# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/121 "2007-06-02T17:33:27Z")
BTW, **Omegaman** , **lissener** should’ve been set off by commas. (You’d be surprised what else sets off **lissener** , but that’s another story.) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/122 "2007-06-02T21:13:11Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] I hope you don’t really hate a group of people \*\*lissener \*\* especially ones who don’t care for war. I think you’ll find many men who have fought in wars think they are often unnescescary and cause countless lives to be wasted . [/QUOTE] I don’t think he hates people who don’t like war so much as people who ask stupid questions about “peace movies” and think they’re deep. (Though I could be wrong- he liked STARSHIP TROOPERS so he could have just been secretly pulling the strings and praying for the more wars the better all along.) ---
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/123 "2007-06-02T22:38:12Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Hee. Hey, I \*been \* to Hippy Hollow, so I can say whatever I want to. Man. [/QUOTE] Where or what is “Hippy Hollow”? ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/124 "2007-06-02T22:41:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I don’t think he hates people who don’t like war so much as people who ask stupid questions about “peace movies” and think they’re deep. (Though I could be wrong- he liked STARSHIP TROOPERS so he could have just been secretly pulling the strings and praying for the more wars the better all along.) [/QUOTE] You didn’t like Starship Troopers ? A wonderful film I though in the trus spirit of hollywood, a little leanings towards those filthy nazis but one has to have an enemy to focus ones attentions on to make a film of that sort . You keep helping me out though **Sampiro** your words of wisdom are always welcome some of these other idiots aren’t to fit be door stops if you know what I mean. Not so much the ones who crack wise . I enjoy comedy of every kind . Even when it involves me. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/125 "2007-06-02T22:55:08Z")
The film _Starship Troopers_ seemed, to me, to miss the complete point of the novel on which it was based. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/126 "2007-06-02T22:59:49Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I don’t think he hates people who don’t like war so much as people who ask stupid questions about “peace movies” and think they’re deep. (Though I could be wrong- he liked STARSHIP TROOPERS so he could have just been secretly pulling the strings and praying for the more wars the better all along.) [/QUOTE] You know, there was something else I wanted to add that I forgot just now but does’nt really relate to this thread I hope the mods will forgive the slight hijack. I consider you , Sir , to be a man of the highest caliber and are one of the big reasons I fought so hard to retain the right to post here. What you have done in the past and what knowledge I have gleaned from your posts is some of the most profound I have ever learned in my life . I would be reticent in my duty as a fellow man not to let you know this. Keep up the good work my friend, if I may have the honor of adressing you as such. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/127 "2007-06-02T23:06:03Z")
When I was but a brat, living on base, the base theater had movies for 15 cents, and they changed the lineup every day (I think \*Ben Hur \* was on for three days…). They got every military-themed movie (natch) and every remotely “sci-fi” type flick. And it was the very heaven, what could have been better? I was too young to sense the possibility, so distant in time yet inching ever closer, the joy of my desiring. A sci-fi war movie, with tits. Never too late to have a happy childhood. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/128 "2007-06-02T23:08:47Z")
[QUOTE=Rusalka] Where or what is “Hippy Hollow”? [/QUOTE] A slang term referring to the deep, prominent dimples that sometimes form in the cellulite of a morbidly obese woman’s thighs. ---
**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 2, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/129 "2007-06-02T23:09:15Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] I hope you don’t really hate a group of people \*\*lissener \*\* especially ones who don’t care for war. I think you’ll find many men who have fought in wars think they are often unnescescary and cause countless lives to be wasted . I’m no hippie and I believe violence has it’s place but hate really doesn’t have any place in our world. It’s for the weak of will. I’ll just leave it at that . [/QUOTE] See what I mean? ---
**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 2, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/130 "2007-06-02T23:10:40Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I don’t think he hates people who don’t like war so much as people who ask stupid questions about “peace movies” and think they’re deep. (Though I could be wrong- he liked STARSHIP TROOPERS so he could have just been secretly pulling the strings and praying for the more wars the better all along.) [/QUOTE] _Starship Troopers_ is one of the greatest “peace” movies ever made: it’s entire agenda is to PALATR who think war is cool. It’s a satire on how insane and ridiculous fascism and war are. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/131 "2007-06-02T23:18:41Z")
Palatr? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/132 "2007-06-02T23:53:36Z")
[QUOTE=Rusalka] Where or what is “Hippy Hollow”? [/QUOTE] > **[Site](http://www.hippiehollow.com/)** Also a poster on The Straight Dope Message Board. Pretty cool dude. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/133 "2007-06-02T23:55:43Z")
[QUOTE=Miller] Palatr? [/QUOTE] **P** oint **A** nd **L** augh **A** t **T** he **R** etards It’s a charming little expression, isn’t it? And for what it’s worth, I think that while lissener is right about the agenda, the execution was horrifically bad as well as a bullshit “fuck you” to the very people who provide that jackass of a director’s living. If he’s not donating every dime he’s ever made from entertainment to charity, I hope his karmic bill comes due while I’m still around to enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/134 "2007-06-03T00:40:09Z")
[QUOTE=Monty] The film _Starship Troopers_ seemed, to me, to miss the complete point of the novel on which it was based. [/QUOTE] What I found particularly charming about the movie was that a single bug could kill 20 humans, they outnumbered humans by like 20-1 and could shit spores that would knock comets out of their orbit and cause them to crash into the Earth, and yet the humans defeated them with a handheld nuclear weapon. They should’ve had power armor. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/135 "2007-06-03T00:43:38Z")
Yeah, where was that planet, anyway? Hidden between Mars and Jupiter, 'cause, otherwise, Uncle Alberts light-speed thingy is kinda bring-down, you know? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/136 "2007-06-03T00:49:03Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Yeah, where was that planet, anyway? Hidden between Mars and Jupiter, 'cause, otherwise, Uncle Alberts light-speed thingy is kinda bring-down, you know? [/QUOTE] Well, I don’t remember Heinlein actually ever giving an explanation in the book. I’m pretty sure it was superluminal, but I don’t think there was an explanation. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/137 "2007-06-03T01:27:19Z")
Yeah, well, its a stinky quibble, since so much sci-fi that I fervently admire depends on Uncle Albert being “wrong”. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/138 "2007-06-03T01:31:50Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] See what I mean? [/QUOTE] No, I guess I don’t and I’m not so sure I’d really care to ,but fire away . I hope this isn’t going to get the thread off track though . I think thats pretty much against the rules here. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/139 "2007-06-03T01:37:40Z")
Rules? Hell, we ain’t got rules, at most, we have guidelines, however ruthlessly enforced. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164/140 "2007-06-03T01:52:51Z")
I am glad that a thread about hating hippies turned into a discussion of Paul Verhoeven ruining one of the great works of Science Fascism on film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-i-hate-hippies/406164.md?page=8)