StuffWhitePeopleLike.com is one of my guilty pleasures… ok, that’s a lie. I rarely feel guilty about anything and this is not the exception. I like the site. I think it’s funny. I think it’s spot on. And I wonder if it makes me a great big hypocrite.
As everyone familiar with the site already knows, it’s really less ‘stuff white people like’ and more ‘things yuppies/hipsters like’. As an aside, it’s interesting how hipsters and yuppies have basically become the same thing.
The fact is, I own a few t-shirts that make people on the street chuckle; I really care about grammar; and I think The Wire is the best show… ever! It hit me last week; maybe this is shit that I like as well.
Never being one to settle for mere appearances (it’s one of the reasons that I find yuppies and hipsters so annoying), I decided to do a little back-of-the-envelope calculating.
There are currently one hundred and three things on the site, and this is where I stand:
Things that I don’t mind: 30 out of 103 or 29.1%
Things that I actually like: 19 out of 103 or 18.4%
Things that I can’t stand: 39 out of 103 or 37.8%
I’m happy with the results.
Here’s the real question: when did yuppies and hipsters merge into one giant, smug, annoying demographic?
"Here’s the real question: when did yuppies and hipsters merge into one giant, smug, annoying demographic?"
ReplyDeleteI would say in 2001. And now they have melded together, they are inseperable and stronger than ever before.