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Hippies - Where have they all gone?

  • 18-10-2008 8:19pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭


    I remember growing up there used to be loads of hippies around most were English and actually quite well educated and they seemed to rebel against the stiff British upper lip. Most would live in cheap houses or in some sort mobile homes or caravans.

    I remember one crowd living in a hut built out sticks with a grass roof. They generally were pretty harmless and lived off dole and loved to have a small patch of weed growing somewhere. Hippies flocked to Kerry and West Cork and the place was full of them in the late 80's and 90's. Occasionally you'd see a few around now but most seem to have disappeared.

    I wonder did they return to normal life and abandon the whole hippy counter-culture.

    Did the collapse of Communism cause them to lose faith I wonder or was it the Celtic Tiger (deceased)? Growing up I was friends with several hippys and they were unusual as they often travelled alot compared to normal spud people.

    Anyone know? Do we have hippys here?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    They disappeared in a puff of 'smoke'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Aodan83


    I think they all moved to a hippy colony or farm or whatever you want to call it, in west cork. Nice place i hear. Lots of tents...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    And rainbows l heard.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    They are all ex bank employees feeling the pinch .You will find them on London underground system reading the Financial times ,situations vacant pages .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    They came from UK after the Brits paid them money to come off the UK dole.

    Read about it on here recently


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    They got jobs.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    I thought they all joined the Green Party!
    Now there's a bunch who plans are going up in smoke too!


  • Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    They are in Rossport starving thmselves!\o/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    They are all in sangate france pretending to be refugees trying to enter uk/ireland


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    gone? no no, they're right here above my leggies


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,644 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I thought they were still in the place they always were - they just moved the elephants and giraffes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    The hippies from the 80s and 90s were bogus hippies. They've all now got homeopathic surgeries, mobiles and big mansions in the country. Us proper hippies from an earlier decade all became lawyers and accountants, losing both our appeal and balance at the same time.

    The rest of the proper hippies died, leaping out of windows on acid thinking that they could fly. Happy days. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭experiMental


    Maybe there was some sort of personal hygiene act introduced in 1970's that made all those hippies start taking proper showers and baths, and shaving their heads, cos there was a whole ecosystem of life-forms on their bodies by that time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Still around here and there.

    I think the Commercial Celtic tiger showed the new generation that the community could go to hell if there was a bit of cash in it.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    And some of the remaining real hippies are bitter old men because their vision of Eutopia never happened .Look at Ringo Starr , a real hippy ,peace and love and all that but fcuk dont ask me for any more authographs :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn!


    They all went to Rosport or to live in trees/sustainble communities(or whatever you call trees thes days).

    No one ever told them what anrchy was and why it was one of the bloodies times in history.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Hippy-i-aye
    Hippy-i-Ooo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,344 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Have you tried Galway? Or are they bohemians rather than hippys?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn!


    Have you tried Galway? Or are they bohemians rather than hippys?

    Can someone explin the difference between
    bohemian
    Hippie
    Krusty


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Or Bozo the clown ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,233 ✭✭✭jos28


    Can someone explin the difference between
    bohemian
    Hippie
    Krusty


    bohemian- always wash themselves
    Hippie -sometimes wash themselves
    Krusty- NEVER wash themselves


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Their all in Galway. There is a commune near kinvara if I remember, correctly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    syklops wrote: »
    Their all in Galway. There is a commune near kinvara if I remember, correctly.
    So Cromwell was right , to hell or to counaght


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I would have thought all they hippies ended up in California.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Overheal wrote: »
    I would have thought all they hippies ended up in California.
    Some of them were born there to ,like the mamas and the papas,the byrds,dennis wilson , jim morrrison etc .Cant get more califorian hippe than that except they were famous hippies


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    latchyco wrote: »
    Some of them were born there to ,like the mamas and the papas,the byrds,dennis wilson , jim morrrison etc .Cant get more califorian hippe than that except they were famous hippies

    Aren't they all dead?

    Is that what happened to the hippies? They're all...dead? Was there a holocaust nobody told me about?


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    One of my friend's brothers still lives in a VW camper, going here and there. Hunting magic mushrooms etc.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Aren't they all dead?

    Is that what happened to the hippies? They're all...dead? Was there a holocaust nobody told me about?
    No , they are Under the boards.ie walk down by the seaee, yeah?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    sharpshooter, you so ker-azy!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    sharpshooter, you so ker-azy[/quote]

    Ker-azy , Ker-azy for feeling so blue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    latchyco wrote: »
    And some of the remaining real hippies are bitter old men because their vision of Eutopia never happened .Look at Ringo Starr , a real hippy ,peace and love and all that but fcuk dont ask me for any more authographs :D

    Maybe if you had a million letters clogging up your mansion you'd feel the same


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    Can someone explin the difference between
    bohemian
    Hippie
    Krusty

    Bohemian are artistic types who live in a cheap area of a city. Hobbies include absinthe, arrogance and suicide


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭motherfunker


    Galway.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    i hate hippies. they just p*ss me off. especially the ones with dreadlocks. white people shouldnt have dreadlocks they look dirty and manky.

    although i hear female hippies are supposed to be good in bed, i just couldnt deal with a woman whose got more body hair then i do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    i hate hippies. they just p*ss me off. especially the ones with dreadlocks. white people shouldnt have dreadlocks they look dirty and manky.

    although i hear female hippies are supposed to be good in bed, i just couldnt deal with a woman whose got more body hair then i do.

    Hippyphobe.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Hippyphobe.

    Hippyphobephobe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    there is actually a good New Age Traveller settlement on the side of a mountain in Kerry somewhere, I can't remember the name of it!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    i hate hippies. they just p*ss me off. especially the ones with dreadlocks. white people shouldnt have dreadlocks they look dirty and manky.

    although i hear female hippies are supposed to be good in bed, i just couldnt deal with a woman whose got more body hair then i do.

    How do you know she's got more bodyhair than you do? Unless you're completely bald below the neck...?
    Or....?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,367 ✭✭✭Agamemnon


    Doesn't matter where they're gone, just be glad they are gone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭LivingDeadGirl


    West Cork still!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    A lot of punks in the 1980's and 90's turned into crusties after living in filthy squats in london.After the dole over there ran out they moved to ireland and pitched camp in places like cork,kerry and galway.
    Most of them are harmless enough but there's a leavening of pscycopaths amongst them too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    How do you know she's got more bodyhair than you do? Unless you're completely bald below the neck...?
    Or....?

    well hippie women dont wax much. they seem to prefer the natural look and some women can get pretty hairy if they dont wax or shave.

    if i was bald below the neck id probably have received a severe waxing and id feel weird but i suppose on the plus side i could put plasters on my arms and legs and not have to feel that excrutiating pain when i pull them off.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    well hippie women dont wax much. they seem to prefer the natural look and some women can get pretty hairy if they dont wax or shave.

    if i was bald below the neck id probably have received a severe waxing and id feel weird but i suppose on the plus side i could put plasters on my arms and legs and not have to feel that excrutiating pain when i pull them off.:)

    Pics or you're a bullsh1tting wanker!!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭Slidey


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Pics or you're a bullsh1tting wanker!!

    Here ya go Clicky :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    Pics or you're a bullsh1tting wanker!!

    Geez rlax. no need for insults.

    i thought this was after hours.

    ill get me coat.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Geez rlax. no need for insults.

    i thought this was after hours.

    ill get me coat.:(


    As long as it's an Afghan coat, you can become an honorary real hippie, not one of those new-age pierced bums living under a tarpaulin that was stolen from a trucker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Geez rlax. no need for insults.

    i thought this was after hours.

    ill get me coat.:(

    That's the whole point of AH! Chill!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    As long as it's an Afghan coat, you can become an honorary real hippie, not one of those new-age pierced bums living under a tarpaulin that was stolen from a trucker.

    You mean a coat made from an Afghan. iv only got one made from a Norwegian. ill take it anyway the weather is crap outside.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,752 ✭✭✭pablomakaveli


    Ikky Poo2 wrote: »
    That's the whole point of AH! Chill!

    im too warm to chill. im wearing a coat made from a Norwegian.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,257 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    im too warm to chill. im wearing a coat made from a Norwegian.


    I think that would make you a nippie. All they smoke is salmon.


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