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wayneL

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Leading on from the Slummy Mummy - Yummy Mummy etc thread. Are you a snob or and anti-snob.

We all know broke people who spend up on tick to look rich and act like their S**t don't stink. We also all know people with boxes of money lying around the house who get around unadorned in tracky pants and thongs... and all points in between.

No matter what their wealth, people try to be snobs or anti-snobs. So what are you lot?

WayneL is a committed anti-snob. I manage to look like an out of work artist no matter how much money I have. I hate snobs.

Trivia:

The word "snob" came from Cambridge and Oxford universities. These institutions were once only open to aristocracy. When the unis were opened to "commoners", they were signified with the words "sine nobilitate", which means "without nobility".

This was eventually shortened to "s. nob.". Then snob.

So a snob was originally a low brow and looked down upon by the aristocrats.

But of course the snobs likewise looked down upon the uneducated, hence the meaning gradually changed to the present meaning... one who is offended by those of lower status. :rolleyes:
 
Neither. I don't feel any need to 'make an impression' on other people, either positively or negatively.
 
I dress exactly how I want to. I follow no trends at all, not 'cause I've made a "thing" about it, but simply because trend following seems really silly.

I've worn Ray Ban aviators since forever. I wear hiking boots everywhere I go, and I play sax in a jazz band. I wear trakkies if I feel like it, and I have no need for fleeting and vapid concepts.

People should be whoever they are and stop competing with each other and become all rugged and individual .......... like me.
 
Should have made it clearer. The last two posts epitomize anti-snob to me. Rejection of the whole concept of class and levels of society.

Don't look up to anyone, but don't look down on anyone either... on the basis of class or whatever.
 
I'm a snob.

Can't help it. Grew up poor as a church mouse with my ass hanging out of my undies in housing commission. Those people have no aspirations.

I'm like Gwen from Michael Gow's Away.

Went shopping the other day in a poor suburb and realised, again, that I was a snob.

Also, I don't like my wife in tracksuit pants. Sorry. Not any time of the day or night.

Having said all that, we buy clothes two times per year (at Boxing Day and June Sales) and I only buy decent threads for work. I drive a 1999 Toyota Camry and have no intention of changing.

I don't aspire to be like those above me. But, I don't like those beneath me.

Im sorry, but that's just the way it is.

Brad
 
Hey nun, I have read some of your concerns about the meaning of the word bogan. Maybe it is different here in SA but the term bogan is used to denote ANYONE who behaves in a particularly tasteless and offensive manner, and they can come from any level in society.

I dont think I am a snob, but I do expect others to behave in at least a reasonable manner to others. But I dont try to impress other people by what I do; actually, on reflection, I never give a hoot what others think of me, I prefer to be a little elusive. But having said that, I would try to never offend people; I like to maintain a reasonable standard of physical apprearance and dress in clean 'street' clothes when out. Which makes me hard to know as I dont always follow the rules of snobbism. Can you tell I am a gemini?
 
I don't really classify or discern between Snob or Anti Snob.

I'd say I'm selective with whom I associate, I tend to avoid those who flaunt overt signs of wealth, similarly I tend to avoid those who are toxic and deceptive.

I am very familiar with some abodes on Hedges and familiar with some who live in Hardie Plank boxes.

It's the quality and the substance of the person that's important to me.

Don't know if this makes me a snob.

The happiest people I've seen have been those who 'owned' the least, but had a fridge full of food, a roof over their heads, looked after their health and had a close circle of friends.
 
Prospector said:
Hey nun, I have read some of your concerns about the meaning of the word bogan. Maybe it is different here in SA but the term bogan is used to denote ANYONE who behaves in a particularly tasteless and offensive manner, and they can come from any level in society.




Can you tell I am a gemini?
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and thats cool with me prospector ......... just not the case in ASF amd the mainstream media etc tho


:D re gemini

beats being a prius :cool:
 
I once spoke to HM the Queen on this very topic.

She hates snobs and has a soft spot for bogans, and even waves like them from cars.

Then again Phil the Greek's parents were bogans. So that may be the reason.

gg
 
wayneL said:
Don't look up to anyone, but don't look down on anyone either... on the basis of class or whatever.
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how about on the basis of effort, knowledge, manners, respect, self-improvement, contribution or common decency?

guilty of snobbery on all counts your honour

i agree with snobbery based on superficial aspects being lame, but with regards to being a productive, positive contributor to society, (or at least attempting to be), then i definately categorise people into "classes". when i walk past a dishevelled 20 something begging for change in the middle of the CBD its snob overdrive.
 
I'm a snob.

I look down on people with poor table manners, who don't cut their nails, who don't appreciate a wine, who think bourbon is good stuff, who wear tracksuits down the street, who never watch ABC, who think Disneyland is the pinnacle reason to travel, who wear labels so people can see who ripped them off, who don't appreciate good food, who think if you go to see a stage play you must be gay, who think Asian food is disgusting, who think celebrities are someone worth talking about.

Sorry Wayne, if I invited you round and you came in looking like Michael Moore, I wouldn't be impressed.

I could go on and on.

K22
 
Have to say im a bit of a snob. I try not to be, but at times certain things just get to me and i find myself shaking my head at people. Most of my opinions are based on peoples work ethic and respect for themselves. Im someone is prepared to 'have a go' and do something with their life then im more than happy to talk/associate/etc with them, but if they are a perpetual whinger than i dont have time for them.
 
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