The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons

Comments

• Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

  source

  • Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Britain was a mistake.

    source

    • Zip2@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eh?

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  100 experiences that define 25-35 year old middle-class Britons

  source

  • inspectorst@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨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)?

    source

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

      source
• tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  13. 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.

  source

  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

    source
• bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  🙄

  source

  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hexbear with more mindless hate, what a surprise.

    source
  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

    source
  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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. 😉

    source

    • bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True. And the European settler states as well tbh. Though they’re much less closeted in their racism.

      source
• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is clearly a piss take list.

  source

  • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

    source
• ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Being told we’re gonna kill your Nan for the economy

  source
• Shmiggles@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

  source

  • sgtlion@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    source
• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This list looks like it was written by an LLM.

  source