A few recent comments indicate that some readers don’t like calling green activists ‘hippies’.
We’ll keep using ‘warmists’ for those convinced that a trace gas essential to life on Earth is a problem - what we’re looking for here is a handle for the activists that like to re-use toilet paper, clamber over power stations and protest anything related to personal hygiene.
So, have your say in a fun poll:
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Results may or may not have any influence on what hippies greens are called, but at least I asked.
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the term BRAINDEAD comes to mind without getting too personal or impolite
the term BRAINDEAD comes to mind without getting too personal or impolite
What to call “greens”?
with a little bacon fat (bacon if you can afford it) — “tasty”
specially if you have some corn bread to sop.
What to call “greens”?
with a little bacon fat (bacon if you can afford it) — “tasty”
specially if you have some corn bread to sop.
Eco-Grifters
Eco-Grifters
Druids comes to mind to describe their way of thinking and Gaia worship but nothing beats Hippies. As George said over on the weekly round-up comment thread in objecting to your use of hippies, “but the word “hippie” is so old and has been so overused it now sounds archaic and dumb”.
Archaic and dumb. Sounds perfect to me!
Druids comes to mind to describe their way of thinking and Gaia worship but nothing beats Hippies. As George said over on the weekly round-up comment thread in objecting to your use of hippies, “but the word “hippie” is so old and has been so overused it now sounds archaic and dumb”.
Archaic and dumb. Sounds perfect to me!
Hippies doesn’t do the trick because its dated. People born since 1980 probably don’t have a good feel for everything associated with the term “hippie.”
Eco-tard won’t do. It unfairly tars retarded people with yet an additional mental defect.
Neo-pagans - accurate but a bit arcane.
Some alternative suggestions -
Warmies,
Gore-ites,
or
“Humanity hating, anti-capatilist, mentally challenged, tree hugging ass gnats”
The problem of course is that only a portion of these nuts are true believers. There is so much money in this scam that a substantial portion are only “green” to the extent it describes the color of our currency. And there is yet a third category, those who view this scam as a way to destroy capatilism and impose socialism. The only word to describe them is “watermelons.”
Hippies doesn’t do the trick because its dated. People born since 1980 probably don’t have a good feel for everything associated with the term “hippie.”
Eco-tard won’t do. It unfairly tars retarded people with yet an additional mental defect.
Neo-pagans - accurate but a bit arcane.
Some alternative suggestions -
Warmies,
Gore-ites,
or
“Humanity hating, anti-capatilist, mentally challenged, tree hugging ass gnats”
The problem of course is that only a portion of these nuts are true believers. There is so much money in this scam that a substantial portion are only “green” to the extent it describes the color of our currency. And there is yet a third category, those who view this scam as a way to destroy capatilism and impose socialism. The only word to describe them is “watermelons.”
Ecotards is a good’un, but Watermelons is also good : green on the outside, red on the inside. 😀
Regards
Kev.
Ecotards is a good’un, but Watermelons is also good : green on the outside, red on the inside. 😀
Regards
Kev.
but the problem with watermelon..is that it’s an insult to saskatchewan roughrider fans, who are already “melon heads”
I kinda floating on the idea of greentards.
but the problem with watermelon..is that it’s an insult to saskatchewan roughrider fans, who are already “melon heads”
I kinda floating on the idea of greentards.
some good ideas here - keep ’em coming.
Watermelons is accurate as a descriptor but for me it is another descriptor for the type of warmists who know the science is junk but want us to wreck the economy anyway. What we want is a fun name for the useful idiots, the people who are happy to believe whatever they are told to believe.
For me, so far, the image of a baked hippie listening with open mouthed credulity fits best, but I stand ready to be convinced otherwise.
some good ideas here - keep ’em coming.
Watermelons is accurate as a descriptor but for me it is another descriptor for the type of warmists who know the science is junk but want us to wreck the economy anyway. What we want is a fun name for the useful idiots, the people who are happy to believe whatever they are told to believe.
For me, so far, the image of a baked hippie listening with open mouthed credulity fits best, but I stand ready to be convinced otherwise.
Despite the generational lag, I still prefer the term “hippie”. For me, growing up in the 1960s, it represents those who object or reject the current way of life and economics/politics, but without any real or useful alternative. Just to be different and piss off Dad. Although, I have to admit, being too young to cash in on any of the ‘free love’ of the time, I do appreciate the whacky colours they brought to the crew cut world of their parents. Don’t judge me, I did have a leather coat with leather fringe in the 1970s.
And just like the ‘free love’ crowd, eschewing condoms or common sense often ended the up in the local clinic for STDs. Is there a parallel with what’s going on today? Climate clap?
Despite the generational lag, I still prefer the term “hippie”. For me, growing up in the 1960s, it represents those who object or reject the current way of life and economics/politics, but without any real or useful alternative. Just to be different and piss off Dad. Although, I have to admit, being too young to cash in on any of the ‘free love’ of the time, I do appreciate the whacky colours they brought to the crew cut world of their parents. Don’t judge me, I did have a leather coat with leather fringe in the 1970s.
And just like the ‘free love’ crowd, eschewing condoms or common sense often ended the up in the local clinic for STDs. Is there a parallel with what’s going on today? Climate clap?
I always like calling them:
EnviroMENTALists - with emphases on “mental”
It always gets them upset for some reason
I always like calling them:
EnviroMENTALists - with emphases on “mental”
It always gets them upset for some reason
I think hippies works well, most people understand they were (supposedly) counter-culture and looking for simple solutions to complex problems, in other words very similar to todays “environmental activists”.
Watermelons, I think is most accurate as it alludes to the underlying issue that most “environmental activists” are more concerned with destroying a financial system than providing credible solutions to energy provision. Most subscribe to lunatic-fringe political beliefs if not outright communism.
When all else fails, I think soap-dodger works especially well to describe the assorted woolly cap-wearing, dreadlocked and pierced, dirty shorts with mandatory wallet chain, coloured leggings and scruffy boots variety of humanity (and thats just their women.
I think hippies works well, most people understand they were (supposedly) counter-culture and looking for simple solutions to complex problems, in other words very similar to todays “environmental activists”.
Watermelons, I think is most accurate as it alludes to the underlying issue that most “environmental activists” are more concerned with destroying a financial system than providing credible solutions to energy provision. Most subscribe to lunatic-fringe political beliefs if not outright communism.
When all else fails, I think soap-dodger works especially well to describe the assorted woolly cap-wearing, dreadlocked and pierced, dirty shorts with mandatory wallet chain, coloured leggings and scruffy boots variety of humanity (and thats just their women.
The fans of Silent Spring who pushed to ban DDT, killing many millions in Africa are the same people who promote the GoreBullWarming scam. So, I say watermelon, not warmist. Not sure why we need to differentiate between the useful idiots and the supposedly intelligent watermelons, both are guilty of genocide and generally making life miserable. The idiots want someone to do their thinking for them and the tyrants are happy to oblige. That’s how communism works.
The fans of Silent Spring who pushed to ban DDT, killing many millions in Africa are the same people who promote the GoreBullWarming scam. So, I say watermelon, not warmist. Not sure why we need to differentiate between the useful idiots and the supposedly intelligent watermelons, both are guilty of genocide and generally making life miserable. The idiots want someone to do their thinking for them and the tyrants are happy to oblige. That’s how communism works.