one of the ingredients in Rum which means you have an imperial smell under your nose. Met the guys who makes it. He was handing out free gin and tonic outside a Brighton pub. Which was maybe the least surprising place to find him really.
It is way more prevalent in the States, it's a staple of American BBQ. There's nobody as provincial as a Londoner, especially Johnny come lately blow-ins from the North
i mean, i like loads of things in this thread, but i irrationally scorn people who don't realise that liking a large proportion of them, collectively, is a sign that maybe you should have a sit down and think about life.
And thought-to-hologram communications telepath web and instead walk around clutching the vintage aluminum MacBook pros and drinking skinny lattes and wearing Team GB t-shirts... and they're going to get laughed at a lot
that's sort of the point.
it's only when you start using this as a checklist for your identity that it's MASSIVELY GALLING
seriously, my friend had a keep calm and carry on print on their wall about 4 years ago and it was great. it's the single shittest thing in the world now though, and impossible to understand why it was great
'cause she's french and she likes that kind of thing. I quite like it on the fridge actually. Maybe it's because they're not everywhere over here. Familiarity breeds contempt etc etc
it's a kind of post-modern mix of shame, pride, self-awareness, whimsy and irony from the kind of people who wouldn't think twice about describing things as post-modern.
and on the bottle will be something like 'FILLED WITH APPLES AND STRAWBERRIES AND SUNSHINE AND BABIES' SMILES. DOES NOT CONTAIN NUTS, SORRY SQUIRRELS!'
but trolls in their little caves fuming that someone dares to have a moustache, or assuming that anyone who reads certain books is "faking it" or whatever.
i have no examples of this straw man that i've just made up
I'll be there pottering about at some craft / design fair, sipping on my flat white, making little notes in my moleskin, all the while peering through my tortoise shell glasses and thinking WHAT A BUNCH OF TRY HARDS.
My beef is with faddishness. People can like whatever they want but I just wish there was some consistency with it (applies to all of life not just East LDN type stuff)
that question is obv redundant as you've brought evidence. But I still can't relate to that I'm afraid. The people who do the things on this thread would be TERRIFIED of being considered racist.
that's it. those are the only boxes i tick. i'm far too self-aware.
i've got secondhand books (used to get gifted them as a child, couldn't actually afford full price, new ones - still can't now, really) and i'm lactose intolerant. i still have dairy sometimes, i just end up shitting loads.
that so closely resembled a blueprint for a Half Man Half Biscuit album :D
guilty as charged for about 20 of these, have a feeling you're failing to distinguish between genuinely nefarious twee iconography and nigh-on inescapable bourgie-upbringing affiliations
Gin
Tea
Cupcakes
fucking cupcakes
sorry. needed saying.
fuckcakes
cupcakes
with miniature flags in
Bunting
Moustaches
Can you recommend a decent wax?
I would like to laugh in the face of gravity.
I can recommend
but suspect you are joking.
Recommend away
I think it's just about long enough now.
I use 'Bounder'
http://www.mr-wax.com/
one of the ingredients in Rum which means you have an imperial smell under your nose. Met the guys who makes it. He was handing out free gin and tonic outside a Brighton pub. Which was maybe the least surprising place to find him really.
after this post
its fairly redundant bothering to read the rest of things in the thread
i'm on this at the moment
http://www.captainfawcett.com/
pricey, but pretty stiff and smells of sandalwood, which is a good smell to have on your face.
read somewhere that toilet sealing wax is amazingly strong and cheap, if you can get past the fact that it's usually used for toilets
Might have to try
the Bounder's really good, but the wax in the tin goes harder as time goes on so becomes a bit more difficult to apply.
the gentleman's stiffener
heheheh
My friend does this:
http://foadwax.com/
They all look great
Don't make me choose...
i don't recommend fawcett THAT much. it works just about and smells good
will cede my recommendation
I used that. Smells amazing
Needs a good hairdryer to melt it though - one with an attachment that creates a narrow blade of air.
Jesus, this is an actual thing!?
moustache wax??
moustache wax is very real, and essential if you want a handlebar moustache, which i do, as it turns out
I've become lazy recently and generally go 'flaccid' in the week
I need to make an effort more
walrus tache: not a good tache
which is a shame, as it's biologically identical to a handlebar tache, which is: a good tache
Waistcoats
Party on roof terrace
Lindy Hop
Empirical Attitude
Pop up
Insititutionalised Racism
Vintage
Gluten-free
pulled pork
Way more of an American thing
nah
^this.
I think A-i-C has been living in the provinces too long.
I wasn't arguing that pulled pork doesn't exist here, but...
It is way more prevalent in the States, it's a staple of American BBQ. There's nobody as provincial as a Londoner, especially Johnny come lately blow-ins from the North
Victory rolls
Mumford
Golliwogs
Toilet Dog just PM'd me saying he loves all these things and for you to carry on.
Man Carries Goat
Cath Kidston
Instagram
Shabby Chic
If I live for 100 more years and never hear that fucking phrase again
It'll be too soon.
Chinos
Sailor Jerry-style tattoos
Bedsocks
Tan Leather
Pinterest
DIY Blog
Couple Blog
Cambridge Satchels
Peacoats
Patent
£3 toast
waistbelts
bonus points for it being in a colour that doesn't 'go'
teapigs
really love teapigs peppermint and liquorice
i mean, i like loads of things in this thread, but i irrationally scorn people who don't realise that liking a large proportion of them, collectively, is a sign that maybe you should have a sit down and think about life.
Tote Bags
Playsuits
'ditzy' print
peter pan collars
Evening in with a bottle of vino
the fuck?
people having a bottle of wine is bad now?
Pocket Watch that doesn't even have a battery
surely a good pocket watch should be wind-up?
Pointed toes
Red velvet cupcakes
Cake Pops
Baking in general
identifying yourself entirely through your other half
Prof. Brian Cox
Eggs florentine
There's a future land where people are going to reject their augmented reality laser surface lens implants
And thought-to-hologram communications telepath web and instead walk around clutching the vintage aluminum MacBook pros and drinking skinny lattes and wearing Team GB t-shirts... and they're going to get laughed at a lot
Caitlin Moran
Glasto
Pescevegan
British Military Fitness
Soya milk
Chai Latte
pop up shops
letterpress
Brighton
Salted caramel
Burlesque
S&M-lite
spanking/light bondage
because it's <<naughty>>
coloured tights
bicycles
you know the ones
Penny farthings in particular
The Master And Margarita
Graze packages
Indietracks
Ukuleles
"tasteful" porn tumblrs
craft
Faded photographs of 60s holiday camps
40 year olds pushing buggies
RTing @glinner
liking Hip hop ironically
Book on 'design' on the coffee table
Being a grown man and talking about fucking tea unprompted
The Book Club
im going to go through and "this'' all of these that i like / have
surprisingly little
Molly Ringwald
being well vintage
2:1 in English Literature
healthy breakfast cereals
Jacques Derrida's wikipedia page
so happy this thread of all my fave things exists
thanks everyone
HOLYFUCKINGSHIT
Lurking like a total Gherking.
i read everything u write on here
every day
SOMEONE HAS TO EH
!!!!!!!!
eh!
what indeed
john lewis
Dr Who
cameras
not digital
exercise
Grimmy
etsy
etsy
etsy
etsy
put a bird on it
Hiring a cottage with your friends and their kids
Massive t-shirt with a living icon on the front
WES ANDERSON
Finding Bill Murray sexy
shit twee bands
like internet forever
Knitting
Home business as vanity project
that will never make any money but doesn't need to as your husband earns enough. Probably selling the aforementioned fucking cupcakes.
Or being a florist
someone has to say it, sorry, but fucking CAT OWNERSHIP
Omg, had 'Cats' typed out earlier but abandoned.
Ghibli
are we just describing /our generation/?
i feel part of tru movement guys <3 u all
Loads of these apply to me or my friends.
I even approve of some of them.
High waistbands
Railway sleepers as garden steps or living room shelves
STEAM TRAINS
postcards artily arranged in a cluster
on your bedroom wall
moleskine notebooks
Clip pencils
Old railways platform signs hanging in your kitchen
http://www.pedlars.co.uk
http://presentandcorrect.com/
belfast sinks
Distressed furniture
PLANNING parenthood
Keeping a diary of baby's waking/movements
tortoise shell glasses
House husbands
maaaaaaaaaaaaan
i would love to be a house husband so much
Suit jacket with jeans
Souvenir on the wall from when you went 'travelling' together
Cheese boards
Ottolenghi
pugs
Wood-effect digital radio playing 6music in the kitchen
you sure that's not Radio 4, champ?
depends when
Think 6music XFM just about pips R4 for this demographic.
:D
So guilty of this...
Vinyl
s
guilty
fentimans lemonade
fentimans is nice though :(
loads of these things are nice
have you had the cherry cola one (might not be cherry cola)?
it tastes exactly the same as the fizzy cherry cola bottle sweets.
it is incredible
most of these things are a bit needy
calling things needy is a bit needy
only if youre being ironic
almost everything in this thread is nice
that's sort of the point.
it's only when you start using this as a checklist for your identity that it's MASSIVELY GALLING
seriously, my friend had a keep calm and carry on print on their wall about 4 years ago and it was great. it's the single shittest thing in the world now though, and impossible to understand why it was great
Even four years ago it was pretty shite.
(although I was living up in the north east, and EVERYONE up there had them in about 2004/5)
look, if we give you all the indie points ever will you stop this
I can't stop them making the posters brusma
we got one about 6 years ago
and only managed to take it down about a week ago
i've hated it for a good three years
I've been to Barter Books
i have no idea what that is
not sure who gets the indie points in this situation
I know who isn't getting any
...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On#Rediscovery_and_commercialisation
I gave a fridge magnet with it on to my girlfriend
'cause she's french and she likes that kind of thing. I quite like it on the fridge actually. Maybe it's because they're not everywhere over here. Familiarity breeds contempt etc etc
I have one on my wall
but only to cover up a massive hole behind some netting.
Japanese lessons/night classes in general
Homebrew
Dressing up for Doctor Who conventions
Walking in Epping Forest
I do this a lot
it's next to my parents' house
nice place
The latter half of the Guardian Weekend magazine
super eight cameras
what is this thread?
Is it about things that are excellent?
yes
but also things that we feel self-conscious for liking because of associated 'lifestyle' cliches.
At least that's what I think is going on
Oh, is it?
I don't like most of the things in this thread, I thought we were being vitriolic? Oh balls.
There's a certain amount of vitriol
it's a kind of post-modern mix of shame, pride, self-awareness, whimsy and irony from the kind of people who wouldn't think twice about describing things as post-modern.
*Adds lacing everything in impenetrable layers of irony to the thread
Bunch'o'wankers
Basically
southwold
yummy mummies
is this thread for naming things? there doesn't seem to be a common theme
Pantaloons
kids in joules tops
Believing that if you had everything listed in this thread your life would be complete.
rebuilding threads
Having a job that simply wouldn't exist outside London
glamping
cold glamping
literary festivals
childrens illustration
scandinavian interior design blogs
markets on a sunday
Oh fucking Comely
Lula
I don't understand
You mean the former Brazilian President or is this another reference?
lula magazine
urban gardening
godard/jeunet/woody allen/michel gondry
all great
well varying levels of greatness, but w/e
hanging out at independent cinemas, without ever seeing films
being obsessed with scotland
what.
human, botanical and animal anatomy
*anatomical drawings
going as a wes anderson character for halloween
themed wedding/engagement photos
Alain de Botton
I had an email saying Welcome to Lomography! in my inbox this morning
I've never signed up to anything remotely related to lomography. It's confused me for the whole day so far.
Lomography
instagram
already done.
giving money to urban outfitters
dainty china tea set
JK Rowling
short term ESL work
Old maps
being "into" architecture
being into industrial design ironically
cause nobody in your family has ever touched a really ugly looking carpark with a bargepole
instragram of urban decay
holiday in detroit
don't forget to pack a wife
jamón ibérico de bellota
humanist sans-serif typefaces
popping out to visit the Occupy protest
(but not joining in)
second hand books
free museums
Pho
banh mi
banh xeo
buddha boxes
farmers markets
Kanken
Kånken*
post-modern mix of shame, pride, self-awareness, whimsy and irony
ironic this ^
Claiming to be a geek because you've read Game Of Thrones
*watched an episode of The IT Crowd/Big Bang Theory
saying you like comics because you've seen the dark knight
*choose to wear glasses as a fashion accessory
*have read a book in the last month
*Visited the internet, once
graphic novels
can I just add the whole word 'geek'
it's repulsive and meaningless
there was a geek on the x-files who ate the monster
Drawn & Quarterly
Nobrow
Accordions
Oh God, we share our building with Office now (the shoe company)
Some pleb who works there practices his accordion in the stairwell at lunch.
Working in fashion AND playing the accordion.
I really do miss out on this sort of thing in Manchester
Entering and leaving the building has become 85% more unbearable in recent months
what kind of moustache wax does he use
:D
Needless to say you're all bastards
Feeling a sense of community and pride when buying produce from local independent traders once every 14 weeks
Wackaging
dare I ask?
You know, like you'll buy a drink
and on the bottle will be something like 'FILLED WITH APPLES AND STRAWBERRIES AND SUNSHINE AND BABIES' SMILES. DOES NOT CONTAIN NUTS, SORRY SQUIRRELS!'
:D
i don't mind most of the things on here
but that's fucking awful
oh this is my favourite post
I thought I loved that. Now I still love it, but I hate myself. I need more cynicism in my life.
Bravo.
nordic pop music
miranda
july
you should look up her video for distracted people
we wouldn't really need the thread
we've skirted around this, but SCANDINAVIA
+ ICELAND if iceland isn't technically Scandinavia
Fuck, Scandinavia is a weird word huh?
Checking in on Facebook from the airport terminal
'the killing' jumpers
Moomins
stop with the scandi stuff already
too SCANDILOUS?
actually finland isn't scandinavia is it
same status as Iceland, i just read
adult intepretations of childrens stories
Sploshing
fried chicken made with buttermilk
have to say
i despise people who /hate/ most of these more than people who like most of them
i like quite a lot of this stuff
but if i see other people liking it I just can't stop the eye rolling. What a hypocritical DICKHEAD
oh im the same
but trolls in their little caves fuming that someone dares to have a moustache, or assuming that anyone who reads certain books is "faking it" or whatever.
i have no examples of this straw man that i've just made up
you should look up the hipster book thread
nah, i saw it early on
and it was full of people saying "no, this isnt a real thing" and some people projecting their insecurities and then i got bored and didnt go back
those peopel
are just in denial
I'll be there, pottering about at some craft / deisgn fai
oh good one
I'll be there pottering about at some craft / design fair, sipping on my flat white, making little notes in my moleskin, all the while peering through my tortoise shell glasses and thinking WHAT A BUNCH OF TRY HARDS.
I like some of this stuff
My beef is with faddishness. People can like whatever they want but I just wish there was some consistency with it (applies to all of life not just East LDN type stuff)
flat white
rookie & girl guts
cultural appropriation
mass-produced feathered headdress
of native americans
dia de los muertos-related/sugarskull tattoo
ironic blackface
stop it- who does ironic blackface?
ironic blackface is still blackface
http://static.hiphopwired.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/blackface2_.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kvmCpqwUGjI/UDTvZkiCGsI/AAAAAAAAAcU/blUdTcspEJo/s320/blackface.jpg
http://cdn.madamenoire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/dodson.jpg
http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/black-face1.jpg
No, I meant who actually does blackface??
that question is obv redundant as you've brought evidence. But I still can't relate to that I'm afraid. The people who do the things on this thread would be TERRIFIED of being considered racist.
some people are pretty fucking clueless
the closest they get to exploring non-dominant culture is an indepedent coffehouse
bindis
those full-colour print, brightly coloured tshirts of ganesh
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7s3dmeBSo1qk3krwo1_1280.jpg
this drives me up the fucking wall
ironic band shirts
'90s boybands, early '00s hip hop artists
2 for £3 M&S salads
M&S 'Dine In For £10'
thin-shaming being the new fat-shaming
being 'into' science
being straight, white, cisgendered, ablebodied(minded) and still a social justice activist
also helps if you have a bit of money in the bank
georgiabeth
Sorry.
i like cats, sometimes drink tea and i've used pinterest to 'pin' pictures from my blogfeeds
that's it. those are the only boxes i tick. i'm far too self-aware.
i've got secondhand books (used to get gifted them as a child, couldn't actually afford full price, new ones - still can't now, really) and i'm lactose intolerant. i still have dairy sometimes, i just end up shitting loads.
more a reference to the amount of stuff you've posted on the thread...
I was being playfully mocking. I think.
I suspect you're too young for this to be your world yet.
am I wrong? How old are you?
alright savile fuckign hell
:""""D
older than shrewbie, icwar and still_here. not as old as creakyknees.
Let me just look at my username/age chart
so that reply is of any use.
Places in cities with the word "Village" in them
That's how I'm (cringe-inducingly) livin'.
Working on my novel
you're good at this el
ATP
Upset the Rhythm
semi-ironic Disney jumpers
Zooey Deschanel
girlfriend that looks like a boy.
:D
Why are you guys all so mad?
Get mad about something that matters for once. Like that shop The Kooples.
No one in here is being mad.
Which can only lead me to conclude that you're the mad one.
there is a bit of an angry undercurrent
come aaan
I am mad at The Kooples a bit but i'm not entirely sure why
I don't think anyone's mad
just consumed with self-loathing
well that's at least part of it
I never thought I'd see a thread
that so closely resembled a blueprint for a Half Man Half Biscuit album :D
guilty as charged for about 20 of these, have a feeling you're failing to distinguish between genuinely nefarious twee iconography and nigh-on inescapable bourgie-upbringing affiliations
^^^sentences like that, btw
I hate myself
guyz help me
how can I live a more authentic existence
The Killing
I'm going to sell this thread to Stuart Maconie
For him to read in 20 yrs on I love the noughties
Ageing Volvo AWD Estate with two excitable springer spaniels in the back
¤¿¤
http://i.imgur.com/pirJt.jpg
Bits of cloth/rags to tie up long hair
ironically overly-bright lipstick
Ales/beers from American micro-breweries
or indeed any American breweries
Bourbon
macaroons
leave macaroons alone!
Cunts
soawjo
not watching tv
I remember not owning one being a badge of honour in the early 90's...
only know one family who held out and never bought one though.
Quirky names for the vagina
Pretty much anything to do with coffee
ballet pumps
Book tokens
Girls in pashminas
Holidays in Polzeath/Rock/Padstow
Requesting Le Creuset products on your wedding list
London tube maps
where the station names have been replaced by literary or pop culture references.
tfl merchandise in general
Stephen Fry
A Canon EOS 550D
:D
nailed it!
toms
Classic novels with an 'erotic' twist
/zombie twist
in fact anything with zombies
I love zombies I really do
I even grin at a Tom Savini cameo in a non-zombie/horror movie but seriously, these guys need a break now.
He's marvellous in From Dusk Till Dawn
An ad for this film just popped up
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1362058/ good grief
do you think michelle ryan wishes she could go back onto eastenders?
boat/deck shoes
I don't understand what this thread is about.
Any merchandise with classic Penguin paperback branding.
Someone should use all the post titles in this thread to make a spoken word monologue for a DiS version of 'Be Safe'
We have a chance to create something beautiful here guys.
Open all the threads.
Open ALL the threads.
'Item not in bagging area' joke
Oh you.
Fake 'auld' sweet shop
"Ye Olde", surely?
auld is the Scottish version but
yeah, the same one
Christmas (fake) bonhomie
Fake anything
we're being faked out of this world, nothing's real anymore
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