snobbery

steddyeddy · 09-02-2013 03:09PM #1

Who's the biggest snob you've ever encountered? I met one recently in a pub. He seemed friendly at first. He mentioned he lived in Terenure to which I replied "Oh cool my mam is from Kimmage originally, just around the corner". He came back with "There's a big difference between the calibre of people from Kimnage and from Terenure mate". Now I know this is AH an I'm probrably contracually obliged to say I came up with a bit witty AH response but I didn't. I was a bit taken aback by a stranger randomly insulting my mam and by exrension granny ect. The thing is do Terenure wasn't always rich in fact there was several tenements there until the last few decades. The other thing is my mams side of the family are all barristers, economists historians and probrably a lot better off than he was.

Whats the biggest snob you have ever met and how do you deal with them?

aaronjumper · 09-02-2013 03:10PM

I am too good for this thread.

Turtyturd · 09-02-2013 03:11PM

Louis Copeland.....who the f*ck does he think he is with his gold teeth?

steddyeddy · 09-02-2013 03:12PM

aaronjumper wrote: »

I am too good for this thread.

Would you care to step outside? (what I should have said to the snob in my opening post :-P)

holy guacamole · 09-02-2013 03:15PM

I'm constantly encountering snobby people but for the most part I just feel pity for them. Folk like that are generally so concerned with social status and letting everyone know how successful they are that they don't realise just how utterly miserable they are.

Who gives a sh*t about where you're from, or where you live, or what car you drive, or how much you earn, the only people that are bothered with that stuff are shallow, pretentious oafs who measure popularity in €€€€.

Be proud of your background whatever it is and in the process congratulate yourself for not trying to hide your roots and be ashamed of where you're from like so many others in this country do.

09-02-2013 03:16PM

aaronjumper wrote: »

I am too good for this thread.

I'm considerably richer than yow.

aaronjumper · 09-02-2013 03:19PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Would you care to step outside? (what I should have said to the snob in my opening post :-P)

Jayzus tis freezin can you not kick the snobbery out of me in here next to the radiators and heaters?!

Biggest snob I ever met was back in school.
"Oh your friends with him?"
"Yeah I am"
"Well I cant be friends with you so"
"Right. . . whatever"

No problems between them or anything just didnt like him and so refused to be friends with any of his friends. Snobby weirdo.

Pherekydes · 09-02-2013 03:34PM

Tits who think St Brigid's NS is in Castleknock. It's in Blanchardstown!

P.S. So are Roselawn and Delwood.

Nick Riviera · 09-02-2013 03:36PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

Louis Copeland.....who the f*ck does he think he is with his gold teeth?

A millionaire businessman.

orestes · 09-02-2013 03:40PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Who's the biggest snob you've ever encountered? I met one recently in a pub. He seemed friendly at first. He mentioned he lived in Terenure to which I replied "Oh cool my mam is from Kimmage originally, just around the corner". He came back with "There's a big difference between the calibre of people from Kimnage and from Terenure mate". Now I know this is AH an I'm probrably contracually obliged to say I came up with a bit witty AH response but I didn't. I was a bit taken aback by a stranger randomly insulting my mam and by exrension granny ect. The thing is do Terenure wasn't always rich in fact there was several tenements there until the last few decades. The other thing is my mams side of the family are all barristers, economists historians and probrably a lot better off than he was.

Whats the biggest snob you have ever met and how do you deal with them?

Bloody snob.

BillyMitchel · 09-02-2013 03:43PM

It's everywhere in Ireland, anyone who says otherwise is deluded.

Met a chick before on holidays and at the very start of the conversation she asked where I was from and when I told her she just got up and walked off.

Stuck up slag.

Worked out well though, me and my friend four balled her mate who was much better looking!

steddyeddy · 09-02-2013 03:43PM

orestes wrote: »

Bloody snob.

You have a point actually! I meant it to illustrate that you cant judge people because of where they're from.

MaxSteele · 09-02-2013 03:50PM

My mate dropped out of engineering in Trinity recently because and I quote ...

"They're all posh, D4 twats from Killiney, Blackrock etc etc. They're all so gay. The way the course is taught is gay. The lecturers are boring, negative and gay. Trinity as a college is just f*cking gay." :pac:

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 09-02-2013 03:51PM

Wow, Terenure! How many butlers did he have?!

fussyonion · 09-02-2013 03:52PM

Terenure's not posh! Bahahaha

juan.kerr · 09-02-2013 03:52PM

Nick Riviera wrote: »

A millionaire businessman.

Millionaire, you say? Come back to me when it's millionaire with a B. Until then, please use the tradesmans entrance around the side.

steddyeddy · 09-02-2013 03:54PM

No I didn't imply they're rich now because they're from Kimmage. The man I met implied there's a certain calibre of people from Kimmage. I was using examples to say that where you're from does not indicate anything about you other than where you grew up!

crfcaio · 09-02-2013 03:55PM

I thought "snobbery" was a combination between "snob" and "robbery"

The King of Moo · 09-02-2013 04:05PM

A quite expensive estate was built near the fairly ordinary, now mainly middle-class estate where I lived as a kiddywink. Rather than put the area where the estates are, which is not very well-known, on their addresses, many of the people in the more expensive estate put the name of a much more fashionable village about ten kilometres away. Someone has even put that on Google Maps, and put photos of the village in the middle of the estate on, despite the distance between the two being clear.

One person there in particular would shoo any animal that came close to her house, until learning that one cat belonged to a minor and awful celebrity who lived there for a time. This cat was then welcomed with open arms (perhaps literally), and she'd brag about it visiting the house.

One time I missed a flight to Dublin because of a train breakdown. I was talking to a guy in the queue while waiting for the replacement bus. He was giving out about the situation, until he asked how much it would cost to rebook later flights. When I told him it'd be €100, he, in mock relief, proclaimed "Oh great, sure that's nothing." I've never come across such a strained effort to sound blasé.

Probably the worst snob I've seen, but not in person, was a certain young girl whose father works for a major professional services company.

Actually, no, the worst snobs I've ever come across are those b*stard aliens with black on the left half of their face and white on the right. They think they're so much better than the aliens with white on the left half of their face and black on the right.

shoos · 09-02-2013 04:16PM

I don't get it nowadays so much, but in my teens I used to get reverse-snobbery all the time.

I went to a pretty fancy school and lived in a nice enough area, while my two best friends came from fairly crap schools and lived in... well, not even particularly poor areas, pretty standard. But I met loads of people through them and the second I opened my mouth they'd go "where the f*ck are you from/what school do you go to??". And when I told them they'd go on little rants about how people like me are so stuck up, so full of ourselves, how easy I have things, and how I live in such a bubble, I might have a good education but I've no understanding of what it's REALLY like in the world.

Thought I was the one that was supposed to be a snob?

frozenfrozen · 09-02-2013 04:18PM

My daddy is the highest earning partner in KPMG

09-02-2013 04:19PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

The thing is do Terenure wasn't always rich in fact there was several tenements there until the last few decades. The other thing is my mams side of the family are all barristers, economists historians and probrably a lot better off than he was.

So he said "calibre", you've interpreted it as meaning money, found a deeper meaning of profession, and he's the snob?

I don't think the calibre of a person is anything to do with their money, where they live OR their job.

admiralofthefleet · 09-02-2013 04:22PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Who's the biggest snob you've ever encountered? I met one recently in a pub. He seemed friendly at first. He mentioned he lived in Terenure to which I replied "Oh cool my mam is from Kimmage originally, just around the corner". He came back with "There's a big difference between the calibre of people from Kimnage and from Terenure mate". Now I know this is AH an I'm probrably contracually obliged to say I came up with a bit witty AH response but I didn't. I was a bit taken aback by a stranger randomly insulting my mam and by exrension granny ect. The thing is do Terenure wasn't always rich in fact there was several tenements there until the last few decades. The other thing is my mams side of the family are all barristers, economists historians and probrably a lot better off than he was.

Whats the biggest snob you have ever met and how do you deal with them?

terenure road west is kimmage and is fairly snobby whereas terenure road north around enda's is ordinary. that fella you were talking to is a tosser

steddyeddy · 09-02-2013 04:23PM

true-or-false wrote: »

So he said "calibre", you've interpreted it as meaning money, found a deeper meaning of profession, and he's the snob?

I don't think the calibre of a person is anything to do with their money, where they live OR their job.

Neither did I but he did.

jaffacakesyum · 09-02-2013 04:28PM

Is there a word for a snob who looks down on people for living in supposedly 'posh' areas? Like a reverse snob? See them in Ireland all the time too. You can't win. You meet people who are so obsessed with money and status that they won't associate with you because you are seen as a pleb in their eyes :rolleyes: And then you have people (some of them scumbags, some of them just ordinary people) who will look down on and slag the sh1t out of you if you went to a 'posh' school or live in a 'rich' area, and when asked where they're from they go on about how dangerous Ballymun is and ya'd get stabbed if you walked in my area. As if 1) That's true and 2) That's something to be proud of.

Don't understand it. Couldn't care less about where someones from or how much they earn or what their social status is. If you're sound, we'll get on well.

mikemac1 · 09-02-2013 04:31PM

Was he once of these OP?

The Association of Residents of Terenure (ART), representing around 300 households in the northwest of Terenure village, has written to the Constituency Commission

“The current constituency boundary has left us at a great disadvantage because the make-up of the public representatives who have been elected to our constituency do not, in general, seem to feel they represent the ‘middle class’ suburb of Terenure, and instead draw their support from, and give their attention to, the western part of the constituency,” their letter states.

Dublin South Central currently includes areas like Crumlin, Dolphin’s Barn, Ballyfermot and Inchicore while Dublin South East includes Rathmines, Ranelagh, Rathgar and Donnybrook.

“We don’t like the situation the way it is,” he said adding that while Terenure had associations with Rathmines, “if you go the other way there isn’t anything we’re assocated with, in any way.”

http://www.thejournal.ie/residents-claim-tds-do-not-represent-middle-class-in-dublin-suburb-325310-Jan2012/

I rent in Ballyer, now I know the good people of The Association of Residents of Terenure want nothing to do with us

dj jarvis · 09-02-2013 04:33PM

biggest snob or as i like to call him , a total **** bag would be more accurate
was a friends boss ,
we went to his big gaff in wicklow , it looked like laura ashley puked his decor up

so sitting haveing a chat he turns round to me and said , " dressed as you are you are limiting who will talk to you are you not "
now i was dressed in leather , bike boots and had my club patch on , what else was i going to wear driving my bike :eek:

i responded with " my dress weeds out the tossers , if someone thinks a certain way becasue of my leathers then great , i dont want to know them anyway "

we arrived back to his house a week later to forcibly take his doberman dog from him , he was mistreating the poor dog , it had cancer and was blind in one eye and he was doing nothing about it - he knew better than to stop us , we would have stamped all over the dick head

on a happy note , we got the dog seen to , lost a eye , but lived another 2 years with people who treated it right

this guy was a waste of skin

shoos · 09-02-2013 04:37PM

jaffacakesyum wrote: »

Is there a word for a snob who looks down on people for living in supposedly 'posh' areas? Like a reverse snob? See them in Ireland all the time too. You can't win. You meet people who are so obsessed with money and status that they won't associate with you because you are seen as a pleb in their eyes :rolleyes: And then you have people (some of them scumbags, some of them just ordinary people) who will look down on and slag the sh1t out of you if you went to a 'posh' school or live in a 'rich' area, and when asked where they're from they go on about how dangerous Ballymun is and ya'd get stabbed if you walked in my area. As if 1) That's true and 2) That's something to be proud of.

Don't understand it. Couldn't care less about where someones from or how much they earn or what their social status is. If you're sound, we'll get on well.

Yeah, I think poeple forget that the Irish are just as guilty of reverse-snobbery as traditional snobbery.
You're not deadly cause you've been to America, but you're also not deadly because you've not been to America. Get over yourselves.

mikemac1 · 09-02-2013 04:39PM

I listen to bands that don't even exist yet :cool:

suicide_circus · 09-02-2013 04:41PM

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote: »

Wow, Terenure! How many butlers did he have?!

Terenure is a lower middle class cesspit

crockholm · 09-02-2013 04:42PM

I remember building a wall in bushes lane when the neighbour came over to have a look,saw all the granite stones on the ground and remarked "you've the life of riley,it's like playing with lego all day long"

Kind of felt like Ted from the fast show after that

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