Alkaline Earth | Stuff White People Like

How dare they stereotype a race like th.... ah fuck it. This is dead on.

Stuff White People Don't Like quick hits style.

In case anyone was stymied by the broken link after #31, here is the rest of the series.

Wow. There goes my sense of self.

So habcous points out something that is universally irritating about Wordpress blogs. Is it irritating to navigate by design or is it a user choice to make it irritating? I can't remember whether I also hate Blogger for this but if you just want to go backwards by date it's nearly impossible without clicking individual months (and moreover when you do that it truncates all the articles and makes you click a "read more" link).

Huh.

I don;t like a lot of the things listed.

Maybe that is why I didn't have a lot of friends in High School.

Man, that last link that habcous posted just scared the hell out of me. I am so white!!!! Two last names and everything.... At least my bike isn't worth that much. I have to say I am really embarrassed. Quick, what is something less typical that I can take up as a hobby?

hmm guess I'm not very white then. I do like wine and sushi, but I'm quite happy to have a TV and cable, I have a first AND last name, environmentalism is increasingly starting to piss me off due to the fact that it's morphing into what strongly resembles a fundamental religion. I won't even go into what I think of organics. I also do not enjoy biking, I realize how blasphemous that is to many who habit this board. : (

Actually, I like Mos Def so that moves me back up the white scale but since I'll also happily go down to Spiro's and shake my ass to Flo Rider. I guess that moves me back away from the white category.

Beck if you were still in Austin I'd suggest one of the informal UT hip hop dance classes to help de-whitey you. : D

ok, moving on, I concur the wordpress system sucketh.

Eddie Murphy: White Like Me (transcript).

Browsing forward from page 8 WFM (you may enjoy the decrement URL bookmarklet).

Thanks to the magic of wget, score yourself against the full list:

I'm 39/70. They're missing: Cheese, Side-Impact Airbags, Cruise Ship Vacations, Independent Bookstores and Seinfeld.

I'm around 19, which seeems accurate in that i should be roughly half as white as mrflip. :) I wasn't sure how to count certain things, as in "I like Jon Stewart, but I never bother to watch The Daily Show." I would go up to 22 with mrflip's additions.

Isn't this more a list of things yuppies like, rather than white people? This isn't to say that yuppies don't tend to be white, but, I quote from the wrigley field entry:

4. Comfortable Surroundings

Wrigley Field is known as the Friendly Confines and white people feel comfortable there because other than Ronnie Woo Woo, most Cubs fans are white (and we are not talking about the white people that go to White Sox games). Next to a Dave Matthews Band reunion concert, one can not find a bigger collection of khaki shorts and golf shirts than the Wrigley Bleachers.

And I'm at 32. Add three if you want the mrflip addendum. It also seems like a lot of them are pretty strongly correlative--farmers markets, whole foods and organics pretty mcuh tap into the same thing. I can't really imagine someone who likes a proper subset of these things.

Nah, man... Whole Foods is too corporate.

I'm at 32, also +3 with Flip's addendum. Really, who could be against side-impact airbags, though? I'd wager most races would prefer higher odds of surviving a car crash.

I think side-impact air bags are risk misallocation.

And I've never been on a cruise ship but I'm sure I'd hate hate hate it.

I've been on a cruise ship twice (neither one was my idea, and I have no doubt that you would hate hate hate it.) They treat you like veal. They keep you in this tiny little cabin and then they feed you until you burst and then they funnel you into this other area and then they feed you some more and then you go back into your tiny little cabin and wait to get fed again.

Cruise ships are what people who don't want to carry luggage do.

41 + 5... so that makes me a Graham Cracker.

mrflip, please 'splain side airbags as risk misallocation...

This blog made me smile a little, but mostly I found it a bit churlish.

Looking at the nicely compiled list, I find myself coming up with like, 9 things.
Perhaps I am being too specific?
But sh*t, I don't even like Seinfield.
Wife says I don't like much of anything at all though. *shrug*

Yeah, I think you have to wait until someone launches the "Stuff Intellectual Hillbillies Like" site TTJ.

How much injury do side airbags really mitigate, for a seatbelted passenger colliding with an otherwise padded surface? I'll be very surprised if it's a fraction of the risk reduction that would come from regularly checking your tire inflation, taking public transportation, avoiding rush hour traffic, or calling a cab when you're tired or tipsy. Those obviously aren't competing priorities with having side-impact air bags, but they are tradeoffs where most people casually embrace the risky behavior. You don't wear a crash helmet when you drive -- yet that surely would be far more risk reducing than side airbags.

I'm guessing side-impact airbags probably cost about $1000-$1500? You're demographically a dozen times more likely to die from heart disease than from a car accident; get a personal plan + twice-yearly checkups from a physical trainer or nutritionist instead.

Bang, the last five of these are on a roll for me: Graduate School, T-shirts, Modern Furniture, The Idea of Soccer, Oscar Parties....

Wanna see what the author looks like? (via Torontoist)

zOMG my 30 to 1 bet on "pasty-pale dude from Los Angeles with digital media job, hipster beard and glasses" will totally repay the loss of my Bear Stearns stock.

You know what else white people like? When their witty blogs become popular enough that Random House wants to cash in on the deal. My guess is that they won't be giving them away for free. I guess AE is too diverse and has too many authors to garner a book offer.

One thing's for certain: we've got better comments than youtube (although probably not better than mefi).

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February 16, 2008