So what kind of snob are you?

[Rich Forest]

C’mon, you know you are one. Maybe it’s wine, maybe it’s beer, maybe it’s manga or even (gasp) roleplaying games. Maybe it’s some kind of indie music, maybe it’s your deep knowledge of the truth about the martial arts. Maybe you’re intellectually superior to all us snobs, who are petty and small for lording some special niche over others.

Yes, what kind of snob are you?

Me, I’m a coffee snob. I order beans green and roast them myself immediately before grinding and brewing. I pay close attention to different roasts and the finer points of brewing, be it with a french press for coffees or the finer points of the machinery for espresso. I drink my coffee untainted by sugar and milk and fancy creams, to best enjoy the taste. I don’t drink coffee in the morning because I drink it to enjoy the flavors, not for simple and pedestrian reasons like getting the caffeine high. I will slight Starbucks while secretly buying my coffee there when there is no reasonably easy to find local alternative. I can wax eloquent about my favorite beans and my favorite roasts, and I can impress (or annoy) with my coffee trivia. And I don't care if you're only pretending to be interested when I talk about it. I notice, oh sure, I notice. But I keep talking about it anyway.

So what kind of snob are you?

Rich

[Ron Edwards]

Hey,

Mixed drinks.
Martial arts.
Fiction, including fantasy/imaginative fiction.
Relationship hassles.

Big-time snob, in all cases.

Best,
Ron

[hardcoremoose]

Horror movies.  If someone brings the subject up, I can't help but say "Yeah, but..." and then drop a few names of even more obscure films and/or filmmakers.  Ugh.

- Scott

[coxcomb]

Replica swords and other historical weapons.

Tools (woodworking, gardening, whatever).

Both cases definitely fall into the "don't get me started" category!

[Jonathan Walton]

I started answering this in the other thread, but...

China
Chinese Rock Music
Opera
Rock Opera (though not "rock musicals," ugh...)
Religion
Paradise Lost
Aesthetics
Graphic Design
Little-Appreciated-But-Kick-Ass-Roleplaying-Games (esp. Continuum/Narcissist, Engel, and Nobilis [even though the latter gets some attention])
My Own Creations & Creative Endeavours
Fizzball (a "sport" involving cans of cheap soda/beer and an aluminum bat)

Probably more too.  I'm a big-time, unapologetic snob.

[lumpley]

I'm a movie hobbyist, which means that I seek out movie snobs to glom onto (as Scott can attest, right Scott?), but I'm also a relationship hassles hobbyist, so Ron: what's your favorite relationship hassle?  Whose approaches to relationship hassles do you especially dig?  Geek about relationship hassles to me!

-Vincent, an rpg snob but of course.

[Andy Kitkowski]

Japanese Language and Culture (but, surprisingly, not History).

Philosophy, namely American Pragmatism.  'Don't. Get. Me. Started.'
(note: any other kind of philosophy talk: I immediately bend the perspective to include Pragmatism, then I get started on that angle.  I have very little tollerance for the legacy of Plato).

Network technology (anything but wireless), especially Network Mobility and IPv6. That's my only techgeekiness.

RPGs :)

[BPetroff93]

Ummm...

Fantasy literature
Martial Arts
Occultism

AND...

ROLE PLAYING GAMES!! :)

[greyorm]

Science snob.
Religion snob (not in a My Way Is Best way, however -- more "know about what you believe, practice what you believe").
And Logic -- most of all, logic. Everything else flows from logic. I can forgive faults in knowledge, but not in logic, especially once pointed out.

I'll also take the label of "elitist" as a compliment.
I simply hold people to high standards of thought and behavior (particularly regarding self-examination). I expect of them. I've noticed that scares the crap out of most modern people, sadly.

[Clinton R. Nixon]

I try my absolute hardest not be a snob - coming from backwoods America, where I spent my youth digging in dirt, I get huge shadows of guilt when I get too uppity.

Still, I manage to be kind of a dick about music. I listen to unabashed pop, but I'm discriminatory about what unabashed pop I listen to. And I'm a real snob about country music. If the songwriter hasn't been to jail, I pretty much write them off.

[Ron Edwards]

Hey Vincent,

Ron: what's your favorite relationship hassle? Whose approaches to relationship hassles do you especially dig? Geek about relationship hassles to me!

No. My perspective on the matter is too developed and complex to be utilized in casual conversation. It's wasted on the ruck and run of most people who gab, in an uninformed fashion, about stuff they know so little about.

Maybe when you're older.

Best,
Ron the Snob

[Walt Freitag]

American colonial history ca. 1600-1800
Diet plans
LARPs
General science (that is; I know way less about any science than a scientist in that field, but more about the sciences in general than most scientists)
Director/Shockwave
Critical thinking

- Walt

[lumpley]

Ron: Aw man.  Not even a book recommendation?

When I'm older, I'm gonna come back, you realize that.

-Vincent

[Christopher Weeks]

I'm a little snobby about everything I can be (wine, food, ethics, travel, board games, beer)...but in a good way.  The only thing I regularly get obnoxious about is child rearing.  You're doing it wrong and I can help :-)

Chris

[GreatWolf]

I'm feel like I am working on developing my snobbishness in the following areas:

coffee
tea
RPGs
board games
movies
beer

I would love to be able to be a wine and cheese snob as well, but my budget couldn't stand it.

Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf