Stuff White Brits Like

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1. on 26 August 2010 at 3:47 pm | Reply girl

   THAT IS SO BRILLIANT especially the SHOREDITCH AND KRAUTROCK ones they are so true, keep up the good work

   
   
2. on 26 April 2011 at 5:43 pm | Reply Noo

   Shouldn’t this blog be called Stuff MIDDLE CLASS Brits like?

   
   
   • on 19 December 2011 at 3:41 pm | Reply JT

     Using “white” to mean “middle-class” is something white-middle-class American’s do all the time. Since the author’s British I guess they’ve spent too much time reading Mercins posting on the internet (as have I)

     Good list though.

     
     
   • on 19 December 2011 at 9:18 pm | Reply Stuff White Brits Like

     Do you have any more suggestions on how to make the blog less funny?

     
     
3. on 15 June 2011 at 9:18 am | Reply bored.....

   Noo, this should be stuff middle class SOUTHERN Brits like. Shoreditch? Do me a favour.

   
   
4. on 29 September 2011 at 3:43 am | Reply martin mayne

   Utter bollocks. There’s loads of stuff here that this particular white Brit doesn’t like.

   I suppose I don’t have to tick all the boxes, but a great deal of this stuff I actively fucking loathe.

   
   
5. on 6 November 2011 at 10:04 am | Reply Lazy Sunday Links « What Emily Did Next

   [...] I am incredibly amused by just how much of a typical white Brit I am, as evidenced by this list of Stuff White Brits Like. I can especially identify with being completely in love with Louis Theroux, having an ironic [...]

   
   
6. on 15 December 2011 at 10:52 pm | Reply AkA

   Please post a Gap Year entry haha

   
   
7. on 19 December 2011 at 9:15 pm | Reply richard

   1. Is right the rest can fuck right off

   
   
8. on 20 December 2011 at 9:48 pm | Reply Michael Stevenson

   I’m depressed beyond tablets.

   
   
9. on 21 December 2011 at 8:47 am | Reply DV

   “Stuff White, Middle Class, Southern Brits who’ve moved to Stoke Newington like” is more accurate. Just no.

   
   
10. on 11 January 2012 at 12:45 am | Reply Pheobe

    Hmm, aside from the London-centric stuff, isn’t this more a list of “stuff white middle-class people who live in the developed world like”? Suggestion for a new name: “Stuff white, middle-class, self-obsessed, inward looking Brits like, who have no idea that they are not unique and there are in fact *gasp* other people identical to them outside of the UK”

    
    
    • on 11 January 2012 at 10:58 am | Reply Stuff White Brits Like

      Please cf the FAQ section. As you can see from the comments above, your suggestion is by no means original.

      
      
      • on 12 January 2012 at 4:01 am Pheobe

        I know, I was just making fun of white Brits some more. It’s a good list

        
        
11. on 13 January 2012 at 12:17 pm | Reply ollie

    Despite the fact that I am not British, I am a 20 something young woman living in London for many years. Can relate to many entries on that list. Hilarious So True!

    
    
12. on 23 January 2012 at 12:27 pm | Reply J

    I can’t help but think most of this only applies to centre-left metropolitan twenty-somethings. I can’t see someone from a working-class Northern background liking many of these!

    
    
13. on 24 January 2012 at 4:09 pm | Reply Yasmin

    I’m a non-white, working-class Northern Brit… and these still apply to me.

    
    
14. on 24 January 2012 at 4:34 pm | Reply Kunt Bummer

    You’ve left out “Making Quirky Yet Ineffectual Blogs” and “Claiming to Come From a Non-white Perspective (for self-satisfactory purposes)”.

    I also would like to point out (even if it is incidental) that “The Irony Factor”, “Meta-humour”, “Hating Hipsters” and “Writing” have all been used whilst making this blog.

    At a push, it could be also argued that you’ve mixed “High-brow and Low Brow References” and “Tacky Souvenirs”.

    
    
    • on 24 January 2012 at 4:40 pm | Reply Stuff White Brits Like

      Guilty as charged.

      
      
15. on 24 January 2012 at 5:20 pm | Reply Alan

    “J

    I can’t help but think most of this only applies to centre-left metropolitan twenty-somethings. I can’t see someone from a working-class Northern background liking many of these!”

    Well perhaps if Northeners joined the 21st century! Saying that, as concluded in point 2, the only places worth living in Britain are London or Brighton.

    
    
16. on 7 February 2012 at 8:28 am | Reply HuddsOn

    J –

    “I can’t help but think most of this only applies to centre-left metropolitan twenty-somethings. I can’t see someone from a working-class Northern background liking many of these!”

    I’m sure that many middle-class South Mancunians will relate to it, and those living in the more gentrified parts of central Manchester. There’s even a place in inner Manchester called New Islington.!

    But I suppose it’s all relative – to someone from Stoke-on-Trent, Manchester seems pretty hip and bohemian, to a Londoner it probably seems unbearably parochial and blue-collar.

    
    
17. on 7 February 2012 at 4:44 pm | Reply Jake

    I simply can’t believe that ‘The North Face’ clothing is not on this list. I’m not sure how over 75% of the total number of people on my train every morning would get to work, were it not for their £300, arctic weather-proof, multi-shell, down lined jackets. I’n not being smart or smug either, as my rucksack will attest to. Go the North Face Army!

    
    
18. on 10 February 2012 at 2:58 pm | Reply Billy Clayton

    Surely this blog could be more accurately titled: ‘stuff that the author doesn’t like’.

    Working under this more accurate description, it’s possible to deduce some of the ‘stuff the author likes’:

    1) Philanthropy
    8) The cold, hard light of day
    10) Homophobia
    12) Not writing? (A bit strange for the author of a blog)
    14) The indoors
    15) Either clean-shaven or fully-bearded men
    18) The 70s onwards
    20) Making serious comments on the Daily Mail webiste
    30) Straightforward parties (booze, buffet, DJ)
    33) Charity shops that don’t appeal to people with money, regardless of cash raised for charity. Charities should (illogically) not target people with expensive tastes and more money to spend
    43) Bad sportsmanship
    49) A disregard for the correct pronunciation of other languages (is the reverse expected/accepted from foreigners speaking English?)
    53) Mugs or glasses
    54) Normal cinemas
    58) Blended whiskies
    62) A world without the benefits of rigorous, professional research (i.e. technology, medicine, etc…)
    65) Queen (with good reason)
    66) Talking ad nauseam about encounters with A-list celebrities
    69) Good, old fashioned swearwords like ‘fuck’ and ‘cock’
    70) 40-100w bayonett fitting lightbulbs
    72) Comedians that agree with/reinforce their worldview

    You could probably align these likes to a tired and perpetual stereotype in the same way as the author has above, but (like the above) it would have been done many, many times elsewhere.

    Quite nicely written blog though, good spelling, grammar, and so forth. So well done on that count.

    Also, top marks for the amount of time and effort writing this blog must take away from other – presumably more productive – activities. It’s almost as though you have your own aspirations for a job in the media.

    Thankfully for us we can read your opinions for free.

    
    
    • on 10 February 2012 at 3:03 pm | Reply Stuff White Brits Like

      Whoever said I don’t count myself as a white Brit?

      
      
      • on 10 February 2012 at 3:32 pm Billy Clayton

        Good point. But surely there are some sacred cows that even the most post-ironic of White Brits would not dare to slaughter in the name of an amusingly self-depricating blog? Suerly Stewart Lee and The Smiths at the very least would have to be left unscathed?

        The venom injected in some entries had me convinced that it could not have possibly been written by a White Brit (who by defninition conforms lovingly to the list above). But if I was wrong, touche…

        
        
19. on 14 February 2012 at 10:43 am | Reply Kate Brook

    Dear Billy Clayton,

    You do so miss the point. The author is not just a White Brit. He/she is the ultimate White Brit. Not only has he/she a master in the arts of irony and self-deprecating humour, making him/her a hero among White Brits, but he/she is spectacularly self-aware and probably only started writing this blog to appease his/her own guilt about being a White Brit in the first place.

    ‘Stuff’, I impatiently await your entries on political correctness and gender studies. In the meantime, let’s get married.

    
    
20. on 14 February 2012 at 10:53 am | Reply Kate Brook

    Omfg, a typo. I’m sorry, that undermines my whole argument. *hides*