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White People in the News March 25

March 25, 2008 by clander

The risk for iPhone users: They know too much

By Michelle Quinn
The Los Angeles, Times, March 22, 2008

Stuff Mentioned:

Sushi
Apple Products
Whole Foods
Microbreweries (implied)
Living by the Water

Also the greatest passage in history:

“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the Internet with him, “I can be super-picky,” he said.”

Sent in by Stephen, an English grad student living in Florida, who likes the British site BeThinking.

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Posted in White People in the News | 290 Comments

290 Responses

on March 25, 2008 at 7:36 am first

first!
on March 25, 2008 at 7:36 am first

wow, i can’t believe it. i really am first.
on March 25, 2008 at 7:38 am em

I hope Wil Shipley gets a raging case of the shits. I feel bad for the people who have to put up with his quizzes.
on March 25, 2008 at 7:45 am mrsp

so sad and HILARIOUS.

actually, c lander, can you guys change the pictures to the right soon? that banana pudding is making me have dreams of food porn.
on March 25, 2008 at 7:47 am haqikah

Funny!
on March 25, 2008 at 7:47 am Joe Gator

How do you determine what seafood is most “environmentally correct to purchase?” Is it the fish that jumped into the boat?
on March 25, 2008 at 7:49 am Dennis

I swear.. this is one of the few websites that makes me laugh out loud and then people look at me like I’m crazy.. LOL
on March 25, 2008 at 7:51 am Ms. Bootie

Even more points for the fact that he spells his name with only 1 “L”.
on March 25, 2008 at 7:53 am Doug

I’m going to move to Seattle, get a job at Whole Foods, and when Will Shipley starts quizzing me on how the halibut were caught, I’m going to grab a whole one from the chiller and beat him to death with it.

My co-workers will pledge their lifetime fealty to me and my retirement shall be secure.
on March 25, 2008 at 7:53 am Kevin

My head just exploded. I’d love to *see* this guy.
on March 25, 2008 at 7:57 am Swayze2Stayze2008

Is there honestly anything whiter than using meth? Noone’s mentioned this yet. What about ‘grammer-related stress’?
on March 25, 2008 at 7:57 am jared

it is like they wrote that just for this blog
on March 25, 2008 at 7:57 am I Zimbra

How can I prank call this guy? It’s how I deal with asshats like this.
on March 25, 2008 at 7:59 am Dan

“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the Internet with him, “I can be super-picky,” he said.”

No wonder giving white guys a beat-down isn’t a hate crime.
on March 25, 2008 at 7:59 am potato

lolol!!!

here’s the website for how to purchase eco-friendly seafood:

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1521
on March 25, 2008 at 7:59 am Lucas

Wow, these news segments must be a real break now that you’re out of ideas.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:01 am ipostupost.com

SWPL couldn’t be running out of stuff already? There must be way more than 100 things that white people like. In any event, I like the new format and how it’s more interactive.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:05 am mrsp

i spit out my water
on March 25, 2008 at 8:07 am Anita

Yeah I was coming here to say that as well.

People like him are the reason why people who work in grocery stores hate their job so much.

I mean I have an iPhone, but I’m not an ASS about it.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:08 am Katie

You forgot 6. Dinner parties (implied)
on March 25, 2008 at 8:10 am Sean

You forgot “grad school” under things mentioned.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:14 am Steve-O

You gotta see this stuff:

http://www.jtcinc.blogspot.com
on March 25, 2008 at 8:17 am walter

Busting on the iPhone now?

There’s a line and you just crossed it.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:20 am meredizzle

hilarious. it must take an awfully long time to shop at Whole Foods if you have to use an iPhone. I’d hate to be behind his cart.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:20 am Anonymous

Of course, the jackass has a blog:

http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/

And perhaps worse, a Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Shipley
on March 25, 2008 at 8:21 am Grizzly Bear

I like to get my fish right from the stream. It makes me feel good.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:24 am Malinger

Of course, the jackass has a blog:

http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/

And perhaps worse, a Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil_Shipley
on March 25, 2008 at 8:32 am Stephen Williams

Preparing to eat ethically processed fish:
on March 25, 2008 at 8:40 am Dan

From his wikipedia entry:

“He currently resides in Seattle where he shares a home with Schmop, his cat.”

How do I go about renouncing my membership to western civilization? Is there a form I need to fill out or something?
on March 25, 2008 at 8:43 am Ingrid

He is a software develope for Apple, he lives with his cat and he writes pseudo sensitive blog posts. Can he be any whiter?
on March 25, 2008 at 8:44 am r

will shipley is an idiot.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:46 am C

http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=iphone
on March 25, 2008 at 8:50 am Chantal

I’m at Panera using the free wireless, and when I laughed out loud, the people next to me just smiled.

Funny stuff!
on March 25, 2008 at 8:51 am Rob

You also left out San Fransico:

“Daniel Bernstein had one when he arranged to meet friends at a bowling alley in Daly City, near San Francisco.”
on March 25, 2008 at 8:58 am Anonymous

“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the Internet with him, “I can be super-picky,” he said.”

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! I just can’t believe people are actually like this.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:59 am Holden

If that guy needs some shit to do, I have a couple of projects he can help me with.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:06 am Brittany Fischer

Who is a bigger douchebag: Wil Shipley, or the loser who wrote, “first!”
on March 25, 2008 at 9:09 am Simon

I used to be “white” and have lived in five different “white” cities. Now I’m just white and very happy about it. In my city “white” people go to Whole Foods and fiddle with their iPhones while white people go to Krogers (or Publix) and fiddle with their children and groceries. I’m thinking of writing a book on how to stop being “white” and just be white.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:11 am Spur

This blog is becoming “Stuff Rich, White Liberals Like To Do.”
on March 25, 2008 at 9:11 am Anonymous

I say we need a TV parody of “The Right Type of White People,” or at least a movie. I guess we already have that with Curb Your Enthusiasm, but it’s mockery of “The Right Type of White People is pretty subtle. We need a whole show devoted to it, especially since these people are the only ones snooty enough to think they’re above being parodied and mocked.

“You can’t make fun of me! I shop at Whole Foods and want a black president! We’re the good kind of white people!”
on March 25, 2008 at 9:14 am Lisa W.

So sorry, Wil. Eat right. Die anyway. But iPhones are way cool (yes, this whitey likes Apple). And LOVES your site.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:18 am Danny Boy

When one reads about people like this Wil Shipley numbnutz (“when one” is pretty white BTW), you gotta realize that the world needs more interpersonal physical violence, not less.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:20 am Doug

Wil Shipley is the primo douchebag for all time. Has a self-promoting touchy-feely blog and wiki page. Takes his freaking iGadget to the grocery store. Surfs the internet and quizzes the hippie clerks about how his damned sockeye salmon was caught. (“HOW THE F*** DO YOU THINK, DOUCHEBAG?! IT JUMPED IN THE FREAKING BOAT!”). This is douchebaggery to the transcendental degree. Googleplex douchhebaggery.

And on a more serious note, it confirms my opinion that the whole eco/organic food movement is simply part of white liberals’ ceaseless attempts to distinguish themselves from the non-elite classes.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:23 am amybug

Well, yes it is, but really white people aren’t out there actually fishing. We are listening to The Splendid Table, NPR radio cooking show, and know that the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch list is the greatest source for environmentally sound seafood choices. You can even call them if you aren’t white enough to have an iPhone: http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
on March 25, 2008 at 9:23 am Dan

Who is a bigger douchebag: Wil Shipley, or the loser who wrote, “first!”

Who is the biggest douchebag?: Wil Shipley, the loser who wrote, “first!”, or the chick who blogged, “We don’t know why, but peach iced-tea and lemon sugar crepes somehow solve all our probelms while simultaneously restoring the meaning in our lives.”?

Just sayin’.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:25 am Someguy

What a fag (not that there’s anything wrong with that)
on March 25, 2008 at 9:26 am My Heart Cries

Sounds like Wil Shipley needs to step away from the crack.
That’s the only explanation I’ve got for this fuckery right here.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:29 am wow

Jan. 15th posting title on his blog (http://wilshipley.com/blog/):
“Macbook Air Haters: Suck My Dick”
He is such an Apple fanboy it’s sickening.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:32 am Mr. Socko

My days in retail are blessedly over, but if I had ever run into that guy he would have gotten a beating that would shock a 20-year veteran cop.

Stool.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:33 am Paul Johnsonville

Wil Shipley sounds like the type of knob gobbler who attends a Toronto High School such as Jarvis Collegiate.

I can see Jarvis graduates traipsing around St Lawrence Market or Kensington with their i phones out checking on what fish to buy and totally pissing off the vendors with cockamammie quizes . hey that is another good topic to cover. Why white people buy organic produce only to find out it is laced with pesticides and are too embarassed to admit it when they break out in a rash. HAhahah
on March 25, 2008 at 9:34 am Amy

Seattle is the whitest city in the world, full of outdoor loving, performance sport wearing, wine tasting, Apple products using folks. Maybe because of the rain?
on March 25, 2008 at 9:45 am whatmenthink

I like the fact that the guy is savvy about environmental safety, but he gives us iPhone owners a bad name! If I saw this guy harassing an employee at my local Whole Foods, I would rip him a new one. They are freaking hourly employees! What a douche bag.

BTW, where have the entertaining posts gone??? This is pretty dry…
on March 25, 2008 at 9:45 am Just me

SWPL? What about Keg parties?? I’d never heard of a keg until I left the black school and went to a white one. Just how much beer is necessary?
on March 25, 2008 at 9:49 am vanderleun

Hey, I’m in Seattle, give me that Shipley’s address and I’ll go and slap him silly with a fresh cod.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:55 am aric

i just updated his wiki page so the world will know his whiteness
on March 25, 2008 at 9:55 am Palouse

Seattle is the whitest city in the world, full of outdoor loving, performance sport wearing, wine tasting, Apple products using folks.

For alot more reasons than that. Add coffee, dinner parties, awareness, hating corporations, diversity, t-shirts, graduate school, having gay friends, recycling, Whole Foods, Barrack Obama, bicycles, dogs, living by the water, vegan, microbrews, Toyota Prius, arts degrees, etc, etc, etc.

Seattle probably should have been profiled just behind San Francisco.

And there’s alot of other reasons that just don’t have entries yet, like the idea of public transportation, book clubs, poetry readings
on March 25, 2008 at 9:57 am anonymouse

Wil Shipley- Douchebag of the Week Award
on March 25, 2008 at 10:00 am diptutod

“4. Microbreweries (implied)”

llllllol
on March 25, 2008 at 10:05 am anon

I can’t believe you’re at post 80-something and haven’t had an entry on the Dalai Lama.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:20 am Jose

I hate Wil Shipley so much I wish he would die. I really do.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:24 am expat seattlite in europe

fucking eco friendly pc bastages in seattle all need to either die or go back to san francisco. We like to recycle and ride the bus but these fucking yuppie whole foods assholes are SO not grunge.

i just got excited cos white people in the news happened to mention seattle. sorry. it won’t happen again.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:25 am expat seattlite in europe

you know your blog is a little too popular when you start getting Firsty McFirsts firsting all over the place.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:26 am Mike LaRosa

I don’t like white people anyway, they suck.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:27 am Nice Save!

Once SWPL got boughten they became a commodity instead of just plain fun.

That Paris Flea Market thing was a mistake (only insecure dips that been to Fr thought it was’nt) but this sharp-eyed entry saves the day.

2 fucking funny!

Wil Shipley –if he really exists (im thinking this is a put-on) is not an actual White Person at all he is some kind of mutant offspring of a terrible NPR-Funded android experiment.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:28 am Thumper

Shipley may be the whitest guy on earth. Lordy.

“The Whitest Guy of the Year Award” should be renamed the “Wil Shipley Award for Open and Gross Whiteness”
on March 25, 2008 at 10:28 am expat seattlite in europe

white people absolutely ARE out there fishing, making $30000 for every two months they do it. Blacks and mexicans go fishing too but just like luging (sic?) and hockey, whitey really does it best.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:31 am feezah

You can’t get no Whiter!
Wil, Seattle, software developer, iPhone, Whole Foods, environmentally correct, super-picky
on March 25, 2008 at 10:31 am expat seattlite in europe

more like logging and smallpox, as it well-inhabited by nonwhite people for about 20,000 years before the Denny party landed.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:32 am Who's On First?

Byte Me.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:49 am plady

agreed. that’s a lot more perezhilton.com than here.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:54 am plady

🙂
on March 25, 2008 at 10:56 am em

He has an entry on his page that says “Mac Air haters–suck my dick”. Is it an environentally correct dick? Cos I’m really picky about the dick I suck.

Also, about the Mac Air thing, call me crazy, but I like my computers to play CDs. You know, those little round things that were around before iTunes existed.

(I love you, Malinger, for finding his blog.)
on March 25, 2008 at 10:57 am Anonymous

Wil Shipley for President!

Wow!
on March 25, 2008 at 11:06 am Chris Knight

Did you see the article about the kid who got expelled in Canada for setting up a facebook study group?

The article was on
http://DetentionSlip.org
on March 25, 2008 at 11:09 am NK

Palouse, LMAO at the “idea of public transportation.” This especially applies to white folks in Los Angeles. Come on, Christian, you live here. You must blog about the “idea of public transportation.” Angelenos love to say how this would solve all of our traffic problems, but, at the end of the day, most people here will never use it on a regular basis. The ones who do, from my experience, are low-income blacks and Latinos and a smattering of white businessmen. The few times the rest of the white population here uses the Metro–usually to go to a special event where driving a car would be impractical–they pat themselves on the back on being such good stewards of earth.
on March 25, 2008 at 11:28 am How Insane Is John McCain?

McCain hates people who say “first.”
on March 25, 2008 at 11:28 am How Insane Is John McCain?

He also hates iPhones.
on March 25, 2008 at 11:38 am praxenakis

Being a super-picky pain in the ass to counter-workers and waitstaff… that’s the number 1 white people thing to do in my book. Look out, now they’re armed with iPhones!
on March 25, 2008 at 11:40 am Paul Johnsonville

Danny Boy said: ” you gotta realize that the world needs more interpersonal physical violence, not less”

Classic.

Could someone track down Wil Shipley and give him good solid backhander for me ?

Wankers like this need a serious beatdown.
on March 25, 2008 at 11:42 am Matt

Because he carries the Internet with him, “I can be super-picky,” he said.”

He can also be super f**king annoying too.

If I was working the fish counter I’d toss a slimy sockeye at him and then say “oh, sorry… thought you were expecting Pike Place Market?”
on March 25, 2008 at 11:46 am first

wil shipley!
on March 25, 2008 at 11:47 am praxenakis

by the way, why do you need a last minute update as to which seafood is the most eco-friendly? do the stats on that really change on a minute-by-minute basis?
on March 25, 2008 at 11:47 am first

wil shipley!!!
on March 25, 2008 at 11:48 am first

um, you haven’t been in seattle in a long time….
on March 25, 2008 at 11:49 am not wil shipley

Not one of you bothered to read the next paragraph down in the LA Times article before you jumped on the bandwagon:

The clerks who work the fish counter don’t mind. “He’s confirming on the Internet things that I am saying,” said Whole Foods’ Ken Shugarts.

Whole Foods goes out of its way to post the origins of their products both for environmental reasons and because their over-educated, privileged clientele enjoys it. Why shouldn’t he or anyone willing to put in the money and effort not try to buy sustainable stuff? As the kids used to say: if having access to information is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

I used to think SWPL made fun of the people that most deserved to have fun made of them, i.e. people like me. Now I want a blog that makes fun of comment posters that are too busy pointing, laughing, and threatening to get their stories straight. Except none of you do anything with enough substance to make it worth the trouble.

And yes, I know I couldn’t get any “whiter”.
on March 25, 2008 at 11:50 am Nouns White People Like

This Pubis Pervis (Shipley) is so White it’s pathological.
on March 25, 2008 at 11:52 am Mr Radon

Sadly this Shipley guy suffers from one of those unfortunate personality traits of white people: he’s a bore. Self-absorbed, insufferable, annoying, incredibly self-important, and the last person anyone willing chooses to invite to a dinner party.

And now that he’s been profiled in the “LA Times”, he can use that to add to his arsenal of deathly uninteresting personal stories he can drag out for any occasion for the rest of the year.

“I was in the Times, where I was able to show that even the smallest act of eco-consciousness can be merged with new technologies to better help the blah blah blah blah blah…”
on March 25, 2008 at 11:55 am Nouns White People Like

course they gonna say they dont mind you incredibly stoopid ofay wit the fringe on top singin motherfucker…
on March 25, 2008 at 12:01 pm what's up with WPs?

another thing white people love, as demonstrated in these comments, is crucifying their own for shit that they do themselves.

what’s up with all the wil shipley hate?

a bunch of you guys are saying, “if i saw him at whole foods, i’d beat his ass.” on some fake white tough-guy crap. YOU’RE SHOPPING AT WHOLE FOODS. are you really as bad-ass as you think you are? no. last time i checked, tough guys do not sample artisanal cheeses next to the imported olive bar, waiting for someone whiter than them to beat up.

seriously, you guys sound like you want to all gang up on him and torture him, then drink his blood while raping his rotting corpse in a crazy orgy of white-on-white violence.

man, you white people crack me up.
on March 25, 2008 at 12:04 pm jessejb

I live in Seattle about 6 blocks from there. I’ll do it for a fee.
on March 25, 2008 at 12:07 pm Abilene

Isn’t this stuff all general? Lots of people like Apple products.
on March 25, 2008 at 12:07 pm Daniel

I really hope you’ve already done lacrosse and I missed it. It’s the ultimate white person sport. It’s big at expensive east coast schools, and only one black college in the country has a lacrosse team!
on March 25, 2008 at 12:09 pm Matt

seriously, you guys sound like you want to all gang up on him and torture him, then drink his blood while raping his rotting corpse in a crazy orgy of white-on-white violence.

I think its wholly justified in this instance, some times we’ve got to sacrifice one of the group, to make it better for the whole…

Either that or this guy should be thrown in jail for all the time he’s wasted of everybody’s lives by his self-absorbed neurosis… seriously, what do the people standing behind this joker have to say about his hyper-retarded self-righteousness…? “Oh, I don’t mind”… right.

You’re shopping at Whole Foods, Shipley. I’m wondering if he pulls the same s**t when he orders an overpriced tuna sandwich.
on March 25, 2008 at 12:13 pm mindymama

Check me out… I am just getting started…

http://iaminovermyhead.blogspot.com/
on March 25, 2008 at 12:21 pm Pray 4 Wil Shipley

I don’t even know where a Whole Foods is besides I don’t hate Shipley I hate what the sickness has done to him. He is a victim of Whiteman’s Disease & it is definitely Prognosis Negative for the boy.

He be terminal.

It is just so sad. 😦
on March 25, 2008 at 12:30 pm Anonymous

You aren’t going to see lacrosse on here, b/c the wrong kind of white people like lacrosse. The white people this blogger is mocking are too soft to take the beatings of a contact sport like hockey, lacrosse, or football.

Also, you’re living in the 80’s if you think lacrosse is an exclusive rich boy Northeastern sport. There are inner city schools fielding lacrosse teams at every major city in the North Atlantic and it’s now a very national sport, w/ tons college players from the midwest, the south, the southwest, the west, Australia, and Canada.
on March 25, 2008 at 12:33 pm gabe

Some white people are a little different than those described here:

http://stuffsomewhitepeoplelike.blogspot.com/
on March 25, 2008 at 12:34 pm Anonymous

It should be noted that lacrosse or hockey won’t be on this list b/c the people the blogger is making fun of hate lacrosse players b/c they’re attractive, athletic, enjoy Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell movies, and end up w/ careers on Wall Street or in Medicine. Law is also an option, but these are corporate lawyers, so not only are lacrosse players the wrong kinds of white people, they’re also the wrong kinds of attornies.
on March 25, 2008 at 12:41 pm GayLovingStraightMan

Was it the Stones or Zepplin that fucked a girl with a dead fish? Anybody?
on March 25, 2008 at 12:41 pm p.kaplan

Wil Shipley is the ultimate beta.

“There is a moment when you think to yourself, “I want to kiss her, I should kiss, I am going to kiss her.”

And you know that if you are wrong, you will feel stupid. And she will leave. And you will apologize. And everything will be spoiled.”
on March 25, 2008 at 12:47 pm Swayze2Stayze2008

Lacrosse exists?
on March 25, 2008 at 12:48 pm Anonymous

Not Wil Shipley:

Truth hurts, huh? How’s it feel to pay $8 for the same tomatos I get for $3? Enjoy your Whole Foods experience.

Your type of white people have gotten away w/ making fun of “the wrong kinds of white people” and pretending to like black people for too long. Now it’s your turn, and you’re all acting like the whiney little twerps you were in middle school when we were shoving you in lockers and throwing gum in your hair.

Not to rub salt in your wound, but it turns out us dumb jocks didn’t turn out as you people hoped. Thinking back to the some of the members of my high school lacrosse team from the class of ’96, we have a cheese farmer (hey, that’s an acceptable profession to you people!!!), 2 junior finance exec’s, 2 attornies, 1 architect (he studied abroad… another one acceptable by you people!), two IT guys, 2 physicians, 1 civil engineer, 1 masters level chemist, and one medical student.

How funny, no Bachelor of Arts degrees in the bunch! LOL.

O’Doyall Rules.
on March 25, 2008 at 12:52 pm Swayze2Stayze2008

Is there a teatherball league anywhere? In the world? How does one train for such a sport? Are there Oakleys involved?
on March 25, 2008 at 12:54 pm Anonymous

RE: p.Kaplan

LOL, I know man. That Shipley cat’s blog is what old people refer to as “a piece of work.” As in “Have you met this Shipley kid? He is one piece of work, lemme tell ya. Fella brings his iPhone to Whole Foods and quizes the $5/hr stock boys on the seafood collection methods.”

Hey white people, someone should let you know that not only do normal white people laugh at you, but the black people you think refer to you as “the good ones?” Yeah, they don’t like you either.

Now where’s my Fiji Water.
on March 25, 2008 at 12:55 pm DB

http://mantivity.blogspot.com
on March 25, 2008 at 1:01 pm Anonymous

Yeah, lacrosse exists. You might have seen a lot of it on the news when the people this blogger is mocking called 3 players from Duke rapists. It should be noted that of the 88 professors who signed a public letter calling for all but the public lynching of the players, 87 of them had PhD’s in an Arts field rather than a Science field.

Talk about typical.
on March 25, 2008 at 1:12 pm i get it

he discussed shunning ones parents’ religion in favor of eastern religions like buddhism.
on March 25, 2008 at 1:19 pm White Consumer

Had young Shipley copped this attitude 100 years ago he would have starved to death because nobody would sell him food.

I used to have a strict “thou shall not hassle the minimum wage earner” rule, and still generally follow this philosophy, but the service staff are getting uppity, and that’s simply not on.

Who gave teenage deli clerks the idea that 41 year old men are not clever enough to deduce breaded chicken cutlets are less healthy than plain ones, and that they need teenage girl guidance and advice in this matter? When did this happen? They didn’t do this when I was twenty or thirty.

So my sympathy for the five buck an hour stockboys, probably all tax and spend Obama supporters to begin with, is limited.
on March 25, 2008 at 1:20 pm Tammy

“Sadly this Shipley guy suffers from one of those unfortunate personality traits of white people: he’s a bore. Self-absorbed, insufferable, annoying, incredibly self-important . . .”

I couldn’t have said it better myself. Want even more proof of this? Try riding the subway or the Metro North in NYC – you’ll want to vomit at all the “white” attitude stinking up the atmosphere.

But then again, I’ve seen it all (from every race) taking the train to and from NYC every day.
on March 25, 2008 at 1:22 pm Tammy

“I think its wholly justified in this instance, some times we’ve got to sacrifice one of the group, to make it better for the whole…”

**I’m dead**
on March 25, 2008 at 1:27 pm StuffWhiteParentsLike

It’s so annoying to see the words “tapped out on my Iphone,” or “tap danced on my Iphone.”

http://stuffwhiteparentslike.wordpress.com/
on March 25, 2008 at 1:32 pm Ugly Bag of Mostly Water

“Wil Shipley, a Seattle software developer, uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the Internet with him, ‘I can be super-picky,’ he said.”

Wil Shipley needs a kick in the nuts.
on March 25, 2008 at 1:37 pm Skid
on March 25, 2008 at 1:38 pm Skid

Crap.
on March 25, 2008 at 1:44 pm LittleBigRing

I think the phrase is, “McCainiac”…
on March 25, 2008 at 1:49 pm nace

Actually, white people who use meth are “the wrong kind of white people”.
on March 25, 2008 at 1:58 pm jumpinjackflasher

If I see “tapped out on my Iphone” one more time…

http://stuffwhiteparentslike.wordpress.com/
on March 25, 2008 at 2:07 pm Sean

Wow, I’ve never seen as much vicious insecurity as in the comments to this post. What kind of an asshole wants to physically assault someone for referencing the internet while shopping?
on March 25, 2008 at 2:09 pm lols.

awareness and hating corporations might also apply. my concern ends at 1) is it poisonous, 2) is it delicious, and 3) can i find the same quality cheaper somewhere else? more bottlenose please.
on March 25, 2008 at 2:10 pm Win Your Weight in Immigrants™

This isn’t the Shipley who, with Brewer, sang “One Toke Over the Line” years ago, is it?
on March 25, 2008 at 2:13 pm not_enlightened

It’s called…..illustrating absurdity by using absurdity. Lighten up a little.
on March 25, 2008 at 2:31 pm Three Chord Monte

Quintessential. All Internet bloggers should meekly acquiesce to your superior exploitation of the medium. You have hit the nail on the head. Congratulations.
on March 25, 2008 at 2:56 pm Kelso

If I were a staff writer at a major paper, I’d write an article packed with as much ‘white people in the news’ as possible, just for kicks in hoping that it would get posted on this blog.
on March 25, 2008 at 2:57 pm Pray 4 Wil Shipley

Yes. That is why the Microbrewery is implied. 🙂
on March 25, 2008 at 3:03 pm Win Your Weight in Immigrants™

(Micro-) Brewer & (Wil) Shipley
ONE SEARCH OVER THE LINE

One search over the line sweet Jesus
One search over the line
Standin’ downtown at the Whole Foods counter,
One search over the line

Googlin’ for the site that gives seafood data,
Hopin’ that the site is online
Standin’ downtown in the Whole Foods grocery
One toke over the line

What do ya eat, I hope it’s green
I’m so conscientious, as you can plainly keen
I felt the pain and I learned about the fishies
that my guru said
If I should choose to make a part of me,
wil surely strike me dead…

[To hear the tune, catch the surreal Lawrence Welk Show version of the original, introduced by Myron Floren here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/06/lawrence-welk-does-o.html
or here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3ecDYxOkg
]
on March 25, 2008 at 3:12 pm Win Your Weight in Immigrants™

Then check out the parody a few posts below.
on March 25, 2008 at 3:32 pm lyn

I’m just curious how you guys got the Google Adsense into your post.
on March 25, 2008 at 3:34 pm wha?

becoming?
on March 25, 2008 at 3:38 pm trivial trivia

Zeppelin (allegedly)
on March 25, 2008 at 3:39 pm trivial trivia

and I think it was still alive
on March 25, 2008 at 3:40 pm Phil

It also has dinner parties…first paragraph “people at the dinner table”
on March 25, 2008 at 3:54 pm am i white

White guys that go to web sites like “bethinking.com” are more likely “white trash” than “white people”.
on March 25, 2008 at 4:03 pm Digby

While I was still on staff in State College, PA for Penn State, there was a Japanese Man, veeeery handsome, who took white ladies and gay white men on a tour of our fish markets. The story was told to me this way: he was in a regular central PA grocery (not Wegman or anything like that). He ask the fish person to hand him a whole red fish which s/he does. Then Fujio (not his real name) loudly outlines the, um, ten things that are wrong with this fish. You know…curled gills, odor, dull eyes, W.

Here is the part I love the most.

When “Fujio” is through with the borrowed instructors aid, the show ‘n tel article, he bows gentle to the fish person and returns this now much denigrated whole red fish it with a sweet thank you.

I know my little story is only tangentally related to clander’s article, but I have had a sort of stupud day and this is my best. Sad.

Get some rest,
Digby
on March 25, 2008 at 4:09 pm Pray 4 Wil Shipley

Tour de Farce!

🙂 🙂 🙂
on March 25, 2008 at 4:28 pm jonesview

Owning an iPhone is like belonging to a super elite club.

http://www.jonesview.wordpress.com
on March 25, 2008 at 4:53 pm Matt

This reminds me, I gotta hit up my Makah buddy for some Grey Whale steaks… its almost BBQ’in season!!
on March 25, 2008 at 5:02 pm Matthew

“I’m wondering if he pulls the same s**t when he orders an overpriced tuna sandwich.”

You know he does.
on March 25, 2008 at 5:07 pm Stacia

Shipley isn’t the only knob in this article. The lady later on who says she feels as though she’s expected to get an iPhone because “It’s the hip, young, fun thing to do” seems misguided. Anyone who speaks the words “It’s the hip, young, fun thing to do” isn’t hip, and therefore, would not be “expected” to get an iPhone.

Of course, this is assuming iPhones are “hip, young, fun” in the first place.
on March 25, 2008 at 5:17 pm typical whitey

I love having “the google” right in my pocket. I use it to check the Mickydees drive thru-menu before I get to the speakerbox.

For the first time in my audult life, I’m really proud of my country.

And to be a white boy!
on March 25, 2008 at 5:25 pm typical whitey

Wil Shipley, huh? Boy, this guy sounds like a real tool. But, just take me a minute to verify that. Ipod, google, Wil Shipley, search. Dum dee dum dum…Oh yeah, what do know!!!!
on March 25, 2008 at 5:45 pm Patina

Seattle has plenty of non-white people, but we hide them better than other major cities. They have their own special public schools and everything.
on March 25, 2008 at 5:46 pm Patina

I love the wiki revision!
on March 25, 2008 at 5:49 pm Patina

you have to clarify that white Seattlites only like public transportation ideas that will never be implemented. We like to talk the talk without ever having to actually walk up the bus steps.
on March 25, 2008 at 5:53 pm Yep

Also true in Atlanta.
on March 25, 2008 at 5:58 pm Not a white guy

I think penny arcade’s comic on Will Shipley best sums up his thought process
on March 25, 2008 at 6:14 pm hmm

so, just a quick observation: at some point, this blog stops being satire, and starts becoming a shameless propagation of elite yuppy white culture. at which point you can kinda start to sound like a douche bag bragging about how cool white people are.

i love the website, and still manage to find it hilarious and all…i’m just saying…that line between snobby pitchforkmedia and supposed-to-be-funny stuffwhitepeoplelike…very blurry!
on March 25, 2008 at 6:28 pm Yep

Yeah, man. Prince George’s County, Md. even has a lacrosse team. All bets are officially off.
on March 25, 2008 at 6:33 pm Z

We need an article about Coldplay or Seinfeld.

Or plaid shorts.
on March 25, 2008 at 6:42 pm Ick

I can’t even believe a real human being really uttered those words. Who actually says “It’s the hip, young, fun thing to do”?

Did she learn English by reading weak, hackneyed ad copy?
on March 25, 2008 at 6:50 pm Chuck

When does the Wil Shipley cottage industry begin at CafePress? Let’s get it started!

“I’m on Wil Shipley’s iPod”

“Wil Shipley bought some farm-raised salmon from me (insert iPhone graphic)”

etc.

Let’s get it going!
on March 25, 2008 at 7:05 pm dan

This “White People in the News” recurring post is funny. I wonder if someone can find one with, like, fifteen white people references LOL
on March 25, 2008 at 7:13 pm Jim W

White people, give white people a bad name.
on March 25, 2008 at 7:14 pm John T

Generally, lots of people may like Apple products (I’ll have to take your word for it, since I’ve never seen a black person using an iPhone or shopping at the Apple store), but nobody loves Apple products like white people love Apple products.
on March 25, 2008 at 8:17 pm shawk

Wil Shipley is a great guy and writes great NeXT / OSX software, first for Omni and now for Delicious Monster.

No offense to anyone, but have many of you been interviewed by a reporter? I’ve been interviewed several times. It was a discouraging but educational experience.

I learned that your few words that make it into print will be distorted by compression and editing while the article itself is not always that accurate.
on March 25, 2008 at 9:11 pm cinderalka

Okay, I’m actually reading and responding from my iPhone. I can’t help it. The iPhone is that addictive and I’m not white! Check out what Desis (Indians) love for more laughs.
http://www.desis101.wordpress.com
on March 25, 2008 at 9:25 pm Pray 4 Wil Shipley

Shhhhhhh…..!

Don’t tell anybody.

I’m sure your right but what’s the fun in giving White Peeps the benefit of the doubt? 🙂
on March 25, 2008 at 10:10 pm har

Yah, what a dweeb. Now excuse me while I use my iPhone to see when Trader Joe’s next shipment of organic lettuce arrives so that I can place a wi-fi, on-line order to have it shipped to my Upper West Side apartment in time for my pan-asian dinner party that will be attended by a few lesbian-writer friends from Park Slope and an asian couple that have MFAs in creative writing LOL
on March 25, 2008 at 10:16 pm Maura

Mostly unrelated to to this post, but I have a suggestion for a new one: Photography. Seems every other white person of said ilk fancies themself an amateur but artsy photographer. Nature scenes, traveling shots, “tasteful” nudes, etc. On the less serious side, there is the aspect of taking pictures of yourself and friends via cameraphone (or iPhone?) or digital camera and swiftly adding them to your social networking site. Because it doesn’t count unless it’s on MySpace. And if you’re really wjite,you own an operate a Polaroid, preferably vintage.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:42 pm Steve Sailer

You need to do one on how much white people love trolleys, like the one along Pike Street Fish Market in Seattle. And how much they hate buses.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:50 pm Steve Sailer

“Also the greatest passage in history:”

Indeed, the Wil Shipley anecdote _is_ the greatest passage in history, but by using “greatest” you dropped the deadpan tone for a moment. You should change it to something like:

“Also, the whitest passage in history:”

Re-editing old blog posts to perfect them is SWPL.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:57 pm samondeath

White people?
on March 25, 2008 at 11:01 pm Win Your Weight in Immigrants™

According to the surname historian Basil Cottle, “Shipley” means “sheep pasture”. It has nothing to do with ships.

So he shouldn’t be shopping for fish. He should be buying lamb.
on March 25, 2008 at 11:07 pm gaycondo

find out why your gay friends are cooler than you…

Stuff Queer People Like

http://stuffqueerpeoplelike.wordpress.com
on March 25, 2008 at 11:41 pm en

What none of you guys understand is that Wil Shipley is one of the most prominent developers in the Apple / Mac community — and he’s not one of these modern day iPod era fan boys, but rather someone involved since 1989. It is only normal that he would use his iPhone 24 hours a day. He’s probably busy writing 30 apps for the iPhone right now. The guys who work at his local Whole Foods probably know this, and accept his behavior – it’s like a guy who designs cars coming up to you and asking you how you like your new car… That being said, I hope he is enjoying his entirely unexpected role in the White Man’s Spotlight, rather than feeling like shit.

There needs to be an entry for “making fun of other white people for being white.”
on March 25, 2008 at 11:59 pm Uh, Dude. Chill.

I love how a bunch of ignorant tards are on here bashing Wil himself, like he’s some random dude, when in fact he’s a pretty cool motherfucker in real life that’s made a ton of money doing what he loves. Yeah, it’s a white-as-fuck passage in a newspaper bit, but these comment queers have no idea what they’re talking about.
on March 26, 2008 at 12:15 am sig

Ah man, I clicked that link hoping I would get RickRoll’d or it’d be goatse or something, but no, it really _is_ a website for purchasing “eco-friendly” seafood. That’s so white of you.
on March 26, 2008 at 12:33 am sig

I love how this has turned into a sweeping defense of lacrosse players. Where the hell did that come from? Who said anything about lacrosse? Wha?
on March 26, 2008 at 12:57 am expat seattlite in europe

you mean the african-american academy? That is ONE school.
on March 26, 2008 at 1:15 am name goes here

That is the whitest passage in history lolz 😀
on March 26, 2008 at 1:22 am RicLee86

iI wonder whats going on? Whitepeoplelike to discuss!!! to whine, hate, blame others, etc etc
on March 26, 2008 at 1:42 am LaSmartOne

It’s about time White People become objectified!
on March 26, 2008 at 1:51 am httpmom

He looks kind of like a Rockfish. Ha!

but I understand the eco responsibility thing where seafood is concerned, especially being a member of the Monterey Aquarium. I follow their safe fish guide…because…soon non but the very wealthy will get to eat fish if we don’t change our habits.
on March 26, 2008 at 2:16 am thumper

I bet the reporter wrote that paragraph with the hope that it would get mentioned in this blog. You couldn’t cram any more whiteness in there if you tried.
on March 26, 2008 at 2:30 am Haraldsdotter

Jiiee!!! I learn a lot. I didn’t know you had a Wil Shipley over there… 🙂
on March 26, 2008 at 3:29 am amandzing

white people like flying ducks on their walls.
on March 26, 2008 at 4:01 am Maladroit

Sure Wil, whatever you say.
on March 26, 2008 at 4:06 am UhErOw

Cool? From his blog and the article he sounds like someone who gives chicks the dry heaves with his fish breath and interprets that as some sort of affirmation.
on March 26, 2008 at 4:11 am eduardotrindade

You’re incredibly racist!!! I’ll die and won’t see everything!!! Jesus Christ!!! I’m WHITE, but I really consider it barbarian separating WHITE tastes from the black ones!!! Come on, wake up you bunch of suckers we’re all equal in front of GOD!!! God damn you all!!!
on March 26, 2008 at 4:16 am eduardotrindade

Hey SHAWK, by the way, you know nothing about journalism. So, please, shut the fuck up.
on March 26, 2008 at 4:24 am Latchkey Man

eduardo- thinking “we’re all equal in front of GOD” in incredibly white of you.
on March 26, 2008 at 4:37 am Jeff

I thought the exact same thing while I was reading that article.
on March 26, 2008 at 4:46 am wil shipley sucks

who cares if he is a prominent apple geek…still a douche in my book. afterall, he isn’t asking people about their iphones, he is badgering $5.00/hr fishmongerers.

he is almost as bad as those pretentious losers who scan pictures of their neices and nephews on the subway in the morning just so everyone knows they have an iphone. pathetic.
on March 26, 2008 at 4:49 am wil shipley sucks

wil is a solid 10 on the unintentional comedy scale…could not make his gayness up if i tried.
on March 26, 2008 at 4:50 am Pray 4 Wil Shipley

this is one of those things I was unaware of before SWPL now there have been dozens of comments suggesting Photography & specifically Polaroid Photography & more specifically vintage Polaroid Photography.

Below is a link to an interview Patti Smith did promoting her Vintage Polaroid Exhibition of Blumsbury ilk where I think she goes one better because her Land camera is not only vintage but has defects (‘pinholes in my bellows’) that add effect.

Patti qualifies as an Expert Level White Person. She transcends her whiteness & slips the surly bonds of categorization. She got Soul. She is white done right.
on March 26, 2008 at 4:53 am www.anythingblack.wordpress.com

lol im waiting for a real post man

–

http://www.anythingblack.wordpress.com
on March 26, 2008 at 4:57 am Pray 4 Wil Shipley

problem is most people working in the news business know nothing about journalism asshole. please fuck yerself.
on March 26, 2008 at 5:07 am The Rev. Spyro

Holy Moly Jeff Spicoli! The guy Checks websites on line at Whole Foods for environmentally correct fish and quizzes the staff about it? Well there ya go. Yet another reason for every other country in the world to hate us. Yes yes you may say the Japanese are more tech crazed than we are but the difference is they have courtesy for the person in the fish line at Whole Foods BEHIND THEM! Not to sound like my Mom but people in third world nations are eating rice boiled in polluted water and riddled with dirt but we need to know if our Sea Bass was caught cruelty free? We are all so going to hell!
on March 26, 2008 at 5:21 am Anonymous

the best is the huge amount of energy he uses from the servers doing the search when he uses the iphone, go environment!
on March 26, 2008 at 5:26 am Shawn

My only hope is that Whole Foods workers who have to serve this moron are being as meticulous about where they’re gonna hide his body as he is about what fish he should buy. You will not be missed, sir.
on March 26, 2008 at 6:01 am Dan

it’s like a guy who designs cars coming up to you and asking you how you like your new car…

Fail.

It’s like a guy who designs cars coming up to you and asking you how you like his new car.

Or, more accurately, it’s like a guy who writes software bugging the crap out of you about where a fish he might want to buy was caught.
on March 26, 2008 at 6:09 am Dan

White people in Atlanta have to drive 30 minutes just to get to a Marta station because they’re afraid that if public transit stations spread to the ‘burbs, inner city gangs will ride out and infiltrate all the Gaps and Urban Outfitters.
on March 26, 2008 at 6:12 am Dan

Because he carries the Internet with him, “my gay porn addiction has spiralled out of control,” he said.”

Fixed!
on March 26, 2008 at 6:16 am praxenakis

Wil Shipley’s iPhone will end up floating in the ocean someday.
on March 26, 2008 at 6:57 am Jack Klompus

Wil Shipley should be hog tied and dropped in the middle of a busy intersection of North Philadelphia.
on March 26, 2008 at 7:04 am FRATSTUD

Wil Shipley wears a fanny pack.
on March 26, 2008 at 7:17 am Office Worker

I wish I had been drinking milk when I read that. Instead, I was eating baby carrots. Way grosser.
on March 26, 2008 at 7:34 am How Insane Is John McCain?

He hates the phrase McCainiac too.
on March 26, 2008 at 7:42 am Nick

“And in less than a minute, she was able to report to the skeptics around the dinner”

Dinner Parties (implied) was left off the list!
on March 26, 2008 at 7:48 am Anonymous

You MUST be joking! As if Lacrosse isn’t the whitest sport EVER! Hilarious. Is it played anywhere but at prep schools?
on March 26, 2008 at 7:53 am Peacenick

Yeah but – it’s a fish! Get over it.
on March 26, 2008 at 7:57 am i don't know, are you?

that comment was so typical. are you running from your parents’ religion too?

damn, show some respect.
on March 26, 2008 at 8:22 am Alex S.

Great passage, really sums up the experience of being a white urbanite.
on March 26, 2008 at 8:26 am Dan

The clerks who work the fish counter don’t mind. “He’s confirming on the Internet things that I am saying,” said Whole Foods’ Ken Shugarts.

…and, in the process of doing so, Mr. Shipley is unintentionally confirming that a) much of the iPhone’s technology isn’t actually necessary, but exists to make dudes like Shipley forget how much they aren’t getting laid, and b) he doesn’t trust Mr. Shugarts and the other Whole Foods clerks who already have the information that he’s needlessly accessing on the internet.
on March 26, 2008 at 8:46 am Are you fucking kidding me?

“He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. Because he carries the Internet with him, “I can be super-picky,” he said.””

This really almost demands its own post. White people LOVE to know all about where their organic coffee from whole foods was grown and white nation of indiginous people grew it and sold it in fair trade coffee selling…

Same with the fish.

White people need to know about their food and tell its story.

If I were a fish monger and this asshole came in with his iPhone wanting to know the co-ordinates of where the fish was caught so he could go to Google Earth and see for himself, he would catch a tuna upside the head.
on March 26, 2008 at 8:51 am AhErOw

I should have known:

http://twitter.com/wilshipley
on March 26, 2008 at 10:06 am I don't like you

I cannot, canNOT believe you typed “boughten.” So, yeah, that annoys me, I’m part Irish, Indian, English, German, and Scottish, so how “white” does this make me? You people are so foolish.

Don’t, please, type such stupidity like “boughten” because you are making yourself look soooo stupid. Just stupid.
on March 26, 2008 at 10:06 am anon

only 4. you must like real beer too.
on March 26, 2008 at 10:20 am karin louise

You forgot dinner parties, in the iphone article. They also mention dinner parties. which by the way, i am having one this thursday, so if anyone wants to come, please let me know, we always love to have a new ipod to throw on the speakers.
on March 26, 2008 at 10:26 am Jay

What’s with the guy going on about Lacrosse and jocks? wtf?
on March 26, 2008 at 10:33 am andrew

Eh. Wil is a good guy. He comes off a bit arrogant, but it’s largely ironic, and he’s a reasonably no-BS dude.

BTW, the link for mobile phone seafood ecofriendliness is http://m.edf.org/seafood

It differentiates between species caught in various areas in its measurement of friendliness, so it’s a legit question to ask the ‘monger.

Personally, I think it’s more white to not care.
on March 26, 2008 at 10:40 am Patina

No. I mean that the city is completely segregated. Nearly all of the public schools south of downtown have a huge majority of non-white students and a great many of the north end schools are snow white.
on March 26, 2008 at 11:27 am aric

I am from St. Mary’s county Maryland and unless you are from the area I don’t think folks here will get the joke – PG county in full of black folks, you know those people who don’t play a rich white mans game like lacrosse.
on March 26, 2008 at 11:30 am aric

No, Wil Shipley has a sense of humor…I changed his wiki yesterday and he edited in something funny.
on March 26, 2008 at 11:59 am Shawn

“Personally, I think it’s more white to not care.”

That is to say, the “wrong” kind of white. The kind of white that urban white hipsters/yuppies/term du jour hate being linked to by way of skin color and will spend indordinate amounts of time trying to disown.

It’s the kind of attitude causes people to start voting Republican.
on March 26, 2008 at 12:16 pm Professor Higgins

I’m playing with your Psychological mind you wound-way-2-tight word-prig.

I read Joyce during the 7th inning stretch at ballgames you extremely ignorant Bitch!

I got (yes I wrote got-sue me(you know you wish you could 😉 )) I got SAT scores that’d make you cry.

I know more grammatically correct ways of saying the word FUCK than your momma than ever actually did it.
on March 26, 2008 at 12:34 pm iflyfar

Its the Wil Shipley’s of the world that have brough Seattle down from what it once was……a great city.

Please do us Seattle natives a big favor and leave.

Seriously, if I actually saw a putz pulling this off at my local Whole Foods I would call him on his lame stunt.

One day, there will be a backlash……..
on March 26, 2008 at 1:26 pm I don't like you

Extremely ignorant? Ooh. Great comeback. The whole comment, really, I’m impressed. And “prig” too, wow.

So awesome, dude.
on March 26, 2008 at 1:35 pm fnbclan

iPhones are the bombdizzle
on March 26, 2008 at 2:30 pm Professor Higgins

By enlarge you is sew fullla shit yer ears stank.

The phrase “you extremely ignorant Bitch” was an allusion to Wendell Harris Jr’s 1989 indie film ‘Chameleon Street’ containing a classic seen wherein a knuckle-headed white-boy swears at the Harris character the gits a grammar lessen based around the various forms and uses of the word ‘fuck’.

The scene ends with Harris delivering the phrase ‘you extremely ignorant bitch’ to perfection.

I’d of given you extra whiteboy points if you’d of knew it.

🙂 😉
on March 26, 2008 at 2:35 pm Professor Higgins

I would have of used the word ‘illusion’ for allusion above but I figgered your to much’ve chump to git the jist.
on March 26, 2008 at 3:10 pm EeeVeeElle

I know this is a fakepost and everything, but it reminds me of something that really should have been mentioned a long time ago:

#93 Breaking down their cultural heritage to seem more exotic
on March 26, 2008 at 5:05 pm vifargent

I live in Seattle, I am white and female and single, and I have to say that Wil Shipley is way too representative of the white Northwestern male dating pool, not to mention grocery-store shoppers of either sex. This post isn’t even funny to me; it just makes me want to cry. I heard a guy accost a poor stocker a couple months ago with ‘Now, this coffee is fair trade and organic — but I don’t see that it’s shade-grown: what can you tell me about that?’ At that point I resolved to live only on things that can be bought at 7-11s and fast food places.

oisive-vitesse.blogspot.com
on March 26, 2008 at 5:30 pm potato

so true in atlanta. any time a white person uses public transportation here, they need to make sure it’s been properly recorded by telling at least 5 other white people. bonus points for blogging about it!
on March 26, 2008 at 6:25 pm A Face in the Crowd

He currently resides in Seattle where he uses his iPhone at the Whole Foods fish counter to check websites for updates on which seafood is the most environmentally correct to purchase. He quizzes the staff on where and how a fish was caught. He shares a home with Schmop, his cat. Shipley has also appeared in cartoon form in Penny Arcade, a popular webcomic.

Good update! 🙂
on March 26, 2008 at 7:06 pm hillary

oh okay but he’s still an asshole
on March 26, 2008 at 8:24 pm tHEESENUTZ

And the #1 ting white people like Racism.
on March 26, 2008 at 10:12 pm Anonymous

Om my god. I almost peed…
on March 27, 2008 at 5:52 am DaveC

I do this on my BlackBerry. I was on the way home from work last night and passed the House of Blues in Cleveland, and as we passed the girls that were sitting behind me on the bus were making fun of the concert goers hair, so i figured i’d be the “Informed” one of the group. i whipped out the BB and in less than minutes felt like I was the “King of Information and Tolerance” for i had taken the time to actually find out who the performer and not just be ignorant and make of people for being who they were. I am so awsome!!
on March 27, 2008 at 6:11 am Sean at The Pentagon

Agreed.

My sister in law and her husband are white as hell…..

And they go to Alaska every summer, work hard, and come home with about 40,000 bucks……..
on March 27, 2008 at 6:14 am Sean at The Pentagon

“I’m at Panera….”

See: #63
on March 27, 2008 at 6:18 am Sean at The Pentagon

Most of the Whole Foods employees I know would probably be totally into explaining what recycled steel double hook (because treble or a net would be cruel) that particular fish was caught on…..
on March 27, 2008 at 6:20 am Sean at The Pentagon

Whoa.

Agreed.

Tibet in general needs an entry…..

Whitey loves tibet, but wouldn’t touch yak butter tea with a 10 foot pole…..unless they were TOLD it was tibetan yak butter tea…..at which point they would pay premium prices and pretend it doesn’t taste nasty….
on March 27, 2008 at 6:28 am Sean at The Pentagon

I will say this is one time I am proud of Washington D.C.’s whites.

We not only like the idea of public transportation, whitey figured out a better way to do it than the gub’ment, and we’ve got our OWN public transportation…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugging
on March 27, 2008 at 6:30 am Sean at The Pentagon

LOLOLOLOL
on March 27, 2008 at 6:49 am Jack Klompus

Actually the number one thing we like to do is stare repeatedly at gems like: “And the #1 ting white people like Racism.” and marvel at what kind of education could produce such a deliciously inarticulate excuse for a complete sentence. The misspelling and the inexplicable capitalization of Racism are particular points of pride.
on March 27, 2008 at 8:54 am boringwhiteguy

Douchebags like Wil Shipley are truly hastening the downfall of our civilization.
on March 27, 2008 at 9:05 am tHEESENUTZ

School is for fools. Hows that sentence. You geek, why would I go to school so I can pay all those loans and make 60000 a year. Please you hate life, always tryin to keep up with you next door neighbor. I feel good living free of all that crap you call comfort. Thats why you are so racist you see blacks getting what they want and we dont have to slave away like you. My how the roles have changed.
on March 27, 2008 at 9:41 am I don't like you, still

Oh, I’m confident I’d have gotten the gist. You must have no life. Good luck.

I hate this blog, I really do. I’m a sheep, so that’s why I checked it out. What a waste. There are so many negative things to say about it, and there just isn’t enough time.

Hey, Christian, I hope you make no money and get no more book deals after this, your first ridiculous gimmick. You are basically stereotyping a whole group of people with one thing in common – skin color – who don’t all have cultural backgrounds in common, but mostly what disturbs me is that you’re applying these stereotypes to about 1-5% of the entire population with this particular color of skin.

You really are an opportunist I guess. In my view, this sort of thing is a terrible result of our access to each other in the age of the Internet.
on March 27, 2008 at 9:45 am I don't like you, still

Right, because things really are “black and white” aren’t they? I don’t wish to seem more exotic, that doesn’t garner much for me in the U.S.

Besides, if you think Irish, Scottish, German, and English sound exotic then you really are stupid.
on March 27, 2008 at 9:59 am DaveC

Per that last respone, see the Chappelle Show sketch mimicking sesame street.
on March 27, 2008 at 11:08 am what?

Wil? Is that you? Or just some super, techno nerd from the area who has a creepy crush?
on March 27, 2008 at 11:15 am Jack Klompus

“Thats why you are so racist you see blacks getting what they want and we dont have to slave away like you. ”
Hahaha, keep it up tHEESE, you’re the gift that keeps on giving.
on March 27, 2008 at 4:22 pm Come Let Us Reason Together

Guess the guy you reamed out thought ‘boughten’ was correct in the first place. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gotten so pissed off.
on March 27, 2008 at 4:45 pm Come Let Us Reason Together

If God intended for people of color to be equal to white people he would have created them that way.
on March 27, 2008 at 4:47 pm noodle

Its a fish! lets eat it!
on March 27, 2008 at 4:51 pm Come Let Us Reason Together

Why is everyone so jealous of Wil Shipley? Did he just announce a book deal too?
on March 27, 2008 at 11:07 pm Twinkie girl

We multi-racials love our Apple products, too. They’re not just for Whitey anymore.
on March 28, 2008 at 4:13 am Casper

I don’t know about that, but I don’t see why a link to that site would be appropriate on this page. I would not expect that the white people described in this blog are particularly religious. Who’s gonna get out of their Mies van der Rohe chair to go sit in a church pew?
on March 28, 2008 at 8:40 am Tom the Impaler

NO no no mister Shipley! We don’t “catch” the fish, we take home only those which jump into the boat with us and request, in English, to be slaughtered. After a fish Breathalyzer to determine that they’re sober, and six weeks of counseling for potential depression/psychosis, they’re gently put to sleep using a mallet to the head, and brought before you to critique.

Of course we’re selling them for $1 billion per pound too….
on March 28, 2008 at 9:50 am Adam

I’m still trying to figure out how microbrewery beer was implied in that article.

But, on that note, drinking Pabst is another “white” thing. But maybe that qualifies as irony.
on March 28, 2008 at 10:11 am EyeOfTheBeholder

Great site! I have to plead guilty to at least half of the list. I had never even realized it until I stumbled across SWPL. It’s fun to see myself and probably 90% of my friends tweaked. Hey, is that another thing white people like: pretending they don’t mind getting stereotyped and skewered? If we can’t laugh at ourselves we’re really in trouble!

Very insightful list and lots of fun. How about combining 2 lists for people who love San Francisco mostly because of Chinatown and the generally large Asian population? Oh, and of course us white people know all about Asian cuisine. Just ask us! Some of us have even had Thai food because we just LOVE spicy food! Up to 1 star. Sawaddee Kup.

Now, can we please get back to talking about Asian girls? Hugs to Kamwa at the Li-Po. swooooooon
on March 28, 2008 at 1:23 pm whiteduranie

I sort of think people are cooler if they are aloof and unavailable and thus not constantly on their cell phones and definately not looking things up on the web with them all the time just to be a smarty pants.
on March 28, 2008 at 1:38 pm Urtheuinus

Why did the guy need to ask the salesperson if he had the iphone?
on March 28, 2008 at 5:30 pm I don't like you

Hey, that’s very nice. Fuck, I can’t believe I came back here, but still, I like to hear that someone thinks I “reamed” this jagoff out, because I did try, I did.

Thanks!
on March 28, 2008 at 5:34 pm I don't like you

By the way, ol’chap, don’t you think Joyce is terribly long and rambling and boring?
Just wondering…what was that? You don’t know? Hmm, wonder if you really do read him. Most people I know just love his stuff, quite right.
Fuck it, you really are smart. What’s a person to do, I give up.
on March 29, 2008 at 1:49 am Portnoy

This site lacks Texans. Whole foods is from TX.

And what the hell has happened to “Seattle”?

It used to be a man’s man type city, the anti-San Fran, a real place……but now there are these weasels crying that their city doesn’t get mentioned in the same jewified metrosexual homosexual breath as SF????

I bet the washington natives are not pleased with these wimpy newcomers.
on March 29, 2008 at 1:50 am Portnoy

It the spics and latrinos that bring that poison into our country.
on March 29, 2008 at 1:55 am Portnoy

Curb Your Enthusiasm is jewish, not White. It’s anti-White. What planet do you live on??

You are clearly the “wrong kind of White person”, if white at all. 😦
on March 29, 2008 at 1:59 am Portnoy

DUH!!! THERE ARE NO WHITE CITIES LEFT IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.

The only real exception may be Moscow.

Get used to it. Future generations of White kids will curse the baby-boomers and those wrong kinds of Whites that followed their idiocy.
on March 29, 2008 at 2:04 am Portnoy

It was invented by the Iriquois.

Real white sports would include GAA gaelic (hurling & football), English invented soccer, only Whites swim competitively, the list goes on and on. X games are White. A White guy invented basketball. Whites came up with baseball, cricket, croquet, tennis…the list goes on and on.

What sports did Latrinos and blacks ever start or form?
on March 29, 2008 at 2:07 am Portnoy

Anon: You are the wrong kind of White person, if white at all.

Gays, jews, metrosexuals, White men that marry asians and have slanted-eyed sons, etc.

These are non-Whites and/or the wrong kind of Whites!!!!
on March 29, 2008 at 2:10 am Portnoy

Whites do not watch “Adam Sandler” movies. They all bomb at the box office. Anon: you are clearly a jew, and therefore a non-white and it’s impossible therefore for you to be either the right or wrong kind of White.

Shut up already and go to jewlicious.com
on March 29, 2008 at 9:54 am outeasy

ugh. lemme know when will shipley is going to be at the grocery store. I want to make certain I am anywhere but there.
on March 29, 2008 at 1:42 pm Timmy!

oh whity
on March 30, 2008 at 12:04 am Stuka1488

I guess these guys are upset with your portrayal of White people:

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?p=5301911&posted=1#post5301911
on March 30, 2008 at 3:08 am Adam

Good! I’m glad you and your racist moron buddies don’t like this site. By the way: Hitler was Jewish and gay.
on March 30, 2008 at 5:27 am Mark S.

Will Shipley is a (distant) cousin of mine and we Shipleys are all an eccentric lot.
on March 30, 2008 at 6:06 am Anonymous

I’m a fag and we don’t want him in our “group”.
on March 30, 2008 at 6:11 am Anonymous

Holy shit. Amazing.

You need to put the original printed reference so people know its true and can’t remove it.
on March 30, 2008 at 6:11 am Dave

We like what ever Oprah tell us to
on March 30, 2008 at 8:23 am David Everitt-Carlson

Yikes! Dueling with fishmongers by iPhone. Seems a bit obsessive compulsive doesn’t it?
on March 30, 2008 at 2:22 pm The Mantra

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.”
on April 2, 2008 at 6:59 am tonalddrump

I’ve got stuff white people would like,like using the N-word amongst friends.
http://tonalddrump.wordpress.com/
on April 3, 2008 at 12:13 pm EyeOfTheBeholder

How about Cruises? When you look at a cruise brochure, the only non-white people you see are holding serving trays.
on April 5, 2008 at 6:32 pm novabook

i love the stuff you guys write but with 21million hits and counting don’t you guys know a better way to monetize this site then using google adsense? there are ten times more effective ways to monetize your blog when you have this much traffic!! if you need help i’ll do it for free just so i don’t have to see those lame adsense ads on this site anymore. when your making ten times more you can just buy me some sushi or an iphone or something 😉
http://aaronnovak.com/
on April 9, 2008 at 8:34 pm grandbaby

Know what’s white–or at least “the right kind of white”? Expressing outrage in defense of “hourly employees.”
on April 9, 2008 at 8:46 pm grandbaby

multi-racials who refer to their multi-racialness are…white.
on April 12, 2008 at 9:39 pm Elizabeth Stolfi

Poor people like fish.

http://www.poorpeoplelikepizza.blogspot.com
on April 17, 2008 at 11:36 am happyjack

And after the dust settles, only happyjack remains.

With the Stuff White People Like blog officially slain, it’s time for me to move on to more challenging prey. Perhaps I’ll meet some of you on my next target.

Stuff White People Like died on April 17th, 2008. RIP.
on April 18, 2008 at 5:31 am jj

huh?
on April 18, 2008 at 6:18 am Rachel

It’s dead. It jumped the shark. The horse is hamburger. You get the idea. No one cares.
on May 13, 2008 at 4:51 am BlackMamba

Bunch of white morons acting like they’re not and a few racists. Nice blog!

Wil Shipley is the shiznit and you’re all just little fishies.
on May 13, 2008 at 7:55 am KT

Why would you want to hurt someone for looking up a website on his phone? That is pathetic.
on May 13, 2008 at 5:37 pm Joe

Will Shipley is the kind of guy who would write the above about himself.

He’s a legend in his own mind, alright.

But he’s not working on any iphone apps right now, unless he’s doing something to go with his long delayed overly hyped delicious library.

He’s probably a decent person, if arrogant and a bit pretentious.

And its true that he is among the group of about a dozen mac developers who have raised snobbery to a supreme art form.

Please don’t judge the rest of the mac developer community by their example… somehow success seems to go to their heads, but most of us are decent guys, happy to help other mac developers out.
on May 13, 2008 at 5:41 pm Joe

No, he’s just a limousine liberal high on his own smug emissions.

The really bad thing about people like this is they are so sanctimonious and at the same time, they advocate policies that impoverish people and destroy the environment, while being smug about their delusions that they do the opposite.
on June 26, 2008 at 8:21 am Ian

Apparently white people will criticize you if you don’t monetize your site according to their ideals. Freaking adsense!

We also like to use substitute curse words you gosh darn pud whacker.
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