# How much of a pleb or a snob are you according to your interests? Find out here. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264 "2015-12-12T19:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/21 "2015-12-13T15:28:34Z")
I want a fabulous tier ☹ “Good” doesn’t seem fancy enough, and I need a few more tiers for a wide enough spread. How is “The A Team” in movie aristocratic while than “The A Team” in TV series form is plebeian? Is watching “Jessica Jones” plebeian, overgrown teenager or both? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/22 "2015-12-13T15:45:34Z")
Near as I can figure, it says I should be god-king with the rest of you building great monuments in my honor. Perhaps I am misinterpreting, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/23 "2015-12-13T15:59:57Z")
What if I play video games about history? Reading the works of St. Thomas makes one a pleb? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/24 "2015-12-13T16:25:19Z")
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/25 "2015-12-13T16:27:49Z")
I air-conduct Rigoletto; read Buffy Season 8 graphic novels; have improv debates where we take the parts of Thomas Aquinas, Diogenes of Sinope, and John Locke; watch the NFL; shoot at the NRA headquarters range; watch “Modern Family,” and “The Big Bang Theory;” listen to Toby Keith and Suzy Bogguss; follow Pokemon and The Avengers; and collect single-malt Scotch. To which tier do I belong? ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/26 "2015-12-13T16:41:14Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > How is “The A Team” in movie aristocratic while than “The A Team” in TV series form is plebeian? It’s not. “Cinema” doesn’t connote the same thing as “movie.” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/27 "2015-12-13T17:04:56Z")
Plebeian people don’t like sports? That boggles the mind. ---
**Author:** ![andrewm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@andrewm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewm)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/28 "2015-12-13T17:15:46Z")
Why do “comic books” get ranked two whole steps above the bottom “teenager” category which includes “super heroes” and “anime”? Seems pretty inconsistent. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/29 "2015-12-13T17:25:04Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > It’s not. “Cinema” doesn’t connote the same thing as “movie.” Oh, so “cinema” refers only to movies that need the interpretation of a capital-c Critic to be understood? Like “literature” vs “reading”… That kind of distinction isn’t aristocratic, it’s snobbish. Very different things, specially since the most intense snobs are those of the “I wish I was high class but I’m not” variety. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/30 "2015-12-13T17:33:45Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Oh, so “cinema” refers only to movies that need the interpretation of a capital-c Critic to be understood? Like “literature” vs “reading”… In typical American English, yes, that’s roughly the idea. > [@Nava](#): > > That kind of distinction isn’t aristocratic, it’s snobbish. Very different things, specially since the most intense snobs are those of the “I wish I was high class but I’m not” variety. Could be. The source upthread may not be using “aristocratic” well. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/31 "2015-12-13T17:55:49Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I air-conduct Rigoletto; read Buffy Season 8 graphic novels; have improv debates where we take the parts of Thomas Aquinas, Diogenes of Sinope, and John Locke; watch the NFL; shoot at the NRA headquarters range; watch “Modern Family,” and “The Big Bang Theory;” listen to Toby Keith and Suzy Bogguss; follow Pokemon and The Avengers; and collect single-malt Scotch. > > To which tier do I belong? I don’t know, but does it have room for me too? What happens when I teach History while wearing a superhero T-shirt to kids who are likely stoned? ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/32 "2015-12-13T18:46:23Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > I’m confused. Is this a picture of words that randomly fell out of a dictionary? I’m confused, too. I feel stupider for looking at that chart and trying to figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/33 "2015-12-14T01:53:46Z")
I liked **Derleth** ’s blast-from-the-past graphic. Anyone know of any more like that from other eras? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/34 "2015-12-14T02:41:30Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > I air-conduct Rigoletto; read Buffy Season 8 graphic novels; have improv debates where we take the parts of Thomas Aquinas, Diogenes of Sinope, and John Locke; . . . . Do you keep transcripts of your debates? I’d love to read a transcript of a debate in which Diogenes of Sinope participates! ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/35 "2015-12-14T02:42:09Z")
Anyone who thinks that listening to metal makes one an overgrown teenager hasn’t done enough research and isn’t worth listening to. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/36 "2015-12-14T08:52:44Z")
Well, they probably don’t play metal anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Barrett\_Bonden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@Barrett\_Bonden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barrett_Bonden)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/37 "2015-12-14T15:33:29Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > If we’re going to do this, we might as well do it with some sense of historical context, as opposed to a shit-tier image which reflects nothing but the uneducated biases of one person: [This, at least, reflects the barely-educated biases of a 1949 _LIFE_ magazine columnist.](http://boingboing.net/2014/06/11/1949-chart-shows-difference-be.html) There ain’t no class anxiety like Mid-Century American class anxiety, 'cause Mid-Century American class anxiety was a barely-disguised proxy for racism and antisemitism. Well, I’ve never gone out and bought one, but if someone gave me a Statue of a Lady with a Clock. . .Where her Stomach Ought to Be, I would totally keep it. Low-Brow it is. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/38 "2015-12-14T19:01:58Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Near as I can figure, it says I should be god-king with the rest of you building great monuments in my honor. Perhaps I am misinterpreting, though. No, I got that as well. Would sir prefer his monuments oriented with any particular celestial bodies, magnetic north, or population center? And does sir have a preference of building materials? I am in the process of yoking up the residents of Baltimore and Detroit for a labor pool so the size of sir’s megalith complex should not be an impediment to sir’s timely enjoyment of same. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/39 "2015-12-14T19:17:57Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Do you keep transcripts of your debates? I’d love to read a transcript of a debate in which Diogenes of Sinope participates! No, nothing nearly so formal – this is just kind of an after-dinner game we play sometimes – we pick historical figures and role-play them in debate. ---
**Author:** ![Apollon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Apollon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-of-a-pleb-or-a-snob-are-you-according-to-your-interests-find-out-here/740264/40 "2015-12-15T19:49:38Z")
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