Britainology 3: Understanding Home Counties Guys
This week's bonus features Milo and Nate on another Britainology, this time with Kent guy Hussein, to discuss the Home Counties and how the deeply cursed world of London suburbia has created an identity of Britishness that you've probably encountered, even if you didn't recognise it. Hope you enjoy!
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A crash course for the uninitiated on home counties guys, their appearance, demeanour and motivations is Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney.
I live in California, we have much the same kind of twenty something nonce loitering in a high school parking lot waiting for their girlfriends. When I was 18 my girlfriend was 17 and I'd often end up there with a bunch of guys in their mid to late twenties. It's a gross culture and only now does it occur to me it was connected with the fact that there was fuckall to do in our town.
'Brits abroad' could be a great episode - with support from the various tv documentaries. The behaviour and attitude of British holidaymakers going to the Med e.g. the bizzare colony of Benidorm; young Brits getting smashed in Kavos/Malia/Zante (Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents); Brits on stag and hen dos in Prague, Marbella, Amsterdam etc.
Wanted to add that Tim Westwood has also survived a shooting, in true gangsta rap fashion. Yours, A young man from Surrey (the snootiest of all counties)
So good
Brilliant episode. A lack of goofs, but really enjoyed the chat. I especially can relate when a friend once told me (round 2010), before moving to Bristol, "Don't go to Saint Paul's area or black kids will stab you". I have since walked through Saint Paul's in Bristol multiple times at 2 in the morning and can confirm my friend was talking horse shit. It's funny how things can get distorted by media & create deep seated and racist lies that are still believed even now.
I'm from Bristol and went to Stoke's Croft for the first time ever last year (i'm 32), I realised my parents had avoided entire swathes of town for being "dangerous" just because black people lived there
The darkfruits twitter/personal trainer tory dog eat dog guy described around 45:00 is basically all of Basingstoke or any other boring but not deprived commuter town in or just outside the home counties
Yeah, I grew up in Devon/Cornwall, but can confirm the same guy exists round here. Dark fruits such a rugby's lad drink too which I think fit into it well. Such a shitty disappointment of a drink, no wonder they love it.
as a Guy from Maidstone who went to an all boys grammar school and never went to the U18s discos at liquid and Envy, with a London cop dad and a tradesman stepbrother with an affected deep voice + Mockney accent and a rich plumber grandad who owned the local garage: accurate
I know a woman from Maidstone who went to the all girls grammar school and she part owns a citroen garage I think, do all grammar school people in Maidstone have garage relations
Good to hear a southern account of this, find it kinda hard to penetrate the Home Counties Guy as I am extremely from the north east.
whey aye man howay etc
I鈥檇 kill for a mp3 of Honkbal!
Some thoughts after listening to recent episodes: 1) Milo ought to feel free to fully unleash his various voices. 1A) The fans all want more Trashfuture impersonations of the Boonta Vista cast. Just go ahead and record a fake Boonta Vista episode. 2) You must release the mp3 of Honkbal Hoofdklasse (On My Radio Tonight) to Patreon subscribers.
Strike until our demands are met!