To increasingly find hippies more annoying

[lankylisa]

I grew up with hippy parents and have always ended up befriending slightly hippy alternative people. Now I'm older, I'm finding hippies to be:
-good at bad science
-judgemental of people who dare to want to be materially comfortable
-pious
-immoral when it comes to relationships / using spiritual bs to justify treating people badly
-smug
-dull
-closed
-middle class but scruffy

Does anyone else know what I mean?

Reading this back am horrified that I sound so conservative!

I like hippies and have an eco/alternative lifestyle as much as possible. What I dislike is Evangelical Anything, where someone who has seen the light on something then insists on making you do the same.
Hardline hippies, Christians, Gym bunnies, breastfeeders, beauticians....live your own life and leave me and mine alone

She says that she needs a big house though as she plans to offer her spare room to a refugee at some point in the unspecified future.

Yeah of course she is...

Yep a "friend" of mine says she's a hippy.

But from where I'm sitting it's all very pick and choose.

-anti vax and can insult us vaccers all she likes but will fly off the handle if the tables are turned.

• anti schooling (but exact same if you say anything negative about her unschooing approach)

• if her kids don't want to wear clothes they don't have to, I had to stop going over after seeing her sons fingers in his bum, pulling at his foreskin and then hands into a bowl of raisins.....

• vegan (if she wants to be)

• hates big companies (but shops at Costco all the time)

• kids can wear same clothes for days at a time, even if it's PJs and they wear them all day, sleep in them, then wear them again.

• don't have to bath/wash if they don't want to.

• can regulate their own screen time (so can be 10 hours ipad in a day, but they're learning as no evil school)

• never seen evidence of cannabis etc but there's a lot of drinking.

Oh let me add, doesn't really clean because of the chemicals and will openly mock the fact I have Dettol/carex/zoflora etc etc.

OP I was laughing about this just this morning on FB with an old friend. He and I both grew up in families with alternative lifestyles. He told me he'd rebelled by becoming square. So did I. The exoticism and freedom of clean clothes, money in the bank and a husband who wouldn't dream of expecting me to put up with endless affairs in the name of letting his 'spirit' be free will never cease to appeal to me.

I used to have 2 flatmates that were hippies. I myself am quiet bohemian in appearance and have spiritual and compassionate views but they go beyond that. The ones i know:
Are judgemental about everyone who holds any view different from their own.
Live off the state as they dont believe in corporate consumerism and taxes but are happy for the government to house and feed their kids and fund their health care.
Use holistic bullshit therapys when it suits them.
Anti vaxxers.
Rampant drug and alcohol use because "its natural". (Agree with pp who said paranoid and anxious all the time.)
Believes the lifesaving treatment her baby received in hospital at birth has scarred him for life. Hates the nhs as a result because she believes new borns remember everything forever.
Is homeschooling her children but only in art and music as she doesnt believe in academia and refuses to let her children see their grandparents as they told her the kids need to learn maths and science so shes no contact.
Theres loads more.

- if her kids don't want to wear clothes they don't have to, I had to stop going over after seeing her sons fingers in his bum, pulling at his foreskin and then hands into a bowl of raisins.....

And the strange notion that saying No will.damage her kids with negativity. She allows them to scream at the top of their lungs as "shes expressing herself freely". Her children are allowed to snatch and touch other peoples property as "its a learning experience exploring with their hands".

Hippies are so annoying. Breastfeeding older children and banging on about. Free range children who shouldn't conform and alternative hippy schooling.
Tumeric with everything. Cloth toilet roll and sanitary wear! Urgh

I have known a fair few of young middle class hippies who are basically only living the life they are with benefits and handouts from mum and dad. Of course they don't need to worry about growing old and being skint as they will inherit.

Then I know others like one woman who runs her own business. She basically buys up old worthless land very cheap, re fertilises it, and then grows plants she sells to garden centres. Also plants to encourage wildlife. She lives in an off the grid house she built herself. She is a real go getter, just channels that into environmental issues. She is properly hard core with a compost toilet, but is also very kind, generous and makes lovely food.

Ugh! I feel you, same here. Brought up by 'alternative types' whole family is 'alternative' I'm weird because I wear makeup and such like. But I do love them and they are all strong minded, talented individuals.

Can't stand how I get labeled as a result, for years people thought I was vegetarian just by association. Family also becomes a novelty to all 'straight' friends.

I think the thing that also resonates for me is when people are trying too hard to be 'alternative' I can't stand disingenuous people and anyone that has to constantly remind me just how 'alternative' they are clearly isn't comfortable in their own skin. That's quite an unattractive trait which is present amongst many social groups.

I do notice with my family though this kind of anarchistic approach which actually makes everything more difficult. Like when I was young I had severe ear ache and instead of letting me have pain killers my mum strapped an onion to my ear because of course we had to use the 'alternative' method. Always had to use homeopathy first too. Years of things like that just put you off.

'Are judgemental about everyone who holds any view different to their own'

Oh god, I always felt sorry for any kids who got given the worthless medical treatments. We lived next door to a family of hippies and I played a lot with one of the girls. Eventually they all went to India to do something spiritual.

Pretentious and middle class is right. Tue cloth nappies and never cutting her childrens hair or brushing it. One ended up with a haircut due to tangles nd she rold facebook how she was sobbing about the loss of his long hair and couldnt get used to seeing him without it. Their whole family sleep in one bed always the kids dont have their own beds. She carries them in slings and cried when she realised she couldnt carry more than two kids at a time.
Pius veganism.
Complained that the kids went to a forrest school because they were taught stuff like in a real school.
Offends other religious friends and declares their rampant atheism yet bang on about chakras and energy and auras and stones.

lethal you sound like one of them. Its cathartic to talk anonymously about people who piss you off in real life. You know given its her life and i keep my mouth shut in real life. I never said i wasnt judgemental. Thats human nature. The kind of judging these hippy types though iis beyond a joke. Calling military murders. Saying police shouldnt be allowed to roughly grab crooks. Openly slagging off other parents to their faces. Calling everyone who eats meat rapists and murderers.

Hippies are so annoying. Breastfeeding older children and banging on about. Free range children who shouldn't conform and alternative hippy schooling

Pmsl, me in a nutshell 😂

The things I've heard "you don't really need money to live" he says whilst using huge amounts of parents electricity to heat yurt.

On cleaning, "you should be able to just block out the mess and not let it affect you, it's a mental challenge"

My favourites are the young hippies. They get on a tube on a Sunday afternoon. Usually at Holland Park or Notting Hill. There are about 5 of them. In black. With dreads. The youngest (usually a 12 year old girl) has a mutt on a string.

I used to think "wow! I bet they have far my interesting lives than me" now, 30 years later, they are still getting on the tube at Holland Park, dresses the same, same ages. Now I just find them quite sweet. Quite conventional.

He told me he'd rebelled by becoming square. So did I.

Didn't we all? How else do you think my cloth-nappy wearing, free range organically fed self ended up being in corporate consulting?

My father believes I'm deeply unenlighted and is rather ashamed of me - except when it comes to his relatives, in which case he'll brag endlessly that his daughter is an engineer and a manager (and their offspring are mere admin staff, mwahahahaha) - must be because he's enlightened, so even his kids are on a higher plane.

I dress like and believe in many of the things posted here. I am not a weed smoker or breastfeeder though. I like the fact most people don't agree with living the same as me, or label things with same importance. I don't like following the crowd.

I can't stand people who want to be different for its own sake.
Do what you want. Who cares of everyone else is doing the same or if what you are doing is different.

I know a self proclaimed hippie, shes basically a walking cliche nothing original at all despite trying to be so different , claims to have lots of food intolerances, dairy, gluten but seems to manage a mcdonalds breakfast muffin at the weekend .
Posts a selfie and a picture of all her vitamin tablets everyday , obviously isnt a wage slave - shes an artist .hates the government and the country but is quite happy to exist on state handouts.
Home schooled her kids and suprise suprise- there unemployable too !

YANBU. Like sheep on weed they are no more alternative or shallow than anyone else. But so much nor self righteous. Very annoying.

Viley, does that mean you'd change the way you live if everyone else started living the way you do just so you can continue to be different? Is being different a good thing in itself, regardless of what the difference actually is?
The only hippyish thing about me is that I'm a vegan, and I actually prefer it nowadays when being vegan is more mainstream, because more animal lives are saved when more people are vegan. It wasn't about being "different"

I dress like and believe in many of the things posted here.
I don't like following the crowd.

Do you see the irony in making these two statements? The hippies I know are made with the same cookie cutter, look the same and you can predict with 100% accuracy what their opinions will be on a range of things. Whereas non-hippies will have a huge range of opinions on things are actually interesting to talk to.