What is it about white middle-class English people ...

FinsburyParkCarrots

fanch75 wrote:

What you are describing here are folks who are basic-level white. These folks are hitting the major talking points of the loves of white people, such as diversity, having black friends, being an expert on cultures other than their own, and having bad memories of their childhood. They may also tell you a story about how they got high with a Jamaican once while traveling abroad, making them experts on Jamaican marijuana. You will instantly earn their respect if you make up a story about how Jamaican marijuana is the best in the world.

This is in comparison to advanced-level white people, who would begin writing global warming poems, and playing accoustic songs about poor people who vote Republican, organic food, and grocery co-ops. If you want to become friends with high advanced-level white people, suggest immediately doing a sit-in at the local WalMart.

It's these "advanced level" whites who are the ones holding these sit-ins but talking as if they're from Kingston (and not Kingston-upon-Thames either). It's a bizarre phenomenon. I'll look for youtube examples!

fotd

fanch75 wrote:

This is in comparison to advanced-level white people, who would begin writing global warming poems, and playing accoustic songs about poor people who vote Republican, organic food, and grocery co-ops. If you want to become friends with high advanced-level white people, suggest immediately doing a sit-in at the local WalMart.

We should burn the wal-marts to the ground. I never understood how poor folks can vote republican.

As for the kids in the OC, lookin at you Cosmo, it's cause they think Lil Wayne and Marley is the only thing you can smoke a blunt to. I always tried to get them to realize that art-rock, jambands are so much better to get baked to and play video games for hours.

fanch75

fotd wrote:

We should burn the wal-marts to the ground. I never understood how poor folks can vote republican.

As for the kids in the OC, lookin at you Cosmo, it's cause they think Lil Wayne and Marley is the only thing you can smoke a blunt to. I always tried to get them to realize that art-rock, jambands are so much better to get baked to and play video games for hours.

What do you think about Coldplay?

Collin

fotd wrote:

We should burn the wal-marts to the ground. I never understood how poor folks can vote republican.

As for the kids in the OC, lookin at you Cosmo, it's cause they think Lil Wayne and Marley is the only thing you can smoke a blunt to. I always tried to get them to realize that art-rock, jambands are so much better to get baked to and play video games for hours.

You can toke to anything except Lil Wayne (edit: and except to coldplay).

Jearlpam0925

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

... who inhale their first bong and suddenly start putting on Jamaican accents? They go around festivals and poetry open mics polluting people's ears with interminable shite about "uprisin' an' resistance". They invariably look like Newton Faulkner (even the men), and wear multicoloured woollen crap, and try to cover up the fact that they went to Marlborough by saying "massive seriaaarsse" and "bless up, innit" between whinging about their mummy who is onto her fourth marriage (this time not to a woman but to a pipe stall salesman called Dave, in Florence).



Surely Fanch hath the answer.

Yeah, ummm.... I guess you run into this a lot? Usually middle-class white people on this side end up putting on "Dark Side of the Moon" with the Wizard of Oz and eat cheeto's.

lephty

when i am drunk, i tend to speak spanish...

when i am stoned, i have a british accent...

don't ask me why! it just happens

writersu

fanch75 wrote:

What you are describing here are folks who are basic-level white. These folks are hitting the major talking points of the loves of white people, such as diversity, having black friends, being an expert on cultures other than their own, and having bad memories of their childhood. They may also tell you a story about how they got high with a Jamaican once while traveling abroad, making them experts on Jamaican marijuana. You will instantly earn their respect if you make up a story about how Jamaican marijuana is the best in the world.

This is in comparison to advanced-level white people, who would begin writing global warming poems, and playing accoustic songs about poor people who vote Republican, organic food, and grocery co-ops. If you want to become friends with high advanced-level white people, suggest immediately doing a sit-in at the local WalMart.

off subject but kind of the same thing.....

a friend who has kids at the same school as my kids and she went years ago to see Madonna play a concert here in Chicago. Madonna was on this conserving energy thing and she made the venue turn off their air conditioning. Everyone was sweatiing their butts off there.
But in the lot, where all the trucks, etc., whatever stars bring to perform are carried, they had a massive engine running the whole time, evidently SHE was not sweating with no air.