Are you a yuppie?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

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>

[Fico]

<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>

[markie]

wow I didnt manage a single tick, can I be our anti yuppie hero?

[Celeste]

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

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

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.

[keithstg]

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....

[Celeste]

and, there are cooler places to ski than Whistler...how cliche!!!

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

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>

[kosmo vinyl]

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

[Celeste]

<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

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

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>

[ggw]

<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.

[vansmack]

<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>

[smakawhat]

nah nah nah<P>not yuppie...<P>repeat<P>"resume chasers"<P>"RESUME CHASERS"<P>There you go lecture over..

[paige]

is vansmack desperately trying to reclaim the oh so smackalicious roots he had by coming up with a new name? smackawhat? huh?