Snobby siblings

baby_blu · 16-06-2008 01:28PM #1

I have 6 sisters, one of them married into money and now thinks shes "someone" i mean the "I wouldnt be caught dead shopping in Aldi/Lidl type, or the "I only drink imported red wine from 1985"(cos apparantly white wine is for commoners)

She wreaks my head and i avoid her at all costs as shes ashamed that im just a humble cleaner (Omg im shaming the family according to her) PAH! She was raised the same as us, ya swear she was raised by a queen with the notions she has about herself.

ANYHOO after having a discussion with most of my mates it turns out almost everyone i know has a stuck up sibling, weather it be from marrying into money, their good lucks or just TOTAL false notions

So fess up , who here has a snobby sibling and what makes them the way they are?

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 16-06-2008 01:33PM

I've only 2 siblings, but neither of them are stuck up!

Oh and i'm not the stuck up sibling before anybody say's anything :pac:

c - 13 · 16-06-2008 01:35PM

Not with my lot, that said i'm the eldest and the other two are too young to have had that happen them yet.

Theres an uncle on the mothers side who fits that stereotype though, he's got high notions for himself and is up to his neck in debt from trying to show how he's so loaded by building extensions that he can't afford trading in for the newest car every year and so on. Its all going to come back and bite him on the arse presently enough though, he cant really keep it up much longer.

To be honest i'd rather be broke and happy instead of up to my neck in debt trying to keep up appearances.

Theres another uncle on the fathers side who has a touch of that as well but he's generally fine, can actually afford what he does but doesn't push it in peoples faces.

Reku · 16-06-2008 01:36PM

Just keep calling her Hyacinth.

Also AFAIK would it not be more of a commoner type thing to make the mistake of drinking red wine when eating white meat?

biko · 16-06-2008 01:36PM

Nouveau riche drives me nuts. Too bad there are so many around these days thinking their farts smell like roses.

baby_blu · 16-06-2008 01:39PM

farohar wrote: »

Just keep calling her Hyacinth.

its scary u just said that, its EXACTLY what we call her

baby_blu · 16-06-2008 01:40PM

farohar wrote: »

Also AFAIK would it not be more of a commoner type thing to make the mistake of drinking red wine when eating white meat?

Is it, i never knew that? Guess i am common so

Reku · 16-06-2008 01:40PM

baby_blu wrote: »

its scary u just said that, its EXACTLY what we call her

Please tell me you occasionally switch it to Mrs. Bucket too, leave her to correct you if she dare accept that she is the embodiement of the character.

baby_blu wrote: »

Is it, i never knew that? Guess i am common so

Most people wouldn't, it's one of those daft archaic things no-one listens to anymore, just could be useful to poke fun at her. Damned if I know how they decided what to eat with a Rosé though.

OrangeDaisy · 16-06-2008 01:43PM

My friend has a brother just like that.....at a recent family christening he was eating and drinking away until someone mentioned that the party food had come from tesco. Didn't touch anything after that and said to the person who was hosting the party that if they hadn't enough money to get food from M&S they should.ve asked him for help!!

baby_blu · 16-06-2008 01:44PM

farohar wrote: »

Please tell me you occasionally switch it to Mrs. Bucket too, leave her to correct you if she dare accept that she is the embodiement of the character.

oh yea! dad is the only one who calls her mrs bucket, oh she corrects us and he laughs and says " Richards looking for you":D

Scary thing is her husband is the HEAD of emmet:)

baby_blu · 16-06-2008 01:45PM

OrangeDaisy wrote: »

said to the person who was hosting the party that if they hadn't enough money to get food from M&S they should.ve asked him for help!!

I hope he got a punch in the face for that

Glowing · 16-06-2008 01:49PM

Snobs make me SO ANGRY!

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 16-06-2008 01:49PM

OrangeDaisy wrote: »

My friend has a brother just like that.....at a recent family christening he was eating and drinking away until someone mentioned that the party food had come from tesco. Didn't touch anything after that and said to the person who was hosting the party that if they hadn't enough money to get food from M&S they should.ve asked him for help!!

I hope he got told where to go after that!!

Gone West · 16-06-2008 01:52PM

OrangeDaisy wrote: »

My friend has a brother just like that.....at a recent family christening he was eating and drinking away until someone mentioned that the party food had come from tesco. Didn't touch anything after that and said to the person who was hosting the party that if they hadn't enough money to get food from M&S they should.ve asked him for help!!

what a twat.

Beruthiel · 16-06-2008 01:52PM

baby_blu wrote: »

"(cos apparantly white wine is for commoners)

Well, in fairness, she's not wrong there....

OrangeDaisy · 16-06-2008 01:52PM

BrynW wrote: »

I hope he got told where to go after that!!

They just laughed into his face....funnily enough he wasn't invited to the next shindig

Reku · 16-06-2008 01:52PM

A specific corollary of the Rule is that white wines tend to go best with fish and white meats, like chicken and pork; red wines go best with red meat and red sauces.

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/basicwine/basicwine2.html

Knew I wasn't imagining it.:)

omb0wyn5ehpij9 · 16-06-2008 01:54PM

OrangeDaisy wrote: »

They just laughed into his face....funnily enough he wasn't invited to the next shindig

I'm not suprised he wasn't invited! I just don't know how anybody has the nerve to say things like that?!

baby_blu · 16-06-2008 01:54PM

farohar wrote: »

http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/basicwine/basicwine2.html

Knew I wasn't imagining it.:)

Bula Bos for the effort

Ebonyellie · 16-06-2008 01:55PM

My cousin goes to a different county when she wants to go to pennies, she would never be seen in her local one, and heres the mad thing, she buys pennies tops................and doesnt wear them until at least two years later, she says no one would remember that they were from pennies in the first place. Still on pennies, i woman i used to work for who has her head up her arse said to me one time " my friend down in corks' mother shops in pennies, i believe she bought a whole outfit for twenty euro"

she recoiled in horror once when i asked her did she shop in lidl

keen · 16-06-2008 01:59PM

Beruthiel wrote: »

Well, in fairness, she's not wrong there....

Or people who's tastes buds like white wine.

VIS VIRES · 16-06-2008 02:00PM

Beruthiel wrote: »

Well, in fairness, she's not wrong there....

Well Mrs Beruthiel, thanks for mixing it with us commoners for the last few minutes...

baby_blu · 16-06-2008 02:02PM

VIS VIRES wrote: »

Well Mrs Beruthiel, thanks for mixing it with us commoners for the last few minutes...

* sniggers *

Quality · 16-06-2008 02:04PM

Oh I have a snobby sister.... She thinks she is the bees knees...
Her house is perfect, her husband is perfect, her kids are perfect, her car is perfect, her hair, make up and clothes are perfect.

She will actually tell me how perfect she is.

My brother is loaded but really down to earth, we do have a great time ripping the piss out of her!!

the whole year inn · 16-06-2008 02:21PM

Well what the big deal with Pennys,I shop where I want where ever it is, its no one business ,and isnt food just food does not matter where you get it,I would have decked the fella if he said that to me,seriously!

Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9J1b3MqiX8

Abi · 16-06-2008 02:26PM

farohar wrote: »

1)Just keep calling her Hyacinth.

You stole my line

2) Also AFAIK would it not be more of a commoner type thing to make the mistake of drinking red wine when eating white meat?

Indeed it is. Red for red, white for white and rosé mostly regarded as a desert wine.

OP, why haven't you brought this up with her? I'd actually laugh at her, tell her get over herself, and definitely use the Hyacinth line. And anytime I saw her "Rrrrrichard, ewpen thu dorr for me Rrrrrrichard"

She'd never hear the end of it tbh.

Steve_o · 16-06-2008 02:28PM

Penney's FTW... gotta love being able to get a complete outfit for €25... the amount of snobs around the place is crazy, stupid celtic tiger is breeding these a**holes as a by-product....

Davidius · 16-06-2008 02:32PM

5 siblings, all are snobby towards one particular thing and some of us exaggerate for a joke. I have been accused by my brother of thinking I'm better than him because I pretend to look down at things to wind people up/for the craic. :pac:

None of them are to do with how rich you are though. We buy plenty of Tesco Value stuff because it saves money for much more awesome things like computers. :pac:

AnonoBoy · 16-06-2008 02:40PM

I only shop in Fallon & Byrne. My god - why anyone would want to pay less than five euro for a tin of sardines is beyond me.

Steve_o · 16-06-2008 02:41PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I only shop in Fallon & Byrne. My god - why anyone would want to pay less than five euro for a tin of sardines is beyond me.

O_o

Davidius · 16-06-2008 02:42PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I only shop in Fallon & Byrne. My god - why anyone would want to pay less than five euro for a tin of sardines is beyond me.

ROFL! :pac:

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