before anyone soils themselves
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 29 April 2017 13:08 (seven years ago) link
Applause
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 29 April 2017 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Good thread.
What are the actual class-signifying tastes and products and buying choices etc at the moment? Are there any? Or would that be separate thread
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 29 April 2017 15:13 (seven years ago) link
I think quinoa has overtaken croissants as the middle class plat du jour.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 29 April 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Houses
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 April 2017 16:28 (seven years ago) link
Spelling of humus is a massive unexplored system of cultural fault lines tbh.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
muhammara >>> hummus
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 30 April 2017 11:29 (seven years ago) link
Good thread. What are the actual class-signifying tastes and products and buying choices etc at the moment? Are there any? Or would that be separate thread
kale
― adolf hitler, the moses hightower of national socialism (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 30 April 2017 11:31 (seven years ago) link
I have just made a delicious batch of Kale/Spinach/Potato/Leek soup this morning, so that's my wannabe middle class foodie hipster action of the day done with!
― calzino, Sunday, 30 April 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link
i just had the classic full english sunday fry-up: bacon, scrambled egg, fried chorizo, toasted croissant CRUNCH CRUNCH MUNCH MUNCH
all from the turkish cornershop, this is not fancy food
― mark s, Sunday, 30 April 2017 12:04 (seven years ago) link
you are a citizen of nowhere
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 April 2017 12:06 (seven years ago) link
i had devilled eggs and asparagus - to the gulag with me
I read that (in an Irish accent) as bedeviled eggs - don't you be eating those evil balls of corruption, now!
― calzino, Sunday, 30 April 2017 12:23 (seven years ago) link
I think darragh otm. As soon as a food becomes well-known enough to be noticed as a class signifier, it's already spread to more or less everyone's shop/dinner table. But people say 'food-munching' instead of 'house-owning' or '30k-plus-earning'
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 30 April 2017 12:38 (seven years ago) link
divilled eggs
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 30 April 2017 12:49 (seven years ago) link
bevelled uggs
― mark s, Sunday, 30 April 2017 12:57 (seven years ago) link
gluten free
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 April 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
"Maybe she has never eaten chips before - at least not without a knife and fork"
https://instagram.com/p/BTmI45shWQ-/
V. poor attempt at reverse-hummusing by Guardian there
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 08:27 (seven years ago) link
Keep your eye on this one. Morrisons already have a big section in their stores - bigger than Waitrose's - and produce their own gluten free products.
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 08:32 (seven years ago) link
One thing that I think is still assumed with tory politicians - May, Cameron, even Boris, though not UKIP - is that of course they're not in touch with the common man, they are our betters and we could hardly expect them to eat the trash we do, but they want the best for us and know how to rule. Labour types, meanwhile, are supposed to be of the people and can be derided if they fail to do so.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:12 (seven years ago) link
the ones who feign the common touch are more despicable than the ones who clearly don't have it.
what even is "the common touch" - nobody i know has it, it seems like an uncommon, freakish construction itself.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:18 (seven years ago) link
to the point that you hear "politician" used as an insult for someone who behaves in a false manner.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:19 (seven years ago) link
This guy gets it.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/03/18/article-2295489-18A9EC7E000005DC-859_634x500.jpg
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:32 (seven years ago) link
This one doesn't.
http://i3.liverpoolecho.co.uk/incoming/article11685043.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/JS95958635.jpg
― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:33 (seven years ago) link
jacob rees-mogg: forever cursed to appear both 12 years old and 60 years old simultaneously
― gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:38 (seven years ago) link
It's HIGNFY syndrome: presenting a jokey (but not actually funny) observation that the observer knows is clearly untrue, to an audience who also clearly understands that the observation is untrue, and that the joke could be funnier, but laughs anyway.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:47 (seven years ago) link
you seem to have misspelled 'ilxor' as 'hignfy' there
― gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:50 (seven years ago) link
^^^could be funnier
― mark s, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:51 (seven years ago) link
the ouroubous of debatable humour
― gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:53 (seven years ago) link
ouroboros johnson mp
― gnaw on my meat oreo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 09:54 (seven years ago) link
sir ouroboros pickles
― your cognitive privilege (El Tomboto), Thursday, 4 May 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link
You won't find a better two-word punchline than this. pic.twitter.com/nwiMw08EKW— hrtbps (@hrtbps) October 5, 2017
― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Thursday, 5 October 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
UK MPs are calling for a "latte levy" on disposable coffee cups - and a total ban unless recycling improves. What would make you switch from disposal cups? #BBCBizlivehttps://t.co/JtpDG38KtL pic.twitter.com/Ngu84t9Pk9— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) January 5, 2018
as LocalGarda pointed out on twitter, it's actually just a "coffee levy"
― mark s, Friday, 5 January 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
Cofveve for short
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 5 January 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link
*eyes widen*
― mark s, Friday, 5 January 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
(in fact it should be PLASTIC CUP LEVY)
*drops coffee cup*
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Friday, 5 January 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
*it's styrofoam so nothing dramatic happens*
the only acceptable working class soft drink is tea in a mug apparently. fuck that.
― not raving but droning (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 January 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
Guess Piers likes croissants and lattes.
To all demented anti-Trump haters already working themselves into a steaming rage about my new interview, here’s an idea: don’t watch it. Just put your sandals on, eat some lentils & smoke some waccy baccy. But don’t watch, it will only make you scweam & scweam until you’re sick. pic.twitter.com/RCD1Bo3uB9— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 13, 2018
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
Not sure what’s wrong with sandals or lentils.
― devops mom (silby), Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
great thread
― mark s, Saturday, 14 July 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
not sure what's wrong with waccy baccy either tbh
― look, you’re just gonna get gravy on the baby sometimes 🤷♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 14 July 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link
Piers is waccy enough already
― more like Toss, Ow amirite? (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 14 July 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
he's never struck me as a downers man
― look, you’re just gonna get gravy on the baby sometimes 🤷♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 14 July 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
Is there something to be said in this connection about the tradition of newspaper journalists getting very worked up because a celebrity has been found ... taking cocaine??!!?
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 15 July 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
I find all this really interesting though. I was in the shop just now - all these demonised things, the hummus, kale, qinoa, lattes, organic, etc, etc, are all thoroughly standard. Everywhere. Cheap. Everyone buying them. And the food options in lowest common denominator beer and a burger pubs are all, you know, done up so as to include all this stuff.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 15 July 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
At some point in the 1980s quiche became the totem food that ultra-manly men claimed all unmanly men regaled themselves upon. Now it's just... quiche.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 15 July 2018 20:24 (six years ago) link
'The Botanist' chain of pubs and the status of prosecco must fit into this too.
Maybe the demonisation of the ____ munching, _____ swilling liberals is less to do with their supposedly luxurious tastes (as the accuser implies or want us to think) and more to do with how normal they are, how on-trend? They only have liberal opinions because it's fashionable, see, just like lattes and hummus are fashionable?
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Sunday, 15 July 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
Morgan has always acted about 20 years older than he really is. It's strange.
― shaqiri tip (nashwan), Sunday, 15 July 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link