Snobbery- many different forms

Manners for me.
Table and manners in general are so very important.
No swearing please!! I don’t like MN because of the sometimes, filthy language.
Accents I like. It’s a sad day when folk try to cover their accents regardless of their origin - providing they can be understood.

MrsKen33

Mug snob !!!!!

Me too. Tea (good quality) has to be out of a bone china mug and l still have a hankering for a cup and saucer every so often. Thick mugs spoil the taste. I don’t really like coffee out of thick mugs either but it does not necessarily have to be drunk from bone china.

I am a soup snob. It has to be home made with fresh ingredients. Canned soup, or cup-a-soup, are completely unacceptable and full of sugar and/or salt. A complete no no in polite circles!

Caleo

Actually, in the Basil Fawlty episode I think the bottled sauce may have been salad cream which the common boy preferred to Chef's handmade mayonnaise.

I love egg and salad cream sandwiches but they give me terrible indigestion

I’m definitely no a food or fashion snob. However I do admit to being a grammar snob. No problem with regional accents but errors such as “we was driving” and “I was like going to the shops” just irritate intensely.

Oh no typo! …definitely NOT a ….

Tea cup snob…..can’t drink my cup of Yorkshire tea out of anything but proper china!

Grantanow

Many of us enjoy the good things in life. I don't think that's snobbery.

I'm sure that most people do. I find it amusing when people seem to think that liking expensive items means that they have good taste (not you Grantanow - I mean in general). It just means that they like expensive things, like the majority of us.

Most people can tell the difference between something high quality that's well-made, and something cheap and cheerful. Knowing what we can afford and how to mix and match the two so that we get the best look without going over budget is the clever bit. It actually takes more good taste to look good on a small budget than it does for those who can throw money at it.

Doesn't snobbery imply feeling yourself superior to someone else, for whatever reason?

I don't consider liking a particular brand of food, drink, clothing, etc., as being snobbish - unless you only buy them because you think it implies you have superior taste and will impress others.

Academic and job snobbery is rife - casual mentions of what job you do/did or where you were educated - when that particular subject is not being discussed - I find somewhat irritating.

I am a snob about people spending too much money on themselves. I wish I had the nerve to tell my granddaughter how I dislike her continually spending on clothes. Another grandchild spends huge amounts of money on supporting his sporting recreations. I think it is the same as people who have to have "LABELS" in their clothes, pity you can't wear them inside out! I am surprised at both sets of grandchildren since their Fathers (my sons) never got very much. On reflection perhaps this is why. I was born in 1939 and there was nothing to buy so was grateful for anything. Reading this I realise I am not a SNOB I'm just MEAN.

I'm a bit of a chocolate snob - no CDM here! Having said that, I buy the dark chocolate Miss Mollys from Tesco for cooking with & actually, it's really tasty & we quite often split a bar between us of a Saturday evening. I think it's about 40p a bar!

@Eloethan, I couldn’t agree with you more about academic and job snobbery. We had an electrician in and he was working in our music room. He saw the piano and kept saying how amazing, marvellous etc it was to be a musician and music teacher. I have had this reaction before and, while of course I am very grateful to have been able to have a career in my lifetime passion, it does not make me a better person or cleverer than anyone else. I thanked the electrician and said, truthfully, that I could not do his job, which, when all is said and done, is vital and probably more important than mine.

As to those who have mentioned grammar and bad language, I am with you all the way.

Eloethan, Academic and job snobbery is rife - casual mentions of what job you do/did or where you were educated

Indeed.

For my parents: sons go to Oxbridge, daughters marry.

I’m almost certain that most of us know we’re chatting about preferences, nothing to do with snobbery, just some lighthearted banter.
When did everything get to be so serious on here.
Bacon butties for me require ketchup, not a lover of brown sauce. Therefore am I looking up or down to JaneJudge and Callistemon

well you are in Anglesey so you are looking down on both of us anyway (geographically )

Even I’m lying down and you’re standing up Jane?

how tall do you think I am?

Now, job snobbery is most definitely alive and well. I am a mid-ranking civil servant of many years standing. I do a particular role and am a subject matter expert. I worked every hour I was paid for during both lockdowns, working from home on a provided laptop. I still work part of my time from home, fully enmeshed in working life whilst doing so.
However, to Daily Mail readers I’m a wastrel, watching TV when I should be working, not fulfilling my role nor earning my salary, taking vast amounts of annual leave, when I’m not on sick leave of course. Add in Rees Mogg with his public damnation of those not at a desk and you have the judgement straight away.
What is your impression of the civil service now? And how does that differ from say 10 years ago?

I am a snob about some things.

Tea and coffee snob here. Also, a bit of a punctuation snob. Don’t mimd accents though. Everyone has some sort of accent but the upper class twerp way of saying “SomethinK or could OF, drives me mad !( I know, we’ve been here before!)

JaneJudge Brown sauce is not common. DH loves it. It is just how those who indulge in inverted snobbery use it as a weapon to prove how common they proudly consider themselves to be, and take a pride in being..

Well I dont see it as snobbery , just preference. I only like fresh coffee and always in a china cup or mug. So if I go out on a picnic I take 2 cafetiers and 2 china mugs so that if one gets broken I have another. Used to do hospital car and could be anywhere miles up to dale or somewhere with no coffee shops etc so didnt care if I had to wait for something to eat , or there was nothing nice to buy to eat, but my coffee was my great pleasure and if I had a hard day it was like the japanese tea ceremony as I organised my coffee and loved the actual smell of it too. Cant afford to follow fashion, not that I cared about it much anyway but very much in the dark chocolate camp. Cheese does not like me , which is a shame as there is such a choice . Used to take my mother a whole lot of small pieces of interesting cheese from a particular shop near me and it ranged from sage derby, red winsor, gorgonzola or whatever and she enjoyed trying it all out but after I had left! Whatever floats your boat as they say. Enjoy whatever it is that cheers the day!

JaneJudge

how tall do you think I am?

Depends on the growth hormone in brown sauce v tomato ketchup

I too found it difficult to give away 'good' clothes but then I found the charity Smart Works. Made donating much easier!
smartworks.org.uk/

I’m a grammar and punctuation snob.