GO! Smell this site - stuff white people like!
March 19th, 2008 by Jim & EmBlogger Manictastic drew our attention to a popular blog with a difference. It is devoted to stuff that white people like, called, wait for it - stuff white people like.
It is, and we quote, ‘ a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like. They are pretty predictable.’
A simple enough concept but once taking the blogosphere by storm and has enjoyed 13 MILLION views in 2008 alone, more than a popular UK soap opera enjoys on prime time TV when an all round good egg is written out in a freak accident.
Any thoughts on the concept, the humor, the cultural implications and why ’stuff white people like’ is so popular? Maybe it’s time to laugh at ourselves far more than we do? Life a serious business afterall, right? Frown. Do tell!
apparently they can’t jump either!
I haven’t read the blog so can’t comment but the title is off-putting enough. Sorry - I know we can all laugh at this and site PC gone mad etc but in the cold light of day such titles can’t promote racial harmony can they?
I’m sure i’ll enjoy the blog and the title no doubt played a big part in its success.
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The title implies some “race” but it’s more of a humouristic social analysis of “white” middle class live. Some posts are more about race than others. Here’s an excerpt from the latest post about dinner parties:
It is imperative that white people know how to host a good dinner party as they will be expected to do it well into retirement.
At the most basic level, these simple gatherings involve 3-6 couples getting together at a single house or apartment and 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.
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Hey Manictastic!
Thanks for dropping by and bringing this site to our flower smelling attention.
More excerpts welcome and feel free to have a good sniff around here….
That is a seriously impressive blog. Love it.
So this is where Simon Cowell buys his trousers
If this comes up as anon the laptop is going through the window in Bo Snr house
Get some Clapton on and be
Get some Clapton on and be Stevie Wonder……….?
Oh, and what the f#k is that yellow face biting on at the start of your comment?
Looks like he’s just lost a filling if you ask me.
This a seriously cool blog…. interesting content… and is taking the mickey out us … I love…. dam wish I had of thought of it…
The name is off putting, but unlike Jonathon I just had to look… to either spit the dummy at racial tones or cack myself silly its been a long day…. I knew with the title I would do one or the other … you decide which I did…..
:lol:
The thing is that regardless of what colour you are and where you live there does appear to be a white culture just the same as black yellow, red, green or purple…. it is the way it is… acceptance of that is half the battle to understanding others… and this site goes a long way to doing that…
:lol:
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Very interesting and amusing!
Reminds me of the many things that my family and I found “funny” abuot white people when we first moved to England from Kenya 30 years ago.
Such as guys shaving their heads, wearings pins in their noses and calling us “pakies” and other such names
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I used to wear my trousers like that when I was younger and inherited the hand me downs from my 2 older brothers
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Good job you lost the high trousers A..
Otherwise your speak would be a squeek!
LOL Arvind! Any other quirky habits you want to share with Flowers?
Just read the St Patrick’s Day post, it’s hilarious :lol:
its interesting, yesterday there was a post on people liking white stuff; now today there’s a post on stuff white people like.
I have to say. I fit pretty good to most of those assumptions of what white people like on that blog.
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LOL, Perhaps next there will be a post on white stuff that white people like.
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With some dark humour thrown in….
ouch!
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