The most time and cost efficient way of gaining a white person’s trust and friendship is to talk to them about their time in high school.
Virtually every white person you meet was a nerd in a high school-it it is how they were able to get into a good arts program and law school. As such, their memories of high school are painful, but not tragic since they were able to eventually find success in the real world. Exploiting this information is your one way to ticket into the heart of a white person.
Your first priority must be to steer the conversation to the topic of high school, which is not very difficult. If you are talking about music, mention the music you think they would have liked in high school and how you were taunted for liking those bands. If you cannot properly gauge the type of music a white person liked in high school, you should always say that you were really into The Cure. All white people know that liking The Cure in high school is an invitation to be tortured by the cool kids. This will bring about instant sympathy and respect.
It is also acceptable to discuss how you were in love with a cool kid who never loved you back. For added effect, you can mention how said cool kid is now doing very poorly and that you are excited for the upcoming reunion.
If these first two points were not enough to gain an adequate level of trust, you can close the deal by saying: “I was the only <insert ethnicity> kid in Improv/on the paper/on student council.” Wait for a sympathetic look and then you will know that you have forged an unbreakable and easily exploited bond.
For maximum effectiveness, this technique should be used in a social group setting where everyone can share their stories. By guiding the conversation, you will be seen as a natural and sympathetic leader. This can be easily exploited for professional and social gain.
Note: In the rare encounter that you meet a white person who was “cool” in high school, do not panic. There is a 100% chance that one of their other cool friends sold them out in a coup for control of their social circle. Failing that, you can exploit the inherent guilt they feel about their treatment of nerds.
Stuff White People Like 
The Cure…it’s the kiss of death.
Band geeks!!!
White people are such fucking losers.
Very funny.
http://www.IGotUGGs.com
http://www.BehindtheApprovalMatrix.com
Don’t forget to use terms like ‘hellhole’ in describing high school. I’m too tired to think of other terms right now.
Thanks for bringing back my painful high school memories. Yup, I was a nerd. A certifiable one. Such a big nerd that I even proudly wore the “D.A.R.E.” pin during drug awareness week. Then I got to college and realized that “D.A.R.E.” actually stands for “Drugs are Really Expensive.”
Hmm, this seems a little of the mark? The posts are coming fast and furious, and perhaps are not quite as well thought out? Is high school universally (or even generally) liked by non-whites? I’m confused.
So, once again, I say you are not talking to white people persay, but to hipsters. Lots of white people LOVED high school. What about cheerleaders? Football player? All the people who actually grew up in New York City and went to Bronx Science or Stuyvesant or whatever, unlike stupid ass people from Kansas and shit who live in Williamsburg or Ft. Greene and act fucking annoying. Man, I hate those kids.
That was pretty good. the “note” at the end reminds me of the premise of Mean Girls.
http://thingsmenwant.wordpress.com
Totally reminds me of what the nerdy kids from Mean Girls would be like. The “note” at the end is the story of the Plastics … good read….
http://thingsmenwant.wordpress.com
Yep, high school sucked…
This website is better…
http://moveitmoveit.wordpress.com
It seems like every entry revolves around the goal of obtaining the trust of white people. Why? What will be accomplished by gaining their trust? Power? Love? Respect? I never knew that non-whites were such a needy bunch.
I agree, this is something that gets brought up a lot for not being very interesting.
I was LUCKY to go to a high school that was nearly all White!
re #8
All the people who actually grew up in New York City and went to Bronx Science or Stuyvesant or whatever……unlike stupid ass people from Kansas and shit ”
SHUT UP hook-nosed SEMITE KIKE!
Unfortunately for Whites most of your fellow NY Jews end up moving to White areas. 😦
We need a post on tattoos.
I found that these blogs generally described the great blob of the white population portrayed in the media.. WASPs, yuppies or the artsy fartsies that over-run areas like SoHo as the picture of personal success. (I acknowledge that there are white peoplpe that fall through the cracks of these stereotypes and are unique in their own right)
This one still applies to the popular media group but the WASPs. It’s my understanding that people that were happy during highschool generally don’t have the need or ambition to thrive after that. Except if you come from an affluent family or accomplished parents that kids have expectations to live up to will they strive to make something of their lives. But given that they had the resources to make themselves attractive with labels and cosmetics/ buy friends/ attract attention with material goods, they will find they had a pretty good time in high school.
There’s still a chance they’ll end up bratty losers that we see on reality shows on E!, in that case the blog will still apply.
Westchester, Long Island, Greenwich…..these were all places of class before the “Bronx Science” and “Stuyvesant” Yid semites moved there and diminished the whole attractiveness of these places.
Come on.
Now these same Ashkenazi khazars are doing the same thing to other fine White areas. 😦
uggghhhhhh!!!!!!!
It sucks.
If you spend your time reading this blogs, then you probably were a nerd in high school.
Hah, I actually enjoyed high school, but yeah that conversation would work. I knew some popular girls who liked the Cure though, so maybe it would be better to say, “And remember when everyone in AP Lit was talking about how important Nirvana was, and you brought up the Pixies, and everyone just stared at you?” Another good thing would be to say, “And everyone thought I was a druggie, but I was just tired because I had to work the late shift, and they didn’t even have jobs…”
What’s wrong with Kansas? What’s wrong with Jews?
Yeah, you forgot the band geek–or fag–part of the equation. That should be mentioned in this post.
I was a ‘nerd’ during high school, but I really liked it. I think I went to the whitest state high school in the universe: we had about 3 people of asian descent, and everyone else was a WASP. I’m talking about real WASPs, not your rich American varieties, as I live in Scotland, which is like the home of dour religion and subtle racism.
Hmmm…this one seems a little too forced…up until now, though, mostly good posts!
I was a long-haired nerd who was in orchestra and band, but this never helped me attain higher social status amongst white people.
The Cure are from Crawley, a new town younger than they are, and a poor choice of origin for any musical act, as it’s right underneath Gatwick Airport and hence the noisiest place in England. When I stayed there on a student work visa, it was the HQ of Virgin. The airline, not the record division. (Like I said, poor choice of origin.)
#20
spoken like someone who has never lived around jews.
dude, you totally haven’t done how white people like to stop and look at themselves once in a while
#22 re Wasps
Yeah, it’s funny how the stereotype is somehow “Northeast”, but in reality Dallas, TX is hands-down the most WASP city in America. (That is before the US became non-white like it is today.)
Highland Park HS’s mascot is the Scot!
I’ve got the next one ready for you. I know you want it.
“Doing Dave Chappelle bits.”
You can use it, and then delete this comment. I won’t tell anyone.
Reading this blog in Spain and must say that there are quiete a few White people over here as well.
Doesn’t this post apply to every member of the Writer’s Guild of America-West? It seems that every movie out of Hollywood, even adult– excuse me, grownup– fare, has some undercurrent of “Revenge of the Nerds” or “Carrie”.
However, it probably doesn’t apply to WGA-East members, as they’re mostly from NYC, and there’s no jock culture for the sensitive kids to feel alienated from.
we need posts on:
– health clubs and yoga vacation
– latte macchiato
– creating a flickr-account
– …
I’m just wondering when this entire blog will become a coffee table books. White people love stuff like that.
#31 “It seems that every movie out of Hollywood, even adult– excuse me, grownup– fare, has some undercurrent of “Revenge of the Nerds” ”
Of course, because Hollywood is anti-White to the core, and the majority of the screenwriters are either jews or sodomites.
Why do think “Brokeback” and “Holocaust” films win Oscars?
Hollywood attracts the hateful high school losers who don’t, or cannot (gays), reproduce. Just like Bill Maher, who isn’t “Irish” or White, but just another sniveling jew.
These are getting less and less funny the more I read them.
I first found this website when it was on 79. The first few I read were great. Then a day later I went back and read the first posts, which weren’t nearly as good. I figured after awhile, the traffic increased and the author started putting more effort into it.
But the past four have been pretty unimpressive. As before, I think the increase in traffic has altered the approach taken by the author, only this time he’s trying too hard. The result: really boring posts.
I’ve also gotta agree with the person above who questioned the running theme of “this is how you can use this information to your advantage.” Really, what’s the point of that? It’s stupid, not clever, and it’s usually pretty forced. The same effect could be had with a more natural approach that left out the “here’s what you do if you’re not white” part.
“Note: In the rare encounter that you meet a white person who was “cool” in high school, do not panic. There is a 100% chance that one of their other cool friends sold them out in a coup for control of their social circle. Failing that, you can exploit the inherent guilt they feel about their treatment of nerds.”
Gold, sir! Pure gold!
I went to a working class all-male Catholic high school in the midwest… as a result of our uniformity and lack of ladies to impress or parade machismo for, I sooooooo missed out on having high school tragedy.
Damn.
The Obvious: It takes the sperm of a White male, and ONLY a White male, to produce white children.
Why is it that all the non-whites lust after that they could never, ever under any circumstances reproduce themselves? It’s a joke.
The main point is: stay White
Your children will thank you for it. Got that ladies?
I guess fag-bashing is no longer a high-school pastime?
We get it, Christian. The big bad liberals in Bloomington hurt your feelings. And now you’re getting back at them.
Perhaps your disappointment in not having done anything meaningful in your life is assuaged by making fun of others’ whose motives and intentions you pretend to so well understand.
It’s not too late to do something positive and affirming with that agile mind of yours. Everyone loves to laugh with the South Park smartass who makes fun of everything and stands for nothing. Perhaps when your 15 minutes are up, you’ll find something you really want to fight for- maybe even something worthy of being made fun of about.
shut up Hoosier loser.
#37 Damn straight!
I miss the 80’s. It’s funny how back then, the bands were (to simplify) either American rock/metal (Van Halen), or British androgynous/gay (Pet Shop).
There were divisions.
But damnation!!!! Compared to today’s overall Chimp-out I’d take any band that is White where there are actual musicians that play instruments. I miss the Euro-fag, UK bands. I love hearing them today, including the Cure.
Playing instruments is White. Chimping-out to a hip-hop DJ is degeneration, for lack of any better term.
I feel sorry for White girls today.
Err, it’s “gauge,” not “gage.”
And when talking to people about high school memories it’s always helpful to bring up My So-Called Life and how you related to it. Though perhaps that’s a generational thing.
i have a love hate relationship with this blog
more or less….you suck and are more or less retarded. I’m sorry that i was cool in high school. I’m sorry that my parents were better than your parents, and probably a lot cooler than your parents too. My parents had friends. Instead of whining about their lack of coolness in highschool, they were busy not giving a shit about what you think.
Enjoy….and suck a dick….
love
Drewsie
A lot of attention on this intertubes blog seems dedicated towards gaining the trust or esteem of white people. It appears to beg the question, would you want to?
Cultural differences: in my high school, somewhere in an east-european country, it was cool to be a Cure fan.
#37, it is really funny how the racists are coming out of the closet.
You can take your white supremacist sperm and flush it down the toilet, that is all it is worth it :-))
Oh, and I am not black.
“It appears to beg the question, would you want to?”
Things white people like, #82391: breaking the rules of logic. “To beg the question” means to use a particular logical fallacy (of circular reasoning), man.
I never listened to the Cure, but high school was pretty awful for me. I find that most of the posts are making fun of people like me or at least referencing the kind of people that I’ve known throughout the years. I think the reason that this is funny is that it hits so close to home…
#47 Ha ha ha……strikes a nerve with you? You must be one of the Darwinism losers!!
It’s hilarious what some so-called intelligent people will flat-out DENY. Why does the truth and scientific facts bother people of your ilk? Never studied biology?
Celebrate Diversity!!!! Mixing destroys it. Stay White, and your children will thank you.
Morrissey, the former Smiths singer, has sparked controversy by claiming British identity has disappeared because the country has been “flooded” by immigrants.
Hey man you are forgetting a HUGE one in terms of what white ppl like…BOB DYLAN. Everything that comes out from this guy is pure gold in the eyes of white ppl.
Also books by Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote Blink! White New Yorkers esp. love him.
White people love indigenous artwork made by the natives of (insert obscure, dwindling ethnic group). White people like it so much and they buy so much, that I wonder if there is any art left in the developing world.
Wow. Thanks for the advice #37 and 50. I’ll keep your racist comments in mind when deciding whether to “do my kids a favor” by subjecting them to an inheritance of centuries’ worth of injustices committed by whites that need to be accounted for. I think I’ll celebrate diversity by treating other people as equal human beings, regardless of their skin color instead. What a concept, right?
Where did you obtain your degree in biology from, exactly? It seems to me that rather than biology, you know a little more about eugenics, or rather, the pseudo-science that the nazis used to classify humans. Very nice.
You know what else white people like? Polaroid pictures.
I’m still hoping for an entry on hookah bars…
its true all white people complain about high school, kinda annoying after awhile
I saw the Cure twice in High School. OMG! Are you hiding in my bedroom closet? Have you been going through my IPOD? How do you know all of this about me? Oh Wait… Im white, thats right!
Quite a stretch with this one….
And the very small specific niche that the author considers “white people” comes into focus even further…
Anyway, this blog should be called “stuffnormalpeoplelike.wordpress.com,” – for the most part, not for posts like this one.
Only really, really young college-aged white people want to have deep conversations about high school. I think this one’s a bit off.
Just don’t want to let us white people get too bad of a name. I mean – seriously – who talks about high school?
Maybe I’m wrong or maybe I was cool in high school – because I definitely don’t talk or think about it … but I don’t know anyone who does.
STILL LOVE YOU – here’s a good one – TLC – where white people can watch other white people – doing things they do too! Ha!
Yeah, this guy is really phoning these in. OH OH THERE’S AN IDEA FOR 84!
#84 Starting Up An Internet Venture And Eventually Only Paying It Lip Service
If you were female, heavyset, and your homecoming or prom date was gay, that should at least be good for a Bronze in the white olympics.
(Although, this may be universal to all races).
Some of the specific references are generational, but the fact that white kids who turn into urban professionals were nerds (or the equivalent) in high school transcends time. It was certainly as true in the ’50s and ’60s as it is today. And, in thousands of small towns all over America, the football stars and cheerleaders who looked like they were having a good time (and were, sort of) often stayed in the hometown — maybe went to State U, maybe not — and ended up running the family business/ranch/farm, teaching, developing real estate, or selling insurance.
I knew a few exceptions — smart jocks and/or cheerleaders who went to better colleges and ended up doing well — but mostly this is spot on, from the perspective of the nerd.
What I learned after high school, as my life crossed paths with a number of what we called the “in” group, was that they were just as insecure, unsure and confused as the rest of us, and in many cases, they were well aware the nerds were the ones who would leave town and soar. They were mostly just better at bluffing through, though some were completely oblivious.
I didn’t want to hang out with the cool kids in high school. They were all the same and like a true white people, I wanted to be an individual. I was unique and special. 😛
So Jews ruin neighborhoods? Hahahaha! Semites, for the most part, have solid homes, low alcoholism, low drug abuse, low crime rates, and go on to good jobs. Some of you project everything you hate about your own culture onto others. Just like how White racist types like to project their own dissatisfaction with their divorced parents and fucked-up homes onto the Black family structure. It’s so obvious to an outside observer how they defend against their fragile egos but since their self-awareness is like that of a 12-year-old, they never wake-up to their predictable behaviors.
Sorry, didn’t proofread. That should read “like a true white person, I wanted to be an individual.”
And like other white people of my generation, I wanted my high school to be just like “My So Called Life.” I was more like Rayanne than Angela though.
Bah, this one’s not funny at all.
Increasingly, you are confusing the term “White People” with “Hipsters.”
Figure it out, try to make more funny ones.
The picture alongside this post is so perfect that it’s painful.
Having said that, I really liked high school, despite not being particularly cool (not then, and certainly not now).
Ever notice how EVERY famous performer was a ‘big nerd’ in high school? Like, EVERY ONE?
No, folks, you weren’t nerds. You just didn’t play on the most popular sports team evar.
The nerds were the guys skipping class to play D&D in the library, doing Calculus equations for kicks while their friend fought a gelatinous cube.
Or, the girls in the animal-lovers society.
Those are nerds.
Today’s entry is still totally on, though.
It’s funny cuz it’s true!
Isn’t it?
“Increasingly, you are confusing the term “White People” with “Hipsters.””
What?
Dude, it’s been that way from post #1.
White people like saying “dude”.
I am going to shove a hockey stick so far up your ass.
Suggestion for a post: White English aka Albonics aka Ivoronics.
This would be opposed to Ebonics, or as referred to on dictionary.com “Black English.” Ebonics is from ebony and phonics. Albonics comes from albino and phonics. Ivoronics comes from Ivory and phonics.
I mean one would assume if there is a Black English there should be a White English, Yellow english etc. your could throw in saying like “yeah-but-no,” “bra,” and “dude.” Or you could through in seemingly clever sayings like “thinking outside the box” (whose over use and lack of modification go against the very emphasis of the saying). Another suggestion would be smarty pants titles like economy czar, security czar etc. We whites love to make what we conceive as clever little sayings, names and words, just look at my tag name. Could I be any whiter?
Careful to not go overboard with this one. If you tell whiteys you “had your head flushed in the toilet in high school” you’ll still be viewed as a tool.
I went to a high school that was about 50% black, 49% white, 1% “other.” I get awesome white person cred by mentioning to other white people that I was “a minority” in high school.
your all a buncha chimichunga-breath mugwumps, however, having said that, could someone please define HIPSTER for me?
I mean I read mailer’s The White Negro back when nobody had a clue & i unnerstang the term has evolved but by enlarge the way it is increasingly used here in this Blog is beginning to be so amorpherous as to be –in wittgenstein’s term– approaching MEANING ZERO &, in affect, meaningless.
so a little help please?
I bin dying to axe this but did not want to digress. at this point digression seems to be the order of the day so i may ass well axe it. I mean AX. sorry.
You know… aside from the self-deprecating humor that makes this blog so funny… white people DO NOT like racism… especially towards ethnic groups that our ancestors played an unfortunate role in subjugating. We don’t like it so much that we’re actually quite uncomfortable talking about race in public. (Maybe not the best strategy for dealing with our guilt, but it’s where most of us are right now)
To the people up there (#34, for example) making anti semitic and other racist/sexist comments… who are you defending? Why so threatened? A good hard look at our unearned inherited privilege is a good first step toward actually trying to fix things. If I may make a suggestion… try saying something constructive, or maybe just being nice, it’s amazing how good you feel.
Here’s something white people like:
graduating from high school (doesn’t count if one is pregnant, already enlisted in the military, or gets a GED)
Nice one!
I was a band geek that never studied. Finished high school easily. My biggest issue with HS, was that it was a bore and not challenging.
I have retained that level of slackerdom throughout my 20s thus far.
hit it on the head again with this one, especially the reference to the cure…that was totally me.
Yeah, man… big-time nerd (alternately known as geek) in high school, although junior high was worse. Still a nerd/geek. Which now equals cool.
All my also-white friends also classify themselves as high school nerds, which leads me to wonder where all the cool people ended up.
I’d just like to say this is the best website on the internet and I truly hope you keep publishing this in perpetuity!! It brings joy into each and every morning I check it.
63/Cato: I like & identify with your comment the best. I was a _Star Trek_/comic-book geek in h.s. in the ’70s. I attended an all-white h.s. that was mostly working-class/lower-middle class. Guys like me were out-numbered & out-gunned by all the bipolar, redneck, white-trash thugs who made our lives hell.
Geez, it wasn’t enough for them that my father burned our house down for the insurance money and deserted my mother & I completely without warning when I was ten and that her response was to get wasted almost every evening for the next several years. No, it was important to them that they made my life miserable at school too. Did me a huge amount of damage that affects me to this day.
“The best revenge is to live a good life.” Spent three years in the army, completed college and have achieved a comfortable middle-class existence that includes two sons, ages 18 & 20, who’re turning out well. We all enjoy good health.
I happen to know that a number of the thugs wound up in prison. I suspect that a great many more of them wound up as alcoholic chain-smokers. That knowledge inspires some gleeful un-christian thoughts. –Jeff in Houston, Texas
Hahaha….I LOVED the Cure! And I seriously was the only non-white in EVERY activity and club I belonged to. I soo relate to this 🙂
The next person who says
“HAHA #84 should be white people who send this link to their friends so they can brag over how ironic theyre being!”
needs to get shot in their f*ckin face. Lame ass white people. Honestly.
Eh, dropped the ball today kid. I’m afraid I’m the whitest person I know (seriously, the whitest), and today’s observation just isn’t accurate. We loved high school. Even when it was shitty, it was still great. The demographic you’re talking about were the rich kids in high school, and the rich kids are the cool kids. We drank on weekends but still got into great colleges because our parents paid thousands for SAT prep courses and put in calls to admissions officers. Hell, the headmaster of my high school literally changed my F in freshman spanish to an A, saying ‘this must have been a mistake’. Oh, and then we all got new cars when we got into our top school. Whats not to love?
Hint for next thing white people love: summer camp.
Also, what needs to be addressed here, is that 80% of the people you are referring to are ugly white chicks.
Ugly white chicks seriously are a bane on society. Too ugly for the genetically fit to impregnate, so they go to school and get degrees, trying to establish some worth in a society that really doesn’t need them. I mean, what else can they do? They dont *really* like marrying the ugly geeks and they’re sick of it.
Women aren’t making creative breakthroughs. They’re not capable of it. Just taking of space. Another pair of arms.
And yeah, the other 20% are the geeky white dudes in school. Let’s toss in everyone whose going into science also. Again, not worth much to society, only another pair of arms in the research lab.
Only a few per thousand will actully have the mental abilites to make the useful breakthroughs in science. Everyone else is just their instrument and not worthy of any sort of respect.
Thankful for the doctors, though. How you put up with disgusting peoples’ body parts is beyond me.
Humanities matter only to those who have a geniune fascination with life and its mysteries. To me, they deserve respect. Only a few per hundred actaully do it for the love of life though. What better way to use up this genetic accident we call life than to lose ourselves in the nearly incomprehensible beauty and wonder that is the universe.
What about boarding school?
I went to boarding school, an all girls’ one at that, and you can gain my trust if you ask me about it, without assuming that I was a spoiled, drug using, kid (perhaps I was) whose parents wanted to get rid of her (I wanted to leave). Just ask me how it was freeing and how I am nostalgic about it and I still keep in touch with friends from there.
I LOVE the web site.
Pretty weak today. Not going to lie. I was all excited and that was a little depressing.
Wow, this blog was pretty cool before it was overrun by bigots and racists.
Maybe shutting off the comments would be a good idea from now on.
The blog is racist in the first place, and out of date in the second. It assumes that black people spend their time trying to figure out how to bond with white people so they can take advantage of their position. And do black people of the 21st century even care about psyching out white people? Go back to watching Maude reruns and stop writing dumb things.
This post should have follwed straight from #81 Graduate School – the further you study the more high-school nerds you find.
Having gone to a single-sex catholic school it took me a long time to not be a nerd, and many ways still am. And like 319 says: If you read this blog you were/are a nerd
As Hall and Oates sang “Is there life after high school”?
#91 – don’t be so literal, it’s a joke, lighten up whitey
you don’t have to read it if you don’t like it
I think this blog is actually speaking to a very particular subset of “white” people — young, urban, US-born for the most part, educated and of a comfortable social class.
I don’t think most of my “white” relatives would even get the jokes in these entires.
Right on! I can’t wait for my reunion!
I agree with #90 that you should moderate comments. The ones that are purposely racist, that is.
The commenters that don’t understand the satire are fine because they are funny and give us white people who understand real irony a sense of extreme satisfaction.
One thing you may want to add to this post is that white people will now collect all of this teen angst material written during high school and in the form of poems, songs, love letters, etc., and turn it into public performance art! See: http://www.getmortified.com/
White chicks LOVED the Rude Awakening…….
To # 91 Working Mother.
Can you please explain to me how anything in this blog can be construde as racist. Making a observation that white people like dogs, bottled water, recycling is racist? Really? Please explain.
The picture is sooooooo perfect!
I wish people would stop complaining that this blog purely describes north eastern hipsters. Yeah, it DOES describe only north eastern hipsters. deal. it’s still hilarious.
White people like thinking they are good photographers.
white people are the new blacks
and #98, Pasty White Chick, something like this blog is obviously going to be a lightening rod for racially motivated discussions. maybe – just maybe – because the whole point of the blog is to serve as a stereotyping, generalizing, blanket-statement-making machine. so visiting/supporting this blog and then commenting on the apparent racism of its commentors rings a little hypocritical.
http://www.pastoralgenocide.blogspot.com
Additionally, discussion of how much Catcher in the Rye resonate(s/d) with them does wonders to forge a long lasting connection.
I liked high school okay, but I hated the seniors who wore Cure (or Talking Heads, or Elvis Costello) t-shirts in my high school, I knew they were just lame poseurs. And even if they weren’t poseurs–still lame. I was bad-ass in my Misfits t-shirt though!
Will E, I agree. The onyl problem with the Misfits T’s, though, was the douchebag Metallica heads that wore them. Poseurs, just the same.
I got soemthign to say! I killed a baby today!
It really fucking amazes me that people are actually taking this blog seriously. “Real white people aren’t like this!” Satire, ever heard of it?
FYI, I think the site is hysterical.
might i also suggest:
dropping out of (insert ivy league here) to pursue a poker career.
Ztrip
personal trainers
mixed martial arts
sun tzu and the art of war
#103 hopptm
white people are the new blacks
and #98, Pasty White Chick, something like this blog is obviously going to be a lightening rod for racially motivated discussions. maybe – just maybe – because the whole point of the blog is to serve as a stereotyping, generalizing, blanket-statement-making machine. so visiting/supporting this blog and then commenting on the apparent racism of its commentors rings a little hypocritical.
See what I mean! Pure comedy gold!
I think some people are missing the point of this post. I’m black and grew up in a black environment (school and home), but many of my friends since 21 have been white and I would like to say that this post is spot on. I have never heard so many people paint their high school years with so much negative imagery. If the subject came up, I always felt that high school was like every other life moment, some days it was cool and other days it sucked. Nothing traumatizing. But the white people i knew, REGARDLESS OF THEIR BACKGROUND OR CURRENT STATUS, it was always…
“High school sucked”
“I hated everybody”
“I couldn’t wait to get out”
“I didn’t learn anything” (although they got into college and beyond)
“I only liked one teacher”
“I didn’t really have a lot of friends”
I don’t remember any of my conversations with my black friends being so emotional (and angst filled) about high school.
I think white people idealize their high school life as if they’re still trying to live their own personal Breakfast Club.
What happens after high school:
http://www.stuffacademicslike.com
“It really fucking amazes me that people are actually taking this blog seriously. “Real white people aren’t like this!” Satire, ever heard of it?
FYI, I think the site is hysterical.”
Maybe some people get “the satire” but just don’t find it that funny. Why is it so important to you that “white people” all have the same sense of humour?
Yeah, I agree. Maybe shutting down comments for a while would be prudent. Yes, I love/d the Cure and I hated high school {and they hated me back}. This is such a poser stance though–because when I was a chess club geek, I was alone. In a post 1992, post Nirvana world, it became cool to be a high school loser. It sure wasn’t when I was doing it. The math doesn’t add up, because there were maybe a handful of us at school that were losers…and yet out in the world, EVERYONE claimed to be one of us. WTF?! Yeah, that’s right…I know you’ve got a cheerleader uniform buried in your past {and probably backyard}. Can’t fool a loser baybee…
To 101 Jeff
Maybe I missed the humor. Someone sent me the link as a hilarious and insightful vignette that I would really like. But I was offended by the tone that black people spend their time trying to figure out how to ingratiate themselves with white people.
I admit, I’m a white woman, so I don’t have any insight into what drives black culture, but I just can’t believe that 21st century black people pay much attention to how to bond with white people. I figure that as a people, as a culture, they have way more important things on their minds.
So the attitude brought me back to the 1970s, when the stereotypical black person was always looking for a scam. That offended me then and now.
Did I look at this too much from the black perspective, and not from the perspective of nerd humor? I admit I was socially aware in the 1970s. I’m old. If I missed the boat, I guess I’m just drowing.
i’m white and i spent my high school years banging hoes in a cocaine-fueled rapture.
and #109, Pasty White Chick, you’re an idiot. You come to a racially satirical blog, throw praises upon its apparent (or unapparent) genius, complain that certain people cross the racial line of demarcation (wherever that may be), then get called out for being either (a) hypocritical or (b) half retarded. And, yet, somehow that = = “Pure Comedy Gold!”
I had such a crappy high school experience and it feels so awesome to talk about it sometimes. Idk how this makes someone white but go figure
I think 87 is right. The cool kids who came from privileged areas weren’t really allowed to be a dumb jock or a mallchick. How trashy would their parents look?
Even though they partied their way through HS and university, they usually met the right people on the way.
I’m not sure this one works. Or maybe I don’t know white people as well as I thought I did.
#115 hopptm
Oh, touche! You win. 😮
that’s mostly what i’m about, winning.
LOL
http://www.jonesview.wordpress.com
Stuff White People Like =
Pointing out the precise moment when FILL IN THE BLANK Jumped The Shark.
#42 Sixteen Candles
Hey there Asswipe,
Someone wanted me delivered to you in a swift and heavy-handed fashion.
They said your “Chimping-out” statement shows how much of a dick you are, but instead of castrating you, they wanted to give me, Bitch Slap, to you as a warning.
Now put your racist face to your computer screen and feel the sting of my full force . . .
#42 Sixteen Candles
Hey there Asswipe,
Someone wanted me delivered to you in a swift and heavy-handed fashion.
They said your “Chimping-out” statement shows how much of a dick you are, but instead of castrating you, they wanted to give me, Bitch Slap, to you as a warning.
Now put your racist face to your computer screen and feel the sting of my full force . . .
Argh! So true! I WAS the only (half white/half black) kid on improv AND the newspaper.
Apparently, some people of other skin colors (stop saying “race” that is factually incorrect) feel that white people aren’t allowed to make fun of themselves.
The comments are just as interesting as the entry itself, but the same old “stop being racist…blah, blah, blah” is lame.
To #91 Working Mother
It’s cool if you don’t get the humor. I myself am completely puzzled by the addoration that some people have for Monty Python. I actually think that Mr. Lander is doing a great service with this blog. I come for the satire (which I think is pretty funny) but stay for the crazy-ass comments. Please don’t take them down. Ever. They reveal that we as a country have a long way to in regards to race relations. It’s an eye opener to some and down right depressing to others.
And on the whole “blacks ingratiating themselves to whites” thing. I don’t see it that way. I see it as Mr Lander giving an aid and a little insight, in a humorous way, to other cultures who are pretty mystified by the behaviors of some white people in this culture. And I can’t recall him ever saying “to the black people who may come across this blog, here’s how to get over on the man if you ever choose to do so”.
Oh yeah and he said on NPR that he is basically making fun of himself and his friends.
That’s enough of that. I just wanted to point out that people are flying off the handle labeling the blog as racist and, in my opinon it’s not.
Jeff, anything makes generalizations based solely upon a skin color is, by definition, racist. I don’t think there is anyhting wrong this blog and I think its quite funny, but still, it is inherently racist. This sort of thing is good, though. When we’re at the point where all races are making fun of both each other and themselves in a lighthearted way, thats when we’re closer to being an equal society.
#114 Working Mother
Lord have mercy . . .
I’m black and I get the joke.
Clander isn’t suggesting that black people should use his posts as a way to understand and then try to intergrate themselves with white people.
He’s just being a smartass.
And by the way, what made you assume that it was black people he was offering advice to?
Hmmmmm . . .
The one great thing about this blog is that it gives white people a big taste of what it’s like to be stereotyped — hence the negative reactions. Not sure if that was the creator’s intent.
RE: HOPPTM 128
“…anything makes generalizations based solely upon a skin color is, by definition, racist.”
The Whiteness this Blog refers to is NOT based on skin color.
Learn the game a little bit…
I basically assumed that whoever the advice part of the blog was directed toward were those from the asian continent. That atleast seems to be who it was written by. And they are the types most eager to ingratiate themselves with whites.
Blacks don’t give a shit about being accepted by white people. Hence, loudness and all that other antisocial sh*t.
#132 Honkey. Please do the world a favour and go and die.
FC,
Why are stereotypes necessarily a bad thing? Not that you yourself are saying this, but plenty of people feel stereotypes should always be construed as something negative.
Honkey,
For one who doesn’t give a S… about being accepted by white people, you sure spend a lot of time on this blog. That’s odd.
Fish Noir Foul, I guess I must have mis-read the repeated references to “white people.” I mean, when I say “black person,” I’m actually referring to white people who wear bandannas underneath their flat brimmed new era hats. Because, you know, “blackness” and “asianess” and “hispanicness,” those are all a state of mind.
Give me a break.
metaljaybird, if I have to tell you why stereotypes are negative, then we are clearly from different planets and I don’t really want to have that discussiuon.
What I was saying though is that a lot of “white” people feel attacked by this site because nobody likes to feel stereotyped.
#132 Honkey
“Blacks don’t give a shit about being accepted by white people. Hence, loudness and all that other antisocial sh*t.”
LoL! You are so damn ignorant!
This one wasn’t very good
The posts are ingenious to begin with. But it’s all in the comments really. Push a few touchy buttons and see what happens. This is what the Internet is all about. Keep up the good work. Mirrors are fun. When the tourists were bused into Haight Ashbury in the 60’s what did those dirty smelly drugged hippies do? Hold up mirrors.
FC, if the stereotype is that all people from a certain race (insert white, black, asian, etc) are smarter, better looking, and otherwise genetically superior, I’m down to be stereotyped (as long as I’m a part of the “genetically superior” race). I get what you’re saying, but I think metaljaybird’s point was that stereotypes are only percieved as negative when the stereotype itself is negative.
somewhere, West of Laramie….
… this blog’s comments began to lose their way and descend into something other than amusing reading…
… some people began to take this way too seriously…
… the underlying high school nerd breaks of the post-college hipster shell and reasserts itself to everyone’s embarrassment and chagrin … unspoken, like a stinky fart at a dinner party … ruining everyone’s good time.
Hmm, by high school, THIS white person was having a blast. I was in Drama Club!!! This made me feel very popular, albeit with a very small group of other unpopular kids.
Grade and Middle school, on the other hand, were serious suicide-inducing years.
So my tip, if the high school years don’t strike social gold, then plumb a little further back.
140 Marco …. were you in the Haight in the ’60s? I spent the Summer of ’67 there and elsewhere in the city… a magical time and place that transcends much.
I think people are confusing the definitions of stereotype and racism. They aren’t the same.
A stereotype is a generalized and very often simplified belief about a person, place etc.
Racism is a belief that one race is superior to another, which in turn can and often does lead to discrimination based on said belief.
See the difference? I’m just getting tired of everyone screaming about how ‘racist’ the blog is that’s all.
#141 hopptm. What I am trying to say is that many white people who are feeling offended by this blog are feeling that way because they thought they were special and unique but upon reading this are realizing they fit into sterotypical categories. That’s all. I’m not saying these are inherently negative things, but people in general don’t want to feel that they are conformist. Especially those hipsters who fancy themselves “avant-garde”.
#77…i too would love to hear people’s general idea of what a hipster is.
having grown up outside of nyc, lived there, lived in the upper midwest and other places since, i can tell you that there is a wide gap in the perception of a hipster. about a 5 year gap from nyc to the midwest and beyond.
my guess is that hipsters in kansas are still wearing aviators or (if they are really ‘advanced’) old ray-bans and tight jeans. that is played out and no longer hipster de riguer here in the shitty.
hint: ‘mtv cool’ is not cool. if you see it there it is already played out.
Hmm, I think via this blog it is very hard to be white if you did not grow up in the 80s. But perhaps thats just the authors point of view. White = 30-40
i throw mtv’s manufactured coolness and nyc’s nouvelle vague snobbiness in the same dark pit of bottomless suck.
Would like to refute the concept of “cool kids” having it easier that “nerds/dorks/insert perjorative here” – I was an uber- popular girl in high school, and an overachiever, and an athletic standout, and bipartisan. It was painful. Too much pressure. Had to stave off a few coups for my social ranking (and equally popular/athletic/hot) boyfriend(s).
I could not get away fast enough. I ran straight into the arms of … Duke University. Eesh.
(recommendation: Ivy League Schools (or pretenders))
You should do a post on how white people love the Stuff White People Like blog. My whole family loves it to death – and we are pasty white.
obviously, lostinspace, you are just too fucking cool.
sad how 3 or 4 years can define a persons life 😉
I went to a basically all black and Asian high school in south Seattle. I remember the few white kids i had in my class would always bond together and talk about what its like being the only white student in the courses. I would discuss such musicians as green day, limp biscuit, and eminem to build commonalities.
http://www.lullmengesha.com
Jesus Christ, I am so freakin white. I loved the Cure when I was a teen and I am still traumatized by high school. Sometimes when my friends and I binge drink those high school traumas come out and we all group hug.
God, I love The Cure.
I swear you’re just basing these off of my blog…
😉
What does it mean if you went to an all-white high school?
You were also maybe a nerd in high school, since you had a stutter and made a mini typo: [school-it it]
But really, I just wanted to say that you’re hysterically insightful and I’ve been sharing this site with everyone (mostly my white people friends).
Also, what about coffee shops? Latte drinking with laptops. Lalala…
Apparently white people also really really enjoy pointing out that these ‘blog posts only apply to a subset of white people.
“In band camp….” American Pie – ha!
Whitey#1, “traumatized by high school”?? What, did the football captain suspend you by your toenails from the gym rafters? Did the cheerleading squad do a striptease while you were duct-taped to the goalposts? Did you fail your AP History exam because you were up too late the night before smoking bad mexicali weed and listening to THE CURE??
So true, I was one of the “mean girls” in high school and I feel so bad about it. I have even gone as far as seeking the nerds out to apologize!!!!
white people love sylvia plath
I went to a British high school in Asia during the 80s
The popular cool white kids who were adept at sports, and several Asians who wanted to join their crew, all were into The Cure. I hated that band and this group. The thing is that they were only into the pop singles and not the obscure dark non hits that is the band’s strengths.
But now I love em and only the dark side, so oh well, role reversal I guess.
I do notice how all famous people, regardless of ethnicity were hated/fugly in school.
High school was ok went I went. Nowadays though things are a lot different. A lot more pressure on these kids.
http://theG35spot.wordpress.com
@ #70 – “Daver” :
“Ever notice how EVERY famous performer was a ‘big nerd’ in high school? Like, EVERY ONE?”
Well, really talented performers were nerdy, true. But some of the sucky actors were popular. I’ve seen older pictures of Matthew McConaughey and he looked like a prom king.
And there’s a corollary: All supermodels were tomboys growing up. Sure, I’ll bet while the Martina Navratilovas of the world were playing with Barbies, these Size-0 babes were all fishing and butching it up on the playground.
(And don’t get me started on the sissy boys who now have six pack abs and bulging biceps.)
Can you do a post on how white people love drugs & substance abuse???
“#37, it is really funny how the racists are coming out of the closet.”
give me a fucking break
this entire blog is the most racist piece of shit around.
i thought it was funny at first but after the “ha ha” wears off it’s evident the author is the biggest racist here.
This post was not of the typical caliber I’ve come to expect from your site. Let your bad memories go. Create new ones about things you are into, now that you’re all grown up. Oh wait, that’s what this blog is. Nevermind. But seriously, if you were going to post about high school, I think a couple of drafts were in order.
-Jeff Lewis
“especially towards ethnic groups that our ancestors played an unfortunate role in subjugating. We don’t like it so much that we’re actually quite uncomfortable talking about race in public.”
Speak for yourself, schmuck. My ancestors, and even more important *I*, didn’t do shit.
I have a feeling clander is/was an improviser, a very, very specific subsect of white people.
this stuff is only true of public school, though. in my exclusive private high school, it was not only acceptable, but actually highly revered to like the cure, which i did, of course.
#144 Cato, yes I was there for a few weeks. I can actually remember some of what happened. It was at its zenith then. A special time and place. I was lucky to meet some good people. I also met the other kinds too. Many people were already heading to Northern California, Oregon and Washington.
#168 dopehead, they already did a post on pot and drugs. Were you high again? Or are you always high? I hope so.
I hated the Cure, but was also in the theatre (note the euro spelling) department, so where the hell does that leave me? This site is starting to get me worried. I have tried very hard to be the best white person I can be, but it hasn’t gotten me anywhere, even though I am truly white right down to the bone!
Any advice for us white people who may have lost their way?
Holy cow! Christian’s thread has been overtaken by Jew-haters and homophobes! What’s up with that?
You’re being mobbed, Christian.
#51, case in point. That “keep diversity, don’t genetically mix” is standard, twisted, BNP, eugenics distortion. People have been ‘mixing’ since time immemorium; we’re just doing it between races, instead of tribes and ethnicities, because we can… the by-product and logical extension of global transportation.
Every breeder knows that the mixed mutt is strongest, smartest, and most able to survive.
i liked high school and WAS a nerd.
Wow. the comments that are posted here are really starting to frighten me, things like this:
Note # 14 Blanco is a European word
“I was LUCKY to go to a high school that was nearly all White!”
The Internet always brings out racist assholes and cowards who anonymously post just these incredibly abominable things, god really this blog disgusts me, I don’t know why this blog was recommended to me when it so blatantly promotes discrimation behind a veil of “faux-racism”, we’re just talking about a “socioeconomic subset”!
Jesus.
This site should be called “stuff that bleeding heart, liberal, “enlightened”, hippy, spoiled white college kids like”
Oh my God people. It is satire. It is not trying to be “accurate.” It is taking a heterogeneous group and describing it in terms of a highly visible, homogeneous subset. Many people unselfconsciously give this treatment to heterogeneous groups that are NOT the majority. This site is funny because, since this group IS the majority where this is written, it is screamingly obvious that the claims are ludicrous.
This is a funny lady, and I hope she keeps up this (and additional) projects.
Hooray.
Seriously
Q. who wants to vote in a president that won’t accept the American flag or place their hand on their heart during the national anthem???
A. Bleeding heart, liberal, “enlightened”, hippy, spoiled white college kids. AKA lemmings – AKA communist lab rats
34 – Writers write what they know.
And most Hollywood writers are Jewish nerds who secretly resent/envy white guys and so tool black men against them – while also worshipping blonde Aryan shiksas (pardon my Yiddish).
You see this same formula in every film – Black or Jewish male hero, blonde trophy eye candy and assorted white guys as fillers.
With Asian and Arab men used as the butt of every joke.
Oy vey!
LMskinnywhiteAO right now. The post is good but the comments are even better!
Odyssey of the Mind. if you were in it in high school, you know what i’m talking about.
If you don’t know what a hipster is look it up on wikipedia or GET OFF THE INTERNET
this site is really just a list of things that most black people DONT LIKE.
not the other way around.
F minus.
http://www.garbarrassing.com
now there is a site that everyone would like…
Also, give me a break, what the FUCK is being said here in the post:
“Virtually every white person you meet was a nerd in a high school-it it is how they were able to get into a good arts program and law school.”
Wow, can anyone be any more racist that the author of this blog? Talk about generalizing, becoming successful is a product of an individual’s hard work and circumstances, not a by-product of race.
Wow, what the fuck is this, if this is not racism, if this is not saying that whites are inherently superior and more intelligent, wow, this makes me fucking dumbstruck.
And yes, I know what satire is, I am a fan of satiric writings and especially of Augusten Burroughs, but I cannot see any sarcasm or wit behind this whatsoever — satire is built upon ridicule and irony in order to bring a subject to light, but I see this written in a sycophantic way that positively praises the matter instead of deriding it.
If the author really desires to make this satire, then I suggest that it then, yes, BE SATIRE, to a visible extent so that people like me can see that it is satire and not something else, because right now I am not very clear on his or her intentions.
Also, re #168 dopehead
“Can you do a post on how white people love drugs & substance abuse???”
If he or she can also post something about this in good humor as well, perhaps then I will be mollified and change my opinions about the author of this blog.
janice, the whole internet is laughing at what an ass you are
#188? Once you can reply in a more intelligent manner and give me a decent rebuttal, maybe I’ll listen to something you have to say.
When I read this entry, I immediately scanned the comments to see that someone linked “Mortified”. Congrats to Sarah at 99. I recently saw a performance in LA and it was hysterical.
Also, if you like the satire of this blog, pick up P.J. O’Rourke’s early tome, Modern Manners.
This was yet another dead on satirical entry, sullied only by the inappropriate comments of the small minded.
You are sooooooooooo right. We are so lame.
I think you need to do a whole nother blog called:
White People Loved High School!
Then you got it all covered.
The Cure? I think you meant The Smiths! Even the cool kids liked The Cure.
Come on guys, do I have to give you a refresher course?
Cheers,
Lou
http://syndeticfluxion.com/
Drug of choice for White People? Pot & pills. And Merlot.
You guys are too funny.
How about camo? Crackers love the camo! The hate war and the military, but they loves the camo!! They never serve in the armed forces, but they love love love camo!!! Blame The Clash.
But ONLY the 1960’s vintage jungle kind. Not the 1990’s Gulf War desert type or the current Iraq War digital type.
And the 1960’s camo type has to be in shades of green &/or brown. Blue, black, orange, and any other color jungle camo is the exclusive province of non-whites.
Cheers,
Lou
http://syndeticfluxion.com/
Being a WASP who fits into most of these categories; vintage, microbrews, wine, live near water, graduate school, dogs, tea, expensive sandwiches, soccer, recycling… you get the point, I find this item to be off base. I had a great time in high school and so did all my “white friends” and none of us were nerds, jocks maybe, of course we all went to high school with other white people, but not in a major east coast city.
Bill Gates doesn’t count as a white person, nor Steve Jobs.
In reference to an earlier comment, you really have to include The New Yorker, or else you have no clue as to what white people like.
#55 Mixing destroys the very diversity that you claim to “celebrate”.
I’m Jewish and we don’t like mixers, does that make us “racists”? To you I guess so. Funny how some people are on a blog devoted to “race” and how Whites are unique in many regards, but they can’t handle simple facts like only a White male can produce White children.
#178 What is your problem?
A White person cannot be happy to be surrounded by his or her own culture and friends? And not be forced into schools they didn’t freely choose? You like communism, where the right “rules” are enforced.
I don’t know any White person who is happy at non-White schools and you are delusional to claim otherwise. You have nothing to back-up your comments but pure ignorance.
Thank God, in America people don’t have to be forced to live under your narrow viewpoint of about how our society should be engineered. Sorry.
I love your blog.
I love how this website creates discussions that have nothing to do with the topic what-so-goddamn-ever.
You bring up a point not widely ackknowledged: the racial markers of whiteness go much deeper than skin tone or even having money, power and privilege. I will be checking this blog regularly.
http://outofmymindblog.wordpress.com
White people love to talk about themselves.
White people love to reflect about themselves without thinking.
And they love to read about themselves.
And they love reading about other people commenting on reading about themselves.
And they have enough time on their vanilla-hands to write all this truthiness which does not improve or change any condition around us one single bit.
They would never actually leaving their comfortable keyboards and make a real effort and really achieve something unique to them.
White people always wantin’ to ‘make a difference’: Next blog.
The Cure rocks fools. “7 Seconds” is the ultimate musical experience. I dropped some mean ass “Terrapin Station” blotter while listening to “The Forest” one time and I saw G-d. I doubt anyone here can relate, but it needed to be said.
#202 Victor You are right.
It’s funny when crybaby white liberals say stupid things like: “there’s no difference but the color of our skin” etc.
This pretty much proves that there are differences, and diversity that we all are told to acknowledge. Just skin color huh?
Click here: http://www.funmansion.com/pics/albino_african_americans.html
I was a drama geek, and it wasn’t until I met and married a true nerd who was dateless in high school and eventually went on to earn a physics degree that I found out that I was indeed a nerd in high school. Maybe not a science nerd, but still. I almost cried.
Now I’m a crafty nerd, and much better able to accept my nerdiness. http://www.punkinhead.etsy.com
As an African (not African-American or some other fake-ass identity crisis having, kidnapped ,PC, pet name) I lived in a small town and went to high school with one other African sista, two Asian dudes and a Jewish punker – who I still don’t know if they were a guy or girl (this when being a real punker was far from cool for your health as a kid) and the rest were white people.
Some were cool, some were fuck wads, but all were mentally unstable/imbalanced/nuts. And now I got a pretty good handle on who Prozac was invented for.
Thank you for the flashback!
Janice,
The author of this blog doesn’t give a fuck about your opinions of this blog and we’d be just as happy here without you.
199 hit the nail on the head. It is Janice who is the politically correct brainwashed one. Typical idiotic outspoken “liberal”. If she went to a minority highschool she would likely have her ass kicked every day and not know why as she watches MTV and tries to be as PC as possible because thats what the boob tube told her.
Theres nothing more detestable than one like Janice who had the privilege to go to a mostly white highschool who decries people who want that experience as being “racist”.
Another thing White people like: finding a new word & running it into the the ground i.e.: hipster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%28contemporary_subculture%29
A more appropriate title for this blog would be “Stuff Hipster American People Like” or something to that effect…so many of these things do not constitute solely “white people” domain…more like popular culture domain.
And i’m not talking new like brand-spankin but new to them.
~c
You mispelled a word: “gage.” Is this site organized and edited by black people?
White people love to spell words correctly. I know that because I am white.
Re #208 Bob,
Actually, I am Southeast Asian and being a visible minority myself, I did go to a high school that was composed almost entirely of minority groups with less than 20% of the school being Caucasian; the majority of my high school comprised of those who were Southeast Asian, Persian and Indian with a small percentage of First Nations as well.
Just saying, I am not “a white person becoming insulted on the behalf of other minorities trying to be overly PC,” I genuinely feel that this blog is impeding on my rights as a person of Asian descent and as a person as a whole, just the recurrent underlying idea running through all these posts that culture, personal growth, education and grad school is for “whites” only.
But go ahead and flame away at me with personal attacks if you like, because I still believe in my opinions.
Dude! White people are idiots, they’ve been the same throughout history, so let’s leave it at that and all get off the flippin internet and start being less-ritarded. ESPECIALLY ALL THE WHITE FREAKS WHO ARE COMMENTING!!!
I think #14 meant that he was lucky to goto a non-black/latino HS. No white parent is going to be worried if their white kid is enrolled alongside Asians, Indians, Persians: these tend to be smart who produce smart children.
These people don’t tend to cause problems, pick on white kids, score lower on standardized tests, get pregnant at 15, etc. White people who have highschool trauma going to a mostly white or asian HS have nothing to complain about: mostly learning takes places in those halls.
Those that are forced to go to an inner city public school have something to complain about: there is little learning and its mostly just crowd control until they turn 18.
And no grad school isn’t for “whites only”, in fact I should’ve got a side of basmati rice with my grad degree in business there were so many indians in my class. But if you look at useless degrees (humanities grad school), then yes it is mostly clueless whites just living in extended adolescence.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…
AGHHH!!!
Never, ever, ever anywhere, is this thing anything but Satire.
And, once again, the post is dead-on the money. Hilarious. I would like a mention of the motorcycle jacket in here somewhere, and also the Jesus and Mary Chain, which was blasting on my CASSETTE walkman, all through high-school, thank you very much.
Also, a side-entry on “shoe-gaze” might be in order…
agree w/”Lucy” people are taking this way to seriously
very funny, you could add also references to “Welcome to the Dollhouse” as I often use this movie to convey to people what my nerd/social pariah existence was like in elementary-high school. Though since I am bi-racial and was referred to as an “n-word with straight hair” among other things, perhaps this doesn’t quite apply to White people…. 😉
Janice,
I got your back, “Now, relaxxx and take a deeeeep breath; Relaxxx!”
(side note: I have yet to meet a Southeast Asian woman who ain’t FINE as hell.)
I’m just saying! (us ‘so-called minorities gotta stick together’.)
Do remember however that almost everything about white people in this society is ironic and dipped like fondue in satire.
note: BigUps to Augusten Burroughs though!
Well, I suppose mentioning The Cure kind of gives away your age and invalidates your premise. I mean I used to think that liking Elvis put you in that category, not that I’m old enough to remember Elvis when he appeared on on, um, let me think, Jack Paar? No that’s not it. Oh, I know it was Ted Sulliman. My uncle told me. Gosh, I hope you don’t think I’m old enough to remember that. BTO was big with a certain class too, but, as my big, and I mean really big, brother told me about that who was always very cool I think only the really cool kids were into BTO so maybe that doesn’t count.
Let me see, what else have I heard about. Oh heck, I’ll think about it and get back to you. OK?
Dammit, you nailed me once again. And I adored The Cure. Still do, in fact. Did you know they’re on tour?
jeez, this hit home.
I guess since you were the one getting your ass kicked in High school, you hated it.
I didn’t enjoy High-school but I had a blast in college.
[ oh yeah, I forgot- you are anti college or Grad. Sucks to be you]
awesome way to get negative, discriminative comments & tons of racial slurs up on your page.
I this stuff white people like or stuff white people as portrayed in jonathan hughes movies like?
I know that it may not be accurate to write it here, but I just have to mention how I love reading this blog.
How can I exploit the guilt-feelings of the cool, this is what I want to learn about in future episodes…Also, I confess this post ignited a series of contradictory traumatic-nostalgic feelings in me.
Tortured high school memories including The Cure and unrequited-popular-kid love have fueled my YA writing career!
What happened in high school stays with you forever, except when you get an amnesia or brainwash.
#37
amen.
People will point out that they were nerdy in high school often as a way of sneaking in information about how they were into bands that were considered “weird” at the time but “cool” later – underdog + avant garde is a winning combination.
High school does seem to have a way of continuing to serve as a lens for ‘white people’ to interpret their social lives well into adulthood. I’m always surprised by thirtysomethings who bring up high school in conversation, and by all the high school-based shows on American TV. Is it really a particularly white thing or just an American thing?
I was a cool kid, and I never mistreated nerds.
This one misses badly.
#198 You’re really being disingenious. Jews don’t like mixers? Only with regard to religion. Jews are as or more genetically diverse than almost any other group, due to the Diaspora, even including race mixing. You have, of course, heard of Sephardic, Ashkenazi, etc…?
Sure, a DNA test will reveal the “Jew gene,” there’s Tay Sach’s, and there’s the dictate of ‘you’re only Jewish if your mother was Jewish,” but by now, genetically speaking, that’s not worth much.
I carry the Jewish gene. I am not Jewish. My paternal great-grandparents were, but they converted to Christianity to escape persecution. Their children, grandchildren, and great grand children all married goys.
The very dictate that insists on one’s mother being Jewish, in order to carry on the genetic strain, has ironically worked to the benefit of diversifying the Jewish gene pool: Jewish women marrying non-Jewish men throughout the Diaspora, their children being considered fully Jewish.
The Diaspora, and the millions of Jews in the past several centuries converting to other religions for safety’s sake, means that the world is filled with not only with non-Jews walking around with the Jewish gene, but with Jews who do not, and the whole spectrum in between.
Hence, the Jews are one of the most genetically diverse groups of people on the planet.
It’s late in this thread, and I’m horribly off-topic, but I really, really didn’t like your ignorance.
Wow ! I should try that. I never actually had a full conversation with a white person so ya, maybe this works. LoL
The “generically ethnic” card is like kryptonite.
next up: the special olympics!
ohh the wheels are turning churning…
233,
Historically jews didn’t like mixers. Even Tacitus said as much. Over the centuries some mixing obviously happened: look at the Askenazis in eastern europe.
But even to this day an Israeli cannot marry an Arab in Israel, so there is some basis for 198’s comment.
Jews, broadly, are genetically diverse but thats because their main tribes are very different: Ashkenazi, Sephardic & Mizrahi. But within each of these ethic subsets there is probably less genetic diversity than the broader population.
k, obviously I am a bit older then all of you cuz I don’t think the “cure” was even born when I was in high school. So, for my purposes, I was a nerd, the band I listened to and loved that proved I was a nerd was “air supply” and I was in love with the coolest kid in the class who didn’t love me back. I hung out with the photo geeks from the yearbook committee and I LOVED being a nerd…however, I have been unable to travel back to my homeland for any of my reunions so I have missed out on seeing all the cool guys who are now bald, the cheerleaders who are now fat and grey haired, the foot ball players who are now arthritic and walk with canes and I am sure most of my teachers are either dead or in nursing homes…but I still do love to chat about my high school years…walking to school up hill both ways, barefoot in three feet of snow…with no lunch money! My kids love it!
Funk that. I was the king of my high school. all you nerdy white dudes should have done what I did and play football. If you’re a high school football star, you’re pretty much gaurenteed to rule the school.
I used to stuff kids like the writer of this blog into lockers and toilets.
#237
The reality is that the Sephardic Jew in Israel wanting to marry an Arab probably has a lot more in common genetically with that Arab than he or she would with an Ashkenazi Jew.
The only genetic purity going on in the Jewish tradition of marrying another Jew is the passing along of the specific Jew gene.
There is only a facade of a point in 198’s comment; genetically his argument makes very little sense. Restrictions on intermarriage only work on maintaining a small gene pool when they apply to both mother/father and if they operate within the same genetic tribe, locale-specific, as seen in tiny towns of Italy, for example.
Funk that. I was the king of my high school. all you nerdy white dudes should have done what I did and play football. If you’re a high school football star, you’re pretty much gaurenteed to rule the school.
I used to stuff kids like the writer of this blog into lockers and toilets.
I was a legend in high school…haha…losers..
Holy Sh*t, I barely even remember high school, Went to sleep I was a Happily and Freshly Drunken High School Sophomore, Woke Up, I was 40 and Married!
OH NOES! :-p
And if you were #1 in yer High school, that probably means your the Village drunk or something like that right about now. Isn’t that always how it goes. The Fat Ugly chick turns out into a knockout later in life and the Star QB becomes a Butt Pirate and does porn with some barnyard animal…. ROFL
Nice one Jess.
L8R
Janice and Bob should get together. They have nothing in common but they sure have a lot to talk about…
#233 You are being disingenuous too.
It is Jews themselves that tell everyone they are a Minority group!!
Jews are self-segregating people and one can see this everywhere where they are found. They preach diversity, but do not practice it themselves in their few “suburbs” and neighborhoods, nor in Israel They are perhaps the world’s top racists and collectivists.
They have even have a vocabulary word for anyone that is not a jew!! Goyim.
How many other races have that? Jews can’t seem to figure out whether they’re a race or a religion. They’re only a race when it’s convenient for them, and only a religion when it’s convenient for them.
I think Jews are a race, they’d prefer an atheist NY Jew over an Ethiopian rabbi for their daughters. You know it too.
this site is clearly discriminatory towards white rednecks! White rednecks hate almost everything on this site!
GIVE THE REDNECKS SOME LOVE! Let’s see some entries for shotguns, dubya, and lynchings!
this explains why sleeping with white men is a bad idea.
loved this one.
#246 Real Whites detest the things on this website. It’s mostly homosexuals, metrosexuals, brainwashed White hipsters that try to be “cool”, and liberal jews that go for this stuff.
Weasels and douche bags mostly.
Whites today should try to act more like their grandparents generation which wasn’t lost in a fog of BS. Also, every White here was the result of parents that weren’t idiotic race-mixers and Darwinian losers. Duh!!
#3 White people are such fucking losers?
A lot of white people love nostalgia.
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Was that actually Chuck? If so, thanks for coming to Madison. Secondly, the picture for this entry is perfect. Thirdly, this is on its way out. See above.
i actually dont agree with this one i think people who hated high school still have something “off” about them and its not skin color. not your best post. but love everything else
Black people are racist
This one is messed-up. There’s lots of whites that were totally well-adjusted in high school and pretty much every other aspect of their lives, but remains unsatisfied because of other things on the stuff white people like list: raising awareness, environmentalism, hating corporations, etc. They had it made but still find problems.
What a bunch of bullshit! I’m a white guy and was not a nerd in highschool, did not go onto college, and am reasonably successfull, have never seen the Sopranos, the Wire, or any of the other shows mentioned.
High school, didn’t suck, for me anyway. Most people were able to transcend all the clique bullshit and was not uncommon at all to find nerds, stoners and athletes sitting together at lunch, or anywhere really.
Then I went to a private college in the middle of nowhere and got the shock of my life – sometimes people actually care what your dad does for a living. That’s not just something that happens in John Hughes movies. Fucking prep school kids.
Anyway. Then there’s junior high. Anyway, let’s just blame that nightmare on hormones and leave it at that.
Oh, and I don’t get the thing about liking The Cure. Didn’t everyone like The Cure in high school? I can’t recall a time when someone would have been made fun of for liking them at my school. Morrissey maybe :), but not the Cure.
I love the fact that I actually know the people in the picture.
Judging from the hits I’m getting you High School types also like
http://stufffilmcriticslike.wordpress.com/
More and more it seems to me that this is about “what college white students and white people who have been out of college for up to seven years from urban areas such as boston, new york, chicago and LA like.” Needless to say, my nerdiness in high school got me into my arts program in a great school just outside of boston.
oh yea.
one time i was raped
Yup, guilty as charged. But hey, I’m in grad school now.
High school/
is cool/
if you act a fool/
and clown your teachers/
all day./
But if you’re there to learn/
my main concern/
is you’ll waste brain cells away./
Cause what schools teach/
just like what churches preach/
is outdated and unrelated/
to the youth who need truth/
I’m miseducated and proof/
4 years of being intellectually sedated/
and non-college fated./
this post just doesn’t measure up to the other posts. it’s incorrect. cool and successful white people are typically cool and successful their whole lives. you’re not taking into account white kids at private schools, driven handsome/beautiful kids, , athletes, socialites. yes their are nerds, but nerds usually suck their whole lives regardless of their financial situations.
laddies,
welcome to America.
In my junior year, my English teacher and the band teacher were charged with selling narcotics to an undercover policeman. In my sophomore year, the principal was fired on “morals” charges, and the rumor was that “young boys” were involved. My ex-boyfriend was killed when he tried to out run the cops, smashing up his Corvette. His passenger survived because he told the guy to put on his seat belt before the crash. Out of a class of over 1000 students, only about 400 graduated. Yeah, Fonzie, those were happy days for sure.
To the person who wrote this:
“It seems like every entry revolves around the goal of obtaining the trust of white people. Why? What will be accomplished by gaining their trust? Power? Love? Respect? I never knew that non-whites were such a needy bunch.”
People like you shouldn’t read humour sites. They will confuse you. I remember how I was slightly disturbed by my first MAD magazine — when I was seven.
Because the thing, THE THING, Anonymous, is of course, you wouldn’t need to win a white person’s trust. It’s a joke.
It’s a recurring comic device that gives the reader a reason for reading and imbues the text with an ‘authentic’ (and you know White people LOVE that shit) anthropological edge.
You tool.
Yeah, you’re right. Most white people have gone to “good arts program and law school”…
What asshole started this blog anyway?
Doing some projecting, are we?
Love the improv photo! So many embarassing memories. I agree with a commenter above that many white people go through their 20s and beyond with an understanding of their social lives that was formed in high school.
High school was fun.
pegged. my high school was like the movie “saved”….wow
I can laugh about this because I just blogged about doing a happy pee dance when I got my Cure tickets.
I’m also very white.
#269 What high school was that? What a story.
You know what? I think I love reading the comments almost as much as I love reading the posts; I totally crack up when I read how pissed off people get about some of this stuff. Oh, please, ever hear of silly little things like satire, sarcasm, humor, analogy…oh, yeah, right, those are more things only we white people like, right? Please, please, please, stop taking yourselves so seriously!
High School was a “hoop”. Nothing more.
I didn’t either love or hate high school, because it didn’t have any kind of intrinsic quality to it. It just WAS, and like a fever or a certain February, you got through it one way or another. How you did this probably depended on where you were living and what you looked like and how much money you had.
My answers to those: Southern Cal, white female, not much. I had to work, so I couldn’t do the things the richer kids did, like snort coke or stay out all night; and I was responsible for younger kids, so the same rules applied again. But it was fun — despite the fact that living in L.A. meant even the cool people (like the we-don’t-fit-anywhere-else drama class kids) thought it entirely possible to hop over the Hollywood and get famous.
I didn’t hate high school. Hating that would be like hating a younger sibling, and not a very smart one. Besides, if you know teenagers you know how sweet they are, and it’s hard to look back at yourself through that lens and hate anything about who you were or what you did.
I wish I’d taken more science classes. I’m sorry I didn’t stay in touch with the weirder kids; even the drug dealers were going places, I could see that. I am happy I graduated when I did, because in those days you could basically be a brain damaged inert tree sloth and still get into UCLA.
High school’s fine when you’re there. It’s better when you’re out, though.
I love that photo!
oh, yea. I’m a proud nerd. 🙂 There’s nothing at all wrong with it. If it weren’t for a nerd here, a nerd there………..would we have the internet??? How about computers???? Something to think about! 😀
I think it’s a little sad that this blog is even in existance, and (from the pics they have in flickr) they may even be ‘white’ themselves. It is a sad sad thing. We should have pride in our race, and in our country as a whole. There are so many things to laugh at, to have fun with, to enjoy without bringing the color of our skin into it.
I imagine if you were to look deeply into your humor you’d find something other than race (and your OWN no doubt) to mock or belittle. It only encourages others to scoop down to the very same level.
The last time I looked we were in 2008. Isn’t it time we moved past this stereotype of caring so little about our heritage, our race? You could be blogging something worth saving for your children & your children’s children to read. Think about it……….do you really want THIS to be your legacy?
Thats not true not all white people are nerds in high school… im in high school now and all i like to do is get blazed (high) and take pictures! O yea and munch the f*ck out when i get the munchies.
Well this explains the reality show “High School Reunion.”
#187,
Bit late here, but I think the quote you posted–“Virtually every white person you meet was a nerd in a high school-it is how they were able to get into a good arts program and law school”–I believe the key word here is “nerd” and not “white.” It was not their whiteness that got them into a good arts program and/or law school, but their nerdiness.
To this I can attest, although I am half-white and was indifferent about high school.
SOOOOO may people missing the self-depricating sarcasm here. Research before you flame. Go look at the pics for goodness sake!
I was a skateboarder in high school. I picked on some nerds and hung out with some cool kids. I also hung out with some nerds. Ur just making up too many specifications, although I get the generalization is that you either had a good time in high school “cool kids” or a bad time “nerds.” I guess this mentality still prevails and makes people bitter. The cool kids feel empowered because they feel they were born cool, the nerds who go on to be professionals feel like they made themselves cool.
Being born cool always seems to have the upper hand dont it?
I bet that racist white guy on Msnbc Tucker carlson was a nerd ,he and his gay friend did the most nauseating dance at the end of his show*Cabbge patch,white peoples'”soul dance etc.I bet he was beaten everyday in high school,wonder why he was voted off “dancing with the stars first?Typical caucasian faux soul brother who votes Republican as most whites do no matter how mush they attempt to destroy America.That along with most white folk behaviors are friggin’sickening,Have a white Day to all that this applys to!!!
Have you ever smelled a white persons hair after it got wet ,sickening!white women try to imitate black women features(college lip,Bally and implant produced butts to atract black men,so do 1 inch sexually challenged white guys who pop viagra like m & m’s and pretend they are”gifted”.Lets keep it real dudes.You all were nerds and still are.DUH!!!!I can just hear you chanting for the next presidential washout..GO Mccain!!!!How old is he 95yrs?Is he the best Neo-cons have to Offer?I forgot he gets a pass ,he’s white!!!no wonder 95% of in last two stolen elections blacks didnt vote for Bush(Maybe they knew something whites didnt?)He has done a “groovy job”.
what if you liked Rammstein in high school?
oh, and #180, the writer of this blog is not a she, his name is Christian Lander.
apparently he’s obsessed with food and eating.
I just found my 1972 high school yearbook in an old trunk. It was a revelation, I do not remember any black kids being in my class and yet the pages were full of black kids. What does this mean?
ummm i really enjoyed high school..and i wasn’t a nerd
These are getting weaker and weaker. 😦 They’re only funny if they apply to a majority, or at least a good cross-section of white people.
Cure-listening nerds are a very very narrow subset of white people. What’s even worse is that the All-American blonde-cheerleadedr-and-quarterback-highschool stereotype is generally seen as the “quintessential white experience” so you’re basically directly contradicting the premise of this blog. Thus the entry just comes off as trying-too-hard.
Either retitle the blog to more closely apply to the demographic you’re aiming at, or try to find better subjects.
Not to be one of those idiots that actually takes these posts seriously and gets all e-mad, but you may want to watch yourself when you say something like “Virtually every white person you meet was a nerd in a high school-it it is how they were able to get into a good arts program and law school.” If I were a serious guy, I might say something like “Oh, so every white person was a nerd? So that means all the dumbasses are blacks and puerto ricans? etc. etc.” Anyway, I totally get what you’re saying with this post and with your blog in general–its obvious that you’re mostly talking about the very specific demographic of white people that are urbane and over-educated–and I think any idiot could figure this out after reading 2 or 3 posts, but you may want to watch yourself for those SERIOUS idiots who can’t figure it out and may want to get all up in your face for saying “Well, the essence of being white is being real smart and real trendy,” because they might think that you’re subconsciously saying/thinking the opposite for other races.
O, shut up Carl. The statistics in our society don’t lie. Whites consciously think what you fear because the stats back the Whites up.
woah, made that comment before reading 187, wooooof get a goddamed sense of humor lady. Again, had you read more than 2 or 3 posts, you’d realize that the blogger in question is almost solely limiting his discussion of white people to the “sophisticated, highly educated, west village NYC” type of white people, and I guess only calls this a blog about “White people” in general for comedic effect (i.e., the phrase “white people,” just has a funny ring to it; if you changed each instance of “white people” to “hipsters,” guaranteed the blogs would be less funny and you’d just feel like the blogger was a scornful dick rather than a witty, impartial, maybe even “scientific” commentator.
The Cure reference was kinda funny but overall a pretty lame post. I mean, who doesn’t have bad high school memories?
fuck high school i had bad times too. guess im white
There’s an interesting episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show in which a man claims that it’s only possible for TWO people per class to be happy in high school. Team captains and head cheerleaders.
That’s it. One boy and one girl per year are happy.
This creates tension between Mary and Rhoda because Mary WAS a head cheerleader, and Rhoda lords it over her how she led an undeserved charmed life, or something to that effect.
I have to admit it rings true, because when I see an old high school pic of a celebrity and it seems like he or she was popular, I think “what an asshole.” I can’t help it. (Matthew McConaughey springs to mind.)
Now George Clooney, who has the dorkiest yearbook photo ever, there’s a guy I can get behind**.
(**or in front of, whichever he prefers.)
Look here…
This site is mediocre at best. It is mildly entertaining. Half of the items on this list are garbage. The effort and thought put into this list is pretty embarrassing.
if you want some actual funny entertainment/blog/writing/insightful/great stuff
http://www.garbarrassing.com
go for it.
How about Violent Femmes or They Might Be Giants … or other whiter than white bands?
I also think “tribal tattoos” for men …
This blog is about social class not race.
This blog is racist. If it were written by a white person talking about another race then it would be completely unacceptable. Funny how whites are pinned as being so racist when all the other races are so scared of being judged by whites that they retaliate with irrelevant and false stereotypes.
Well nerd if the site is anti-White racism I reckon I can stand the heat. But the purpose is to skewer a particular social group not Whites in general.
I must say that the blog is unfortunately named as the name itself leads to confusion. On the other hand maybe the blogger does think all Whites are like the group lampooned but he seems too perceptive to actually think that.
In any event it’s an amusing site.
I discovered the Cure at the end of high school, they are like my favourite band. It was no secret that I spent a lot of time on computers
I was friends with pretty much every kind of person you could find.
Wow – that definitely reminds me of myself, and practically everyone I know. Even the kids who I very clearly remember as being “cool” in high school, now try to say how very uncool they were and how hideous high school was. I guess it just goes to show you how none of us were really all that cool at all.
And yea, I totally admit to liking the Cure. Oy.
In order to be authentically white you must claim that you were beat up by black bullies in high school.
HIGHschool was just that…HIGH. A good buddy of mine lost the end of his thumb in metal shop, the grinder had teeth that day…..at the time we were pretty high….I was standing right next to him when it happened…and as HIGHschool kids do ….we laughed….i mentioned “that shit’s goona hurt tomorrow”….he agreed. !!!. 27 years later we found eachother on some reunion school site. One of the first things I asked him was how long is his thumb………..He laughed and said they sewed it back on in 1978……..He lost the rest of it college……..THAT means college is dangerous….dont forget that…….forget what…..
pot is good….college is bad
First day looking at the site. I see the only thing serious here are the angry upset replies posted by individuals who don’t see the satire.
When i look at my high school class graduation picture I see myself amongst men I was sexually drawn to in some degree or another, There I stand with a sullen, unhappy, rather bored expression on my young mug. Needless to say there was little freedom to actually say what I would have liked from these guys. I wasn’t after effiminate love- I wanted sex and to comfortably be myself. Never happened. I wish it had. Anyway that’s a long time ago.
Van Halen, Led Zepp, AC/DC, sneaking out the parents vodka and skippin school, porkin the girls and just generally sleeping through school was the norm in 82. What happened to the good old days? Oh, and Mooshead beer with the fake ID. Thems was the days.
We had one known fag at our HS but we didn’t even know what fags were so we just thought he was a pussy and left him alone.
Wow. I thought this was about high school memories.
Must confess that I’m from a small town in Ohio, and once when I was a senior, a black man came in to talk to one of our clubs. I think most of us had never seen a black man before, so I don’t remember what he talked about, except a joke that he had integrated the town when he was stopped in his car between the the only 2 red lights. Now that I think about it, it probably wasn’t a joke.
I loved/hated high school. Loved that I had friends that were (I’m about to date myself) bookworms, greasers, heads, gay (even tho I didn’t know it), with a cheerleader sprinkled in here and there. Made it great for reunions, but hell on Fri. and Sat. nights because I wasn’t in a clique.
72. Just missed hippies and protests… the “4 dead in OHIO” Kent State shootings happened 10 miles from my house during my senior year. Had friends with sibs killed in Viet Nam.
Will tell you this…. sloe gin and thin ice don’t mix!
I hated high school–and The Cure. But I loved girls who loved the Cure, especially when I went to college where more of such girls were to be found.
That past tense “hated” does not suggest that the condition if hating has concluded, rather that I have not thought about the Cure for almost two decades until reading this.
Now, New Order would be something else.
“this site is clearly discriminatory towards white rednecks! White rednecks hate almost everything on this site!”
Ha ha, yeah this Blog is about affluent white liberals who vote Democratic.
When I attended high school, it was all white. Only a few were considered nerds. We had surfers, cowboys, jocks and nerds. I was a cowboy. We had an actual rodeo operated by our FFA, raised our own stock on an 80 acre pasture the school owned. That was 1961 to 1965. No bad memories. It was a good school, good education, good people. It was ruined with de-segregation. Nothing but trouble after that, crime, drug users, punks, criminals.
I feel sorry for white people who didn’t get the opportunity to attend an all white school.
Good grief you idiots. It’s comedy… it’s satire. Quit your complaining. Sheesh!
Love the site!!!!!!!!!!!
so, you want others to run in lust for white people! what are you trying to do with this blog exaclty?
I have the fondest memories of Stuyvesant h.s. — most people I know love it more than college.
I’ve long thought that real life is the revenge of the nerds. Popularity in high school doesn’t get you into law school.
stuff white people like: making fun of white people via safe cultural stereotypes. you’re all being amused by a tamer cultural equivalent of Dave Chappelle that isn’t half as funny.
#110
Seriously though, if you were an aspie in any school setting, your life was literally shit.
I’ll say this–the most underrated white people in high school will come to the class reunions. But some of the top names who are called nerds stay away. They don’t want to be embarrassed. They might be CEO of a large corporation and don’t want to come at all. They’re too caught up in their high level 2008 level of success that looking back 20 to 25 years to high school is faceless.
I was not aware that enough Black people graduate for them to take part in conversations about high scholl memories.
“Satire (n.) – An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author’s enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are ‘endowed by their Creator’ with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a sour-spirited knave, and his every victim’s outcry for co defendants evokes a national assent.” [Ambrose Bierce]
Some of the white people are getting defensive “hey this isn’t funny’. So it seems that you are hitting home.
i went to a small rural high school, was in the drama club and president of french club, dated the “male athlete of the year” was a massive stoner, who took almost all a.p. classes and yet barely showed up enough to graduate. my high school existence is one big conflicting blur, so i never thought i was that popular until years later when i got a myspace account. maybe if i had known all these people who say i am awesome now thought it in high school, i would have actually gone and maybe even tried and perhaps applied for college. the memories i do have of high school are pretty great though. at least better than most of the whiteys i know, which was about 98% of the school.
“Jews end up moving to white areas.” This is interesting since I would say 99% of Jews are white. And “hooked nose” is more characteristically Italian, while “big nose” is the stereotypical insult for Jews.
Here’s an idea, read a book and stop turning blogs that are just for fun into opportunities to expliot your ignorant hate.
If I had testicles, that picture would make them retreat to my throat.
So chilling.
Oh just the pin? I wore the shirt!!! lol
I was going to an inner city school of mostly African American and Philipino kids… Dad moved us out to a true all white all red-neck “hick-town” in the middle of my Sophmore year!!!
Major culture shock, as we moved from a “ritzy” part of town.
It took me a while to fit in… but I loved high school, although I nearly flunked out, as I was more interested in being the “class-clown”.
I hated being in an Ultra-White school, but eventually just rolled with it.
I have no sympathy for those that say how they hated High School… you can always find a friend or two who are as “f”‘d up as yourself!!!
“Prison”
“Fascist Prison”
“Intellectual Wasteland”
“Purgatory”
Those are ones I’ve used, anyway.
White people love to wear “D.A.R.E” shirts.
No! Most of them drop out.
Dude, I loved High School!!! It was awesome! Probably some of the best memories I’ve had. Even the bad ones are awesome–they just make me laugh harder!
After reading about all the teachers who have sex with students on http://detentionslip.org how can anyone complain about high school nowadays?
I actually loved high school… was a cheerleader and highly involved with lots of friends. Now that I’m older I see how immature it was, but I still loved it.
Im so glad I found this blog, so much cutting edge, ahead of its time stuff on here. Nothng wrong with cheerleaders they make the world go round…………
What Jew created this site?
Like, blacks and hispanics and Jews, are whites (i.e. European Americans) allowed to organize to advance their political and cultural interests? If not, this site is not pro-white, but just another dead-end distraction meant to divert our energy and resources.
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.”
Early to mid 90s…everyone (including me) wore those “D.A.R.E.” shirts
….and then peer pressure came in 10 years later
Have spent some time thinking about what’s so funny about this blog. My provisional answer is that it has something to do with identifying stuff that uniquely applies to white people. Thus, suggestion that this blog is about “hipsters” seems off the mark (See posts on dinner parties and on performance clothing), as does the latter suggestion that the blog is about “WASPs/yuppies/artsy fartsy” people (see posts on Music Piracy, Hating Corporations, Knowing What’s Best for Poor People). For example, life in trailer parks is ruled out b/c lots of minorities live in trailer parks (of course, lots of them don’t as well). On the other hand, performance clothing is in b/c it is disproportionately consumed by white people. The idea is to speculate about what activities, beliefs, or products are done/held/owned by white people in greater proportion than by groups.
Gosh, I just got beaten up a lot in high school. One time, after having my nose broken for the second time that year, the vice-principal called me into his office and wanted to know why these things always happen to me. When I left school that day I decided to drive my car over an embankment and into the river than have to go back to school. At least I got a week in the hospital out of it. Funny thing is, as I was rolling down the hill, for what I thought were the last few seconds of my life, I was listening to — you guessed it — the Cure.
Thanks for the memories.
parade of human carnage
I wasn’t cool enough to get drugs in high school and believe me, I tried. Everyone thought I was a narc, even without a dare shirt
I am laughing so hard right now. tee hee.
that’s something else white people like….to make fun of anything and everyone (but only when they are with their very close “white friends”) we have to remain PC ya know.
hahahahahahha.
Hey don’t forget there are white people everywhere else in the world too! I don’t know anyone who says they hated high school that’s definately an American thing. Maybe it’s just the entertainment industry that reinforced your hate of high school, it couldn’t have been bad for 90% of people?!
gosh!
This is a JOKE you guys. This website is meant to be funny/!Take it easy….
White people love blogs, but more than blogs they also love criticizing other peoples blogs. More than criticizing other people’s blogs … they LOVE getting defensive about their whiteness. “White people aren’t like that! What about …”
Yup pretty much everyone at my college (Gonzaga U) always complained about how much they hated high school…..all I could think was…damn you guys must’ve been nerds….cus high school kicked ass for me.
~G
I’m white and I hated high school when I was there. Now that I look back though, ……… I hate it even more.
lol the darkies are probably more prone to schizophrenia than i was also I have no idea what the actual post means im just going with the title
why are you on this site if you’re obviously racist against white people? Dude, find something else to do with your time, like drinking an orange soda or something.
Does the kind of Stuff White People Like include things like
Truth, Equality, and Justice?
http://www.survival-international.org
I like cheese
“The years I wish I were on fast forward” … no wait, that’s all of childhood.
People still think I’m a narc. I can’t even buy pot at my college reunions. That’s the only reason I’ve never developed a wicked addiction, gone to rehab with celebrities, and come out of it all with a charasmitic down to earth humanism and ability to talk openly with strangers about really personal topics. Dammit.
You, a bit to far
And you, loosen up
“Preppy Haven”
“WASP Hive”
“White Supremacy” (the non-racist kind)
Yeah, I’m going to a prep school
It’s funny, 90% of the kids I’ve seen where them do, or even supply, drugs.
nice
It’s not that, it’s that white people are the ones that get picked on for reasons x, y, and z
The point of this website is to point out what hipsters are like. Which is why, in some post, the talk a bit about the “wrong” kind of white people.
If you want to get a favor from a white person, you need a white friend for reason X, or if you want to get into a serious relationship with one. But really, it’s just satire.
Not if you go to an all white school that are full of nothing but preps and people who bitch about how small and undiverse (I know its not a real word) the school is.
Holy shit, either We have the same name or I’m a dumbass for not realizing I posted this earlier.
Pot isn’t chemically addictive, FYI.
Just because Science and Stuyvesant are good schools doesn’t mean that people loved their years there. In fact, at Science if you were a nerdy over-achiever in the honors society, you’d probably get called on it. High school is a universally awkward time for folks. For further evidence (albeit highly exaggerated), one need look no further than Superbad. Some people reach the pinnacle of their social acceptance in high school (glory days, if you will), but for most people, it would seem that high school was either painful for whatever reason, examples of which can be found in the text of this post.
i need to clear this up, i am assuming that by “white people” you mean yuppies.
the said yuppies loved high school, why? becase it gives them
1.) funny (and by that i mean stupid) ancedotes,
2.) becase as you, said they can brag in the “cool crowd”‘s little over-makeuped faces.
3.) becase they had a significant other (and by that i mean a fellow band geek) whom supported them (and by that i maen mubbled “yup, yup, sure.” )
4.)they have to be optimistic towards everthing in life, so they are not going to SAY how horriable it was, unless they can shrilly giggle about.
i am homeschooled and i have none of these problems.
me and my friend go to musums, play pranks, and living on a collage campus, hang with collage kids.
(no, we are not dowdy christians, who think a prank is baking a cake with misspelled wordsand wear long jean skirts with sneakers.)
we are not average kids (well, teenagers, but being a minor, i am still a “kid”) and we are smarter than the average person by 40 or 50 points. we don’t drink coffie, don’t intend on going to high school, we write blogs by the like of yours, have together (between a group of 4 people) 473 books, write skits and plays that are to be saved for a later date, look like we came from teen vouge,love simpsons, i have 3 boyfriends, are in a band, go to the opera, know three langages, think south park is stupid, and so what if we want to see the world, your going to make fun of us?!?!
i could go on for hours about how stupid other culters are, and some white people are very inept and putting poison in their faces to look younger, quote new yorker, and payin 78,000 dollers for a dress, 1,000 on a golden sunday, 9.69 dollors for a cup of coffie that tastes the same as the 80 cent stuff at the gas n’ go down the street, but canvas toats when they go grocrey shopping, but drink thousands of bottled water’s every month!
don’t even get me started about the kids who are my age, it makes me sick! just look at myspace abunch of washed up losers, faking to be emo or rich and populour!
there are two sides of a story, look at both.
and what is so great, about canada anyways?
So every white person was a nerd in band, drama, or on student council in high school? Wow, I didn’t realize that. So all of the kids on the swim, track, etc. teams were actually light-skinned blacks? Thanks for clearing that up!
Wasn’t jump roping also somehow involved with DARE marketing?
yeah for Bronx Science!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (white kid)
The Violent Femmes is the quickest way to get a group of white people at 80’s night to immediately regress.
I poop my pants
This is officially turning into a meme.
Why are you so interested in figuring what we like and how you can make fun of us for it? Im almost positive that black people like alot of these too. Why cant we look at what we like that is the same? My black friend loves jags and rims, so I embrace it and tell her how neat they are. At the same time she tries to embrace the fact that my dog is a person and that zepplin isnt all that bad. I think our generation…”Y” wont have these lists, I dont think we will care enough to…people are people
To Stevie: What does this have to do with white people and black people? The author of this blog, as far as I know, is not in any way trying to distinguish between the two. Rather, he is trying to make fun of educated, liberal white people, a social category he belongs to himself.
I’m half-white, and I have some bad memories of high school, but some very good ones as well. Maybe I’m not white enough.
I enjoyed high school, even if I was forcibly moved halfway across the country just before my senior year. I still have many of those friends 30 years later.
I got along with everyone, being in a number of different organizations during my time there. I wrote for one school paper, played in the orchestra, played JV baseball, was in the astronomy club and the young Republicans, and played in a garage band my senior year.
White folks really don’t like rims. They’re just afraid of not looking cool in some demographics.
White people are all losers.. but why do so many people goto white peoples pages to read about white people and how to get them to like you and move to white countries and move to white neighborhoods? Because we are losers, ah yes.
This is a great stereotype to endow so white people can be negatively stereotyped like all other ethnicities to fit in? I guess?
Why are people actually responding to these posts? I just found them today. I WILL BUY THIS BOOK IN JULY! I HAVE NEVER ANTICIPATED A BOOK RELEASE IN MY LIFE BUT I WILL WAIT IN LINE FOR THIS BOOK! WHOEVER YOU ARE YOU ARE A GENIUS (AND I JUST CORRECTED SOME E-GRAMMER (AND I AM INDEED VERY WHITE)).
GRAMMAR – YES I CAUGHT MYSELF DOES THAT MEAN I AM NO LONGER WHITE!?
No of course not it just makes me doubly white.
I was trying to sell my car to a Mexican guy and I found myself jealous of his ethnicity. I like who I am in general, but you know what we whities lack? Community…
Yeah, and you’re and engineer.
Nice thought, Michael, maybe it’s time to lay off the dope.
Not hipsters or yuppies, but a perfect description of liberal white intellectuals (wanna-be intellectuals?). Seems like they must be in their 30s or so, because of the dated references.
Michael, you are like the police for extraneous sensitivity! I appreciate each of your reprimands, as I’ve been trying to figure out 1)How JoeSchmo found out that Teddy Hefner liked orange soda, and 2) why Dillion asks so many questions which at first appear to be statements. He’s certainly a tricky dick with all of those question marks popping up on unsuspecting readers.
You had more facial hair than the other boys your grade. Possibly because you repeated a few grades.
Is this a photo of the high school improv tournament at the national comedy theater in san diego?
At Least You Didnt Get Raped…
I was a nerd in HS, and I hated The Cure! So what of it?
Don’t you think these posts are hilarious? Ooops I responded to your post. Silly me.
Nothing of it. I liked the cure and I was a complete nobody. I find, in my humble opinion, that people who loved HS are still “in” high school. They never had to actually develop a personality. So good for you for being a nerd and being yourself. That’s cool.
I did improv in high school.
I absolutely loved my high school. However, I’m Mexican. Does that means the opposite is true, i.e., non-whites have good memories of high school?
Just kidding XD
If anyone brings up high school while we’re talking, I will end the conversation right then and there with a trip to the bathroom
Hell, everyone can have bad memories of high school.
I was a nerd…but nerds ran my school. Therefore, my memories of high school ain’t so bad. HELP!
Yes, I suffered. Why do I have to relive it by talking about it?
Fantastic site…I will be adding my two cents in from time to time about each topic. Cool, a new wasting-time project!
I have a 20 year reunion coming up next week and I have been using this “bad memories of high school” technique for a few months now. I works like a charm. Excellent for getting in good with the women who have become attractive. I am White but I have great high school memories, I believe I am one of the “different” kinds of white peopl. haha
I was able to float around from clique to clique with a fair amount of ease. A lot of people knew me and I was friendly with just about everybody. I was into breakdancing and d.j. ing house parties with my friend Hector. It’s was a good multi-cultural vibe. But most of the White people are as you describe. You are generally right on target.
You can even implant false memories in many White people because of this obession with fostering an alleged negative high school experience.
but i really was a huge geek in high school. i went to a school where the ethnic majority was african-american and it was not cool to be white, puerto rican or asian. but especially white and asian.
Just a little correction:
In the first sentence of the second paragraph, you used a hyphen where you should have used a em-dash. 🙂
(And yes, I am white).
ha ha ha! no one uses an em-dash on purpose. the only reason you ever see them is because ms office puts them in for you.
uh oh. I think you went to school with my wife. was it a small public school in NYC?
Not true! We’re pretty obsessed with the proper dashes around these parts (and we don’t use MS Word). Read “The Mac/PC is Not a Typewriter” by Robin Williams. Disclaimer: I am white.
I was home-schooled, rendering me totally invulnerable to this method of white-people ingratiation (both dashes used correctly…). What would someone do in that situation? Generally, when people bring up the subject of high school, I smile awkwardly and try to push right into college binge-drinking: a subject of which I am quite well-versed.
Equally white…I can’t believe no one said anything about the double it following said dash…
school-it it
I noticed the first time I read through it. Now I have read that same portion so many times seeing if it makes sense that it is almost sounding right…yikes.
I hated high school- but for totally different reasons!
The majority of kids at my first high school were drug addicts and I ran with a small crowd, which wasn’t too bad, and my school was too small for the whole “popular/ geek” cliche. Then, in my second high school, the majority of kids were stupid. Like, really really dumb. Read “Omigad! We should TOTALLY go to Le Chateau and pick up some SEXY outfits for the party on Saturday cause Ben’s gunnu be there and he’s SOO hot” or “Did you hear about 9/11? Yeah, India’s getting pretty dangerous with all those terrorizers”.
So I wasn’t a geek, but I wasn’t popular. I guess I ain’t the stereotypical white person?
This is my first time reading this blog and I like it’s vibe, but I don’t really get it this one little part.
I thought this was stuff white people like. How am i supposed to “insert (an) ethnicity” if I’m white. I suppose it’s more like stuff liberal college students like.
In reality, I’m actually not a whitey, but a lot of these entries do encompass me, as far as sweeping generalizations go. The name seems a little inaccurate, but overall I can I dig it? Sure, like an archaeologist.
Go Bears!
It’s true…the only people who openly liked the Cure at my high school wear combat boots, long black jackets and eyeliner (guys too) and they were not cool. Even the smart kids who had AP classes and were on the newspaper and yearbook staff made fun of those guys.
http://twowhiteboys.com/2008/
im brown does that mean anything?¿
My high school was in a VERY small town–49 in our graduating class–and I came from a suburb of the nearest “big city” so I never fit in. I wore bangs and drank coffee and I didn’t think it was any big deal, but now I think I understand why they thought I was so weird. And I had the audacity to show up at a basketball game wearing jeans! I was sent home (no kidding) because the girls were supposed to wear skirts or dresses, as they were in school (this was a public school!) because they were concerned about too-tight jeans–never mind that the boys could see up your skirt as you climbed up the bleachers. Our class had the dubious distinction of being the class with the highest dropout rate in the school. Strangest fact of all: we were supposed to have a dance that was themed “Woodstock” but the administration shot that idea down because of the sex and drugs at Woodstock but they allowed a band named “China White” to play.
Hey, I went to high school with the lead singer from China White! Our High School had so many sub-groups that anybody could be seen as cool to somebody.
High school a time we all would love to forget.
http://www.buyrefurbtoday.com/overstockindex.html
The Puerto Rican as I am. I only hung out with White People.
Thank you,
Frank
See who else has bad memories of high school at http://detentionslip.org. It’s got all the crazy stories about teachers, students, and principals getting in trouble for dumb things.
Love the part about “The Cure.” I’m laughing…
http://death-sentences.blogspot.com
I was always the only half-black, half-Chinese kid in…well, anything. Thanks, America.
The article was funny and spot on. Then again, it applies mostly to the classical idea of high school as portrayed in movies incessantly. And yes, most screenwriters were nerds in H.S. This story wouldn’t apply to prep schools, magnet art schools or any school where athletics isn’t super-emphasized. In my case, I went to an all-boys military school, at times cool, at times boring and with no women. Also, simply because you didn’t play in the football team didn’t mean you were an absolute loser. There are plenty of people who are smart and cool, and yes, athletic.
But again, even if their H.S. experience wasn’t terrible, most people will claim it was, it’s part of their existentialism.
http://www.poeticmotherlover.com
You should remember to capitalize your complaints and rants if you are to be taken seriously.
The only bad memories I ahve are when I was applying for a job in highschool. Go http://www.garbarrassing.com and check out blog number 13 to see what I think about applying for jobs. IT SUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKS
I’ll be honest – I’m just trying to publicize my blog –
http://www.levantinesummer.blogspot.com
Fortunately, it is about nonprofits, traveling/studying abroad, and other white-people oriented things, so maybe it will be relevant.
Re: Troy
It’s always fun to scroll through the posts by readers of Stuff White People Like and play “Spot the Racist Whitey.” TAG!
And my personal favorite thing about this blog? White people admitting, albeit in anonymous cyber land, “Yes, I’m white.”
Join the rest of the human race you’ve labeled and objectified.
Re: Sophie
You don’t have much of a life do you?
My boyfriend is half black and half chinese, he felt the same way!
Neither do you
Oh boy, a cat fight. Come on girls, can’t we all get along?
Am I
too late in the game ? Why are people insuling each other. That is so white.
“Join the rest of the human race you’ve labeled and objectified.”
It’s 2008, there are very few white people to blame for those things. You racist hooker.
In high school, my friends use to tease this girl about bigfoot because she had this irrational fear. Looks like it wasn’t so irrational after all. Apparently big foot is real! Check out this news article at http://www.garbarrassing.com (click on the garbarrassment of the day, august 15, near the top of the page).
Texas schools let teachers carry guns now!!
Found it on http://detentionslip.org
For the white people that want to learn what they didn’t teach you in High School 😉
White People Love Free Sexual Education!
Come see what everyone is talking about:
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Did you even graduate from s-c-h-o-o-l ?
I have a great memory of highschool. When I got highhhh. Speaking of getting high, the lead actor (Seth Rogen) of knocked up and pineapple express is retarded. Read what he did on the daily show here:
http://www.garbarrassing.com (scroll down to August, 17 2008)
I feel like white people LOVE race walking as well. Saw no blacks or asians doing it in the olympics. You should add that to the list of stuff white people like. I also found a hilarious article about race walking at http://www.garbarrassing.com . It’s blog #14 (should see it near the top of the page just scroll down a little bit. Check it out.
I had a memory of high school where three black guys fucked me in my ass…pretty garbarr memory. They did it because I got wayy too offended and really enjoyed it…For the record…White people LOVE BOXING as well. I found this hilarious boxing video and I bet you anything that any white person who watches this (probably other races as well) would enjoy this video! Especially the woman’s reaction afterwards.
Check it out:
http://www.garbarrassing.com/Comment/Videos/0019.php
garbarrassing.com is a retarded website being promoted in the comments by retarded people. White people aren’t fans of non-retarded people acting retarded.
Well, white people do go to high school….
well, I had a bad time at high school and I like coffee and Asian women…
I am totally white and its embarassing…
I also believe that Santa Claus is Jesus, God has a white beard, and all the awful crap in the world comes from Satan…
will somebody shoot me? — the Jman
I’ve never been to highschool.
o wait im not wite!!11
Fuck high school. Im a college graduate! If you wanna see a hilarious video of the greatest prank ever, click the link below: http://www.garbarrassing.com/Comment/Videos/0020.php
LOL! Oh Charlotte. Proving yet again how much W-people like to get offended.
Hehe, we kid because we love guys… 🙂
Your too much, man
Check out http://detentionslip.org to see who is making memorable moments every day in high school. The website is the leader for crazy stories about students and teachers.
“you can mention how said cool kid is now doing very poorly and that you are excited for the upcoming reunion”
hell yeah! LOL
One time, in highschool, I had sex with the hottest girl there. She became a playboy model. It was great. You wanna read about something hilarious? This white kid I know moved to Vietnam without a job and barely any money. He is blogging about his experiences there and its hilarious. Read them here: http://www.garbarrassing.com/Bill.php
I have to be white here for a second and correct your grammar.
“You’re” is the contraction of you and are whereas “your” is possessive.
yes!
omg i can’t stand it when people can’t even get that right
it is your
and you are (you’re)!
I hate white people that try to be black… disgusting…
You are really plugging this blog. It just does not sound interesting. You should spice it up so it sounds more inviting.
What about cunnalingus? That is a white guy thing.
i hate your name…im black.
your too white for even me man…im black 2.beep grammer.
I hate those who hate!
I don’t like this telling people how to manipulate a friendship with me thing, It would totally work..
i am well aware what the correct grammar is. But its clearly easier to write your than the other one. Cause less letters.
i found a really horrible blog about really boring stuff, u should check it out.
http://www.garbarrassing.com
You obviously haven’t watched much interracial porn on the internet, Josh.
anyone would like if cunnilingus if they got paid enough
im wl awr wht teh crct grmr iz. bt its clrly easr t wrt ur thn teh udr 1. cause ls ltrs
if Americans can’t get their english right, then what about other people in the world (like me) whose first language isn’t english?? It seems the only people left who can speak the Queen’s english are from the old colonies of the british empire (apart from the Queen herself!)
I was cool in high school.
yeah we know they do at least i know they should have enough common since to know that I’m African American and people sometimes think we don’t go i love high school it is awesome
this is hilarious !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rofl
btw i find it quite funny ppl dont even knw the diff btwn your and you’re ….and american esp are the ones mkng tht error…… and yeah im from one of the ‘then’ Br. Colonies lol ……..its true though get your grammar right ….and…spellings too —(with ref. to grammer)
again another spelling mistake ……. its common sense…..!!!! and that word’s spelling is so easy, common sense should sense the difference between since and sense ! the pronounciation are completely different !
Cunnilingus Riiiiice?
Since you went there…”its” should be “it’s,” and the last sentence should read “the pronunciation is completely different.”
I think I’ll try this sometime.
i think its so funny how you are going through here and fixing the spellings and what not. but umm i do believe the word you were trying to type or say is “PRONUNCIATIONS” good job on trying to make people look stupid! if i were you i would find something productive to do with your time…and yes, i know i didnt punctuate or spell certain things right in my comment, but personally i dont give a ****. i have better things to do 🙂
ahhh thank you. someone else who thinks you are wasting your time
If you’re “smarter than the average person by 40 to 50 points” why do you refuse to learn how to spell? Or take a joke? People such as yourself add to the humor of this website. I LOVE IT!
I assume “one-upping” their high school experience with an ACTUAL bad high school experience is a no-no?
http://www.zazzle.com/obamas_nation_shirt-235037218787790516?gl=1darryl
Girls who have bad memories of high school end up on Bridezilla!!!!!
http://andthisismyamerica.com/2008/10/26/bridezillas-is-by-far-the-worst-show-on-television/
Ugh. Do no white people [TM] ever get over high school? If it was indeed the best days of your life, well, you suck for peaking early. Why revisit it? If it was a nightmare, um, why revisit it? If nothing particular happened, why revisit it? Especially in a conversation with me?
/Pet peeve
Certainly American White Folks seem to suffer this, you’d think it was ‘Nam the way they talk about it.
Now me, I went to public school in England and, while I don’t think they were the best days of my life (I mean anyone who likes being a kid more than an adult needs a slap), I don’t recall it being all that bad.
Australian kids/people do it too, sadly. It seriously appears to me that many people consider high school the peak of whatever they will experience in their lives.
Public school in England is like private school in Aus/US, right? (Or did I just make that up..) I went to both but actually preferred the public/state-run school precisely because most people there just were happy to get on with their own shit and let others do the same. But curiously they seem to be the people who talk more about high school experiences now.
/White people are an enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in skin with low melamine levels
No you got that right, it’s private school. The name’s from back when the only “Public” that counted were a handful of quite well off families 😉
My pet peeve is people who actually say pet peeve…
That is because schools are shit in general, designed to churn out mindless clones who will get into debt and consume.
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I must not be white. I didn’t hate high school. I hated middle school, which isn’t nearly the same thing.
No, I take that back. I utterly DESPISED middle school, and I can tell you this, if the very concept of middle schools in the United States was abolished, the world would be a much better place, believe you me.
-MINESWEEP
At least most white kids are staying in school.
cue Bill Cosby
queue
You read this blog on the toilet, swiggin’ Immodium, dontcha? Save yourself, man! I’m serious. The last racist f*** in American has to go with some dignity! Do you wanna be portrayed in a diorama at the Smithsonian riding the porcelain Honda?
Am I the only person, white/black/etc, who actually enjoyed high school? What’s with the perennial high school bashing? 15+ years later I still have nothing but good memories from my times in HS. Maybe that’ll end up as a future SWPL topic, “only good memories of high school”.
Are actually the shit.
LOL, honey, I wore the damn ribbon and I’m a weed girl. And everybody knew it, too.
I LOVED HIGH SCHOOL, IF I COULD GO BACK I WOULD, HOT BITCHES EVERYWHERE, NO RENT, AND NO WORRIES
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Cool people feel guilty about their treatment of nerds?! When did this happen?
Almost everyone i meet claims they were a nerd in high school, but I feel like that too has become a trend and a lot of those people are lying.
Besides, to say “i was prom queen” and revel in your past of worship is downright pathetic. Its easier to say your a nerd. Because if you were/are still a nerd, people won’t believe you if you say otherwise. If your hot and successful or whatever the stereotype of a non-nerd is, people will still think your the shit regardless.
Keep in mind almost every celebrity says that they were nerds/made fun of/hated back then. Whether or not this is true, it still proves my point.
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proofreading is next to godliness.
white people love grammar, #99.
this whole page is bunch of shit… racist cunts….
Actually, speaking from experience, the “popular kids” LOVE to regale tales of their glory days. I suppose it works all the same. I just highly doubt they think anyone (nerds) disliked them or that they treated anyone badly.
You were actually right the first time. “Queue” is a line or to stand in line. I’m assuming you meant “bring in Bill Cosby”…
Yeah. I never treated nerds badly. They just couldn’t come along. They would have loved to come along, though. And I was always admired by nerds who didn’t even know me but called me by my first name in the halls. They even kept telling me that my girlfriend – the head cheerleader – and I were a “cute couple.” The envy just dripped off the walls, but they still always voted for me (or my girlfriend) for any honor or office. Just like real life.
are you a loser now in real life? just interested
Nah. That’s another myth. I ended up upper-middle-class after I got out of Stanford. Sorry.
Nice catch.
This whole site is stupid. It’s like it wants me to be embarassed for being educated and looking respectable and being kind to people.
I know, some of you will make fun of me, but anyone who does that wouldn’t be the kind of person I give a shit about anyway.
I learned one important thing growing up: to be myself.
chill out. its funny.
…..classy.
Frederick, the Provocateur,
By your statement and tone on this page, it’s kind of evident and quite clear that you have major issues of insecurity on a deep level, otherwise you wouldn’t have to write what you wrote. You sound somewhat angry and bitter at yourself and others. You could also have a nasty case of Megalomania. Hard to say without seeing you in person. You have a need to provoke out of your own anger and discontentment. Upper Middle Class my arse. Who on earth cares? What makes you a true loser is your tone and how you write. Money and how you got there does not deem you to be an intelligent, good, honest or popular. person. In fact, you sound pretty unlikeable to me.
You write like the typical”American” overly concerned by what others think, status, money and ego but you fail to have a clue about the important things in life. Perhaps you’ll enlighten yourself at some point and learn as you get older what really counts.
People with any kind of depth of vision, rarely write the way you do. To me, you’re the square.
Good luck in therapy or perhaps this blog is therapy for you. Let it all out then but be careful about saying what you do “in person”. You may rub many people the wrong way. You don’t sound all that popular to me. You sound like a swine (apologies to cute piglets out there).
S
Ashra-
By Frederick’s need to “provoke” I think your question is answered yes? He came into this ‘virtual reality” to provoke and he has done well for himself. It’s his therapy poor dear because he’s apparently friendless in “real life”…
Wow. Way to put up that self-defense immediately: “I know, some of you will make fun of me, but anyone who does that wouldn’t be the kind of person I give a shit about anyway.”
I guess if I make fun of you then you wouldn’t give a shit about me and if I don’t then I guess we are best friends. You claim that you are being yourself but “don’t forget being obsessively individualistic is part of being white.”
So either way, apologize for it and move on.
God I love this site. I can’t stop laughing.
White people: Stop fighting these quick and easy labels!
I’ve never tried to fight them because, as I look around me it is all I have ever known as far as the eye can see. pea coats, hummus in every fridge, and disc golf. bad memories of high school included. Why fight it?
LOL! High school trauma is ubiquitous. Why I bet persons of color can tell a tale or two of being terrorized in the locker room, beat up on the bus ride home &/or the awesome food fight they started in the cafeteria.
I am guilty of hating the years I spent as an awkward adolescent surrounded by insecure assholes with something to prove :p.
I heard that the hottest guy in my grad class went bald and paunchy. He is also a doctor- rather impressive for a guy that majored in standing around & flexing for 3 solid years.
I was sorry to hear that he is not as pretty as he used to be, but then I am not either.
I don’t plan to ever attend a reunion, they are pointless. The experience makes up part of who we are- no matter what the tone of your skin 🙂
BTW this site is the whitest!
As several others have noted…
Some of us never come to regret the way we treated you in school. The stereotype that we grew up to become a frustrated, meth-addicted auto mechanic, janitor, or convict are just myths that losers like you create to make yourself feel better. Well, some of us do end up in prison, usually for embezzling your pension funds into our offshore accounts in the Caymans. It is our adult version of stuffing you in the locker.
Life isn’t fair, we know it, and we like it that way. But it is nice to see a nice, Candian white kid with a red Jewfro climb out of his nerdiness to make a bundle by turning a personal blog into a book. If you want some assistance investing the money you make off this, let me know – I’ve got some “can’t lose” investments you should consider… *wink wink*.
InTheClique – it’s also nice to know that the cool kids really weren’t all that smart – and aren’t getting any smarter. You spelled Canadian wrong.
We all know you don’t regret how you treated people in high school, and we all know (even without your insightful post) that you’re still a douche.
P.S. – how’s your wife’s tennis/squash/yoga instructor/life coach/spiritual adviser working out? He seems really fit…I’m just saying…
Yeah, like I paid attention to geography or English. I was having fun back then – something your bitter response and excellent spelling skills illustrate you were missing out on. You had to focus on something to bury the pain, right?
Like the Clintons, the right white people don’t really worry about what their significant other is doing with their Pilates instructor (Heh. Yoga, life coach… your perceptions of our excesses are SO 1990s…). They’re too busy being filthy rich, popular, desired and in demand to worry about insignificant things like marital fidelity.
God… it is like I just tripped you in the quad and you landed in the mud puddle during lunch-break in front of EVERYONE all over again, but this time in cyberspace. It just never ends for you poor people, does it? There goes that imagined moment of glory you thought you were going to have.
Yeah, being dumb and rich is pretty awesome isn’t it? That’s so much better than being smart and rich like the rest of us . . . Warren Buffett – not playing on your team bro. And I did get my moment of glory – thank you – you’re pretty funny! High five douche – you really are the greatest!
Please see:
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/05/28/101-being-offended/
You’re taking me to task for a typo, dumbass and pretty much illustrating my point. Thanks for playing. 🙂
Haha – touché InTheClique :)! Well played. You do know your white people list much better than I. I thought we were just having a little fun based on your original post and it seems that is indeed the case. And hey, reading all the entries on this list — kind of nerdy… I’ll wait to hear them on NPR or something 🙂
White people like long winded comment-wars about high school.
I enjoyed high school, all in all it wasn’t that bad, and I’m white. I guess for some people this might apply.
Heh, I’ll see you on the forums over at WorldHaveYourSay.com!
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Bruce Springsteen summed up alot of white people’s high school memories in one song:
Glory Days.
I dunno. High School wasn’t the time of my life. College was.
I will admit I was a nerd, geek, outcast, whatever you want to call it. I didn’t have cheerleaders wanting to be with me and didn’t get invited to the big parties. I didn’t easily get a prom date, nor saw it as the amazing night many did. I studied hard, worked hard, and mostly focused on getting into a good college. I asked questions in class, did my homwork, and never ditched class.
I got picked on at times, etc…but I don’t carry the grudge that some of my peers might still carry now. (I graduated 18 years ago)
I think for me, I simply grew apart from my classmates. I went to college and was instantly brought into a different realm. While most of the “cool kids” skipped on college to work in their family’s businesses or “figure themselves out”, I was exploring the world, nightclubs, raves, art events, etc. I stayed in Chicago as opposed to looking for some party town college where I could pretend it’s still high school, only with more alcohol and sex.
I’ve seen recent “reunions” of sorts where I’ll see the now older “in crowd” get together at a bar, but my reasons for not going aren’t any grudges. I simply don’t have much in common with those people…even now. They got out of school, did some college or waited a while, married, had kids, and work their “whatever jobs” and travel to Vegas or DisneyWorld for vacations.
I’m not married, I’m more a Bohemian in my life, a traveler, intellectual of sorts, artistic, interactive media designer, and living a totally different lifestyle. I can’t talk about big frat parties but I can talk about some insane rave I went to back in 1992. I can’t talk about High School much because it’s been a distant memory that was a big “eh” to me compared to my life after High School.
I have a feeling the situation for many of my “kind” is similar. We are not sitting here remembering when the school quarterback picked on us, or when a cheerleader laughed in our faces when we asked them out…hoping to show up now and be better looking and successful with a “look what I am now compared to you” mentality.
I think it’s just more that many move on from those years, while others cling to them forever. We all have our “golden years”, and if High School wasn’t your “golden years” (mine certainly were not), then I’d more think people will talk about their actual “golden years” rather than relish in some bad times of being a teen.
no one cares, you are a lonely faggot
Oh my god this is hilarious!! You po[eople clearly have way too much time on your hands… as I do today!! 🙂 Thanks for the entertainment!!
Oh my GOD. “More Bohemian in my life”? “intellectual of sorts”? You’re so white it hurts.
ya D-jam you really still seem like a little punk bitch. haha bohemian. i would say if you were a true intellectual you wouldn’t be on this blog sharing your lame little life story of self fulfillment. i read these things for entertainment, not to satisfy some deep seated need to agree or disagree and subsequently offer my opinions about something of very little consequence. maybe its time for you to go cry.
love it, so white.
you people huh? don’t you think you sound pretty stupid thinking all of these “people” are the same? only one person wrote this post, not a race genius.. lol, idiot.
Way to over-complicate buddy 🙂
Dear “intheclique”,
Wow, still making yourself feel better by putting down others, eh? It seems some of us never really grow up.
I happen to think that the writer of this blog is quite brave and intelligent. To write your thoughts, opinions and even everyday experiences on the web for other people (or “quick-to-the-punch” assholes, such as yourself) to critic and comment on… takes balls.
I am only 19 years old, I have taken one year of college [so far] and was one of the “middle” kids in highschool. I didn’t participate in sports or go to prom… but I also didn’t sit in a corner all day reading math texts and cut myself. I was just another sophomoric teenager with pipe dreams of being the most beautiful girl in highschool and head of the cheerleading squad. And regardless of my social status, and the fact that guys like yourself wouldn’t dare to have picked on me, I noticed how “popular” shitheads treated the more creative/intellectual students; They treated them like shit. Why? Because they were smarter then you? Because they didn’t wear the same ridiculously priced clothing? Or was it the fact that you knew that people like this person (writing the blog) and myself would grow to change the world in some small way, where as you would only become more and more of a “douche” [as you so eloquently put it] as you were in highschool? Either way, its pathetic. Are you so desperately trying to convince us that your still a dick by continuously writing replies on this man’s blog? Don’t worry, we are all very well aware that you have managed to remain a stupid scumbag prick for all this time. Congratulations big guy. 🙂 Would like an award? Would that make you feel special again? Perhaps that would make people like you more, although all I think you really need is a whole new personality.
Good job “white people” bloger. I thoroughly enjoy reading your work.
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such a white person thing to do, honestlyyy.
You are silly.
blah blah blah.
I think you’re cocky for no reason
& quite icky.
You, my friend, are an asshole.
Not everyone’s high school memories are pleasant, sweet or bubble-gum. It’s a part of learning more about becoming an adult after you stopped being a “child”. The blogger was in HS back in the 1980s, when the nerd was the outcast. Same goes to the Goths of the 90s and until recently, the emos are picked on or avoided like the plague. +
chilled out togetha, shot dice in the bathroom.
we did not study, we watch chilly chill, and then ditched school since it is a waste.
My personal memories of high school were nightmarish. All I remember is my face in the toilet and my ass in the air. My so called friends said that what i felt in my ass are just very hard twinkies..
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every Michael on this site is hilarious!
This is amazing. I can’t believe how true this is. Or how much I talk about high school, when given the chance!
I don’t have any memories of high school (see #33 in full list).
haha, I’m sorry but based on your attitude toward the “popular kids” and “shitheads”, your lauding of the “creative/intellectual students”, and the fact that you didnt go to prom once, I’m willing to bet you weren’t a “middle” kid. You were an art freak, a math nerd, or a band geek who resented kids who enjoyed high school, and so you told yourself that you were better/ were smarter/ would be more successful than them ( ” [we] would grow to change the world in some small way” ) and still can’t get over an unpleasant childhood.
im not american, im turkish. i stayed in us for 3 months. i met a geek and became friends with him. and to me he was ok, you know, not self confident and awkward somehow, but ok. if he lived in my hometown, we would have liked him. or at least we’d have left him alone. so this highschool stuff seems sooo ununderstandable to me. the cruelty of youngness is natural yes, but this has become cultural. unfortunately we’re becoming a bit like that too. (im not trying to say that american culture sucks of course there are also many things i like.)
so what im trying to say is you dont have to like everyone but you have to be nice. human rights!! otherwise you become a sadist!!!
In my country, high school is endless study, endless back-breaking exams, basically make or break your future. Not so much time for stupid rivalries.
Ahhh, Same here. Science class videos of live cells dividing have never been so fun.
so you’re saying you were raped by so called friends in highschool. You appear to be saying it in a humorous tone, but you should really do something about that, whether it’s therapy, filing criminal charges, or at the very least admitting publicly that it’s neither funny nor your fault.
These high school stereotypes are not true everywhere in the US. I was lucky enough to go to a school where there were many different groups. Most people belonged to more than one group, so they had a diverse group of friends. I thought it was great because there was no one person that everyone wanted to be friends with, no one group. It just goes to show that cliches aren’t necessarily true.
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those kids on The O.C. are white and appear to be having a blast!!! woohooo!! cocaine, sex and vodka!! the American Dream baby!!!……bola de pendejos.
High school would have sucked if it weren’t for my Iron Maiden T-shirt and mullet. I liked the Cure, but kept it to myself.
private school sucks!
I thought the white people are usually the more popular of the high school groups?
Yeah, it’s probabily you they talk about in this website =)
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Fore some of us it wasn’t even High school.
Primary school was the worst torment on earth.
Fore? Man, I’m slipping…
hey – chill;) probably just a typing mistake. you know? like your comment is.
Shout-out to my fellow home-school alumni….! If there are any out there, anyway…
im not.
Hear, hear!
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One of the reasons I’m a conservative is because of all the Liberal minded bullies I had to deal with in HS…
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I guess I really sould be thanking all of you for the abuse. Otherwise I may have grown up just another mindless follow the crowd Lib.
“Can’t spell conservative”: 20 yr. old either flunking school or stuck in a community college right? I don’t mean to call you out except that your common post is just obscene. Don’t let your political affiliation define you as a human being. That is unless you are a politician yourself (which you most certainly are not).
It would be better to be a conservative because you think for yourself, rather than because you felt bullied by liberal kids in high school. But I’m not getting that impression from your post.
Got my 10-year coming up. Not sure whether I should go. High School sucked bunches. But when else will I ever see some of its good people again? Possibly never. But is it worth it? There comes a time when one realizes that everybody grows up and changes. If some of these people are still dicks in their late 20s and beyond, well, sad for them. Is it worth trusting that they’ll have grown up as I have? Or should I stew in my grudges and flip the bird to the whole concept? Neither option sounds very fun, honestly. Because I, like most white-people-who-aren’t-total-dicks, had a terrible time in high school.
Thank you.
You know, I liked high school. It was a piece of cake compared to being out in the working world
High never ever changes EVER. It will remain the same horrid institution until the end of time.
Tell me about it…..you’re totally right. It’s like a formula for misery. The variables may change but its all the same set up and the same crap.
Does anyone else think that people who liked high school and continue to talk about it even as they close in on social security, are either A) pathetic or B) delusional?
I usually think they were boring or privileged. Or both.
High school was not fun. But it was hella interesting. In a horrible journey kind of way.
Jock two sizes larger than you threatening to kick your ass for existing, no charge.
Hot girls verbally “boo”ing your best effort to get your rubberband arms to do a pull up in front of gym, no charge.
A daily meal of questionable content and origin, $1.50. Same meal on the state sponsored food program that automatically put an uncrossable gap between you and the have it all suburban kids, no charge.
Being called a ‘faggot’ for liking music that industry marketers hadn’t yet coined the term ‘alternative’ and made popular yet, no charge.
Bad memories of High School becomming trendy, priceless.
All I’m wondering is when being pistol whipped for your ATM card to pull out your life savings of $50 or struck by a drunk driver will come into vogue. If bad luck is a fashion statement I’m a supermodel!
White liberal Democrats we elected into office should make a law in every US state, territory or jurisdiction to do away with….mandatory school attendance for anyone under age 16/18. However, the National and state level teachers’ unions will oppose the law, and all those right-wing neo-con moralists too, in fear that making kids not having to go to school will lead to the collapse of society/ civilization.
I read on Yahoo news that Kansas City (KS or MO, don’t know which) will shut down half of its schools by next fall, and that’s a huge loss to the already failing city public school system. Who’s next to fail: NY City, Chicagoland, LA County & all the 50 states, public education is one big FAIL.
…and I forgot Washington DC! LOL, the nation’s capital is a federal government ward, thanks to the liberals in charge of everything there. To come & think of it, Ronald Reagan & the Bushes cut federal education funding to a point hardly any money is left to give in public schools anywhere else.
High schools are nothing more than where physically adult people are treated worse than kindergardeners, they look like county jails in the outside and military schools in the inside…and Newsweek’s front cover on the report about public education says it right: WE MUST FIRE BAD TEACHERS.
Get over it.
High School was just a place we went to learn crap and deal with other kids.
Being okay with that fact doesn’t make you pathetic or delusional. How you look at your past nothing to do with who you were then but who you are now. If you’re happy now, you’re able to look back and think “Whatever, it wasn’t so bad…”. If not, you’re probably still looking for a scapegoat as to why your life is so messed up.
That said, I’m sure there are plenty of people who genuinely suffered in High School. I highly doubt you were one of them, though. (cue long, probably made-up stories about all the dreadful and sociopathic things done to people in high school)
You REALLY don’t get this blog, do you?
High school don’t teach crap anymore, NO real classes on math, english, history or science. Do away with PE or gym, give them 3 hours of homework per night and weekend projects, extend the school year to the summer until the teachers go on strike, increase school campus security by planting cops or locker checks, zero tolerance policies call for expulsion, saturday school detention, gender separate classrooms, race integrated bussing policies, the promotion of political leftist doctrine and the uber-reactionary parents made them do away with sex ed. (abstinence only, but the passing out of free condoms) and controversial classes on biological human evolution (are we descended from apes?). Publically funded high schools are a waste of tax payer money, watch a few of ’em worse of the worse close down and the white lib elites/neo-cons take their kids to a private school next year. They really want to protect their teens’ from not developing depression and anxiety (they have it in record numbers) but let them play video games or the computer all day to stay safe from pedophile sex predators, while they get obese (plus the “free” public school lunch program full of fast food and junk) and brains mature less than their parents or grandparents have before them.
Speaking of “musical” the entry title: they take away music (real instruments, classic melodies and vocal harmony) but have a “multicultural” course taught by a white liberal teacher, all they do is blab about “learning about other cultures” and plays a CD in class: rap/hip-hop albums full of the “N” word but can’t play “bad words” (edited versions) and the intellectual discussion about the song “lyrics”, er noise, on stereotypical poor African-American ghetto life.
Is that racist? I think so, because if you want to get technical and academically correct (not PC) about African American musical arts, why not study Ragtime, early Jazz, rhythm and blues, rockabilly and gospel sermons? To be fair and honest, those white liberals have the same set of minds like redneck racists from the deep south on what black people’s culture is (see also SWPL #116).
The school administrators want Spanish become the official language of some classrooms and semester courses of Chicano/Hispanic pre-1980 history to Latino (i.e. “illegal” immigrant) children. They have a teacher to pop in a video of Univision’s Tejano/Conjunto (the Texan country-western, brass or polka-like sounds) and Puerto Rican Reggateon (tropical and calypso or drum-beat sounds) music vids.
But that doesn’t teach white kids about Spanish-language musical arts at all, maybe the music corporate produced songs or videos have exposed Anglos to stereotypes of inner-city dwelling Boricuas and exaggerated depictions of street gang cholos, cowboy type chalinos, farm workers and “macho” deadbeat dads prey on oversexed hair-dyed teens, typically found of KKK pamphlets/Nazi propaganda of “protecting thee white blond girls from minority males”.
I was linked to this website by a colleague who constantly references it to describe the personality of this young lad (a “hipster”) who works with us. I must say it is pretty much spot on, and explained in a funny yet articulate way. From an outsider’s perspective, it is not hard to see how that nerdy-White resentment and/or guilt is carried throughout the entire person’s live… and that it’s actually emphasized when they get older and these feelings translate into a belief system. That is why trends like environmentalism, far left politics, animal rights, etc., fail to connect with the general public (as they rely so heavily on societal guilt). But that’s going to take some time to explain, so I’ll leave it there.
My high school experience wasn’t that great either. I arrived half way through high school from a boys Catholic school in South America (which I did like), speaking in a heavily-accented broken English, and couldn’t really find my “place” in high school. The cool kids didn’t want me in their group me because I couldn’t connect with them culturally, and the nerds didn’t like me because I was good at sports and wasn’t into arts/music/video games*. I felt really isolated, but luckily that changed as soon as I went to university in the big city.
* Which is also funny because certain White people tend to show an initial interest in you solely because of your ethnic background (albeit in a very patronizing way) and then dislike you if they find you assertive or with a mind of your own.
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I had a few good experiences in high school connected to particular events or activities, but on a day-to-day basis, it sucked more than not. I’m reallly not trying to whine, but I was bullied on a daily basis throughout my sophomore year. Fortunately, the bullies and I didn’t share any of the same classes during my junior or senior years.
Don’t Afro-American and other kids who don’t need SPF 15+ sunblock ever hate high school? My high school had some brown-skinned students, but 95% of us were white. Surely it sucks to be part of such a literal “minority” group in high school!
Several years ago, I read an article written by an Afro-American student on the subject of what it’s like to attend a mostly white college. The most profound thing he mentioned was that because he was the only brown-skinned student in some of his classes, he could never cut them: looking out at the lecture hall and not seeing a dark face, the professor would know he was missing.
I have to share at how shocked I’ve been over the years at the negative experiences many people have in high school. Where I grew up (and not just at my high school), people were of the mindset that everyone in the community belonged, and we usually knew of the talents etc. each person possessed, and which he or she was known and admired for. For instance, at my particular high school, the only person who could possibly have been labeled a “Nerd” based upon his appearance was the cool guy who knew University-level physics and Calculus, and who helped everyone else with their math and science homework. Everyone loved that guy! My city seemed blessed with an abnormally high I.Q. percentage amongst the population overall, and most students were known for their skills in that regard. But even those who weren’t particularly gifted intellectually were admired for other things – charity work, modeling, sports, or whatever. Heck, some people were even admired for nothing more than just being distinctive. I mean, it was just learning to appreciate what others have to offer. I really feel bad knowing that during the teen years so many people in the U.S. have such a negative experience, when they could (and should) be learning how to appreciate the different things that each person can bring to benefit a community. They should also be learning that they have a lot to offer, and be appreciated for what they are.
Are you serious? Where in the hell did you go to high school?
lol. right?
Hap is obviously very white; (s)he fulfilled like 15 things on the list lmao
lol its funny because white people are way cooler then green card holders
Wow, where did you go to HS? Canada, Sweden, or Palo Alto? Just kidding all those places are all white, so clearly can’t have yielded a positive HS experience. So, seriously, where did you go to HS? I wish I went there.
Regarding your last (asterisked) comment. People who don’t find you a threat can be patronizing but when you begin to assert yourself or show that you are just as capable to them, the insecure may feel threaten.
The people who don’t get this blog are probably the same people who don’t understand that the folks involved in creating shows like Family Guy are all about satire and don’t really think it’s cool to do all the stupid crap characters like Peter Griffin do.
But then who needs Family Guy for laughs when you can just sit back and watch all the dumbasses continue to become angry, indignant, perplexed and upset by things like this blog?
Uhm, where did you go to HS? This cannot be true, maybe you were a nerd in HS, but all the with people I know were’nt the wierd loser creepy kids. Mostly all of them athletes. So yeah. I enjoy reading this “Stuff White People Like”, but apperently you have no idea about white poeple. I literally cannot relate to any of these examples.
you must be the wrong kind of white person
hahahhaa
One word for ya “Columbine.”
You know, you probably didn’t think much about it when you were writing this but ‘in the real world’ is such a true term for life after high school. HS turns out to be so unrelated to your regular, grown-up life when you finish college, doesn’t it?
Palo Alto high school was featured in the ’90s high school movie “Dangerous Minds” about urban poor kids from the ghetto-barrio-pino/atown of East Palo Alto. It is the one with Michelle Pfeiffer plays the marine(?) sub teacher and how she wows those poor brown kids in lily’ white ville.
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i wish i had known that about the cure! i was a big dork in high school and didnt even know why!! could have saved me years of painful memories. thanks not white dude!
This whole site is stupid. It’s like it wants me to be embarrassed for being educated and looking respectable and being kind to people.
I know, some of you will make fun of me, but anyone who does that wouldn’t be the kind of person I give a shit about anyway.
I learned one important thing growing up: to be myself.
I ditched a lot of highschool. Not many bad memories there. I ditched right before a school rally in the stadium and got cheered on by the crowd. There even used to be a hole in one of the fences that you could swing right through to ditch. And I graduated with the rest of em. Highschool was good for me. That and the intoxication (alcohol+ganja)= good times.
lol. you are a hoot Simone.
I have pretty good memories of high school. I got laid a lot, played varsity baseball, made honor roll most of the time, and bought my first car.
O f**k off, Bill in Huston. If all of that is really true, then you would not feel the need to post it here.
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If I discuss about my high school then I remember very bad experience because on that time my syllabus were changed. I had got very tough syllabus and I had failed for few marks but today my children are not facing more difficulties in high school. My son has selected music on their subjects which is beneficial for their personality development. For getting more details can visit this site. http://www.highschoolsprograms.com/
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Im in high school currently, and its not that bad. Its actually pretty chill.
High school is considered worse for lower-middle/poor kids, but they are most risk of dropping out and live as an adult being an undereducated dropout working in a dead end job.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/atlanta-public-schools-se_n_907218.html
The only really bad memories I have from high school were caused by teachers. Students tended to cause them more in junior high (junior high girls are the closest thing to pure evil that exists in the world).
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Oh man, this made me laugh. I used to feel so hard done by and couldn’t wait for my 10-year reunion to show people how well-traveled and successful I’ve become. It’s coming up next year and at this point I couldn’t care less what people think of me. How my mentality has changed in 9 years…
My best high school memory was the last day of high school. I drove out of the place and did not look back. Goodbye, goodriddance, so long, I’m outta here. I very quickly relegated the whole experience to the trash heap of history. That was 32 years ago.
I had the opportunity to skip the second last semester due to a scheduling problem and get a real job in the real world. I had just purchased my first car and drove everyday a 50 mile round trip and worked in the adult world with adults and had adult respnsibilities. There were deadlines and real consequences for screwing up, there were no excuses and what mattered was getting it right. No day dreaming, oogling girls or goofing off.
This very quickly put high school into perspective. All of the petty crap, such as what shoes, shirt, jacket, pants, hairstyle, color of your binder, how you carried your books, who you hung out with, where you sat in the cafeteria-were exposed as totally worthless and insignificant and nobody gave a crap about them in the real world outside of school.
I have not bothered with any reunions and have not contacted anybody I knew though social media. I have gone on, matured, and do not look back. I do get a laugh out of all the popular/noticeable/jocks/a-holes/douchebags/beautiful/cool kids who after 30 years still still socialize with the same crowd, or worse have married in the same crowd. I have grown up and grown beyond those days.
The facebook pages always feature the latest get together at some cheezy restaurant posing with an alcoholic beverage in hand and still thinking they are something special.
My friend, you did not miss anything by not attending high school. You were not drawn into the culture of school and you did not spend any effort to deal with it. I appreciated the better teachers and still remember the classes I was interested in, but the social aspects of the experience were very quickly put into perspective once I graduated and joined the real world. As time goes on the whole experience becomes less and less significant and is furthe burried on the trash heap of history. Cheers!
I’m glad you enjoyed school and have some good memories-and can put the experience into the same perspective as I can. Cheers!
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