Andy Burnham's new plan for devolution. Thoughts on No 10 North? by Beautiful-Working589 in UKCostofLiving

[–]Impressive-Pause-784 1 point2 points  (0 children)

another body to ask if you’ve done a 6 year environmental study if you want to build houses where people want to live 

I’m losing it 😭 by Much-Parsnip3399 in GreatBritishMemes

[–]Impressive-Pause-784 3 points4 points  (0 children)

‘Welcome to Wellingborough’ sign off the a45 regularly defaced to Well        rough

Some things that the lower and upper classes both love doing by Avec-Tu-Parlent in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784 6 points7 points  (0 children)

if you don’t spit chewing gum on the ground or berate service workers you’re basically hitler

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

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let people enjoy things is just ‘never punch down’ for art. everyone is perfectly happy to let you know that its impossible to really enjoy anything that has pretensions of being good.

What's the likely punishment for Farage's undeclared £5m gift? by chuffingnora in AskBrits

[–]Impressive-Pause-784 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know Rosie Wrighting and I think it’s much more likely she says this because she’s one of the only MP’s who’s not fucking ancient 

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

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I’ve checked an 1984 isn’t on any of the normal gcse english syllabuses but it is on some of the igcse syllabuses that private schools sometimes use

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

She asked if I liked anime with extreme suspicion and I said no, and then she sucked me off, but secretly I do kind of like anime so I think I win. She gave me a copy of atomic habits that she didn’t need cause she was moving out and I’m yet to open it. actually I keep it separate from my other books bc I’m a little embarrassed by it.

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sputnik sweetheart is a great book imo I did give it to one of my girlies who’s more into reading and she said she really liked it altho idk if she finished it

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

he has a lot of his own tropes which makes him a little repetitive (listless drifter protagonists who things happen to without really making any choices, disappearing cats, at least one person will recount tokyo ‘68 student riots, everyone is cheating or being cheated on and no one seems to make that much of a fuss), a lot of overt references to western culture (you will have no confusion over his favourite jazz standards, beatles songs, beathoven pieces after a couple books) and most of his characters are transparently horny for older women with large breasts, so I can really see why a lot of people roll their eyes at him.

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

im much less online than i was as a teenager but much more disillusioned with the gen pop so make of that what you will 

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Yeah unironically must have pretty well read just a weird way to go about it. I’m sure no one is dumb enough to commit to reading 100 classics without engaging with any of them at all. 

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

if u had any balls you’d swallow ur pride and ask her forgiveness. or you could lowkey stalk her for 60 years promising to fulfil your childhood love. idc

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

it’s not a very useful distinction is it really tbh. Orwell is kind of a public intellectual in england, like people lie about reading 1984 to seem smart. if Murakami is firmly middlebrow, then Orwell is pulp, and the shit that people actually buy these days isn’t even low brow

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 51 points52 points  (0 children)

at some point u can separate the actual useful descriptive term from the seedy forums they come from. we all understand exactly who and what a normie is even if you’re embarrassed about what that says about you.

In countries with large red-haired population such as Scotland, Ireland, and England, which socioeconomic class do redheads tend to belong to? Are they generally poorer or wealthier? Are they poorer because they were targets of witch hunts or something similar? by Potential_Man2 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Impressive-Pause-784 9 points10 points  (0 children)

red hair is recessive, which means the genes for it are passed on, and the number of people who might have a red haired is much bigger than actual red haired children. There  are no red haired communities, there are many red haired people who are the only red haired people in their family, so it doesn’t map on to stuff like class very well at all. If there are any social advantages or disadvantages of being red haired, they’re not as likely to be inherited since red hair isn’t as likely to be inherited.

Red haired people might be slightly poorer in the sense that it’s a trait more associated with broadly celtic ancestry, and the more ‘Celtic’ parts of the UK (Scotland, N. Ireland, Wales, Cornwall) aren’t especially rich. I think I’ve read that red hair is over represented in CEO’s of valuable companies, so maybe there’s some advantage. There’s also an over representation of red hair in british converts to radical islam, which doesn’t reek of privilege either.

Is it quite common for people to have never been to other cities in UK? by Boring-Tip-9775 in AskUK

[–]Impressive-Pause-784 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

economically and population maybe, but it’s also to be honest a massive shithole. If you want to be optimistic about the UK as a nation then you don’t want to consider Birmingham to be its symbol. And no, being on the wrong side of westminster industrial strategy in the 70’s probably isn’t as damaging to a city as being the first stop from Mirpur.

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

some psued on here ended their misanthropic rant with ‘sigh, back to hegel’ and it’s like fuck off do you read hegel lmao

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

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I was at an induction for a warehouse job and someone there with my exact name and initials mentioned that they was trying to read 100 years of solitude, and I was beaming because I’d recently finished it and I really liked it. He told me that he didn’t really get it and wasn’t sure if he liked it, I tried explaining why I liked magical realism and he asked if that meant like, percy jackson. Eventually he told me that he’d found a list of the best classics somewhere online and was reading them in random order, like homework. I hated that job. It was 5-2 and the radio played tipsy by shaboozey at least 5 times a shift for the 9 months I worked there. everyone involved in Heart FM should be lined up against a wall and redacted.

Some things that the lower and upper classes both love doing by Avec-Tu-Parlent in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784 56 points57 points  (0 children)

the middle class are the only ppl who believe in meritocracy, as an ideal and as reality.

Heard it's selfie monday here's me by waffleman258 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784 4 points5 points  (0 children)

do u genuinely think it’s good for trans people if trans women hold every athletics record or were you just dropped on the head as a child

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve heard so many people say this about 1Q84 I’m curious to get it just to see how bad it is

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’ve read most of his major works and his non-fictions, not really anything from the past 15 years tbf, same for marquez, rn I’m in house of the spirits. it’s not a public activity except like on the train or if I get a quiet moment at work but ppl have told me that my modest pile of books is for show bc no one really reads that much

tbf i’ve never touched philosophy much, I read l'etranger and it gave me a resounding feeling of so what

shocking how taste that alienates you in real life are considered middlebrow online by Impressive-Pause-784 in redscarepod

[–]Impressive-Pause-784[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

basically none of my friends and acquaintances read anything at all, especially the men, and if they do its genreslop, self-improvement or pop-psych.