What's a yuppie?

[MissGypsy]

@Fern Forest

Yeah but 25 years ago, oh la la.

25 years ago, I was 11, and barely knew what a Volvo was.

And I stand corrected; my husband pointed out that while we are still not young, he’s a professional and I was in the past, and we’ve both lived in urban areas. He says we’re yuppies; I say we’re too old to be. So thanks to the OP for starting another marital debate.

It’s a good-natured debate, as we tend to tease each other and joke around a lot.

[Wendell_Wagner]

MissGypsy writes:

> 25 years ago, I was 11, and barely knew what a Volvo was.
>
> And I stand corrected; my husband pointed out that while we are still not
> young, he’s a professional and I was in the past, and we’ve both lived in urban
> areas. He says we’re yuppies; I say we’re too old to be. So thanks to the OP for
> starting another marital debate.

If you’re 36 years old, you’re young enough according to the definition of “yuppie.” As I said, in about 1984 I read something that defined the term as requiring at least that you be less than 40 and make more than $40,000. Adjust the salary requirement for inflation.

[alice_in_wonderland]

@saoirse

Those were quite funny, but it’s become a bludgeon embraced by poeple fighting some battle in the culture wars. I have heard the term used on people who:

-Drive a European car

Check

-Own a watch that costs more than $100

Check

-Wear a tie to work

Well, I’m a girl, and that whole “girl in tie” thing is pretty dated or Avril Levign-ish, so no.

-See plays

Check

-Buy organic food, or any kind of premium brand food

Check

-Own a cat

Check

-Don’t go to church

Check

-Don’t like country music (or “Like their coffee beans already ground,” as Randy Travis put it)

Check

Oh shit…

[saoirse]

@alice_in_wonderland

Oh shit…

Well, then, you may be mischaracterized as a yuppie as a way of allowing someone to express their class resentments or anti-intellectualism. Or both.

I was once called a yuppie when I was 22 and supporting a pregnant girlfriend working as a bellhop. I blame the cat.

[Thudlow_Boink]

The cat got your girlfriend pregnant?

[Vimp]

Around here, you can’t be a yuppie if you don’t do your grocery shopping at Whole Foods.

[An_Gadai]

Alot of those faddish terms wreck my head. It’s really cool to use some derisive, stereotypic, nomenclature for people better off or worse off than you. There’s an author/pundit/bullshitter here called David McWilliams whose stock-in-trade nowadays seems to consist of coming up with these terms for various groups in Irish society.

[saoirse]

@Thudlow Boink

The cat got your girlfriend pregnant?

In case you needed another reason, people: Get those pets fixed!

[MissGypsy]

@Wendell Wagner

MissGypsy writes:

> 25 years ago, I was 11, and barely knew what a Volvo was.
>
> And I stand corrected; my husband pointed out that while we are still not
> young, he’s a professional and I was in the past, and we’ve both lived in urban
> areas. He says we’re yuppies; I say we’re too old to be. So thanks to the OP for
> starting another marital debate.

If you’re 36 years old, you’re young enough according to the definition of “yuppie.” As I said, in about 1984 I read something that defined the term as requiring at least that you be less than 40 and make more than $40,000. Adjust the salary requirement for inflation.

Ok, we’re halfway there. Husband is over 40, so I can be a yuppie but he can’t. Yet he makes more money, and we’re no longer urban. Can we be half-assed former yuppies?

Sheesh, we’re paying for college for one kid, senior pictures for another, kindergarten materials for another, Pull-Ups for another, and diapers and formula for another. That’s just not very yuppie. We’re more like broke, tired people.