Most cars especially BMW, Cybertrucks, corvettes, cameros, Hummers. Chat gpt, caviar, phone ring tones, expensive weddings, store bought cakes/cupcakes, fake grass/colored rock landscaping, overpaying/over borrowing for higher education.
store bought cakes
All store bought cakes?
Yeah, they lost me there.
have you ever driven a BMW? Not one of the SUVs but like a 3 series?
it’s considered something fancy for a reason, the cars are quality engineering and have a unique quality to the feeling of it’s drive
a unique quality to the feeling of it’s drive
I have to admit I’m skeptical, and not just because it sounds written by a marketing team.
Things like the subjective feeling of something are strongly socially determined. When we’re told something is fancy or high quality we have a different and better experience of that thing.
As humans it’s rarely possible to separate our experience of a thing from our judgements of the people and identities we associate with it.
I have had 2 BMW’s, both 3 series. The feel of the road is something very different from all the other cars I have driven.
That is why I asked if this person had ever driven one. Its one thing to judge it because others think its popular, its another thing to experience and have an opinion based on that.
their steering wheels have a special feel to it, rarely have I felt it on other cars. They say you should be able to feel rolling over two stacked coins. IDK about that but the way you can feel the little things in the road while also not feeling the full impact of a pothole or something is really a truth.
I have never spent more then $15k to acquire one, so I am not suggesting you have to spend big bucks to get into the seat of one. But if you have the chance to test drive one, you should take it. You might have a full on different opinion afterwards.
I have driven a lot of cars (mostly rentals) and BMWs are quite nice. And in Germany they are considered middle class cars.
Both things can be true though, bmw does have marketing which will effect our impressions of driving one but at the same time there are objective differences in quality between a 3 series bmw and say a Honda Civic that you will definitely notice when driving one.
You can argue the beemer is overpriced and that marketing had an effect but that doesn’t eliminate the differences entirely.
I absolutely love my Audi but I can’t argue that it isn’t a pile of shit.
I’m still holding my judgement on caviar. I assume there’s a reason that it’s so popular, and not just because it’s expensive, which is to say that I think the people shelling out to eat it wouldn’t do so if it tasted like fish ass.
I’ve had it and while it’s good it’s often served with hard boiled eggs and crackers so it kinda tasted like those things. I would say it’s overrated.
I used to work in the seafood industry and I got invited to a seafood expo once. There were tons of vendors and since I’m super poor and not fancy, i ate everything. Figured I’d never get another chance. I ate so much caviar and roe that day.
It’s fuckin’ nasty. Every species and preparation I tried. Tbf I was at an expo, not a nice resturant, but also tbf, it was an expo, they were trying to market their best products.
Well, I’ll be damned. Straight from the horse’s mouth, it really does taste like crap. That’s wild, maybe it’s stuffed with vitamins and minerals… someone ages ago had the idea to cram those fish eggs into their craw, so I guess it was one of those meals of necessity? If that’s the case, I’ll be damned if I can figure out why someone would luxuriate crummy eggs on crackers.
Cars? ChatGPT, the free service? Ringtones???
Hummers… I’ve rarely ever seen someone pull off the style you need to have to not look tacky.
Making champagne bottles pop.
To quote one of my old sommeliers, opening a bottle of sparkling wine should be “as quiet as a nun’s fart in Mass”.
But…why? Popping the cork is fun and festive, and considering most people only have that experience a handful of times in their lives, why try to stifle that little joy?
When I worked in catering we were taught to open bottles quietly because the sound of bottles being popped sounds like money being spent to the event organiser and you want to serve/charge them for as many bottles as possible.
It’s fun and festive… if they “only have that experience a handful of times in their lives”. If you do it on the reg, it’s just wasting the product. That distinction is what the question is about.
“Fancy” people who have champagne often aren’t going to be impressed. Think of it this way; tourists come to New York and gawk at things the locals have been ignoring for years.
You can buy a bottle of sparkling wine for $20.
For those who don’t get the reference. Nun farts are very quiet because of all the butt sex loosening them up. It also keeps the priests away from the kids. It’s a win win all around.
Military parades
Especially for draft dodgers, imagine one of those would ask for a military parade for his birthday.
Food with gold leaf. It doesn’t add to the taste, it doesn’t add to the look, but rich people and wannabe alike love it because it has gold and they have trash taste. If i went fine dining and see a gold leaf covered food, imma send it back because it’s aurum contaminated. And i said it as someone who won’t ever set foot in fine dining restaurant.
Why is it an objectively trashy: it’s a simplest way to appease those wealth chaser and showoff, yet it takes 0 effort to apply it and overcharging their food.
wait till you figure out that some rich people like the fact it makes their shit gold flecked
And gold leaf isn’t even that expensive
A single leaf is so thin, that is costs only a little over a buck. The tiny piece of gold on your fancy food? Only a couple cents
But you can bet your ass that you will pay way more than that
fine dining’s price is loosely coupled to the ingredient cost for everything but the most expensive ones
Gold leaf is cheap yes, but they are paying for ‘the experience’
Is it stupid? Yes
But not even close to the moderately stupid spectrum of human idiocy
Exactly the reason that confuse me about these trend, and we can’t even verify it’s actual gold instead of edible imitation. It’s basically telling people you’re rich enough to get scam.
that was salt-baes thing, overpriced, overcooked food with a little gold.
and for some reason his forearm sweat…
people were willing to pay 1600 for his shitty gold flaked burnt steak.
Saw a thing about the world’s most expensive pizza ($2k+) the other night. Squid ink pizza dough, caviar, truffles, gold leaf, etc. It looked revolting.
Okay, squid ink pizza dough sounds intriguing.
A lot of people doesn’t realise that expensive ingredient doesn’t make the best food, it just make them look pretentious.
Giant fake gold chains lol
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Fake nails.
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Anything gilt in gold. Its a poor mans idea of wealth
Have you seen the new improved oval office?
Case in point
Teslas
They’ve always looked like they were a toy car to me
At first I thought it was neat how unflashy they looked, after a while I found them boring and unremarkable and then I realised they look like car examples you would find in a 3D design program.
Clothing with brand names all over the place
I don’t buy clothing with any kind of text on it. What most designer put on clothes is either so bland or just advertising.
SUPREME.
Gucci
Any clothing brand that is just expensive for most individuals to buy (ie. Gucci, Michael Kors, Lui Vutton, and others). These are all made incredibly cheap and flimsy, and you are just paying for the brand. Most of the wealthy will either buy the same brand but from their exclusive collection (not available to commoners) that are actually well made and durable, or will buy other brands (ie. John Lobb, Schaeffer’s, Frette) that actually last so long that they can be passed down if wanted. Lastly, when you see someone famous or wealthy appearing on the spotlight with something you can buy at a store (mostly super expensive like a Bellenciaga) they are lended to them for the publicity alone.
I just personally prefer to dress like Adam Sandler most of the time.
Yes, rich people tend to wear expensive but durable clothes that last a long time.
Have also noticed they tend to drive older cars too. I guess they have nothing to prove to anyone else.
My grandma was wealthy as fuck. All her clothes were made for her. She’d have died before she bought any kind of label, she thought they were common.
The shear overwhelming amount of times I’ve seen this exact question posted.
sheer
cheers
Trump.
The Kardashains
I think that that’s pretty much a subjective question. I could tell you what I find tacky, but it won’t be a universal. Some people will have different positions, and there isn’t one “correct” view to have. It’s like asking what the best flavor of ice cream is, or the best song.
Panther print. Gold lamé sandals. Lip filler. Spray tan.
And where I come from: expensive German SUVs, preferably Mercedes.
