stuff white people like

#20 Being an expert on YOUR culture

-- HI DERE

Granted, a fair amount of it is otm wrt the group it's describing.

"White people love ethnic diversity, but only as it relates to restaurants..." made me LOL too.

BET Comicview for example is not considered funny, and white people generally get little to no enjoyment out of the program.

^^^
the only people i ever see laugh at comicview are white

and sometimes asian

def comedy jam is hilarious to all the racist frat kids i know, and seldom to me.

there is the implicit condescension of things like 'comedians of comedy' which irks me sometimes (while i'm laughing).
runteldat?

Stuff like this is what makes it golden to me:

<I>Also, if you see a white person in a Prius you can say “wow, that’s great to see that you’re doing something for the earth.” The white person will feel very good about themselves and offer to drive you home, to Ikea, or drop you off at 80s night.</I>

err, i should specify: the newest incarnation of def comedy jam is not very funny. the old episodes are still totally mint. (remember when we all laughed together at sinbad?)

the parenthetical might've been a bit of a lie

his sitcom was underrated

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/rsz/434/x/x/x/medias/nmedia/18/36/04/41/18448060.jpg

aka worst Quantum Leap slash ever.

stop that

jeff foxworthy is funnier than this shit.

lol @ "assists", "awareness", amy_goodman.jpg

also Sterling OTM, I missed that lololol

xpost: Jeff Foxworthy being funnier than this doesn't make this unfunny, Tom.

tombot - stirrin shit, friday - do i need an excuse??

you might be white if other people see you driving a Prius and say “wow, that’s great to see that you’re doing something for the earth.” Then you feel good about yourself and offer to drive them home, to Ikea, or drop them off at 80s night.

jeff foxworthy is not funnier than this shit

well did we already do a thread about doug feith publishing a book? 'cause I can go read that

if i look at this as "stuff people on the east side of Madison like" (ie the part of town w/co-ops, co-ed ultimate frisbee leagues, dogs, and bicycles), it becomes hilariously otm.

when did ILX become "i love laughing at boring obvious targets"

But this shit isn't very funny. Just one white man's opinion.

xxpost

when did ILX become "i love laughing at boring obvious targets"

Sometime in 2000?

Stuff like this is what makes it golden to me:

Also, if you see a white person in a Prius you can say “wow, that’s great to see that you’re doing something for the earth.”

s.clover

It's kind of funny, maybe? I dunno, repetitive cheap shots at obvious shit seldom make me LOL, but people are different, so whatever. Still, what strikes me here is the relentless, embittered condescention towards the idea of "helping others". Almost every entry manages to sneak that in, even when there isn't anything obviously altruistic about the LOL-whitey in question. It's weird, is all I'm saying. The site is way more concerned with attacking the idea of altruism (often kinda angrily) than with white culture as a whole.

I NEVER SAID IT WAS FUNNY

meaning the stuff about a certain kind of liberal, granola, lower-middle to middle class culture is pretty funny. other stuff on that site is not quite as funny.

xp to myself

Second ILX thread ever or something: lolKidAcover

Even the fucking assists one, which is (or could be) actually funny, is really just a dig at "helping".

I think I would find this site a whole lot funnier if it were as offensive as real people - black, white, or anybody else - is when they are making fun of something or arguing about something and not worried about getting caught.

For instance, my co-worker called me up the other day from his job to tell me that two secretaries got into a yelling match about whether or not Obama is black. I mean, that's just funny.

as real people are

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xxpost Ha, mayo is actually mentioned in History of White People in America. There's a gag in which the prototypical white family (the dad is played by Fred Willard) are having a backyard cookout, and they all come back inside to fetch their own personal jar of industrial-size mayo from the fridge.

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The joke isn't in how it's describing white pplz at all though, it's more on the level of "To improve your social standing you will need to interact with people who are very strange by your standards. Here are the things you can say to them." Like: If you find yourself in an awkward silence with white people, just mention how you want to go to Japan. They will immediately begin talking about how their trip to Japan, or their favorite stuff from Japan, but it will be entirely about them. This is useful as you no longer have to talk, and they will like you for letting them talk about themselves.

They don't pull this tone off all the time, but I think it's a sort of more clever and subtle thing than folks are giving it credit for.

They don't pull this tone off all the time, but I think it's a sort of more clever and subtle thing than folks are giving it credit for.

This is true, but you can't be a one trick pony. Look - white people are HUGE targets for derisive humor, and deservedly so. I mean, I went to McDonald's yesterday for lunch, and the moms with their 2-4 year olds in the playground would have been FERTILE ground for humor.

I think I have a high bar for this type of comedy, though - if you're going to make fun of something, at least try to have something insightful in it, and then get all offensive.

No offense, s.clove, but I think everybody gets it, as far as the tone, approach, humor style, etc. And sure, it's potentially funny, as any kind of humor is potentially funny. But this site is seldom strange, witty, insightful or suprising enough to actually make me laugh (did like the "breakfast" one). And I can't get around the fact that the underlying P.O.V disgusts me.

Is it true that black people think white people smell like dogs?

Look - white people are HUGE targets for derisive humor, and deservedly so. I mean, I went to McDonald's yesterday for lunch, and the moms with their 2-4 year olds in the playground would have been FERTILE ground for humor.

I am offended by this.

d00dz, this site isn't making fun of white people (mainly). and I'm not sure what the underlying pov is except some understandable cynicism about the limits of "multicultural" values.

And sometimes it seems like it's just bitter: <I>So why would white people spend all that time studying and working to get into college if they are just going to read books that they might have read in their free time? Because white people have it made. They can take that degree and easily parlay it into a non profit job, an art gallery job, or work in publishing. If the pay is low, no problem, their parents will happily help out with rent until they magically start making six figures or non-magically turn 40.</I>

I went to McDonald's yesterday for lunch, and the moms with their 2-4 year olds in the playground would have been FERTILE ground for humor.

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^^^things black people like

stuffthatwhitepeoplelikeonmycat.com

I'm not sure what the underlying pov is

s.clover

Middle class white liberals are idiots. Altruism is idiocy. All nonselfish values are the product of guilt.

the other thing is that most of the folks who i know who are real into japanese iconography/art etc. are Momus black people ... so the satire is pretty imprecise. w/ something like this you realllly need to be precise with it and they're just not ...

add to my own xpost: I mean, if you can find me ten posts that don't reflect that idea-set on some level or another, I'll find you at least 50 that do. And I don't think you can. And my 50 will be pretty damn direct about it.

awesome people like michael mcdonald.

new thread: white people that black people like