Pretention Backfired

Yesterday a guy from one of my classes invited me over to his friend's apartment to play super smash bros. (I LOVE THAT GAME)
These guys are kind of witty snarky/rude...usually in a funny way...and so I was all like, "THREE can play this game of snark!"
There were these giant gaudy columns in his complex so I said "Awww dang, look at the Roman architecture you have in this place.."
You know. Being pretentious. Because obviously they were giant gaudy columns.
But then they were both like "Are you serious? 'Ooh, look at the Greco-Roman themes,' what do you do, research ancient architecture in your spare time?"
"No!" I said, "I meant it like, wow what a fancy place you got here--"
"SHE'S GOT MORE! Tell me more! Can you analyze these concrete steps?"

And they teased me about it for hours. HOURS. I don't even fully understand how they got to wherever they were.
LESSON LEARNED.