Was he from Victoria? That place sometimes out-Brits the Brits. In reality, Britain has moved on, leaving enclaves in the Colonies still fixated on roast beef and yorkshire pudding.
I went to art school with a woman named Ahn-DRAY-uh. In her defence, she was Brazilian, and that’s how she pronounced it in Brazilian.
(She was also one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever met, and, unusually, we started to become friends. If only she hadn’t smoked… :: sigh :: )
Why, whatever do you mean?
This is a line in the movie Zombieland and I could never figure out what the hell Columbus was talking about.Thank you for clearing that up!
Spelling it Shepard is pretentious? For myself it is ignorance.Thanks for clearing that up!
Buying “organic” food.
Eating sushi.
Buying all the “green” crap.
Converting to Buddhism or becoming a Wiccan.
Driving an electric car.
Another genealogical one that reeks of nouveau riche: a coat of arms in the house. Besides the fact that most of them are fake, unless you have a pavilion at Ascot that you need to advertise you don’t really need one.
Masonic emblems. Perhaps pretentious isn’t the word so much as ridiculous. Full disclosure: my father and grandfathers were Masons, my father was buried in his apron, and I’m familiar with the “distinguished history” such as it is and all but in the modern day U.S. it’s a silly fraternity. I can show you cinder block Masonic lodges in rural Alabama where guys are full fledged who can only haltingly read their own names.
I was on a smoke break at a seminar once where another guy who was wearing a Masonic ring was asked by a right-out-of-college aged guy who joined us “Can’t help notice your ring… would you happen to be a traveling man?” He looked at him with a sort of “Pardon?” expression, and the guy then somehow clumsily worked in some sort of Masonic reference and displayed a masonic cuff link with a “Barney Fife undercover” subtlety until finally the man with the ring realized what he was talking about and said “Oh, this was my father’s. I wear it for sentimental reasons. I’m not a Mason.” The other guy seemed almost devastated that 1- guy with ring wouldn’t play the ‘I’ve got a secret’ game (and how secret is it when you wear it on accessories) and 2- he’d said ‘Mason’ out loud.
He actually said “Well you technically aren’t supposed to wear that if you’re not a member”. Guy with ring promised to turn himself in later. I can’t remember how but I somehow worked in the question “Is there no help for the widow’s son?” to a later smoke break discussion where pensions or welfare or Social Security or something related to help and or widow’s sons was mentioned and “so mote it be” another time; the guy didn’t have the foggiest glimmer of recognition.
I think CW was responding to someone else who said correcting someone else’s spelling/typos is pretentious.
No. She was mock-apologizing for correcting others. See post #14.
ETA: Ack! 
I see
Am I the only person who can’t stand Junior Leaguers? Yes, I know they raise money for charity, but I swear they seek out the bitchiest most self righteous Ladies-Who-Lunch snooty women on Earth for their leaders then attempt to convert anybody who’s not already like them who joins. And there’s always the 1 token minority for every 15 WASPs.
I go out of my way to hide my religion. It would be poorly received in my social circles. I’ve been Wiccan for over 16, about half my life.
I guess I’m a little pretentious. I’m ok with that.
Bwuh? None of those are pretentious where I am. Out of the ordinary, yes; but not pretentious.
After reading this thread, I think the definition of pretentious is “anyone who does anything different from me that I can’t reasonably look down on.”
Owning an iPhone is pretentious? Eating sushi is pretentious? Bullshit. How about if I surf the dope on an iPhone while snacking on some sushi and watching pro wrestling in boxers and a wife beater? Does that provide enough of a counterbalance? Hell, there are sushi joints all around here, and around the office many bigger delis even have sushi trays. It doesn’t even qualify as out of the ordinary.
Talking incessantly how you searched the app store for just the right app to give you the weather would be pretentious. Being a snob about ‘authentic’ sushi eating rituals and annoying all the other diners would be pretentious.
I really got a kick out of ‘Andrea’. I would default the pronunciation to ‘Ahn-DRAY-uh’. Now without knowing either the poster or Andrea, I’d say its about 50/50 that the poster was thin-skinned and takes offense easily when corrected versus Andrea being snobbish when correction the pronunciation.
Claiming a thread has been “won”
Really? Sushi is so commonplace around here it’s just like eating a hamburger. I can’t imagine thinking that was pretentious.
I think I’ve seen someone on this board opine that using chopsticks is pretentious.
People who express with wide-eyed wonder that they just don’t understand how anyone can maintain interest in [reality shows/Charlie Sheen/celebrity gossip/etc]. Fine, you don’t read TMZ. I get it. You’re very smart and awesome. Now STFU about it and let the rest of us enjoy our schadenfreude at Lindsey Lohan’s latest arrest or whatever.
I think you are mixing up pretentious and condescending. I get the same condescending attitude from some when they find out that I am still a fan of pro wrestling and comic books. And I do catch myself returning the same attitude at times towards celebrity gossip. I stop once my hypocrisy meter hits the yellow zone.
Especially in a French restaurant.
Thread’s over, shut it down. Mad wins 
Woooo! Look at the fancy Lord of Hamburger!