So what defines A Hippie

[mcsurveyer1361]

to me a hippie is someone who is liberal, vegan or vegitarian, long hair, stinks, and other annoying traits. For instance my brother-inlaw is a vegan, long hair, Doesnt believe in sleeping in a bed and a big liberal. i would like to here your discription of a hippie or the biggest hippie youve ever met.

[spyder]

I've liked the hippies I've met, well, that were "true" hippies. Hippies are just another group that fell to the retardation of a many... The original, from what I can tell, and what my parents were, and their close friends back in the days, just didn't give a f*ck. They didn't protest, many owned guns, they just wanted to be left alone to their own whateverthefuck... They didn't like the protesting whiners that ended up coming out of the group...

[aahorn]

doesnt believe in sleeping in a bed? wtf? lemme guess he just crashes on peoples couches? haha

my idea is very negative, altho i have met several older true hippies who were much more agreeable and likeable folks..

-doesnt understand politics, so therefore they always lean left hard because everyone should be taken care of.
-tells everyone how green they are and points out any un-green things people do around them
-doesnt own a car, bikes everywhere and breaks tons of traffic laws like a douche
-owns nothing but goodwill clothes and tells you your stupid for paying more for new clothes
-doesnt believe in western medicine.. what ever the hell that means
-does acid and smokes weed
-doesnt work hard, calls anyone who works hard evil
-they think the dumbest things are super cool, so they waste whatever money left on garbage
-smell
-listen to horrible music

[BlasterBob]

Hippies are just another group that fell to the retardation of a many... back in the days, just didn't give a f*ck. They didn't protest, many owned guns, they just wanted to be left alone to their own whateverthefuck... They didn't like the protesting whiners that ended up coming out of the group...

Wow, sounds like a fair description of about half of the population of Trinidad.[ROFL3]
Now I wonder what percentage of the students attending TSJC fall into the hippie catagory??

TSJC = Trinidad State Junior College.

[Badger]

I have long hair.... but if you called me "hippie" I sincerely doubt anyone would find your remains.... just saying.

Also have a rather bushy beard, ride a Harley, live in the mountains and have been known to wear and make things from fur and leather on occasions, typically gathered from the animals I've killed for sustenance and livelihood.

Have met several who would be considered true 'hippies'.... though they're kind hearted individuals, I kind of consider them fodder depending on hypothetical occurances. The "true" version of these docile, puny folk don't often have much of an offending odor. Perhaps because they're as close to nature as I am.... but they're too busy picking berries and herbs to know that deer and elk are damn good eating.

The "psuedo-hippies" seem to have one hell of an odor though, despise my hunting habits and often make the mistake of voicing such opinions where I can hear them.... and then find out why I'm called Badger.

Peace sells.... but who's buying? (And yes, I listen to metal too..... if you don't like long hair, leave this long haired country boy alone, and you'll fare far better.)



Badger

[Delfuego]

The smell!

Thread over....

[Ronin13]

Considering these are people I tend, only by choice of music (some), to associate and hang out with (a lot of my friends fit this category, but alas I do not- and will throw heavy, hard objects at you if you call me one):
Olden day hippy (aka my mother): born in the 40's/50's, attended college during or before the Vietnam war, had friends drafted in said war, protested said war, smoked pot, played crappy music in the quad or listened to crappy music in the quad, typically likes the Grateful Dead, spreads silly concepts like free love and peace, poly-amorous by nature, stood their ground for a just cause (end the war in Vietnam), 90% chance of homemade clothes.

Modern day hippy: born in the late 70's-mid 90's, listens to jam bands, 80% chance of vegetarian or vegan, liberal, does copious amounts of LSD, smokes copious amounts of pot, general lazy attitude, stands for socialism and the welfare state, usually blindly follows Obama, spread silly concepts like socialism, love, and peace, probably drives a Prius or Subaru station wagon and has either OBAMA\Biden or COEXIST stickers (or both), owns a mac and proclaims it's superiority in every way in the most smug manner (same with their Prius), 75% chance of being a PETA supporter, believes in entitlement without cause or effort, generally has or is working on getting some kind of liberal arts or philosophy degree, doesn't want to pay for college, 90% chance of homemade clothes, 60% chance of having dreads, owns at least one flat bill with several festival pins attached, has been to more than 2 music festivals in the last 9 months, talks with a lot of "brah's", "dudes" and "chill". Probably paints, sells pipes/blows glass, or owns bongos or all of the above; believes republicans are "evil;" believes in free speech as long as your views are parallel to theirs; idolizes Steve Jobs; only knows Lars Ulrich as "That greedy guy that got Napster shut down;" cannot tell you who Axl Rose is; doesn't shower regularly; smells of pot and/or patchouli; idolizes Jerry Garcia; can vividly give you walking directions from anywhere in the Denver metro area to either Sancho's or Quixote's, or both.
I think that sums it up... I might have forgot a few things though... [Coffee]

[Zundfolge]

There are many subsets of the "hippie" culture.

TRUE hippies aren't political at all (part of the "tune in, turn on, drop out" philosophy). But frankly there are very few TRUE hippies left ... most are just smelly Grateful Dead/Phish fans that like to smoke pot and vote for Democrats. The closest thing you'll find to real hippies are Rainbow Family (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Family) people. Most of the Rainbow Family folk I've met are nice people who would give you the shirt off their back, but you wouldn't want it 'cause it'll stink.

Hipsters have come to annoy me more than hippies because the hipsters are intensely politically active.

If you just wanna wear tie-die, hang out with your "old lady" listen to crappy music and smoke pot, that's fine with me ... just don't try to impose your beliefs on me via the political system.

[Sharpienads]

I have long hair.... but if you called me "hippie" I sincerely doubt anyone would find your remains.... just saying.

Also have a rather bushy beard, ride a Harley, live in the mountains and have been known to wear and make things from fur and leather on occasions, typically gathered from the animals I've killed for sustenance and livelihood.

I thought these were just the normal requirements to live in Bailey?

[Ronin13]

Hipsters have come to annoy me more than hippies because the hipsters are intensely politically active.

Oh man I hate hipsters! How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?


It's like, really complicated bro, you totally wouldn't understand.

[mcsurveyer1361]

It's like, really complicated bro, you totally wouldn't understand.[/quote]
awesome not lets smoke pot and gather in a group and do absolutly nothing and by doing so we are fighting the man. well we are at it lets go camp in a park and just make it disgusting

[ScooterCO]

Having seen and experienced the originals during the 70s, most of your discriptions are accurate. Smell, smoke mj, no jobs, will tell you how to live your life..ECT.

Or, We can go by.. What ever I say it is!
That always works for me!

[Zundfolge]

How many hipsters does it take to screw in a lightbulb?


It's like, really complicated bro, you totally wouldn't understand.
Yeah, I use a kind of lightbulb you've never heard of ... they have vacuum tubes in them.

[StagLefty]

1963-1967 military-grew hair after I got out-hitchiked around the country-went to Woodstock-smoked pot (didn't like it)-turned alcholic for 27 years-and now retired non drinking or smoking, and leave me the fuck alone type of guy.
HIPPIE ??? [Beer]

[Ronin13]

1963-1967 military-grew hair after I got out-hitchiked around the country-went to Woodstock-smoked pot (didn't like it)-turned alcholic for 27 years-and now retired non drinking or smoking, and leave me the fuck alone type of guy.
HIPPIE ??? [Beer]

Nope, I'd say bitter old guy [ROFL1] Just kidding... but you like guns? Do you vote D? If you answered yes to #1 and no to #2 then you're not a hippie.

[StagLefty]

Nope, I'd say bitter old guy [ROFL1] Just kidding... but you like guns? Do you vote D? If you answered yes to #1 and no to #2 then you're not a hippie.

New title-bitter old guy or not a hippie [ROFL1]

[anomad]

He's a friend of them long haired hippie type pinko fags sent down here by the FBI to infiltrate the ku klux klan...

[Zombie Steve]

Shave those sideburns, Hippie!

http://images.wikia.com/simpsons/images/4/4f/HatB_-_Don_Mattingly's_misfortune.png

[AK47 Ranger]

Obama voter

[gcrookston]

I don't know any hippies under the age of 65... They either died, grew up, or woke up.

The grown up Hippies I've met were neighbors of mine when I lived in Tennessee...

a place called "the farm". http://www.thefarm.org/

[nisils14]

Is it safe to assume anyone who chooses live in Boulder by their own free will is a hippie?

[DD977GM2]

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s
and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially
used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. Both the
words "hip" and "hep" came from African American culture and denote "awareness." The early hippies inherited the
countercultural values of the Beat Generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced
the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD and magic mushrooms to
explore altered states of consciousness.


This is from Wikipedia.

[sniper7]

there are two kinds of hippies. the ones I like and the ones I don't.

The old school ones who are for personal rights, anti-.gov, and basically just want to be left alone and are happy to leave you alone. this is a dying breed. I like most of them that I have met.


Then there is the new age hippy with nasty dreadlocks, activist, doesn't shower, OWS style people...oh...and the libtard prius drivers. I truly hate them.

[DD977GM2]

To me a hippy is someone with unrealistic beliefs of the government, environment,
drugs & alcohol and life in general as to allow them to
get away with anything they choose to do because of their belief that
they can do as they please as a free person without regard to others.
They feel the governement is after them and wont let them live their free lifestyle
even when that lifestyle infringes on anothers life. Feeling that people owe them
anything wether monetary or housing etc.
Anyone who feels that drugs are ok and that it should be free and given to them

Wikipedia Hippy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie)

[DD977GM2]

This guy Id mistake for someone who "putts from the rough" instead of a hippy

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/Stockholm_hippy_1971.jpg

[Bailey Guns]

"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of people I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core hippie"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it...,[Emphasis added.]
—(with apologies to) Justice Potter Stewart

[Bailey Guns]

That boyscout dude has a really nice holster.

[Zundfolge]

Is it safe to assume anyone who chooses live in Boulder by their own free will is a hippie?
Unless they make parts and accessories for AR-15 rifles (http://www.magpul.com), you might be right.

[boulderite]

Unless they make parts and accessories for AR-15 rifles (http://www.magpul.com), you might be right.

Other companies in Boulder

Soldier Of Fortune and Paladin Press

[Dr_Fwd]

For me, hippie is aaahhm... It's not like someone being some kinda mmm... I don't know how to explain it... Well it's kinda the same thing as if I call someone a fag - it's not because that person is gay, it's just because that person is being faggot.

[GilpinGuy]

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af308/juanez3248/Hippies.jpg

Who knows where this was taken? I took it today. You get a big "attaboy!" if you know.

OK, baring my soul here...don't hold it against me.

This thread is awesome for me. I held off from replying for a while because I wanted to see all of the responses. You see, I am a reformed "neo-hippie". I have infiltrated your ranks! Muaahhhhahahhahahaa!

In the days of my youth I attended at least 100 Phish/Dead/WSP/STI concerts, was an "environmentalist" (majored in environmental geology), had long hair, drove a '71 VW camper van for many years, was against Desert Storm because it was "only for oil" and smoked more pot and ate more mushrooms in 10 years than I can even fathom. I had 49 pot plants growing in my basement for years - 50 plants got you a mandatory minimum in those days. Now you're a "caregiver" LOL. I also grew mushies for a few years, very well I might add. I'm not proud of all this. I never did sell any pot or mushrooms or like being dirty or smelly - I am proud of that! It was all for personal use.

Interestingly enough, I always loved guns and hunting. I rarely mentioned these things to my "friends". Camping, fishing, four-wheelin, etc. were also passions of mine since I was a kid. Neo-hippies would always say "catching fish and hunting is cruel". <sigh>

I was always disappointed when I went to a Phish show and saw all of the trash left behind when I was driving out. I was disappointed when I heard about this guy or that girl screwing someone over somehow, which happened all the time. I was disappointed when the girl I thought was my girlfriend banged my "friend" one night and she said "what's the big deal" when I confronted her about it. He didn't think it was a big deal either. Never spoke to him again. I was always disappointed with the people I was hanging around with.

Then I graduated college, got a job, and the real world set in. I started to actually learn about politics and economics on my own and had a great awakening. I read many, many books. I started to become <gasp> a conservative! But I wasn't really changed, just thinking about stuff more.

When 9/11 happened, it was a serious game changer. I'm from New York, but lived in CO when it went down. It was about a full day before I could even get in touch with anyone I knew in NY. My whole family was there (not NYC, but close and family worked in NYC). I was DEVASTATED when this happened. It was an instant transformation into "conservative/rugged individualist". I said to myself, "No fucking around now. Things are different. Live in the real world asshole."

It wasn't a hard change really. I just started to listed to Mike Rosen more and read conservative publications like the Weekly Standard, etc. I learned more and more and realized that I was fucking fool when I was younger. What a waste!

Now I keep in touch with exactly 1 guy from the "old days". He's a former NYer (from Brooklyn) living in CO, and a reformed "neo-hippie" as well. Funny how something that hit's you hard in the heart can change you forever like that.

Anyway, I have a small bit of pity for "neo-hippies". They just don't know what the real world is like. They are so easy to make fun of though.

[TEAMRICO]

Reminds me of the time my wife wanted to go to WHOLE FOODS. Me and my son where waiting for her by an aisle of some Gluten Free crap and he makes this horrid face and says "Ewwww, what's that smell dad?" I said one word...."Hippies!"
Now when he sees that store he says "That store smells like hippies."

[stevelkinevil]

Reminds me of the time my wife wanted to go to WHOLE FOODS. Me and my son where waiting for her by an aisle of some Gluten Free crap and he makes this horrid face and says "Ewwww, what's that smell dad?" I said one word...."Hippies!"
Now when he sees that store he says "That store smells like hippies."

This reminds me of a time I took my 2 sons to Tokyo joes years ago. My youngest was about 4-5 then and asked me why the milk said organic and looked funny, I told him because it was hippie milk, he looked at the guy working the register (who had dreds and looked the part) and said totally straight faced and serious "curse you hippies!" I laughed for days about that one, god I love that boy.

[bogie]

Who knows where this was taken? I took it today. You get a big "attaboy!" if you know.

OK, baring my soul here...don't hold it against me.

This thread is awesome for me. I held off from replying for a while because I wanted to see all of the responses. You see, I am a reformed "neo-hippie". I have infiltrated your ranks! Muaahhhhahahhahahaa!

In the days of my youth I attended at least 100 Phish/Dead/WSP/STI concerts, was an "environmentalist" (majored in environmental geology), had long hair, drove a '71 VW camper van for many years, was against Desert Storm because it was "only for oil" and smoked more pot and ate more mushrooms in 10 years than I can even fathom. I had 49 pot plants growing in my basement for years - 50 plants got you a mandatory minimum in those days. Now you're a "caregiver" LOL. I also grew mushies for a few years, very well I might add. I'm not proud of all this. I never did sell any pot or mushrooms or like being dirty or smelly - I am proud of that! It was all for personal use.

Interestingly enough, I always loved guns and hunting. I rarely mentioned these things to my "friends". Camping, fishing, four-wheelin, etc. were also passions of mine since I was a kid. Neo-hippies would always say "catching fish and hunting is cruel". <sigh>

I was always disappointed when I went to a Phish show and saw all of the trash left behind when I was driving out. I was disappointed when I heard about this guy or that girl screwing someone over somehow, which happened all the time. I was disappointed when the girl I thought was my girlfriend banged my "friend" one night and she said "what's the big deal" when I confronted her about it. He didn't think it was a big deal either. Never spoke to him again. I was always disappointed with the people I was hanging around with.

Then I graduated college, got a job, and the real world set in. I started to actually learn about politics and economics on my own and had a great awakening. I read many, many books. I started to become <gasp> a conservative! But I wasn't really changed, just thinking about stuff more.

When 9/11 happened, it was a serious game changer. I'm from New York, but lived in CO when it went down. It was about a full day before I could even get in touch with anyone I knew in NY. My whole family was there (not NYC, but close and family worked in NYC). I was DEVASTATED when this happened. It was an instant transformation into "conservative/rugged individualist". I said to myself, "No fucking around now. Things are different. Live in the real world asshole."

It wasn't a hard change really. I just started to listed to Mike Rosen more and read conservative publications like the Weekly Standard, etc. I learned more and more and realized that I was fucking fool when I was younger. What a waste!

Now I keep in touch with exactly 1 guy from the "old days". He's a former NYer (from Brooklyn) living in CO, and a reformed "neo-hippie" as well. Funny how something that hit's you hard in the heart can change you forever like that.

Anyway, I have a small bit of pity for "neo-hippies". They just don't know what the real world is like. They are so easy to make fun of though.

Interesting story. Life can take a lot of turns for sure. So maybe your last hurdle towards complete reformation is to get further away from Nederland :) I kid.

[GilpinGuy]

So maybe your last hurdle towards complete reformation is to get further away from Nederland :) I kid.

No way. I LOVE it up here, hippies aside. They don't bother me until they start doing the protest thing or start begging...I never did either of those things.

Having to go down to "the city" makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

[Bailey Guns]

Congrats on your transformation, GilpinGuy! Great success story.

[rockhound]

I thought these were just the normal requirements to live in Bailey?


those days are long over, i have lived in bailey now for nearly 10 years, the population of bailey is diverse, but the number of professional, educated, higher income families, usually second time homes buyers, well to do retirees has been on the rise for years,

A lot of my clients are paying cash for 400K plus homes in bailey,

many of the old timers have actually commented to me about how the atmosphere in bailey has changed, some of the old hippies in neighborhoods not to be mentioned have described it as having "lost its edge"

[birddog]

I think a lot of preppers are termed as hippies but I don't think so. Living a self sustainable life is just something we share with the hippies.

[Ronin13]

Welcome to the winning team Gilpin! I still go to STS9 shows and I'm friends with a lot of those neo-hippies, it is the music that binds us... ugh... I can't pick and choose what's pleasing to my ears, it's the same with Electronic music, I don't want to be associated with 17 year old girls who dress like pornstars (not the good kind either), have glow sticks coming out of God knows where, and pacifiers in their mouths, but again, I love the music and nothing beats the live versions. To my hippie friends I'm just that abrasive, conservative (ish), gun loving friend, and some actually have said that they feel safe around me because of my oft-frightening love of firearms. [Coffee]