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"

Admiring an Aunt’s new cushions and she said “oh don’t worry dear, you couldn’t afford them anyway, they’re from John Lewis”

Interesting! I was under the impression that (rightly or wrongly) private schools esp single-sex girls schools were associated with eating disorders.

’ but why doesn’t your daddy have a helicopter?’

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I met Jeremy Hunt when he was health secretary and he came to where I worked.

My manager introduced him to me and he completly blanked me. Every question he had, he directed to her and she would say things like "actually, Applescruffle works in this department, she would know" but he still refused to speak with me and would only acknowledge her. Absolutely disgusting elitist behaviour.

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ExSIL came to visit with her children, they were living abroad in some fancy gated ex pat community with Nannies and Maids as ExBIL was some super high flying Vice President of an American firm. My DC had just got home from their STATE primary school for the day when Exsil asked them what home work they had been given for the weekend. Upon viewing this she turned to me and said "well I suppose that is the difference between state and private schools". She also made reference to how much house work I did and how she didn't know how I did it all, not forgetting her maid did all her house work. I wanted to ram her smug tongue down her throat by the end of the visit. Years later with the DC all teenagers she is having hell with her 15 yo DD who has turned into the biggest brat and causes merry hell, wonderful bit of karma.

Lived up to his Jeremy Cunt nickname then? What a tosser!!

I used to work with someone who openly admitted he didn't speak/socialise with people who didn't have a degree like he did. He felt they were beneath him. It was very bizarre. I really wanted to know at what point he stopped talking to them. But I guess I wouldn't have got a reply.

'There's nothing intrinsically wrong with Northerners'

Overheard in a pub in Seven Oaks

there's lot feckin wrong with Southerners

Yep, he was absolutely awful. I've met Amber Rudd too and she's just as bad.

When I was 16, I was paid to help serve at a party in a penthouse apartment. A lady turned around to me and said, "Oh darling, it must be so wonderful for you to see how the other half live." I responded, "I know, the nouveau riche, so embarrassing..." and walked off, leaving her speechless! (I was a very precocious 16 year old, but she was so rude!)

A place being recommended to live in as "high quality people" live here

Many years ago, through a chain of bizarre events I found myself having lunch in Barbados with a group of trustafarians. Everyone was saying what school they went to and cheering when it turned out they all went to one of 'the six' (whatever that means). When it got to my turn I said, "You won't have heard of mine, it was a small state school in South London". There was a collective gasp, and one of the men said, "Poor you! Was it frightfully bloody?"

'it's good to see that she isn't getting married in white'

Older lady guest talking about the bride.

Gold. 😂

Mother of the groom, whispered conspiratorially to me with the smuggest expression I've ever seen irl:

"Everybody knows [ds] is doing well for himself, you know professionally and personally, but having everybody here for the wedding just proves it."

I think I looked a little baffled so she explained:

"It's so lovely to cast your eye round the room and notice that nobody's fat. I mean not even slightly tubby, let alone embarrassingly big. You know you're in a room of the right sort of people when nobody's let themselves go."

The friend who told me her kids lie down on the backseat of the car driving to their private school when they go past the kids walking to the state secondary are so terrifying. This is the state secondary I'm hoping to get my DC into!

I admired a woman's bag once and she said 'you do realise it's a Radley and probably beyond your means?' I obviously look poor.

What fragrance does he think own brands use, pawn cocktail or something? Don’t they all smell the same?

My boss has told me never to tell clients or colleagues that I sometimes buy clothes at charity shops. Apparently it “sets the wrong tone”. (I am not coming into work with holes in my clothes or nan-knitted cardigans either - any charity shop clothes I do buy are nearly new and designer or high end high street).

Where did you get your hat?

Hobbs.

Is that a new milliner? I haven’t heard of them before.

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Tenants Extra fabric conditioner

I really don't miss all of that crap. Many years ago my regular babysitter ( lets call her Tracey) turned up, she was a bit upset and had been crying. I asked what was wrong and she told me her Husband had been promoted, the RSMs wife had turned up at Tracey's door to congratulate her on her Husbands promotion ! and told her she would have to end her friendship with Sharon who was another Army wife, when Tracey insisted she didn't want to do that she was told she had to as Sharon's Husband was only a private and so the friendship couldn't continue.2 ranks now separated them.
Thank goodness the RAF wasn't that bad, i wouldn't have managed to last two decades with that rubbish.

"Waitrose, its a supermarket but a nice one, they don't have them in the North so you won't have heard of it"

Person A "Where are you from?"
Me "Manchester"
A "What are people from Manchester called?"
Me "Mancunian"
Snob butting in "It's Man-choorr-ian act-uuu-ally"
Me "it's really not"

This is a xenophobic sort of snobbery. My DSD (stepdaughter) was at a school in London which didn't go up to 6th form. In her last year there was a "6th form fair" at the school where a lot of private schools which did have 6th forms were aiming to gain our custom by having stalls, handing out brochures and talking to the children and parents. We noted a few to apply to. One very well-known one was on our list and DSD got an interview there. I went with her. This was before her GCSEs but she had excellent predictions.

DSD at that time still had an accent from the country she had lived in until she was 11 (having lived in London with me since then). I also have a slight accent from the same country. Despite DSD's excellent academic results so far we were told by the oh-so-posh and supercilious ultra RP-accented headmistress in a sneering way "well, I would be concerned about her being able to cope with our standards with her background".

When we got the GCSE results later DSD had the top grades in her school by far. What was the point of that supercilious school making all that effort to court students from our school only to turn down the actual top pupil (clearly based on her 'colonial' accent)? I am not going to boast about how she has done in the fifteen years since then, but suffice it to say if she had been at that school they would not have been ashamed of her "standards".