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• Yuppies replaced by Scamps

  
  Guru — Authority: 125
  Yuppies make way; a new phenomenon is taking over the workplace in the form of Scamps. Yes, according to our friends at Office Angels, young upwardly mobile professionals are being overtaken by Scamps - workers swapping careers and money for passport stamps. The company has invented this acronym to describe the ...
  6 days ago

• The New NIMBYs [Urban Anthropology]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  Here is how cities work: Seedy neighborhood+Gentrification= Only a faint romantic halo of former seediness, which is used for real estate marketing purposes. Any attempt at neighborhood reversion to pre-gentrification standards will be terminated with extreme affluence. Like so: A few short decades ago, the area ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dudes With Fancy Water Bottles Have the Hardest Penii [Science]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  Hippie yupsters have always been like, "I dont use plastic water bottles cause their chemicals cause cancer," or whatever, and we just laugh at them, but it turns out those people are the ones with...
  3 weeks ago

• Ready, re-aim, fire

  
  Massachusetts Liberal — Authority: 518
  Now let me get this straight -- you didnt notice the big ship with the guns when you bought the condo? It seems neighbors of Old Ironsides are looking to change a 200-year-plus tradition of firing the warships cannons twice daily. “The residential population and congestion of this area has (sic) grown ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nepal Launches Massive Rural Tourism Program To Build Up Villages

  
  Vagabondish — Authority: 541
  © Bogman We’re not exactly fans of so-called poverty tourism (”poorism”). Rich tourists go to a village in India or a township in South Africa. They walk amidst the desperate poverty, maybe pick up some kids, and then leave having experienced a refreshing catharsis of guilt over their privilege. If ...
  4 weeks ago

• Yuppies in the Mission

  
  Queen Larbs of Strumpet Valley — Authority: 112
  Once again I stay true to my word and follow-up on a brief statement I made in a previous post about thoughts on yuppies in the Mission. So I was walking down Valencia the other day and I saw someone had written on the window of a soon-to-be new restaurant between 18th and 19th. It said something like ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dear Expats

  
  The Examined Life — Authority: 92
  So, you’ve got a job in India. Welcome. I like the fact  that a stint in India is a valuable addition to your CV. I also appreciate that your salary enables you to live among India’s rich. I also understand that you’d like to stay in yuppie enclaves as you find yourself most comfortable there. But having done ...
  5 weeks ago

• Lululemon Q3 Profit Greatness Saves Us From Recession!

  
  YogaDork — Authority: 129
  Have no fear! Were you worried the Recession would never bounce back like your footprints on an extra squooshy yoga mat? Yoga (the practice and the business) has held strong through this saggy economy, which took a face plant over a year ago. But hey, a little goalsetting and profit forecast adjusting later and ...
  5 weeks ago

• Top 10 Horror Movies With a Message

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 577
  As this Halloween season’s crop of horror movies is released, I recommend skipping the sensational and the torturous and staying in with one of the films below.  Not only will they scare you but you’ll also get a little commentary about the world we live in to make you think. Some of the films are more ...
  6 weeks ago

• Yuppie 911

  
  Flyfishmagazine — Authority: 126
  The ever vigilant Editorial Trophy Wife found this MSNBC and the Associated Press article about a new symptom of the proliferation of cheap personal locators and other gps based alert electronics: Yuppie 911. Basically people who have no business in the outdoors, getting themselves in a tight spot that they ...
  6 weeks ago

• Yuppies Magical Wussie-Rescue Beacons Starting To Piss Off Rescue Authorities [The Rich]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  De-evolution is no more evident than in how natural selection is beginning to suck at its job. Perfect example: rich "nature" types looking to escape urban gridlock are using Get-Out-Of-Danger-Free devices to page rescue authorities to remote locations. Pansies! No, seriously. Heres how it works: inexperienced ...
  6 weeks ago

• The New York Times on The Ultimate Brooklyn Cliches: Banned from the Co-op [Shut Up, Brooklyn]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 860
  The New York Times ran a piece in this weekends Metropolitan containing every awesome, incredibly true cliche about BoBo Brooklyn. It will stand as a definitive document of Our Era in Kings. Its...
  6 weeks ago

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