Pretentiousness

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

Are you pretentious? What are the signs/symptoms?

dxhound2005

Moi?

Harry Palmr

Moi?

edit et vos dxhound2005?

verycool

Moi?

alchemist33

Mé?

dxhound2005

verycool wrote: »

Moi?

Yes toi. And slow.

Royal Legend

Saw a good looking woman wearing sunglasses on a dark cloudy day, she was either pretentious or extremely optimistic














... or suffering from some kind of eyesight problem

verycool

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Yes toi. And slow.

Moi?


(that was the joke I was trying to..er.. "create"... imagine.. a pretentious thread with everyone replying "moi". The hilarity. But NOOOOOO Buzz Killington can't have that! :pac: )

bodice ripper

I am wildly pretentious, and it comes from deep in my soul.

dxhound2005

Royal Legend wrote: »

Saw a good looking woman wearing sunglasses on a dark cloudy day, she was either pretentious or extremely optimistic














... or suffering from some kind of eyesight problem

Shady character.

Are Am Eye

Maybe she was Bono.

Noveight

I am pretentiousnessless.

Royal Legend

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Maybe she was Bono.

I said hello to her and she did not answer, so maybe it was Bono

freshpopcorn

All I can think of is Aongus Von Bismarck!

riffmongous

Quid pro quo Mr Colt

kfallon

freshpopcorn wrote: »

All I can think of is Aongus Von Bismarck!

Must be awkward when ****.....

PTH2009

'Oh I went travelling for the summer'

'Oh Mammy and Daddy bought me a new car'

'My grandson is going to trinity'

When I think pretention, I think of Del Boy going through his wannabe 'Yuppie' phase in Only Fools And Horses (a show I've watched in basically a loop since I was born).

Pastel drinks with umbrellas? Mais, oui!
Pretentious job title? Mange tout!
Disaster strikes? Goodnight Vienna!

megadodge

"I prefer their older stuff".

pleas advice

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Maybe she was Bono.

or feeling a bit worse for wear after a heavy night

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[font=arial, sans-serif]John Romano[/font]

It's one of the worst insults I can think of; in one word, you're accusing someone of being a humourless, deeply insecure, loser whose self-belief and intelligence are entirely unmerited.

Yowza. I think I'd rather be accused of having a personality disorder. At least those guys can't help but be dickheads; if you're pretentious, you choose to be a dick.

Beanntraigheach

One of the most prominent symptoms must surely be the adoption of a "Deefer"-type accent.

It makes my ears sad

fryup

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

Are you pretentious? What are the signs/symptoms?

the D4 accent

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

A cousin of mine is. Last week, he put a photo up on Facebook of a flat white with a copy of James Joyce’s ‘Dubliners’ alongside it.

I'm kind of the opposite, in real life anyway. I put on a slightly worse front of myself than what is true.

padd b1975

I get my gentleman's gentleman to light my farts.

zcorpian88

Thinking you know everything about whiskey/wine just because you bought/got one or two expensive bottles in your life, I know people like this and were never mad into whiskey or wine, they get a nice bottle from someone at Christmas, next thing they are swirling it in a glass and smelling it making up what it smells like and how every other whiskey is inferior.....Gobsh**es!

D4 Accents

Arguing with people over which college/university is better. Who gives a solid f**k!

Yer Da sells Avon

If you want to find out if someone's accent ('D4' or otherwise) is pretentious, make them really angry and see if they revert to their 'real' accent.

Ipso

megadodge wrote: »

"I prefer their older stuff".

Yes, especially before they went main stream. Season 2 of Twin Peaks was way too mainstream for me.

Ubbquittious

It's becoming acceptable now with the resurgence of the Tiger

Silentcorner

We don't handle money well in this country at all...we just can't help ourselves allowing money get the better of us.

dxhound2005

Silentcorner wrote: »

We don't handle money well in this country at all...we just can't help ourselves allowing money get the better of us.

From any lesser person this could be regarded as pretensions of grandeur. But you have done your research, and deserve to be the spokesperson for the nation on this topic.

Your Face

It's all about perception.

Silentcorner

dxhound2005 wrote: »

From any lesser person this could be regarded as pretensions of grandeur. But you have done your research, and deserve to be the spokesperson for the nation on this topic.

What a subtle way of disagreeing with me, I can see I'm out of my depth here.

I was a child of the 80s where the vast majority of us hadn't a pot to piss in...by the late 90s we were flying into race meetings in helicopters.

Yester

I have a bookshelf and on that bookshelf is a copy of Ulysses.

Are Am Eye

Ubbquittious wrote: »

It's becoming acceptable now with the resurgence of the Tiger

Down in Cork isn't it?