# 15 things i hate about hippies **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 15, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799 "2002-11-15T01:41:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/21 "2002-11-15T05:15:35Z")
:snort: Phish. Huh. :snort: How do you know the people sleeping in your van are 'heads? They think they’re still on tour. -andros- (14 shows, very little on tape any more, but I once actually saw the Fatman _move_ while playing) ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/22 "2002-11-15T06:56:03Z")
Looks like you had some trouble coming up with 15 things, **Tars Tarkas.** Does that possibly mean that you don’t hate them as much as you think you do? Or if you do, why the fucking fuck do you live in San Francisco? That’s like posting “I HATE COMMUNISTS” from a computer in Beijing! Isn’t there a better target for your ire? I mean, there are a lot of people out there with pretty crazy ideas who try at every opportunity to force them on the mainstream. Hippies don’t seem to be doing that. They’re just relaxing, listening to music, and minding their own business. Unlike the ubiquitous bar flies in my neck of the woods, they aren’t yelling at the tops of their lungs incessantly or picking drunken fistfights on public streets. To you, this seems like an open invitation to insult their culture, paint them with a broad, moronic brush, and facetiously(?) bemoan the current lack of hippy beatings. Did somebody drop the brown acid in your coffee this morning? Hippies share a culture. It’s not always a culture that they were born into, but that doesn’t make it any less valid. If someone on these boards had a bad experience with a foul-smelling Middle Eastern cab driver and decided to post a pit thread proclaiming all Muslims to be smelly bastards, they’d be laughed off the boards. I might have had a little chuckle if your list was actually humorous, but it wasn’t. It struck me as a Beavis-and-Butthead-esque “hippies smell, huh, huh, huh” post. Nothing insightful. Nothing particularly amusing. Nothing but a steaming pile of message board dung to mire the hamsters. FWIW, I’m not a hippie and never was one, but I still find the OP offensive. I’ve met a few hippies. They were nice guys. They smelled fine. They didn’t beg for money, but rather got _me_ high! They certainly didn’t deserve to be singled out and laughed at. So, **FUCK YOU, TARS TARKAS!** Either STFU or fucking move to Des Moines! ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/23 "2002-11-15T07:16:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neutron star \* > **Or if you do, why the fucking fuck do you live in San Francisco? That’s like posting “I HATE COMMUNISTS” from a computer in Beijing!** 😕 Huh. So Chinese people who hate communism are supposed to move to Des Moines too? ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/24 "2002-11-15T07:19:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neutron star \* > \*\*So, **FUCK YOU, TARS TARKAS!** Either STFU or fucking move to Des Moines! \*\* **FUCK YOU, NEUTRON STAR!** Hoping to start a theme there. Anyway, I live in even smaller town Iowa, and I work with a hippie, so that won’t be a good way to escape them. He has horrible teeth, long hair, smells, and smokes pot, but I consider him a good friend. He’s got the memory of a goldfish and a goofy hippie laugh, but I wouldn’t trade him for anybody. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/25 "2002-11-15T07:43:47Z")
_Hippies? HAIR the Musical? DONOVAN???_ Did I accidentally step in to the Way Back Machine this morning? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/26 "2002-11-15T07:49:26Z")
Relax, **neutron**. The OP was funny because it’s not serious. I thought it was funny, and the woman I admire most smells like patchouli (or tea-tree oil, alternately,) and hasn’t combed her hair _once_ in about seven years. Bless her. I daresay most people who fit the description of “hippie” (are there actually any pople who self-identify as “hippies”?) wouldn’t take exception to the OP… Heh heh-- “Grrrrr! Hemp clothing browns me off!” Um, right. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/27 "2002-11-15T08:18:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Huh. So Chinese people who hate communism are supposed to move to Des Moines too? Um, it’s supposed to mean if you don’t like hippies, why are you in their fucking home city? I know it isn’t completely comparable to someone in China who can’t just shove off and come to the U.S. or Canada. Also, my point isn’t that Iowa doesn’t house a single hippie (stunning revelation, BTW, Wikkit), but that maybe, just _maybe_ the concentration of hippies is higher on Haight Street than it is in a conservative Midwestern city. Eh, maybe I should just think of the OP as hackneyed and dull, rather than be pissed off about it. I guess I would haven’t responded like that if there’d been something else in the OP to suggest that it was just good-natured fun-poking rather than “_goddamn it_ I hate these fucking hippies and here’s why.” It was just a list, though. Looking back on it, it really wasn’t really the OP that angered me so much as GlarGH’s posts, which it looks like I failed to address at all in my post. Where the hell are all these hippies looking to shove their beliefs down your throats? He makes it seem as if the abhorrent behavior of his landlord is indicative of hippies in general. There seemed to be some real hatred in those posts. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/28 "2002-11-15T08:24:00Z")
I was going to post something witty concerning my growing up in a) a shack in Maui, b) on top of a mountain in New Mexico, and c) Boulder, Colorado; and how all of this led to my ironically working for a huge corporate mind-killer and living in South Texas, but I’d need to get really baked to do that, and I don’t see that happening soon… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/29 "2002-11-15T08:28:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by neutron star \* > So, **FUCK YOU, TARS TARKAS!** Either STFU or fucking move to Des Moines! \*\* Coincidentally, both myself and **Tars** are originally from the bright metropolis of Rock Island, IL, of the glorious Quad Cities America…a scant 3 hours from Des Moines. What do you got against Des Moines, buddy? Me and **Tars** sort of came up with the list spontaneously on MSN IM this afternoon, don’t shit a brick over it dude. I think I can speak for my fellow Rock Islander when I say that part of us lives to amuse. If you weren’t amused, then we’ll try better next time 🙂 Until then, to quote Bill Murray from _Stripes_, “Oh, lighten up Francis.” ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/30 "2002-11-15T09:05:25Z")
I guess I kinda overreacted. It’s been a crappy day. Sorry, Rex. You too, Tars. Not you so much, GlarGh. Thanks for taking a lighthearted response to my flame, Rex. I probably didn’t deserve it. Keep trying, and I’ll do my best to lighten up in the meantime. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/31 "2002-11-15T09:10:45Z")
Now, if we could only pass around a big fattie, things would be perfect. Hope things are looking up for ya, , neutron. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/32 "2002-11-15T11:28:28Z")
It’s hard to grasp that people are making jokes about hippies when you’ve hardly seen any in decades. That may be part of the communications gap here. It’s like making bobby-soxer jokes. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/33 "2002-11-15T11:42:44Z")
What about the beatniks? ---
**Author:** ![Tsubaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Tsubaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tsubaki)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/34 "2002-11-15T12:09:48Z")
You can’t help but like Neal, though. Him and his lentils. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/35 "2002-11-15T13:13:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Until then, to quote Bill Murray from Stripes, “Oh, lighten up Francis.” [nitpick]actually, that was **Sgt. Hulka’s** (Warren Oates) line.[/nitpick ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/36 "2002-11-15T13:21:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*What about the beatniks? \*\* What?! Those damn bongo lovin’ beard monkeys can take their bad-poetry-declaiming, brownie-eatin’, black-turtleneck-and-beret-clad, Krebsian street wisdom, shove it up their drug-addled drunken pooters and smoke it! Jack Kerouac can _kiss my ass!!_ ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/37 "2002-11-15T14:01:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\*It’s hard to grasp that people are making jokes about hippies when you’ve hardly seen any in decades. That may be part of the communications gap here. It’s like making bobby-soxer jokes. \*\* What-- I went to Berkeley in the nineties-- and we had plenty of hippies. I sure they would send you some if you asked really nicely. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/38 "2002-11-15T14:01:52Z")
The beats were infinitely cooler than the hippies. Don’t push your luck, son. And as Jaime Hernandez once said on a flyer… "Punk show! Tix pre-show $3 Day of show $5 Hippies $100" ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/39 "2002-11-15T14:03:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Libertarian \* > \*\*What about the beatniks? \*\* You mean Ned Flander’s parents-- the freaky beatniks? ---
**Author:** ![xenophon41](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xenophon41/32/253_2.png) [@xenophon41](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xenophon41)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799/40 "2002-11-15T14:08:52Z")
> [@](#): > > The beats were infinitely cooler than the hippies. Well then, uh… what about those freakin’ _zoot-suiters?_ Eh? Eh? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-things-i-hate-about-hippies/136799.md?page=3)