Snobs, and their lack of breeding: what's your worst experience?

Legs.Eleven · 21-06-2013 12:43PM

April O Neill wrote: »

This is pretty snobby. "What does someone who lives outside of South Dublin have to be snobby about?"

True! Well I'm not from there myself so...

I should rephrase that: Snobbery is always unjustified but snobbery in Ireland makes me laugh; the vast majority of us come from peasantry ffs.

ToxicPaddy · 21-06-2013 12:50PM

My father works in the building industry and drives a van as do all the other guys working for him or contracting on the job, some of the comments he has heard from neighbours of houses in the same areas are hilarious.

Usually aul bints and curtain twitchers who have nothing better to do with their time and their snide remarks are usually met with a very swift response in a subtle but very very obvious cutting remark that leaves them their with mouths open and not really sure what to say next.

The funny thing is on a quite a number of occasions, the same bints have contacted my father to see if he would do work for them after seeing the quality of the work in their neighbours place.

His responses are usually that he's too busy and after all wouldn't all those vans outside their houses bring down the tone of the estate.

OldNotWIse · 21-06-2013 12:55PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

He should have told him shagging his children's nanny while his wife is in hospital fairly lowers the tone too.

hahaha

He asked my Dad , "do you know who I am?" (dad there in his scruffy overalls with his van, worth a million of him) and Dad just looks at him and says, "yes...and now I know what you are aswell".

Fuucking monobrowed twat.

old hippy · 21-06-2013 01:00PM

I must say, I'm surprised that nobody has called for sterilisation of the snobboes yet.

PhlegmyMoses · 21-06-2013 01:10PM

This is why I go out of my way to not befriend my neighbours. You have to live beside them for X number of years so if you have a falling out or they turn out to be mental, it gets awkward. I have enough friends, don't need that potential hassle for the sake of a few more.

Legs.Eleven · 21-06-2013 01:10PM

old hippy wrote: »

I must say, I'm surprised that nobody has called for sterilisation of the snobboes yet.

Sure usually it's the snobs that call for that kind of ****e

jippo nolan · 21-06-2013 01:14PM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

Chris De Burgh, told my Dad he was lowering the tone of the neighbourhood when he parked his van there to carry out work. S*p

Did "christy Burke" not lower the tone of the place when he goosed the babysitter?

FutureGuy · 21-06-2013 01:22PM

A woman was passing me with two greyhound-like dogs. She was dressed like Mrs. Bouquet.

As they passed, I turned to the gf and said "those are beautiful greyhounds."

The woman turned, snorted and said in an angry tone "they are Silken Windhounds. You would do well to know the difference".

Calhoun · 21-06-2013 01:33PM

FutureGuy wrote: »

A woman was passing me with two greyhound-like dogs. She was dressed like Mrs. Bouquet.

As they passed, I turned to the gf and said "those are beautiful greyhounds."

The woman turned, snorted and said in an angry tone "they are Silken Windhounds. You would do well to know the difference".

Peasant not knowing the difference between the hairy and non hairy variety of greyhound ( i had to google what they looked like) :pac::pac:.

fryup · 21-06-2013 01:37PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

never met a true blue snobby dub

here's one

McDermotX · 21-06-2013 01:37PM

Commoners

the keen edge · 21-06-2013 01:37PM

In many Chinese cities, in some of the more upmarket/affluent districts, you are forbidden by law to drive a car which is more than 3 years old, around these showcase areas.

For much the same reasons, that is promotion of China as a modern affluent country, motorcycles/mopeds are also outlawed in the more upwardly mobile suburbs and districts.

**Vai** · 21-06-2013 01:37PM

Silken windhounds... now that is a posh dog name!

Capt'n Midnight · 21-06-2013 01:39PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I know a fella, who after two years in the US, asked in the local post office for directions to his mother's house, the house he lived in for twenty years previous.

During the boom this was not unknown because of the road works and fields replaced by apartments that block the view. Dundrum would be an example

Bits_n_Bobs · 21-06-2013 01:40PM

Sometimes I post on boards and some commoner posts beside me, ruining everything. I have asked the mods to intervene several times as I really feel rather violated by these commoners posting so near to me, but they have so far failed to carry out what I really believe is a necessary service.

wolfpawnat · 21-06-2013 01:41PM

**Vai** wrote: »

Silken windhounds... now that is a posh dog name!

My partner (vet student) has actually seen a woman give out because her darling Pekinese would be in the same room recovering from her surgery than crossbreeds and common breeds like a Jack Russell. The vet laughed into the woman's face!

**Vai** · 21-06-2013 01:43PM

wolfpawnat wrote: »

My partner (vet student) has actually seen a woman give out because her darling Pekinese would be in the same room recovering from her surgery than crossbreeds and common breeds like a Jack Russell. The vet laughed into the woman's face!

Dear lord. Im embarrassed for her.

Time to start a thread titled "Anyone else not want dogs"

Ush1 · 21-06-2013 01:44PM

FutureGuy wrote: »

A woman was passing me with two greyhound-like dogs. She was dressed like Mrs. Bouquet.

As they passed, I turned to the gf and said "those are beautiful greyhounds."

The woman turned, snorted and said in an angry tone "they are Silken Windhounds. You would do well to know the difference".

That woman obviously never had a good ride in her life.

Corvo · 21-06-2013 01:48PM

FutureGuy wrote: »

A woman was passing me with two greyhound-like dogs. She was dressed like Mrs. Bouquet.

As they passed, I turned to the gf and said "those are beautiful greyhounds."

The woman turned, snorted and said in an angry tone "they are Silken Windhounds. You would do well to know the difference".

Oooh I loved them in Skyrim!

wolfpawnat · 21-06-2013 01:50PM

**Vai** wrote: »

Dear lord. Im embarrassed for her.

Time to start a thread titled "Anyone else not want dogs"

What was hilarious was the little crossbreed of a mutt actually belongs to a huge businessman worth millions, the kind of person you know she would fawn over if she had known who it was.

Tisserand · 21-06-2013 01:51PM

OP, I was on the residents association some years ago in my estate. A chap two doors up drove hackneys for a living and occasionally had a bus parked outside his drive. A woman some doors down from me approached me and asked me to mention at the next Res Ass meeting that people shouldn't park buses or vans iin the driveways as it lowered the tone. I said I would provided only that I could say her name as the person who raised the issue ( I had no intention of raising it, by the way). She said no way was I to say it was her, that I was to say it was ME who had the issue, considering I lived nearer to him that she did! The cheek of her. She came originally from an estate in the town that nobody would ever buy a house in because of anti social behaviour.

Also on other snobbery issues, I have friends who come to my house who won't eat or drink food that or non-brand i.e. they won't touch Aldi or Lidl products or for example a Dunnes or Tesco brand item. Gets on my nerves.

kylith · 21-06-2013 01:54PM

bumper234 wrote: »

How do you mean he won't allow? The guy just lives there? Is there a rule that states no trade vans? I despise snobbery like this and would probably end up taking the nuclear option on him.

April O Neill wrote: »

What authority does he have to do that?

Apologies, my post was poorly worded.

The estate itself has an edict prohibiting marked trade vans as they 'lower the tone'. It's enforced by the residents' committee or the management company or some other load of gobshítes with too much time on their hands. The guy I know owns his own business and had wanted to put his logo on his company jeep, but couldn't because it would then involve a long walk uphill to get home each day.

PhlegmyMoses · 21-06-2013 01:55PM

Tisserand wrote: »

Also on other snobbery issues, I have friends who come to my house who won't eat or drink food that or non-brand i.e. they won't touch Aldi or Lidl products or for example a Dunnes or Tesco brand item. Gets on my nerves.

Meh, the vast majority of people can be a bit particular about stuff like that. You'd rarely see someone over 18 turn up to a BBQ with 6 Dutch Gold in their hands despite the fact it is no worse than Heineken or Budweiser in taste and is half the price.

Corvo · 21-06-2013 01:55PM

I'll remind you what we all know anyway -

Working Class People - Sound. Everyday Joe Soap who represents you and me and most of the population.

Ridiculously Rich People - Sound. My boss is a millionaire but one of the nicest people you will ever meet and you would never think he actually has anything in his bank account. Sort of guy that would give you the shirt off his back in the pissing rain. And he's not the only example, I have met many and they are all the same.

The problem is the Celtic Tiger, Landrover Sport driving, big nosed, curtain twitching, cheap suit donning, bragging, toupe wearing bastards in the middle of the spectrum.

joe stodge · 21-06-2013 01:57PM

Recently ran into a neighbor of mine who said "I wouldn't lower myself to shopping in Lidl, it's for foreigners and people in the dole." In Lidl, uppity fuçking bítch.

**Vai** · 21-06-2013 01:58PM

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Meh, the vast majority of people can be a bit particular about stuff like that. You'd rarely see someone over 18 turn up to a BBQ with 6 Dutch Gold in their hands despite the fact it is no worse than Heineken or Budweiser in taste and is half the price.

30 and Prazsky instead of Dutch Gold

Cody Pomeray · 21-06-2013 01:58PM

The people who are exhibiting this type of behaviour usually have serious self-esteem issues or, to put this delicately, are over-compensating for something in their background. Genuinely rich people are usually the least 'snobbish' of all.

kylith · 21-06-2013 01:59PM

FutureGuy wrote: »

A woman was passing me with two greyhound-like dogs. She was dressed like Mrs. Bouquet.

As they passed, I turned to the gf and said "those are beautiful greyhounds."

The woman turned, snorted and said in an angry tone "they are Silken Windhounds. You would do well to know the difference".

If you see her again call them Lurchers. It'll really piss her off.

bumper234 · 21-06-2013 02:04PM

**Vai** wrote: »

30 and Prazsky instead of Dutch Gold

Nahhhhhhh

Lidl do cans of excelsior (can looks like carling) for 89 cents each tasty on a hot day i tells ya.

CHEERS:D

**Vai** · 21-06-2013 02:05PM

bumper234 wrote: »

Nahhhhhhh

Lidl do cans of excelsior (can looks like carling) for 89 cents each tasty on a hot day i tells ya.

CHEERS:D

Im feeling all posh now with my 4 cans for a fiver

Snobs, and their lack of breeding: what's your worst experience?

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