What's up with all the Yuppie bashing on this board?

Obamanut wrote: [quote=Mamacita]I beg to differ that looks like hippie gear -I should know, I lived in a hippie town (yet was not one)

And there is nothing "hippie" about Park Slope in your opinion? Remember the Food Coop?

Yuppies and hippies are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, many, if not most, nuevo Park Slope residents have one foot in each shoe.



Personally, as a yuppie who aspires to prep-hood, but also likes to flaunt my earthy, hippie roots, I wear a spotless Ked sneaker on one foot and hemp-based moccasin on the other. It makes me walk funny, but I feel that's offset by the fact that anyone can tell I'm a nuevo Park Sloper just by glancing at my footwear.
I also wear a trucker hat in case there are any hipsters around. That way no one can accuse me of pandering to any single group's sartorial tastes.

LNelson, I bow to you!! Love your conceit!

I was once a hippy, never qualified as a preppie (a mere public high school... no prep or boarding school), and by the time I had enough coin to claim to be a yuppie, I was way too old.

Mamacita wrote: seriously, Park Slope is far from hippie. Trust me. Some similar qualities do not equal the same result. You really need to travel more, it might help you stop living and basing your whole existence on the "white plague" :shock:

Welp, I'm afraid we'll have to agree to disagree. Up the block from my house there is a store called "PUMPKIN'S ORGANIC MARKET" which advertises "Organic Cotton Clothing." Down on 7th you've got the ever-popular "Community Book Store," "Back To The Land," etc., along with the aforementioned Food Coop just to name a few examples. Those all reek pretty heavily of "hippie"-ness, 'boho's', or whatever you want to call them, and they are not out of character in this neighborhood.

If you're looking for a PURE yuppie neighborhood, then someplace like Brooklyn Heights is probably a good example.

As for me 'traveling more,' I've been to 45+ states and countless cities, including Berkeley, CA, enough times to know what a hippie looks like. I've also been around the world, several times. And you? Nice try though.

Interesting conversation. I actually was a hippie. I would certainly agree that the Park Slope of today bears absolutely no resemblance in the least to the Berkeley, San Francisco, Woodstock, Madison, Wisconsin, Humboldt, Ca, Cambridge, Ma, Greenwich Village and the Farm in Tenn. that I more or less fondly remember for the mid-60's to the early 70's. But Park Slope did "enjoy" a brief period of hippiedom in the late 60's and early 70's when you couldn't give away a brownstone. And there is a 21st version of people interested in communal living - now called co-housing - in Brooklyn and Manhattan... http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/20/31_20_wanted_roommates_with.html

Livetotravel wrote: Interesting conversation. I actually was a hippie. I would certainly agree that the Park Slope of today bears absolutely no resemblance in the least to the Berkeley, San Francisco, Woodstock, Madison, Wisconsin, Humboldt, Ca, Cambridge, Ma, Greenwich Village and the Farm in Tenn. that I more or less fondly remember for the mid-60's to the early 70's. But Park Slope did "enjoy" a brief period of hippiedom in the late 60's and early 70's when you couldn't give away a brownstone. And there is a 21st version of people interested in communal living - now called co-housing - in Brooklyn and Manhattan... http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/20/31_20_wanted_roommates_with.html

I concur 100%. Many young people don't know what a real hippie is. Hint: Just because someone has long hair, that doesn't necessarily make them a hippie. Also, Hippies are old, compared to the majority of people you see in Park Slope who are more Yuppie than Hippie. Cotton clothing appears to be in with Hipsters so I can understand the confusion. They both start with the word HIP but are not to be confused with each other.

filmlover44 wrote: [quote=Livetotravel]Interesting conversation. I actually was a hippie. I would certainly agree that the Park Slope of today bears absolutely no resemblance in the least to the Berkeley, San Francisco, Woodstock, Madison, Wisconsin, Humboldt, Ca, Cambridge, Ma, Greenwich Village and the Farm in Tenn. that I more or less fondly remember for the mid-60's to the early 70's. But Park Slope did "enjoy" a brief period of hippiedom in the late 60's and early 70's when you couldn't give away a brownstone. And there is a 21st version of people interested in communal living - now called co-housing - in Brooklyn and Manhattan... http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/20/31_20_wanted_roommates_with.html

I concur 100%. Many young people don't know what a real hippie is. Hint: Just because someone has long hair, that doesn't necessarily make them a hippie. Also, Hippies are old, compared to the majority of people you see in Park Slope who are more Yuppie than Hippie. Cotton clothing appears to be in with Hipsters so I can understand the confusion. They both start with the word HIP but are not to be confused with each other.

Uh huh, so one individual must fall under one label, and one only?

Obamanut wrote: [quote=filmlover44][quote=Livetotravel]Interesting conversation. I actually was a hippie. I would certainly agree that the Park Slope of today bears absolutely no resemblance in the least to the Berkeley, San Francisco, Woodstock, Madison, Wisconsin, Humboldt, Ca, Cambridge, Ma, Greenwich Village and the Farm in Tenn. that I more or less fondly remember for the mid-60's to the early 70's. But Park Slope did "enjoy" a brief period of hippiedom in the late 60's and early 70's when you couldn't give away a brownstone. And there is a 21st version of people interested in communal living - now called co-housing - in Brooklyn and Manhattan... http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/20/31_20_wanted_roommates_with.html

I concur 100%. Many young people don't know what a real hippie is. Hint: Just because someone has long hair, that doesn't necessarily make them a hippie. Also, Hippies are old, compared to the majority of people you see in Park Slope who are more Yuppie than Hippie. Cotton clothing appears to be in with Hipsters so I can understand the confusion. They both start with the word HIP but are not to be confused with each other.

Uh huh, so one individual must fall under one label, and one only?

Well, that's a point you've shared many times :P

Mamacita wrote: Well, that's a point you've shared many times :P

Wait, there was a point? #-o

Hey Obamanut, I must admit to some curiosity here. You've liberally applied labels (sometimes several at once) to your neighbors here in the Slope... How would you self-identify?

lnelson wrote: Hey Obamanut, I must admit to some curiosity here. You've liberally applied labels (sometimes several at once) to your neighbors here in the Slope... How would you self-identify?

I'm going with the "nut" part

lnelson wrote: Hey Obamanut, I must admit to some curiosity here. You've liberally applied labels (sometimes several at once) to your neighbors here in the Slope... How would you self-identify?

He labeled me a "latin king" because of my avatar/illustration... I didn't have the heart to shatter his stereotype and tell him I'm not even latin, lol. Also I guess these days you don't have to draw an illustration of a guy carrying a gun, or posing with a knife and bling bling to be stereotyped as a gangster. I guess you just have to have brown skin and wear a camelback hydration backpack to be a notorious gangster in obamanuts' book. lol.

Someone should market an obamanut cracker, the new device guaranteed to crack any nut you shove up its tight ass.

Wait...if the 'bamster's labels are based on Brooklynian avatars, maybe instead of "yuppie" he meant "puppy."