what does sophistication mean to you?

lufties

So, I was out in the pub last night and myself and a mate were talking about sophistication. For me this word conjures up terms like snobbishness, smugness, superficial, and basically having money. I guess it probably means refined taste and education in arts, food, drink and fashion.

Tail Docker

Ordering boiled spuds instead of chips.

Magico Gonzalez

Monacles.

lufties

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Monacles.

Nah, thats called being pretentious.

Billy86

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Monacles.

And top hats and waistcoats. No point in a monocle without a top hat and waistcoat.

MRnotlob606

I am like the mighty Dyson vacuum cleaner, I am an innovative whirlwind in attractive packaging. It is my calling to be borne along the corridors and into the meeting rooms of your company, sucking up every atom of creativity and vision.

Aquagakka

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Monacles.

Two men wearing a monocle bumped into one another;

They made a spectacle of themselves.

Starscream25

Graceful, Intelligent, humble, empathetic, good conversationalist, kind natured, maybe successful.

CINCLANTFLT

Wiping your arse from poop hole towards balls and not the more common way...

Magico Gonzalez

lufties wrote: »

Nah, thats called being pretentious.

How about pocketwatches?

Magico Gonzalez

Dancing the charlestown, that's bound to still be sophisticated.

Lapin

Sophisticated = Pretentious.

EG - The kind of person who asks for 'craft' beer or 'artisan' cheese but doesn't know his or her arse from their elbow when it comes to knowing anything about any type of beer or cheese.

Lyaiera

I don't know if a sophisticated person can exist any more. I guess in the past it would mean someone with refined tastes, education, and an interest in the arts. Those things are really common now. You can't move without bumping into someone with a degree or a masters, a foodie or someone into craft beers or good whiskey, or someone who actually likes travelling the world going to museums and galleries. I guess in the past a lot of those activities were only afforded to people with a lot of money, but now quite a lot of people can afford them. It's no longer "sophisticated" or anything special. It's just what people do.

Pinch Flat

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

How about pocketwatches?

Only if it's hanging out of a smoking jacket

mad muffin

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

Wiping your arse from poop hole towards balls and not the more common way...

Never wipe It forward. Never!

Magico Gonzalez

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

Wiping your arse from poop hole towards balls and not the more common way...

I'm having a meltdown trying to work out which way people are doing this that isn't as described as above.

Billy86

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

I'm having a meltdown trying to work out which way people are doing this that isn't as described as above.

By starting at the base of the crack and moving up towards the lower back.

lufties

Starscream25 wrote: »

Graceful, Intelligent, humble, empathetic, good conversationalist, kind natured, maybe successful.

any examples?

Aquagakka

When left alone in a room and there's a tea-cosy there.

You are sophisticated if you don't put it on your head.

smash

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

I am like the mighty Dyson vacuum cleaner, I am an innovative whirlwind in attractive packaging. It is my calling to be borne along the corridors and into the meeting rooms of your company, sucking up every atom of creativity and vision.

So you're all talk and no action... Coz Dysons are shíte.

Sauve

Getting a glassfor your bottle of beer.

the evasion_kid

Nothing says sophistication better than this:

Karl Stein

Those tuxedo moggies.








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Magico Gonzalez

Billy86 wrote: »

By starting at the base of the crack and moving up towards the lower back.

I go the other way.

Must be a left handed thing.

Sophisticated would be the standing wipe. Can't understand the mechanics of that either.

Cantremember

Classic AH thread: OP wants to discuss sophistication and watches in horror as a technical discussion on arse wiping dominates. Thread of the day. A little cracker, if you'll pardon the bun. Yes bun.

SaveOurLyric

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Only if it's hanging out of a smoking jacket

WTF ??????

No one wears a pocket watch when they are wearing their smoking jacket !

Billy86

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

I go the other way.

Must be a left handed thing.

Sophisticated would be the standing wipe. Can't understand the mechanics of that either.

I go in both directions! Mainly aim for the downward, credit card swiping motion though. And I'm a leftie too... to prove it, I'll show you the lethal weapon I can make with just a tin of beans and a can opener! :pac;

On another note... bidets. Nothing says sophistication like wiping your arse with a mini bog that squirts water at you.

boobar

A tweed cape.

A perhaps whimsical taste for the esoteric, sublime, tasteful and uncommon. An appreciation for the finer things life has to offer in terms of literature, food, surroundings, company and occupation.

Starscream25

lufties wrote: »

any examples?

Obi wan kenobi, no seriously I can't think of any people in real life, there's a very fine line between snobbyness and sophistication I'd say.

whiskeyman

Ferrero Rochers in a big heap on a silver platter

Kevwoody

Wiping my knob with a tissue instead of the curtain after I make sex with the mrs

Magico Gonzalez

Billy86 wrote: »

I go in both directions! Mainly aim for the downward, credit card swiping motion though. And I'm a leftie too... to prove it, I'll show you the lethal weapon I can make with just a tin of beans and a can opener! :pac;

On another note... bidets. Nothing says sophistication like wiping your arse with a mini bog that squirts water at you.

Definitely a bidet fan. We have one, you have to get past that awkward moment when you haven't got a handle on the controls and you douse yourself in the face with an upward jet of water you planned to apply to your exit hole. You have to treat it like a flamethrower, never look down at it when you turn it on.

Magico Gonzalez

Kevwoody wrote: »

Wiping my knob with a tissue instead of the curtain after I make sex with the mrs

You know you're in love when....

For Forks Sake

A discernible odour of leather and wealth.

lufties

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

I go the other way.

Must be a left handed thing.

Sophisticated would be the standing wipe. Can't understand the mechanics of that either.

sophistication is a bee-day...women need to wipe front to back, but for men its not too important

king_of_inismac

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

Sophistication doesn't mean snobbery. It means doing things correctly and precisely.

As a computer programmer, I really like that qoute. Good coders write really simple but elegant code. All too often code that appears complex is just badly written or incorrect.

smash

Kevwoody wrote: »

Wiping my knob with a tissue instead of the curtain after I make sex with the mrs

You haven't made it until you can splash out on post sex baby wipes. If you have a miniature basketball net on your bin and can get the baby wipe in without leaving your bed then your top tier!

Miss Demeanour

smash wrote: »

You haven't made it until you can splash out on post sex baby wipes. If you have a miniature basketball net on your bin and can get the baby wipe in without leaving your bed then your top tier!

/swoons at the sophisticated image.....

Ruu

Audrey Hepburn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB2ckiy_qlQ

Hold the Cheez Whiz

Lapin wrote: »

Sophisticated = Pretentious.

I feel like this says more about the person making the statement than the person they are theoretically talking about.

TheBeardedLady

Sauve wrote: »

Getting a glassfor your bottle of beer.

I do that!


But I also pick my ears with a hairpin.


One cancels the other out. Sophistication fail.


I know a sophisticated woman. Taught her here for a year. She was elegant, mannerly, great sense of style, respectful of others, could speak at length about any given topic, always punctual for class. It was just the way she carried herself generally that gave off a sophisticated air. Impossible to put into words. She was neither rich nor smug though.Sophisticated in the true sense of the word would have positive connotations for me.

I'd like to be sophisticated in my next life.

Hold the Cheez Whiz

SOPHISTICATED MAMA!!!!

tayto lover

Height of Sophistication +
Sucking nipples with a straw...