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what does sophistication mean to you?

  • 12-11-2014 09:05PM
    #1
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Ordering boiled spuds instead of chips.


  • #3
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Monacles.


  • #4
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Magico Gonzalez wrote: »
    Monacles.

    Nah, thats called being pretentious.


  • #5
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Magico Gonzalez wrote: »
    Monacles.

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


  • #6
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #7
    Aquagakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭Aquagakka


    Magico Gonzalez wrote: »
    Monacles.

    Two men wearing a monocle bumped into one another;

    They made a spectacle of themselves.


  • #8
    Starscream25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Starscream25


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


  • #9
    CINCLANTFLT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭CINCLANTFLT


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


  • #10
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    lufties wrote: »
    Nah, thats called being pretentious.

    How about pocketwatches?


  • #11
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


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


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  • #12
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    Magico Gonzalez wrote: »
    How about pocketwatches?

    Only if it's hanging out of a smoking jacket


  • #15
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    CINCLANTFLT wrote: »
    Wiping your arse from poop hole towards balls and not the more common way...

    Never wipe It forward. Never!


  • #16
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    lufties
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭lufties


    Starscream25 wrote: »
    Graceful, Intelligent, humble, empathetic, good conversationalist, kind natured, maybe successful.

    any examples?


  • #19
    Aquagakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 116 ✭✭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.


  • #20
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    Sauve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    Getting a glassfor your bottle of beer.


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  • #22
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Nothing says sophistication better than this:


  • #23
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Those tuxedo moggies.








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  • #24
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    Cantremember
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    SaveOurLyric
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭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 !


  • #27
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    A tweed cape.


  • #29
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #30
    Starscream25
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #31
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Ferrero Rochers in a big heap on a silver platter


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