Are you a snob?

o1s1n

Smellyirishman wrote:

0 on the test.

The rest of you are so inferior; I spit on you ('cept that one guy that got 0 too).

You'd have sex with someone who did jail time? You disgust me

Smellyirishman

o1s1n wrote:

You'd have sex with someone who did jail time? You disgust me

Oh, I'm sorry, I don't talk to snobs.

Backtoblack

o1s1n wrote:

*phew* now that I have your approval, I can go back to enjoying my hoods. For a second there, I thought I was going to have to throw them all out

No no.. rest easy in your little hoodie!

Rb

Backtoblack wrote:

Thank you for gracing us with that... although "not a great test" is something of an understatement.
(queue sarcasim)>>>>>>
Maybe given more time you will have more patience with the rest of us and feel less superior.
I bow before you... eh right.
:eek:

What?

o1s1n

Smellyirishman wrote:

Oh, I'm sorry, I don't talk to snobs.

Well good, because I don't associate with criminal lovers

The Corinthian

Lil Kitten wrote:

This country has class systems now? haha. Delusions of grandeur.

Actually most, if not all Societies, tend to form class systems – even if those systems are often laughable to outsiders. Ireland’s long had a class system which typically apes the British one, for example.

Ironically, even your own disdainful dismissal of the idea of class systems actually has all the hallmarks of... well, snobbery.

Backtoblack

rb_ie wrote:

What?

That's the way your post came across to me anyway.
Sorry about that.

Catari Jaguar

The Corinthian wrote:

Actually most, if not all Societies, tend to form class systems – even if those systems are often laughable to outsiders. Ireland’s long had a class system which typically apes the British one, for example.

Ironically, even your own disdainful dismissal of the idea of class systems actually has all the hallmarks of... well, snobbery.

I just pointing out the fact that this little country has lost the run of itself. Ok, so we were bottom class when "taken over" by the British. We're still so insecure about that that now that we have a bit of cash we make our own class systems to keep up with the Jones and look down on each other to feel secure. We were all in the same boat til VERY recently. Look at anyones history, prob potato farmers, spalpeens or tinkers and they have the temerity and sheer CHEEK to look down on people?? Based on what? "I have a BMW and go skiing in Switzerland and shop in BT2"? hahaha.

At least their ancestors were prob decent, hard working honest people, that are probably rolling in their graves at what has become of these selfish, snotty nosed, pretentious Irish idiots of today. I am embarrassed to be among them.

Sad, pathetic country that need to cop on and grow up.

Class systems are idiotic. Money and possessions do not make the man.

Sparky

I was called a waterfall snob onetime.
Then I was called a car snob!


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snickerpuss

I'm about as snobby as someone from Coolock can be. (IE: not very)

o1s1n

Drove through there recently. You really do all try and outdo each other with Christmas decorations. What's that about?!

Sofaspud

o1s1n wrote:

Drove through there recently. You really do all try and outdo each other with Christmas decorations. What's that about?!

"keeping up with the Joneses"

It's snobbery

o1s1n

"Pff, they only have two reindeer flashing statues, we have eight!"
"yeah, feckin losers"

The Corinthian

Lil Kitten wrote:

We're still so insecure about that that now that we have a bit of cash we make our own class systems to keep up with the Jones and look down on each other to feel secure.

That’s not exactly the same as a class system though. A class system tends to be defined not only by the material but also by a subculture – someone is of a class because they will tend to have certain attitudes, interests and outlooks. A classic example is university education; with the middle classes being obsessed with it, the lower rejecting it and the upper classes generally being ambivalent.

What you’re describing are the nouvelle riche who are originally either lower or middle class and are, in a ham-fisted fashion, attempting to buy their way into a higher class. They won’t of course, but their offspring will grow up adopting the attitudes of the new class and so they will.

That’s how it works. In reverse, an impoverished duke is still a duke, but unable to educate his offspring to the level he was they’ll end up ‘slumming it’ with the hoi polloi. They may eventually inherit a title, but you’d never have guessed it with the accents they’ll have.

And that’s what appears to be happening at present, although whether the newfound wealth of the Irish new rich lasts long enough to place their descendants up the ladder is another matter.

netwhizkid

I consider myself a Snob and sometimes it can't be helped. I drive a nice car and hang out with nice people and do like to boast alot. When in a an unknown social situation I feel comfortable in the fact that I can talk the talk and there is almost an unwritten club that all my peers are part of. Brandy and Cigar's plus the world of Business, Wealth & Politics.

I do try and fit in with the average person and I back the working mans politics very much so, I am in essence an upper middle class wealthy snob with too much time and money on my hands and I promote the social ideals of the common man. What would other view me as from my 2,000+ postings here?

Dudess

But I think people are confusing disliking scumbags with snobbery. That's not snobbery - it's completely understandable. A lot of people appear quite hard on themselves by saying that they do consider themselves snobs because they don't like knackers (as in, scumbags). Only very idiotic people would dislike those who don't have money and live in a council estate but are decent people.

Backtoblack

netwhizkid wrote:

I consider myself a Snob and sometimes it can't be helped. I drive a nice car and hang out with nice people and do like to boast alot. When in a an unknown social situation I feel comfortable in the fact that I can talk the talk and there is almost an unwritten club that all my peers are part of. Brandy and Cigar's plus the world of Business, Wealth & Politics.

I do try and fit in with the average person and I back the working mans politics very much so, I am in essence an upper middle class wealthy snob with too much time and money on my hands and I promote the social ideals of the common man. What would other view me as from my 2,000+ postings here?

Ye have cigars and brandy down in Kerry now do ye??
I thought it was rollies and potin ye were reared on!! :rolleyes:

netwhizkid

Backtoblack wrote:

Ye have cigars and brandy down in Kerry now do ye??
I thought it was rollies and potin ye were reared on!! :rolleyes:

That sounds like Snob talk to me so it does

Dudess

Backtoblack: It's irony, dude... at least I think it is?

Backtoblack

netwhizkid wrote:

That sounds like Snob talk to me so it does

nah.... I'm from Cork!!



(Nice post!)

Matthewthebig

netwhizkid wrote:

I consider myself a Snob and sometimes it can't be helped. I drive a nice car and hang out with nice people and do like to boast alot. When in a an unknown social situation I feel comfortable in the fact that I can talk the talk and there is almost an unwritten club that all my peers are part of. Brandy and Cigar's plus the world of Business, Wealth & Politics.

I do try and fit in with the average person and I back the working mans politics very much so, I am in essence an upper middle class wealthy snob with too much time and money on my hands and I promote the social ideals of the common man. What would other view me as from my 2,000+ postings here?

You yet again prove yourself

Backtoblack

Dudess wrote:

Backtoblack: It's irony, dude... at least I think it is?

He/she is from kerry... its bull!!!!

(just messing with the kerry dude)

Smellyirishman

Dudess wrote:

Backtoblack: It's irony, dude... at least I think it is?

BtB is a Dudess, much like yourself. Unless you were being ironic?

brianthebard

Dudess wrote:

But I think people are confusing disliking scumbags with snobbery. That's not snobbery - it's completely understandable. A lot of people appear quite hard on themselves by saying that they do consider themselves snobs because they don't like knackers (as in, scumbags). Only very idiotic people would dislike those who don't have money and live in a council estate but are decent people.

So its ok to hate then?? great. I hate people who hate people....

InFront

Ha! I've endured far too many minimum wage jobs in my time and am too reliant on public transport to ever consider myself a snob. And I hope it stays that way.

I'm no psychologist, but do know some people whose snobbery would (at least appear) to be a manifestation of some sort of personal insecurity. I just don't see the point in it, at the end of the day we're all just naked bags of bones with personality attached.

A snobby personality isn't necessarily a bad one, but it does seem completely futile. Regardless of how much we wish it to be so, and even if it is a cliché, bank balance or postal code is really not going to mean anything for your personality whatever way you look at it.

Geek Nose

netwhizkid wrote:

I consider myself a Snob and sometimes it can't be helped. I drive a nice car and hang out with nice people and do like to boast alot. When in a an unknown social situation I feel comfortable in the fact that I can talk the talk and there is almost an unwritten club that all my peers are part of. Brandy and Cigar's plus the world of Business, Wealth & Politics.

I do try and fit in with the average person and I back the working mans politics very much so, I am in essence an upper middle class wealthy snob with too much time and money on my hands and I promote the social ideals of the common man. What would other view me as from my 2,000+ postings here?

lol - I actually believed you for a sec, and then I read you were from Kerry. Boggers can't be snobs - they are the brunt of real snobs everywhere! Ah, bless...

JC 2K3

Oh I don't know, am I a snob? Am I an elitist wánker?

Truth be told, deep down I do feel I am superior to others, but I never show it. I stand firmly on my point of view on things, however.

I consider myself more inteligent than most of the population, and I have my Mensa IQ cert that says I have achieved within the top 1% of the population in terms of IQ with a score of 156, which proves that at least I'm very good at IQ tests.

But it's not like I act on it. When I was younger I became a bit of a recluse because of my snobbish attitude towards other people's intelligence. Now however, I don't dismiss people as easily. I do believe there are a lot of deluded people brainwashed by things such as religion, consumerism/advertising, politics etc. in Ireland right now and this breeds snobbery and needless societal divisions. Might I be so harsh as to say that people obsessed with being something or conforming to some idea, by obsessing over the clothes they wear and the car they drive suiting their image are a waste of potentially creative and intriguing minds? Basically this whole country needs a reality check. When talking to certain people I sometimes want to attack them for their attitudes, but rarely do, unless the topic comes up of course. You can look at my rantings in the Abercrombie topic in F&A for an example of one of those rare times.

I rambled on a bit there, yeah... Am I a snob?

Backtoblack

JC 2K3 wrote:

Oh I don't know, am I a snob? Am I an elitist wánker?

Truth be told, deep down I do feel I am superior to others, but I never show it. I stand firmly on my point of view on things, however.

I consider myself more inteligent than most of the population, and I have my Mensa IQ cert that says I have achieved within the top 1% of the population in terms of IQ with a score of 156, which proves that at least I'm very good at IQ tests.

But it's not like I act on it. When I was younger I became a bit of a recluse because of my snobbish attitude towards other people's intelligence. Now however, I don't dismiss people as easily. I do believe there are a lot of deluded people brainwashed by things such as religion, consumerism/advertising, politics etc. in Ireland right now and this breeds snobbery and needless societal divisions. Might I be so harsh as to say that people obsessed with being something or conforming to some idea, by obsessing over the clothes they wear and the car they drive suiting their image are a waste of potentially creative and intriguing minds? Basically this whole country needs a reality check. When talking to certain people I sometimes want to attack them for their attitudes, but rarely do, unless the topic comes up of course. You can look at my rantings in the Abercrombie topic in F&A for an example of one of those rare times.

I rambled on a bit there, yeah... Am I a snob?

I DEMAND TO BE TESTED BY MENSA!!!!
I DEMAND TO BE ABLE TO SPOUT OFF TO BOARDIES AND RANDOM STRANGERS ON THE STREET THAT I AM CLASSED IN THE TOP 1% OF INTELLECTUALS IN THE WORLD.
I INSIST ON KNOWING AND HAVING MY EXTRAORDINARY IQ CERTIFIED AND BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED ON HEAVY EXPENSIVE CREAM FABULOUS QUALITY PAPER WITH GOLD ENGRAVING -THE WORKS!!!!
DO YOU HEAR ME MENSA???? HUH?????

Yes you are a snob of the highest order Jc 2k3!!!

cournioni

I look down on everybody. I am great.

bug

I am a snob about certain things, unfortunately I inherited it from my mother.
I'm of average academic intellect so its not about any superiority complex, more about social interaction and how people behave with one another.
But I do remind myself to get over it alot.

Pighead

Pigheads a complete and utter snob. For me After Hours is the Vintage Wine of boards while The Cuckoos Nest is out of date Own Brand diluted orange.

If a Cuckoos Nest regular pops into an After Hours thread I will almost always visit the bathroom and wash my fingertips. They're filthy scum and shouldn't be allowed out of the nest.

pbsuxok1znja4r

I guess I'm a snob. Only to peons who are lower than me, though..

Pighead

scouser.tommy wrote:

I guess I'm a snob. Only to peons who are lower than me, though..

No offense scouser.tommy but with a name like yours, you're about as snobby as Pighead is ugly. And considering Pighead won "Best Looking and most Dead on Person of the Year in Co Louth" award 7 years running that leaves you royally fcuked.

Talliesin

Snobbery is essentially about being able to pick a few items that are relatively quantifiable (what title one has and what school one went to being the traditional favourites though the modern favourites of how much one has in the bank and ones level of education were always popular choices) and then pinning more on them than they truly warrant in an attempt to make bolster low self-esteem by being able to "prove" that one is a worth-while person. The irony is of course that not only does it prove no such thing, but it also makes people less worthwhile human beings and reduces the value of those claims that they were basing their snobbery on (its easy to bring down a snobby baron or millionaire by putting them in the company of a count or multi-millionaire that isn't snobby).

Even more pathetic of course are wannabe snobs that base their claims on either things they don't understand (Victoria Beckham rejoicing that she's now working in fashion and it's "something she's good at") or which are simply not true (the source of most of the plot of vaguely amusing sit-com "Keeping Up Appearances). The Internet is of course full of these. Many make their claims relatively hard to disprove (claims about their degree of wealth, sexual experience, adventurous lifestyle etc.) and one has to rely on their boring repetition of these "facts" and continual lack of insight to spot them, but many are quite funny (why do people think that if they try to impress by claiming to be a real whizz with computers they won't get caught out - do they think that all the people who really are knowledgeable in computing matters don't use the Internet?).

Terry

I look down on some people but i don't look up to others. i suppose that makes me a snob of sorts.
mind you, i live in a council house (and proud of it) and am doing a FÁS course, so i can't really be that much of a snob.
I don't really give a damn either way. i'm popeye. i am what i am.

Sangre

Typical lower class moaning about 'snobs'. Waaah.

Giblet

rb_ie wrote:

I won't lie. Ask Giblet.

He's just not very bright

Dudess

Pighead wrote:

you're about as snobby as Pighead is ugly. And considering Pighead won "Best Looking and most Dead on Person of the Year in Co Louth" award 7 years running that leaves you royally fcuked.

I knew you were hot... *swoons*

Rb

Giblet wrote:

He's just not very bright

Now now Giblet, we both know that is a lie.

Chucky the tree

i got a 0, what a **** quiz.

Tar.Aldarion

I got 20, um, how is that quiz about snobbery?

Sad Professor

Snobby towards people because of wealth or social status? Not at all. But then I come from a working class family and area and it's only in the last 6 years that I've somehow found myself out here amongst these bourgeois-latte-SUV types. I work in a supermarket and deal with them all the time and TBH some of them are quite despicable.

I'm very snobby, however, when it comes to taste in music, films, tv. And I frequently turn my nose up at people for reading certain newspapers

smallpaws

I think the only group I am consistenly snobby against are rich people who for some bizarre reason, wish to live and act like what they imagine to be 'native' or 'poor' people here in Maine. WFT. (They buy every single thing made by LL BEans, J Crew and Lands End as if WE do ,too. We don't. We buy what's on frigging sale, we're POOR.)
If I were rich I'd probably go mental with greed and have gold plated knickers, FFS and diamonds on on my eyeglasses, eat my dinner off the butler's ass and whatever else it is people with more money than sense do.I'd also buy LL Bean just to shut it fcukin down and stop the madness.

I frickin HATE being poor! The rich people I know in my hometown are weird and deserve my derision. I remember seeing one accountant in my hometown walking down mainstreet, shaking his head in wonder. He said, "Jesus Christ,I can't belive I just saw my biggest client selling cabbages off the back of his truck in the town parking lot."

PS: Also, I am an artist, the only people I demand ALL money from up front are wealthy. They are by far the cheapest bastards around and have no trouble trying to evade paying for as long as possible. Snobby of me, yeah, but hey...tough cookies. Life isn't fair.
Rich pricks.

smallpaws

Oh yeah! I'm a chocolate snob , too, after travelling to Ireland and trying the Irish and Belgian choccies. The American stuff is like some kind of horrid mutation. I honestly don't know why the big US companies stay in business, it' s swill compared to the real thing you guys have.
Beer, too. I'm not a big drinker at all, but the few times I do have a beer, it's got to be Stella Artois, Budvar or Bohemia. Love 'em. American beer is shockingly bad.

Backtoblack

Sad Professor wrote:

Snobby towards people because of wealth or social status? Not at all. But then I come from a working class family and area and it's only in the last 6 years that I've somehow found myself out here amongst these bourgeois-latte-SUV types. I work in a supermarket and deal with them all the time and TBH some of them are quite despicable.

I'm very snobby, however, when it comes to taste in music, films, tv. And I frequently turn my nose up at people for reading certain newspapers

Same as that on the newspaper front!!
& despicable is a good descriptive word too!!

The Hill Billy

This thread is sooooo common!

connundrum

Can one be a snob in the reverse? I don't think so, as if I were from a lower class and felt that I was being snobby towards a person of a higher class then I would probably be considered as being jealous - yes?

Well I don't think I'm being jealous in when I choose to look down upon 80% of the 'higher classes'. I'd rather be where I am instead of where they are, so thats that.

What word would I use for that then?

:cool:

Nalz

vermont wrote:

I'm a reverse snob: I look down on pretentious gits who spend all their time banging on about property and cars... and let me tell ya, there are many...

Gimme a pavee any day :-)

Im totally absolutely 101% in agreement with you my dear man...fantastic post Fintin

Miss Fluff

connundrum wrote:

Can one be a snob in the reverse? I don't think so, as if I were from a lower class and felt that I was being snobby towards a person of a higher class then I would probably be considered as being jealous - yes?

Well I don't think I'm being jealous in when I choose to look down upon 80% of the 'higher classes'. I'd rather be where I am instead of where they are, so thats that.

What word would I use for that then?

:cool:

Reverse snobbery. An awful lot of it in this country imo

Mossy Monk

****ty Test wrote:

Way to go! You don't appear to have a snobby bone in your body. Your answers on the test show that you are generally laidback, open-minded and down-to-earth. You try not to judge others based on superficial outer qualities like their car, clothes or bank account. Either you are the type of person who likes EVERYONE, or you have your own measures of whether someone is worthy of your respect; chances are you look beyond the surface and judge people on their character and inner worth. This attitude surely brings a lot of interesting people and experiences into your life and allows you to develop real, quality relationships. The world needs more people with this perspective!

its true