wages to some of their staff, and not the sort of amount they just had on them as a float.

Are you sure these weren’t jokes? I know lots of posh guys who think this is kind of self deprecating humour ( ie; I’m so out of touch ha ha) . Not saying I find it funny, but I do know people who would MEAN it to be even if it isn’t.

The rich boy in saltburn wasn't stupid he knew the difference between actually poor and average. That's why the scene was so shocking because it was when the viewer realises the main character is a batshit insane bullshitter haha I only brought saltburn up because someone's comment reminded me of that scene

Yes, I think quite a few on this thread are jokes.

That's a valid question.

Oh you met the wealthy version of my dad 😂 just swap "working class people" to "fat fuckers"

I had a friend who is the most entitled person I’d ever met. We were so different and she’d always turn her nose up at me. She lives at home (27) with her family to save to move out, and had never paid a single penny in rent, bills, food etc. She claimed that she couldn’t afford to move out but would pay £70 on a cocktail in London and drop £27k outright on a car. Her parents were struggling with the cost of living and asked her to contribute and she turned round and told me ‘why should I pay, I told them that I wouldn’t be able to afford to move out and would end up stuck in pit of a council house like you forever’. Safe to say we’re no longer friends.

Not particularly snobbish, but more of a complete lack of awareness of how stuff works in real life.

Many years ago I attended a training weekend for a professional qualification and shared a taxi to the station with two very lovely but very posh and privileged young ladies.

When our taxi arrived at the station, which had been delayed due to roadworks, their train back to London had arrived and was on the platform. Posh Young Lady 1 advised Posh Young Lady 2 to run down to the platform to ask the train driver to delay the train's departure until they could both retrieve their luggage and find their seats. She actually said "Speak to the driver, he'll understand"

Needless to say this did not happen and the train left without them. I might have waved to them from the opposite platform....

But it still boggles me that there are people out there who think that this is a thing.

My first office boss when I was 17 was a horrible Sandi Toksvig type who often used to say 'I'm an educated white woman who's used to giving orders.'

It wasn't that it was always said in such a condescending way, but it always intrigued me at her inclusion of the word 'white'...

Love knitted in with every stitch.

Love it. We watched both, depending on what was going on. I remember Marianne Faithful singing 'as tears go by' on Blue Peter. I can't remember Magpie showcasing a drug addict!