Feeling in need of a good discussion thread, so...what are you snobby about?

Absolutely agree about bad tattoos and earrings on babies.

People who don't dress appropriately for their age/size. I don't care how old you are, if your big or small, but some things are best left to skinny 16 year olds, particularly the cropped tops that seem to have made a come back.

Cheap perfume

Cheese - those pre-packed slices of "burger cheese' or cheese that's squeezed out a bottle.

Fake handbags. I just don't get the point when there are plenty of affordable non-branded bags that look much better than knock-off rubbish.

? You're NEVER too old for sweeties!!!!

I'm snobby about...

Children running around in restaurants. Having a gawping child stare at you whilst you're trying to eat your prawn cocktail is not fun.

And I don't know whether this one is snobby or just hygenic, but I hate hate HATE it when kids have food/snot/spit on their face and they come and talk to you. Can they not just wipe their face first? Do parents not see their child covered in cr@p ??

I totally agree with this!

I felt like i'd fallen into the 90's at the weekend. Went for a wander round Stirling with a friend and it was crop tops and leggings galore!

H loves the pre packed slices of plastic cheese. i do not. I also can't look at the squeezy cheese as it reminds me of something else.

I am snobby about spelling.

e.g. similar being spelt as simular and 'heal' instead of 'heel'...

Yes, we do.

I can wipe my sons face, and 5 seconds later he's covered in snot/chocolate/mud again.

I think I'm bound to be one of those mum's that literally chases after her kids with tissues and baby wipes. ? Oh God, I'm my mother.

This was me. My 11 year old daughter has now become obssessed with everything being clean.

See I don't consider that to be snobby. You tried them, they were sh1t so you went back to what you know is good. If they had been as good as she'd made out then presumably you would have kept buying them and not worried about where they were from and what brand?

I have no probs with paying less for stuff as long as it does what its supposed to!

I am snobby about...

coffee (hate instant)

chicken/eggs (must be free range)

eating out (would rather stay in than go somewhere that looks/feels a bit crap)

spitting/littering

buses

people swearing in front of their children

abuse of the benefit system

the way young people talk these days

I'm a bit snobby about things that are popular. If that makes sense? For instance, if everyone is raving about these '50 shades of pap' books, I'm quite happy to be in the minority. Plus, I read a page and the writing made my eyes bleed.

Took me ages to give in to leggings.

I prefer the word 'discerning'! ?

I think the biggest area I am snobby about is hotels...probably because I worked in hotels and was spoilt. I absolutely despise the B&B type with chintz all over the place. Once was forced to stay in one in Blackpool, pulled back the bed covers to find the sheets littered with the plastic things you pull off a plastic milk bottle top (random) and you had to feed the TV 50p pieces.... I slept in my clothes....and they always smell of pee and cabbage. I would rather stay at home than have a weekend in one.

People who eat on public transport.

People who wear stupid fashion victim type clothes, e.g. the trousers half way down your @ss, showing your pants thing.

Kids who don't wear their school uniform properly, shirt open, tie hanging loose etc. It just looks scummy.

Pregnant people, wearing short tops that just cover their puppies.

This too, I purposefully wont buy something if everyone has it - I also hate it if something I own and love starts to become a mass trend.

Sounds just like my Mum, everything comes from Waitrose/John Lewis. She once suggested we eat 'a cold collation under the logia in the garden'. I didn't even know we had a 'logia'! Something we frequently remind her of and take the piss out of!

People who don't look after their teeth. Dirty houses. (I'd rather see a clean, tidy council house than a huge lovely house gone to ruin with dirt and mess.)

I have one pair of leggings that I wear with a jumper dress. And I know what you mean about 50shades, I just dont want to read it.

Oh yes, forgot about Waitrose!

Most food. I hate rubbish restaurant food especially.

Bacon, must be good quality and British.

Butter, never marg for toast.

Feet - people with hard, dry, scabby feet and toe nails that haven't seen a file for years, but still wear sandals.

Which brings me to shoes. They don't need to be expensive, but they do need to be relatively comfortable and non-blister-inducing.

White clothes. If they are no longer bright white, they go in the bin.

Shampoo. Nice shampoo is a must for my mop.

Make-up.

100% cotton bed sheets.

I think I am a proper snob!!!

My snobberies:

Literature, particularly when it is manifestly NOT literature. The Harry Potter series is a set of (maybe fabulous and likely future classic) story books. They are not comparable to the works of John Steinbeck.

Food, in terms of its ethical status.

Many of those already mentioned - children gone feral, benefit cheats etc.

Oh, and cheese, or so I've been told. I was tasked with purchasing the cheese board for Christmas dinner with Boy's family. Having spent a blissful hour or so and nearly £80 in our local cheese "hamlet", I presented my offerings to Boy's family, to much delight and deliciousness, but also with a fair amount of leftovers. As none of Boy's family especially like cheese, I was encouraged to take the leftovers for myself and my family for New Year. This prompted my mother to pitch a fit, the (apparent) implication being that her standard purchases of cheese were not good enough for me, who clearly felt compelled to bring my own and then, horror, persuade my father to eschew Tesco-bought Cheshire in favour of slivers of Gruyere Grand Cru.

Another one at lunchtime for me:

Girls who try so hard to look so fake! I look down my nose at you with your cheap fake tan and primark false eyelashes and I pity that you spend hours every morning trying to achieve that look.

christ Im a b!tch.

Meat - always good quality never, never, ever value range.

Supermarket chicken breast - pumped full of water.

People who can't dress appropriately for a) their size (I'm big and I certainly wouldn't wear leggings and hot pants), b) the weather or c) at all (don't you just want to walk up behind one of those idiots and pull their jeans up to the waist?)

People too lazy to get their @rse off the sofa and get a job and pay their way in society

Parents who can't control their children

Parents who smoke with children in tow - saw someone this lunchtime looked like the child's grandmother but I think it was actually the mother

Long toenails - makes me feel sick even when women have had a french manicure on them. Sorry but it makes me ? but not as much as the bloke on a bus in Cambridge the other week - his toenails were long and black ? ? ?

I know it has been mentioned before but Primark - particularly the people who were queuing up outside it waiting for it to open on a Sunday morning - why?

Im the same, I have a couple of friends who are reading it because "everyone else is" That is not a good enough reson for me!

Havent even seen a review for it yet! I got on the same high horse about Da Vinci Code too! ?

Cheese strings. Why? For whom?

Katie Price and women/girls who think she's a really inspirational businesswoman.

THAT peanut.

I'm also a bit snobby about people who air all their dirty laundry on facebook, or post attention seeking messages but then when they get the attention they want they "don't want to talk about it".

I have a facebook "friend" whose husband was in car accident recently, and the first thing she did was post pictures of his injuries on facebook, wtf.

? Burger cheese is the only cheese I really like. Love the stuff!

Yup, this, a girl I was at school with is constantly posting about how she's got all the rubbish people out of her life so she can surround herself with the people who matter. Well tell them this then, rather than repeatedly telling all of FB! And an ex-boss who often bitches about her nearest and dearest on there, all 'woe is me'. So basically attention seekers, there's no need.

And punctuation and spelling. We were all taught this at school, it's not difficult, it just takes a bit of effort. I am a lazyarse, but if I can manage to hit the shift key while I type to create a capital letter where one is needed, so can the rest of the population who use a computer.

I am the World's Biggest Snob. (apart from perhaps my mother and my mil2b)

I hate:

Women who smoke around kids

People who say that a baby will make their relationship better, or have a child in the vaugue hope that it will make them grow up

The Suffolk/Norfolk accent- I'm so so sorry about this one, but I hate it!

Women who plaster themselves in make up

Sheets that are not 100% cotton, when staying at my Aunts' I couldn't sleep because they were polyester.

People unnecessarily on benefits

S**t weddings (!)

Macdonalds- fast food chains

Stupidly I am also a snob about poor spelling/vocab, despite being atrocious myself!

People who air their crap over facebook

People who smell

Cheap washing powder.

There are so many more! For the record I am a leggings wearing lager out of the pint glass girl, who has a slight Suffolk accent after spending too much time with the in laws and enjoys an occasional maccy d's. I think this is one of the key components of being a snob- being hypercritical!

I'm a total beer snob as well. I'd rather stay sober and drive home than drink budweiser or fosters. I'm quite snobby about a lot of food and drink but cheap beer is the one thing I cannot drink out of politeness.

Pillows - I hate it when I stay somewhere and the pillows are lumpy.

Inappropriate conversations in the workplace. I don't care what you talk about with your mates but sex/excessive swearing is not appropriate at work.