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

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  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...
  4 days ago

• Ready, re-aim, fire

  
  Massachusetts Liberal — Authority: 520
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Nepal Launches Massive Rural Tourism Program To Build Up Villages

  
  Vagabondish — Authority: 503
  © 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Yuppies in the Mission

  
  Queen Larbs of Strumpet Valley — Authority: 103
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Dear Expats

  
  The Examined Life — Authority: 112
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lululemon Q3 Profit Greatness Saves Us From Recession!

  
  YogaDork — Authority: 471
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top 10 Horror Movies With a Message

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  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 ...
  2 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  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...
  3 weeks ago

• Tatyana Ali and Her ‘Buppies’ Score BET.com, Covergirl

  
  Tubefilter News — Authority: 606
  The web series world so far has been relatively devoid of scandals. So when TMZ reported on a lawsuit surrounding former Fresh Price of Bel Air star (and R&B singer) Tatyana Ali’s upcoming web series Buppies , the story took a left turn .  Now, after the lawsuit has been dropped in court and both sides ...
  3 weeks ago

• "This Is So The Issue Right Now" [You Make Me Wanna]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 815
  Oh dear. Oh no. It seems todays anti-spanking, "pregnancy-flaunting, soccer-cheering, organic-snack-proffering generation of parents" have a dark secret: sometimes they yell at their kids. Writes the New York Times Hilary Stout, incongruously and with regularity, this is a generation that yells..."Ive worked ...
  3 weeks ago

• In Defense of the Suburbs

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 642
  This past week I was walking home from the school drop-off with a newish friend. Swapping stories about the basics of our lives. Marital status, where we grew up, favorite pastimes. When it came time to exchange the details on…
  3 weeks ago

• East Village Declared Dead, Yuppie Scum Wins!

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 680
  5/29/09 : Legendary Second Avenue punk dive Mars Bar hosts a man in a green shirt and pink sweater combo. 10/18/09 : NYT chronicles the Mars Bar adventure of Gossip Girl star/heartthrob Penn Badgely. 10/20/09 : New Mars Bar Halloween decor debuts, decrying recent events and confirming what locals have been ...
  3 weeks ago

• Global War Against Alcohol And Fun Intensifying

  
  Vagabondish — Authority: 503
  © Chicago Historical Society The entire region of Spanish Catalonia has banned happy hours. Tourists were having too much fun drinking at two-for-one prices. Last week Serbia’s President was charged by the police of his own capital city for uncorking a bottle of champagne. He was toasting to Serbia’s World ...
  3 weeks ago

• Drum Machine Circles in Texas

  
  Alterati: The GSpot- The Inside Look at the Outside Culture — Authority: 429
  Described by Stealthisknowledge.com as ” …some vicious noise in the name of good fun..” the drum machine circle sounds were archived and a good deal of video is available of this spontaneous noise event, archived below.Who is Ikipr? His discography is only matched by his prolific output on the infictive current ...
  8 weeks ago

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