Are You a Yuppie? Donâ??t hang your head in shame yet, itâ??s time to find out if you really qualify. Read through the checklist below and put a tick next to any statement which applies to you. <P>I have bought the following albums this year: <BR>Moby Play <BR>Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy <BR>St Germain Tourist <BR>Dido Dido <P>I drive the following vehicles: <BR>SUV <P>My SUV has a â??Look out hippieâ?? bumper sticker. <P>I make at least two calls a day on my mobile phone. <P>I have been to Whistler more than once in the past year. <P>I buy Starbucks coffee at least four times a week. <P>My partner and I own matching leather jackets. <P>I own/lease/am interested in â??loft apartmentsâ?? on Hastings Street (or insert applicable newly gentrified area in your city here). <P>I tell others that if Iâ??d sold my stocks before the dot com bust Iâ??d be a millionaire. <P>I have purified water delivered to my door. <P>If you have ticked more than six boxes then brace yourself for the bad news. You are a despicable yuppie. If you have ticked less than six boxes then breathe a sigh of relief. Youâ??re safe for now. <BR>
Are you a yuppie?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Rhett Miller:<BR><B>Are You a Yuppie? Donâ??t hang your head in shame yet, itâ??s time to find out if you really qualify. Read through the checklist below and put a tick next to any statement which applies to you. <P>I have bought the following albums this year: <BR>Moby Play - Check<BR>Thievery Corporation The Mirror Conspiracy <BR>St Germain Tourist <BR>Dido Dido - Check<P>I drive the following vehicles: <BR>SUV - don't have a car, but if I could buy any car I wanted I'd get one of them natty Range Rovers..the Freelander is it?? so I'll say Check on this one to.<P>My SUV has a â??Look out hippieâ?? bumper sticker. <P>I make at least two calls a day on my mobile phone. - Check<P>I have been to Whistler more than once in the past year. - No, but if I had the money I would, I love snowboarding.. so Check.<P>I buy Starbucks coffee at least four times a week. - I dont drink coffee<P>My partner and I own matching leather jackets. - Dont have leather jackets<P>I own/lease/am interested in â??loft apartmentsâ?? on Hastings Street (or insert applicable newly gentrified area in your city here). - If I could afford one I'd get one.<P>I tell others that if Iâ??d sold my stocks before the dot com bust Iâ??d be a millionaire. - I have a pension plan, no portfolio.<P>I have purified water delivered to my door. <BR> - I buy bottled water.<P>If you have ticked more than six boxes then brace yourself for the bad news. You are a despicable yuppie. If you have ticked less than six boxes then breathe a sigh of relief. Youâ??re safe for now. </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>So I ticketed more than 6 boxes and all that this amounts to is that anyone you might be jealous of is a yuppie.. seems to me yuppies enjoy the finest things money can buy.. and if you work hard for it and have it then why the hell not go for it??<P>I guess I'm a yuppie bass player because I chose to buy an expensive bass instead of cheap one??<BR>
wow I didnt manage a single tick, can I be our anti yuppie hero?
me neither…I rule!!!<P>even if I was super rich I wouldn't drive one of those gas guzzling SUVs (they are socially irresponsible–maybe even immoral!) and I sure as hell wouldn't live in an urban loft
wHAT IS Whistler? What is a mobile phone? What is a SUV?<P>Who are those bands?<P>Slobberbone is playing Iota. I want everone on the board to go.
How exactly can a car be immoral? I can see an argument (though do not buy into it) that choosing to drive an SUV might be immoral, but as for the car itself….
and, there are cooler places to ski than Whistler…how cliche!!!
Yuppies know all the best ski places <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Celeste:<BR><B>and, there are cooler places to ski than Whistler…how cliche!!!</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>
i'm only guilty of owning the moby and thievry corp cds… (but i owner more than just one cd by them so the point is mute)<P>sure i use my mobile… <P>but i owner the anti-suv, never drink coffee, don't ski, live in the burbs, and stocks what stocks
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by keithstg:<BR><B>How exactly can a car be immoral? I can see an argument (though do not buy into it) that choosing to drive an SUV might be immoral, but as for the car itself….</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>OK fine…OWNING one is
Owning Moby or Thievery Corp is more immoral haha<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Celeste:<BR><B> OK fine…OWNING one is</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Celeste:<BR><B>and, there are cooler places to ski than Whistler…how cliche!!!</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I don't know, Whistler is pretty great. I mean, two entire mountains with back bowls, a 6000' vertical drop. It's not Les Trois Vallees, but Whistler is certainly one of the top 5 in North America <P>I get the feeling this list came from a Seattle source.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ggw:<BR><B> I don't know, Whistler is pretty great. I mean, two entire mountains with back bowls, a 6000' vertical drop. It's not Les Trois Vallees, but Whistler is certainly one of the top 5 in North America <P>I get the feeling this list came from a Seattle source.</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>Second that. East Coast skiing has nothing but frost on skiing out west.<P>
nah nah nah<P>not yuppie…<P>repeat<P>"resume chasers"<P>"RESUME CHASERS"<P>There you go lecture over..
is vansmack desperately trying to reclaim the oh so smackalicious roots he had by coming up with a new name? smackawhat? huh?
There be more smack here?? I swear its not my fault…<P> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by paige:<BR><B>is vansmack desperately trying to reclaim the oh so smackalicious roots he had by coming up with a new name? smackawhat? huh?</B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>
Drinking coffee from Starbucks qualifies for being a yuppie? I guess so, but it also gives an idea of the bad taste of the person who buys coffee there.
I used to ski in the French Alps when I was little.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kosmo:<BR><B>i'm only guilty of owning the moby and thievry corp cds… (but i owner more than just one cd by them so the point is mute)<P></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I think part of the point for this one was that you bought them this year as they have all been out a lot longer. So if you got into Play this year, you are a yuppie, if you have had it for a while, you are not.<P>With that in mind, I got a big fat 0. I hate starbucks coffee, and I just went boarding last night at Whitetail. It ruled.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Veranda">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by vansmack:<BR><B> Second that. East Coast skiing has nothing but frost on skiing out west.<P></B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>yeah…I'm not really a big skiing afficionade, and in fact have never bothered with the East coast…I very much enjoyed skiing the Arizona Snow Bowl and in Hood River, ORegon…