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lexico
後輩
- 22 Dec 2004
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I've heard rumours that all hippies died out after their great experiments with mind-expanding got pounded down by the law at which point they decided to sell off their hippie farms, went back to school, got good grades, and landed some fine jobs in the guise of yuppies... but that's just cover to evade detection. If you ever see a slick, otherwise normal looking person recite, "Ye shall be the light of this world..." please be kind enough not to blow cover. It's the idea that got spread in people of all shapes and color, and will live on as long as all dogs go to heaven in the far out.
Tsuyoiko
DON'T PANIC!
- 11 Mar 2005
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It's interesting the different ideas people have of hippies. I have always considered myself a hippy. I am a vegetarian, I love Nature, hate authority, wear tie-dye and floaty skirts, have long hair, smell like patchouli, listen to Jethro Tull and The Doors, hang around Glastonbury (the British hippy haven) and think a lot. But I do take a shower every day and I don't do drugs!
- 28 Jul 2005
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Hippy. . . the good ole days. I just don't see any around here much, but have a number of artist friends who come close. Back in highschool I took to the crowd and pretty much did what they did except for heavy stuff because we were with the 'Jesus Freak' crowd, pretty much. My elder sister was a die-hard Janis Joplin copy--in looks almost, in singing style, yes, and in all the others. . . I think I could say she was a hippy.
MajideSaiaku
tsuyaku o tsukete kudasai
- 19 Jan 2005
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The modern british hippy doesnt look or sound groovy, they wear grubby clothes, and threaten everyone from relatives to some obscure shop keeper they bought milk from once when they target a family that runs a legitimate company.
Seriously british hippies have turned into over the top crazy nature terrorists, they dig up graves of relatives and will stop at nothing to shut down a company, because it doesnt agree with their Al-Paeta ideals.
Old skool hippies were cool, they were mellow and preached peace and love and stuff, but, they either turned into angry femininsts hiding away in co-ops, or more likely, gre up with a job and settled down with that groovy chick they met at a concert back in the day
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Now modern "hippies" are just eco terrorists and give nature lovers a bad name, i wouldnt cry over their loss if nature turned on them...ultimate justice mwahahaha.
Seriously british hippies have turned into over the top crazy nature terrorists, they dig up graves of relatives and will stop at nothing to shut down a company, because it doesnt agree with their Al-Paeta ideals.
Old skool hippies were cool, they were mellow and preached peace and love and stuff, but, they either turned into angry femininsts hiding away in co-ops, or more likely, gre up with a job and settled down with that groovy chick they met at a concert back in the day
.Now modern "hippies" are just eco terrorists and give nature lovers a bad name, i wouldnt cry over their loss if nature turned on them...ultimate justice mwahahaha.
Doc
Government Man
- 13 Feb 2005
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Tsuyoiko said:
In the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Peter Fonda plays a hippie in there as well. I just can't stop laughing everytime I see him in either Easy Rider or GTA:SA.
Peter Fonda in GTA:SA
"One, I never do hard drugs."
"Two, I've never slept with my mother, she wouldn't let me."
"Three, I still say the government is after us whether you like it or not."
Doc
misa.j
先輩
- 6 May 2004
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There are many of those new age hippies in my town along with the hillbllies. I'm not one, but I get along with them pretty well, and I think they are funny.
Here are a few things I found out about them in addition to Brooker's list.
They:
-get subscription of Mother Jones.
-pick out paper and boxes from garbage and recycle them.
-listen to reggae or dub.
-get mad at cigarette buds on the ground, throw them in the trash and say "This is so unhippy!"
-sleep in a sleeping bag at home.
-space out right in the middle of the sentence.
Here are a few things I found out about them in addition to Brooker's list.
They:
-get subscription of Mother Jones.
-pick out paper and boxes from garbage and recycle them.
-listen to reggae or dub.
-get mad at cigarette buds on the ground, throw them in the trash and say "This is so unhippy!"
-sleep in a sleeping bag at home.
-space out right in the middle of the sentence.
- 8 Mar 2005
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Here's the thing that people outside of the United States will never understand about hippies... basically there was nothing ever honorable about being a hippie.
If you think that the primary drive amongst hippies was peace and love, you're wrong, it was more close to a highly developed sense of personal gratification, rather than any sense of altruism that was claimed. People were mainly attracted to the hippie lifestyle by all the drugs and sex that was going on in Haight Ashbury, and followed that---
The idea of peace was not even secondary, and I'd contend that almost anyone would sit around and chant for peace and try to levitate the pentagon if they were high enough.
Oddly enough the same man Herb Caen, who wrote for the Chronicle, coined the term hippie, a sort of contraction of hipster, or hip, as did the terms beatnik & yuppie...
What happened was that like the beatnik movement, the masses of people who claimed to be hippies were doing so well after the movement had already died out and then taken on another form.
What happened to the hippies? They became the boomer generation that probably put the United States into one of the biggest economic funks in history. They created marketing one of the biggest bull--- occupations in history, they took houses that they bought for $20,000 and made sure their children would have to spend $200,000 to purchase a similar home, they are the generation that invented the mid-life crisis, they assured future generations that the educational degrees they received wouldn't be worth the paper they were printed on, unlike their parents before them who had to work very hard and build equity, they prefered to work as little as possible, for as much ill gotten gain as possible, at the expense of anyone around them... (see the 80's...)... Remember, all of this came from hippies.
The Yippies, Abbie Hoffman, now they were interesting... No pretentions about peace & love, just good old fashioned sabotage.
I would say hippies in the United States, their place of origin are much more openly dispised than outside.
Commonly overheard phrase in the US: "Ugghh, hippies..."
If you think that the primary drive amongst hippies was peace and love, you're wrong, it was more close to a highly developed sense of personal gratification, rather than any sense of altruism that was claimed. People were mainly attracted to the hippie lifestyle by all the drugs and sex that was going on in Haight Ashbury, and followed that---
The idea of peace was not even secondary, and I'd contend that almost anyone would sit around and chant for peace and try to levitate the pentagon if they were high enough.
Oddly enough the same man Herb Caen, who wrote for the Chronicle, coined the term hippie, a sort of contraction of hipster, or hip, as did the terms beatnik & yuppie...
What happened was that like the beatnik movement, the masses of people who claimed to be hippies were doing so well after the movement had already died out and then taken on another form.
What happened to the hippies? They became the boomer generation that probably put the United States into one of the biggest economic funks in history. They created marketing one of the biggest bull--- occupations in history, they took houses that they bought for $20,000 and made sure their children would have to spend $200,000 to purchase a similar home, they are the generation that invented the mid-life crisis, they assured future generations that the educational degrees they received wouldn't be worth the paper they were printed on, unlike their parents before them who had to work very hard and build equity, they prefered to work as little as possible, for as much ill gotten gain as possible, at the expense of anyone around them... (see the 80's...)... Remember, all of this came from hippies.
[1] When you talk about hippies in the United States, you're really talking about what are now the boomers...
The Yippies, Abbie Hoffman, now they were interesting... No pretentions about peace & love, just good old fashioned sabotage.
I would say hippies in the United States, their place of origin are much more openly dispised than outside.
Commonly overheard phrase in the US: "Ugghh, hippies..."