Are you a snob about anything?

[Ruptga]

Yes. I don't require the best of anything, but I'd rather walk than drive a shit car, go hungry before eating shit food, and go thirsty before drinking shit beer.

 

[ponyo]

sushi and fresh seafood snob.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Food (fast food is neither food nor fast)
Beer
Coffee
Cheese

 

[brianmanahan]

Anyone not responding to this thread is a perfect human being.

Doh.

and anyone responding to this thread is a real human bean

and a real hero

 

[PricklyPete]

I try not to be... but I'm probably guilty of being a snob on mountain bike components and beer at times.

 

[slayer202]

is there anything I'm not a snob about

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Food (fast food is neither food nor fast)
Beer
Coffee
Cheese

And, the number one thing I'm snobbish about is the food business. People who are in it and don't understand it are less than the dirt beneath my feet.

 

[child of wonder]

Food
Coffee
Beer
Liquor, particularly Tequila

 

[Chaotic42]

I'm a coffee and map snob and perhaps a little bit of a grammar snob. The former is due to grinding by own beans, the middle from working as a cartographer, and the latter from working as a news director. I'm really bad about the map snob business though.

 

[lxskllr]

Helpless people. If you don't have a disability, you should be able to do a bit of everything to keep yourself alive and healthy. For food/alcohol, I'm pretty tolerant of low end products, but once you get to a certain point, it falls off a cliff, and I suppose I'm a snob about it.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Golf, but I'm a reverse snob. If I see somebody with $2000 worth of clubs, a staff bag and they still can't break 100 I laugh my ass off. And I get to laugh my ass off a lot.

I'm actually a reverse snob about a lot of things. Food, drink, sports, cars, etc. Most of the shit people buy and rave about are because those people are idiots who buy whatever they're told to buy by ads and their pretentious poseur douchebag friends.

I used to love reading the alcohol threads here for a good laugh, 90% 15 year old kids who'd puke if they tasted real liquor recommending whatever was on the back cover of Maxim that month.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I'm kinda snobby about music - particularly with djs that spin boring ass EDM.

Similarly, but more ashamedly, I'm snobby about dance moves. Unless you really know what you're doing, I'm over here silently mocking your convulsing and gyrating.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Golf, but I'm a reverse snob. If I see somebody with $2000 worth of clubs, a staff bag and they still can't break 100 I laugh my ass off. And I get to laugh my ass off a lot.

I'm actually a reverse snob about a lot of things. Food, drink, sports, cars, etc. Most of the shit people buy and rave about are because those people are idiots who buy whatever they're told to buy by ads and their pretentious poseur douchebag friends.

I'm this way with musical gear. Aficionados will pay out the ass for the latest community sweetheart overdrive pedal or boutique tube amp, but then I grow a huge satisfaction boner when they post clips of their playing and it's total amateur hour.

Meanwhile I'm over here with my Mexican tele and Agile AL3000, a board full of pedals I built myself or from DOD/Boss's 80s line up, all plugged into my Carvin or Peavey amp.

 

[Crono]

I could be a snob about a few things, but I prefer to think of myself as an enthusiast. The difference being I don't begrudge the low end. There's value to be had.

 

[Imp]

Sunglasses. The brand, materials, fit, adjustments, etc.

It just pisses me off when people with Ray Ban Aviators don't adjust their freaking nose pieces or ear loops and let them hang an inch below their eyebrows.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Everyone hates snobs. EVERYONE. So why anyone would brag about being a snob is a mystery to me.

Liking the finer things does not make you a snob. Staying in a nice hotel, appreciating fine wines, owning a nice car, do not in themselves make anyone a snob.

 

[Ruptga]

Everyone hates snobs. EVERYONE. So why anyone would brag about being a snob is a mystery to me.

Liking the finer things does not make you a snob. Staying in a nice hotel, appreciating fine wines, owning a nice car, do not in themselves make anyone a snob.

Technically right, but you've ignored a common and valid definition of the word for the sake of going on a rant.

/grammer snob

 

[Muse]

Really, just chocolate (and cocoa). Well, there's a lot of music that makes me bristle, or reach for something else, silence sometimes. I like my silence. If I thought about it alot, I could come up with other stuff, but I won't.

 

[TheGardener]

I'm not rich enough to be a snob. Well I have to admit that when some says that they like to eat at Mickey D's, enjoys Velveetta or craves SPAM, I do think that they would find eating Tabby Treats to be a step up. So maybe that makes me a little bit of a snob.

 

[Chaotic42]

Technically right, but you've ignored a common and valid definition of the word for the sake of going on a rant.

/grammer snob

That's the kind of post which causes tears in the space-time continuum in Star Trek.

Really, just chocolate (and cocoa). Well, there's a lot of music that makes me bristle, or reach for something else, silence sometimes. I like my silence. If I thought about it alot, I could come up with other stuff, but I won't.

I get like that with music, and my neighbors play a lot of bad music. I love silence, which makes my choice of apartment even more unfortunate because they're trying to run the world's crappiest night club over there. I just want a house 10 miles from the nearest person, but with high-speed internet and a 24-hour grocery store right on the edge of that circle. Is that too much to ask?

 

[TheGardener]

Really, just chocolate (and cocoa). Well, there's a lot of music that makes me bristle, or reach for something else, silence sometimes. I like my silence. If I thought about it alot, I could come up with other stuff, but I won't.

I forgot about chocolate. Count me in as a snob.

Being forced to listen to hip hop and feeling like someone is scratching their nails against a blackboard (is that still a thing?), doesn't make you a snob. When you try to lecture someone that great music that died 40 years ago is better than their contemporary music, does. They lied when they said that rock and roll music would never die.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

When it comes to hiking & climbing, I'm better than you. When I see you winded on the trail, I might be compassionate on the outside but on the inside I'm mocking your lack of fitness. Did you actually buy that backpack at WalMart?

You're an asshole.

I'm just happy folks are out experiencing the National and State Parks while getting off their asses and seeing mother nature.

Do you laugh at folks who carry a North Face pack they bought at Bass Pro Shops and did not buy a boutique pack from Gossamer or Granite Gear?

Awesome your fitness level is so high that you can just cruise past that guy with a few extra pounds who had ACL surgery a few years back.

You're not a snob.

 

[Humpy]

I'm pretty particular about the internet forums and vaginas I enter.

 

[gorcorps]

Yeah, I'm kind of a dick

I'm a sound quality snob, and turn my nose up at anybody who retains the hipster belief that vinyl is better at anything. It's not, and people who think otherwise are either stuck in the past or just trying to sound cool.

In that same vein I'm kind of a headphone and phone snob.

 

[IronWing]

Yeah, I'm kind of a dick

I'm a sound quality snob, and turn my nose up at anybody who retains the hipster belief that vinyl is better at anything. It's not, and people who think otherwise are either stuck in the past or just trying to sound cool.

In that same vein I'm kind of a headphone and phone snob.

The player sound is quite amazing, almost indistinguishable from good vinyl/analog recordings, and the subtle differences are only noticeable on certain recordings (how things are mastered & transferred). You get the spatial soundstage and the detail and warmth, but not as "involving" as really well recorded & pressed vinyl (which could be due to equalization to optimize for that format), but without all the fuss (cleaning etc. rituals).

- from review of a US$6000 CD player