Does this constitute snobbery?

[Conchis]

Anyway......Kafka and Cleethorpes

[french frank]

Anyway......Kafka and Cleethorpes

What would you like to know (the answer's Yes).

[vinteuil]

I agree - let's give the fish jokes a rest and listen to … oh, I don't know, how about something by that chap who composed 'Carmina Burana'.

... inevitably -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-Yy5q1QcM

.

[MrGongGong]

... inevitably -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-Yy5q1QcM

.

Beat (as on the banks of the Silvery Tay) me to it

[MrGongGong]

Oh God, sucker punch, right? I'm outta here - thank god there's lots of good football today...!

[eighthobstruction]

... inevitably -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY-Yy5q1QcM

.

....excellent....

[french frank]

that chap who composed 'Carmina Burana'.

His real name was William Henry Pratt, you know.

[Padraig]

Is that the end... fin?

[LMcD]

His real name was William Henry Pratt, you know.

Brilliant!

[Richard Tarleton]

....excellent....

...a question on last week's University Challenge - Mondegreen......

[vinteuil]

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... and fans of The Bridge might relish -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIFg-5rbnYg

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[ardcarp]

Yesterday, I worked with a woman in her late fifties who had never heard of Kafka.

I may be wrong (and probably am) but I found this absolutely horrifying, as well as embarrassing. Said woman does not lack formal education and is not a from a materially deprived background....but she had never heard of the Czech novelist, or of his works.

After learning this, I'm afraid I cold-shouldered her for the rest of the day. I just found it embarrassing to be in the same space as someone so casually ignorant.

Does this make me a snob and/or a 'bad person'?

I haven't read all the posts. But would one be equally aghast if someone hadn't heard of, say, a muon? Being scientifically 'illitereate' seems to be OK, and no cause for someone who isn't to be worried by feelings of snobbery towards those who are. C.P. Snow and all that.

[Bryn]

I haven't read all the posts. But would one be equally aghast if someone hadn't heard of, say, a muon? Being scientifically 'illitereate' seems to be OK, and no cause for someone who isn't to be worried by feelings of snobbery towards those who are. C.P. Snow and all that.

Hmm. Should quarks not now be renamed, not only since we now recognise at least double Muster Mark's three, but also to avoid confusion with a certain dairy product?

[LMcD]

Hmm. Should quarks not now be renamed, not only since we now recognise at least double Muster Mark's three, but also to avoid confusion with a certain dairy product?

See also, http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...890#post725890

I don't know whether it makes me a snob, but I'm sort of proud when I know none of the answers to quiz questions about TV talent shows.

[Conchis]

I haven't read all the posts. But would one be equally aghast if someone hadn't heard of, say, a muon? Being scientifically 'illitereate' seems to be OK, and no cause for someone who isn't to be worried by feelings of snobbery towards those who are. C.P. Snow and all that.

I made the additional point, down thread, that the woman is involved with an arts organisation, which made her ignorance of F.K. all the more alarming, to me at least. Sort of analogous to a member of a scientific society not knowing what joules are.