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Jeffro ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 29 2014 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 2201 |
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You can be a Trekker. We always have room for more.
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Dean ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
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The term "freak" was widely used in the UK as far as I know especially in the post-hippie/pre-punk era of the 70s. Those with long hair were either freaks, greasers (bikers), or hippies and while attire wasn't universal certainly a greatcoat or long denim coat (with or without sheepskin collar) would generally separate you from an Afghan wearing hippie who reeked of patchouli oil (or worse if his coat ever got wet) or a leather-clad biker drenched in Duckhams 20/50 and stale beer. While few would ever risk using the term hippie towards a biker, it was often used as a disparaging term for freaks by skins, suedes and smoothies.
This lot however, were hippie-freaks: ![]() Edited by Dean - October 04 2016 at 08:14 |
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Flight123 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 01 2010 Location: Sohar, Oman Status: Offline Points: 1399 |
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There are no tribes today anyway DaveSax, so what are you worried about? (apart from being chased by skinheads...)
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Easy Money ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin Joined: August 11 2007 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 10742 |
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Thats interesting, in the early to mid 70s in the US, if you were 'counter culture', you called yourself a "freak".
As in; "How was the party? ... It was great, they were all freaks", etc. or "I'm not going to that concert, there won't be any freaks there". I didn't know that this term was used elsewhere. Edited by js (Easy Money) - October 04 2016 at 08:41 |
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Davesax1965 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 23 2013 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 2839 |
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No, I don't like the term "hippie".
I am a freak. ;-) I don't know about a lot of people here, but in my hairier days here in the UK, I automatically got called a "hippie" / "hippy". I dislike the term intensely. To me, hippies were not about sixties counterculture but a manufactured phenomenon who were just as trapped by convention and expectation as the society they were railing against. Supposedly. Becoming a "hippie" meant, in my opinion, taking on a selection of pre-chewed views without thought. Or, given most "hippies" I've met, choice. I am yet to meet a hippie who can put an argument forwards for GM crops, nuclear power or fracking. If you're a hippie, you have to believe in such stuff - or you ain't a hippie. Or you learn to come up with some idiotic guff to counter it, such as "Fracking causes cancer" or "eating meat makes you agressive". So I'll be a freak, please, if no one minds. Or even a "prog rocker", who used to be distinguishable in the 70's by their attire of army greatcoat and benny hat. Mung beans and levitating along ley lines ? I'll pass, thank you.
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