Snobs: Are they completely out of touch with reality?

[cwathen]

There are few things I find more annoying then snobs. Usually acting under the misguided belief that their highly monied status means they are in fact superior to the mere commoners who they are forced to co-exist with.

As well as finding them annoying, their self-obsessed antics are often mildly amusing (as long as it's not directed at me, in which case it's just annoying).

Where has this come from? Recently I've been watching 'Cruise Ship' on Sky Travel (it's hard not too, with it being scheduled 4 or 5 times a day even though there are only 10 episodes). A scene from episode 8 sticks in my mind particularly as 'funniest incident of a snob making himself look stupid under the belief that he's asserting his superiority that I've seen in a long time'.

The situation is this: a plumbing problem on the ship has made it necessary to move all the passengers off the ship, forcing them to spend a night in a hotel. Although the ship's company are doing their best, quite understandably the passengers are not happy and some Airline-esque footage of pressured staff having to liase with pissed off guests follows.

Then along come the Posh-Gits (no doubt from a very exclusive postcode in...well Slough'll do ). Are they annoyed at having to leave the boat? If they were, they didn't mention it. Does having to spend the night in a hotel bother them? Apparantly not. But are they happy? Of course not. The reason? There's a rumour circulating the ship that the emergency hotel accomodation, which they will be required to spend a good 12 hours in, might only offer 3-star accomodation.

An outraged Mr Posh-Git demands an assurance that himself and his beloved will not be forced to stay in such squalid conditions, as he 'won't degrade [him]self, [he's] never done it'. Furthermore, should the Island Escape attempt to provide such accomodations, he would 'refuse to go' and would 'put on a good coat' and spend the night on the streets.

At this point, Mrs Posh-Git (one of those women that, even with the greatest gentlemanly intent in the world, you just want to slap on sight) adds her two penneth and proclaims that should accomodations fit for royalty not be provided, that 'tomorrow' (when it was allready late evening) the story of their plight would be on 'the front page of all the papers'.

Yeah right, so a 3 star hotel is apparently such a repulsive proposition that sleeping on the streets is preferable, and 'Holiday Horror: Cruise couple offered 3 star hotel' is likely to make the front pages. The front pages of what? The Times? The Independent? I can't even see that getting into the Plymouth Evening Herald, and they run with almost ANYTHING as a cover story.

Are people like this on planet Earth or not? There are times when I wonder.

So, regail us all with your stories of idiotic snobs believing they are something special. Or if you are such a person, why do you feel the need to act with such a misplaced superiority complex, which only causes normal people to think you are stupid?

[Jenny]

You mean nobs, not snobs, don't you? You need to learn it how to talk proper like.

[Anonymous]

In my experience there is only one thing worse than a Rich Snob, its ones that bring in the same regular income as any Working Joe and still act as if they are the queens distant cousin, Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) springs to mind. Anyways, The snobs I have encountered make a mountain out of a molehill, and will complain about anything and everything. One scottish couple not exactly rich if they come to shop in a discount store, I dont know how the man puts up with the woman because I couldnt, they order one case of something from the shop I work at each week and because its only a small shop we dont have excess cases lying around. One week said case didnt arrive, well the uproar she caused asking to see the manager, then the area manager, then asking for the number of the most senior person in the company, who actually happens to be based in Scotland. Few weeks later same lady, did not order a case, but when there were two or three people infront of her in the cue at the checkout with small half filled baskets, and her with her full to the brim trolley, again more uproar because a colleague refused to ask for another cashier because in realilty they really werent needed. Some people really need to get a life or for the sake of the people in the shop where i work, buy their shopping somewhere else.