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.
Britain was a mistake.
Eh?
I imagine that he was highlighting the fact that real men live on the Devensian British-Irish Ice Sheet, not this…turf. Now the whole thing’s packed full of hedgehogs and badgers and Morrisonses and such.
They are trying to do something about those badgers though.
In the course of human history the creation of Britain and the concept of Britishness as it is today was a mistake. We shouldn’t have done it folks. It’s bad. This list shows a deeply sick society and culture. You’re right to be alienated, it’s deeply alienating.
I think most of the items on that list are more a result of societal changes more recent than the creation of Britain as an entity, and the concept of Britishness has changed much and continues to do so.
We cant’t blame everything on the far past, otherwise we’d be pointing the finger at the formation of the eukaryotes.
Ok. I did say “Britishness as it is today”, I never mentioned the far past.
To be clear, not that I think the past was good in Britain either, it sucked then too, just differently.
Ok. I did say “Britishness as it is today”, I never mentioned the far past.
You’re absolutely right, you did. Blame my dodgy eyesight!
This is clearly a piss take list.
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
100 experiences that define 25-35 year old social media-posting middle-class Britons
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)?
I said 25-35, not 25.
Mighty Boosh (2003-07)
Lots
Chicken Run (2000)
Lots
Who Shot Phil Mitchell (2001)
Not many
Caroline Quentin-era Jonathan Creek (1997-2000)
A reasonable amount
Or know people who were extras in the Harry Potter films (2001-11)
A similar amount to people that are 5 years older. I.e. not many in the grand scheme of things.
remember the Animals of Farthing Wood TV programme (1993-97)
Not many
or spilled their drink on Miquita Oliver at a squat party in 2007 (2007)?
I don’t even know what that is and I’m 39. I doubt many people did in any age group.
A lot of your comment seems to be based on the assumption that people only watch films/TV that’s just coming out now, and therefore no young adults will know anything that came from the 90s or early 2000s.
- 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.
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.
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.
This is too generous honestly, they basically Blairites, ie the left wing of the right wing. Officially opposed corbyn and all
- Being told we’re gonna kill your Nan for the economy
🙄
When I think of Britishcore I think of closet racism, pro-imperialism, an unearned sense of exceptionalism and general classism. But that’s just me.
Hexbear with more mindless hate, what a surprise.
I like to think a list like this is highlighting that you can enjoy being british without being one of the wankers you mentioned.
The less good ones of these are more wanker-lite.When I think of
Britishcoreanything European I think of closet racism, pro-imperialism, an unearned sense of exceptionalism and general classism. But that’s just me.Fixed that for you.
All your points apply to the entire European continent. 😉
True. And the European settler states as well tbh. Though they’re much less closeted in their racism.
