Annie Rhiannon

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Stuff White People Like

Every so often I stumble across a website that makes me think, "Hey! How come I never saw this before? I thought I had finished the internet!" and then I quickly subscribe to it because if there's one thing I need more of it's wasting my life away reading stuff online. My latest find is Stuff White People Like and every post just makes me cringe out loud. Because it all seems to have been written about me. Some selected highlights:

Bad memories of high school
"Virtually every white person you meet was a nerd in a high school — it it is how they were able to get into a good arts program and law school. As such, their memories of high school are painful, but not tragic since they were able to eventually find success in the real world."

Dinner parties
"At the most basic level, these simple gatherings involve 3-6 couples getting together at a single house or apartment, having dinner and talking for 5-6 hours. Though it might seem basic these events are some of the most stressful situations in all of white culture."

Music piracy
"White people have always been renowned for having ridiculously large music collections. So when file sharing gave white people a chance to acquire all the music they ever wanted, it felt as though it was an earned right and not a privilege."

Hating corporations
"White people love nothing more than explaining to you how Wal*Mart, McDonalds, Microsoft, Halliburton are destroying the Earth’s culture and resources... When engaging in a conversation about corporate evils it is important to NEVER, EVER mention Apple Computers, Target or Ikea. White people prefer to hate corporations that don’t make stuff that they like."

Oh God, I really like this blog. I wonder if they've ever posted about white people liking Stuff White People Like? I'm afraid to look.

22 comments:

  1. John B1.4.08

    >I wonder if they've ever posted >about white people liking Stuff >White People Like? I'm afraid to >look.

    Well what I thought when I saw it, is that one thing they didn't add to the list is white people making ironic blogs about themselves.

    My favourite new find is Photoshop disasters .

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  2. oh god. the bit about corporations really stings. guilty as charged!

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  3. How weird I got sent the link recently too - re the dinner party post - is pretty good.

    Great how us white people can laugh at ourselves ???

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  4. whaddayamean, like IKEA? I can't stand IKEA :D

    But yes, I sometimes read this blog, it tends to pop up on the Wordpress.com dashboard. But pretty often I think I must be a non-white in disguise. Not a single one of the above really fits me (weeeelll, maybe the Apple Computer thing there). Didn't mind high school, just thought it boring, love dinner parties and they don't stress me out one little bit, never download music (being a copyright holder mself) and, well, the IKEA...

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  5. Oh yes, dinner parties - definitely identify with that one. Ridiculously stressful. But only because I'm so concerned that the conversation / food / wine / home decor etc isn't unknowingly laughably suburban and out-of-date.

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  6. Could you give a little public exposure to two new blogs:

    http://fsspvocations.blogspot.com/
    http://tradvocations.blogspot.com/

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  7. Yes. If anybody is interested in fostering traditional Priestly vocations in Scotland and Ireland, be sure to clicky-click the linky-links.

    Oh my god, that Photoshop disasters site is great. <3 airbrushing.

    Hildigunnur, Icelanders might be exempt. You have your own issues entirely.

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  8. I came across it the other day, too. It's freaking brilliant.

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  9. (advance apologies for off-topic comment)--

    go on, then, send me your address (to my facebook account will work, if you can find me in your gazillion 'friends') so I can get the Obama cards to you as promised. You're going to love them.

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  10. True Genius.

    I think you might enjoy www.blackpeopleloveus.com

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  11. White people hate being white mostly, preferring to be day-glo orange at times if Saturday nights in Dublin are anything to go by

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  12. oh great! I was afraid I would have to spend all day typing away my MA thesis (what with the deadline being only three weeks away) but now I have something REAL to do!

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  13. Have just spent a while reading back on some of your posts (instead of really important stuff I should be doing) & I lub you!

    Really, was that too much.......?

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  14. It's never too much, LV. And welcome.

    Thanks for the link, Neil.

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  15. haha, definitely, I didn't mean to imply I didn't have any issues, ohno ohnoes :D

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  16. Oh, I didn't mean to imply that you didn't know that you didn't have not have any issues. I'm a big fan of Icelanders' issues, as you know :)

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  17. Just to let you know, I followed the links from Convenor, and I'm now a priest in a small village outside Inverness.

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  18. Rumour has it that Stuff White People Like has landed itself a €300k book deal.

    Not bad going for three months work.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/fashion/30web.html?ei=5124&en=ef7f5e7d4ded7efd&ex=1364529600&adxnnl=1&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&adxnnlx=1206974983-veRFc/pHat86GBwpHvc3Qg

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  19. This is great. Especially the last post. Corporations don't bother me that much, but it is fun to hear people complain about e.g. the evil oil companies, and then step in their SUVs and drive off (theoretically speaking :)

    But those comments are not about white people, they are about white American people. Big difference. I don't really identify with these issues, except for what you see on TV :o

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  20. I came across this site the other day and spent a while alternately cringing and laughing!

    I completely agree with the dinner party comment, but I hate, loathe and detest Ikea.

    Does that make me only partially white?

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  21. Anonymous7.4.08

    Here's a really funny blog, in the same vein as SWPL, but about "white" parenting.

    http://bestparentever.com

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