Pud78
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Joined: 4/23/2009
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 6:46:21 AM | I am fairly down to earth and easy going and wouldn't say that I turn my nose up at anything, well nearly!
I am a snob about tea, I hate cheap crappy tea and will refuse to drink up, not to the point of being rude but will avoid at all costs. PG Tips being the best.
Is there anything that you are a snob about? is there something that you could not lower your standards on? like accommodation on holiday.
Do you consider it being a snob or just having high standards. | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 6:51:12 AM | I am a snob about tea, I hate cheap crappy tea and will refuse to drink up, not to the point of being rude but will avoid at all costs. PG Tips being the best.
I actually disagree, Yorkshire Tea or Twinning's lemon tea is by far better. I am a big tea drinker and agree the crappy supermarket own and cheap sh*t is just that sh*t. I am a snob about music, food, drink, drugs, decurum, women who swear - it really bugs me when women swear. It maybe old fashioned but swearing is not lady like and I hate women who swear like no tomorrow..
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 6:51:35 AM | im high maintenance when it comes to holidays
i dnt want cheap n cheerful ive worked hard all yr i want all inclusive everything laid on 5 star luxury | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 6:54:32 AM | | Lazy written English. I also find women who fart during oral sex tend to be somewhat uncouth. | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 6:54:36 AM | | not much realy..except table manners..i was in a cafe yesterday and a gang of chavs were in there..they had just finished there meals and then they all started burping and farting out loud..etc..there was women and kids in there as well..it just wasnt on..being a working class bloke i can tolerate most things..but that type of carry on is well out of order.. | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 6:55:20 AM | Loo rolls............can't deal with that cheap crap (scuse the pun!)
Coffee...........cheap stuff tastes synthetic and nasty
I'm a bit of a snob about lots of things along those lines, but definately my biggest bugbear is grammar and spelling, I seriously cannot tolerate and don't have time for people who can't string a sentence together.  | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 6:57:43 AM | Would not call it snobbery just high standards and a taste for better things.
Personally I feel why be labelled as a snob when you prefer the better things in life even on a budget. For instance Pasatta i only buy from marks and sparks as it seriously is deliciously tasty along with their prepacked fresh fruit, which i am terribly picky about along with eggs, I refuse to buy battery hen eggs and will only buy organic and not from barn kept chickens along with my fresh chicken only organic just tastes better and i can live with my conscience as i am an animal lover by heart. I prefer buying organic wherever i can. My milk Cravendale yummy much creamier and i never buy fruitjuices containing concentrate, oh the list could go on... And my bread hate plastic bread yuck yuck yuck
I just think it is down to personal taste and standards and has nothing to do with snobbery but am definately with you on the tea issue although you know when you go for breakfast at a greasy spoon why is their tea always so nice?
OK i am a snob!!! | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 7:02:10 AM | | I'm not a snob about holidays i'm very eclectic, in august i'm off to Cornwall for a week in a caravan then in october i'm doing a week on the new Cunard Queen Victoria, both very different experiences but both my kind of holiday, damp caravan or ocean liner...i'm happy. | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 7:02:40 AM |
but am definately with you on the tea issue although you know when you go for breakfast at a greasy spoon why is their tea always so nice?
I personally disagree, as I like my tea either black or with very little milk and the cafe's always gives me a milky tea when I state strong tea. But then again strong or black tea is good for you, just ashame I have 2 sugars - which has to be brown sugar :O) | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 7:03:22 AM | MSG 7
I used to have as customers two of the biggest fruit & veg 'companies' in the UK. Both said that their fussiest most demanding customers were ALDI and Lidl. These also tend to be the best places to buy processed meats as they abide by German purity laws. M&S is generally very overpriced and anything they do, Waitrose typically does as well or better | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 7:04:45 AM |
Lazy written English. I also find women who fart during oral sex tend to be somewhat uncouth.
i can see i'm on a hiding to nothing today!  | |
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tm1971
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Joined: 5/22/2009
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 7:07:40 AM | I disagree with you on marks and sparks cornucopia - they have lowered their prices dramatically except on their meat.
I like Lidl's their fruit and veg are very fresh. | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 7:09:04 AM | Well if having good taste makes me a 'snob' then I'll gladly wear the hat. Twinings tea is by far the best though.....served in bone china cups of course! 
is there something that you could not lower your standards on? like accommodation on holiday.
I could never lower myself to drink PG Tips! | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 7:09:58 AM |
I used to have as customers two of the biggest fruit & veg 'companies' in the UK. Both said that their fussiest most demanding customers were ALDI and Lidl.
I agree and it is no actual surprise the former UK MD of Lidl is now Chief Ex of Morrison's, which I believe buys produce and meat from selected farms and unlike competitors buys the whole of the product from the farms. I think that is pretty much a German idea to lower labour and production costs.
I do shop at Morrison's as the food is good and the service is okay. As Morrison's is run in the German mould it is now 2nd I believe in the UK market share. I do quite like their "The Best" range of ready meals, whilst at work and their "The Best" sausages. Which for many years I would only buy from a traditional butcher. | |
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Joe1uk
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Joined: 4/21/2009
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 7:11:02 AM | | I'm not snobby at all, I just get the best I can on a budget. I prefer pg tips or Yorkshire. I prefer andrex but if I didn't have the cash and I haven't in the past I've made do with cheap stuff till I got flush again. Holidays, I've never been abroad, never wanted to and never seen the need to go five star in uk , I'm happy in a caravan , or even a tent now although some say the tent was a 5 star tent. I would like to go abroad now though , widen my horizons but I wouldn't need to go 5 star. I can't think of anything that I couldn't make do with being a cheaper version. | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 8:08:31 AM | i dont like cheap loo roll i love the quilted andrex stuff
has to be nescafe coffee even as a struggling student i couldnt drink own brand coffees
and i shop at lidls and aldi a lot as i prefer contintental style food its good value and fresh | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 8:22:57 AM | Yes, along with a few others by the look of things, it has to be tea!
I can't stand it when a cup of tea is made with a teabag in a cup. For me it has to be in a decent china teapot, properly warmed beforehand and left to brew for a few minutes.
Luvverly!! | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 8:37:09 AM | Only things im snobby about is drink and music lol i can be sometimes about food, only because im sure i can cook better then most.
aldi and lidl are excellent places to shop, because german rules are much stricter then ours. Take for example most german sausages have a high meat content, 70% i think? Where some british sausages have half that amount. | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 8:40:03 AM | Yes I'm a snob about men who turn up for a meet / date wearing trainers......
Other than that I pretty much go with the flow.......... I shop where I can afford to.
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 8:45:49 AM | One thing that really makes my piss boil (don't know if that counts a snobbery) is people who eat with their mouths open.
**** shudders ****. Cats and dogs eating out of a bowl, I can forgive. Someone sat opposite me at a table - never. | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 9:11:27 AM | I am such a snob when it comes to certain things;
Coffee.
I cannot stand instant coffee, even good stuff is a bit crap and I will not tolerate cheap rubbish. I have a very expensive espresso machine, and basically that is all I drink. If offered a coffee by anyone, I refuse as invariably it will be crap and I will be unable to drink it.
For 5 years I was a Vegan, between the ages of 16 and 21, and when you put Soya Milk in coffee it coagulates and forms little worm like things. Tastes fine, but looks revolting. So I started having my coffee black. Only recently I was in a coffee shop with a good friend and as we were ordering I suddenly realised that I didn't have to have an espresso and could drink a cappuccino. It was very nice, and when I am in a coffee shop again I will have my second ever cappuccino, in my life. Or I may even push the boat out and have a latte or something. I feel so liberated.
Whiskey, or Whisky.
Another area where my snobbery prevails. I will not touch a blended Scotch Whisky, and will basically only drink one of the heavyweights of Islay; Laphroaig, Caol Ila, Bunnahabhain, or my personal favourite, Bowmore.
Irish Whiskey has to be a Midleton (preferably an Old Midleton), Green Spot, or a Henry Downes No.9.
Guinness.
After having too many bad pints of Guinness, outside of Ireland I will only drink Guinness in The Toucan on Soho Square.
I have loads and loads of other snobbish traits, such as
music, turning my nose up at anyone who likes anything like Eminem, Steps, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Chris De Burgh, Meatloaf, Bon Jovi (or any American 'hair' rock), Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, S Club 7, Westlife, etc. etc. etc.
I look down on those that like trash culture television, from Big Brother to Pop Idol, X Factor to Britain's Got Talent.
I snear at anyone who considers Pam Ayres to be a poet, the Daily Mail to be a newspaper, or Jeffrey Archer or Jackie Collins to be a writer.
Funnily enough when it comes to possessions like cars and clothes I tend to be a bit of an inverted snob, my ideal car is VW Beetle, with an oval rear window, a mahogany dashboard and a split screen. I admire Mark E Smith for his fashion sense.
When it comes to women, I am about as far from a snob as you can get, I will shag anything! | |
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| Are you a snob about anything?
Posted: 5/31/2009 9:20:23 AM | I can be a snob around how people conduct themselves when they are out in public with me !!
I wont entertain those without social graces or basic social skills. | |
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