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[Privateer]

No one mentioned the Grammar snobs yet? The ones who seize on others' casual errors as proof of total ignorance? Then there's (sic!!!) the anti Grammar snob snobs: the ones who laugh at the errors the Grammar snobs make when they're trying to set other people straight. Guilty of that one.

How about Pizza snobs? Those who prefer Papa John's only/New York pizza only/Italian wood-fired oven pizza from Italy only.

[AgentM]

The anti-"elitist" snob. The anti-intellectual, looks down on universities, just because he's some common every-man who couldn't be bothered to go. Usually someone who thinks that universities are for "elitist liberals". Seems to be mostly an American phenomenon.

[Aelric]

I'm easily 1, 3 and 4 from the OP's list. I'd include that I'm also the Music snob, listening mostly to the most obscure crap out there, knowing fully well that I'm getting off partly on my exclusivity of taste. Basically, every college has a "Tom Waits" guy, and I was mine. I'm lightening up, but I still have trouble listening to pop music without loudly bitching about how stupid it's lyrics are, how unskilled it's instrumentals and typical it tempo. I know, I'm no fun at a party.

[Underwaterbob]

[Bronski]

[JongnoGuru]

[Bronski]

[beercanman]

[shifter2009]

[Moldy Rutabaga]

Now I'm thinking of "Topper," a character in Dilbert who one-ups everyone. "You had a cold? That's nothing! Once I had Spanish influenza and bubonic plague!"

Guinness snob. "You don't know how to pour a Guinness!" Sigh. I hated pouring Guinness when I worked in a bar. Every 'expert' told me something different.

Spanish language snob. "You forgot, when posting that you like Mexican food, that the correct ending on the third person relative subjunctive historical ambient super unleaded verb you used should be -aomus instead of -abita, unless it's a Wednesday." Please excuse me for growing up in Canada, where the only Spanish person I knew was Maria on Sesame Street.

Elite university snob. "Pass the salt? You know, we often passed the salt to each other when I went to the University of Michigan. Did I ever tell you I went to the University of Michigan?"

Art movie snob. "I enjoyed Zeferelli's later movies more than his 60s work, but you would need to know Yugoslavian culture to really understand the references. Perhaps Transformers is more your speed."

Bob Dylan or Grateful Dead snobs. Needs no explanation.

Ken:>

[Mosley]

Inspired in large part by my working class backgound(inverted snobbery?) many decades ago (that's not to say they're not still relevant):

1) I've done more of 'em than you snob(e.g., "I had more P**** last weekend than you've had in your life!")

2) The boozer snob: "I've spilled more booze than you've ever drank!"

3) Muscle car snob: "Until you've had a '74 Dodge Challenger don't talk shit to me about cars!"

4) (I'm not making this one up) The fart snob: "Mine are longer, louder, more foul-smelling than any of yours could ever hope to be...."

Snobbery knows no bounds....

[beercanman]

haha I love this thread.

I read an awesome statement once by a real deep thinker called J. Krishnamurti. Can't recall quite what he said, something about a man being so pretentious even his dog was a snob. Funny thing was the way he worded it was not intended as humor, and you could tell he meant that even an animal can a snob. Not sure about that, but maybe it is possible.

[beercanman]

[Mosley]

I wonder if there are Korean soju snobs?

"You drink that Jinro crap?! I only partake of Andong traditional soju."

[beercanman]

I'd like to be a beer snob but it really isn't possible. I'm not sure it would be real snobbery though. The fact is some are good and some are crap. Being where I am, for convenience I must drink crap. Besides that, the good stuff is expensive and difficult to procure. (yeah I could have said "difficult to get" but I'm a bit of a language snob)

Other than snobbery we have vanity of attachment to brand names of various products. It may be a nearly unconscious choice for most people what they buy, a habit of sorts. What we drink, eat, smoke, use as soap, etc. Cannot really include this in the field of snobdom, got to give it some leeway. It's attachment and convenience (the convenience of not having to think about choices) with a bit of vanity thrown in for good measure. We like to be sort of defined by what we consume. A bit like "asmith" and his Jinro Original. "He's a _____man" seems to be a common tactic in commercials. We grew up on this and at some point defined ourselves at least a little bit by what we buy.