Idiot Hippies

The BBQ Pit
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Sorry if this has been delt with before, but I must vent.

I live in California, and these peeves may be particular to the state. This is the only state where I’ve encountered these problems.

I’m tired of hearing that everything from “natural” sources is far superior to synthetic while there is no debate over whether the damn product works or not. I’m tired of hearing that a “natural” source is safer or “chemical free.” Everything is made of chemicals, you. idiot. Too much water will kill a person. It’s all about moderation and I’ve met my quota for your non-sense today. Go away.

I’m tired of hearing about holistic medicine. Yes, valuable medicinal compounds have been isolated from naturally occuring sources, but once isolated, why use the diluted natural source? Why not take the synthetic that you know actually does something instead of it with 20 other compounds that don’t?

I’m tired of hearing about veggetarian/veganism. Biologically I am an omnivore. We don’t know enough about the human body to go messing with its requirements so why don’t you just follow the system that worked for the last 10 thousand years you pompous bitch.

I’m tired of hearing about the evils of farming. There are too many of us on the planet for everyone to hunt down their own furry dinner, therefore farms are necessary. Should they be as nice to the animals as possible? Sure, but that doesn’t mean I should stop eating them all together. And yes, I am comfortable killing my own dinner, so I have no moral qualms paying someone else to do it for me.

I’m TIRED of hearing about the evils of bST milk. bST is COW growth hormone, not human growth hormone. It occurs naturally in milk and isn’t secreted in any higher levels in milk from a supplemented than in milk from a non-supplemented cow. Furthermore, it’s protein. What happens to protein when you eat it? That’s right, moron, you digest it, which means it isn’t a hormone any more, it’s just amino acids. Even if you got it in your system whole, it’s still COW hormone and can’t influence your tissues. GO READ A GOOD BOOK.

I’m tired of being made to feel guilty for crimes done by people with the same skin tone as me. I wasn’t there. In most cases, I wasn’t even born yet. Moreover, my family didn’t have anything to do with it. Leave me alone!

I feel better now. Thank you for reading

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Oooh, that was good. Now do the beatniks. Those bongo drums gotta be annoying.

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Yeah! Good for nothings! What the hell do they need with two drums? One drum worked just fine for my father and his father before him! They got something against my father?

Jerks

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I agree with most of your post except the animal parts. Most of the hippies I’ve encountered were not vegetarian, which is a hypocritical scenario in my mind. I’ve always thought of them as more naive than idiots.

Have you ever been to Asheville, N.C.? There’s one place NOT to go if you’re not a fan of hippies.

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And how about those damn flappers? Shameless hussies, showin their knees! Drinkin gin and smokin coffin nails!

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Hippies are against farms? I’m from Saskatchewan, and it never occurred to me that there are people in the world against farms. Where do they think the food they eat comes from - the bread/egg/meat/vegetable fairies?

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Thank you, aeropl, I need a list of places to avoid due to heavy hippiness. Although maybe there’s a different breed of hippie there. Here in CA, you’re just not yet fully converted if you’re a meat-eating hippie. In time, you’ll be one of us. And, if it is naivete, then it’s by choice. The conversations I’ve had with them follow the same pattern of conversations I’ve had with the blindly religious.

“Blah Blah stupid proposal Blah”
“Well, that sounds rather incorrect to me and here is the evidence why I think so”
“<select formula answer>
a. Your well balanced and plainly researched opinions just demonstrate how wrong you are so let me restate my first proposition without adding any new information.
b. I can’t believe you’re such an idiot as to believe something different from me. I’m a very open minded person but I hate people who don’t believe the same things as me
c. You’re lack of faith disturbs me. <Flees up nearest redwood.>”

I was really hoping to find some well balanced folk in California, but they’ve been few and far between.

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Oh yeah, and I agree with your rant. There are a lot of silly people in this world.

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Those Know-Nothings know nothing, damnit!

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I think Cartman put it best:

“Don’t do drugs, because if you do, you’re a hippy. And hippies suck.”

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Er, not to notpick, but according to this cow hormones can influence your tissues- diabetics used to be given cow insulin. Also, not sure whether the hippies object to rBST in milk because they think it’s bad for people, or because they think it oppresses poor helpless farm animals.

Otherwise, good rant. :wink:

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The ones in CA begrudgingly admit that farms are necessary, but only for the growing of vegetables and only in an organic manner without Genetically Modified plants or sophisticated irrigation. And that’s only because they just don’t have the time to do it themselves.

We did organic farming. We did it for the period of time between the development of agriculture and the discovery of insecticides. It didn’t work real well. It kind of worked, but it also led to ergot poisoning and probably shortened a lot of people’s life spands and wasn’t able to support the number of people modern agriculture supports. Never mind how few people it now takes to feed so many, thereby freeing up the rest of us to paint paintings and research cures for cancer and whatnot.
Do I think that pesticides should be used minimally, sure. But don’t label them all as evil. Again, moderation.

I just can’t take the attitude that they know everything about a topic and are totally correct in being angry over it at people who are actually in the business.
P.S. Flappers can go flap themselves, hussies!

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I confess I couldn’t work up too much of a lather against a hippie who quotes Darth Vader – s/he’d have too many coolness points built up from the start.

“Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Chartruse VW Microbus.”

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Hear, hear!

Another proud omnivore checking in!

WRS/Thû

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Paging Left Hand of Dorkness. Paging Left Hand of Dorkness.

:smiley:

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Wow. That’s sad. I have a cousin in California who grows raisin grapes, almonds, pistachios and maybe still some cotton. Will those damned hippies force his farms to close? And what about his dairy farm at Chowchilla? He has to grow only vegetables now?

It’s obvious that none of these hippies ever read a book or went to college. They have apparently figured out some way to make money by getting pesticides banned.

Is there some way to get in on the clean air/clean water concession?

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And make reality TV shows. :wink:

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Pullet, where the heck do you live? I lived in California for 23 years and never met anyone quite like you’re describing. Trust me, I’ve met my share of vegans (I went to school in Santa Cruz, for heaven’s sake), but I’ve never heard anyone advocating ending farming. Do they want California’s economy to collapse even more than it already has?

I’ve definitely heard people argue for eating organic and non-genetically engineered foods, but not just Californians. Europeans, in particular, are against genetically altered produce. Maybe they’re just a bunch of crazy hippies too?

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You can add Eugene Oregon to your list.

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And Ashland, Oregon. You go to see a play at the Shakespeare Festival and you can smell the hemp wafting across the grass of Lithia Park.