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7 comments on “There’s nothing quite like…”
I saw that this morning and thought it was hilarious. Why leave a comment like that if you’re not even willing to go the whole hog in swearing?
I never realised David Baddiel read your site!
poophole? Is that the best he could do? Lame….
Profgrrl, I see you think the comment is by a male of the species, too (and Steve too has formed that conclusion, I think; if American readers have never heard of Dave Baddiel, he might be considered, er, a crown prince of British blokishness). And yet that *is* merely an assumption. Any of the demonstrably thoughtful guys around here want to agree/protest?
Yes, it just read like a guy. Women don’t use words like poophole unless they’re talking to kids and at a total loss for a good word to refer to anatomy (not to call a name). And even then…
What exactly does “blokishness” mean, btw?
signed,
a hopelessly American gal…
Allow me…
The phrase came into widespread usage in Britain in the early nineites, when mass culture started to lighten up after the preceived political correctness overdrive of the late eighties. As mass culture is dictated by the (relatively) monied middle classes over here, blokeishness is exhibited strictly by middle class males. Talking about football, drinking more than three (foreign, bottled) beers in one sitting and using mild swear words. It is an attempted acknowledgement of working class culture, albeit a stereotypical one. David Baddiel is an ‘entertainer’ who made his name exhibiting these traits without displaying any comic abibilty at all; apt as whole the blokeishness bandwagon is an irony-free phonomenom anyway. See also Guy Richie, Jamie Oliver, Radio 5 Live, Tony Blair, estuary English (lol).
I’ll pass you over to Sharon for verification. She can also explain to you what a chav is!
I couldn’t have put it any better Steve (including the bit about Baddiel who is a prize tw*t, and I can even imagine him using the word poophole. Yeah, just so outrageous). But I wouldn’t want to try to define ‘chav’ although I sort of know what it is… (if interested, you could read this.