Snobbery- many different forms

I love Blue Mountain coffee but hate instant. I love tea and have a preference for Yorkshire tea.
For me it is not about snobishness it is about personnel preference. My friend drinks about 9 cups of instant a day, his choice, we both like what we like.

JaneJudge

The bloody English copying the Welsh cheese! we had a Snowdonia cheese hamper this year, as a treat

😂😂😂
I'll forgive them

Anyway, it was Cheddar - the Welsh copying the people from Zummerzet

Snobs perched at the top of the tree look down on us mere mortals and see clear and curious eyes looking up. We at the bottom look up and all we can see is arseholes.
😂

LauraNorderr

Snobs perched at the top of the tree look down on us mere mortals and see clear and curious eyes looking up. We at the bottom look up and all we can see is arseholes.
😂

🤣🤣🤣

Forlornhope

Grandma70s ‘I’m a bit of a speech snob, but it’s selective. I don’t mind if a garage hand has a regional accent, but I don’t like it if a doctor has. I know that’s irrational, but it’s how I was brought up, I suppose.’

This puzzles me. Do you mean UK regional accents, or world wide regional accents given the rich mix of folk working in the NHS?

I meant UK regional accents. I probably wouldn’t recognise the difference between the regional accents of other countries.

LauraNorderr

Snobs perched at the top of the tree look down on us mere mortals and see clear and curious eyes looking up. We at the bottom look up and all we can see is arseholes.
😂

And me munching my Lidl cheese!

Grandma70s

Forlornhope

Grandma70s ‘I’m a bit of a speech snob, but it’s selective. I don’t mind if a garage hand has a regional accent, but I don’t like it if a doctor has. I know that’s irrational, but it’s how I was brought up, I suppose.’

This puzzles me. Do you mean UK regional accents, or world wide regional accents given the rich mix of folk working in the NHS?

I meant UK regional accents. I probably wouldn’t recognise the difference between the regional accents of other countries.

Oh dear, some of our doctors are Welsh.
🤔

Callistemon21

^The cheeseboard is primarily from Lidl^
sago one of the best cheeses I tasted this Christmas (and for a long time) was a Cheddar from Lidl in black wax; can't remember the name unfortunately.

I know the one! It’s excellent.

Callistemon21

Grandma70s

Forlornhope

Grandma70s ‘I’m a bit of a speech snob, but it’s selective. I don’t mind if a garage hand has a regional accent, but I don’t like it if a doctor has. I know that’s irrational, but it’s how I was brought up, I suppose.’

This puzzles me. Do you mean UK regional accents, or world wide regional accents given the rich mix of folk working in the NHS?

I meant UK regional accents. I probably wouldn’t recognise the difference between the regional accents of other countries.

Oh dear, some of our doctors are Welsh.
🤔

Wales is a country, not a region, so a Welsh accent isn’t a regional one. Perhaps that’s what you were pointing out.

Wales is a country, not a region, so a Welsh accent isn’t a regional one. Perhaps that’s what you were pointing out

No, Wales is a country, as is England.
English accents vary by region and so do Welsh accents.

A person from Pwllheli will have quite a different accent from someone from Newport or Llandrindod Wells for example.

I don’t mind if a garage hand has a regional accent, but I don’t like it if a doctor has. I know that’s irrational, but it’s how I was brought up, I suppose.
I meant UK regional accents.

Wales is, however, part of the UK.

I'm not following it, sorry.

Yes Jane71 - that's definitely hitting the nail on the head.

Thank you Margs

People who take no interest the world outside their home.

Forlornhope are you saying if the only doctor available to give you life saving treatment had a Glasgow accent (or other accent you consider downmarket) ,you would refuse to be treated.Simply because he didn't sound posh enough?
Now that is SNOBBERY of the worst kind.
I thought that attitude was dead and buried !
Surely we accept that people's accents doesn't equate to their intelligence or compassion or competence in their job ?

sorry that was to Grandma70's

Presumably it's just a Scottish accent, paddyann, just like all Welsh accents are, well, just Welsh!!

Well you learn something everyday! I didn’t realise that there were different accents within Wales. So my ancestors from North Wales would have a different accent from the Southern Welsh? Fascinating. I do miss the differences and when I lived in the UK I could pick a few to the e act town. Not so here, though there are slight differences but more in vocabulary than accents. Anyway, I digress and back to snobbery- I used to have a snobby attitude towards females with Tatts but it is so common now it is melting away. I still don’t really like them,though. Two grandchildren have them but at least they are discreet ones.

Yes, I know there are different accents in Wales. I live very near North Wales, wher the accent is quite different from the South Wales one. I am not familiar with the subtleties, though, as I am with English accents.

And OF COURSE I wouldn’t refuse to be treated by a doctor with a regional accent. I never said anything of the sort. But I would notice. Anyone can learn to speak standard English, but people don’t choose to as often as they once did. I think that’s a pity, but I know my view is not fashionable. Standard English, RP, whatever you choose to call it, is clear and comprehensible to all. Regional accents often aren’t.

Tatts? Had to think about that one. At one time it was frowned on to have pierced ears.

You do understand that people LIKE to keep their accents? I for one and I'm sure most folk I know dont want to have a a "standard english " accent or any other accent apart from the one I have which is West of Scotland and that accent hasn't hindered me in any way in life or in business

paddyann54

Forlornhope are you saying if the only doctor available to give you life saving treatment had a Glasgow accent (or other accent you consider downmarket) ,you would refuse to be treated.Simply because he didn't sound posh enough?
Now that is SNOBBERY of the worst kind.
I thought that attitude was dead and buried !
Surely we accept that people's accents doesn't equate to their intelligence or compassion or competence in their job ?

I’m sure you must know their is more than one Glasgow accent paddyann.

On the subject of instant coffee, which brand do people like best?
And which carries the most class? If at all.
Well there is class, status and moral stance.

Grandma70s

My mother was a terrible coffee snob. I’m not. Instant is fine.

Some people would call me a music snob, because I really only like classical, but I don’t think a preference is snobbery.

I’m a bit of a speech snob, but it’s selective. I don’t mind if a garage hand has a regional accent, but I don’t like it if a doctor has. I know that’s irrational, but it’s how I was brought up, I suppose.

That last paragraph…..so much snobbery in there ! 😱

A. Lot of the things mentioned are about quality. It’s your money so you choose. I can’t drink cheap tea it tastes awful, so why not have what I do like? I just like a doctor I can understand.