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Post by VanWoman84 on Sept 30, 2019 17:29:13 GMT
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Post by lightbringer on Sept 30, 2019 17:48:32 GMT
If someone called me a hippy I'd take it as a compliment 😁 if only I'd been born sooner!!
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Post by bigbear67 on Sept 30, 2019 17:51:27 GMT
There will always be some who will take it as an insult, just like they find the negative in everything. Personally as long as it doesn't hurt or cost money I don't give a Fuck what people call me...😛👍
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Post by bigbear67 on Sept 30, 2019 17:53:31 GMT
If someone called me a hippy I'd take it as a compliment 😁 if only I'd been born sooner!! 😉 |
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Post by patchypete on Sept 30, 2019 18:05:10 GMT
I was born 1 year after that was released 😁
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Post by cornishharry on Sept 30, 2019 18:11:36 GMT
went to see the film of woodstock, was a teenager about to leave school
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Post by VanWoman84 on Sept 30, 2019 18:44:31 GMT
Could Hippy be a cultural group? Like Traveller or Irish Traveller? Not an insult then is it?
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Post by bigbear67 on Sept 30, 2019 18:48:27 GMT
Wish it was,we might start getting the same preferential treatment as the travelling community then, about time we were all treated the same...😊
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2019 18:50:33 GMT
As with every word, it really depends on context.
My kids will roll their eyes and call me a hippy, but mean it affectionately, the folk who look down at my tatty personage and call me a fucking hippy are not meaning it in a friendly way.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2019 18:58:14 GMT
Wish it was,we might start getting the same preferential treatment as the travelling community then, about time we were all treated the same...😊 Indeed,very confusing..if you re homeless you re homeless...if you live in a van so not homeless...but......not a traveller  xx |
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Post by cricket on Sept 30, 2019 18:58:17 GMT
I wasnt born early enough to go to Woodstock but still in time to get involved in the Convoy,Greenham Common etc.I remember being in awe of the seemingly wise well worn ones in velvet sandals and beads.I got a big motoribke and was sort of on the fringes of everything.Remember having a mostly good time though.There were some rich kids that could afford to opt out and wax lyrical who bought lots of land to "live the dream"seemed contrary to the ideals.Ive just flitted about doing all sorts.Hippy? among other things.  |
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Post by cornishharry on Sept 30, 2019 19:39:12 GMT
back in the day being a hippy meant mummy and daddy were supporting you, otherwise you were a freak which was the preferential name
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Post by givingitsomethought on Sept 30, 2019 19:52:25 GMT
I've sort of assumed if 'hippy' is the worst thing someone can come up with to call you then you're doing okay I did have someone ask me once if I was 'one of them' and when I asked her what 'one of them' was she whispered, "You know - a hippy". Lol, the only time I had something similar was when someone asked me in the 90's if I was 'one of them' and when I asked her what 'one of them' was she said, "You know - IRA" - this was because my dad was Irish. Some people are very odd. I do get called a hippy in an affectionate way by a couple of friends but I think this is just largely based on the fact I don't spend my Saturdays in Primark Lol |
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Post by cornishharry on Sept 30, 2019 21:37:56 GMT
oh and for the record, i am not a hippy never been a hippy, don't want to be a hippy, i,m just a long haired bloke with a beard who lives in a truck,who dresses scruffily and goes to festivals and the like. i also wear a leather jacket and ride bikes and trikes
I,M ME
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Post by bernie on Oct 1, 2019 7:26:42 GMT
Certainly when I was growing up in London, Hippies tended to be ponsey little rich kids who swapped their public school accents for a fake Californian silly voice.
"Its like cosmic man, groovy, far out"
so in our circles hippies were not highly regarded
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