Are the Hippies a Cult? (debrief me)

[Johnny Canuck3]

Would you like to get Stig's version of that??

(ie the real, true, not talking bollocks and making things up one?)
(Sorry Blags, but I bet you didn't meet more than about one or two people on the Protests who came out with that utter shite, and sound and sorted protesters like Stig would have laughed at them if/when they had)

There's only one group of people who piss me off more than leyliine-wibbling, crystal-drivelling, New Age bollocks spouting, 'alternative therapy'-gullible embarassments, and that's ...

HIPPY-HATING GENERALISERS

who write off all hippies as the same.

I'm a hippy who drinks beer, smokes weed, talks sense about politics, goes to Glastonbury, but has a sensibly sceptical attitude to the excesses of the loony fringe. And likes better than average music!!

We're not all the same -- don't write us all off on the basis of the worst. As Shippou said, 'hippy' is far too broad a concept to be discussed meaningfully, without distinguishing properly between the loonies and the sensibles.

Plus, you look like a hippie.

 

[rich!]

I'm a hippy who drinks beer, smokes weed, talks sense about politics, goes to Glastonbury, but has a sensibly sceptical attitude to the excesses of the loony fringe. And likes better than average music!!

I got voted out of my "official company hippy" title this year, despite the dreads and persistent cycling. It was when I was found to be cheering the size of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority budget, on the grounds that we should be able to get a finger in that pie...

Our "official company hippy" is now a breaks-and-beats freak with short red hair and a vicious way with the sarcastic comment about paper and electricity use.

 

[William of Walworth]

Its a true story from the BNRR protest. I also have another anecdote about Swampy's g/f and her reaction to a friend of mine picking up her email - something along the lines of "bablyon computer giving me evil vibes". Silly cow.

Yeah well, I hold no brief for stupid rationality-defying hippies ...

I only hang out with the cool ones

 

[William of Walworth]

I got voted out of my "official company hippy" title this year, despite the dreads and persistent cycling. It was when I was found to be cheering the size of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority budget, on the grounds that we should be able to get a finger in that pie...

Our "official company hippy" is now a breaks-and-beats freak with short red hair and a vicious way with the sarcastic comment about paper and electricity use.

U lost your dreads man???

But I kind of understand your reaction ...

 

[William of Walworth]

Plus, you look like a hippie.

Nowt wrong with that matey, I bet you have in your time, as well

 

[rich!]

U lost your dreads man???

*tugs*

no, still firmly attached.

i'm just not goddam hippy enough in my actions anymore. I put it down to getting bored with reminding people what is and isn't recycleable.

But I kind of understand your reaction ...

shit, it's a phenomenal amount of money to clean up the mess the nuclear industry has made. The theory appears to be: guarantee one "careers-worth" of work, then draft a couple of years worth of graduates into it. Jobs for life.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Nowt wrong with that matey, I bet you have in your time, as well

Didn't say there was; don't be so defensive.

Yes, there once was a time people would cross the street if they saw me coming...

 

[silentNate]

Kenny: Why was that bottle worth five cents?

Billy: Because it was a re-usable commodity.

Kenny: Why wasn't it worth a dollar?

Billy: It didn't have enough value . . .

Kenny: Magic.

Billy: Magic?

Kenny: The magic of property. Inanimate objects have no intrinsic value except what they can do for you, but in our culture they're invested with all sorts of magical properties, and cops protect that magic by making sure property has to be paid for--the unimaginative flunkies. Everything revolves around profit and private property. Those are the premises. I just questioned the logic by destroying the magic.

 

[merlin wood]

Who coined the term hippy or hippie and when?