Chill...I purposely waited to fill in the rest of the blank, which is, "so if you don't want to be assessed as pretentious, then don't assess anyone.

Harlepolis said:

People whom cut the tags out of supermarket clothing, so they can pretend they spent £100.00 on a sweater instead of £15.99.

I did this once or twice in the past.

GirlBrother said:

The first thing I do when I buy some clothing is to cut all tags as they itch my skin. I hate it that they are even there because it's a lot of work to get rid of them properly and I have cut into the clothing by accident more than once . I hope nobody ever thought I was pretentious because of that .

Serious said:

Not only pretentious - but a LIAR!!!

Only joking.

Imago said:

A very unpretentious fella next to me shouted DICKWAAAAAD! when that symbol guy asked the same question at the various concerts we visited.

Of course, we were surrounded by real symbol fans, that actually took the trouble to illegally bootleg the songs that were played live, not just some clueless twats that could not be amazed if the symbol guy would swaffle his new songs in the clueless nubies faces.

GirlBrother said:

talking on your cellphone while a cashier is trying to ring you out, and there's a line behind you and you ignore the cashier asking you a question.

Imago said:

And there we have it. Imago FTW.


I don't think I'm very sensitive to pretentiousness. I'm generally unimpressed by whatever it is that they are pretending to be (wealthy or powerful, usually), so it's just kinda 'meh'. Intellectual pretentiousness is annoying, I guess . . . people who feel the need to appear to be well-read when they aren't, or whatever. But I value true intellect, and I'm actually MORE annoyed by the fact that genuinely smart, educated people get looked down upon if they use their extensive vocabularies or admit to knowing stuff. I watch smart friends, especially women, dumb themselves down for public consumption, and that bugs me WAY more than pretense.

i would say dumb ass would be you go to a town you dont live and hang out in the starbucks cause you think its the thing to do.

I Hate like when people put on ACCENTS like MADONNA and then I hate when people throw in BIG WORDS they can't even PRONOUNCE let alone know the meaning of and MADONNA saying her favorite movie was BARTON FINK which SUCKED so BAD....What is it even about?

MRGee said:

Its about your disgust with the bitch, pure and simple

MRGee said:

Barton Fink did NOT suck!

Does speaking in 3rd person count as pretentious? 'cause I HAAAAATE that shit

tackam said:

That is the MOST depressing form of pretension

Not ALL people are strong in the face of peer pressure, I guess thats why they feel the need to act dumb in order to go with the flow.

eaglebear4839 said:

It was a stupid sarcasm

Harlepolis said:

They think the dumb-n-cute act makes it easier to get a man. I'm not sure they're wrong.

CalhounSq said:

The writer doesn't think so

ZombieKitten said:

is there a difference between pretentious and try-hard?

I sometimes think that I have a tendency to project or elicit a pseudopsyche of self-perceived intelligence quota for a thought apparatus. I think that, in a roundabout way, I withhold the propensity within me of rubbing people the wrong way with my polysyllabic structural use of legibility. I try not to come off as ostentatious. I think the trick is to practice mellifluousness with my style of journalistic expression. I worry about the periphery of secondhand impressions of which I strongly impose. My malpractice of dexterity-applied sociability will turn back and bite me in the ass, one of these days. I don't want to mess up and stumble my words or mangle the semantics of colloquial pragmatism in an attempt to reiterate the parabolic value of my psychological medium. Run-on number 999,999. Sorry! Really need to work on succinct condensation of my legibility.