Joe Queenan's Tour of Yuppiedom - People Like Us episode #2

[@ledinrangers]

"The working class doesn't know what this is, so they don't want it." *Has ~$3 potato peeler in his hand.*

[@frostmaiden85]

"it's permanent highschool" exactly.

[@HeavyProfessor]

Angela's Ashes must have been on my grandmother's coffee table for YEARS. Hilarious stuff.

[@elizabethfigueroa6811]

I wish they would redo this series today.

[@griffparker1466]

It's a potato peeler bruh

[@jennifermurphy7849]

I know, right?!

[@user-eu2me4bp7j]

😭 BOOMERS smh lol 🤣

[@iasadwerasd3605]

This is a joke,dude

[@Chromanoutdoors]

Nothing like a rich guy telling us all how we should feel about rich guys....

[@closer71]

Only proles and the middle class care what people think of their records, etc. Anyone who is confident in their status couldn't care less what other people think. E.g., those at the bottom of the social ladder, as well as those at the top are supremely status confident. It is everyone else who is worried about what their peers (i.e. betters) will think of their abyssmal taste in art, music, whatever...

[@Easttr090]

"It could mean engine fluid for all we know." This guy is my new hero!!!!

[@cutiecakes536]

uhm i could be wrong but when hes talking about the utensil in the store thats a potato peeler isn't it? ... really people dont know that?

[@beelz5932]

He’s being satirical, the object in his hand doesn’t matter as much as the sentiment he’s attaching to it. The whole point is that upper class people will try to find ways to distinguish themselves from the lower class through class signifiers.

[@TheGeoScholar]

Joe Queenan's whole idea is to point out the idea of trying to evoke class, on how people try to look like they are one step ahead of everyone else. And as is indicated in the video, Joe Queenan is a satirist. Joe Queenan is discussing class in a satirical way. He's talking about people trying to "keep up with the Jones" and doing so in certain ways. I know "Tartufo Bianco" means "white truffle" and not engine fluid. However, Joe Queenan's point is that there is a desire to make something look like it's more than it is. And one of the ways this is done is by giving something a name in a different language.

[@deborahhoward5471]

This was such a great documentary. I wish it was easier to watch. You have to search all the separate segments and some of the segments I remember from the original I can’t find anywhere.

[@anurruti]

Loved Joe Queenan sharp remarks and astute putting finger in wounds of snobs and aristocratic wannabes

[@sequanamoore1895]

I would define this as, status, he is letting everyone know you are defined by the things you know of prestige. The class level that you have achieved.

[@Domino014]

Joe Queenan is the original hipster.

[@thealbatross3292]

Actually my mom insists that Angela's ashes is funny, in sort of a dark way....for some reason. And she has read it a bunch of times.

[@basicallyno1722]

There’ll be no wankin up the spout!!!!

[@bobchevallier8456]

Queenan is hysterical

[@doberman1ism]

Yuppies could only be cool by following dictated trends. No room for creativity and self expression of one’s life choices. No individuality!

[@mostirreverent]

hehehe easier than pronouncing Bruegel

[@watching99134]

In all fairness very few Americans can pronounce Dutch/Flemish words.

[@imfuncti0nal290]

tad bit hypocritical, not knowing of what is very clearly a potato peeler while saying the working class doesnt know what it is

[@Jay_boy19]

2:45 That's a potato peeler... You talk a lot of sense, but you don't know what potato peeler is?

[@closer71]

I have eaten at Matisse and the food was terrible.

[@frijolanza]

Wow you are such a free spirited individual.

[@blackaristo]

This documentary was excellent! I only wish that they included a clip on the Co op/Shaws/ The Trouble With Tofu clip. That was something to watch.

[@hellograceanne]

If you don't understand that this is satire; then I don't know what you're doing here.

[@sammanthaneys2675]

hellograceanne I wish. I’m watching this for a college class.

[@sequanamoore1895]

It is clear that Americans surround themselves with things of prestige. They fancy these things and want to show them off. It is more of an entitlement, than that of a hard working person. We are defined in class levels by the high class the way we look, the people we know, where ones parents may or may not work, the things we eat, and high end stores, that are shopped at. Meaning, if I were a working class person, would I know what a certain fancy french cooking tool were? No. It is all about a social class, am I cool or am I not. I am in the elite in-crowd, they walk through doors that many have never seen before.They have of sense of entitled that makes them feel that they almost can do as they as because they above the normal lower working class person.

[@yytt9922]

great ads

[@TheFreckledPrincess]

I love a good cuisine backpack.

[@danielcguthrie]

It sounds like George Clooney narrating.

[@blackcitroenlove]

White truffle flavor....not really any truffle in it? Fake truffle?

[@danaisduhbom]

I really wish he had spoken up when he said, "It's pathetic".

[@eyerishroses]

I read all of Franks books.

[@louisadrill7060]

he cuts to the bs te best

[@The_Hazelnut]

wooow to Europeans this is just shocking! Everything seems extremly superficial. That restaurant thing was funny though, but doesn't anyone cook his own food anymore and cares about what he eats?

[@SuperFrankky]

poor people hahaha

[@hinina6469]

Song towards the beginning?

[@jeepjeep101]

when you wish upon a star

[@BiffWebster100]

What about Dorsia?

[@EmeraldxFairy]

Nobody goes there anymore.

[@vienlacrose]

This has to be satire.

[@The_Hazelnut]

Sure, by eating e.g. frozen pizza you can stop your hunger without having to peel any vegetables and without cooking all different ingredients in different pods but is this healthy and sustainable? Not at all! The problem with the rich people is that a lot of them do buy this stuff to just possess it. If you have the money, nothing will stop you from having your food delivered from a expensive restaurant or cooked by a butler. Society is heading towards its doom....

[@jenniferrose6770]

So funny watching the Italian names of products being of Italian heritage and and speaking some Italian.

[@raewilliams3284]

doesn't even know how to speak a fluent sentence... 😂

[@lu47kcml]

This guy is pretty bad ass

[@Pyricshadows]

@closer71 you are a perfect example of what he is talking about. Very few know what it is but its not because it is not targeted at the working class. You know what it is so I can assume you are of higher class, like cooking, or are deviant from normal traits of your social class. When he says 'permanent high school' he is talking about how people, much like yourself, find the need to call people an "ass" or and "idiot" for not knowing something you know.

[@nordiskkatt]

"Tartufo bianco balsamic vinegar"??? He really doesn't know shit, does he? That was olive oil infused with white truffle.... no vinegar in sight!

[@sallyschmalz8916]

This is so unbelievably untrue. This is one pompous ass' opinion. Maybe he needs to read Angela's Ashes - it's an incredibly well-written book. This 4-minute waste of time is one man's lame opinion. Many of us worked hard, studied hard and volunteer a TON. He is clueless. What a diatribe - honestly, it was full of generalities and the stereotyping is ridiculous.

[@philwilliams470]

Sally Schmalz ..... V Good Point! - The most Intense Snobbery comes from what was once termed 'the Lower Class'. - Through a 'shop till you drop' culture & Media labelling; you can end up with the Human equivalent of Time Square ....... a gaudy & crudely coloured display of 3rd rate neon; as opposed to what It COULD BE.

[@patriciajohnsonson8639]

The ‘knowledgeable’ man being interviewed is so off base. He seems upset about the people who buy the French wine and potato peeler that he didn’t know what it was. I don’t care what my friends think about my stuff and I don’t think my sister or sister in law worry about that either. I think the gentleman was speaking for himself and only himself.