• inspectorst@feddit.uk
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      10 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)?

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        10 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. 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.

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    1. 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.

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      10 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.

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    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.

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      This is too generous honestly, they basically Blairites, ie the left wing of the right wing. Officially opposed corbyn and all

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    🙄

    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.

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      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.

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      When I think of Britishcore anything 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. 😉