As I was walking to work today I saw someone who looked to be approximately my age smoking out of an old fashioned wooden pipe. He was hustling to work just like everybody else and smoking out of a pipe seemed like no big deal to him. “What a douchebag,” I thought. Yes, that may seem harsh, but it got me thinking about people who only do stuff that meet certain requirements they’ve set for themselves. Snobs, if you will. But not snobs in normal everyday life, just snobs about certain things. Examples I’ve heard in the past include:
1. Only being able to drink Starbucks and refusing anything else. Really? Dunkin Donuts coffee is delicious, stop being so elitist!
2. Refusing to go to a movie theater that doesn’t have stadium seating. Oh really, you want to drive half an hour longer to a more crowded theater and pay double the price just so you can have your precious seat?
3. Only eating sushi that is imported overnight directly from Japan. Okay, no, I haven’t really met anyone like that, but I have met people that don’t like going to a certain type of restaurant because surely it isn’t as good as what they’ve had elsewhere.
4. It’s dijon or nothing!!! I’m half kidding about this last one, put your pitchforks away.
Let’s not beat around the bush, these people are snobs. These people didn’t start out in this world any different from you and me, but they’ve conditioned themselves to only like things a certain way. I can’t be certain that the guy I saw smoking out of the pipe is one of these people (“Oh, silly child! Cigarettes are so plebeian!”) but it got the big red playground ball in the brain rolling. I tried to think of things that I can be snobby about and — not to sound all high and mighty (“snobby”, one might say) — but i really couldn’t think of any. I was joking the other day with my parents about how I could hardly make out what was happening on their television screens since their DVD players were so blurry compared to my blu-ray, but obviously I was joking and haven’t reached that level of snobbery yet. I almost never turn down going to a movie or going out to dinner due to what we’re eating or seeing, and if those decisions haven’t been made yet, I usually leave it up to the other people to decide because I really don’t give a damn.
That brings me to the question of the day. What are you snobby about? Or if you’re perfect like me (yeah right, no one is as perfect as me) what other snobbish habits have you come across with other people?
Oh, many of my best friends live in the suburbs, Michelle
Justin: Soda, juice, milk, bottled water, beer.
Snobs are fucking assholes. It’s one thing to constantly be annoyed with dumboz who talk about shit they don’t know [ie Enrico and I mad @ morons who talk shit about certain kinds of music without actually taking the time to experience it] but to just act better than everyone else is obnox.
Also, most snobz have a lot of money (thus fueling their snobbery) and it makes me depresso espresso that such pretentious bungholez get mad dinero when I can’t even afford to eat!
Side Note: Enrico and I just got back from Subway where we shared a foot-long sub filled with air and our own tears. Mmmm!
I am a huge alcohol snob; Coors and Budweiser are NOT acceptable alternatives to real beer, store brand gin is NOT acceptable, I don’t care if you are just using it as a mixer, put that $5 bottle of wine back in the discount bin and just walk away… You get the idea
Oh, and I totally used to smoke a pipe, but for me it was more about the flavor of the pipe tobacco vs. cigarettes (plus you don’t inhale pipe smoke so you can totally pretend that you are not doing something vile and damaging to your body)
And I completely agree with Mikkaoellion; I will spend $$$ on quality goods rather than cheap discount stuff. It just makes good sense; if I spend >$200 on a pair of shoes that last me ten years (yes, I do have such a pair) vs a $25 pair that I have to replace next year I am coming out ahead.
I don’t think I am a snob about much, though I do have certain preferences. I prefer canned Coke to canned Pepsi, though I don’t seem to care much about the brand at restaurants because it often tastes rather different from the canned formulations anyway.
I am not a big fan of public movie theaters, because the public is annoying. I much prefer to watch movies in private on a nice big HD TV not surrounded by obnoxious jerk-offs or crying babies.
I tend to favor function over form, so there are usually good reasons for my preferences. I am more practical than snobby, I think.
I cannot watch sandra bullock movies. She is not an interesting or good enough actress for me to sit through. She is too mainstream and I just cant do it.
Now THAT’S good snobbery!