# 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:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/41 "2007-05-31T16:52:23Z")
Yeah, the “peace movie” thing is kind of annoying. Sure, there could be “peace movies”, but lots and lots of “war movies” are also peace movies. Any war movie that shows people dying meaningless deaths or experiencing meaningless suffering is also a peace movie. Or perhaps she meant movies that were about wars that were averted. Only one I can think of would be “Gandhi”, were he averted a war of independence against the British. Although how many people were killed in the post-independence partition? He avoided one war but couldn’t avoid another. Does that make “Gandhi” a peace movie? Or maybe movies that have no violence whatsoever are peace movies. Well, there are millions of rom-coms that don’t have any violence. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/42 "2007-05-31T17:09:04Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] The 17 year old daughter of my friend’s girlfriend was telling him the other day “My dad lives out in Eugene with all the hippies. They smell like ass, but they get the best chronic.” [/QUOTE] All the hippies from Eugene I know are mad cool, and don’t smell bad at all. **lissener** War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery! ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/43 "2007-05-31T17:10:55Z")
I don’t \*hate \* hippies. I \*just \* hate smelley people. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/44 "2007-05-31T17:27:19Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] And what’s up with the whole no bathing? Pollutes Mother Earth with the funk of your being? Washes away your essential vibe? [/QUOTE] More like, “Dude, I stink. I gotta shower…right after I smoke another bowl…” Seriously, they KNOW they stink. Some of them revel in it, in a stick-it-to-the-man anti establishment, deodorant is the work of the brainwashing devils among us who want to sell us on the idea that the natural human odor is bad and gross so that they can sell us soaps and shampoos and deodorant and AXE body spray kind of way. But most of them just don’t care if it bothers you. Some of them actually \*like \*that it bothers you, or at least find it funny. And some are just getting back into town from a long camping trip with no showers. (That last one would be me. Sorry.) ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/45 "2007-05-31T17:33:10Z")
You aren’t a real hippie unless you only read half of _War and Peace_. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/46 "2007-05-31T17:34:27Z")
[QUOTE=Gangster Octopus] You aren’t a real hippie unless you only read half of _War and Peace_. [/QUOTE] What was _that_ good for? absolutely nuthin’ ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/47 "2007-05-31T17:38:39Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] She stops, turns, and in a vaguely scolding tone, goes, “Do you have a Peace Movie section?” I give her the gimlet and say, “Yes, we do,” and point at the War Movie section. [/QUOTE] So you don’t have a porno section? ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/48 "2007-05-31T17:45:42Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] Yeah, the “peace movie” thing is kind of annoying. Sure, there could be “peace movies”, but lots and lots of “war movies” are also peace movies. Any war movie that shows people dying meaningless deaths or experiencing meaningless suffering is also a peace movie. Or perhaps she meant movies that were about wars that were averted. Only one I can think of would be “Gandhi”, were he averted a war of independence against the British. Although how many people were killed in the post-independence partition? He avoided one war but couldn’t avoid another. Does that make “Gandhi” a peace movie? Or maybe movies that have no violence whatsoever are peace movies. Well, there are millions of rom-coms that don’t have any violence. [/QUOTE] 13 Days? That might count. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/49 "2007-05-31T17:46:14Z")
[sleeping cartman]…hippies…hippies…say they want to save the earth but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad…hippies[/sc] ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/50 "2007-05-31T17:51:22Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] And what’s up with the whole no bathing? Pollutes Mother Earth with the funk of your being? Washes away your essential vibe? [/QUOTE] We had a hippie group set up at our local Global Warming gathering on Earth Day. Their handout had all sorts of interested suggestions about how to save our resources and one of them was to not bathe or shower. They also suggested eating fresh roadkill instead of buying meat. Oh, and reducing your consumption of cocaine, since it’s not local. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Svinlesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@Mr.Svinlesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Svinlesha)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/51 "2007-05-31T17:58:46Z")
**Neidhart** > [@](#): > > \*In Sweden, there’s a Moderate Youth League. > > No lie. Look it up.\* That’s only because the second largest political party is the Moderate Party (although they’re not very moderate, in truth). Re: the OP, sounds like hippies have changed a bit since I was last in the US. I thought a laid-back, mellow, live-and-let-live attitude was the defining characteristic of a hippy, myself. That certainly was the case for me and most of my former Dead-head friends, anyway. Oh well. Peace and love, baby. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/52 "2007-05-31T18:09:50Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Svinlesha] Re: the OP, sounds like hippies have changed a bit since I was last in the US. I thought a laid-back, mellow, live-and-let-live attitude was the defining characteristic of a hippy, myself. That certainly was the case for me and most of my former Dead-head friends, anyway. Oh well. Peace and love, baby. [/QUOTE] or the OP misappropriates a term. There’s any number of folks who will get into your face w/their agendas, whatever the agenda is. the fact they’re into green, or herbal alternatives doesn’t make 'em hippies in my book. Tis rather the attitude you describe here. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/53 "2007-05-31T18:20:58Z")
You know what looks really good on a hippie? Fire. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Svinlesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/22d042/32.png) [@Mr.Svinlesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Svinlesha)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/54 "2007-05-31T18:30:15Z")
By the way, and as an aside not really apropos anything in particular, did you know, **wring** , that Ann Coulter is a former Dead-head? Definitely _not_ a hippy, though. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/55 "2007-05-31T18:39:08Z")
[QUOTE=Staggerlee] Because they have been insidiously brainwashed by the prevailing culture to believe that their unsustainably high level of material wealth is a ‘right’, and that gross disparities in health and wealth between humans is part of a just natural order which justifies maintaining the status quo? [/QUOTE] Workers of the world, unite! From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/56 "2007-05-31T18:59:37Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Svinlesha] By the way, and as an aside not really apropos anything in particular, did you know, **wring** , that Ann Coulter is a former Dead-head? Definitely _not_ a hippy, though. [/QUOTE] A. exactly my point. B. the phrase “dead head” brings on new meaning in reference to her, though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/57 "2007-05-31T19:08:50Z")
I can’t remember the song title, but some of the lyrics went like this: _Kill, kill, kill the hippies Kill them because their hair is long Kill them because their views are wrong Kill, kill, kill the hippies_ BTW: I have several friends who are hippies. They do not behave like the woman mentioned in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/58 "2007-05-31T19:56:53Z")
There are no more hippies! [R.I.P. Hippie](http://www.upress.umn.edu/sles/Chapter5/ch5-3.html) ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/59 "2007-05-31T21:02:27Z")
I know a [Hippie!](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/403491804_52c0d9cb76_o.jpg) [sub]Okay, I just wanted an excuse to post a picture of my best friend’s dog.[/sub] Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/60 "2007-05-31T22:17:40Z")
Eh. It’s like any subculture. Some nice folks, some jackasses, and some utter morons. **wring** and **Mr. Svinlesha** , I know plenty of laidback, mellow, live-and-let-live folks who could not possibly be described as hippies. And some self-described hippies who are self-righteous, in-your-face jerks. My favorite hippie story: I was in the grocery store one day and spotted this total earth mama with her two little girls, about four and six. All three of them barefoot, with patchwork skirts and scraggly, white-people dredlocks. The kids were begging their mom to buy them Barbie Bubble Bath. Something about it cracked me up, this hippie chick with two little girls who just wanted to be pretty, pretty princesses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164.md?page=4)