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"

At an open day to a well known private boys school a man driving a porsche jumped the queue (of other very lovely cars) and started remonstrating with the car park attendant. His exact loud and very plummy words were "Do you know who I am?". We did the open day but decided that for that and other reasons we'd skip private and go state.

Matched with a guy on a dating app. He was pretty into me and trying to find out what I like to eat and do and what is my availability so he can plan our 1st date.

Then one day before the date it occurs to him to ask what I do for a leaving…

’I work at a local authority’

‘oh, sorry, I’m cancelling. I don’t think we have much in common’

Is there not a chance that she actually did want to be friends, but her DH was a controller using an offensive 'excuse' (and forcing her to repeat it) to prevent her from close to someone he saw as a threat. The invitation to help with cooking might have been a last-ditch attempt by her to retain human contact.

😂 I also watched both but I don't remember much from Magpie other than the theme tune. Blue Peter however, lots of sticky-backed plastic and John Noakes doing daft things - oh and they had pets! And drug addicts 🤷😂

I used to leave in a ‘nice-ish’ council estate with a very nice playground in the middle. I was skint.

My friend who was MC and had a mortgaged house loved coming to playdates because there were no playgrounds near her.

One summer, she came to a playdate after she had just come back from holidays in Italy and Spain. The only thing I afforded to do that year was to spend a day in Brighton.

We went down to the playground and it was unually quiet for a weekend summer afternoon. Nobody there except from us. She said:
“Where are all your neighbours at? I guess they all just went to a day trip to Brighton!”

Why are either of these stories snobbish?

I had a moment like this at a friend's dinner party. She had recently upgraded her kitchen and was eager to show off her new espresso machine. She subtly mentioned how "not everyone has a taste for quality coffee" and how her machine made "real espresso, not like what you'd get at a generic coffee shop."

Just an odd, snobby, but mostly odd comment (I do have the Moccamaster at home and it's amazing but Starbucks is good too lol)

Most people I know,including myself, would consider Starbucks vile :)

i like how you felt the need to include a product placement there while making it clear that you also have a very expensive coffee machine at home.

They aren't. They're just privileged. Nothing in there that suggests they look down on anyone.

I’d say privileged rather than snobbish.

Royal Air Force same......

My own DD - this is a decent mojito, but not as good as the one I had at the Ritz last week. We have not let her live it down!

Or spend £20 on a coin sorter.

I was on the train coming back from my brother's, my brother lives in Truro.

Hugh Scully got on, looked around at the three other people in the carriage and turned to his companion (I assume his wife) to say, "Oh it's weekend first".

It was said in the tone of, 'Oh we have to slum it'.

I worked in Oxford for a few years, my mum started saying to people that I was , "At Oxford".

Junior doctor when a woman brought her 4 children with her to an appointment (school holidays) "But where is the nanny?".

Oh and for the carrier bag snobs, my grandmother used a harrods carrier bag for years. She lived in Burnley.

Mine was a few years ago, standing in Kings Cross station, watching the departure board for the Leeds train platform. The platform for a Newcastle train popped up and a man in front of me said loudly and mockingly " Oh, who would want to go to Newcarstle?" and laughed scornfully.

I recall my father saying of people who thought Newcastle and Northumberland were covered in coalmines and filth that we should just let them believe that, then we could keep the scenery and the architecture of central Newcastle for ourselves.

My mother, I am not driving along that street it has council houses, I am not going in that pub it’s full of single mothers ( quite how she knew that I don’t know)

That's quite a jump from a "well known" private boys school to state, considering all the options in between.

She’s a ‘horrific snob’ because she wasn’t obviously thrilled to have a bunch of teenagers in her house every Sunday because of her DH’s work, gave you non-chocolate biscuits and an extra cheque when you got pregnant at 17? Shocker.

I think she had a good heart but was terrified of being seen as less than the stereotype of a Vicars Wife. They came to my parents house after I had my eldest at 17. No one knew I was expecting, especially me! They gave me a generous cheque from the church council for stuff for him and then she gave me another cheque "from us, we hope it helps".

Yeah wow, what a bitch, giving from her own money to a teen mum who has given birth unexpectedly and is probably totally shell-shocked. She sounds like a total sociopath 🙄

In Primark.. woman in front of me was asked if she wanted a carrier bag.
" Oh could you pop my dress in here " she says producing an Harvey Nicolls bag.
" I'm meeting friends for lunch and don't want them to think l shop in Primark "

That is such a typical middle class comment. They'll do anything to hang on to every penny. My friend hasn't had the heating on since January as she 'can't bear the thought of paying all that money' of which she has plenty. She and her house are lovely but it's flipping freezing

There is no middle class - there is landed gentry, there is the capitalist stratum who owns the means of production and may choose to work using them or hire workforce to work using them, and there is working class - those who have to work for a living (including lawyers and doctors) and do not own the means of production. There is no middle way between them, i.e. middle ground.

Agree.

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Well I guess being unaware ( or in fact super aware) that to people round about having an au pair or going ski-ing at the drop of a hat is not how everyone lives.

Personally I disapprove of au pairs and the system generally ( both how it impacts on the au pair and on the children) and don’t think it should happen. So it would have backfired if I’d been in earshot. I’d have felt like calling back: “ what a shame you can’t get a proper nanny.” ( Of course nothing wrong with no nanny at all! I just don’t think the au pair arrangement is healthy).