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 love Booths. We used to take holidays in Boothsland (I live way in the South) and I always made sure I got there as often as I could. Does that make me snobby?

Don't get this one. What was the issue?

A very posh woman calling to her dog in the park, Its name was Potterpea!

Do you hide your aldi/lidl shopping in booths bags to keep up appearances?

If not, no.

In a local curry house for a family birthday, and at the end of the meal I commented that the little packet hot towel wipes were good for bringing jewellery up to a nice shine. And my SIL said "Yes, but I'd like to see what it's like on real jewellery". 😮

And when my parents found out I was considering buying a terraced house they actually offered me a cash lump sum to NOT buy a terraced, because they didn't want me living near "those sorts of people". I know they were snobby but that was just outstanding!

It’s not silly if you can afford it…

Sunday at the end of Week 0, after the first Glee Club rehearsal of the year. First-year who'd signed up at the Fair the day before earnestly explained things to me.

"Well you see, there are the Henriettas and the Sharons. The Henriettas own their horses, while the Sharons spend their time mucking out and hope they'll get to have a ride on someone else's horse in return."

We never saw her again after that. I suspect Glee Club was not exactly as she expected. I don't remember her name, but she seemed a perfectly pleasant - if unobservant - person and I do hope she enjoyed her time at a Northern University

I was once at a party in south manchester Northern Cheshire where a tradesman regaled us with how small child at school gates had said to him "I know you're not a very nice person because you drive a van"

I've never heard of this rescue dog from Greece thing!!

@MichaelFlatulence Ever heard of “Overheard in Waitrose”? Popular with students at some unis around 12 years ago. “I’ve just got my tickets for the ball. Mummy is sending our butler with the family tiara”. Do you still believe everything you read? More loos than hot dinners in this house!

If I’m flying over 3/4 hours, I just HAVE to fly business class AT LEAST I can’t spend that much time confined with the masses

“Oh you live on a street” from the mother of one of my children’s schoolmates.

dammit! where can I get some Booth's Carriers? 😂

PS Lidl cured salmon with a sauce beats Waitrose gravadlax to pulp

‘… but are they [hushed tones] people like us?’

Friend lived in block of flats...a guy who lived in next door flat to hers asked her for a date. She said no. She told me "...he CYCLES to work; he doesn't even have a CAR!!!!! How he thought I'd be interested in him god knows!" 😳

What’s snobbish here?

I do use M&S bags in other supermarkets 🙈but only cos I nabbed the good ones off my mum and I know they’re not going to collapse on me..

Don’t you like prada handbags?!?

as if this was a moral failing on my part and nothing at all to do with the fact I was scraping by on £14k a year as a trainee solicitor at the time.

my ex MIL. Ex for many many good reasons!!

Oh loads when I was a nanny..

one mother I worked for asked me to pick up pastries from waitrose on school run, waitrose was out of the ones she requested so went to the much bigger tesco to get them. Well she was horrified.

Another mum boss, I met a lovely nanny and child in a park and the kids got on really well so thought it would be nice for the parents to stay in touch for birthday invites etc, asked mum if I could share their number and she seemed so distressed, asking me where they live, what they do ect? Then just sort of awkwardly exchanged numbers. A few days later the other nanny messaged me saying that my boss text this other child’s mum with loads of intrusive questions about their careers and what university they went to.

I don’t come from the UK so I wasn’t used to this classist behaviour, took me years to understand what this was about.

the parents reaction to their privileged children playing into the idea of poor people being happy they are poor

it wasn’t the children’s fault I just thought most people had more awareness it just was crass

Mr Cholmondley-Warner came to mind (maybe look that up especially the one when he goes to the east end)

Friends brother got a new girlfriend and friend and her mum were invited to a pamper party, Avon or the like. Friend said I don't mean to be a bitch but I honestly have just never met people like that.

Years ago, I was running a training course with a group of people who didn't know each other and I started off with the icebreaker "What would you do if you won the lottery?" We had all the usual things about giving up work, buying a desert island etc etc and one woman said "I already take four foreign holidays a year and only buy designer clothes, so what would I need if I won the lottery". She didn't really make any friends on my training course that day!

“I just don’t think the sort of people who need affordable housing will be comfortable living in our village “
After all other objections to an affordable housing project had been exhausted.

"We were lucky enough to be invited to Glyndebourne in the summer. It's one of perks of sending one's son to Eton. The parents of their chums are so generous." I kid you not.

I knew of an elderly man {Inherited a lot of filtered down wealth} he used to say this.

He was targeted by gold diggers, male and female- It was very sad.

People did very well out of his lonely generosity {think £400,000 flat just given to someone} plus other stuff.

If you inherit money...never tell anyone.

Big mistake! Huge!