But can I still “summer” on the coast and not be pretentious? 
People who use the word “crudités”.
Watches are pretty useless nowadays. Everything seems to have one. Phones, MP3 players, ect.
There’s someone who’s never made a mistake. :rolleyes: These people scream douchebag to me.
Hipsters don’t bother me, but I’ve noticed many of them are pretenious. Most of them have done NOTHING to merit such a tude. I guess most of them are just so smart and artisitic I don’t get them. :rolleyes:
Genuine interest about an ingredient? – not pretentious
Spouting off about what you’re tasting in an attempt to impress everyone about the subtle flavors you notice? – pretentious
I don’t find speaking French or any other language in addition to one’s own pretentious; I really wish I were fluent in other languages. What I find pretentious and or obnoxious however is writing something in French that isn’t common knowledge (I think most would know what au revoir or répondez s’il vous plaît mean, but anything much beyond that) without providing a translation.
I admit it’s irrational, but I find granite counter tops pretentious. I can’t stand them- they seem so yuppie. Besides which I like marble better.
Giving all of your kids surnames as first names. I call such parents’ “Law firm moms and dads” because when they call their kids it sounds like they’re answering the phone at a law office. (“Tinsley, McKay and Britton, how many times have I told you not to leave wet drinks on the granite?”)
McMansions are almost by definition pretentious, especially those with the lawyer foyer.
People whose only interest in genealogy seems to be for bragging rights or to gain membership in ancestral groups. I have ancestors who fought in the same wars as most everyone else, and though admittedly most were privates if I could trace direct descent from Robert E. Lee AND Ulysses S. Grant as well as Francis Marion, John Adams, and just for shits and giggles Lord Cornwallis as well then who cares? Their deeds weren’t mine. I find genealogy a fascinating way to study history- reading old documents and following the movements of these mostly “just plain folk” gives me a greater “you are there” insight into U.S. history than any book I’ve ever read, but I no more take pride that this one fought at the Battle of Toad Lick Springs* or wrote a treatise claiming Jesus Christ was a duck than I take shame in knowing that one owned slaves or was sent to jail for drunkenness.
*Actually, in honesty I do take some pride that some were Scots Irish who settled in Virginia between places called [and I’m not making it up] Shitty Britches Pond and Tickle Cunt Stream; both names meant exactly the same things in the 18th century as they do now [the Scots Irish were known for being overly refined] and if I could prove one of my ancestors named them I’d probably work it into conversation way more often than I should. Especially when talking to DAR members. 
Excuse me, I need to excrete a subgelatinous mass of partially digested mesoamerican cereal grains.
IMO, it is. It’s like any other apple product. You could get the same product that does the same thing (in this case say a blackberry) for much less. Some people are very pretenious with their apple hoarding.
In other words, sincerity is not pretense.
But sincere interest in esoteric matters is often misinterpreted.
This and Vodka snobs. WTF? You’re not supposed to drink Vodka straight anyway. The cheap stuff tastes better than goose to me.
Oh, you said CORK sniffer. Never mind. 
lol
Yep. It’s a fine line (and yes, that’s CORK Sniffer, CW! ;))
Touché
People who say touché.
People who come back from a one week resort vacation to Cancun and forever after refer to the country as “Mehico”.
People who go on one of those package vacations to 17 countries in 14 days or whatever and come back talking about all the stuff they learned about themselves while ‘backpacking across Europe’.
Two foreign travel related:
People who want to show you all 682 photographs they took of the Eiffel Tower (or whatever) which they now consider themselves and expert on. It’s true I have never been to Paris, but I know what the Eiffel Tower looks like, I’ve seen pictures from many many angles and vantage points, I know the history of it, a “here’s me at the Eiffel Tower” and perhaps a culled ‘8 best of’ shots is all most people could be interested in. If they’d like to see more they’ll probably ask.
People who return to the U.S. from a trip abroad and now refer to ‘Americans’ as if they’re not one. “Americans are just so acquisitive and materialistic!” (this usually from somebody who’s just shown you pictures made of aborigones with their $1,200 camera and wearing $600 shoes while they’re doing it) or “Art just isn’t in the soul of Americans like it is to the Italians/French/Germans/Mongolians/aborigones” (yeah, I’m sure the cab driver who took you there spends every spare off-moment at the opera or the museum).
My spoiled princess of a niece spent a summer in France the year before last and this went on for hours last Christmas. When I learned she’d spent a month in Israel and in Italy this past late summer/early Fall I made other plans for Christmas.
People who assume that more expensive = better. I hate that.
People who talk really loudly on their cell phones in public places.
People who assume there’s nothing to do in small towns.
My cousin, who has a special wine refrigerator and insists on choosing the wines at family dinners, then gets mad at people for drinking out of the wrong glass or sipping wine at the wrong temperature.
Lots of parents are pretentious, almost always to make themselves feel better. I’ve had parents get competitive with me over the type of milk I buy my kids.
Speaking of pretentious parents, I don’t understand parents who overschedule their kids before their kids are old enough to have a say in any of the activities they choose. For example, a kid at the Y where my son does soccer on the weekends has been in team sports, music lessons, aerobics, swim lessons and something else in addition to daycare since he was 2.
Whoa. This is getting meta. Is using the word “meta” pretentious?
People who make themselves out to be all badass at business, but all they are is shallowly overbearing and compensating for the life they lack. Punch out, douchebag, nobody gives a shit.