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Proof that hippies suck

posted 18 years ago by babyTHIEF
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This is what happens when you get a mob of dirty hippies and a mob of dirty bikers together. Surely somebody could have predicted that they wouldn't get along. My favorite parts of this doc were when Jagger was desperately trying to convince the huge croud of hippies to just chill out and love each other... There's no way you're going to keep that dirty mass of tripped out hippies to maintain their free love philosophy.

I take my coffee like I take my women... strong... black... and proud.

[–] Theo87 18 years ago

you're an idiot.

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[–] rockdog63 17 years ago

Amen Bro!
HIPPIES = LOSERS

[–] rwsmith29456 17 years ago

There were a couple of hundred thousand other people that didn't do anything but watch the concert.

[–] dragster-2 17 years ago

POLITICIANS and BIBLE-BASHERS are the REAL suck-asses out there!!!

"I have seen and heard things in my life that are best left UNTOLD!"

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[–] moonlily9 17 years ago

Hippies deserve to have the hell beaten out of them? How, exactly? I thought this movie was proof that the hippie ideaology wasn't even at play here an was already debunked. The 60's were ending, it already went to *beep* and you don't hire people for security by paying them in beer! Anyone who says that a whole group of people, when they clearly don't understand or care to understand them, deserves to get the *beep* kicked out of them is an ignorant twat!

[–] Trp1985 17 years ago

I hate *beep* hippies as well. They should've been lynched.

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[–] wylierichardson 13 years ago

The main problem with the hippie lifestyle was the overindulgence of it; like the wisest folks say "moderation in everything".

[–] friendoffilm 11 years ago

This:

The main problem with the hippie lifestyle was the overindulgence of it; like the wisest folks say "moderation in everything".

is very true, wylierichardson. You sound like a wise person to me. Thanks.

[–] friendoffilm 11 years ago

What about the kids down in Boston's Southie (South Boston, Ma) and Charlestown, Ma, and other Boston neighborhoods, who were throwing rocks, bottles and whatever at the students being bused into their schools, and at the police, back in the mid to late 1970's? Those kids down in Southie and over in Charlestown were about the most disgusting kids around, and their parents were even more disgusting for having brought them up that way.

[–] liutenantsalt 17 years ago

>>This is what happens when you get a mob of dirty hippies and a mob of dirty bikers together. <<

No, this is what happens when you get ANY group of people together in large numbers. Look at the following riots of any major sporting championship for instance.

[–] friendoffilm 11 years ago

No, this is what happens when you get ANY group of people together in large numbers. Look at the following riots of any major sporting championship for instance.

True enough, liutenantsalt, but look at Boston's busing riots that occurred in the mid to late 1970's, with all the rock-and-bottle throwing that took place, not only at kids being bused into schools in different neighborhoods from where they lived, but at the police as well. This was especially true of the whites in Southie and Charlestown throwing rocks and bottles at the black students being bused into the schools in those particular areas of Boston, but it also went on in many other Boston neighborhoods, white and non-white, as well.

[–] LickMyLegImOnFire 17 years ago

Are you an idiot? Did you WATCH the movie? The violence was almost entirely caused by the Hell's Angels bikers hired as security during the concert, you tool.

The following statement is true:
Jesus, this is freaking cliche.