Last night, after I got home, I could hear the drumming from those dirty, no-good hippies up on Calton Hill from my back garden, clear as a bell.
When I was a kid, I thought hippies were cool. They liked vegetables and peace. My favourite character from ‘The Young Ones’ was Neil. To the extent that I got Neil’s album (which was excellent, and still is)
Anyway, I also liked punk and I was listening to the Sex Pistols and they had a line “Never trust a hippy” and I was a bit puzzled by that.
Why would you not trust a hippy? They’re into love and consciousness, aren’t they?
But I can see it more clearly now: Hippies are middle class fakers. Drop out? Yeah, but only temporarily. Abandon possessions and embrace the spiritual? Yep, until it’s time to go back to Surrey and join daddy’s firm.
You’re “in touch with eastern philosophies”? Yes, up to a point. That point being that you roughly know what the word “chakra” means. But what you’re really trying to do there, feller, is get in that hippy girl’s pants.
And once you’ve done that, you return to the UK, access funding networks, set up a business, drench it in a bit of mystic / pagan / flavour and get selling. Pretty soon you have a thriving enterprise, cos middle-class punters love them “spiritual” vibes. It makes them feel less bad about being obviously comfortable in a world of poverty and pain.
Pagan traditions? Let’s take those and make it into a company. Sell tickets? Damn right. Loads of them.
Your classic business hippy is John Lennon sitting at his big posh white piano in a big fancy house singing about the simple life.
Never trust a hippy.
Anyway, here are tonight’s quizzes:
Oz Bar – 6 pm (with Stuart F)
Jackpot – £90
Free answer: PICTURE round: “DYNASTY“
Book at Oz Bar by sending them a message on FB.
The Joker & The Thief – 6 pm (with me)
Jackpot – £30
Free answer: PICTURE round: “OTTER“
Book at Joker by sending them a message on FB.
Ship Inn – 7 pm (with Eric)
Jackpot – £60
Free answer: PICTURE round: “AIR NEW ZEALAND“
Book at the Ship by sending them a message on FB/Messenger or calling 0131 665 2642
West Port Oracle – 8 pm (with Stuart F)
Jackpot – £60
Free answer: PICTURE round: “BILLY OCEAN“
Book on FB.or 0131 283 1960
Brass Monkey Shore – 8.30pm (with me)
Jackpot – £50
Free answer: MUSIC round: “JONAS BROTHERS“
Book: Phone 0131 555 7306 or Facebook/Messenger or online booking system:
So we’ll see you tonight.,
Dr Paul
Your Quizmaster
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