Do you consider yourself a hippie?
11-17-06, 12:30 PM
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Originally Posted by eddiethomas
I'm car free because I understand thermodynamics and efficiency, because I'm time-wise enough to turn my commutes into light workouts and nummerate enough to recognize how much money I save by foregoing car ownership for occaisional rentals.
11-29-06, 06:09 AM
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Originally Posted by cooker
I was kidding about Hendrix. There have been several threads arguing about whether he was a hippie.
I don't think the dictionary.com definition is adequate. Hippies were young people in the late 60s who had many or all of the following characteristics: generally opposed to excess commercialism, interested in exploring communal living, promoted sexual freedom, were opposed to war, opposed to restrictive drug laws, interested in Eastern philosphy and religion, and fond of particular fashions like beading, tie-dying, bell-bottoms, sandals and long unstyled hair.
How much of that applies to you?
I don't think the dictionary.com definition is adequate. Hippies were young people in the late 60s who had many or all of the following characteristics: generally opposed to excess commercialism, interested in exploring communal living, promoted sexual freedom, were opposed to war, opposed to restrictive drug laws, interested in Eastern philosphy and religion, and fond of particular fashions like beading, tie-dying, bell-bottoms, sandals and long unstyled hair.
How much of that applies to you?
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11-29-06, 08:44 PM
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I think that the mainstream media would like to define all enthusiastic, bike riders as hippies or eco-freaks. "Hippie" seemed to have had a good bit of negitive connotations. I was once in a convieniance store in Custer Wyoming with a dude with really long hair. In seeking to say something nice, the middle aged clerk simply told me, (I was behind Giles in line), "I'll bet his mother still loves him".
I share many of the hippie "values". I have become disillusioned with the two party system, but still vote Blue. I am also Christian, with shorter hair and a IRA. I eat meat. I like punk music as well as Jazz, and did see Bob Marley's last concert. I found Tim Leary rather vaccuas and recently saw Agela Davis, who was great.
Go figure.
Didn't hippies drive those 12 mpg VW Bugs?
I share many of the hippie "values". I have become disillusioned with the two party system, but still vote Blue. I am also Christian, with shorter hair and a IRA. I eat meat. I like punk music as well as Jazz, and did see Bob Marley's last concert. I found Tim Leary rather vaccuas and recently saw Agela Davis, who was great.
Go figure.
Didn't hippies drive those 12 mpg VW Bugs?
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11-30-06, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by slagjumper
Didn't hippies drive those 12 mpg VW Bugs?
Az
12-01-06, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Az B
My first car was a 68 bug. It got 28 mpg.
Az
Az
My first bike was a Wal-mart special. It got 715mpg. (converting 1 gallon of gasilone into calories)
I'm not making fun of ya, just have to throw it in.
My first car was a '94 Geo Metro. It got 44+mpg. When car commercials boast about their cars getting 28+ mpg, I have to laugh.
12-01-06, 06:52 PM
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I had a Bug. I forget what year model is was, but it had a sunroof that rolled open via a crank in the roof.
I used to drive it around wearing a bright green polyester leisure suit with the shirt unbuttoned down to here, platform shoes, and a biiiig 'fro, part of which would stick out of the sunroof. All that stuff was very in, in those days.
That car was definitely a chick magnet with my surfboards on the roof.
This was in the decade following the hippie era. Only the most die-hard hippies were still hippies and nobody else wanted to be associated with them. They weren't cool anymore.
Disco Duck (part 1)
Sung by: Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
*part 2 was the "flipside" instrumental, if I recall correctly.
Rick Dees:Went to a party the other night
All the ladies were treating me right
Moving my feet to the disco beat
How in the world could I keep my seat
All of a sudden I began to change
I was on the dance floor acting strange
Flapping my arms I began to cluck
Look at me..I'm the disco duck
Duck:Ah get down mama, I've got to have me a woman, ha ha ha ha ha
CHORUS: Disco, disco duck
Duck:Got to have me a woman
CHORUS: Disco, disco duck
Duck:Oh get down mama
CHORUS: Try your luck, don't be a cluck, disco
Duck: Disco
CHORUS: Disco
Duck: Disco
CHORUS: Disco - disco - disco disco duck
Duck:All right
CHORUS: Disco disco duck
Duck:Ah get down mama, oh mama shake your tail feather, ha ha ha ha ha
Rick Dees: When the music stopped I returned to my seat
But there's no stoppin' a duck and his beat
So I got back up to try my luck
Why look it's the disco Duck!!
Duck:Everybody's doin' the
CHORUS: Disco, disco duck
CHORUS: Disco, disco duck
CHORUS: Try your luck
Duck:Wave to me
CHORUS: Don't be a cluck
Duck:I'm so happy to be here
CHORUS: Disco
Rick Dees:Thank you duck
CHORUS: Disco
Rick Dees:For gettin' down
CHORUS: Disco disco disco
Rick Dees:Thank you so very much
CHORUS: Disco duck
Duck: You're welcome
CHORUS: Disco Disco Duck
CHORUS: Try your luck, don't be a cluck, disco, disco, disco...
I used to drive it around wearing a bright green polyester leisure suit with the shirt unbuttoned down to here, platform shoes, and a biiiig 'fro, part of which would stick out of the sunroof. All that stuff was very in, in those days.
That car was definitely a chick magnet with my surfboards on the roof.
This was in the decade following the hippie era. Only the most die-hard hippies were still hippies and nobody else wanted to be associated with them. They weren't cool anymore.
Disco Duck (part 1)
Sung by: Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots
*part 2 was the "flipside" instrumental, if I recall correctly.
Rick Dees:Went to a party the other night
All the ladies were treating me right
Moving my feet to the disco beat
How in the world could I keep my seat
All of a sudden I began to change
I was on the dance floor acting strange
Flapping my arms I began to cluck
Look at me..I'm the disco duck
Duck:Ah get down mama, I've got to have me a woman, ha ha ha ha ha
CHORUS: Disco, disco duck
Duck:Got to have me a woman
CHORUS: Disco, disco duck
Duck:Oh get down mama
CHORUS: Try your luck, don't be a cluck, disco
Duck: Disco
CHORUS: Disco
Duck: Disco
CHORUS: Disco - disco - disco disco duck
Duck:All right
CHORUS: Disco disco duck
Duck:Ah get down mama, oh mama shake your tail feather, ha ha ha ha ha
Rick Dees: When the music stopped I returned to my seat
But there's no stoppin' a duck and his beat
So I got back up to try my luck
Why look it's the disco Duck!!
Duck:Everybody's doin' the
CHORUS: Disco, disco duck
CHORUS: Disco, disco duck
CHORUS: Try your luck
Duck:Wave to me
CHORUS: Don't be a cluck
Duck:I'm so happy to be here
CHORUS: Disco
Rick Dees:Thank you duck
CHORUS: Disco
Rick Dees:For gettin' down
CHORUS: Disco disco disco
Rick Dees:Thank you so very much
CHORUS: Disco duck
Duck: You're welcome
CHORUS: Disco Disco Duck
CHORUS: Try your luck, don't be a cluck, disco, disco, disco...
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12-20-06, 12:57 PM
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Amazingly I've yet to be called a hippie. Two years ago there was a huge scare through my extended-family that I may be a "communist". 
12-20-06, 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by gwd
Yes sometimes I tell people that I'm car free because I can do arithmetic.
12-20-06, 08:43 PM
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I am car free and a vegan. People always think I am some liberal hippie because of this. What they don't know is I am a libertarian, gun owner and very conservative with my political views.
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Originally Posted by Philatio
lol, I'm not saying there is. I was just curious. Maybe I am and I don't know it.
10-27-10, 02:20 PM
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Lol oh man.... The reaction I have gotten for being car-free.... Lets.... **** and all the other names that you can think of, Hippie, Commie bastard, etc. Do I consider myself a hippie ? No. I strongly dislike hippies, I am Vegetarian as well =)
10-27-10, 02:24 PM
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10-27-10, 02:57 PM
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Hepcat!
BOHO!!!!
BOHO!!!!
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10-27-10, 03:21 PM
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All of you bicycle commuters are HIPSTERS ! lol I forgot to add I have been called that as well
10-27-10, 06:07 PM
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Among most of the younger people I encounter, it seems that being car-free is considered more of an urban hipster sort of thing to do, along with buying organic/additive free everything, living in some tiny inner-city apartment and loving indie rock. I don't fit the description particularly well, beyond the car-free thing.
My ultra-conservative brother-in-law is the only person who has ever called me a hippie, and that is response to learning that we had switched our daughter to cloth diapers. As he put it while firmly rejecting the idea for his child when his wife presented it, "Someone needs to club the baby seals and roast spotted owl over tire fires, and that person is going to be me!" I'm none to put out by being called a dirty hippie by the likes of him
My ultra-conservative brother-in-law is the only person who has ever called me a hippie, and that is response to learning that we had switched our daughter to cloth diapers. As he put it while firmly rejecting the idea for his child when his wife presented it, "Someone needs to club the baby seals and roast spotted owl over tire fires, and that person is going to be me!" I'm none to put out by being called a dirty hippie by the likes of him
10-28-10, 09:23 AM
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Most of my friends and I considered ourselves Freaks rather than hippies. The name coming from the movie "Freaks". Think of the Furry Freak Brothers. More urban than hippies. Anti-establishment, anti-war, into rock and roll, trying to be ecologically friendly, but definitely the car was part and parcel of the culture. I was the weirdo of the crowd, preferring to pedal rather than drive.
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10-28-10, 09:29 AM
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OMG 
... The fabulous, furry guys!
They are kind of an anti-pattern. You read about them, freak out because your life vaguely resembles some of their worst adventures, then join the Republican party.
In my case, it wasn't the Republicans, but maybe the New Democrats.
... The fabulous, furry guys!They are kind of an anti-pattern. You read about them, freak out because your life vaguely resembles some of their worst adventures, then join the Republican party.
In my case, it wasn't the Republicans, but maybe the New Democrats.
