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Really? It makes me feel like I'm on a board with a bunch of university-educated middle-class people, largely in their twenties and early thirties, from aping what they imagine da yoof are like. It is, not to put too fine a point on it, like watching your uncle talk about how his neighbourhood has gone downhill, with voices.
Hm. I'm honestly not too sure about this, in that as far as I can tell, the "voices" here are expressing (fairly horrible) attitudes, rather than, say, anecdotes about "throwing up outside Primark". Moreover, I can cite numerous examples of young men, "Normal Blokes", if you will, who talk exactly like this on the internet (and in real life), except for with a little more misogyny and homophobia. Full disclosure - I'm a 20-year old male, who went to A Major Single-Sex Grammar School, and currently attend An Ex-Left-Wing College at Oxford University. And therefore qualify for the Privileged Background &c box Haus has defined. Therefore, I feel qualified to say that numerous people who share these privileges to the letter, and are, not to mince words, mostly considerably better off than I, do, in fact talk like this. Without wanting to use the word "excuse", these people have had an intensive education and all the privileges of upper-middle-class wealth.
They think of themselves as Normal Blokes, and they post like this on the internet*. Therefore I'm confused as to how this thread can be seen as class-based satire/comedy/whatever.
However, having said that, having a bit of barbelith where misogynist fictionthings, however temporary, interact with female id'd posters, does make me sick up in my mouth a bit ('specially the stuff with Olulabelle). Possibly this goes in the same box as "comedy racism", where people (including myself, on occasion, and I'm not proud of it to say the least) attempt ham-fistedly to satirise racists by adopting their speech patterns with increasingly obvious slurs, and as such is Bad because it involves having an uncritical arena for hatespeech, which people can come across and be affected regardless of original comedic intent.
In short, I like id's concept for the thread the best, but I don't think what we're looking at is necessarily "chav humour".
*Furthermore, these are the chaps What Beat Me Up At School. Purely in the interests of full disclosure. |
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