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

I thought of another, quite ashamed of this one really but I'm really snobby about beggers. I really hate them being near me and will avoid them. I'm actually quite scared of them for no good reason.

I fear that they will grab my ankles and hold onto them until I surrender all my loose change.

Prams - people that buy the bugaboo footmuff when they don't have the bugaboo pram. Firstly they're expensive, why pretend, and just buy the one that fits your pram. Yes I do own a bugaboo...

Tea bags, only Tetley or twinings or Yorkshire will do

Babies with earrings or just any jewellery

Baby girls in headbands

Eggs can only be free range in our house and I like a happy chicken

Clear bra straps with a strapless top. Or worse a low backed top and the back of your bra on show

Text speak, especially anywhere that isn't a text message. If you can't be bothered to type properly, I can't be bothered to read it.

Poor grammar/spelling. You're/your etc, lack of apostrophe or too many.

I drink pints! And I've probably made a spelling mistake...

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I think alot of what im a snob about has been mentioned already!

My biggest one is the other parents at my kids schools , now dont get me wrong most of them up there are lovely and you couldnt meet nicer people! But others seem to have no regard to where they are i have stood in my sons nursery and one of the mums cant go a sentance without saying the F and C word and it totally discusts me! same with my eldest sons school just standing in the playground at home time most of them are swearing like troopers!

I hate seeing pregnant mums smoking , i wouldnt but i feel like going up to them and saying do you know what you are doing to your baby!!! My cousin smoked all the way though her pregnancys and her excuse was that she couldnt cope with the stress of quiting!!! i felt ashamed of saying she was my cousin after that!

Another one is people who live there life though facebook , i mean statuses ,pictures ,the works its winds me up so bad!!! the biggest culprit of this on my facebook is the cousin i mentioned aboved , she gave us live running commentry of both her child births and even told us about how badly she tore down below!! she went on to tell us when she had sex again after having a baby and that she really enjoyed it. the worst one was when she announced to the world that she was amazed that her current boyfriend was shocked because she used to let her ex boyfriend pee on her in the bath!! come on why did we need to know that!! she also posts mountains and mountains of pictures which tend to be alot of the same shot! or they are outragous ones like of her trying to breastfeed naked! I hate seeing arguements though FB aswell of which she is quilty of too .I only ever post things on FB that i think people will want to see or will be interested in!

? but also ?

I have someone on facebook that uploaded a picture of a dog poo and said 'wow thats a huge one, must have been a great dane' Does ANYONE want to see that??

I snobby about :

people not working without good reason

children not being taught good manners

people not having pride in themselves, home etc

Oh for the record we had a mortgage but OH got cancer 3 yrs ago and we lost everything (financially speaking) and we now live on a COUNCIL ESTATE! There are about 6 types of properties so its not to do with the building that people dont like it ..............its snobbery ! I used to be snobby about them too thinking everyone in council properties fell into my very narrow minded image!

The council houses in my road are grimmo.

Dont know how you can know for sure they are council houses My friend bought hers 2 months ago so therefore its no longer a council house My mum bought hers 20 yrs ago and still looks the same My neighbours house isnt council (He took great pleasure in telling me!) but it looks just same as mine and as I said its about pride My house looks great thanks! so as I was saying not all council houses look bad it falls down to pride!

I had a girl on mine yesterday trying to sex her new pets so we had loads of pictures of guinea pig genitals!!! Another one posted 15, yes 15 different pictures of her 2 year old girls chicken pox. Block and BLOCK!

Maybe its just round here but there is a very specific shape for council houses,they tend to be pre-fabs so all look identical. Perhaps different in other areas of the country though.

Maybe its just round here but there is a very specific shape for council houses,they tend to be pre-fabs so all look identical. Perhaps different in other areas of the country though.

This is what I meant - the generic post-war style of council house, and so many of them all together.

Wish I'd never mentioned the blessed things now... *sigh*

@ac, I know! I live in an awful post war ex council house. It's horrible! No amount of large rooms and big garden will make up for having to spend time living near some of the sights in my road (all still council) its the total sense of lack if ambitions that really depresses me,whole families live in the road and to them that's as good as its going to get.

Which reminds me of another thing I'm snobby about. People with no passports/have no interest in leaving the UK.

That was me until last year. I had a passport for proof of ID as I don't own a driving licence but in the end it went out of date without a single stamp in it. My honeymoon last year was my first holiday abroad, other than school trips.

My previous had no stamps, I diddnt leave the eu for the 9 years I had that passport

I didn't feel the need to leave the UK either. The only place I haven't felt homesick in is Liverpool.

I have been following this and struggling to think of things I am actually snobby about.

People of low intellect. I don't mean people with genuine dissabilities, just duffers. Slow on the up-take and a low vocab, that kind of thing.

After experiencing quite a financial drop post divorce and a substantial change in living accomodation, I became, I like to think, far less judgemental.

What's wrong with that? I don't really care for going abroad. I'm only going abroad on our honeymoon because OH wants to. I love the UK, there are so many beautiful and picturesque places here. I've holidayed in the UK all my life and still haven't seen half the places I want to.

I think I'm the opposite and am snobby about people who go half way round the world to sit on a beach for 2 weeks. That's not a holiday, it's just an expensive way of getting a tan.

I just thought of one...

People who swear in their sentences. It's not big, it's not clever and "f***ing" is *not* an adjective.

"It was so ****ing scary, like ****ing hell, I've never been so ****ing scared in my life."

It's just something I am snobby about. I don't get some of the things people on here are snobby about? It's part of the stuff that makes us unique. I don't Ness agree with people who Go on hols just to sit in a hotel for two weeks? Fine if that's your sort of thing but not for me.

I have to say I'm slightly snobby about non-travellers.

It's not all about (or even mostly about) the scenery. It's about the people, the food, the culture. It's about breathing the dusty Havana streets, the sound of salsa in the background. It's about visiting a home where chickens wander the living space and the family placentas are buried under marked stones. It's about spotting your first wild monkey, or your first whale. It's learning how to cook from someone who earns a dollar a day.

Absolutely this !

I totally appreciate the UK, we have some lovely places to visit, whether that be for a week or 2 or just a day trip, but there is a whole world out there to see and I have never been able to comprehend people who have no desire to experience different cultures, people and places. When I was at college I had a very heated debate in one of my classes with a girl who was insisting that there was nowhere on earth like the UK and nowhere better to live. She had never been to anywhere outside of the UK in her entire life and could not see my point when I said how does she know that when she has nothing to compare it to ? I am proud to be British, proud of our history and the wonderful places that millions of tourists come to visit every year, but I don't for one minute think that it is the best place on earth to live.

I'm snobby about bad drivers/parking. If you can't handle your car, you don't deserve to have one.

Those over the top pram quilts covered in lace, ribbon and sequins. They're usually embroidered with a chavvy name too.

Supermarkets. I'll shop anywhere...yes even Aldi, but I don't like it. It smells funny, and you have to pack your own bags at the back off the shop, not at the checkout.

I was going to respond to this, but FTLOMB has said it much more eloquently than I ever could.

Similarly, I'm really snobby about people who go to places like Spain and just wear their England shirt the whole time and eat fish and chips in the Red Lion pub. You don't have to have a lot of money or necessarily go to exotic places to experience a different culture and wander off the beaten track.

Anyway, I don't think anyone should be offended, I think the point of this thread is meant to be things that we are irrationally snobby over, things where there's not necessarily anything wrong with them (other than things that are clearly wrong such as smoking when pregnant), but things that we just can't help feeling snobby over, for whatever reason.

Just to clarify, I wasn't offended by it. I was just interested to know what's common (is common the right word? Being the opposite of snobby??) about stay-cations.

Also, I don't believe, for one minute, that the UK is the best place in the world. Of the many things I am, narrow-minded is not one.

THESE!

Also toddlers that are struggling to speak to you through their dummies

Parents that scream "shut up" at their children when they are crying and obviously distressed. It makes me want to take their children away from them, they just want a cuddle/some affection for god's sake!

Soaps on television, i know this will probably offend a few people but i have just never liked them.

People that always go to the same holiday resort every year and never leave the hotel. You can't say you've been to another country if you haven't stepped foot out of the hotel room. You've just seen the hotel!

People that religously use sunbeds. They are BAD for you

I am sure there are more but that will do for now

Thought of another two:

Women who wear pyjamas outside the house - I don't mean just to bring the milk in or put the bin out, I mean around town, shopping etc

Women who wear those oversize curlers in their hair - I mean, who on earth thought that was a good look? combined with the above it's a killer combo.

I try not to be snobby about what other people do if I can but one thing I hate is seeing Mums shouting abuse at kids while they are shopping. I cannot imagine the frustration of disobedient kids or tantrums and won't until I am in that situation but my particular dislike is for the phrase "GET HERE NOW". It makes me cringe.

I will have to keep this thread in mind if I get wound up and revert to snobbery! lol.

Very much this. We used to go to Tenerife every year growing up and the number of really chavvy Brits eating their fry ups in the English pub was astonishing. Also people with strong accents who go abroad and speak quickly to the locals, using slang words and abbreviations, expecting them to understand what they're saying - I find that really embarassing.