snobs

Never go by what you are told, every tongue different even among what they called the snobs and sell outs in France.

WSJ: wine-rating system is badly flawed | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

February 10th, 2010 Jessica Hagy Posted in snobs |

How wonderful things become guilty pleasures. 2010

If sixties counterculture was — as critic Robert Christgau once called it — "that unprecedented and probably insupportable contradiction in terms, mass bohemia," today's cultural keynote, though a contradiction only to snobs, is something weirder: mass aestheticism, sought not in museums or concert halls but in practical everyday objects, home and commercial décor, hairstyles and costume.

Material Girl 2003

If sixties counterculture was — as critic Robert Christgau once called it — "that unprecedented and probably insupportable contradiction in terms, mass bohemia," today's cultural keynote, though a contradiction only to snobs, is something weirder: mass aestheticism, sought not in museums or concert halls but in practical everyday objects, home and commercial décor, hairstyles and costume.

Material Girl 2003

This means they are brand snobs, which is bad enough, but what makes it even worse is that the brands themselves are always ones that any sane, thinking person would try to hide from the world, such as Sloaney pony Hollister, or the sluttishly ubiquitous Emporio Armani (that Emporio Armani sure gets around: there is not a man on this planet who hasn't had a bit of Emporio Armani splayed across his chest).

Why do so many people wear clothes with brand names on them? Hadley Freeman 2010

A disclaimer for those professional and prosumer photographers aka snobs viewing this: the entire slideshow was shot on an iPhone 4G.

Thanksgiving Walking Tour: Thankful For NYC Architecture and Design Moments The Huffington Post News Team 2010

A disclaimer for those professional and prosumer photographers aka snobs viewing this: the entire slideshow was shot on an iPhone 4G.

WALKING TOUR: Thankful For NYC Architecture and Design Moments Nicole Campoy-Leffler 2010

A disclaimer for those professional and prosumer photographers aka snobs viewing this: the entire slideshow was shot on an iPhone 4G.

Thanksgiving Walking Tour: Thankful For NYC Architecture and Design Moments The Huffington Post News Team 2010

They struggle to pay tuition at major colleges in hopes that their kids can one day make 6 figures or a decent pay are the product of these blue collar workers kids label snobs or elites.

Limbaugh comes out for Obama 2008

When the people who value these things are called snobs, the word is usually being used in a purely sour-grapes way.

From the archives:It is a curious phenomenon... M-mv 2007