1. Professional darts2. Car modding3. Happy hardcore/northern house4. Working men's clubs5. Bingo halls
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:53 (sixteen years ago)
6. Pirate DVDs
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:55 (sixteen years ago)
7. Party limo rental
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)
8. Racism
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)
9. Northern Soul/Ska nights
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)
10. Standing in the way of the inexorable rise of neo-burlesque.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)
Was about to post "this is my weekend tbh" before Matt interjected. Reconsidered.
11. "Imported" cigs/tobacco
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:58 (sixteen years ago)
12. People who go by a nickname in lieu of their real name: Muscles, Makka, Muttley, etc.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:59 (sixteen years ago)
13. Aquascutum
14. Keeping of pigeons.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Sunday, 1 February 2009 21:59 (sixteen years ago)
15. Allotments.
16. Badly-spelt Facebook status updates inviting people to vote for Boris.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:00 (sixteen years ago)
17. Big fuck-off telly
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:00 (sixteen years ago)
18. Fierce dog ownership
― dubmill, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:01 (sixteen years ago)
19. Dinner = mid-day meal
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:01 (sixteen years ago)
20. Tea = dinner.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:01 (sixteen years ago)
all of these thus far would work for britain in general tbh.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:02 (sixteen years ago)
21. Putting a donk on it.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:02 (sixteen years ago)
22. Red sauce
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)
http://users.nsula.edu/sinclaird/utopia.jpg
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)
23. Kicking goths in the head.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:04 (sixteen years ago)
24. http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/Seethegrim2/MyShotz/First-Max-Power-Cover.jpg
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:04 (sixteen years ago)
25. Batter bits
26. Batter kids
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:05 (sixteen years ago)
27. Breakfast = 2 bags crisps, share bag of Aero Bubbles, litre bottle Relentless
28. Many tattoos, seemingly at random
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)
29. 6-2 shift.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)
30. Ridiculously hot curries
― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)
31. Middle aged women who have a pint of lager and pour some into a half pint glass to drink it
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)
32. Huddling together in freezing council flats with the wallpaper peeling and only twee indie pop to keep them warm.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:07 (sixteen years ago)
33. Going to art school and being condescended to.
― Related Groups VICE MAGAZINE (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:08 (sixteen years ago)
34. Wonderwall.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:08 (sixteen years ago)
35. Dudes roaming the streets topless at first sighting of sunshine in March
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:08 (sixteen years ago)
36. Getting nicknames like "The Professor" or "Brains" because you passed four GCSEs
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:09 (sixteen years ago)
#35 OTM - the middle-class equivalent is middle-aged men putting on shorts and sandals at first sighting of sunshine in March.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:10 (sixteen years ago)
37. Investing more into the football-watching experience than "I say fellows, fancy watching Arsenal waltz four past Schmuck Retard FC this avo?"
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:10 (sixteen years ago)
38. Signalling appreciation of shit-hot foreign signing by wearing comedy ethnic headgear.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:12 (sixteen years ago)
39. Pub skittles
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:12 (sixteen years ago)
40. £3.99 beer and burger
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:13 (sixteen years ago)
41. Curry night
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:13 (sixteen years ago)
42. Intimate knowledge of fruit machine strategies
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:13 (sixteen years ago)
lol Dom
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:14 (sixteen years ago)
43. Sunday afternoons at garden centre or B&Q
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:14 (sixteen years ago)
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44. Dudes that have a "system" for bookie roulette machines45. Putting your fist through the bookie roulette machine glass and being escorted away by police
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:14 (sixteen years ago)
40 and 41 are pretty much "students also" btw
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:15 (sixteen years ago)
46. Powerleague Wednesday night five-a-side47. Fight afterwards with own team-mate
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:15 (sixteen years ago)
48. 15 dog accumulator
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:16 (sixteen years ago)
49. "Ditched at the Altar by Two-Timing Cancer Cheat Who Ran Off with My Mother" magazine stories. Paid £100 for contributing same.
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:16 (sixteen years ago)
49b. The Jeremy Kyle Show
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:17 (sixteen years ago)
56 also applicable to Greek Cypriot culture btw
tru, i love crabsticks.
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:36 (sixteen years ago)
My childhood Sunday tea = crabstick sandwiches sitting on a table cloth on the floor in the lounge watching Bullseye.
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:37 (sixteen years ago)
68. Lounge not Living Room
69. ^ contains settee
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:38 (sixteen years ago)
70. Not being allowed to wear jeans whilst sitting on the settee for the first 3 years of its existence in case the studs caused damage.71. Antimacassars and other shit that permanently needs straightening
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:39 (sixteen years ago)
72. Saving 20p coins/£2 coins in a big whisky bottle
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:42 (sixteen years ago)
73. World of Sport
74. Caravan/boat in driveway of council house
― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)
75. Dinner at cafe in Morrisons
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)
76. Marilyn Monroe/James Dean fixation
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:45 (sixteen years ago)
77. Psychobilly
78. Psychos called Billy
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:47 (sixteen years ago)
79. Scratchcards
― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:47 (sixteen years ago)
80. Photo of dead family member on top of the TV
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:48 (sixteen years ago)
81. Mantlepiece completely covered in chintzy shit
15. is wrong. All allotments are full of middle class folk growing organic. Like me.
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:49 (sixteen years ago)
ah, in Glasgow this is not the case, how different the two nations are.
― Bone Thugs-N-Harmony ft Phil Collins (jim), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:50 (sixteen years ago)
82. Fear of "the other".
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:50 (sixteen years ago)
83. Ridiculous chandelier-esque light-fitting completely out of proportion to rest of room
― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:51 (sixteen years ago)
84. would-be political representatives display no interest in or knowledge of said white working class English culture
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:51 (sixteen years ago)
85. Ordering a taxi to go to the pub even tho it's at the end of your fucking road
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:52 (sixteen years ago)
86.
How did it ever get to being this wayI look around meAll my enemies surround meAll my inhibitions hound meWill I ever be savedHow did it ever get to being this wayReligion never found meHoly water never drowned meHow the Devil still astounds meHow did it ever get to being this way (x5)
VulnerabiliaDon't know my mindNot since I left itI left it behindVulnerabilia
(x2)
How did it ever get to being this wayIn the drugstoreI found what I was looking forAnd then I found I must find moreHow did it ever get to being this wayI was so sureThere was no cureThen I fell in love with the dancefloorHow did it ever get to being this way (x5)
VulnerabiliaDon't know my own mindNot since I left itI left it behindVulnerabilia
(x5)
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:52 (sixteen years ago)
(the (first) two albums comprise probably the best and most honest musical dissection of white English working-class life this decade)
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)
(83. Also goes for many Indian families of my acquaintance along with overly ornate gates)
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:54 (sixteen years ago)
xpost
Nope, I think you'll find "Put a Donk On It" does that.
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:55 (sixteen years ago)
xp (which are always referred to by their children (ie. my age group) as being "my mothers idea")
― The Unbelievably Insensitive Baroness Vadera (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:55 (sixteen years ago)
lol Noodle yer like the other person on ILM who reps for that lot
― america is the only _______ that _______ (country matters), Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:55 (sixteen years ago)
87. Greek pillars outside front door of ex council house.88. Cheapest possible BMW X589. Small dogs.90. Large dogs.
― Jarlrmai, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)
91. All soil & vegetation removed from front garden, replaced by monobloc
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:58 (sixteen years ago)
92. Really tacky and massively excessive outdoor Christmas decorations (bonus points for huge inflatable santa/snowman)
― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 22:58 (sixteen years ago)
i think a u.s. one of these would be eerily similar.
― forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)
93. Posh Italian on the high street
― Matt DC, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:03 (sixteen years ago)
94. dislike of political correctness, human rights, the EU
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)
a "list aspects of formerly working-class 'new money' culture" would be interesting, but would cause much butthurt too.
― forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:05 (sixteen years ago)
95. Unrealistic expectations of England's performance in imminent football tournament
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:09 (sixteen years ago)
95 - really? isn't it a case of 'we're shit and we know we are next to those fancy dan eurogays but we're honest and british and we was robbed and we're going to have a laugh anyway?
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:19 (sixteen years ago)
96. String vests
― Donate your display name to Gaza (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:19 (sixteen years ago)
97. Buying half-pints for the ladies
― Donate your display name to Gaza (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)
95 = THOSE FUCKING ENGLAND FLAGS!
― ailsa, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)
I think fucking England flags are as middle class an affectation as they are a working class one
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)
97 = 31. Middle aged women who have a pint of lager and pour some into a half pint glass to drink it
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)
xpost cf. Henmang Hill
― McAlmont and I'll Get You Butler (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:23 (sixteen years ago)
95xp Possibly. Kind of hard to avoid getting caught up in it, I find. Immediate switch to your way of seeing it upon elimination, certainly
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 February 2009 23:25 (sixteen years ago)
Question: do third/fourth generation Irish immigrant cultures of Manchester, Liverpool, et al count as "white working class English culture"?
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:29 (sixteen years ago)
yes
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:31 (sixteen years ago)
or at least, they wouldn't count as working class irish culture. i'm not even sure there is such a thing.
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:32 (sixteen years ago)
yes they do
― Related Groups VICE MAGAZINE (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:36 (sixteen years ago)
If 'the white working class English culture' doesn't include them, who does it include?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 February 2009 14:36 (sixteen years ago)
count as "white working class English culture"
xpost to self
― Related Groups VICE MAGAZINE (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:37 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.freewebs.com/paulwillo/madness_hi.jpg
― a small batch bourbon of web board shitfits (stevie), Monday, 2 February 2009 14:37 (sixteen years ago)