Are you a Snob?

[Mangrove]

Yes.

I'm snobby about smooth jazz. (Either listen to real jazz or don't bother.)

I'm probably like it about a lot of other things, but this one sticks in my mind.


ETA - I don't think wanting people to be qualified for a job is necessarily snobby or elitist.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

I'm snobby about people whining. I'm like, please, poor you, it's soooo hard to get up and go to your part-time job while Mommy and Daddy pay your rent.

If people gonna bitch, it better be either entertaining, or something I can actually feel sorry for them about.

Oh jesus yes.  I didn't consider that snobby, just intolerance for petty stupid bullshit.  You know, those people who come in to work and sneeze once and have to go home, while you have been puking in your trashcan for two days because you used your sick days with your kids....  You better be fucking dying to whine to me.

YES!

I don't mind petty venting on boards, but if someone's going to take up my time directly and personally, they better make it fucking GOOD.

^ This.

[Luna]

Snob?  Maybe in some ways...  Lobster dinner?  Meh, gimme a steak and a beer...  But it  better be GOOD beer.  

[AFK]

Yes.

I'm snobby about smooth jazz. (Either listen to real jazz or don't bother.)

I'm probably like it about a lot of other things, but this one sticks in my mind.


ETA - I don't think wanting people to be qualified for a job is necessarily snobby or elitist.

Is it okay if I listen to smooth jazz AND real jazz?   

I tend to like mostly the guitar-based stuff.  Not really the schmaltzy Kenny-G soprano sax junk. 

[Mangrove]

Yes.

I'm snobby about smooth jazz. (Either listen to real jazz or don't bother.)

I'm probably like it about a lot of other things, but this one sticks in my mind.


ETA - I don't think wanting people to be qualified for a job is necessarily snobby or elitist.

Is it okay if I listen to smooth jazz AND real jazz?   

I tend to like mostly the guitar-based stuff.  Not really the schmaltzy Kenny-G soprano sax junk. 

I'll make an exception for you but still, there's much better guitar jazz than the shit they play on the Weather Channel.

[Disco Pickle]

I'm a bit of a snob about music, but only in that I can't stand bad music and I love good music.  This is subjective as shit of course.

I also cannot abide laziness in work.  Determined mediocrity, half-assing it, or procrastinating until the point where you HAVE to half-ass it to meet a deadline.  This has actually become a point of contention between my current lady friend and myself.  She's studying to become a teacher, and yet puts the minimum amount of effort into a lot of her assignments.  She asked me to look over her portfolio yesterday that she had to submit today.  While it looked good, just a cursory glance at some of her writing and I found quite a few grammatical mistakes that she would have caught if she had done more than just push the spell check button.  


I told her it looked like a good rough draft and I recommended she proof read it and fix the mistakes before she turned it in.  I know for a fact she didn't and has already turned it in.

my feelings about this always reminds me of this pic:

[Juana]

Yep! I'm trying to weed out the douchebaggery - classicism was part of my upbringing and I think I've gotten rid of most of it. Still a bit snobby, though. Mostly about certain behaviors - if you're gonna wear a dress, wear a goddamn slip! Brown shoes means NO BLACK BELT! As well as how people talk. If you speak terrible English - and it's your first language - then I'm automatically going to categorize you as "idiot".

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It also occurs to me that I am snobby about the third-party tards.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I was being a snob before it was cool.

[Slyph]

I thought I had traits of teh snob, until I met a genuine snob. Went to a friend's borgie mate's house, sitting around, having a beer in the back yard, she's classically trained, I'm a Liverpool street rat. I mentioned I'd started listening to Shostakovich's chamber music after reading about it in a Slavoj Zizek book, having always like Shosty and having enjoyed learning a little about the man. Rolled her fucking eyes at me.

Turns out she wasn't rolling her eyes at me for like, being pretentious, not knowing what I was talking about, but for liking Shostakovich. Because she was the arbiter of classical music-taste I guess.

[oscilloscopter]

When it comes to music, I'm very opinionated and secretly snobby.

I have learnt to keep my mouth shut though.

Raging about production techniques (or lack of) doesn't get people any closer to listening to underground niche genres.

My MP3 player has been banned from just about every party .

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm snobby about music snobs. If they aren't classically trained, formally educated, and highly talented musicians, I won't hang out with them.

[Mangrove]

Other things I'm snobby about:

Martial art schools that give children black belts.

No, little Skyler is not stopping any mugger that isn't also a poorly coordinated 8 year old of similar weight & stature.

[Don Coyote]

Other things I'm snobby about:

Martial art schools that give children black belts.

No, little Skyler is not stopping any mugger that isn't also a poorly coordinated 8 year old of similar weight & stature.

I second this snobbery.

[BabylonHoruv]

I'm a beer snob and a salad snob, but not much of a snob other than that.