“It’s Not you, it’s Your Books”
by Rachel Donadio
The New York Times, March 30th, 2008
“We’ve all been there. Or some of us have. Anyone who cares about books has at some point confronted the Pushkin problem: when a missed — or misguided — literary reference makes it chillingly clear that a romance is going nowhere fast. At least since Dante’s Paolo and Francesca fell in love over tales of Lancelot, literary taste has been a good shorthand for gauging compatibility.”
Stuff White People Like examines the issue: Can you date someone who is not well read?
Yes:
Dating someone who is not as well read as you is a good idea since these type of people are more easily manipulated in terms of both actions and future tastes in books. The ability to entirely craft the literary tastes of your partner is highly desirable as it reinforces your own impeccable taste and allows you to play a literary version of Henry Higgins
No:
In social situations there is a good chance that an poorly read person will admit to not having read Nabokov beyond Lolita or that they are unfamiliar with Umberto Eco’s essays on reading. Of course, there is the off-chance that they might commit intellectual and social suicide by asking your friends if they “loved The Da Vinci Code as much I did?” This is extremely embarrassing and reflects poorly on them. Ultimately, their actions are more of a statement about you and your inability to date someone of adequate literary experience.
Final Call:
It is recommended that you date and then subsequently dump someone who is considered “poorly read,” simply for the story. It will show your commitment to the importance of books and reading. But beyond that singular experience it is unacceptable to seriously date anyone who has not read the right books.
Thanks to Jake Adler for sending the article.
I guess I better step my game up, I’ve never heard of Nabokov or Umberto Eco.
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A white person would never date a person who wasn’t well read. Unless they’re hot.
LOL!!
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When I first read it, I suspected that this article would soon be featured on SWPL. It takes a certain kind of yuppie to break up with someone over their taste in books.
white people are known for making bad dating decisions and loving the attention
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A white person would never date a person that can’t at least fake being well read.
😉
Wasn’t it Pretty Woman where everyone pretended to have read War & Peace? Remember? The gal started talking about the book and everyone was all like, “Uh … we just pretend to have read it and talk about it to impress each other.”
Maybe it was another movie.
Nabakov is pretty good, though I’m no literature hound.
Seriously… Is it real, or is it FAQ?
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The “non-read” person wouldn’t have anything to contribute to the conversation if they weren’t “well read.”
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it should also be noted that ability to read foreign authors in the native language is a trump card in any white literary conversation. Stating, “Reading Faust in anything but the original German is a waste. So much is lost in translation. I really felt the true meaning of Goethe’s words in the vernacular.” is similar to saying, “Guinness tastes better in Ireland”.
My husband is much more “well read” than I am, and I’m continually embarrased by missed references.
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Yeah thats cool, I keep it real anywayy
What a dilemma! White people shift my sexual prowess into 6th gear because of such neurosis! Excuse me, i need 3 minutes…
The trouble with dating someone who is poorly read is that they won’t let you read. They’ll insist that you watch TV with them Ugh!
this one is true. however, being well-read comes in second to liking the right kind of music. for example, if he/she liked “no doubt” in, say, 1995, it is excusable, but if she/he does not say, “yeah but they have totally sold out since tragic kingdom”, well, it’s a no-go. if they happen to enjoy nomeansno, OKeh records, or men’s recovery project, you should marry them.
I find it annoying that I keep giving my partner excellent books to read only to see them grab for some stupid magazine… And who takes TWO MONTHS to read one book??!
You need someone who’s well-read. The looks will fade, and you’ll need the conversation.
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As a white deity, I have a major problem with this blog. Sure, it is amusing. But who the hell is proofreading this? Anyone?
“In social situations there is a good chance that poorly read person”
That ‘an’ should be an ‘a,’ stupid! ERRGH! =x
once again:
this site is for white people who are liberal and at least grew up rich.
plenty of the things on this list are inapplicable to rich conservatives, rich religious conservatives, poor conservatives (rednecks) and poor religious conservatives (also rednecks)
speaking of the degree to which someone is well read goes so far beyond the status of those white people, that it is almost useless to even consider it.
but yes, if you take your sample from larger cities (or the west coast), among groups of young friends which contain at minimum one non-white person, then yes almost all of these things apply.
You think that’s bad. What if you found your potential mate reading “Homo Thug Volume 2”!
Ibrahim
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Well read people need to know if dating someone who is not because would mean they are dating a conservative fundamentalist moron.
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“In social situations there is a good chance that ‘an’ poorly read person.” Whoops, didn’t proofread My comment before posting.
Well, then we can’t dance together.
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Yep!
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And it can only be done if you have a liberal arts degree, have been to grad school, or are from a non- English speaking culture.
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Some white people take an anti-elitist stance and like Da Vinci Code. What’s mainly important among white people, as I’ve said before, is to have a POSITION on Dan Brown. The other night I was discussing positions on Dan Brown with a fellow white and a couple of other whites urged us to join them for discussion of their progressive politics, gifted children and working abroad. It was caucawesome.
I once dated a guy who swore by Ayn Rand. I had to read a butt-load of Rand so that we could get into debates, where I managed to win because I was familiar with works other than Rand.
It worked for a while because he was hot, and we both hated Kant. Me because I thought Hegel did it better, and him–because Ayn Rand told him that Kant was bad…
Did I mention that he was cute?
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I’m so white, I even know who Men’s Recovery Project is.
This blog is hillarious!
rough final call.
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Reverend Phelps?
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Scott Williams used to play for the Bulls..
Find out more about Bull like this below:
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I don’t think there are enough SWPL knockoffs yet. I bet all of them are really funny and original too.
WRONG!
This site is for people with a sense of humor.
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I read ‘Barely Legal’ for the articles.
Latchkey Man needs someone to call… for help.
Nabokov wrote Amy Fisher’s biography.
While she has no problem with the books I’ve read, my girlfriend — who is a White Person — frequently laments my lack of taste in music. Of course, she is particularly fond of #41, Indie Music.
Hilarious! I’m white and my friend showed me this article before it was posted on your site. I made her promise to slap me very hard if I dumped someone solely for poor taste in books.
Btw, the final call of dating someone “for the story” is genius.
I’m NOT white, but I do know that G. Love and Special Sauce were/are on OKeh records. Garrett Dutton is HOT, Philadelphia style.
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Always good for a laught!!!!!
Thank you sooo much for keeping the masses’ happy….
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yeah me too. I thought the divinci code was great!!!
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who is amy fisher?
I was readin a porno mag and my white girl got mad at me
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I thought you said “Indian Music” for a sec there.
i saw a hot 65 year old a few months ago.
some looks don’t fade. and he was straight up
hizzot..i need me one a dem. that way if he ain’t
bien lu, then at least he gonna be fizzine for
a long time. wut
HA HA NOOOOO Lolita is a book a wrote way before Amy Fisher! lol…damn I
Im really white to know the book Lolita then….and to have read beyond them lol
seems god isn’t so perfect after all. at least this one.
i’m down wid jesus doe. wut.
remember since you created us, then logically, one would/must expect your mistakes. no harm, no foul. they’re all a reflection of your perfection.
amen. really. in the end it’s all about a sense of humour, but a sense of humour within and about the TRUTH.
You know your fairly well read when you can read the Gabriel Garcia Marquez book 100 years of solitude and you can clairly remember each characters names and actions. A hard task since over a period of a couple hundred years everyone in the family is named after a previous person, so you get one name for about 10 different people, and there is about 7 different names in the book, so.
clairly? clearly…
i dunno. i think aesthetic tastes are fairly important for longterm compatibility. white culture places a high value on books.
Thanks to Jake Adler for sending this one in.
MORE JEWISH SHIT NONSENSE.
This blog is getting soooooooo lame.
Excellent observation Collin, but it’s not always the trump card that some people may think. You just have to know how to work around it.
So a conversation is going like this: “Person A” and “Person B” are talking about Goethe’s “Faust”. “Person A” asks “B” what translation he’s read with the intention of gleefully pointing out that he didn’t read the “right” one. Then “B” replies that he’s read it in the original German, and that you really have to read it in the original language to get the feel for the work.
So is “A” trumped? Not exactly, he still has some replies to reverse this. An example:
Person A: “Well you know, the Walter Arndt translation is really a work in its own right. Much in the same as Dryden’s translation of Vergil’s ‘The Aeneid’ also stands on its own as a great work.”
[Note: Here we have a transition into another work and “Person A” can hope that “B” has not read either “The Aeneid” (unlikely) or perhaps hasn’t read Dryden’s translation. If in the shift to Vergil it turns out that “B” also knows Latin, then “A” is screwed.]
Person A: “And also, Goethe himself told Eckermann that he preferred the French translation of ‘Faust Part 1’ over the original German. So actually you’re wrong, Faust is to be preferred in translation.”
[Note: Here’s a very aggressive move for “Person A”. Extra points for “A” if he can remember who did the French translation. Also note the reference to Goethe’s conversations with Eckermann, putting “A” in a position of superior knowledge.]
Person A: “And anyway, often times the translation is superior to the original work. Professor Rudolf Metz thought that N. K. Smith’s translation of Kant’s ‘First Critique’ was superior to the abominable prose of the original.”
[Note: At this point “B” is most likely trumped. “A” can probably count on “B” never having read much philosophy, particularly Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason” (it’s a gamble of course), and in all likelihood has gotten him.]
Ayn Rand (Alisa Rosenbaum): “Collectivism describes the Jewish community perfectly”
Romance novels.
plenty of the things on this list are inapplicable to rich conservatives, rich religious conservatives, poor conservatives and poor religious conservatives
Right. I think the author Rachel Gonadio is a jew, and not Italian. The whole article is jew-inspired and utterly non-White.
Proper White People read stuff like G.K. Chesterton and fun stuff like Tom Wolfe, not the long list of perverted jewish anti-White trash listed in this article.
“caucawesome”
Atlantic Monthly Features White People Like: Word Fugitives
Rick Whitebread of Brookline writes, “My fellow white people need a word to describe the thrill of discussing white topics with like-minded whites.”
Be careful: falsely assuming the singularity of an esoteric short reference is a certain way to undercut polyglot haughtiness. There are a few texts with similar titles and the same theme in German.
This is pure phony SWPL. The vast majority of the right kind of white people will admit to reading little and caring even less. Most people do their reading online or occasionally dip into newspapers and magazines. Niche conversations at dinner parties may include buzzy discussions between two or three people (usually women) who are “up” on reading middle-brow pop lit works. No one outside of professional writers, editors, publishers and academics would ever broach the topic of serious literature, the classics or even contemporary “great writers.” You’ll hear excited chatter about “Juno” or the “Wire.” But Pushkin or Kundera? Get real.
Why does the link to Eco’s essays on reading link to the Wikipedia page for Shaw’s Pygmalion?
Jesus was perfect. Have Him do your proofreading from now on.
This is one of the reasons my ex-husband is an “ex.”
Did you White people discuss the decline of the percentage of actual Whites in the West and what it might be like for our grandchildren living in the next Brazil?
What’s important among White people is to have a position on it.
This is a perfect chance for you to seem well read and impress the girl you like. Just watch the movie ‘My Fair Lady’ and you’ll get it. Don’t waste time reading ‘Pygmalion’ for heaven’s sake.
This is a perfect chance for you to seem well read and impress the girl you like. Just watch the movie ‘My Fair Lady’ and you’ll get it. Don’t waste time reading ‘Pygmalion’ for heaven’s sake.
I’m afraid I have to agree with Come Let Us Reason Together. This one does not resonate. I wish white people (all people) read more, but the thing I think white people actually like is to lament their lack of time. ” I wish I had time to read.”
Here we go again. What a joke. ANOTHER JEWISH blog entry. 😦
Here is the list of non-whites quoted in this so-called “White” item:
JEWS:
Rachel Donadio
Anna Fels, a Manhattan psychiatrist
Alisa Rosenbaum
Judy Heiblum
Ariel Levy, the author of “Female Chauvinist Pigs”
Marco Roth
Laura Miller
Nora Ephron
Ben Karlin, a former executive producer of “The Daily Show”
plus:
Augusten Burroughs (homosexual)
“…asking your friends if they ‘loved “The Da Vinci Code” as much I did?’ … is extremely embarrassing and reflects poorly on them.”
You can always save the day with, “Did you know ‘Leonardo’ is his rightful name, and ‘daVinci’ merely his address? Where did Dan Brown go to school?”
Here we go again. What a joke. ANOTHER JEWISH blog entry. 😦
Here is the list of non-whites quoted in this so-called “White” item:
JEWS:
Rachel Donadio
Anna Fels, a Manhattan psychiatrist
Alisa Rosenbaum
Judy Heiblum
Ariel Levy, the author of “Female Chauvinist Pigs”
Marco Roth
Laura Miller
Nora Ephron
Ben Karlin, a former executive producer of “The Daily Show”
plus:
Augusten Burroughs (homosexual)
кто вы такие? что вам надо? я вас не знаю! идите нахуй!
“Brown eyed” girl – sound interesting
What sane White person would care what these Jews think is good literature?
If a Jew thinks it’s “good”, odds are it’ll be anti-White, anti-Christian, anti-family or a combintion of them.
Wow, I was just thinking the same thing!
Это блог по-англиский.
Коммунист.
It should be ‘a’ poorly read person.
Πῶς λὲς “я вас не знаю!” στὰ ἑλληνικά;
Ted:
Yes of course.
I took it as a presupposition in my example that the Goethe version had already been settled on by the agents of the conversation.
Presumably the conversation had already gone like:
Person B: “Have you ever read ‘Faust’?”
Person A: “Ugh, which one? The original chapbook? Marlowe’s version? Goethe’s? Mann’s? etc. etc. etc.”
Person B: “Ahh, Goethe of course. [Then a long excursion on the superiority of Goethe’s ‘Faust’ versus other versions.]”
Person A: “Of course I’ve read Goethe’s ‘Faust’. Which translation did you read?”
Person B: “I read it in the original German. You really have to tackle the German text to get a feel for Goethe’s ‘Knittelvers’.”
And so on and so forth…
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Didn’t care for this. Stick to the “list.” Although, white people in the news is clever, this bit sucked.
Don’t take submissions either, this is the easiest way to jump the shark and lose your audience. The site exploded in popularity simply because of the list of stuff white people like, not these lame asides.
try again
Right. White people watch the History Channel instead. Antiques Roadshow has to be about the Whitest show on TV.
Κύριε ἐλέησον
Φοβοῦ τοὺς Δαναοὺς καὶ δῶρα φέροντας
Ещё белые люди не любят трахать овец.
Nabokov is a first pedobear ever!
*jetteim enters the chat room
not being “well read” takes my brown ass out of being considered white. oh, poo.
Don’t you know that orthodox jew are not allowed to read anything except Torah? The only place to read any other literature is a toilet. That’s why toilet books became so popular after WWII.
And remember, jews are white people too.
I don’t think it matters if your well read, I’m not my girlfriend is. she introduces me to books, and either I read them or I don’t, but relationships are about love not insignificant shit like books.
And what for me? I’m semi-korean with jewish and russian genes and i’m reading. This make me white guy as well. It’s too sad for me!
GIRLS CANNOT READ! YOU’RE WRITING A NONSENCE!
The last thing I read was a restaurant menu…
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Jesus told you to burn all the books!
Jesus has been died for you sin of reading!
You know you’re NOT fairly well read when you don’t know the difference between “your” and “you’re” and you can’t quite figure out when to use “is” as opposed to “are.”
Nice attempt at self-congratulation, though.
Here we go again. Another lobotomy candidate.
How can a jew that’s hostile, anti-white, anti-christian, anti-family, etc. be considered “White”? Besides, Semites are not White.
Stop reading, pray Jesus!
“what have you” = white
also, “what-nots”
It would be appropriate to substitute “etc.” with “what-nots-and-what-have-yous.”
Ren is probably half-white.
There’s aesthetic compatibility and then there’s snobby nitpicking. Compatibility doesn’t mean you have to share every interest; in fact, I think it’s unhealthy to do so. Sharing most things is great; sharing everything suffocates the two people involved and leaves little me-time and breathing room (two things white people will die without). If literature is the only – or primary – thing that you can share with somebody else, I think you need to shift your priorities.
So true. So very, very true.
Nora Ephron:
“She has been married three times. Her first marriage, to writer Dan Greenburg, ended in divorce after six years. Her second was to journalist Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame in 1976. Ephron had an infant son, Jacob, and was pregnant with her second son, Max, in 1980 when she found out the news of Bernstein’s affair with their mutual friend, married British politician Margaret Jay. She delivered Max prematurely as a result. Ephron was inspired by the events to write the 1983 novel Heartburn, which was made into a 1986 film starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep. In the book, Ephron wrote of a husband, Mark, who was “capable of having sex with a venetian blind.” She also said that the character Thelma (based on Margaret Jay) looked like a giraffe with “big feet.” Bernstein threatened to sue over the book and film, but never did.”
WOW, just the kind of person “White people” should be listening to!! Right.
I for one, being White, could give two shits about anything Nora Ephron related.
Lobotomy for you would help you.
Things White People Do Not Like: White people who are obsessed about someone possibly being jewish. It is embarrassingly not multi-cultural.
Sally: you are obviously not at all a Proper White Person.
Pushkin disliked jews, and that was 200 years ago. Have you never read any world history? Amazing.
“When a guy tells me it changed his life, I wish he’d saved us both the embarrassment,” (Judith) Heiblum said, adding that “life-changing experiences” are a “tedious conversational topic at best.”
blah, blah, blah……
Now who would even want to date a Bette Midler-type with this kind of attitude in the first place??? This is so not the Proper White Person thread!!!
you people are worse than spammers with this shit.
North American women watch on average five hours a week more TV than men do. When you further factor in shopping, time in the bathroom and “getting ready”, when the hell might a broad get the time to read anything?
Actually it is better that they don’t read. DaVinci Code? Harry Potter? Cosmo? Oprah Book Club? Yeeeesh.
So it is difficult for a Proper White Man to find a suitably well read woman. The ones that do often work at NGOs and are virulently bolshevist.
It doesn’t matter if you’re more well read than your mate as long as what you’ve read is interesting enough to hold a conversation – right?
H
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Yes, but did you count the number of times “Herz” appears in Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther for the monolingual)? That was the sort of thing young people in Germany did when it came out! And don’t forget to talk about the way it swept Europe up into a lather of bathos.
The really well-read white person cannot admit to reading French, German or Latin works in translation only. (NB, Greek, Italian, and Spanish can be read in translation, but Middle English not.) One gets extra points for reading the medieval French romances in Old French or Parzifal in Middle High German. Then, past the translation and language issues, one gets into the edition question. For classical authors, most people will read the Loeb editions (which have facing page translations and so can be used to fake – or at least puff up – knowledge of Latin), so the gamesman/woman who wishes to trump has to know the preferred (or latest, there are two approaches here) scholarly edition and tout that.
this blog jumped the shark april 1st.
it will never be the same; only a parody of itself.
RIP
The well-read conservative would have preferred Hume and Burke, and Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments).
It’s interesting that well-read conservatives (and they exist) probably will have read pretty much the same things as well-read progressives in the classics and up through the mid-18th century (though they may prefer different authors — say the Stoics over Aristotle over Plato or Virgil over Homer and definitely Aquinas over Augustine and probably Locke and Hume over Rousseau and Voltaire). However, while there’s a common core in the late 18th and 19th centuries (Kant, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, James), there will be a large number of things each group considers essential from the late 18th century on, that the other group simply does not read.
In the 20th century, the divide between what well-read conservatives read and what well-read progressives read is almost absolute – or, one should say while academic conservatives read progressive authors (at least selectively), progressives rarely read conservative or libertarian authors.
The real trump in this situation would be something like:
Person A: Well, of course, you did. But there is so much in Faust, you can’t really hope to do it on your own. Who did you study Faust with?
Person B (for knock-out): Stuart Atkins, of course. He lectured in German, but he would take questions in English. We started with Hiob (Job) in the Luther translation of the Bible – so important – and then worked through the various medieveal Faust legends before we got to Faust itself. And we used Atkins’ own edition, of course.
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I love it when on the Simspons Homer is in bed reading the back of a cereal box or the tv guide.
Ditto here. I also have an ex-wife who didn’t read. Now I’m looking for a girl who loves to read as much as me. Where is she?
My favorite author is Alice Munro.
My test for boyfriends:
1. Did you buy The Da Vinci Code?
2. Did you read The Da Vinci Code?
3. Did you like it?
4. Did you watch the movie?
5. Did you enjoy it?
Correct answers
1 no; 2 no; 3 no; 4 no; 5;no
If you answer yes to at least one the questions,
1. You dont live in NY
2. You are not Jewish
3. You are not white
4. You are not a WASP
5. You are a JAP
The Da Vinci Code is to litrature what crack is to recreational drugs
Very true though – by your standarts – i am also poorly read…
Ah should go and read more. Bye
Earisu, well said. I’m more educated and better read than my fiancee but she’s every bit as intelligent as I am, more so in some ways. She excells in what I call “hands on practical life-management skills.” To put it another way, I’m theory and she’s application. I know when to use “you’re” and “your” and she doesn’t, but when something in the house breaks I stare at it while she proceeds to do whatever needs to be done to get it working.
Oh what the hell, let me be completely honest: she’s got weapons-grade knockers and in the bedroom she ***wears*** me ***out***. That said, two things that won’t sustain a relationship are looks & sex, because eventually the novelty wears off. There has to be a deeper connection, which she and I have made. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
DDR, that was indeed the story of my first marriage and is one of several reasons for it failing. But the main problem was that she suffers from bipolar-disorder, was extremely violent and refused to get help. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
I’m a White user and endorser of books, but My Girlfriend rarely drops English Lit. references. Actually, she never does. But she’s from Japan (#11), so of course I let it slide.
Unfortunately, here in what used to be known as the land of the “Aryans from Darien” (Connecticut), there are a lot of certified WASPs (and not a few JAPs) who were enthralled with The DaVinci Code — it had quite a vogue among the 14-18 set and, to my personal knowledge, was the subject of more than one thoroughly WASP book club.
Of course, most of these WASPs and JAPs are beyond the BF stage and into the Spouse + 2 Anklebiters stage (or perhaps into the “Stay Thin and Hot so I Don’t Get Dumped for a Trophy Wife” stage, so they’re not exactly your demographic. But, most of them are graduates of (depending on their age) the Seven Sisters (if older) or the Ivies or Little Ivies or equivalents.
I don’t know. I dated a guy once who didn’t read and although most other factors were great, in my heart I knew it could never last.
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I’ll bet she’s murder with the references to the “analytic and algebraic topology of locally Euclidean Riemanian manifolds,” though….
(with apologies to Tom Lehrer)
How incredibly white of you , well played sir.
LOL you betcha!
With the dropout rate so high, I guess everyone is screwed??
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Or you could end up like Uncle Jesse on Full House getting a quick lesson from kookie Uncle Joey on how to act at a party full of snobbish well read people. When you are a rock star, of course you haven’t read Tolstoy, but if you bite your reading glasses and say “it was terribly overrated” you’ll look cool at least.
I think I love you and would read anything you ever ordered me to 😉
Have you read G. Bush’s prose?
Do you understand Portuguese? Then read about stuff this Brazilian white woman likes: http://www.escrevalolaescreva.blogspot.com
Your girlfriend told me that, too.
Hey, nigga, remember; white people have mo money to buy bigger guns.
Annie HallI notice that every book you pick out for me has ‘death’ in the title
Wrong, if you consider yourself well read, just keep quiet. I’m sick of you readers. I’m a doer and read just enough to do what I want to do.
and then get into an arm wrestling match with a whiteperson tm.
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This Stalinist attack on ‘Cosmopolitans’ makes it clear that Jew-haters have taken over the comments section of this site.
Sigh.
Back to the original question, I have more than once dated men for whom I had to “dumb down” my vocabulary. Involving more than books. Honestly.
Not a good thing at all.
Hey Clander, although not exclusively a white “sport”given Tigers dominance what about golf for a post??? White people love golf.
Reading is overrated!
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Umberto Eco is really fun. Most (maybe all?) of his novels have been translated into English by now. I would start with my favorite, which is “The Name of the Rose”, which was made into a movie starring Sean Connery. The book’s better by FAR. Anyhow, the story is about a medievl monastery which is the center of a debate between forces within the official church. Inconveniently, monks are being murdered there. The monk brought in to investigate unravels a mystery involving forbidden books, unholy passions, crazy psychotic librarians and possibly the apocalypse.
Also good is Foucault’s pendulum which not only anticipated the DaVinci code by decades, but completely nullified it as well.
I just fininshed Eco’s essays on war and media populism called “Turning Back the Clock.” Very intriguing stuff.
“Just like the old man in that book by Nabakov…pleeeaaassseee don’t stand so close to me…
The Police
As a friend once told me you could spend every waking moment for the rest of your life reading only the worlds greatest literature and you could only hope to scratch the surface. So get cracking and stop gloating.
Question: Does the Star Wars trilogy Han Solo’s adventures count in the well read category? I mean you learn lessons on so many social issues such as friendship, the evils of slavery, and doing the right thing even if it’s not convenient.
I just need someone who’s internet literate…meaning they actually know what the hell is going on online. And also someone who knows how to date me, a single mom. So I just point them to my blog:
http://www.mssinglemama.com
even more impressive if you read it in spanish.
Fortunately there is a solution for those who feel their whitehood is at risk over the question of being well-read. Lit professor Pierre Bayard posits that it is not possible to read all the books one needs to have read to be well read; one therefore need only to be able to talk about the book within the framework of its societal role. He describes how to do this in detail in his book “How to talk about books you haven’t read.” A must-read for the would-be erudite white, allowing you to watch Nickelodeon reruns without guilt.
I am not white. Not at all. In fact, I am a Ghanaian immigrant, but I was raised around Jewish people, went to Penn, work in fashion in New York, and am going to HBS, so eh . . . I might as well be white!
And I COMPLETELY agree with this post– amazing!
For another good laugh, check this blog out!
http://avoidthatguy.wordpress.com
The key is not to get TOO esoteric or deeply philosophical or even strictly literal in the sense of actually reading the material in question & reciting the Cliff Notes.
Bukowski, Fante & Hamsun is a good three chord hipster literary rock tune. You can get by with something like that in your trickbag.
Joyce is too deep & passe’ anyway unless you play it like, ‘my favorite Joyce is ‘The Dead’ before he got all pedantic & boring & started showing off.’
The Beats are another dead horse unless you come at it tangentially, ‘Sam Charter says, and I think he’s right, the whole Beat scene started the first time Kloop used the ride cymbal to drive the groove forward and not only put BOP on the map but in Kerouac’s head by freeing the narrative from the self-imposed restraint of the traditional form…’
Stuff like that.
A little bullshit goes a long way with white people.
Something else white people like: getting special thanks on popular blogs. Glad you liked it.
As for the comments…a lot of people seem to be taking this way too seriously. If you don’t like the site, which is pretty inoffensive if you’re not a moron, go somewhere else.
Now that I’ve opened the floodgates for more rants about Jews…
“Put your book down, Star Trek is on, and its a good one.” as if we can’t sit side by side and do one or the other. I read an article in that blindingly white magazine, Utne Reader, years ago that talked about the difficulties of dating a nonreader. It just so happened that I had just started dating a guy who only had 2 books in his entire house, both on military history. When I looked at his bookshelf after reading that article, my first thought was “OMG,now what am I going to do?” keep in mind, I was a shy young bookworm who really liked having a boyfriend around.
I’m white and I like to read porn.
Is it possible to “read” porn?
Oh Noes! We could wind up living in another Brazil! Aaaahhhh, anything but that! I mean, who’d want to live in a country full of easygoing, friendly, good-looking people (notice all the Brazilian supermodels around these days?) who know how to throw a good party and grill a good steak? Really, that’d be awful. I’ll grant you there’d be a downside – e.g. too many guys rockin’ the hammock at the beach, but on balance your scenario sounds pretty swell to me.
When you talk about writers nobody has ever heard of, like writers of classic African Literature like Bessie Head and Meja Mwangi people just nod or pretend to know what you are talking about which you can immediately humiliate them and uncover their ruse by inquiring about their perspective on the character arc of the particular work in question.
Furthermore, when they bring up the subject of Russian Literature to change the subject, you can respond with comments like, “I studied Russian and European classic literature as an undergrad, but since have moved onto a wider depth of scope”
That way you can avoid the whole I read “war and peace” in the second grade pissing contest
White people love to appear to possess superior cultural intellegence
This blog isn’t funny anymore.
I like Umberto Eco, with the exception of the “Mysterious Flame” book, which was more like his personal walk down the memory lane of his own childhood reading obsession. I have a partner who is not well read- but apparently he listens when I ramble about what I am reading. One time people were talking about the Divinci code and he was able to contrast it with Focults pendulum- having read neither.
Sure. Doesn’t everyone just read Playboy “for the articles”?
I’m currently teaching Orwell’s 1984 and have come to the conclusion that, while everyone references that book, no one has actually read it. It’s a book people talk about within the context of its effect on society! I must have heard “Newspeak” alluded to a hundred times, and when I read the actual section of the book about it, it was not at all what I’d always thought.
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Susan Sontag has a Posse.
FAIL. People have been trying to undermine it with comments like that since practically the first post.
I read US weekly, people magazine and in touch all while I was sitting in the bathroom yesterday. All those feminazis who kicked me out of their book club for “harassment”,”non participation” and “constantly being off-topic” are might be smarter than me, but they dont know that Miley prefers decaf lattes. Take that you uptight hos!
No one is asking Paris Hilton if she read “faust”, even if she did sell her soul to the devil too.
If by Bench pressing Dostoevsky, I can make the top ten beach bods, so be it!
PS i write for New York Magazine
real white people loved the da vinci code. how else did it sell a billion copies? this is stuff pretentious, preening, grew up rich, private school attended, wishing they were “real” while putting everything “real” down, hipster but dont want to be seen as a hipster stuff white people like.
But what better accessory for a rock star than a faded copy of “pale fire” on which to rest his ashtray and cheap whiskey?
You really don’t get it do you … or is ot me???
Penthouse letters could be considered literature, “Stacked” magazine has an incredible editorial section. Just last week they debated what lube is the ladies choice along with the consequences of free trade agreements in civilized nations.
Joy of sex= Best book ever
Posting links to your blog…that’s so low!
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CLURT, you really hit the nail on the head. I couldn’t have said it better myself. You accurately described my current reading habits. I’m a reasonably intelligent college graduate but I haven’t heard of most of the obsure authors people here are name-dropping.
In fairness to me I used to read stuff with “depth” but I suffer from PTSD and I can no longer do serious reading and enjoy it; too much of a strain; had to stop about seven years ago. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
Absolutely a deal-breaker for me, and I’ll freely admit it.
When my husband and I were dating, I asked him once if he’d read any Faulkner. When he said, “Only The Sound and the Fury,” I knew I loved him. So I suppose familiarity with Faulkner is good enough for me…
It’s a shame you can’t get out of high school w.out reading it. I find it misogynistic and unbearably dated.
I have heard that familiarity can bread contempt.
Joy of cooking a close second !
Yo Mamma sure is funny though and by that I mean your mother
hippolytus and cato really made me laugh, because I once had a boyfriend who told me that I just couldn’t fully appreciate Rilke unless I could read him in german. very fun!
This has been and always will be a white person’s favorite way to attack some one on the internet.
But I like GK Chesterton, have a sense of humour and hate Tom Wolfe.
For the record, I’m also anti-zionist…see I don’t even capitalize the ‘z’.
Sooooo confuseddddddd
“there is a good chance that AN poorly read person ”
Again, I love you dearly but you’re killing us here.
Green Fairy, your comment was caucawesome! I”m looking at my copy of the Atlantic right now….
I love jewwwwwws
In the fifties , we called such aid, “Readers Digest.”
I relate to this like whoa. The thing is the reason I love this so much is because it’s describing exactly “my” people… who, based on this site anyone can see, are obviously a somewhat superficial and image based class, eager to “appear” a certain way and often unable to differentiate this appearance from reality, even to themselves. However, any negativity that this quality may carry is balanced out by the fact that this is also the people who find this site most hilarious, because we are able to laugh at ourselves.
christian lander is the number one google search getting people to my site. I am so supportive.
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Same thing with War and Peace
“You dont have to read to breed”
Father’s arguement as to why I can’t attend school.
BTW my father is warren jeffs
Superior, condescending and accommodating all in one package. The perfect right kind of white woman. What a catch!
The good news is I wouldn’t want to date someone that pretentious. Although technically, I can outdo them by bringing up my doctoral degree and my in-depth understanding of stuff that matters: human behaviour. Read that.
I once dated a white guy ( I’m an EBP ) who was slow reader…that was a bad decision.
So many candidates! Where to begin?
I had sex in the library, with an english professor, on top of the unabridged enclyclopedia of contemporary literary criticism, while discussing the recurrent character themes in works of Arthur Miller.
Does that make me well read?
I’m more likely to reply with a question such as, “What did you learn from that? What insights did you derive from reading ‘the most pretentious book of the year’?” It ought not be a checklist. If you’re going to brag, you should be able to explain what is so great about it.
Why do White People insist on Freedom of Religion when it seems to hurt so many innocent people?
http://theplasticspoon.blogs.com
My doubt: as spanish (1/8 ancient aboriginal (including: basque, iberian, celtic and unknown), 1/8 roman, 1/8 arab, 1/8 hebrew, 1/8 african, 1/8 gipsy, 1/8 american aboriginal (you choose: tolteca, azteca, inca, mixteca, patagón…), 1/8 perhaps philippine), am I white or just salad?
Ha – Laura I laughed out loud at that. 😉
What color?
… and he was right!
Just tell yourself the voices inside your head aren’t real then start hugging Jews for therapy on your road to recovery.
I’d never date anyone who actually read a book. Judging books by their cover is much more fun.
http://covercritic.com
The DaVinci Code was a great book. It was like the French Dick Tracy meets Sherlock Holmes. I look forward to reading more of Ron Howard’s work. He wrote Happy Days, too?
Ugh. You think that’s bad… check out this..
http://wjno.blogspot.com/2008/04/incestuous-couple-tv-interview.html
Gotta love the college education!
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Remedy: A) Go to art films
B) Discuss afterwards
(If foreign language, some reading of subtitles required)
Wouldn’t it be more impressive to read “War and Peace” in the original Russian (& interspersed French) rather than in Spanish?
wow. I’m glad I married when I did or else how would I EVER find a man having never read Nabokov?
Woody Allen syndrome: “fall” in love with woman who is cute, and full of potential, but sadly undeveloped. Then introduce her to the list of your favorite things and then when she’s as brilliant as you are — yet still better-looking, you get dumped…
Oh, wait a cotton-pickin’… that’s PYGmallion…
In any case; it’s white.
Isn’t it time to admit that this isn’t “stuff white people like”, it’s “stuff white liberals like”. I’m from the bay area and I clearly understand the distinction.
In regard to Jews – many white liberals are self-loathing Jews. The only thing they hate more than Israel is white southerners who respect and support Israel.
Colin – Do you go to Mizzou?
Until you have to read one.
White people love LOL.
So do I!! I love the vulgar and the banal!
You should have got a dig in on audiobooks. I take endless crap from my friends for my love of audiobooks.
I read while I drive,shop,workout,clean house etc…..
yeah but the jews will still cash the white southerners’ checks!
Most of these multi-lingual experts types are Jesuit priests, so they cannot marry you!!
Try public school–it worked for me!
Lisa, this article is only going to brainwash you into being with someone who is 5 foot 5 inches and unwashed hair. Personally, I’d choose a man with some masculine traits and broad shoulders. I don’t want my kids to be troll-like dweebs.
While this blog is brilliant in nailing white people a lot of the time, I think that since no one (not even white people) can really keep up anymore with both the classics and the trendy modern novels they’re supposed to know about, you’re allowed to like just about anything. Only you have to KNOW when to like it earnestly and with great passion, and when to like it in an anti-snob kind of way (cf. white people liking Stephen King, and it being ok).
You just won’t admit to liking Tom Wolfe because he’s not dead and gone. In 50 years time, he’ll be liked.
jews hate Tom Wolfe, but they’ll go to the mat to promote the vulgar and banal. No wonder they’re the people who run the porn biz.
What about the lawless zones with all the feral non-whites running around?
Idiot. You have never been there. Stop watching so many travel shows.
brown eyed girl: don’t you mean another lobotomy victim. I’m sure Mr. Keating qualified for “free” elective surgery on the basis of need years ago. With the benefit of hindsight, Peter is living testimony to the tragically disappointing outcome of this long discredited procedure.
I was planning on commenting (to hilarious effect) about how I also loved the DaVinci Code. Something along the lines of, “What you guys didn’t love the DaVinci Code as much as I did?” But I just can’t do it. That book was terrible, it was literary tripe! And don’t even get me started on the movie. I apologize for my lack of commitment to a bit.
D
while academic conservatives read progressive authors (at least selectively), progressives rarely read conservative or libertarian authors.
Well put Cato.
That pretty much sums up the hatred Jews have for Whites, Christians, the family, etc..
How the duped liberal White cannot see this hatred, and that they actually participate in it, is a mystery. The lack of basic human instinct, the desire to help kill their own culture and people off…..it deserves some serious study.
Oh, that too.
Yeah, I never hated Whites!!! Ever!! Exactly right. (cough, cough…laughing)
While I’ve not been to Brazil, I have managed to meet a fair number of Brazilians in my time – from many racial and class backgronds (gotta love NYC for that) and found them to be a fine group – especially the women. As for feral and lawless groups, well, West Virginia’s just down the road from me and I seem to recall that being a white stronghold. In the meantime, no Brasileras for you and your Turner Diaries-reading ilk! Your loss, our gain. 😛
Viva la miscegenation!
Maybe I’m wrong, but the occasional grammatical errors & seemingly careless typos of this obviously very brainy blogger are intentional (for proof, note the blog’s anti-literary title, for $%^#@#$ sake). Perhaps there should be a blog post about this – I mean, intellectuals purposely dumbing themselves down for stylistic effect. The pseudo-journalistic, plodding thing adds to the overall hilarity of this blog. Don’t change a thing. Keep the typos coming. Love your blog.
Is that the way you put it? I think it’s only logical to point out that this NY Times article is really just a collection of jew opinions and quotes.
That’s not White.
There does seem to be many liberal Whites that cannot make this simple connection.
These jews are not Proper White People, that’s really the point. They should exercise their freedom of speech to speak for Jews, not us.
If liberal Whites want to join in the anti-White hate crusade, then that’s their own uninstinctual choice.
brilliant.
Please consider a post on white people’s obsession with biking—er, i mean “cycling” (kind of like jogging, which should never be confused with the much more athletic version, “running”). It should include their incessant chatter about gear and personal bests and how many “K” (as in km’s) one can bike, er, cycle in a day. I’m sure this isn’t just a regional white obsession….
oh, and please find a pic of an supersized white guy feeling all too sporty in his cycling bib. lance lives on!
You cannot be White and a recipient of affirmative action, sorry.
Just answer a question with a question, that always works.
There are some good rants about Asians on the Asian girls thread. Whoa!!!
Didn’t that ugly wench die already?
A serious White-hating bitch.
You got that right.
Forget Warren Jeffs, his kids can read.
Ever see how many kids the welfare moms pump out? Whoa!!!
Many non-Whites believe in religion too. Atheist-communism has a track record of 100 million mass murdered, including raping nuns.
mee tooo
http://amillionthings.wordpress.com
non-white
anti-snobbery: You got it right. That’s why this post misses the mark. To be sure there is a subset of white people -more women than men- who are avid readers. But only a tiny subset of the subset reads works which enjoy a critical reputation rising to the level of “serious” literature. Unless one is having tea with members of the book club to discuss assigned reading, or one is an elite member of an academic or professional literati, white conversation seldom swings around to important writers or to works admitted or nominated to the canon of great literature. Showing snobbery in an area of esoteric experise where few white people can be expected to converse about idiosyncratic tastes in high-brow literary art will usually backfire.
Reading is brainfood!
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Thank you!
the comments on this site are always so bizarre – what the fuck is wrong with you people?
Downhill fast ever since the sell out.
Nothing wrong with us people , However if you are white …you are clearly TWKOWP.
Yeah but some of the comments are still worth reading
Have you tried your local library?
“that an poorly read person”
anti-snobbery, you are right, Part II. Remember THE LOVELY BONES, the phenomenal bestseller. Today most white people who indulged in the mass idiotic enthusiasm for this dreadfully written “inspiring” tale of a young girl who is abducted, molested, raped, murdered and dismembered by a neighbor then ascends to narrate the story from her vantage point in heaven, might have second thoughts today about the shame of lending their voices to critical acclaim for this sentimental drivel.
I find people who are well-read tend to be more interesting and complex than people who aren’t.
“Woody Allen syndrome” is having sex with your asian adopted daughter. Vulgar perv.
Of course, she’s right. How are we supposed to read the White classics in between mandatory Toni Morrison assignments??
Read it in spanish AND remebered their names and actions as a non-native Spanish speaker. Now that’s well read.
Firefox browser has a spell check inside every text box.
what about musicians?
I don’t trust the English-speaking world when it comes to translations. In one book I ma awar of in Italian, the text “e buon’ cristiano” got translated as “he’s a good man”. Stuff like that.
Who does the translating? Why trust these people? One thing I would never trust is a Jewish translation of German anything, especially with regards to non-fiction and WW2 history.
There is a new “english” translation of Don Quixote by Edith Grossman. There would seem to be little reason for yet another translation of Don Quixote. Translated into English some 20 times.
Perhaps Grossman wants to make some subtle anti-White changes? I’ll stick with the Putnam translantion, thank you, and so should all Whites.
There seem to be two kinds of musicians: the really smart ones who are very well-read as well as very talented musicians — most of them don’t end up as professional musicians, but this group includes most of the true world class professionals — and those who have talent as musicians but not the ability to excel in other fields, and concentrate almost solely on music, making up in diligence what they lack in talent, who make up the vast majority of professional musicians. The second group probably doesn’t read much.
Warren Jeffs children ARE welfare kids – his “spiritual wives” are legally unwed mothers and therefore eligible for welfare.
What I wrote has nothing to do with your screed of hate.
Yes! Someone has to do the dishes while I am busy reading.
Even better in Esperanto.
Let’s just hope that in this day and age you can find someone to date who isn’t sleeping around with Tom, Dick, and Harry every time your back is turned. Well-read or not is the least of the problems with relationships today . . .
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Tee hee…my office mate went to REI on his lunch hour, and he was just talking about his new gear!
Good post. However, I would never date the author after reading the last line. “To seriously date?” Really? A split infinitive?
Ghastly!
Yes, HappyGirl, I did try my local library. No single girls who love to read there. There were mostly senior citizens and moms with their children for school projects. However, I did enjoy talking to them. And then I tried the main library in downtown Chicago. No luck there either. I tried the local bookstores, but everyone seems more interested creating the appearance of looking like they are very well read.
So, given that I managed to never read the DaVinci Code nor see the movie…and don’t plan to, is that proof of intellectual superiority or being out of the loop?
Anyway, if my wife leaves me any time soon, I don’t know whom I would date…thanks to my daughter the highest literature I get to read these days is “Cleo the Cat” and “10 Apples Up On Top” I may not be able to get back up to college reading level for years!
Dickheads are looking for sex and chicks are looking for the next Dickhead with more money.
This editoral in question must be some sort of joke. What a bunch of fukin idiots.
This controversy was settled some time ago in favor of including split infinitives in correct usage when a consensus formed that the Startrek phrase, “to boldly go” is OK.
No, Ren is Mexican. Stimpy is white.
It’s more like watching “The Wall” on weed.
However, if you like Stuff White People Like, that must make you intellectually white. 🙂
Cannot a person be well-read without reading “classics”. What about reading things which may well be the classics of the future?
For example, I have read everything by Clive Barker (that I know) and consider him to be a very intelligent, highly prolific author. Does that count for nothing? Do I have to force myself to read translations of books because everyone says I’m only well-read if I read those particular books? I guess I would like clarification.
Duh, the joke is that most things “black” or “mexican” people like arent’ universally liked by all of them either. You can expect the white stereotypes to be totally accurate when the stereotypes for other races start being totally accurate.
Jesus was a man. Never met a perfect one yet.
Oh, thank God you said it. If you don’t have a sense of humor go find a blog titled “stuffhumorlesswhitepeoplelike”.
Cato,
You need to get back to writing your dissertation. Are you one of my advisees?
WP
White people don’t care much about multi-cultural anything.
Except food and books.
Um…well…I’d back slowly out the door without making a sound.
Okay, but have you seen the fifty year-old fat men in Speedos?
I like those laminated restaurant menus with bright color photos of the burger, fries and coke that you’re gonna order.
‘White Problems’ are really a matter of perception and perspective!
http://www.survival-international.org
No, Rosemary Kennedy was a victim of lobotomy. And ironically enough, at the hands of her very white parents. Peter Keating, on the other hand, is in need of one, as are all the other like minded anti-semitic, racist, hate spewing ass wipes who are spamming this great blog with their vile words and ideas.
I didn’t say it’d be without cost. 😉
I like your funny blog but I could do without all the racist remarks in the comments. It’s dragging this place down. I have a lot of friends from different and interesting ethnic groups, so it’s pretty offensive to me.
Also the people who don’t get the joke (“I’m white and this really doesn’t describe all whites accurately”) are growing tiresome, though it does make me feel superior when I read those comments.
Maybe you could create a special class of people witty enough to make worthwhile comments (which would be a white thing to do)? Or maybe you need to hire a staff of editors to weed out the trash?
Just a thought.
Ugh, talk about Oblomovschina.
I think this site is for the intelligent “rednecks” (yes, there are such people – in fact, there are many of us) because it makes fun of the rich, liberal, “well-read” white folks.
At least those of us who you claim are “conservative fundamentalist morons” can write a cohesive sentence – heck, they even write satire… like this blog!
What am I thinking right now?
God forbid there be any actual diversity in the West. Actual diversity is bad. Perceived diversity is okay, though. Oh, and awareness of diversity.
Nice.
I don’t wish I had time to read. If I’m interested in something, I’ll read it or about it. Otherwise, I honestly don’t care. Doesn’t mean I’m any less intelligent. (In fact, it usually means I’m less jack-ass).
You might be Salma Hayek?
I love being white!
LOL – I probably did Goethe with Stuart before you were born…. maybe I was even on your committee….
I don’t read any fiction, any women wanna date me? Nope, didn’t think so.
unread people are so yesterday
“…[I]nsignificant shit like books.”
That is about the truest statement about puffed-up intellectual bull I’ve ever read. Books and philosophy-related literature and art, after all, is really only constructs of our minds.
I’ll drink to that sentiment.
I couldn’t be with a man who lacked the sense of humor and general werewithal to stand tom robbins and kurt vonnegut. a plus if he’s already read all books by both, but still okay if he’s willing to borrow the books (brownie points if he’ll buy his own).
definitely have found a lot of the ‘swpl’ to overlap with my impressions of ‘sjpl’ (stuff jewish people like) but I don’t mind. being a jewess is pretty great!
I agree with you. I think, though, that it has much to do with one’s circle of friends. I’ll bust out classic lit with a group of English profs but when I’m getting stupid with my girlfriends, we end up talking about dildos.
Call me well-rounded.
I’m starting to ask myself why it is the case that I could read 20 or more of Lander’s best posts in 10 minutes yet I squander hours wading through the comments adding my own two-cents worth (Yes, I feel I am too stupid to live). It was fun but time to check into rehab and get all better.
No, that honor belongs to “New Yankee Workshop”.
God bless Norm.
I have a decent vocabulary and am not very well-read. While there may be a slight correlation between the two, it’s not a concrete relationship. It’s hard to use words you don’t understand, and there is a huge difference between being well-read and being well-understood.
Beverly Hills High.
I’m white!
Hey, I resent that. I read “People” magazine.
Yes please!
I’m white, too! Isn’t it fun?
White people are the funniest!
I know what you mean. My ex-husband was content to watch WWE with our sons, smoke weed and pass out on the sofa before 8 pm. I needed intellectual stimulation and wasn’t getting it from him. I even went back to school solely for the purpose of being able to converse with others who were at least interested in learning.
Now, I’m married to a man with a PhD and I’m going back to school yet again just to keep up with him so I don’t end up looking like my ex-husband.
Be careful what you wish for.
Ooooh. Brings back fond memories of having wild sex with my high school Spanish teacher back in 1986.
What’s a book?
Been there, done that: see #61 Bicycles
hahaha
possibly, but it definitely makes you slutty.
hey, NO JUDGEMENT.
no, he doesn’t get it.
when did nazis get cool again?
assuming that most of the people who are commenting are so angry because they themselves are white and they’re COMPLETELY insecure and so feel the need to be bigots in THE COMMENTS OF A BLOG… I’d have to say that one thing white people really like is anti-semitism. But, let’s assume that’s not the kind of white people we’re discussing here. Hmmmmm?
The subject article we are discussing is a jew quote farm. It’s not White. So quit your whining.
Yes. Yes it does.
bicurious? :p
being a jewess is pretty great
yeah, except for the plastic surgery bills!!! ha ha
Seriously though, thanks for setting the record straight, that this is highly SJPL. That’s what many White people have been saying all along. Now that we have an official JAP imprimatur we can all finally admit it?
This site is about “Whites”. We are talking about race, specifically what the White race likes. This whole site is defined by race. Are you obtuse?
PS You should see the racial comments on the Asian girls and Obama threads. Where have you been?
Stop stop stop stop!!!
You are all getting yourselves way too deep into a silly silly debate. Stuff white people like? Stuff black people like? Stuff sailors like? Stuff people who like stuff like? Stuff people who like stuff who like stuff like? Stuff, like, stuff? Wake up. You are all wasting valuable time, and I am wasting mine telling you that you are wasting yours. Sometimes I wish I werent white!
Please go and do something fun, like ride a bike or eat some popcorn.
Jonny
White People like to incorporate their book snobbery into breakup songs:
”
is she bright
so well read
are there novels
by her bed?
is she the sort
that you’ve always said
could satisfy
your head?
o, my jealousy “
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Jealousy-lyrics-Natalie-Merchant/1178119F73D64849482569260027C02F
And she’s a friggin’ Sicilian (Mercanto)!
Now this is a true story: I was having a foursome with three white girls and the army brat one spied a copy of John Ralston Saul’s “Voltaire’s Bastards” on my night table and called me pretentious for having Voltaire at my bedside. Awkward. I was much younger, years away from figuring out “Leroy Purina” (as we call him up in Canada) was the very definition of a pseud.
Good times, as the lumpenproletariat say.
I like the precedent!!! Send in the Feds, and raid the projects next!! Clean’em out and send them packing!
Those are some good ideas for the next posts, Jonny! Bike-riding and eating popcorn are great white people activities!
look in the mirror, if it’s not already broken.
BS!!! she’s a marrano jew
dude that book was frickin crazy!
Wikipedia says her mom was an O’Shea and her dad was a house carpenter; if you have other info I stand corrected. Note that she has large breasts typical of the White Woman.
Um, actually the character of Henry Higgins actually references the Pygmalion myth 😉
Dive head-first into 1st much…?
Pain don’t hurt but it makes it harder to read.
Try again in August. You never were worth a damn in cold weather.
Truly astute shawk. I am white, well-read, and did just that. She is hot, but couldn’t tell you how many days it took Phileas Fogg to go around the world.
“Gabriel Garcia Marquez” huh? He’s from Colombia. Any of you been to Colombia? Of course not, most of you are American and don’t even have a passport. Well let me tell you the only two things you need to know about Colombia:
1. Hottest women I have ever seen. If you have a wife or girlfriend leave her at home because I am telling you it would be cruel to bring her to this country unless she is a 9, minimum.
2. They hate gringos – White People – in general and Americans in particular.
And this is the thing; if the “Improper”, which is to say lib-left, White People actually travelled around the third world a bit they’d realize how silly they look calling us Proper White People racist, because the third world is a whole lot more racist than America or Canada or the UK.
The primary beneficiaries of affirmative action are white women.
Think about it.
Look it up.
Stop being ignorant.
Maybe its what you lack between the sheets?
&
I aint talking about sheets of classic literature
Bob Dylan won a Pulitzer. I hate Bob Dylan. And Milli Vanilli at some point won a grammy. You do the math.
The black guy in the office keeps asking me if I know Hegel. Or if I remember that line from Proust. (Whom I remember mostly as a punchline from The Big Sleep.) Or how I feel about Wallace Stegner.
And I’m all, whaaaaat? Just because I have the lit degree, that doesn’t mean I have to give the thing a workout every day, does it?
Smarty-pants brother in his nice outfit. Mister perfect-writer-who-doesn’t-need-my-adjective. HATE that guy.
Whitey here would much rather be home, watching “Sex and the City” reruns and trying to read The New Yorker at the same time. (I like the cartoons.) Proust, shmoost. I’m sure the black guy in the office is just making that thing up about the time he met Julian Schnabel.
By the way, I’m currently reading a Richard Yates novel from 1961 … because I was watching “Mad Men” when I picked it up, and I liked the outfits.
Yes. I’m a slooooooooow reeeeeeeaader.
Oh darn, maybe this is why im single…?!! 😉
– But I guess being well read doesn’t mean you have a greater imagination than those who are less so…
…so I can continue with my ‘streams of consciousness’!!! 🙂
If I want to know or hear about a book, I’ll read it myself.
I date or sleep with women for many reasons, but none of which have anything to do with what they’ve read. Unless it’s a guid to giving better blow-jobs. If I see that on their shelf, well, that would be a plus!
women – would you be impressed by a guy reading this book, or by seeing it on his shelf?
I think people just want something to admire in someone else. So really, if the person is not well read, but a great musician, artist, maybe they have a foreign accent, that same group of ‘elite folk’ would not care able the reading thing.
Personally, I think it makes no difference. My husband is a backpacker/whitewater kayaker/mtn biker, and all he reads all backpacking magazines or outdoor type books. (He’s not into tv either, except the weather channel!)
but he’s beautiful, and hilarious. He glows with integrity. And I love the way he smells after he’s been playing in campfire all afternoon. I really don’t care what he reads, just that I’m really lucky he’s mine.
(I’ve managed to keep him for 17 years now-half my life!!!)
That’s possibly one of the dumbest things I’ve read in my life. Just because a man enjoys reading doesn’t mean he’s not “masculine.”
What does having a passion for books have anything to do with being short and having bad hygiene? That’s a bit bullshit. Granted, I haven’t read the article in reference but that combination makes absolutely no connection in my mind.
Whitey are you justifying your own racism by referencing a lower common denominator?
With that mentality anything short of gassing nine million people seems legit because there is a historical reference of something worse than the current situation. The Hutus didn’t even hit the 10% mark. I guess they were not nearly as racist with those machetes in their hands?
Sheez just sign me up for the lobotomy and please don’t forget the dribble cup… on the other hand maybe I could pick my knuckles up off the floor and go check out a country of ’10s’ that hate me before I schedule the procedure.
So, basically what your say is anything on Oprah’s Book Club list is not considered “higher-reading?”
Well crap.
I agree. I dislike how “well-read” in certain circles means you’ve only read a certain list of 100 or so “classic” books–as if you all need to have read the same books so you can always discuss them. As someone who isn’t a big fan of classic novels it gets obnoxious to want to join book clubs, etc. only to have half the members turn up their noses at me since I’ve only gotten half-way through (insert classic here) but had to stop because I wasn’t enjoying it.
Personally, I much prefer non-fiction books of cultural analysis and the occasional recent novel. And I don’t think that should mean I’m not “well-read,” as I’m rarely seen without a book. It’s somewhat offensive when people treat you like an idiot when you’ve probably read MORE books then them–you just haven’t read the specific ones that “make you well-read.”
Novels are inappropriate for White People. White People split from the genetic tree c. 20,000 years ago, and for 19,500 or so years we didn’t do novels, we did sagas, which were at least based on true stories. This novel stuff is relatively new and, I would argue, destructive to White People culture.
A Proper White Person’s time is too valuable for fiction. Every minute spent reading other peoples’ (often ridiculous) fantasies (Yann Martel, I am looking at you, and your imaginary friend “Pi”) is a minute not spent reading history, philosophy, economics, and anthropology – the good stuff.
“I could pick my knuckles up off the floor”
White people developed relatively short limbs due to the cold weather of the European continent, as did the Inuit in response to the Arctic, so the whole knuckle dragging thing kinda backfires. Combined with his relatively tall stature, the White Man’s knuckle-ground “clearance” is actually quite high as compared to his cousins.
You’re lying. Everyone who has ever read a book must have heard of Nabokov???! If you haven’t, you are missing out on one of the best novels ever written and you probably missed college too. Incidentally, I am non-white and even I have read Nabokov; (reflecting my innate pomposity, I must point out that I have read TWO, Nabokov novels…yes TWO!).
In fact, even though I am non-white on the outside, I feel pretty white on the inside after reading this blog…
This is hysterical. I just clicked the link for Stuffcollegepeoplelike and it is not nearly as funny. Nice try, though.
This blog is pretty effing funny: http://www.poorpeoplelikepizza.blogspot.com/
If only Peter had fre health care.
reading sucks anyway…
For Jesuits, multi-lingual refers to fellatio on two high school boys.
That’s cool, White People often have a mother who reads People magazine and it is acceptable to read while inspecting the plumbing, roughly an hour or so after a Proper White Person’s Sunday evening meal of Roast Beef.
In Quebec, un rosbif is of course a pejorative for an anglophone.
This sounds like a postmodernist reversal of The Three Stooges test by which a woman passes if she actually laughs at the Stooges beating each other with plumbing tools as opposed to just sitting there taking cell phone calls. Then there is The Captain Kirk Test by which if a woman makes any reference to Kirk being a sexist pig or the show being sexist in nature she will more or less be making her own breakfast on Sunday in her own kitchen. Then there is the Prog Rock Test by which her appreciation for classic era Genesis, Yes, and King Crimson must be properly vetted (“I love the way they use the mellotron” being one of the correct answers) and then of course the JFK Theory Test by which you make sure that she agrees with the Single Bullet Theory as a possible explanation for why Oswald could have pulled it off with only three shots from a bolt action rifle. Modern day examples might be the Doom 3 Test (“When’s it my turn to play?”), the iPod Playlist Test (“Why don’t you just play one of your playlists instead of a discreet album”) and some sort of measure by which you can gage her interest in seeing her hottest girlfriend friend naked, and preferably in bed with both of you. Yes, these tests go way back.
It’s called bleeding the beast. I read about it “Under the Banner of Heaven” by Jon Krakauer, I think.
you just stole this from that one shtick of Henry Rollins.
The sad part is that people who endorse crap like this still probably get more ass than a toilet seat.
Irony’d?
Also, I hate reading comments like this because i can’t tell whether the writer is
1. just an old-fashioned douchebag
2. A hipster trying to poorly parody douchebaggery and sexism over the internet.
3. All of the above’d?
Does anyone else think that Gravity’s Rainbow deserves its own blog entry?
As far as I know, white people only read non fiction, such as Kurlansky’s Salt, and semifiction, such as any of the Sedaris oeuvre.
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Always better to date poorly read peeps. They generally don’t talk back and you can do whatever you want.
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And what’s really hilarious is, these desperate attention-seeking table-scrap opportunists have’nt quite figured out that we all avoid their lame spamming like Nigerian Bank offer-type emails with .exe attachments.
Oh…and the few I’ve been dumb enough to click-thru? Made of fail, all of ’em. The fucking “opposite of funny”. Losers…
Wait a minute…Jews aren’t white?
Enough with the links to the crappy knock-off blogs! They aren’t funny or good. And yes I looked at a few of them, more’s the pity. They’re wack. (PS- Africa has lots and lots of Christians, and has since the 1st century.)
No-talent ign’ant moocher hacks.
Ugh. I belong to a board where people read that article and were like, “OMG, that’s soooo me!” just like particularly dopey 20-somethings will relate to characters in Sex and the City.
The most genuine moment some of these folks could have would be suicide.
No wonder me and boyfriend have nothing much to talk about. He hasn’t even heard about Dickens!
How do you know your “hubby” isn’t doing a little “Brokeback” on his backpack/rafting trips?
Just kidding.
That shows you how destructive gay/jewish anti-White propaganda can be. Nobody talked about the two figures who got screwed over in that movie: the two White wives.
Black guy, reads White authors, than drops the name of a bloated jew, Julian Schnabel?
I would totally ignore the guy. He’s probably a fag, you know what, he’s definitely a homosexual. Even more reason to avoid the guy. Bring up homos and STD rates and see how he reacts, that ought to “out” him.
I thought I heard she was marrano, not Italian. I will look it up.
The name “Merchant”, or “Mercanto” sure fits in well with being a sephardic Jew.
Hey!!! I know who Chet Lemon is!! great player.
It’s a shame those kids are white. They’d make great slave labor.
Carlos, bring me the gold you savage! 😉
Fagin! Classic character.
Read the March 24th New Yorker article by Jill Lepore entitled “Just the Facts, Ma’am”. Quite illuminating. Makes one view the whole fiction/nonfiction thing differently.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/03/24/080324crat_atlarge_lepore
My, my, my now who is spewing the hate and anger? LOL!!!! Such tolerance!
You just have to love these intolerant types that think that they actually represent “tolerance”. What a crock!
Go to the Asian girls thread and you will see some of the most vile anti-White bigotry and hatred. I’m sure you’re appalled. Right?
Loser.
i read you
The Boys are Back In Town!!!!
No, Semites are not White, neither are Arabs or North Africans.
Yeah, and she forgot the “it’s” vs. “its” correction.
McCain hates Nabokov.
McCain hates Umberto Eco.
McCain hates Ren. Stimpy too.
Hey, hold on here.
Jews are the most racist and obviously collectivist people in the USA. Come on.
Even jews that are “liberal” are racist as all hell, and they alone are the reason Israel hasn’t been given the South Africa treatment. Come on (again).
I think the worst is an “anti-racist” Jew that is secretly a total racist and collectivist, which is what they almost always are.
Prove me wrong,
Joe Leiberman (liberal)
I got as far as page 3. Typical self-serving hyperfeminist po-mo pap. Might as well have titled it “Boys Are Stinky And So Is History”. That’s what I get for getting suckered into reading the New Yorker.
One passage was OK though:
““There is nothing which I would recommend more earnestly to my female readers than the study of history,” Hume wrote in “Of the Study of History” (which is why he gave his lady friend Plutarch’s Lives, and told her it was a novel). But, on the whole, women were not particularly interested in reading history. Hume attributed this to the fair sex’s “aversion to matter of fact” and its “appetite for falsehood.”
Testify, brother!
You have to have White genes to be White and produce White children.
You can’t generalize based on a few bad apples. Now all you hear about are public school teachers and coaches molesting minors. Media can distort reality, you do know that.
Let me ask you one thing, which guy, the one that reads military history or the one that reads Sartre is going to be taller and more masculine?
IQ correlates with height too. Don’t even try to deny that.
You’re trying to compare the crime rates of rural WV to those of Brazil?
You are foisted on your own petard.
They aren’t even close (which by the way disproves the “poverty” theory as the reason for Negro violence).
WV has a very low crime rate. You can look it up and see.
You stupid goyim. Diversity is for White fools, but not us, we’re collectivist in the extreme.
Only the duped White liberal could think having “more ethnic restaurant choices” is worth giving up his grandchildrens’ birthright.
ha ha!! That was the only thing in your rant that was worth reading!! You were right about it too. (You could use some editing lessons. Brevity, my boy!! Brevity!!)
I think Susan Sontag was the queen of “screeds of hate”. She had plenty more hateful bigots in her circle. Betty Freiden was full of hate too.
oh yeah? let’s see you avoid http://www.youporn.com
“Aryans from Darien”
How much more jew could a comment get? Only insecure jews use the term “Aryan” outside of a few hard core Whites.
Jews hate to see well adjusted White couples, especially those of the Teutonic or Anglo-Saxon type whose mere presence makes the jew feel intrinsically inferior — hence the term “aryans from darien”.
Let those kids grow up and breed with other Whites. Do you think some jew was behind it? They can’t stand situations were there are all “Whites” in one place. Come to think of it, almost all other non-Whites hate it to.
I wonder how it will be before they’ll be called “racists” for merely living in an all-White environment? Won’t be long. You watch.
Yes, guilty as charged! I’m intolerant of intolerant racisit bigots who come on a someones fun blog with the sole intention of spewing white supremacist cyber vomit. If the same crap is on the Asian thread, then yes, I’m appalled and disgusted!
You clearly haven’t met Jesus, then.
why would a jew want to stop white children from being molested?
No, you ding-dong, we’re talking about anti-White racism and anti-White bigotry found here.
WTF is an “Eeee Beee Peee”, and why am I supposed to automatically know this?
try the local taco stand
isn’t one of those two guys a jew? That one sure looks like one.
He and I had a close, personal relationship for many years until I came to and discovered he, like all other Jewish men, was not the Son of God, contrary to what his mother told everyone.
Think for yourself and feel the walls become sand beneath your feet.
I think Norm is a Bahston Jew.
No such luck, Skyvodka … the guy’s married, gorgeous, even got a pretty little blue-eyed daughter. I’d probably throw myself at him, but I’m happily married myself.
Besides: been there, done that, seen the Lifetime TV movie.
My coworker’s just one of those guys who grew up enjoying a certain life of leisure I didn’t. The Creative Writing degree from NYU, the year knocking around Europe, that sort of thing.
We’re good, though. I’m always forgetting which fork to use, but Mister Hamptons over there never seems to mind. He’s okay with me. 🙂
Nobody said that. The Feds did however use one cellphone call “alleging” abuse as pretext for an all out raid! Watch them split those kids up and send some of them to non-White foster care. That’d fit the jew m.o. just like how they love resettling Somalis in Minnesota and Maine where the weather is totally freezing? The jews in DC should have sent the Somalis to hot New Orleans, wouldn’t that make more common sense?
This is about ZOG letting people know that the government exists to control the people, not the other way around, as our founders intended.
It’s not like any of these women were held their in chains or anything, they chose this lifestyle. I don’t agree with it, but why then do we tolerate and protect the “rights” of sodomites, trandgenders, and all the rest?
You see, the jew like homos and their agenda being pushed on our society, but you get a bunch of Whites together and breeding? Ohmygoditsgoingtoleadtoanotherholocaust!!! And anytime any group of Whites can be found, they are targeted for “diversity” asap, which is what will happen here.
Soon just being a White, and not having a non-White within 100 yards from you will be a hatecrime.
Cheers!
“Who does the translating? Why trust these people?”
Ask those who wrote the Bible and every other religious text/literature.
As long as man has a hand in it, it will end up serving his purpose.
Educated Black Professional
LOL!!!!!!!! nobody has ever heard of it, wonder why?
No, it doesn’t make you well-read. It makes the encyclopedia unreadable.
The black guy at your office has a mulatto with blue eyes? Oh well, too bad for his wife, she tossed her white genes down the toilet forever. A mulatto with light eyes is EXTREMELY rare.
Oh man, so much to say…
Rob Zombie=smart.
Henry Rollins=smart.
Slash=smart.
I like rock stars.
They are fun.
Is a “werewithal” in the werewolf family?
Ah, well in that case, resume the anti-semitism on this thread! How silly of me. If non whites of any kind have insulted whites on the Asian thread, then that’s a good reason to hate Jews and not believe that Christian whites, not of Jewish heritage, can’t be snobby and pretentious about their reading habits. Thanks for making that clear to me ding-dong.
I wrote that book. Would you like a signed copy?
Didn’t every single one of us begin in Africa? Seems to me it’s the “cradle of civilization”.
no
You can’t read straight, and are an apologist for anti-White haters and bigots!!! Yes, jews can be guilty of it too. What is wrong with you? Are you obtuse?
here’s an interesting White blog:
http://southafricasucks.blogspot.com/
This blog chronicles the slide of a once magnificent, thriving First World country into that of a crime ravaged, Stalinist turd world hell hole.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – Africa is going to be re-colonised (by China) and this time the blacks are really going to find themselves oppressed.
What boggles the mind is that this has been on the cards since the de-colonisation of Africa began in the 50’s and while the “Ban-the-bomb”, “Free-love” hippy freaks were screaming about the Rhodesian and South African Governments, Russia and China were beavering away happily supplying the various “Liberation Struggle” useful-idiot brigades with weaponry to kill each other with.
This has all come to fruition, now the Indians are jumping in on the act while the biggest concern of the seriously intellectual US population is whether “Saddam” Hussein Barrack Obama is black/racist/ enough and if he is too black, maybe to lend him some whiteness by getting John Cleese to write his jokes.
A curious thing about the West is that while they are so feverishly doing all they can in the name of cultural diversity to totally destroy their nations’ heritages and obliterate the characteristics that define them as nations and cultures, the Chinese remain steadfastly uni-cultural, as do the Indians to a degree. While the West bastardises itself, the Chinese are breeding super-soldiers in super-armies out of a super uniculture.
Ah well, at least the Yanks make kick-ass war movies, but methinks a confrontation with the Chinese out of Chinese Southern Africa is going to leave them with more than just hurt feelings and an overwhelming sense of what white Southern Africans have felt at the betrayal by the US, UK and EU to black terrorist regimes.
oh sorry I meant to put this on the Obama thread, my bad!! ooops.
Oh gag! I’m done with you and all your alter egos. Ciao super creeps!
This kind of paring the ethnic groups is inane. Genetically, we’re all from the same pool of genes–African genes. I can’t help it that my ancestors had the wacky notion of heading into a cool, wet climate. One growing season–what were they thinking?
Oh, yes, and I love this blog entry.
For someone so well-read, you sure as hell have incredibly fucking shitty grammar!
“An poorly read person?” What the fuck?
I guess you didn’t get to go to a nice college, like my son Ashton. He made the dean’s list last semester. He took two classes on dance, one on statistics, and one on film of the 1940s. He never got into sports though. I never could understand that…or the fact that he’s never had any girlfriends. I mean, he has a bunch of friends who are girls; he even goes with them when they get their hair done. *shrug*
I saw this site on the history from his visit this weekend. He also spent a lot of time on Craigslist in a section called “Casual Encounters.” I wonder why…probably has something to do with how good of a dresser he is. I’ll take a look at it after I leave this site.
The line is from Patrick Dennis’ “Auntie Mame.”
“…history, philosophy, economics, and anthropology – the good stuff.”
huh. lies, fantasy, fantasy, and MORE lies? sheesh. if you’re not studying math right now, you might as well put a bullet through your skull, more or less.
“Didn’t every single one of us begin in Africa?”
Had your read your anthropology like a Proper White Person you’d know the answer to this (not terribly intelligent) question.
When I become Emperor the disingenuous phrasing of statements as questions will be soooooooo banned.
God, you really caught me on this one. I have indeed read beyond Nabokov’s Lolita and more than Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose AND I read Goethe’s Faust in vernacular German. And yes, I dumped several guys for being unbearably poorly read. I never thought of this being a white thing, but so it may be. On the other hand, I am from Europe where it is perfectly normal to dump people who don’t get your cross references.
Anyhow I love this blog! It really seems to me as if white educated Americans want to copy European life style. Many things, like hiking, metal bottles, biking of any sort, soccer, multilingual children, living by the water (!), not having a TV are things which my grandparents have been very serious about. Oh yes, recycling. I have 4 bins in my kitchen. Always get a sick feeling if there is a bin where I have to throw everything together. But there’s ine thing Europeans REALLY are getting into and that are SUVs and coffee shops. One could say there is a white cultural exchange over the Atlantic. Weird!
Dating someone without any ideas of his own would be more problematic for me. I hate regurgitationists who piggyback on other people’s words.
So much hate here haha.
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Nabokov liked to sing with Mozart and Eco was the brother of the The Edge from U2, right???
Anyway, why should I care what a girl reads as long as she is good looking, great fun and……
word. North American bobos are new to the taste thing. Ah, the nouveau riche.
Lolita is to college as Catcher in the Rye is to high school. A wonderful yet highly overestimated novel that90 owes its reputation only to the fact that it is prescribed reading.
It’s enduring popularity is that its part of the English department canon that gives its readers instant intellectual credibility for the amazing accomplishment of having read a handful of required texts over a 4-8 year period in one’s adult life.
A bookshelf of English department assigned standby’s and NYTBR favorits is a sure fire sign of a middling brow.
I’m also white.
I also like whitey tighties.
Who cares if the chick your dating is as well read as you as long as she can suck a dick.
Why are Tom Cruise, Isaac Hays, & John Travolta such freaking weirdos!?!?!
The answer is below…
http://theplasticspoon.blogs.com
What’s a lemon?
You’re white!
White people!
I’m a white person!
[i]A bookshelf of English department assigned standby’s and NYTBR favorites is a sure fire sign of a middling brow.[/i]
Brutal, but accurate, JoJo. The hip white person’s mantra might still be W.H. Auden’s “Under Which Lyre?” (the Hahavahd Phi Beta Kappa Poem for 1946!!), which includes the Hermetic Decalogue which runs as follows:
Thou shalt not do as the dean pleases,
Thou shalt not write thy doctor’s thesis
On education,
Thou shalt not worship projects nor
Shalt thou or thine bow down before
Administration.
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires
Or quizzes upon World-Affairs,
Nor with compliance
Take any test. Thou shalt not sit
With statisticians nor commit
A social science.
Thou shalt not be on friendly terms
With guys in advertising firms,
Nor speak with such
As read the Bible for its prose,
Nor, above all, make love to those
Who wash too much.
Thou shalt not live within thy means
Nor on plain water and raw greens.
If thou must choose
Between the chances, choose the odd;
Read The New Yorker, trust in God;
And take short views.
I thought this was brilliant when I was a sophomore in high school…looking back, I’m not so sure it isn’t.
This site gets lamer by the post.
I would prefer an open thinker to a well read person.
Global Warming Alarmists Beware… http://www.EvilCarbon.com
yes! is it on amzon.com
But NY magazine it very very populist. And we know what that means with today’s population.
sad? hardly… it’s beautiful, in a way, to see that there are things that hold forth through the centuries.
have you read the Kama Sutra ? most of it is about how men can attract women, and vice versa. and the means of attraction aren’t high and lofty ideals -they’re a lot of chicanery and tricks, emotional ploys etc
the themes are the same here, just not as eloquently expressed.
check it out….
Yeah but Morrissey isn’t either – haha?
The problem and intrinsic evil with prejudice is that the bigoted person never realizes what they miss. It is just basic common sense to make decisions about people ONE AT A TIME. I admit to being prejudiced too- against ignorant, bigoted white trash of any income. Yet, these people never waste much of my time because they quickly reveal who they are. They are not smart enough to hide it for long, and they seek others of the same polluted, faulty, indefensible mindset. Then I can excuse myself from their life immediately & permanently. There are better ways to spend time: I could call my mentor for advice on investing: he is Latino. Or I can email my ex-girlfriend: she’s Jewish. Or I can go have a drink with my wife’s friend from work: she’s African American. I am deeply thankful for my friends and colleagues of ALL ethnicities who have enriched my life immeasurably. I hope I do the same for them. I also hope Mr. Keating that you wake up, and realize you were taught to feel this way and it costs you a lot. But I don’t expect it to happen, you will probably just continue to lose.
I wasn’t whining I was being mean.
If only one person could change the world. Alas, there are 6,500,000,000 of us maggots crawling on the blue planet.
The couplets hold up well after all the years. Thank you.
Shabbas, please tell me you’re joking. Perhaps it’s the ridiculosuness of some of the comments on here that has broken my sarcasm meter but if serious:
Are you actually equating jews with “the vulgar and the banal?” Seriously? You’re taking a late 19th century modernist idea promoted by the intelligentsia of the time and embracing it in 2008? Will you draw a cartoon of Mahler with a hook nose like the New Yorker did when he was the conductor of the Metropolitan Opera? How about pull a Gertrude Stein and hate on your own people. Maybe you’ll go all the way and Wagner it up with some vitriol towards the whole race and promote white-supremacy?
I’m not Jewish, but I’m also not an ignorant asshat.
Asperger’s can be truly heartbreaking. Your parents must be very brave. 😉
Of course it’s a joke ,what are you a moron.
S, it’s sad, but how woefully wrong you are. The college educated life is a very insulated world. Go to small town America or inner-city USA and ask who Nabokov is… your average response will probably be “was he a Russian leader or something?” Get back “Lolita” and shake the person’s hand. Get back “Pale Fire” and give the person a hug and you can ask them where they did their post-grad. With only 25% of all potential students in Detroit even graduating high school(!) the knowledge about Nabokov isn’t exactly spreading like a viral video…
You must be kidding about Lolita. If you’re going to put yourself on a pedestal and act all literate and criticize, at least don’t make an idiot of yourself by trumpeting to the world that you are tone-deaf to the English language. You are never going to get any chicks that way – readers or nonreaders. Truly, it’s better not to read at all… and be a hottie mountain climber dude like that one woman’s hubby. Sheesh.
What do you think this site is about?
Henry Higgins is already a literary reference as My Fair Lady is based on the play Pygmalion. Duh.
Smirk-I am coming out of the closet as a Black Canadian woman, interacially married, university educated, and all about books. Help me get snobby, folks. How can I make my husband look less intelligent than me? Which book names shall I drop?
I think it’s time for a new post. Where are you Clander???
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A few years ago, a guy came to pick me up for a date. On seeing my big, overflowing bookcases, he informed me that I had too many books.
I very politely informed him thar there was no such thing as too many books; there is, however such a thing as not enough bookshelves.
What the world needs now is hate, sweet hate.
Rapoport and brown eyed girl: Intolerance, fear,
hatred, jealousy dwell in all of us. The better part
of wisdom is to acknowledge our universal demons and control control them in the light of day rather than project them on
onto each other in the dark in order to conquer an imaginary moral high ground.
We humans need to confess that we are racists and
haters alike. Humanity is best nurtured when recovering racists and haters start to embrace other recovering racists and haters.
“Ine thing?”
“That are?”
Your parents should ask your private school for a refund on your tuition!
“Standby’s?”
What the fuck is wrong with you kids?
“Favorits?”
EGADS!
I hope a sociology/psychology student somewhere is writing a dissertation about which items on the SWPL list elicits the most defensive anger. I guess books are a sore point, not yet ready for satire…go figure
How can I make my husband look less intelligent than me?
You did that by being born black.
@ Kay Dennison:
A few years ago, I dated a huge dork with no sense of humor. She said “that there was no such thing as too many books; there is, however such a thing as not enough bookshelves.”
I very politely wiped my finger across my ass crack and then wiped it under her nose.
I want to educate my partner Henry Huggins style – my partner being Ramona. How’s THAT for a misguided literary reference.
I have to say, I miss being able to see “Jess’s photos”
Ah yes… wasn’t that also Paul Bowles’ rejoinder to Djuna Barnes’ unfortunate remark one evening at a party that Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas threw for Joyce and Nora at Sylvia Beach’s bookstore? Good times…
It was more rhetorical, thank you very much.
Go back to eating babies.
Yes, white people like to find more reasons not to date someone than reasons to date someone. The negatives always outweigh the positives for them.
Okay so if I understand what your point(s) is/are, it’s that
a. White people have low self-worth and feel that reading obscure books will help them impress other white people.
b. White people spend a large percentage of their time assimilating other white people’s thoughts instead of conceiving their own.
c. White people will inherently continue to be the most boring race in a room at any given point in time.
d. White people strive to be different from other white people only to end up the same. Such as when they all read the same books, throw the same kind of parties etc you get the point.
e. White people are pretentious not because they want to be but because they lack any true identity.
Bravo!
PS Not like you need any more suggestions but I think topics such as ” Making-out with random people at bars” , “using the phrase “making-out” and “sucking at life” would be good SWPLTD additions.
“We humans need to confess that we are racists and
haters alike. Humanity is best nurtured when recovering racists and haters start to embrace other recovering racists and haters.”
Oh lordy! Come let us pshychobabble together…
Homos came out of Africa 2 million years ago.
What’s your malfunction?
I snort-laughed when I read that now my co-workers think I’m a bigger retard than usual. Thanks.
Well that and it’s kind of smutty… plus if you get to watch the Peter Sellers film it’s actually quite funny, too… But yeah, we Serious Literary Types much prefer “Speak, Memory” and “Pale Fire” and, of course, “The Berlin Stories” for our doses of Nabakovian brilliance The truth is, I haven’t read anything since they stopped printing cartoons on the back of Andy Capp’s Hot Fries…
Nobody in the Western Democracies betrayed “White Southern Africans” – we saw you for the fascist relics that you were. Remember, millions of White people died in the fight against European fascism and the Western Democracies emerged victorious – why would you Southern African fascists think that the Western Democracies were your Allies just because we are all white people? Face it, you are the losers of history and the REAL useful idiots. You can whine all you want about the Chinese, but nobody cares about the sad-sack ravings of a the revanchist white supremacists. PS: The Good Guys WON in South Africa.
Right, b/c I never see black people chewing on eachothers lips in the subway or the mexicans (yes, this is my reference to all central americans…and the spanish…and portugese) fingering their girlfriends down on the corner in the “barrio”.
and I’ve never heard “sucking at life”.
They must only say that to you b/c you’re black.
I think what people are trying to say, Senor Keating, and this is important for you to understand, is that we fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Anna,
Very clever way of letting people know you were an early adopter of this website. Everybody thinks you are so much cooler than everybody else now. You’re hip and cool and should probably move on to something that isn’t so “mainstream” now.
You should also look at yourself closely in the mirror and realise why you’re alone.
Excuse my political incorrectness. But this article is bullshit.
Good form all around.
white people like bobbleheads
White people of course invented books. The Chinese and Koreans actually invented moveable type centuries earlier, but they had serious peasant issues and whatnot, so mass circulations of books just didn’t happen until Whitey was on the job.
Now that I think about it this is reflected somewhat in the East Asia Paradox in IQ And The Wealth Of Nations. While the East Asian generally has a higher IQ than Whitey, and IQ correlates strongly (>.8) with GDP per capita, the White Man is more verbally inclined and this seems to overcome the gap.
Clander, read me a bedtime story…waaaah!
How do you pronounce “Eco”? Like “echo”?
Kay, are you sure he was looking at your big, overflowing bookcases? You said the right things to put the brakes on that horny boy.
What about if you remember all the names from the Spanish version, and then reference parts of it in Portuguese class months later? por exemplo, o jogo do bicho, the lottery that Aureliano Segundo and Petra Cotes start… do I win?
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!! Classic! Thanks, that made my day 🙂
Yes, but the more gracile Heteros only came out of Africa c. 50,000 years ago, with better athleticism and spatial perception than their effeminate predecessors, who kept getting lost on the way to North America.
Haha, there are a lot of “poorly read” people out there…
You must be about 2″3′.
lol. I Think you guys started a trend, look at this… http://stufflatinpeoplelike.com/
Have you ever heard of lung cancer, emphasema, etc.?
Were you aware that no one denies the fact that carbon pollution from vehicles and coal fired power plants causes tens of thousands of people to die each year from lung cancer, emphasema and other lung diseases?
So who cares if Global Warming is a myth. It does not matter. Me getting lung cancer from all the belching electric power plants and internal combustion engines does matter.
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Israelis will tell you that Semite Arabs, especially
Palestinians, represent the most virulent anti-semitic
threat to the security and existence of the Jewish State.
The military occupation; the building of more settlements and barriers in the West Bank manifests nothing more than self-defense against a vile, unreasonable enemy.
Palestinians will tell you that Israelis are resurrected
Nazis carrying out the gradual ethnic cleansing of
a native people from the Palestinian “homeland.”
Checkpoints, military incursions, the expropriation of
farms and homes for Jewish “settlers”
constitute a deliberate, ruthless policy for pushing
Palestinians out of a greater Israel.
Each side has demonized the Other. They are awash
in a sea of blood and the international
community led by the United States must step in
and stop it. I stand by what I said with respect to
the long range healing process which makes enduring
peace, tolerance and empathy possible.
here are some good topics for that blog:
1. sneaking into other countries – mexicans and central americans into the US, Ecuadorians into Spain, Guatamalans into Mexico, and Nicuarguans into Costa Rica.
2. not using birth control
3. mistresses
4. right-wing dictatorships
and there’s no such thing as inherent racism? check out the definitions:
WHITE
1. of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
2. light or comparatively light in color.
3. (of human beings) marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, as of many Caucasoids.
13. Slang. decent, honorable, or dependable: That’s very white of you.
14. auspicious or fortunate.
15. morally pure; innocent.
16. without malice; harmless: white magic.
17. (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.
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BLACK 1. lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
2. characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night.
3. (sometimes initial capital letter) a. pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
b. African-American.
4. soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour.
5. gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook.
6. deliberately; harmful; inexcusable: a black lie.
7. boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening: black words; black looks.
8. (of coffee or tea) without milk or cream.
9. without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked: His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
10. indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment: a black mark on one’s record.
11. marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought; Black Friday.
12. wearing black or dark clothing or armor: the black prince.
13. based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life: black comedy; black humor.
14. (of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, sub-standard, potentially dangerous, etc.: Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports.
15. illegal or underground: The black economy pays no taxes.
16. showing a profit; not showing any losses: the first black quarter in two years.
17. deliberately false or intentionally misleading: black propaganda.
18. British. boycotted, as certain goods or products by a trade union.
19. (of steel) in the form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge; unfinished.
You might be a rich, liberal well-read white folk if…
-or-
You might be an intelligent redneck if…
Please discuss.
I do believe “grandchildren” is plural. So when you add an “s” to that, the apostrophe goes between the “n” and the “s”.
OY GEVALT!
You can add Chief Hugo Chávez to the mix. Doing away with Columbus Day and replacing it with Indian Resistance Day. A day late and a dollar short for those savages.
Come, let us be reasonable and CHILL OUT! Clander’s posted article was about book snobs. Some people here only believe Jewish people are capable of book snobbery and other crimes against humanity. I’m saying we’re all equally capable of such things. I’m happy to sing Kumbaya with anyone else willing to, but I doubt the white supremacist hate mongers here are up for it. So, Save me the foreign policy tolerance lesson please.
My almost inappropriate pleasure!
brown eyed girl:
We seem to be largely in agreement though our long-winded discussion wandered far off
topic. Come to think of it, most of the comments here
are off topic. Maybe we all talk too much.
Time to sit quietly and read a good book.
North Americans like this blog because they don’t think for themselves and want other people to lead them and show them how to live or moreover what to avoid. Hipsters such as the blogger of this site, hide their white guilt behind a sheen of criticism rather than advice.
White people don’t exist. Hipsters have taught us how to hate ourselves, because they hate themselves. Thus they play out their sadomasochistic fantasy by killing every attempt to begin something that could bring about a better world.
LOL, you’re so right. The Jew haters won’t be happy about this, but I happen to be reading Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl. Oh, but I forgot, they already don’t like me, so it’s all good 🙂
When I saw that you mentioned Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, I had to wander downstairs to find my trump card. It’s an old copy of the book that I bought in Weimar. It was published in 1938 (a year that will make the Jew haters here happy) and printed in Fraktur script. According to my bookmark, I made it to about page 35. But don’t tell anyone I didn’t finish it. I like to keep it strategically placed, as to be easily noticed and commented on. Although it’s never actually been noticed or commented on, I hope that day will someday come, and then I’ll rattle off something like what you and Hippolytus have posted. I may have to print out a cheat sheet though.
I kid the Jesuits because I love them
Good thing you qualified it — it has to be well-read with the right books.
They can use my word. White people love contributing to the lexicon.
Just yesterday i Nabokov came up while talking with a lady friend…weird.
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Eco is fantastic.
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Stuff White People Should LOVE….intelligent political analysis.
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Being well read in anything is certainly not a magnificent feat, however, it does show initiative and a desire to learn if not yearn for, well something. It may be classified as the most phony accomplishment for people to come together and talk about “great literature”, deemed so by someone dead before they were born, and to throw that name out as a topic of conversation that really only says ” I paid attention to outdated literature because everyone told me it was classic and if I want to maintain that great GPA, despite it really being undesirable I am going to learn it.” Certainly, some of the common literature icons of old times had great ability, but ability is in the eye of the beholder. What do YOU like? What do YOU want to read? That is what is interesting. I do not, DO NOT, like to get together with people that are going to recommend things I have already read. Especially stuff I was forced to read in high school or college. Even worse, going into detail about it. I like to do that with films, specially when inebriated, but not reading material, unless it has to do with the ultimate demise of Iran…. Anyway, Fuck white people.
I dated a fellow who wasn’t well read once… I tried to start him off easy with a Kurt Vonnegut (he was that bad), but after 2 months I demanded my John Gardner’s and Evelyn Waugh’s back when i realized he was never going to read them.
i support the final verdict.
Seminaries claim to turn out “Men of God.” The bad apples speak to a serious failure of quality control in this industry.
where are the target ads you promised? they sell books, right?
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No, R F, yesterday was when most of the reading got done.
I love how this site cleverly substitutes the phrase “white people” for the word “liberal” in its cutting review of liberal peccadillo’s. Using the term liberal would make it sound like a conservative partisan blog and invite the scorn of the left, but using the term “white people” makes it sound critical of western culture which, ironically, makes it, de facto, immune to criticism from the very liberals it skewers.
Brilliant!
Postpone it until Monday.
If you bit him, he must have died by lethal injection.
Peter Keating? A Fountainhead reference? I bet you think you’re pretty clever with that one. Now please leave and don’t come back.
Peter Keating eh? From The Fountainhead? Yep, you sure are one clever troll. Please see yourself to the exit now.
You should make sure the person at least reads the NY Times.
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absurd thought –
God of the Universe says
always believe in books
of course if it is in print
then you know it must be true
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absurd thought –
God of the Universe says
don’t honor writers
who are hated by others
who may kill them in protest
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http://absurdthoughtsaboutgod.blogspot.com/
🙂
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so you WEREN’T just looking for an excuse to get rid of him……. 😉
OMG you guys are so white. Get some color in you, like I do every weekend with my garbageman, Marcus. 😉
Me Too!
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Peter, what do you mean by this being “another jewish” blog entry? Curious!
Well, if she can read then I’m happy. Its those illiterates you gotta look out for.
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Trustworthy. Sexy. professional kissers. One of a kind. Loves being in long-term relationships. Extremely energetic and funny. Unpredictable. Will exceed your expectations. Loves music. Not a Fighter, But will Knock the fuck out of u. The best and biggest freak in bed! Strong. Considered to be a “Spartan.” The most intelligent. falls in love too easily. Doesn’t show it but is easy to hurt. 2 years of bad luck if you do not repost. perfect
Ditto with me!
Becoz, beauty is skin deep. The girl won’t appear beautiful or a great fun for a longer time when she possesess an empty mind. True engagement is mental, the precondition of which mental sufficiency. With a poorly read companion, you will feel drained out and the opposite to it will always be enriching.
War against Christmas?
The most anti-White people in America since 1900 have been Jews!
Right! And there’s nothing that has changed since. That’s why Somalis and Chinese are identical. Um, no.
Hamb: The article is a jew quote farm, not White. My, my Chichikov such tolerance you exhibit!! LMAO!!
Sarah Silverman-esque comics, pornography, Pee-Wee Herman, our modern Hollywood trash = the 20th century jew.
Go listen to your “Arnold Schoenberg”. You don’t impress people with intelligence and taste. You are clearly not a Proper White Person. You are indeed ignorant, unable to even see, think or hear.
Liberal Jews hate Whites and everything they stand for. Always have.
A censor and bigot in our midst? What are you the NKVD?
Right. That’s why Israel allows so many criminals and swindlers to flee there for safe haven. They love keeping the quality the same. 😉
Neocon jews write his stuff, where have you been?
IQ correlates with height, no matter that you hate it Georgina.
last time I heard that one, I was washing dishes at the last supper.
Yiddish is about as non-White as it gets!
The ultimate book for real white people: The Dungeons&Dragons Players’ Handbook
Oy gevalt: when I’m getting stupid with my girlfriends, we end up talking about dildos
you vulgar Yid!! LOL!!
Right. “Yankee” my ass!!!
That movie was anti-White. So was Ordinary People.
You vulgar Yid!!!!!!! LOL!!!!
That makes sense. More the reason to avoid jewish translations of ANYTHING which will be liberal, anti-White, and anti-Christian in intent.
Have those kids been sent away from their parents?
Whites used to have more kids before they ever heard of Kama Sutra.
PS: The Good Guys WON in South Africa.
Rapists and HIV carriers are good guys? Boy, you need to wake up.
The Western democracies did not emerge victorious in WW2. Half of Europe was enslaved to mass-murdering communists, and Britain went bankrupt and lost her empire, which is what Churchill went to war for. Enlgand declared war to protect Poland, and it was LOST in the war to the communists.
Buddy, your history is really poor.
Casual encounters at craigslist is an FBI-sting to catch pervs.
As a percentage of world inhabitants, the white population will plummet to a single digit (9.76%) by 2060 from a high-water mark of 27.98% in 1950.
Using 2010 as the base reference, the big gainer in the population derby will be blacks or sub-Sahara Africans. This group will expand almost 133% to 2.7 billion by 2060. By the middle of this century blacks will represent 25.38% of world population, which is up dramatically from the 8.97% they recorded in 1950.
I don’t think Crusie is “that” weird. He was married to uber-hot-White Nicole Kidman, he’s successfully navigated the treacherous hollywood landscape since the mid 1980’s, he made hundreds of millions of dollars, and he stood up to that punk-weasel halfjew Matt Lauer who wants goyim on Meds like just about every other jew doctor.
Go TOM!!!!
What? Since when are whites less intelligent than blacks? Get real.
Seen Haiti in the news today?
Chavez is a Zambo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casta
Castes were used to identify classes of people with specific racial or ethnic heritage. Each caste had its own set of privileges or restrictions, with the general descending order of precedence being:
* Peninsulares – persons of Spanish or Portuguese descent born in Spain or Portugal (i.e. from the Iberian Peninsula which led to the name). They were considered so much higher than other castas that many women went back to Spain or Portugal to give birth.[citation needed] They held important jobs in the government, the army, and the Catholic Church, and usually did not live permanently in Latin America. This system was intended to perpetuate the ties of the governing elite to the Spanish and Portuguese crowns.
* Criollos – People of Spanish ancestry, but born in Latin America. Many criollos owned mines, ranches, or haciendas and were very wealthy. They favored commerce with British America but had to endure the Seville and later Cádiz monopolies. They occasionally had government jobs, but they were not respected by the peninsulares. The 19th century independentists were mainly criollos rejecting European supremacy.
* Castizos – Persons with one mestizo parent and one criollo parent. The children of a castizo and a criollo were classified as criollo.[citation needed]
* Mestizos – Persons with one peninsular parent and one indio parent.
* Cholos – Persons with one indio parent and one mestizo parent.
* Mulattos – Persons of mixed peninsular and negro descent. They were sometimes made into slaves.
* Indios – Amerindian inhabitants. Legally they were to be treated paternalistically, but were abused by the local elites. After the initial conquest, the elites of the Inca and Aztec empires were assimilated into the Spanish nobility.
* Zambos – Persons who were mixed indio and negro.
* Negros – Blacks. They were treated the worst and frequently made slaves.
The black sheep just doesn’t fit in with the rest. That’s nature. Sorry.
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White Countries for Everybody
“Liberals and respectable conservatives say there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.”
“The Netherlands and Belgium are more crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.”
“Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.”
“What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?”
“How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?”
“And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?”
“But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.”
“They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.”
“Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.”
Never mind their taste in titles. Do they read? If the answer is yes, the next pertinent question is Do you enjoy talking with them? If the answer is yes, the answer is yes, you might be making a mistake to let this one get away.
Well, I read about this blog on Time.com, and being a “white person”. find the thinking, jokes, stereotypes and overgeneralizations plainly asinine. It has always irked me when small minded twits feel compelled to label and organize the whole spectrum of the human experience into neat little, easily identifiable packets. It especially annoys me when they are patently wrong in every way. As to this blog, perhaps you have “wittily” remarked upon a SMALL subsection of Caucasian culture but in the end, you have missed the mark entirely. You are just as well served to assert that all African Americans eat watermelon and fried chicken or that all Asians are great at math. It is just as irrelevant to the truth. But, go ahead and indulge yourselves in snarky witticisms which seem funny and true to your observations. They aren’t, in general, but you all seem oblivious to generalizations, so it’s ok, I guess. P.S. Not one of your blogs is relevant to me or my life. Nor is it true for any of my friends. But have fun with your veiled prejudices.
A whole country to yourselves? Wonderful idea, but why not do a test run by starting with your own blog? You guys all sound like so much fun, with these fascinating caste systems, and the general disdain for nuance, humor, or any of the ironies that present themselves when you pause to reflect on yourself. I’m sure that your style of running things would really take off (even without the benefit of whatever Jewish conspiracy is responsible for the 20-odd million hits this site has seen). Looking forward to “Stuff White Supremacists Like” – it’s going to be a blast!
Yes! But wait ’til June to pick one up as that’s when the 4th edition Player’s Handbook will be released, along with the new Dungeon Master’s Guide and Monster Manual.
Viva la geeky!
Congrats….you’ve been mentioned on Bill O’Reilly….you’ve hit the Big Time!
So…any new posts about, I don’t know, “stuff white people like” coming anytime soon?
I guess Christian’s humour is now reserved only for those who pay him in six figures. Not that I entirely blame him, but it’s a shame he’s let his blog tank so much since the deal was made.
You’d think he’s toss a bone or two to the folks that turned him into a mini-celeb, though. It used to be you’d get 2-3 clever and insightful posts here per week. Now it’s just a pseudo-political tirade now and then and a lot of filler.
Ah well…
I didn’t realize that white people were so oppressed.
It must be hell to walk around being discriminated against due to the color of your skin. Lost opportunities and such.
It must a frightening proposition to be vilified for imaginary crimes and held responsible as a group for the actions of individuals, real or imaginary. Being racially profiled and being targeted for harassment and violence.
It must be terrible to live in fear of being rounded up for your religious beliefs, sexual orientation, political views, or just because a group of people with power decided that you were not “the right kind.” Ethnic cleansing, witch trials, and genocide.
While these tactics are not exclusive to any race, it would do well to remember that what is reaped is what is sown.
If there is a problem in this country, the responsibility lies solely with those who created the problem.
If the problem is one of racism, defined here as individuals or groups of individuals being held as representative of a race through gross generalization that is used to denigrate the quality of said race, then the moral impetus lies with all races to create solutions.
That being said, shouldn’t there be an additional charge to those in positions of power and numeric advantage to bring more to the table?
How about this: you and a group of your friends write a formal apology on behalf of white people detailing and acknowledging crimes of racism and oppression across the board. Then there can be a real discussion of responsibility. Until then, cry yourself to sleep and write about how bad you feel in your little diary. You know, the one with the lock on it. By the way, I did it with your sister and she said I was better than you in bed. Plus I’m not white.
I heart you. But not in an inappropriate way. In the way that I have to because without you the sun would never shine and I would never understand the meaning of the word ” tolerance” or patience or acceptance or understanding or compassion.
ayn rand is for suckers.
um what can I say to this?
wow
first isn’t white about skin color?
I mean the Irish weren’t good enough, then the Italians, and then Poles…
but now short of Semitic, African, Asiatic, or Indigenous To The Place White Folks Conquered, isn’t it all “good” enough?
I heard Eastern Europe’s really nice this time of year and chock full of white people…
and about that third world thing:
don’t you mean countries that european powers invaded or manipulated and subsequently diverted the resources to the detriment of the usually non white populations? Kind of like England did to Ireland during the ” Potato Famine?”
And still there seems to be an Anti English sentiment in Ireland…
must be racism.
Dear gringo,
please do not confuse being preyed on as racism
let not your weakness and inability to understand be misconstrued as a fault of the other
sincerely,
I would karate chop you if I thought it would help
boo hoo
you are a jew quote farm
and your brain is inedible
oops wrong comment response
it must be to the my muddied and impure bloodline…
but really?
would you, could you just say it?
” I am a racist.”
jeez
I really would karate chop you though…
cuz I’m racist too.
word
cuz all the mestizo’s are done with Chicago’s mom
muchacha sucia
You mean all Asians are not good at math?
Just your humorless pontificating fits you into the “white person” category. Your self-important rant and references to your tolerance, open-mindedness and superior grip on cultural norms fits you nicely into everything this blog is making satirical reference to.
You and your friends must be a really fun group to hang out with. And by fun I mean I’d rather strap watermelon and fried chicken to my naked body and run through Harlem after the food stamps have run out.
it’s true
I’m 8’10”
which is why I am so smart
and so masculine
jesus was a zombie
back from the dead = zombie
I wish I was zombie so I could eat your brain
the culture will evolve, hopefully, to the betterment of the species
stupid
that is if you hater ass white folks don’t ruin the planet first with your genius
you do own everything right?
um your own science has shown that race is a fallacy that it’s about clinal variation
your brain would taste good
True! And it gets MORE FUN EVERY TIME.
Mwahahahah. :^D
This post is so true. I hate it how girls are obsessed about being well read. What the hell does it even mean to be well read? I hate Dostoevsky.
http://livinthedream2k8.blogspot.com
might’ve known you’d say that!! he was just a teeny bit pompous, tho.
does being homosexual affect your color?
just cuz you can’t get the cute, well read girls doesn’t mean you can hide behind your ” beauty is skin deep” garbage
intellectuals and their wordiness are the, paraphrasing Mishima here, white worms that eat away at the block of wood that is life
one time I got beat up by a racist
then I started hunting them for trophies
conversation as a card game?
Peter Keatin’ is good eatin’.
too bad for you and yours…
important for white people to have a position in it…
the one they earn
without deceit or brute force
jut think, if y’all didn’t do away with affirmative action then your great grand kids could have received scholarships for being a minority
you should be more worried about the class issue in Brazil than the race issue
wasn’t Brazil a european colony too?
then just keep surfing porn jack ass
oh
thank god you cleared that up
sane white people though? I think not
you are driven crazy with your fear
haha
‘ I think he’s really hurt.’
I said
haha
I thought this was an blog for U.s. citizens
we speak english here
thanks
awesome…
5 year old
really?
white genes = britney spears
you’re an overeducated dweeb
you need some ” Flavor of Love” on your life
a) We LOVE watermelon and fried chicken.
b) Get over yourself.
mestizos not mestizo’s
whoops
I mean I just snuck out of a shipping container give me a break
your brain will taste like cheap beer and crackers
did you really just say Negro?
I’d point out that white folks are historically violent
MLK, Gandhi
non violent protesters met with assassination or the dogs y’all are so fond of
I had to look up petard though because I thought it was some sort of Dungeons and Dragons weapon and sure enough it’s historical english for IED
so um kudos I guess
did you really just use the word Negro?
apparently you’re just in the wrong place at the wrong time
if I had a million dollars I would use it to find you and then I would develop a zombie virus and catch it then I would eat your brains with eggs over easy and toast at my favorite breakfast place
what’s good for the goose is good for the gander
which is, by the way, the whitest saying I know
I really hope you don’t catch fire soon
hey buck a roo
thank god we learned how to make the ever popular AK series
so cheap still equals full of holes
anti white hate crusade?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
oh wait I do hate you
well at least she gets a qualifier
you
you’re just a bitch
no
you’re a racist cuz you’re racist
not for killing all the non whites first to make it an all white environment
but hey I’m a racist too
we all have our crosses to burn… I mean bear
wait
before you think that I wear a scary ghost costume
I’m making fun of you
I mean I am a racist towards the particular shade you are
and your specific face
and peter stupid keating
salma hayek is hot
there’s white classics?
you said toni morrison…
she’s black…
oh
everyone’s supposed to read only black writers?
oh
boo hoo
obtuse?
nope
still doesn’t make you look smart
are you challenged?
you’re right
but really
who watches brokeback mountain?
Tab has a right to his thoughtful opinion. The goal of satire is not literal truth but an appeal to our sense of humor about types of people. The audience for the satirist will always be divided between those who find his work condescending, offensive and based on facile stereotypes; and those who find his witty observations ingeniously perceptive.
Lander has jumped Bill O’Reilly.
You should find yourself a librarian to love!
I actually did that for my 12th grade English paper. Had to read the last 50 pages, though, because of character changes.
Got an A on the paper, then told my teacher I watched the movie instead. It was good.
Being the 613th comment here, I thought it appropriate to point out that the word “Jew” has appeared a mere 82 – now, 83 times in this blog (mostly in nasty comments). COME ON, people, we can do better!!
Tom Wolfe has a Jewish wife and 3 Jewish children. He probably married her figuring that she subscribed to the “size doesn’t matter” maxim. And no, that doesn’t mean she subscribed to Maxim.
I’m with the Hulk.
(not really, I just had to say that)
Senor Keating, you are so revolting, I wouldn’t even use your blood for my Passover bread! Not even if you offered! THAT’S how revolting you are.
Joe57: Along with noticing that “Jew” has been used mostly as a pejorative in this blog, you’ve probably noticed that it’s losing its fun-factor, thanks in large part to trolls such as Portnoy/Rappaport, etc., who are convinced that they’re going to garner a sympathetic following by spewing their hate rhetoric.
Clander had better make good use of his newfound fame, because this blog is spiraling down – thanks to small, aberrant creatures with their perv agenda and boundless anger.
The good thing is that characters such as Portnoy/Rappaport start leaving an internet trail that’ll start getting attention from agencies that are in the business of monitoring pedophiles and supremacists.
Sickeningly brilliant post, but the link to Eco goes to the Wikipedia entry on Pygmalion.
I’m pretty sure Peter Keating is rearranging his book shelf right about now.
Add “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” to this list.
🙂 thanks
Thank you for that. I see your point and admit, that in that context, I may have been a wee bit harsh. Prejudice, racism, intolerance, small mindedness, etc… have always been a major pet peeve of mine. I may come off as smug, but do not honestly feel that way. I just get a bit preachy in writing :). But, my main point remains. I still feel it is wrong to attempt to label any person or group of people based on superficial overgeneralizations. I just think it’s silly and wrong. But that’s just me……
wp love stealing other wp’s usernames. >:-|
eff ewe and your username thievery.
wp love inane comparative relationships.
wp love knowing that “although most other factors were great” is code for “he had an incredibly small penis”.
wp love suggesting completely obvious and derivative ideas as alternate topics for swpl.
wp love hyperbole.
wp love leading cheers for inclusion.
wp love big brother.
I once had to dump someone who thought Nabakov was a brand of Vodka.
What would be a good starter list, assuming, I wanted to front like I was well read?
-really real
Who cares. Anyone who loves to name drop ain’t worth dating. Now I must get back to my Harry Potter.
um, white people heard about it in the 1800’s when it was translated by Burton.
wow, all this to look go in the eye’s of people who don’t give a shit about you….yeah this is a white thing definitely!
It’s not just books, it’s movies, plays, everything, and it’s not just partners, it’s friends, too, which is why I had to start my blog. . . so that I could dictate the tastes of people I know. It’s a lot of work. I wonder if that’s another thing white people like: blogs. . . hmmm. I sure do like this one, and mine, and that’s pretty much it.
The poorly read proletariat plebians are only good for dirty, nasty, hot sweaty sex. Afterward it is difficult to make conversation with them or look them in the eye.
Luke
http://solipcyst.blogspot.com
I’m new here and want to get it right and white. Should I really dump a guy because he’s an unread Plebeian? I mean white people really care about illiteracy and maybe this guy went to public school and can’t read. As a real white person, maybe I should suck it up for the cause. I don’t actually have to show up in public with him, do I?
It isn’t just girls. My husband owns more books than the local library and has introduced me to volumes that I would never have read on my own.
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The Art and Science of Parenting
http://www.momstop.blogspot.com
There’s a worse sin than someone being “less well read” than you: someone who does not. read. at. all. I dumped a guy on the first date for this.
I also dumped a woman (I’m an equal opportunity dater) who never *heard of* Doris Lessing or Marge Piercy.
But my answer to the question is “it depends”, meaning it depends on how far apart you two are in the “well read” department, and many nuances.
By the way, “White Stuff” congratulations on your phenomenal book deal. You give us literary bloggers hope (as well as seriously green eyes!)
REALLY?
Since when did RELIGION or SEXUAL ORIENTATION have anything whatsoever to do with the amount of melanin in one’s skin?
80, of course.
What’s important is realizing that being a dinosaur = extinction.
Come to the 21st Century, Barney, before it’s too late.
How about marrying your sister?
No?
How about a Dutch-descended South African who moves to the US? They are African-American, surely?
But then you need to season it and fry it in a little olive oil and garlic.
WAS married. You think it was for nothing she dumped him like last week’s garbage?
And he thinks that space aliens who were thrown into ancient volcanoes inhabit human beings and control them, making them miserable, crazy….
…which would explain a LOT of the stuff I’ve been reading here.
Of course your name would be Keating….
Hi, I love you, and that was amazing!!!!!
Ha, I thought the same thing while reading the post!
Eres idiota…
It’s ejemplo…
Yeah. It is definitely the stuff of white liberalism. I’m not sure that to my family members living in logging camps and in dirt poor backwoods towns…. that what books their partners read is all that important to them. And they are white too!
Pardon? Memorizing the names of book characters in a particular work makes you well read?
Since when?
duh. isn’t that the whole joke of this blog?
This article is unbelievably sad and shallow.
I’m more into movies, but it would be pretty dumb to expect my girlfriend to have to love movies like Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now as much as I do. She can like her Pride and Prejudice and Gone With the Wind and we can still get along perfectly fine in spite of it.
Oh dear, you sad bunch of cunts
boooooooooooorrrring
“de facto.” HAW.
read both
who is ayn rend?
WOW READING BABEL IS SO CRAZY SOME PEOPLE LIKE JOE57 MADE A GREAT COMMENT ON BROWN EYED GIRL I LIKE HER VIEWS.EVERY RACE HAS FLAWS AND THING THEY WOULD RATHER NO SPEAK ON WE ARE ALL THE SAME AT THE END OF THE DAY.WHY CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT THE WAR IN IRAQ OR HOW PRESIDENT BUSH IS AN ASSHOLE? OR BEATEN WOMAN WITH KIDS AND NO WERE TO GO FOR HELP USE YOUR MOUTH TO PROMOTE CHANGE INSTEAD OF HATE AND POINTLESS CONVERSATION.
GO HOGAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
DO NOT WASTE YOU WISDOM ON SUCH TRASH TALK
haha, you just said asshat. i’d say that’s pretty ignorant.
Oh, yeah, and there are clearly no Asian, Caucasian, Black, or Hispanic Jews at ALL…. *facedesk* Judaism is a religion and a culture, not an ethnicity. Like any other culture, it changes with geography as its people convert in or assimilate out. I wonder what would happen if you were confronted by a blonde, blue-eyed, square-shouldered Jew of German extraction. If you think they don’t exist, you have obviously lived in your parents’ basement for far too long.
The worst Jew is a self-hating Jew, just as the worst white is a self-hating white. Both groups are devoted to erasing themselves from a world which they feel is tainted by their existence. Racism, starting with yourself. And they pride themselves on being “honest” about it.
Oddly, liberalism seems to be another common denominator.
What planet do you live on?
I wonder if you would classify yourself as anti-family if the family in question was Jewish. No wonder you think they hate you. They’d have to be saints to ignore all the crud you’re spouting.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
I’ve got 99 problems but readin ain’t one.
Shabbas, Come-let-us-reason, Brown-eyed Girl, Rappaport…
Will you all just get a room and get on with it?
… Or at least exchanges skype addresses and take your faffing offline.
Preach on, Keating!!!
and what advice would you like? how to not cite yourself as “white power”? well, just don’t. and yes, hipsters suck, big fucking news.
and right they are!
“there is a good chance that an poorly read person”
This is really funny.
And after the dust settles, only happyjack remains.
With the Stuff White People Like blog officially slain, it’s time for me to move on to more challenging prey. Perhaps I’ll meet some of you on my next target.
Stuff White People Like died on April 17th, 2008. RIP.
This post was stupid. I’m white and a highly educated attorney with a J.D. from a top law school and I have never even heard of Pushkin. Honestly, how many heterosexual men spend their time reading poetry anyway? Who gives a shit about poetry?
Peter Keating, you ass clown. Shawn wasn’t “comparing ” the crime rates of rural WV with the those of Brazil, but rather was objecting to your categorical dismissal and, frankly, hostile characterization of Brazilian non-whites as “feral”. Moreover, as it concerns Negroes (srsly?),you didn’t “disprove” anything; whatever you might have mistaken as sufficient evidence for such a ridiculous claim is conspicuously absent.
“You are foisted on your own petard,” How long did you rifle through your Thesaurus for that one? No, let me guess, your speech naturally consists of such colloquialisms as “foisted’ and “petard” — spare us the over-wrought archaisms.
…Anyway…don’t we all wanna be “Innry Iggins?” (it must be said with the requisite, poorly approximated cockney affectation).
Only closeted losers like Christian Lander, the author of this lame blog.
Only the most shallow of individuals would base the intelligence of another person on the books they have read. For instance, many a white person has read Nietzsche without understanding a lick. In fact I just got done reading Hoagland’s book about NASA and completly enjoyed it. Does this make me a conspiracy red neck freak that should be avoided. Not unless you are part of the cover up. Because we all know that the truth is out there.
Instead of basing a person’s worthiness on what they have or have not read I would suggest getting their opinions on what they have read. That would be a much better test of compatability. Plus, who really wants to wait for your spouse to finish reading before you get the chance to pick the book up.
Some douchebag on another forum got mad because I didn’t like The Canterbury Tales and called Shakespeare boring. Give me a fucking break. He was white of course.
I ditched you right away for writing ” aN poorly read person”…..
So this how i keep the nerdy white lesbians away from me. “sorry honey i’m not well read.”
seriously. i don’t know if i should be ashamed of this, but i have actually broken up with people over this. i’m officially a white snob.
Actually, Keating didn’t bother rifling through his thesaurus. He merely misstated the phrase from Hamlet “Hoisted with his own petard.” Wish he were resourceful enough to have looked in a thesaurus. Actually, I don’t. It’s good that he sounds as dumb as he is.
Just for context,
“There’s letters seal’d: and my two schoolfellows,
Whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d,
They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
For ’tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petard; and ‘t shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon: O, ’tis most sweet,
When in one line two crafts directly meet.”
And yes, of course, I got this all from Wikipedia
That’s a great take on it. So funny!
I’m a master’s educated woman who has two extremely literate parents. I am however, simply uninterested in reading fiction. It’s rare that I find a book that really captivates me, preferring the newspaper or a good magazine article. When people talk of certain classics I feel a little badly but then I think, why should I read a book that I won’t enjoy? There have been a few, don’t get me wrong, but I’d rather hang from my pinkies than read Dickens.
Everyone should read Nabokov. Just remember to trip out a bit. And there is much more to life than Lolita. Pale Fire, Invitation to a Beheading, Glory…. sort of a variation on a theme.
And it’s great for cocktail parties. Many more quote Nietsche, albeit incorrectly, than Nabokov.
Being a token whiteboy at best, just a lowly twinkie, I’ve had to read more of the classics just to keep up.
Sort of Asian street cred to fit in literati circles.
Geez. Is this what happens when you grow up? You’ll never see past the differences and everything’s just based on intense intelligence and some boring stuff called literature.
And my teachers tell me to grow up. If growing up means I would have to be racist, then maybe I’d never want to.
I need to start reading more. I have a slew of books that I want to read, but haven’t had the chance to in a long time.
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“an poorly read person?” Sorry it should be “A poorly read person.”
Us whiteys love our grammar. While we’re on the subject it’s also not right to say “AN historic” instead of “A historic,” which is probably why you made this mistake.
Look at it this way. Do you live in “an home?” Would you pound a nail with “an hammer?”
Nope. It’s A home, A hammer and A historic.
Growing up means looking for the truth and not letting your emotions run you. Emotions can guide you, but shouldn’t run you.
I would suggest you take a philosophy course when you join college, if you do. Philosophy concentrates on thinking right, so that in itself is encouraging.
Good Luck!
Actually “an historic” is acceptable. The letter “H” has gone in and out of favor in English and also in Latin from which we borrow the term Historia, ultimately derived from Greek. If you look at books even from the first half of the 20th century you will never see “a historic.” White people love to be esoteric even more than we love what you incorrectly refer to as grammar, it’s really a matter of euphonics, therefore “an historic” is really the whiter term as it shows a familiarity with the archaic and lifts one from the vulgar strain of people who write English as they hear it.
white genes don’t equal britney spears. genetic deficiencies do. and lots of drugs.
it would be much shorter to write out a list of things John McCain doesn’t hate. 🙂
not nearly as entertaining. but much shorter nonetheless.
Well I like Stephen King.
Maybe because no one cares. I know about Lolita but I’ve never read it or ever will. I have no interest reading about a pedo.
you’re missing a comma after the word “sorry”, and “us whiteys” should be “we whiteys”. you’re also missing a comma after the word “subject”, and a colon would be a more appropriate punctuation mark than the period ending the sentence “Look at it this way”.
it seems to me that you’re not entirely qualified to be offering punctuation or grammar advice to anyone.
perhaps one should consider first what it means to be well-educated, before being well-read
It’s a joke! This entire website is a joke! I’m a white guy and I think it’s pretty funny. Maybe the author intended to say “an poorly….” to make a joke about bad grammar. Maybe you all should take less time trying to find fault in others and more time enjoying the funny material that is on this website.
Haha!
You either, darling.
“Sorry”, should be “Sorry,” – the comma always goes before the closing punctuation when in America. The Brits do it your way.
I thought it was because “historic” is pronounced with a dropped “h”, at least in traditional English – hence when spoken would sound like ” ‘istoric”. According to the usual rules for usage of “a” and “an” the correct form to use would then be “an”.
…Taylor, previously of UWF?
gooooooooooood
I find your generalizations to be oversimplified and mercenary. This website would most certainly be considered highly “racist” if you substitute “white” in “white people” for any other ethnicity or race. Shameful double standard. I guess taking the low road is what makes money…
lol. very well fits the ray-gun era, no? We had to read fahrenheit 451 ..which advances ‘1984’ as a dystopian as far as relavancy, comprehensivness, plot, concept, theme and plausibility that can be applied to life in general.
in my dating experience..the latter..
This is a comedic blog, and thus is racist in that people KNOW that not all white people are really like this, but there are quite a few that fall into the stereotype. Comedy is the annihilation of that which oppresses, and in this case the oppression comes in the form of being politically correct and the dilemma of being white in a world that no longer treats white people as a definitive ethnicity. Stop trying to be so politically correct.
Oh dear, must we be in the United States to comment on grammar? Of course, most American English professors prefer the British way of doing quotations because it actually makes sense. The “American” use of punctuation regarding quotations is a holdover from the days of the printing press which is used mostly today by people who learn their grammar and punctuation from the Associated Press. Adding a comma to Mike’s comment makes sense. Placing it within quotations in Taylor’s post is just silliness. Mike didn’t type it, and, therefore, should not be credited with it when quoted.
yes well educated means you could afford to have been “well read” to you
well read means you have taken the time to increase your worldly knowledge educated or not
Chill out dude it’s onnly a joke. Also:
http://stuffblackpeoplelikealso.wordpress.com/
You should check your Fowler’s on this one mate! 🙂
I’m pretty sure “pretension” should be #1 on the list of stuff white people like.
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