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"

My aunt does this
She used to shop at Netto,but put all her shopping in m&s bags so the neighbours would think she'd been to m&s
I've heard she does the same these days but with waitress

My ex was a right snobby twat
He once told me that he'd switched from the council ran gym (the only one in our small town) to the David Lloyd one (that had just opened at 3x the price) because 'it has a better class of person there'
Coming from him-that was rich,he was a nasty,spiteful and gaslighting snob with tits so big no amount of exercise would help
(It may have been an bad break up-but I stand by the fact it was a bloody snobby thing to say,id been with him at the council ran one and everyone was lovely)

The people across the road from me had a portaloo on their driveway for their builders to use.

"We prefer Centre Parcs now, Haven is full of fat people" said very loudly in a silent room.

I thought this was going to go Saltburn!

I hate break it to them but anorexia is rife in independent schools!

I remember not being allowed to watch ITV, where Magpie and Tiswas were shown. I had to watch Blue Peter and Swapshop instead.

I think it was more to do with advertising than the content of the programmes though.

‘Your couldn’t afford it’, said by our older neighbours over Christmas drinks one year when my husband asked them to let us know if they ever wanted to sell their house. We could have bought it outright but he judged us by the fact we’d gone down to one car and used public transport (live by a tube station and try to be more environmentally sensible).

’Do I look as if I can’t afford to live around here?’ said by a floppy haired young man in a Chelsea pub. We’d taken the table after he left and he’d come back to see if he’d left his lighter. It wasn’t there and I said ‘never mind, you’ll probably find it in your pocket when you’re on the tube home’. Which was apparently insulting.

Late 80s, starting at University in Leeds, on the first day in halls, one of our fellow students from Public School told us he had refused Oxford or Cambridge and come to Leeds to "mix with the Common People". Went down like lead balloon and was ever after known as XXXX Knob. A few years later, I was very amused when Pulp came out with Common People, as it was so true!

I’ve just remembered there used to be a beer bottle shaped soap that smelled of beer in the 70s. Only around Christmas though, I think it was so everyone would buy it for their Dad.

My board of (mostly titled) directors had a last minute drop-out for a very swanky fund-raising quiz night so roped me in (I was 23 and working class, with an accent to match). I was pretty quiet until they got stuck on a question and I proffered my opinion that the tiny snatch of music that they failed to identify was Masagni’s Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana. Lady E burst out laughing with the comment “Oh, you’re so funny, pretending to know Opera!”. Then Sir C replied “Ah, fuck it, darling, we may as well put it down given that none of us recognise it either…”.

Yes, reader. It was a very sweet evening watching their jaws drop.

I was never allowed to watch Grange Hill! Perhaps my parents thought I'd catch The Common.

I was at my relative's house. She was showing me a new machine she'd bought. I was really excited and asked to see the make and instructions. I wanted more information about it. My other relative said too loudly for my liking in the next room, "but I don't think that's a good idea, she'd never be able to afford something like that."

I still think back and laugh about it. They always thought they were a better sort than me. Yes I suppose she was right, we were poor (mum was a single mum, it was difficult) but I studied hard and worked hard. Never asked for hand outs or thought myself better than others. She is still a massive snob even now.

OMG! Cancel the cheque, people!

A fellow nursery mum told me she was moving to a new town because of the exceptional grammar school. I told her I went there and it was amazing. She then said "oh I thought it was only for exceptional students" and asked if I had an older sibling there to help me get in. Not sure if this counts as snobbery. It made me realise I must not make a good impression

My "friend" said, I'm lucky my sons going to state school, cos she has to wash and iron her sons shirts frequently (as hers go to private) ....yeah, she really did say this. I'm still mad I didnt reply as I was gobsmacked

An Australian and a Filipino Australian woman saying ' love you long time ' in a mocking voice of Thai women.

I was deeply offended

When I walked into the classrooms for the top sets or was queing outside all the other kids use to tell me "this is top set" as if I didn't know and was accidently in the wrong place.

Builders often order them in for jobs more than a few days...a because snobs don't like them using the loo inside. B because they don't have to take off their boots etc to use it and c. They want somewhere to hide from the customers!

DN went to Oxford Uni. One of her privately educated male friends at Oxford said 'I didn't know there were people like you at State Schools'.

Overheard 'John Lewis is really awful now, they let anybody in'.

I know, I own a home improvements company.
But the neighbours told us they hired it because they didn't want the tradesmen using their loo.

My mother
Where she lives,it's mainly private housing but walk down the street,down the hill and over the road,and it's mainly council housing
If any if us said we lived in 'area B' she'd hit the roof
'We do NOT live in area B!WE live in area A!'
Like it made a fucking difference-our house in area A was an ex council house in the first place!

@Applescruffle I have a gardener’s loo. The builders use it too. Is that snobby? I thought everyone was happy with that arrangement!

My son was a whizz at chess and was in the chess club at Primary School ( state.)
He was entered for a chess competition which was held at a nearby private school.

The children were ushered to a secluded area to play their matches, the parents stayed in another secluded area.

A mum said ' I can't believe they've allowed state school students in, it's appalling.'

I may have sniggered when her son arrived back after the first round.

"I would NEVER shop in Moshulu - because they have their deliveries round the front instead of the back entrance!"