• Shmiggles@feddit.uk
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    15 days ago

    Reminder: The Grauniad is just journalists expressing concern about things they know four-fifths of fuck all about, and upper-middle class columnists who think they’re in touch with ordinary people because all their friends are also upper-middle class pretending to be in touch with ordinary people.

    I mean, I agree with most of their biases, but the Grauniad is just so transparently shit at it all.

  • tal@lemmy.today
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    16 days ago
    1. Being informed by your dad after five pints that if he “had to shag a bloke”, it would be Kevin McCloud from Grand Designs.

    I’m American, so maybe I’m just speaking out of ignorance here, but this sounds sufficiently specific to be a list of Dylan B. Jones experiences rather than a list of experiences uniting modern Britons.

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      16 days ago

      As a modern Brit, this list is just fucking weird. It’s only a very specific type of middle class English that would relate to this.

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      16 days ago

      Wait, how many 25 year olds in 2024 do you think remember the Mighty Boosh (2003-07), or Chicken Run (2000), or Who Shot Phil Mitchell (2001), or Caroline Quentin-era Jonathan Creek (1997-2000), or know people who were extras in the Harry Potter films (2001-11), or remember the Animals of Farthing Wood TV programme (1993-97), or spilled their drink on Miquita Oliver at a squat party in 2007 (2007)?

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      16 days ago

      At least it’ll make it easier to identify the yanks larping as brits online (I think they call them “teaboos”) when they try quoting this uncanny-valley list of not-quite authentic bants

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    16 days ago

    This is like the Netflix “top 10 in your country right now” list.

    Never have I felt more alienated from my fellow country people than by reading this list.