Have You Come Accross Snobbery In Your Life?

[TWR]

How did you handle it?

[douglas9401]

I have my valet send the offender a stern note.

[ummmm]

Depends on how it's displayed.

[GenuineclAss]

Yes, my sister, who thinks I should be a different person in front of people she wants to impress. I'd rather be myself, then people know what they're getting and not a phony ar-slicker!

[waterboatman]

Try the Armed Forces for snobbery!

[Jackdaw33]

I don't think it's any way near as bad as it once was. The worst were the very junior officers.

[waterboatman]

Correct jack!

[Old_Geezer]

Not come across snobbery, but I do seem surrounded by the riff raff from time to time.

[GenuineclAss]

I can tell that's true from looking at your avatar, Old_Geezer!

[Jackdaw33]

Also, many of those commissioned from the ranks were a bit full of themselves. I found that once people reached the rank of major or equivalent they were far more civilised.

[Sqad]

I presume that you don't include "being told what to do" as snobbery?
I have the feeling gleaned from over the years, that some folks, particularly "working class" do not like to be given instructions and may look upon this as ..."snobbery." I don't.
Yes, I have come across what might be defined as snobbery,but it has never bothered me at all.......I find it rather.......quaint, British and I rather like the concept.
Some people are BETTER than others....better, educated, better manners, better dressed......so get used to it.

[mikey4444]

Yes, all the time. A wife of a friend used to shop at Tesco, but transfer all the stuff into Sainsburys carrier bags, so that nobody would see here take them out and walk up her drive into the house !

I have a sister-in-law that won't shop in Lidl, in case she is recognised by anyone there !

[-SharonA-]

There is a difference between snobbery and trying to better yourself.

[Jackdaw33]

A teaching colleague would only use a Harrod's carrier bag.

[jno]

there's nobody in Lidl but oiks, mikey, who on earth would recognise her? Unless she has secretly chavvy friends who shop in their pyjamas.

[horselady]

There's a woman near me who gets incensed when a delivery comes into her road from Sainsbury or Tesco. Only Occado or Waitrose is acceptable, thought she was joking when she complained about it in the pub so I laughed, that was wrong too :-))

[ummmm]

Lol, jno :-)

I think there's a bit of snobbery in all of us.

[andy-hughes]

I'm not a snob myself, ask anyone ... well, anyone who matters ...

[mikey4444]

jno...."chavvy friends who shop in their pyjamas" ?

That is Tesco surely ?

[jno]

black tie for Waitrose, smart casual for Tesco, pyjamas for Lidl.

[Peter Pedant]

I am not sure I know what snobbery is in this day and age (compared to the fifties and sixties)

perhaps there are no upperclass people in Manch
just the usual unwashed oiks in clawth caps