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"

I once heard work colleagues talking about settling down and their ideal partners.
The male colleague admitted a big turn off would be if the woman’s parents were working class.

I later found out he was heir to a multi million pound fortune and his father had only sent him to work so that he could see what it was like for those that had to work for their money.

In fairness to game-eaters (self included) most of the people I know who eat game are not posh by any means: pest controllers, a butcher, a welder, present and former coppers, self-employed small-scale builders, the local handyman etc.

Depends where you live, I suppose.

Sorry, off topic...

Oxford student delivering a speech to current 6th formers: “I was a bit worried when I first went to Oxford as I was worried about having contact with people from state school or people from the North”. I kid you not

My late MIL, who grew up in a council house had moved into a very large country house, she did tell me it was nice to meet the new neighbours, as they were ‘more on our level’

When I first met her, she did ask me what I did and then promptly asked ‘and what qualifications do you need to do that?’ More than marrying well, is what I wish I’d said!

We did eventually get on very well but she was a dreadful snob.

"She can't possibly eat beans on toast, that's commoners food" said about a resident who actually loved beans on toast, her daughter just thought it was unacceptable.

When I was as 19 and working as a Silver Service waitress in London

The venue was an open air market that had been converted by set designers into an amazing function space. It had limited toilets - meaning the staff had to use the customer loos.

I went to the loo and overheard a customer say - I am not using that one (the stall I had just vacated), the staff have used it. 😱

Another service one - DH found a bundle of £20 notes on the floor at a function. He had just bent over to pick it up and was about to ask the people on his assigned table if anybody had dropped it, when the man who had dropped it kicked off accusing my DH of being a thief. It was a very elite Tennis Club function. The snob was loud enough for all to hear with lots of humiliating insinuation. Not nice.

During lockdown I was staying with friends in Norfolk. In the local village FB group the daughter of the Brigadier who lived in the Manor House who was normally away at boarding school wrote a post something like: I have changed the name.

My name is Jemima Asquith (Lady) and I have recently been stirred by the Black Lives Matter protests nationally. This has really educated me and I want to use my position in this village who ask you all to consider your privilege and I have decide to help the Black Lives Matter movement by asking you all to ‘check your privilege’. In fact I insist on it. You must check your privilege. Please add your name below when you have read my post.

I still am wtf(?)

We pulled into a small car park once at the same time as a woman in a big Range Rover. As we got out of the car, she parked up and went over to meet another woman getting out of quite a battered old Corsa. First woman said “is that your car?” and the second said nice and loudly so we could hear “oh NO! The Discovery’s in the garage”.

Now a family catch phrase of course!

Oops that was online not out loud (!) sorry

My DD explaining to her posh privately educated friend that the strange soft spongey flooring in our conservatory is in fact called lino as she'd never seen any before. I'm amazed she actually got to see it as her Mum had a full blown panic attack dropping her off as we live on a council estate and at one point locked the car door and wouldn't let her out.

Roedean?

Told to me by my late mother.

Her utterly despised SIL was visiting our house and parked outside.
"Is it safe to leave my fur in the car?"

The apprentice at work.

constantly seems to be going Dubai and other places

I made a joke and said I bet you’ve got 5 Birkin bags as well( one thing I recognised from gilmore girls) “no only 2 but Dad said he’ll get me another one”

I genuinely think she’s only doing the apprenticeship to please her parents.

Iv heard someone call the red box of family circle biscuits …. The council house biscuits.

Tinsel at Xmas shows you are from a council
house.

People who ride the bus ride the peasant wagon.

These were both in California. We were on vacation and went into a Starbucks. I ordered a coffee with caramel syrup. The girl was new and looked back to her boss who was two feet from us and asked if they had caramel syrup. But she pronounced it CARmel syrup, like I did, where I’m from that’s how we pronounce it. He looked at us but said to her, ‘tell them we don’t have CARmel syrup, that’s the name of a city not a candy, but we do have CARE A mel syrup’. The poor girl looked horrified, and as we had literally just gotten off a plane and our vacation hadn’t even started yet, it really put a damper on things! I was so shocked I didn’t say anything!

The second was also in California 🙄. My husband was on a business trip and I came along because there was a spouse dinner they had invited me to. Walking around Orange County a woman on the phone kept saying to the other person how fed up with ‘tourists’ she was and looked at us. She mentioned this three times in the short walk we had. I had a mind to tell her I wasn’t a damn tourist, my husband worked at one of her local businesses keeping her damn economy going (but I didn’t!)

“Of course, we went as travellers not tourists”

Sister in law asks for the butter from the fridge.
Mother in law says there is no butter.
Sister in law says there definitely is, I bought it this morning!
Mother in law holds up olive oil spread and says there’s no butter, only this spread.

sister in law “yes mother that’s BUTTER, I wouldn’t buy something so disgusting as SPREAD, I only use real butter”

erm….

We call it "poor man's limo" 😂 (I use buses)

But it really is bullshit. My friend is a fellow at a university and uses the bus!

Why couldn't he do his family's washing?

Don’t know if this counts but once heard a girl declare that her boyfriend had ruined her life by buying her a strongbow dark fruits. Hubby and I still have a good giggle about that 😂

As a graduate in one of the big four I was helping organise an event with some other grads and we went to Pizza Express (not my choice but I loved it as a yuppie and I love it as a mum)
I said something like "I love italian food" tucking into my vegan pizza and one of the boys said
"Haha you think this is italian food? Real italian restaurants don't serve pizza and pasta- this is just peasant food"

Many years ago I used to work with a girl who divided everyone into PLUS (people like us) or PLOP (people like other people)…awful.

Just remembered one...round about 1976, a great aunt came to visit, in her finery she perched on the sofa as if it would bite and as my brother and I ran in from being out on the estate playing, looked us up and down and sniffed 'don't the children have proper shoes to wear.' We were in plimsols.

On MN, the many, many versions of 'Ugh, I'd never let a WORKMAN use the loo in MY house!'

"Ugh, this is the cheap stuff"

Friend referring to the glass of prosecco provided for my birthday party.