I hate hippies!
April 19, 2008 – 7:54 pm by JohnOn Chris Lander’s web page Stuff White People Like, there are primarily two types of blag posts: entries into the ever-growing list of stuff white people like, and news items that exemplify white people liking those things. So far, the most famous and well-liked entry in the list of stuff white people like is probably assists, incomplete and poorly presented though it is. (See the name John Stockton anywhere in his post? It isn’t mentioned until the twelfth comment. By far, the first and foremost person most white guys think of—including myself, who hates basketball—when they think of assists is John Stockton.)
A recent post about white people liking white-people things in the news was about these yuppie losers who use their iPhones in every conceivable social situation to look something up and verify a fact or win a bet or whatever, making themselves very annoying to their friends and colleagues.
The increased annoyingness the iPhone accords also extends to damn dirty hippies, who, you might have thought, could not get any more annoying. Lander picks out what he calls “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.
Ahh, god, I hate these stupid hippies!