he's finally getting back at all those pricks. he'll show them!!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 January 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
"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
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
where on earth has he got the polenta thing from?
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 June 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
it just sounds fancy, I think.
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 16:52 (two years ago) link
Don’t tell me you never noticed how the ruling classes are always wolfing down Italian grits.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 June 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
maybe tom harwood posted a picture of some polenta on his instagram
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 June 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
I was sure this bump would be about the John Harris tweet (in which the croissants were only implied)
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, 4 June 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
polenta doesn't really make much of a meal or snack on its own though
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 4 June 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
Polenta (mămăligă) is the ultimate peasant food in Romania so seeing it cited itt is amusing.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 June 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
Should have used "LaCroix-sipping" for the rhyme with hoi polloi.
― peace, man, Friday, 4 June 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
Or maybe "bok choy".
― peace, man, Friday, 4 June 2021 18:36 (two years ago) link
Hoi polloi means commoners tho
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, 4 June 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
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
― mark s, Friday, 4 June 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
Also Derwood should know that it’s wrong to put ‘the’ before ‘hoi polloi’.
― the thin blue lying (suzy), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
polenta-eating intelligentsia
Pictured:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYO4e0uHVDk
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 June 2021 21:01 (two years ago) link
Oh I missed hoi polloi in the grimes quote, thought peace man was just talking about the thread title
― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
'The hoi polloi' is perfectly fine in English, as is 'chai tea', 'Sharia law' or 'the La Brea tar pits'.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 June 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
"shrimp scampi"
― o. nate, Friday, 4 June 2021 21:08 (two years ago) link
scampi fry-crunching cognoscenti
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 4 June 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link
polentaful
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Friday, 4 June 2021 22:17 (two years ago) link
Hoi polloi means commoners tho― The 💨 that shook the barlow (wins), Friday, June 4, 2021 2:40 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglinkBut 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
― 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".
― peace, man, Friday, 4 June 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
"their preconceptions of what they think is best for the hoi-polloi"
― kinder, Friday, 4 June 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
yes he certainly is, wins at first missed the Darren Grimes quote and thought peace, man was commenting on the thread title.
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
or something like that
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
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!
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
well half of the thread title I mean
― calzino, Friday, 4 June 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
TIL how to pronounce La Croix
― bovarism, Friday, 4 June 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
...sweetie?
― kinder, Friday, 4 June 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
Hoi polloienta
― portmanteaujam (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 5 June 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
> polenta-eating intelligentsia
polentelligentsia
― koogs, Saturday, 5 June 2021 05:43 (two years ago) link
polentascenti
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 6 June 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
it's just highfalutin' corn meal mush
― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
PoneHub
― stations of the croissanwich (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/02/food-choices-proxy-class-britain
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 2 October 2021 09:00 (two years ago) link
that's a decent piece on the oat milk swilling Ocado elite! Can't people have been picking on polenta again.
― calzino, Saturday, 2 October 2021 09:40 (two years ago) link
a 375g packet of polenta costs £2 at Ocado
― calzino, Saturday, 2 October 2021 09:43 (two years ago) link
resist oat milk though, especially the milkshakes that are treble the price of the dairy ones.
― calzino, Saturday, 2 October 2021 09:50 (two years ago) link
Good first paragraph to that piece. I use oat milk for porridge but don't like the taste of it with coffee at all.
― nashwan, Saturday, 2 October 2021 10:01 (two years ago) link
i tried it with porridge and didn't love the taste but i cd probably adapt but i don't use milk much anyway. my daughter has a real thing for oat milk coffee lattes and such but she swears she's developed a bit of lactose intolerance
― look on my guacs, ye mighty, and dis pear (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 2 October 2021 10:06 (two years ago) link
I prefer the lighter qualities of UHT milk in my coffee and for sauces. But I did read that the rise in severe allergies is connected with old school milk going out of fashion and all the lovely bacteria in it was good for us.
― calzino, Saturday, 2 October 2021 10:28 (two years ago) link
snooty-toby-young-dumbfounded-when-scarborough-coffee-shop-doesnt-know-what-a-contradiction-is
― conrad, Saturday, 2 October 2021 11:07 (two years ago) link
lol came here much too slow to post that piece
guardian is good when it hires good writers to write good pieces
― mark s, Saturday, 2 October 2021 12:56 (two years ago) link
grouse is terrific if it's been hung properly btw
(by the neck until dead, like er landlords)
― mark s, Saturday, 2 October 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link
... or Toby Young.
― Starmer: "Let the children boogie, let all the children boogie." (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 October 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link
toby young is never terrific: this is the hill i will die on
(from overcrowding)
― mark s, Saturday, 2 October 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link
― nashwan, Saturday, 2 October 2021 bookmarkflaglink
See I really like the creamy that oat milk gives to coffee.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 October 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
look i’m not implying that the guardian commenters aren’t extremely normal people, but there’s a whole thread on my article on food and class debating whether victorian sex workers would have had good teeth or not pic.twitter.com/HbmdeDsL54— axaxaxas lmaö (@demarionunn) October 2, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 2 October 2021 20:28 (two years ago) link
https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/people/rob-beckett-working-class-man-breeding-middle-class-children-1248571
What is it with avocados as a lazy shorthand for middle-class signifiers? No one ate avocados back then Rob. The reason your kids are eating them is cos they're less than a quid at Aldi.
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Saturday, 6 November 2021 09:48 (two years ago) link