# Man, I hate hippies **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 31, 2007, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164 "2007-05-31T04:41:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/181 "2007-06-13T18:47:05Z")
I am not, sir, personally a victim of marsupaphobia; which, in America, tends to manifest as a morbid fear of oppossum. (It is, oddly enough, less apparent in Australia because widespread enthusiasm for alcohol tends to mitigate the symptoms). It is an entirely legitimate form of alternative cognitive enablement, and those who suffer its stigma would be grateful if you did not foster uninformed and pejorative sterotypes. Such is most unseemly on a board that pretends to tolerance and open-mindedness, especially when one has been honored to wear the Jackboots of Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/182 "2007-06-14T03:00:19Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] I am not, sir, personally a victim of marsupaphobia… [/QUOTE] I am. [Fuckers are trying to take over teh internets.](http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/wallaby.jpg) They still smell better than hippies, though. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/183 "2007-06-14T03:15:19Z")
[QUOTE=Rysdad] I am. [Fuckers are trying to take over teh internets.](http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/wallaby.jpg) They still smell better than hippies, though. [/QUOTE] But they look like shit in jackboots. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/184 "2007-06-14T03:32:44Z")
> [@](#): > > I had a friend in Chicago, white chick with dreadlocks, three kids of three different races, who was the most negative and judgmental person I have ever known. Whatever music or movie or food or book or whatever I liked, I’d get a lecture on why I shouldn’t like it. Last straw, after which I pretty much wasn’t friends with her anymore: I bought a $2,000 stereo from my brother in law for $200. I was thrilled: real speakers, real amp, the works. When I told this chick about it, she listened to my description, and my glee at the price, and she pointedly didn’t say anything. I was like, “what?” She goes, “Aren’t you being materialistic?” You just need to respond with Churchillian wit. “Aren’t you being materialistic?” “Yes, and you, Madam, are being judgemental. But in the morning, your hippie friends will have stolen my stereo to buy drugs and you’ll still be a bitch.” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/185 "2007-06-14T03:39:02Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] Wait, a post above reminded me of the real reason I hate hippies. Dreadlocks on white people. [/QUOTE] Agreed. Dreadlocks on white people \. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/186 "2007-06-14T03:51:50Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] You just need to respond with Churchillian wit. [/QUOTE] You know how much better my life would be if I had come from the factory with Churchillian wit installed (optional), rather than the lissenerian wit that came standard? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164.md?page=9)