Thread: Rifle and Optics Snobs

But it all comes down to the fact that having expensive gear doesn't make you a snob. You're only a snob when you look down your nose at others with "lesser gear". But snobbery also goes the other way too where people who have run of the mill gear slag off those with flash gear. It all comes down t a person's attitude; not gear cost. And probably applies to every aspect of life...

I'm a qualified butcher and people always looked down their noses at you because they perceived butchers as being thick, pissheads.... So again a type of snobbery... A classic example... When I was at trade school in Petone during my apprenticeship we had a weekly shop day, and the Polytech tutors and their families would come in to buy their meat. The butchery tutors would watch over us as and critique us as part of our training..

Anyhoo.... A tutor's wife came in and said to me "We all know that if you're too thick to be lawyer or accountant, but still want to make a lot of money, you become a butcher" Well that really pissed me off. So I replied "No; you marry a tutor don't you?" Well she kicked off and Mr Irons our Brit tutor took me aside and gave me a bollocking.

The bollocking went along the lines of "Now I have to reprimand you for saying that" snigger, snigger. "So consider yourself told off" snigger, snigger. "Telling off over; and yes; you were right" Then slapped me on the back and laughed his arse off. I think that he was pissed off at the "butcher snobbery" too!