there is the implicit condescension of things like 'comedians of comedy' which irks me sometimes (while i'm laughing). runteldat?
― tremendoid, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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>
― s.clover, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
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?)
― remy bean, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
the parenthetical might've been a bit of a lie
his sitcom was underrated
― tremendoid, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/rsz/434/x/x/x/medias/nmedia/18/36/04/41/18448060.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
aka worst Quantum Leap slash ever.
stop that
― HI DERE, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
jeff foxworthy is funnier than this shit.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
lol @ "assists", "awareness", amy_goodman.jpg
― sleep, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
also Sterling OTM, I missed that lololol
xpost: Jeff Foxworthy being funnier than this doesn't make this unfunny, Tom.
― HI DERE, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
tombot - stirrin shit, friday - do i need an excuse??
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
jeff foxworthy is not funnier than this shit
― sleep, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jordan, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
when did ILX become "i love laughing at boring obvious targets"
― max, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
But this shit isn't very funny. Just one white man's opinion.
xxpost
― Bill Magill, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometime in 2000?
― HI DERE, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I NEVER SAID IT WAS FUNNY
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Jordan, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Second ILX thread ever or something: lolKidAcover
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Even the fucking assists one, which is (or could be) actually funny, is really just a dig at "helping".
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― B.L.A.M., Friday, 15 February 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
as real people are
http://ninecooks.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/miraclewhip.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/2640600.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1934A2752006EF5F0ED5B9D53F8992D98095A5397277B4DC33E
― B.L.A.M., Friday, 15 February 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cn1.kaboodle.com/hi/img/2/0/0/19/2/AAAAAmv7JckAAAAAABkq7Q.jpg
― B.L.A.M., Friday, 15 February 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.blue-tomato.at/pics/markenseiten/Volcom/volcom_0708.jpg
― B.L.A.M., Friday, 15 February 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― s.clover, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― B.L.A.M., Friday, 15 February 2008 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it true that black people think white people smell like dogs?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― blueski, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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>
― s.clover, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― max, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^things black people like
― jhøshea, Friday, 15 February 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
stuffthatwhitepeoplelikeonmycat.com
― bell_labs, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not sure what the underlying pov is
Middle class white liberals are idiots. Altruism is idiocy. All nonselfish values are the product of guilt.
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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 ...
― deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― contenderizer, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
awesome people like michael mcdonald.
― kenan, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
new thread: white people that black people like
― kenan, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
there's a list in ego trip's big book of racism like that
― max, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.google.com/url?q=http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000Y47.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg&usg=AFQjCNHvNpyDXVhZT1iYQd3jDLMeFZsQBA
― kenan, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
-- kenan, Friday, February 15, 2008 1:08 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
not a new thread.
― deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
some of u are taking this too srsly CONTENDERIZER
― sleep, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
theres an image thread somewhere in the archives of 'white people black people like'
― deej, Friday, 15 February 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link