100 experiences that define 25-35 year old middle-class Britons
The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons
Submitted 7 months ago by GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
inspectorst@feddit.uk 7 months 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)?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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
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
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.
tal@lemmy.today 7 months ago
- 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.
Zombie@feddit.uk 7 months 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.
bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 7 months ago
🙄
awwwyissss@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Hexbear with more mindless hate, what a surprise.
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 7 months ago
I like to think a list like this is highlighting that you can enjoy being british without being one of the wankers you mentioned.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 months ago
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. 😉
bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 7 months ago
True. And the European settler states as well tbh. Though they’re much less closeted in their racism.
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 7 months ago
This is clearly a piss take list.
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 7 months 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
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 7 months ago
- Being told we’re gonna kill your Nan for the economy
Shmiggles@feddit.uk 7 months 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.
sgtlion@hexbear.net 7 months ago
This is too generous honestly, they basically Blairites, ie the left wing of the right wing. Officially opposed corbyn and all
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 7 months ago
This list looks like it was written by an LLM.
Zip2@feddit.uk 7 months 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 reading this list.
Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Britain was a mistake.
Zip2@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Eh?