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Three Legs

Jun 15th 2009 2:06 pm

Re: How snobbish are you?

We were secretly filmed down the Boat the other day Dorothy ... There were a couple of 'your types' from across the road supping mild ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHo2pXO_XAI

Seriously ... I think you have a bad case of paranoia developing :p

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Originally Posted by Dorothy (Post 7666032)

We get the same about the suburb we live in and the school we choose to send our children to. The difference is that we aren't mortgaged up to our eyeballs and pay higher council rates so we can say we live in "XYZ" suburb. All those snobs across Marmion Ave in the next suburb have no problem coming across to use the shopping centre or train station but think those of us who live here are lower than dog shit they stepped in.

jsvk	Jun 15th 2009 2:14 pm

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Originally Posted by Three Legs (Post 7668290)

Dorothy and I can be paranoid together then...:rofl::rofl:

Hebe	Jun 15th 2009 3:13 pm

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Originally Posted by Dorothy (Post 7666032)

So anyone who lives in a good suburb is a snob? Not all of those in the 'better' suburbs have high mortgages - a bit of reverse snobbery?

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Jun 15th 2009 3:31 pm

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Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede (Post 7666354)

Participation in the House of Lords, inheritance of a title, and the right to a coat of arms - to name just three examples.

Of course, in former years the privileges were even more extensive; immunity to prosecution, exemption from taxation, viceroy powers in provincial courts, etc. Today's aristocrats are far more limited.

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Fair enough. I had taken your initial comment to be that you thought that certain members of society were above the rule of law simply because of a birthright.. which is plainly not the case.

Cheetah7

Jun 15th 2009 3:34 pm

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Originally Posted by Hebe (Post 7668473)

So anyone who lives in a good suburb is a snob? Not all of those in the 'better' suburbs have high mortgages - a bit of reverse snobbery?

I define a snob as anyone who judges a person on where they live or even what they drive for example and thinks that they are better/above someone else because of where they live etc.

And there are people like that on this site.

A house is somewhere to live, a car is something to drive, it doesnt matter as long as the person is happy.

Does a certain type of person live in a certain area, does a certain type of person drive a particular car? I think not.

Snobbery/reverse snobbery - it exists but it is pretty shallow minded to judge anyone on their possessions.

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Jun 15th 2009 3:52 pm

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Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack (Post 7666360)

True - but these people could buy more expensive cars if they wanted to. But it is not important to them, they just do not aspire to it. Lots of people aspire to having expensive cars, when they could be aspiring to educate their children or eat healthfully! It is clearly an individual thing.

I agree, in part. People who have always had money may not aspire to, as an example, have an expensive car... but surely that's because if you are in a position to replace your Merc every couple of years out of small change then its hardly an item to aspire to.

Those of us from backgrounds where money was never available had their aspirations set at an early age... and they would have been very different from the wealthy side of the street.

Hebe	Jun 15th 2009 3:54 pm

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Originally Posted by Professional Princess (Post 7668507)

Yes it is shallow to judge someone by their possessions but it appear that it is ok to do the reverse. It has been implied that those who live in the better suburbs look down on those who don't and that they are heavily mortgage just to live there - for many this is simply not the case.

Three Legs

Jun 15th 2009 4:04 pm

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Originally Posted by Professional Princess (Post 7668507)

And there are people like that on this site.

For the love of God, name names ... Out these snobby w()nkers!

Let them rejoice from their penthouses & Porsche's ...

scottishcelts

Jun 15th 2009 4:42 pm

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Originally Posted by Professional Princess (Post 7668507)

Hear hear PP :)

Cheetah7

Jun 15th 2009 7:53 pm

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Originally Posted by Hebe (Post 7668533)

Its not OK.

But do a search for a thread on Utes and see some of the comments about them being 'bogan cars'.

Commordore drivers = comments on those I do believe.

Its not OK - either way.

Geelong Gent

Jun 15th 2009 7:56 pm

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Originally Posted by Three Legs (Post 7668550)

Let them rejoice from their penthouses & Porsche's ...

They can read and drive at the same time;)

Geelong Gent

Jun 15th 2009 7:59 pm

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Originally Posted by Professional Princess (Post 7668885)

Its not OK.

But do a search for a thread on Utes and see some of the comments about them being 'bogan cars'.

Commordore drivers = comments on those I do believe.

Its not OK - either way.

Plenty of "Bogan" R8 commodores in Malvern/Armadale/Toorak especially popular are those wagons.

We are thinking of getting another 3 series for my wife as a runner around town.

Mazda 3:p

iamthecreaturefromuranus

Jun 15th 2009 8:01 pm

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Originally Posted by Professional Princess (Post 7668885)

Its not OK.

But do a search for a thread on Utes and see some of the comments about them being 'bogan cars'.

Commordore drivers = comments on those I do believe.

Its not OK - either way.

...but the SS Como Utes are "Bogan Cars"... in the same way that some cars are "girly". It doesn't mean all the drivers are Bogans..

Russ_Sarah

Jun 15th 2009 9:43 pm

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its funny to read this thread...we are an irish family who have absolutely no airs or graces about us..but since arriving here in australia and going about our lives trying to make new friends etc...i would say that we have encountered far more and i mean far more snobbery then eithe of us has ever ever imagined..and its not the aussies funnily enough...it tends to be women of expat couples..i could go on, but i wont..but snobbery is alive and well here in australia.
i wonder if any other have encountered it in the same way?

Dorothy

Jun 15th 2009 9:55 pm

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Originally Posted by Hebe (Post 7668473)

So anyone who lives in a good suburb is a snob? Not all of those in the 'better' suburbs have high mortgages - a bit of reverse snobbery?

See post 61

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Originally Posted by Three Legs (Post 7668550)

For the love of God, name names ... Out these snobby w()nkers!

Let them rejoice from their penthouses & Porsche's ...

See posts 61 & 68

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