"croissant-munching, latte-sipping": instances of misconceived media-class self-loathing ITT

i'm not the world's biggest atrios fan (and was thinking UK-wards when i started the thread) but this:

centrist pundit: elitist liberals and their starbucks-going latte-swilling ways will never play in real america

also centrist pundit: what real americans in the heartland want is the billionaire guy who made starbucks

— Atrios (@Atrios) January 31, 2019

Tbf does anyone actually support Schultz’s presidential bid?

centrist pundits iirc

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/oct/05/north-london-trail-of-the-liberal-elite

"a journey"

Presumably John Harris is stuck in Stoke.

Stephen Kinnock, married to the former PM of Denmark, is on LBC talking with contempt about "people who go to coffee bars in London."

— Frédéric Moreau (@goodclimate) December 18, 2019

rest assured stephen that your insistence on supporting the status quo will soon lead to the global collapse of agriculture so no-one will be visiting coffee bars ever again, congrats

Stephen, is that you?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jun/02/how-i-eat-stephen-kinnock-mp

Given that there's a 'coffee bar' every 50 yards or so on every street in London, who exactly is he talking about?

he likes a bit of salt-of-the-earth on his chips, after they've been pissed on!

I’m a creature of habit – my breakfast is always a bowl of porridge and an orange. I chop up the orange and chomp on the inside of it.

god i'd forgotten about this, absolutely cursed content

"... then I put the peel in my mouth and make like I've got orange teeth."

Next he'll be saying he rubs oxo cubes on it

that whole piece is the diary of somebody who doesn't require human like food

“If you want to figure out what characters around Putin might do, or how international criminal gangs might exploit holes in our border security, you don’t want more Oxbridge English graduates who chat about [French psychoanalyst Jacques] Lacan at dinner parties with TV producers and spread fake news about fake news,”

ilx apply for the cummings job

He is the poster boy for middle class self-loathing.

Christ, this muppet is supposed to be a master of the dark arts and he's using "fake news about fake news". What did the chattering classes do to deserve such biting social commentary.

Just walked past this ugly faux farmhouse type abode with the fake mews. Pretentious bloody croissant munching...

Is that crazy Dom name-checking Lacan? Looking forward to the Sun explaining him to their readers people who look at pictures

he's finally getting back at all those pricks. he'll show them!!

"The North London polenta-eating intelligentsia can’t cope with a North East accent challenging their preconceptions of what they think is best for the hoi-polloi".

Darren Grimes, still angling for a job at GB News

where on earth has he got the polenta thing from?

it just sounds fancy, I think.

Don’t tell me you never noticed how the ruling classes are always wolfing down Italian grits.

maybe tom harwood posted a picture of some polenta on his instagram

I was sure this bump would be about the John Harris tweet (in which the croissants were only implied)

polenta doesn't really make much of a meal or snack on its own though

Polenta (mămăligă) is the ultimate peasant food in Romania so seeing it cited itt is amusing.

I think of it as coarse corn flour, like the first time I bought it was to make some cornbread which is probably a trailer park staple in the US!

Should have used "LaCroix-sipping" for the rhyme with hoi polloi.

Or maybe "bok choy".

Hoi polloi means commoners tho

But ppl often mistakenly use it to mean the opposite so it fits itt

i thought this polenta thing was made up today, but it seems to originate from late-90s river cafe menus which have conned a whole generation of right wing pundits into believing that polenta is expensive pic.twitter.com/kCmqfqEdx3

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 4, 2021

Also Derwood should know that it’s wrong to put ‘the’ before ‘hoi polloi’.

polenta-eating intelligentsia

Pictured:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYO4e0uHVDk

Oh I missed hoi polloi in the grimes quote, thought peace man was just talking about the thread title

'The hoi polloi' is perfectly fine in English, as is 'chai tea', 'Sharia law' or 'the La Brea tar pits'.

"shrimp scampi"

scampi fry-crunching cognoscenti

polentaful

Hoi polloi means commoners tho

― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, June 4, 2021 2:40 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

But ppl often mistakenly use it to mean the opposite so it fits itt

― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, June 4, 2021 2:40 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I think it's often confused for "hoity toity".

Hoi polloi means commoners tho

"their preconceptions of what they think is best for the hoi-polloi"

yes he certainly is, wins at first missed the Darren Grimes quote and thought peace, man was commenting on the thread title.

or something like that

no hoi polloi/twitter embeds politics thread

just thinking about that time d-mac attempted a "no hoi polloi" politics thread - which I think was in response to a snarky post I made!

well half of the thread title I mean

TIL how to pronounce La Croix