Hippies

[mikeyx]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

I would state they are and encourage the lefty sarge and the bikerdruid to join me in this. They know that I am right.

[fuelair]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

I would state they are and encourage the lefty sarge and the bikerdruid to join me in this. They know that I am right.

No way, religious or political fundies are way worse. I do not recall hippies routinely killing/torturing re: their beliefs.

[NoahFence]

I'm with fuelair. Hippes are by nature not violent, and don't have a tendency to shoot people with differing views.

[Dancing David]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

I would state they are and encourage the lefty sarge and the bikerdruid to join me in this. They know that I am right.

I think you need to come up with a coherent definition of hippie, which is usually the start of a discussion. I know many hippies, now in their late fifties and sixties, all productive members of society.

Now this at least says it is entertainment:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s09e02-die-hippie-die

[Alt+F4]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

I think you need to be a bit more specific. While I don't like hippies I do think there are worst things...cancer, murder, Adam Sandler movies.

[Bram Kaandorp]

I think you need to be a bit more specific. While I don't like hippies I do think there are worst things...cancer, murder, Adam Sandler movies.

Jaywalking...

[bjornart]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

Cartman? Is that you?

[slingblade]

Just where is it, anyway, that MikeyX sees so many people wearing love beads and Nehru jackets, living communally, weaving flower garlands into their long tresses, protesting the Vietnam War, fighting National Guard troops on college campuses, crooning Joni Mitchell and The Beatles to the light of a lava lamp, decorating with R. Crumb blacklight posters, burning Nag Champa sandalwood incense, wearing patchouli oil, going barefoot, and smoking enough pot to equal a small country's GDP, that he finds them such an intense, on-going concern?

I haven't seen an actual Hippie in 40 years. Where is it, exactly, that they thrive to be such a scourge on humanity that Mikey brings them up on a constant, near-paranoid basis?

[Floyt]

He might think he is being funny :confused:

[Dessi]

I haven't seen an actual Hippie in 40 years. Where is it, exactly, that they thrive to be such a scourge on humanity that Mikey brings them up on a constant, near-paranoid basis?
Boulder, Colorado.

I've never been there, but I've heard its AWESOME if you're a vegan or a RoR developer.

[slingblade]

Boulder, Colorado.

I've never been there, but I've heard its AWESOME if you're a vegan or a RoR developer.

I've been there, and those aren't Hippies. They're Yuppies with a Hippie-wanna-be vibe. ;)

[Stout]

I think you need to come up with a coherent definition of hippie, which is usually the start

A true hippie knows all the words to Age of Aquarius

[Tricky]

Just where is it, anyway, that MikeyX sees so many people wearing love beads and Nehru jackets, living communally, weaving flower garlands into their long tresses, protesting the Vietnam War, fighting National Guard troops on college campuses, crooning Joni Mitchell and The Beatles to the light of a lava lamp, decorating with R. Crumb blacklight posters, burning Nag Champa sandalwood incense, wearing patchouli oil, going barefoot, and smoking enough pot to equal a small country's GDP, that he finds them such an intense, on-going concern?

I haven't seen an actual Hippie in 40 years. Where is it, exactly, that they thrive to be such a scourge on humanity that Mikey brings them up on a constant, near-paranoid basis?
You haven't been to the Tricky household. I have a large collection of Joni Mitchell records (Vinyl). Lava lamp, blacklight, strobe lamp. Check. Incense, candles, patchouli oil. Check. Head comics (the Fabulous Furry Freak brothers are my favorite) plus Kama Sutra, yoga books. Check. Renaissance Faire attendance (more than twice a year). Check. Donations to World Wildlife Fund, Doctors Without Borders, Planned Parenthood, ACLU. Check.

But not everythign fits. I do have a job, with an oil company, much less. I don't smoke pot (anymore). I bathe daily. I eat meat and hate tofu.

Nobody's perfect.

ETA: and I know all the words to "Age of Aquarius", both the Broadway and Fifth Dimension versions.

[dafydd]

I was there in the Sixties. I never met a real hippie, that is some one who had tuned in, turned on and dropped out of society. I may have looked like a hippie back then but I always worked for a living. All the so-called British hippies that I knew were on the dole or social security and all the American ones in Europe were going to the Western Union office for their cheques from Daddy. I can't speak for the USA.

[jiggeryqua]

I was told I couldn't be a hippy a number of times recently, because I was "too productive". I never laid claim to being a hippy in the first place, mind, but I guess I must have some hipp-ish vibe going on. I can say with certainty I don't smell of patchouli or weed, but I do let my hair do its own thing. I know some of the words to Age of Aquarius but all of the words to the whole of Jesus Christ Superstar.

[dafydd]

I was told I couldn't be a hippy a number of times recently, because I was "too productive". I never laid claim to being a hippy in the first place, mind, but I guess I must have some hipp-ish vibe going on. I can say with certainty I don't smell of patchouli or weed, but I do let my hair do its own thing. I know some of the words to Age of Aquarius but all of the words to the whole of Jesus Christ Superstar.

In my day knowing all the words to Jesus Christ Superstar would have been a very uncool thing. It would have been like knowing all the words to The Sound Of Music. Now knowing all the words to We're Only In It For The Money or Strange Days, that would have been something else.:)

[23_Tauri]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?
[irony filter on]But tobacco-smoking, procreating hippies with teepees full of unwashed, unmicro-chipped children, they're the worst of all, right mikeyx? [/irony filter off]

[dafydd]

[irony filter on]But tobacco-smoking, procreating hippies with teepees full of unwashed, unmicro-chipped children, they're the worst of all, right mikeyx? [/irony filter off]

Rapacious bankers and all politicians are the worst things in the world. Hippies don't steal hard working peoples pension funds.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

In my day knowing all the words to Jesus Christ Superstar would have been a very uncool thing. It would have been like knowing all the words to The Sound Of Music. Now knowing all the words to We're Only In It For The Money or Strange Days, that would have been something else.:)

Are you hung up?

[dafydd]

Are you hung up?

I'm having a flashback!

[jiggeryqua]

In my day knowing all the words to Jesus Christ Superstar would have been a very uncool thing.

I'm sure it still is. I'm a very uncool person.

[ConspiRaider]

Hippies persuaded us Normal People to wear bell-bottoms. I also blame them for disco (somehow). And what about that Stoupid eppysode on Star Trek where hippies tried to take over the Enterprise? Three strikes law. All hippies must 'trip' to The Supermax.

[dafydd]

I just dug out my vinyl copy of We're Only In It For The Money and put it on the turntable. (Our younger viewers can Google 'turntable'). What a merciless parody of the San Francisco scene and the hippies. Great stuff.

[dafydd]

Hippies persuaded us Normal People to wear bell-bottoms. I also blame them for disco (somehow). And what about that Stoupid eppysode on Star Trek where hippies tried to take over the Enterprise? Three strikes law. All hippies must 'trip' to The Supermax.

Bell bottoms. Grok. New Age Speak. Hippies have got a lot to answer for.

[dafydd]

I'm sure it still is. I'm a very uncool person.

No, I quite like it myself nowadays. I was a snotty little elitist back then.

[slingblade]

A true hippie knows all the words to Age of Aquarius


Well, crap.



How far is it to the internment camp? And will they have patchouli, or should I bring my own?

[ConspiRaider]

Bell bottoms. Grok. New Age Speak. Hippies have got a lot to answer for.
I'm hip. And what if I want to pave Paradise? Parking lots make money especially them airport ones. Long term, long bread, dig?

[dafydd]

I'm hip. And what if I want to pave Paradise? Parking lots make money especially them airport ones. Long term, long bread, dig?

Capitalist square!

[dafydd]

Well, crap.



How far is it to the internment camp? And will they have patchouli, or should I bring my own?

We used to loathe that awful musical Hair.

[slingblade]

Bell bottoms.

Hang on.

Hang on just a darned minute.


I sir, with my build (short legs, short waist, large headlights) would far rather my legs resemble the stem of a wine goblet than the travesty of the Candied Apple on a Stiff Blue Stick indignity of straight-leg jeans that the 80s and 90s inflicted on me. Thankfully, retro brought my jeans back to me, and you, sir, can just go bite a candied apple! :curse










:D

[slingblade]

We used to loathe that awful musical Hair.



...dude, I don't think we got musical hair until the '90s.....:boggled:




(btw, I've never seen Hair. My mom was a huge 5th Dimension fan, and um...I'm an Aquarius. Give me a break, how could I not know all the words to that??)

[dafydd]

(btw, I've never seen Hair. My mom was a huge 5th Dimension fan, and um...I'm an Aquarius. Give me a break, how could I not know all the words to that??)

You are forgiven. My parents subjected me to Julie Andrews and Tennessee Ernie Ford

[slingblade]

You are forgiven. My parents subjected me to Julie Andrews and Tennessee Ernie Ford


Thank you.

Me, too. But at least I also got Ray Charles and Otis Redding. And a lot of others, actually. My mom had rather advanced tastes in music for her generation (Lawrence Welk and Conway Twitty were not allowed), and I got to hear some of the best.

Dude, she died listening to Eric Clapton. How cool is that? :D

[Foolmewunz]

Ahem!

A true hippie wouldn't have gone within fifty feet of a Fifth Dimension album - they were those detestable commercial singer who ripped off Laura Nyro's best stuff - and would've been more likely to be shunning the weekend wannabes swaying to Age of Aquarius than joining in. We thought of Hair as a traditional corporate ripoff of the counter culture and producers of albums and groups as the living personification of a quote from one of them (Fred Weintraub)... "Well, every revolution needs its gun runners."

A hippie would be far more likely to know every word to every song on Blonde on Blonde, all the chord changes to Eve of Destruction, or recite, word for word, the long version of Alice's Restaurant.... Not the one you all know, but the original... Alice's Restaurant and the Multi-Colored Rainbow Roach.

And if we're responsible for bell bottoms(someone needs to tell the US Navy), then we get to take credit for this....

BKAYGVIkbok

[ConspiRaider]

...A hippie would be far more likely to know every word to every song on Blonde on Blonde, all the chord changes to Eve of Destruction, or recite, word for word, the long version of Alice's Restaurant...
I probably still know most of the words to that one.

[bikerdruid]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

I would state they are and encourage the lefty sarge and the bikerdruid to join me in this. They know that I am right.

wow. you are not very discerning, eh?
the american abysmally far right are far more dangerous to the world and mankind than hippies.
they hate muslims, queers, women and commies.
their only love is money and greed.
that is the far greater evil.

peace and love, dude.
have a dube and chill.;)

[slingblade]

Ahem!

A true hippie wouldn't have gone within fifty feet of a Fifth Dimension album -


Sooooo...I have to turn in my patchouli?

Can I still go to the camp? They think my wheat germ muffins are far out.

[bikerdruid]

Sooooo...I have to turn in my patchouli?

Can I still go to the camp? They think my wheat germ muffins are far out.

i still wear patchouli all the time.:o
btw...i know all the words to 'the age of aquarius'.
i also know a lot of the stones.

[Apathia]

Some of my best friends were Hippies!

[Skeptic Ginger]

....

I haven't seen an actual Hippie in 40 years. Where is it, exactly, that they thrive to be such a scourge on humanity that Mikey brings them up on a constant, near-paranoid basis?While I wouldn't attempt to answer your question, there are quite a few hippies on the west coast, Eugene, Bellingham, and SF still have quite a few. The other large cities like Seattle and LA have small populations left. :D


Oh yeah, a few still show up at Burning Man and I'm pretty sure the bulk of the attendees Rainbow Gathering (http://www.google.com/search?q=rainbow+gathering&hl=en&biw=1787&bih=1171&site=webhp&prmd=imvnsl&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=c2ebTsWKDOjKiQLxi-2bDQ&ved=0CFAQsAQ) and a number of attendees at any Hempfest could be classified as hippies.

[ConspiRaider]

Hippies should be tended in small-to-medium herds on plateaus and fed large portions of grass. And wear tie-dyed leggings over each groovy hoove.

[Skeptic Ginger]

A Google search turned this one up: Hippy Havens (http://www.hippy.com/havens.htm)The following is a list of places where there exists a sizable hippy population, where there is tolerance towards hippies, where hippies are free to pursue their lifestyle with community support. Whether you're looking to visit or relocate, you can be sure there'll be places to stay, interesting things to see and do, and lots of other hippies in these places. Please note, most of these were reader contributions! If you know of any other places to add to this list please write to us.

Check out our Communal Living Forum for more info on communes!

[NoahFence]

I was told I couldn't be a hippy a number of times recently, because I was "too productive". I never laid claim to being a hippy in the first place, mind, but I guess I must have some hipp-ish vibe going on. I can say with certainty I don't smell of patchouli or weed, but I do let my hair do its own thing. I know some of the words to Age of Aquarius but all of the words to the whole of Jesus Christ Superstar.

I love Jesus Christ Superstar....best Broadway ever!

[Tricky]

...or recite, word for word, the long version of Alice's Restaurant....
I guess I'm gonna have to relocate.







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[autumn1971]

I respect the hippies of the 1960's.
That said, I do agree with the OP that modern "hippies" are a disgusting and useless plague.
I like to point young and smelly people to the movie Monterey Pop, which was a film made by hippies, produced for hippies, and featuring a hippie-inspired rock festival.

There is a rather long sequence in the film in which a campground full of hippies wake up and brush their freaking hair!
Dredlocks are not "hippie".
If you have dreds, you should know that you smell like feces. I know, I know, you wash your dreds.
You still smell like rotting crap.

[autumn1971]

Oh, one more thing, if you have to drench yourself in patchouli to smell better, you probably have some sort of infection somewhere.
See an MD.

[Skeptic Ginger]

Why would you think "modern hippies" are a homogenous group, Autumn1971?

[Eddie Dane]

I think Hippies are less of a problem than say, New Romantics or Teddy Boys.

[Eddie Dane]

I respect the hippies of the 1960's.
That said, I do agree with the OP that modern "hippies" are a disgusting and useless plague.
I like to point young and smelly people to the movie Monterey Pop, which was a film made by hippies, produced for hippies, and featuring a hippie-inspired rock festival.

There is a rather long sequence in the film in which a campground full of hippies wake up and brush their freaking hair!
Dredlocks are not "hippie".
If you have dreds, you should know that you smell like feces. I know, I know, you wash your dreds.
You still smell like rotting crap.

I used to date a really hot black girl with dreds.
You are obviously misinformed about dred hygiene

[Multivac]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

Like, no way man!

You think hippies are worse than wars, disease, famine, murder and genocide? Seriously?

[Ethan Thane Athen]

...
I sir, with my build (short legs, short waist, large headlights) ...

:eek: Does that mean what I think it does!?

Never heard that expression before. Consider it added to my vocabulary!:)

Hmm, now how am I meant to concentrate on work now I have the image of slingblade's 'large headlights' in my mind?;)

[arthwollipot]

I'd have smoked a J with the hippies, back in the day. Alas, I was born too late.

[dafydd]

'Dreads', surely? It is short for dreadlocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQtFf9gCsbA

[slingblade]

:eek: Does that mean what I think it does!?

Never heard that expression before. Consider it added to my vocabulary!:)

Hmm, now how am I meant to concentrate on work now I have the image of slingblade's 'large headlights' in my mind?;)

My ego would love to let you continue with that image, but my integrity requires that I also inform you I am 52, and gravity works. :cool:

[Eddie Dane]

'Dreads', surely? It is short for dreadlocks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQtFf9gCsbA

I sit corrected.

[MaGZ]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

I would state they are and encourage the lefty sarge and the bikerdruid to join me in this. They know that I am right.

Charles Manson and his followers.
I see what you mean.

[slingblade]

Charles Manson and his followers.
I see what you mean.

Whoa, man, thanks for reminding me. It's time to renew the X on my forehead...

[MaGZ]

Just where is it, anyway, that MikeyX sees so many people wearing love beads and Nehru jackets, living communally, weaving flower garlands into their long tresses, protesting the Vietnam War, fighting National Guard troops on college campuses, crooning Joni Mitchell and The Beatles to the light of a lava lamp, decorating with R. Crumb blacklight posters, burning Nag Champa sandalwood incense, wearing patchouli oil, going barefoot, and smoking enough pot to equal a small country's GDP, that he finds them such an intense, on-going concern?

I haven't seen an actual Hippie in 40 years. Where is it, exactly, that they thrive to be such a scourge on humanity that Mikey brings them up on a constant, near-paranoid basis?

I think they have all relocated to Cambodia.

[sgtbaker]

I've been there, and those aren't Hippies. They're Yuppies with a Hippie-wanna-be vibe. ;)

:dl:

That reminds me of an interest group I worked for, back in the 90's. I was still in high school but most of them were college kids. Sure, they smoked a lot of weed and listened to Phish but they bought their clothes from the major retail stores. I remember thinking how expensive it was to be a hippie.

[Dancing David]

What about Firesign Theatre ?

[Skeptic Ginger]

Whoa, man, thanks for reminding me. It's time to renew the X on my forehead...

I saw some of those 'x' heads when I visited my boyfriend at the time in the LA County Jail. They were in the visitor crowd though I don't know if Manson was in County at the time.

Faydra's story made me wonder if that boyfriend was dead yet. But I digress.... He was not a hippie, BTW.

[Igopogo]

Smells like there's a lot of hippies here. Let me offer you bums some friendly advice - Since you find yourself on Wall St., put down your signs & maracas, and find a store. Ask the sales person for "soap" - and ask how to use it. Next, get a hair-cut, a smart suit, shoes, and a TIE. I know it hurts, but ask someone for a JOB - (like say a commodities broker, or selling vinyl siding).

I'm sick and tired of MY paychecks going towards your peace-ins, beads, and hashish. Stop being part of the problem - Get with the establishment!

[Lamuella]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?


I can think of dozens of things worse than hippies without really trying.

[bikerdruid]

I'm sick and tired of MY paychecks going towards your peace-ins, beads, and hashish. Stop being part of the problem - Get with the establishment!

hey, man.....you have never paid for my hashish.
just how do your paychecks pay for hippy's lifestyle?

[Mark6]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

I would state they are and encourage the lefty sarge and the bikerdruid to join me in this. They know that I am right.
Can we all agree that mikeyx is a troll?

He does exactly what Jonesboy does -- posts something outrageous, and people respond thinking he is for real. The only difference is that mikeyx is more concise and uses correct grammar.

[cambion]

Why would you think "modern hippies" are a homogenous group, Autumn1971?

No one could possibly think that, but the argument might be made (incorrectly) that they are a homogeneous group. :p

While I'm nowhere near Eric Cartman levels of disgust, I think that the existence of jam bands alone (Phish...the horror....) is enough to put hippies on the negative end of the spectrum in my book. :rolleyes:

[Skeptic Ginger]

No one could possibly think that, but the argument might be made (incorrectly) that they are a homogeneous group. :p

While I'm nowhere near Eric Cartman levels of disgust, I think that the existence of jam bands alone (Phish...the horror....) is enough to put hippies on the negative end of the spectrum in my book. :rolleyes:

I admit, I'm spell check challenged. :p

[Skeptic Ginger]

Smells like there's a lot of hippies here. Let me offer you bums some friendly advice - Since you find yourself on Wall St., put down your signs & maracas, and find a store. Ask the sales person for "soap" - and ask how to use it. Next, get a hair-cut, a smart suit, shoes, and a TIE. I know it hurts, but ask someone for a JOB - (like say a commodities broker, or selling vinyl siding).

I'm sick and tired of MY paychecks going towards your peace-ins, beads, and hashish. Stop being part of the problem - Get with the establishment!Perhaps if you looked at the facts instead of your confirmation biased stereotype, you would no longer be sick and tired.

[Igopogo]

Perhaps if you looked at the facts instead of your confirmation biased stereotype, you would no longer be sick and tired.


...sorry, was supposed to be satire. Guess I'm not too good at it.

[Lamuella]

I think you were running into Poe's Law.

[ConspiRaider]

Smells like there's a lot of hippies here. Let me offer you bums some friendly advice - Since you find yourself on Wall St., put down your signs & maracas, and find a store. Ask the sales person for "soap" - and ask how to use it. Next, get a hair-cut, a smart suit, shoes, and a TIE. I know it hurts, but ask someone for a JOB - (like say a commodities broker, or selling vinyl siding).

I'm sick and tired of MY paychecks going towards your peace-ins, beads, and hashish. Stop being part of the problem - Get with the establishment!
I came to NYC to find out what a maraca is and then to buy one. Are they like macaroons? I used to drink Ripple and scarf down beau coup macaroons. Ooh.

When I'm not grooving I'm a vinyl siding broker. Man, we could do your house and my crew can even spray on a Hendrix silhouette. And Janis on the back of the house, oooh dude. You will have you some envious neighbors. Got the munchies gotta split, man...

[ConspiRaider]

...sorry, was supposed to be satire. Guess I'm not too good at it.
Read some of my tripe and you will come to know The Satires...:)

[Tricky]

I came to NYC to find out what a maraca is and then to buy one. Are they like macaroons? I used to drink Ripple and scarf down beau coup macaroons. Ooh.
According to one source (http://www.metrolyrics.com/dance-ten-looks-three-lyrics-a-chorus-line.html), it is a breast, particulary one that has been surgically enhanced. Most often, they come in pairs.

[IMST]

My parents were hippies. With 4 college degrees between them. One's a retired civil engineer who spent his career designing and maintaining water systems, the other's a 30 veteran of public schools teaching children with intellectual disabilities. You (the OP) can **** directly off if you want to claim they're anything bad at all.

[Ethan Thane Athen]

My ego would love to let you continue with that image, but my integrity requires that I also inform you I am 52, and gravity works. :cool:

S'Okay, I'll just imagine you upside down...;)

[ConspiRaider]

According to one source (http://www.metrolyrics.com/dance-ten-looks-three-lyrics-a-chorus-line.html), it is a breast, particulary one that has been surgically enhanced. Most often, they come in pairs.
Oh I get it now. They speak to me.

So then macaroons are for us guys then? I hope they knock me out when they do my implant surgery, like that curare stuff, dig? Ooh... dreams, yeah, like 72 million colors on a toothpick, solid, man... Ooooooh....

[slingblade]

S'Okay, I'll just imagine you upside down...;)

Great, now he wants to blindfold me...

[sarge]

I think I knew a hippy once, but I didn't know he was a hippy at the time.

Back in the late 60s/early 70s my uncle (13 years younger than my mom, 7 years my senior) used to take off and hitchhike around the country. Walk the Applachian Trail, subsisting on rice and handouts. He usually wore faded jeans, sandals, and a loose fitting pullover shirt thing with 3/4 sleeves and a v-neck. Smoked dope, never drank.

He was never a bad dude, but he never quite grew out of it. Now approaching 60, he is (was?) a crack addict and has never held a steady job in his life. He did a stint searching for the right religion, including going to days-long folksy young christian festivals, usually at a rustic impromptu campground.

I don't see him once a year now, even though we live in the same city. I do remember fondly that he always had a copy of Mother Earth News, and it always had a topless hippee or two in it. Big deal for this 12 year old boy.

[yomero]

Sooooo...I have to turn in my patchouli?

Can I still go to the camp? They think my wheat germ muffins are far out.

Wheat germ muffins. Bah! What do they think of your Alice B.Toklas brownies?

[Skeptic Ginger]

...sorry, was supposed to be satire. Guess I'm not too good at it.
Ooops. :p

I'm satire challenged, don't blame yourself.

[Ethan Thane Athen]

Great, now he wants to blindfold me...

:D

I can't top that!

[slingblade]

Wheat germ muffins. Bah! What do they think of your Alice B.Toklas brownies?

Man, green and brown are really harmonious colors. 'J ever notice that?
Trippy.

[dafydd]

What about Firesign Theatre ?

I used to have one of their albums.

[Tricky]

What about Firesign Theatre ?
I have practically all their albums, including the rare "Roller Maidens from Outer Space". Though there were a lot of drug references, it really wasn't drug humor, a-la Cheech & Chong.

[fuelair]

You haven't been to the Tricky household. I have a large collection of Joni Mitchell records (Vinyl). Lava lamp, blacklight, strobe lamp. Check. Incense, candles, patchouli oil. Check. Head comics (the Fabulous Furry Freak brothers are my favorite) plus Kama Sutra, yoga books. Check. Renaissance Faire attendance (more than twice a year). Check. Donations to World Wildlife Fund, Doctors Without Borders, Planned Parenthood, ACLU. Check.

But not everythign fits. I do have a job, with an oil company, much less. I don't smoke pot (anymore). I bathe daily. I eat meat and hate tofu.

Nobody's perfect.

ETA: and I know all the words to "Age of Aquarius", both the Broadway and Fifth Dimension versions.I used to be able to sing (correctly but not something you actually would wish to listen too) all the songs from Hair! Got the album from a record shop down in Frederick, Md. Played it a lot at night in Ft. Detrick......early '69.

[fuelair]

I was there in the Sixties. I never met a real hippie, that is some one who had tuned in, turned on and dropped out of society. I may have looked like a hippie back then but I always worked for a living. All the so-called British hippies that I knew were on the dole or social security and all the American ones in Europe were going to the Western Union office for their cheques from Daddy. I can't speak for the USA.The term in my part of the world for that was "squippie" or square hippie: looked the part but didn't live the life.

[Mister Earl]

I've never known any hippies, but given what I do know about them, I wouldn't mind in the slightest having them as neighbors. Vast improvement over what I've got now, to be sure.

[Ravenwood]

I haven't seen an actual Hippie in 40 years. Where is it, exactly, that they thrive to be such a scourge on humanity that Mikey brings them up on a constant, near-paranoid basis?
Paia comes to mind :)

[MaGZ]

Smells like there's a lot of hippies here. Let me offer you bums some friendly advice - Since you find yourself on Wall St., put down your signs & maracas, and find a store. Ask the sales person for "soap" - and ask how to use it. Next, get a hair-cut, a smart suit, shoes, and a TIE. I know it hurts, but ask someone for a JOB - (like say a commodities broker, or selling vinyl siding).

I'm sick and tired of MY paychecks going towards your peace-ins, beads, and hashish. Stop being part of the problem - Get with the establishment!

This sounds like something George Wallace would say in 1968.

[Foolmewunz]

This sounds like something George Wallace would say in 1968.

That was the intention, MaGZ.

[rwguinn]

The true hippies went 3 ways:
Live fast die young
Bought Beemers and 3 piece suits
Bought a Hawken and a tipi.
some did the last 2, some did all 3...

[Foolmewunz]

The true hippies went 3 ways:
Live fast die young
Bought Beemers and 3 piece suits
Bought a Hawken and a tipi.
some did the last 2, some did all 3...

Ya think?

(I'm the exception? I've lived fast, but I'm not dead, nor young. No beemer. No three-piece suits. No Hawken and no tipi. Well, maybe I'm a No True Hippie argument?)

What's a "Hawken"?

[uruk]

The worst thing about hippies were the dippy music. The naivety. The rampant drug use. The idea that naming thier kid Sunshine Waterfall Blue Sky Horowitz is a good thing.

The best thing about hippies; Ben & Jerry's

[Bikewer]

I never got to be a hippie. I joined the army in '64, right out of high school (and fortuitously before Viet Nam heated up) and upon discharge went into police work.

Still, I never quite understood the hippie-hate... Seemed like mostly impressionable youngsters for the most part rejecting an overly up-tight "establishment" and looking for something a bit better.
My wife was pretty much a hippie back then; she describes herself as a "clean" hippie who dressed the part but also indulged in personal hygiene....
I still get choked up at Hair.... "Let the sunshine...."

[sarge]

I never got to be a hippie. I joined the army in '64, right out of high school (and fortuitously before Viet Nam heated up) and upon discharge went into police work.

Still, I never quite understood the hippie-hate... Seemed like mostly impressionable youngsters for the most part rejecting an overly up-tight "establishment" and looking for something a bit better.
My wife was pretty much a hippie back then; she describes herself as a "clean" hippie who dressed the part but also indulged in personal hygiene....
I still get choked up at Hair.... "Let the sunshine...."


All generations have hippies - they just call them something else. Young adults are supposed to believe they are the saviors of the human race, and that their immediate ancestors have royaly hosed everything. Eventually, the functioning ones grow up and become productive. The rest become liberals.*






*I keed. Look at my signature.

[Damien Evans]

The worst thing about hippies were the dippy music. The naivety. The rampant drug use. The idea that naming thier kid Sunshine Waterfall Blue Sky Horowitz is a good thing.

The best thing about hippies; Ben & Jerry's

Hippies had some awesome music.

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[The Mutha]

Every new generation thinks they invented sex, drugs and popular music. That generation just got called "hippies" for it.

[Damien Evans]

Also, this hippie was pretty cool back in the day
http://www.yee.ch/B/BL/Black_Sabbath/Vol4/black-sabbath-vol4-40.jpg

[varwoche]

I never self-identified as a hippy (I rarely self identify, period). But others have identified me as a hippy at various times in my life. Unkempt apprearance? Yup. Smoke weed? Regularly. Refuse to work 9-5 job? For decades running. Peacenik? By and large. I only wish I had attended one of the protests. Not that I'm inclined, but then I could more effectively neener-neener the hippy bashers with the probability that I make a boatload more money than they do. :p

[varwoche]

Hippies had some awesome music.
But in a thread that's based on sweeping generalizations, I prefer a cite that goes against stereotype. Like a 60s era hippy band that plays tight and funky, hold the psychedelia. And these guys weren't ordinary city hippies; they were frikkin Marin County mountain hippies. :D RtrVEneQ300

Add: Fixed YT tag but it won't embed. Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtrVEneQ300). Sorry bout that.

[Foolmewunz]

But in a thread that's based on sweeping generalizations, I prefer a cite that goes against stereotype. Like a 60s era hippy band that plays tight and funky, hold the psychedelia. And these guys weren't ordinary city hippies; they were frikkin Marin County mountain hippies. :D RtrVEneQ300

And evidently quite invisible in your anti-link.


ETA: You fixed it.... it won't play over here. Maybe copyright problems?

[dafydd]

Also, this hippie was pretty cool back in the day
http://www.yee.ch/B/BL/Black_Sabbath/Vol4/black-sabbath-vol4-40.jpg

Ozzie a hippie? He was a hopeless drunk from Brummagem.

[BenBurch]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

I would state they are and encourage the lefty sarge and the bikerdruid to join me in this. They know that I am right.

Your premise is utterly ridiculous.

Worse than the Khemer Rouge?

Worse than the Mafia?

Worse than Mexican Drug Gangs?

Come on, give me a break.

In fact, I think Hippies have had a markedly positive impact on the world.

[uruk]

Hippies had some awesome music.

DWwMXeJccBE

Janice was awesome, but there was quite a bit of hippy-dip to her music, which, sadly, dates it.

But her blues were unquestionably epic.

[uruk]

Ozzie a hippie? He was a hopeless drunk from Brummagem.Yup, I don't think the majority of hippies actually got into Black Sabbath.

It was mainly the children of hippies that got into Black Sabbath.

[BenBurch]

The true hippies went 3 ways:
Live fast die young
Bought Beemers and 3 piece suits
Bought a Hawken and a tipi.
some did the last 2, some did all 3...

Abbie Hoffman was a stock broker before he offed himself.

[rwguinn]

Abbie Hoffman was a stock broker before he offed himself.
See! 1 and 2. Told Ya.
And a Hawken is a percussion cap Muzzle Loading Rifle, for those who don't know--see "Jerimiah Johnson"

[jiggeryqua]

Further evidence of the pernicious pestilence of hippies:

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[OnlyTellsTruths]

Yay I win :)

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I can't decide which one of those is better!

[slingblade]

OMD aren't Classic Hippies. They're Rickies. (Redneck Hippies.) :D

[OnlyTellsTruths]

OMD aren't Classic Hippies. They're Rickies. (Redneck Hippies.) :D

Not that there's anything wrong with that! ;)

[Skeptic Ginger]

Every new generation thinks they invented sex, drugs and popular music. That generation just got called "hippies" for it.Oh I'm pretty sure the sex, drugs, and music of my generation was not my mother's/father's sex, drugs and music. :p

[bottsranzee]

No way, religious or political fundies are way worse. I do not recall hippies routinely killing/torturing re: their beliefs.


http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n536/bottsr/fundies.jpg

[23_Tauri]

All generations have hippies - they just call them something else.
Indeed. They called us ravers. :eye-poppi But we were hippies, basically. Only with better music. ;)

[jiggeryqua]

Indeed. They called us ravers. :eye-poppi But we were hippies, basically. Only with better music. ;)

Having grown up with punk, I didn't think it possible that young people could make music that I'd not even consider to be music. Then came 'rave'...

[L.Y.S.]

What exactly do hippies do other than smoke weed, sleep, eat, drink, and complain? It's better than gun toting militias. I'm sure this is the umteenth time someone said this in the thread.

[dafydd]

Indeed. They called us ravers. :eye-poppi But we were hippies, basically. Only with better music. ;)

'Raver' meant something else in my day,as in 'she's a right little raver.'

[dafydd]

Oh I'm pretty sure the sex, drugs, and music of my generation was not my mother's/father's sex, drugs and music. :p

I think the sex was the same.

[Foolmewunz]

I think the sex was the same.

Pics, or it didn't happen. ;)

[sgtbaker]

What exactly do hippies do other than smoke weed, sleep, eat, drink, and complain? It's better than gun toting militias. I'm sure this is the umteenth time someone said this in the thread.

My cousin travelled, did odd jobs for cash, hung out in city parks and played music with complete strangers, and wrote some pretty good poetry.

[dafydd]

Pics, or it didn't happen. ;)

We didn't have webcams or smart phones back then.

[mikeyx]

We didn't have webcams or smart phones back then.

hippies destroyed america

[jiggeryqua]

hippies destroyed america

Well you've changed your tune since the OP...

[Bram Kaandorp]

hippies destroyed america

What does that even have to do with webcams and smartphones?

Could you be more comprehensible in the future? Please?

[mikeyx]

What does that even have to do with webcams and smartphones?

Could you be more comprehensible in the future? Please?

whose thread is this?

[Bram Kaandorp]

whose thread is this?

Just because you started the thread doesn't mean that you get to say anything at all without other people responding to it and, in rare cases, doubting or critiquing what you say.

Since your post didn't seem to fit in with the post you commented on, I wanted to know why.

Maybe I was a bit out of line when asking you to be more comprehensible, but not by much, since it was pretty hard to figure out what you meant by your remark (in relation to the post you commented on).

[Björn Toulouse]

A Google search turned this one up: Hippy Havens (http://www.hippy.com/havens.htm)

Hey - thanks for that link. I was going to respond to Slingblade's question about where they can be seen and say Little 5 Points in Atlanta, but your link mentions it.

I think everyone has their own definition of "hippie". People called me "hippie" based on the way I dressed - long hair, military throw-offs, bell bottoms, boots, etc., but I was employed part time while attending college, full time later, but spent my evenings either in LFP or Piedmont Park. I called myself a Weekend Warrior but I did know other hippie types who were either unemployed bums or just drug dealers.

When I was still in school I worked in a warehouse with a lot of rednecks who really were my good friends but they were always giving me hell about one thing - the long hair. They were under the impression that everyone with long hair was dirty. I took a shower daily and washed my long hair daily and asked them if their long-haired girlfriends or if they themselves did the same. Once we were playing a sandlot baseball game after work and a dust-devil blew through the infield. I was able to shake the dust out of my hair but the greaseballs couldn't.

Back to Little 5 Points - In 1970, I lived at 145 Elizabeth St. Atlanta, about ⅓ of a mile from Ground Zero LFP with 7 other "hippies". If you GoogleEarth it, it's the house on the SE corner of Euclid and Elizabeth with the red roof.

Haven't been back to Little 5 Points in 2 years and don't live far from it, but when I do go for lunch, it's like walking back in time for me. Just being there almost makes me feel high again.

[L.Y.S.]

My cousin travelled, did odd jobs for cash, hung out in city parks and played music with complete strangers, and wrote some pretty good poetry.

But basically he didn't scream I hate America, *F the U.S. government, and this country is coming to an end because of immigrants, blacks, and Jews. So in a sense, Hippies are much better company than senile far-right nut jobs.

[slingblade]

hippies destroyed america

What's with the past-tense, hmmm?

[autumn1971]

Okay, I was harsh with the generalization and bad attitude. I had a grumpy day.

I stand by my comments about pachuli, but admit that there are those who spend enough time with their dreadlocks (sorry for the misspelling) to smell just fine.

I am cynical because I became a Greatful Dead and Phish fan in the mid-nineties. I went to a few too many concerts where sections of the parking lot were full of people who looked mostly dead, and smelled fully dead.
Also, it got really old to hear someone pontificate about the utopian communities of the "hippies" right before they opened up their boxes of wares and commensed with the capitalism. I think that capitalism works very well, mind you, but I didn't like being told that it doesn't immediately before being charged $2 for a grilled cheese.

[Damien Evans]

Yup, I don't think the majority of hippies actually got into Black Sabbath.

It was mainly the children of hippies that got into Black Sabbath.

Hippies may not have listened to them, but there's a hell of a lot of hippie influence on their first 3 albums.Same anti war stance, same drug references, just darker and heavier.

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[Skeptic Ginger]

I think the sex was the same.No, not the sex we had. No way. No guilt, no hiding, no worries about marrying virgins even pretend virgins. Maybe you have no idea of the extent of sexual freedom of the 60-70s. Sex on the first date was the norm, not the exception in my crowd.

Here's an example of the further end of the spectrum for some perspective, some kids in Conyers Georgia went waaay further than even we did: "The Lost Children of Rockdale County" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/georgia/) There's no way this was the norm during my parents day.

[Skeptic Ginger]

Okay, I was harsh with the generalization and bad attitude. I had a grumpy day.

I stand by my comments about pachuli, but admit that there are those who spend enough time with their dreadlocks (sorry for the misspelling) to smell just fine.

I am cynical because I became a Greatful Dead and Phish fan in the mid-nineties. I went to a few too many concerts where sections of the parking lot were full of people who looked mostly dead, and smelled fully dead.
Also, it got really old to hear someone pontificate about the utopian communities of the "hippies" right before they opened up their boxes of wares and commensed with the capitalism. I think that capitalism works very well, mind you, but I didn't like being told that it doesn't immediately before being charged $2 for a grilled cheese.I was back stage at one of the Dead concerts in Eugene. They passed out a boatload of cash and a few other things to the roadies. I'm pretty sure the days of free Dead concerts in Golden Gate Park were long over by then.

[MoeFaux]

I've grown to accept and appreciate the term "hippie" when it's used to describe me.

Doesn't seem like a bad thing. Especially these days.

I burn my sage and Nag Champa every week. I never brush my hair but shower every day. Love the smell of patchouli but usually smell like soap or organic solid perfume. Hope to never ever use a razor again. I like peace, nature, green things, nudity, twirling in flower fields, my local Farmer's Market, and making love. Ideally I'll learn how to make soap one day, grow my food, and build my own teepee.

I used to work for an accountant but was freed by the failing economy. One day I'll have a real job again and will be a financially contributing member of society. Now I just contribute with my smile, my spirit, and my volunteer work. I'm not the enemy! The only thing offensive about hippies are the same things bad about everyone else: the occasional funk and poor wardrobe choices. Hardly a menace, I'd say.





Oh, and I have Age of Aquarius on vinyl. It makes me happy.

[Walter Ego]

Can we all agree that Hippies are the single worst thing there is?

hippies destroyed america

Hit and run troll thread by an embittered right winger. It's been a meme of the extreme media right of the Rush and Hannity ilk for some time now that this once great nation was destroyed by those filthy 1960s liberals and hippies. Note that mikeyx doesn't care to argue his claim, he just states it as a self-evident fact and runs away.

The term "hippie," btw, is a anachronism. The last of the hippies faded away in 1970s. Today "hippie" just a derogatory term of the right usually meaning a white person who has long hair, doesn't take baths, smokes pot and disturbs his neighbors with loud rock music and probably gets food stamps.

[dafydd]

whose thread is this?

This is a public forum, once a thread is started it is everyone's thread. If you want to post nonsense then carry on.

[dafydd]

Maybe you have no idea of the extent of sexual freedom of the 60-70s. Sex on the first date was the norm, not the exception in my crowd.

.

I was a teenager in the 60's. I know all about it.

[sarge]

No, not the sex we had. No way. No guilt, no hiding, no worries about marrying virgins even pretend virgins. Maybe you have no idea of the extent of sexual freedom of the 60-70s. Sex on the first date was the norm, not the exception in my crowd.

Here's an example of the further end of the spectrum for some perspective, some kids in Conyers Georgia went waaay further than even we did: "The Lost Children of Rockdale County" (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/georgia/) There's no way this was the norm during my parents day.


Want to catch a movie later?

[TragicMonkey]

Hit and run troll thread by an embittered right winger. It's been a meme of the extreme media right of the Rush and Hannity ilk for some time now that this once great nation was destroyed by those filthy 1960s liberals and hippies.

It does seem crazy to blame hippies for things today, the 1960s were half a century ago. It's like people in the 1960's blaming their problems on flappers.

[fuelair]

Ya think?

(I'm the exception? I've lived fast, but I'm not dead, nor young. No beemer. No three-piece suits. No Hawken and no tipi. Well, maybe I'm a No True Hippie argument?)

What's a "Hawken"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawken_rifle

[Skeptic Ginger]

I was a teenager in the 60's. I know all about it.What part of the country?

While I too have heard the claim that our parents generation had just as much sex but were more quiet about it. I say, no way! Some sex, sure, I don't doubt that. And in a few circles, perhaps even a lot of sex. I have a great aunt that family rumor has it, ran a brothel.

But the sexual liberation of the 60-70s was a true revolution. Marriage became irrelevant as did courtship when it cane to sex.

[Skeptic Ginger]

It does seem crazy to blame hippies for things today, the 1960s were half a century ago. It's like people in the 1960's blaming their problems on flappers.I can only dream that the 99%/OWS gains the same momentum we had in the 60-70s. Hippies were good things, :) mostly. ;)

[dafydd]

What part of the country?



All over but based in Wales.

[arthwollipot]

Hippies had some awesome music.Any music that you routinely listen to while stoned is awesome.

[punshhh]

I just dug out my vinyl copy of We're Only In It For The Money and put it on the turntable. (Our younger viewers can Google 'turntable'). What a merciless parody of the San Francisco scene and the hippies. Great stuff.

I think you should discorporate once in a while, or I might tell you whats in the woodshed;)

[Steve]

I think you should discorporate once in a while, or I might tell you whats in the woodshed;)

(Psst - is it Kenny's little creatures on display?)

[wobs]

If anyone has the song "**** Off & Die You Long Haired Hippy Scum" by the Tracy Brothers please let me know, as I have been looking for it for some time.

They featured on the Mary Whitewhouse Experience radio show in the 90s (UK). Something only people of a certain age would appreciate I suspect.

[Damien Evans]

If anyone has the song "**** Off & Die You Long Haired Hippy Scum" by the Tracy Brothers please let me know, as I have been looking for it for some time.

They featured on the Mary Whitewhouse Experience radio show in the 90s (UK). Something only people of a certain age would appreciate I suspect.

No, but this should tide you over until someone finds it:
Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention: Who Needs The Peace Corps?
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[sgtbaker]

But basically he didn't scream I hate America, *F the U.S. government, and this country is coming to an end because of immigrants, blacks, and Jews. So in a sense, Hippies are much better company than senile far-right nut jobs.

I am so sorry for the lack of clarity, my cousin was a hippy, not a far right nut job.

[BenBurch]

hippies destroyed america

Hippies are the essence of everything worth saving in America.

[MaGZ]

Hey - thanks for that link. I was going to respond to Slingblade's question about where they can be seen and say Little 5 Points in Atlanta, but your link mentions it.

I think everyone has their own definition of "hippie". People called me "hippie" based on the way I dressed - long hair, military throw-offs, bell bottoms, boots, etc., but I was employed part time while attending college, full time later, but spent my evenings either in LFP or Piedmont Park. I called myself a Weekend Warrior but I did know other hippie types who were either unemployed bums or just drug dealers.

When I was still in school I worked in a warehouse with a lot of rednecks who really were my good friends but they were always giving me hell about one thing - the long hair. They were under the impression that everyone with long hair was dirty. I took a shower daily and washed my long hair daily and asked them if their long-haired girlfriends or if they themselves did the same. Once we were playing a sandlot baseball game after work and a dust-devil blew through the infield. I was able to shake the dust out of my hair but the greaseballs couldn't.

Back to Little 5 Points - In 1970, I lived at 145 Elizabeth St. Atlanta, about ⅓ of a mile from Ground Zero LFP with 7 other "hippies". If you GoogleEarth it, it's the house on the SE corner of Euclid and Elizabeth with the red roof.

Haven't been back to Little 5 Points in 2 years and don't live far from it, but when I do go for lunch, it's like walking back in time for me. Just being there almost makes me feel high again.

Remember The Great Speckled Bird?

[Skeptic Ginger]

All over but based in Wales.How do you know the sex was the same on both sides of the pond? It doesn't sound like it. I was in LA and it wasn't the same in all parts of this country by any means.

[Verde]

No, but this should tide you over until someone finds it:
Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention: Who Needs The Peace Corps?
otWoCZ9Y9rg

Wonderful!!

It's been a long time since I listened to that.
I think the kids are coming over later today; I may well take a hit as they pass the bong around.

V.