# Anti-hippy rant Number Two **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 24, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560 "2007-11-24T00:18:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/81 "2007-11-25T15:27:53Z")
Wow. All the “peace and love” in this thread is making me want to puke. Seems like some people have to look for an argument, even where none exists. If you won’t protest my cause in my way, then you’re clearly a bad person. End of argument. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/82 "2007-11-25T16:41:47Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] hah. I live in Haight-Ashbury so I’m technically on their territory. I doubt any dictionary will be able to accurately describe all the different smells that come out of a hippie’s noggin’ fuzz. I don’t want to talk too much smack though because every now and then when I feel like eating a bag of Doritos and watching cartoons I have to go hit up the park for some supplies. [/QUOTE] Wait. Lobstermobster lives in San Fransico??? I wish I had heard about this before! Does she train ponies? I have one that needs a trick. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/83 "2007-11-25T16:55:21Z")
[QUOTE=zuma] Wait. Lobstermobster lives in San Fransico??? I wish I had heard about this before! Does she train ponies? I have one that needs a trick. [/QUOTE] Oh stop flirting with me, bridge and tunnel, it’s embarrassing! I know I’m repetitive but this time it’s germane to the topic of neo-hippies. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/84 "2007-11-25T17:02:47Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] Oh stop flirting with me, bridge and tunnel, it’s embarrassing! I know I’m repetitive but this time it’s germane to the topic of neo-hippies. [/QUOTE] No bridges, no tunnels, babe. Straight up 280 yo. I could scream “I LIVED IN SAN FRANCICO”. or “I LIVE IN SAN JOSE”, or, god forbid it ever came to it “I LIVED IN SEATTLE”. But I don’t. Why must you trick out your pony ride? Nobody cares that you LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO. I find your fetishising it a little amusing. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/85 "2007-11-25T17:04:38Z")
[QUOTE=zuma] No bridges, no tunnels, babe. Straight up 280 yo. I could scream “I LIVED IN SAN FRANCICO”. or “I LIVE IN SAN JOSE”, or, god forbid it ever came to it “I LIVED IN SEATTLE”. But I don’t. Why must you trick out your pony ride? Nobody cares that you LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO. I find your fetishising it a little amusing. [/QUOTE] Aren’t you from Kansas or something, newb? ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/86 "2007-11-25T17:18:38Z")
[QUOTE=zuma] Aren’t you from Kansas or something, newb? [/QUOTE] are you talking to yourself? that confused me. Why would anyone care where anyone lives? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/87 "2007-11-25T17:27:30Z")
OK. **Frank** is out as Maximum Leader, **John** is in. What’s your plan? A nationwide wave of polite murmuring, so that we don’t disturb anyone? Do I regret the polarization, the rancor? Of course. Interesting times, tough decisions. None of this is pleasant. Do I like demonstrations? God no! Listening to self-righteous blowhards tell me what I already know while hoping to turn a national tragedy to their advantage. Sucks. Stinks. Hate it. So what have you got? Besides telling us what assholes we are, which has already been handily accomplished, what have you got? When stupid and evil men cling stubbornly to their folly, what should we do? Are we participants? Are we citizens, or merely denizens, we just live here because all the Indians are dead. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. What’s your plan? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/88 "2007-11-25T17:33:39Z")
[QUOTE=zuma] No bridges, no tunnels, babe. Straight up 280 yo. I could scream “I LIVED IN SAN FRANCICO”. or “I LIVE IN SAN JOSE”, or, god forbid it ever came to it “I LIVED IN SEATTLE”. But I don’t. Why must you trick out your pony ride? Nobody cares that you LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO. I find your fetishising it a little amusing. [/QUOTE] Fetishising? Haight-Ashbury is the virtual birthplace of hippiedom, yes, no? I think that her referring to it is perfectly germane to her point. Further, San Francisco is an interesting place and **lobstermobster** is an interesting poster. We gain insight from her observations about both. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/89 "2007-11-25T17:43:24Z")
Shit, Frisco isn’t interesting. (Yeah, thats right, I said it. Frisco. Frisco. Sue me!) \*\*Sarahfeena’s \*\* suburb full of hippies, now _that’s_ interesting! This I gotta see! But I wonder if maybe the taxonomy is off, maybe she is mistaking a ring-tailed snerk for a warbling bandicoot? If they are wearing Bermuda shorts, sandals with socks, sipping martinis and chatting about their portfolios, those aren’t hippies, those are Young Republicans gone to seed. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/90 "2007-11-25T17:48:32Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] Fetishising? Haight-Ashbury is the virtual birthplace of hippiedom, yes, no? I think that her referring to it is perfectly germane to her point. Further, San Francisco is an interesting place and **lobstermobster** is an interesting poster. We gain insight from her observations about both. 😃 [/QUOTE] Lobster has fetishized san francisco. We gain no real insight from her postings, other than she lives in san francisco. This is all we know about her, and she beats us over the head with it every day. Tell us about San Francisco, and about you living in it, lob. ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/91 "2007-11-25T18:02:49Z")
[QUOTE=zuma] Lobster has fetishized san francisco. We gain no real insight from her postings, other than she lives in san francisco. This is all we know about her, and she beats us over the head with it every day. Tell us about San Francisco, and about you living in it, lob. [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t even know where to begin ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/92 "2007-11-25T18:05:48Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Shit, Frisco isn’t interesting. (Yeah, thats right, I said it. Frisco. Frisco. Sue me!) \*\*Sarahfeena’s \*\* suburb full of hippies, now _that’s_ interesting! This I gotta see! But I wonder if maybe the taxonomy is off, maybe she is mistaking a ring-tailed snerk for a warbling bandicoot? If they are wearing Bermuda shorts, sandals with socks, sipping martinis and chatting about their portfolios, those aren’t hippies, those are Young Republicans gone to seed. [/QUOTE] Precious few Republicans around here. In my district, 90-some percent of the vote went to Kerry, and I think most of the remainder went Green. Bizarre how people who live far far away insist on explaining to **LobMob** and myself how we have misjudged our own communities. ---
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/93 "2007-11-25T18:11:50Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] I wouldn’t even know where to begin [/QUOTE] Well, begin by teling us about San Francisco. And how you live there. And how your living in San Francisco is crazy cool ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/94 "2007-11-25T18:11:54Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] OK. **Frank** is out as Maximum Leader, … [/QUOTE] Damn. I didn’t even get to order my business cards. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/95 "2007-11-25T19:20:28Z")
Its a ruthless, dog-eat-tofu world, **Frank**. You’re probably done for, I’m pretty sure ol’ **John** has a crackerjack plan of action, but hey! you never know! Oh, by the way, “business cards”? I’m not quite sure about that. Might want to give that a bit of thought. Just sayin’, is all. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/96 "2007-11-25T19:37:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] Precious few Republicans around here. In my district, 90-some percent of the vote went to Kerry, and I think most of the remainder went Green. Bizarre how people who live far far away insist on explaining to **LobMob** and myself how we have misjudged our own communities. [/QUOTE] And here I was, thinking you had to die to go to Heaven! That settles it, I’m packing! Alert the Welcome Wagon, and I’ll see you soon! If you could send along a list of some of the tonier trailer parks, that would be a help. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/97 "2007-11-25T20:25:09Z")
[QUOTE=lobstermobster] are you talking to yourself? that confused me. Why would anyone care where anyone lives? [/QUOTE] It helps with the stalking. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/98 "2007-11-25T20:30:02Z")
[QUOTE=Hilarity N. Suze] I think the key words here are “white chick with dreadlocks.” [/QUOTE] A.K.A. “Trustafarian” ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/99 "2007-11-25T22:50:00Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] Fetishising? Haight-Ashbury is the virtual birthplace of hippiedom, yes, no? I think that her referring to it is perfectly germane to her point. [/QUOTE] So what she’s saying is, she works in a hippie museum. What was that about Alcatraz? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560/100 "2007-11-27T04:49:38Z")
What IS all this ranting about hippies anyway? It’s not as if you live on Haight St. in 1968 and could hardly step out your door without running into them. “I hate hippies!” is about as relevant today as “I hate beatniks, and their crazy bongo drums and coffeehouse poetry readings.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-hippy-rant-number-two/427560.md?page=6)