31 thoughts on “Yuppies do not get The Special”

  1. This DD reminds me off the book _Stuff White People Like_

  2. Arrrrrgggghhhhhh! I live in Gainesville and I was one donation off from getting a DD with a Gainesville reference!!!!

    I think there are lots of differences between hipsters and yuppies. Yuppies dress in a more ‘timeless’ style (polo & khakis), hipsters go current fad and darker colors route. Hipsters are all about knowing more about current obscure music than you and I think yuppies are happy with their Elton John collection. Yuppies drink wine, hipsters anything. Yuppies hold dinner parties, hipsters will grub out at the Krishna lunch.

  3. yuppies “freelance” hipsters “crash at your place for a while”
    yuppies talk to you at length about the beer theyre drinking, hipsters argue over which is better: lonestar or pbr. both hold dinner parties with lame themes, but a yuppie party might have meat,and organic everything, a hipster party will be full of vegan easy-prep food and a small plate of something with bacon and cheese that will disappear in 10 seconds. yuppies have cars an bikes and maybe a motorcycle or scooter. hipsters have fixed speed bikes, and the car ratio is one older (between 27 and 30) friend with a station wagon to every 6 hipsters.

  4. Hipsters enjoy they’re jeans really tight regardless of sex yuppies only like tight jeans on they’re women.

  5. ‘their’ on both of those, damn I need to wake up more before posting.

  6. Is Mr. Chen gassed in the last panel? He has those little intoxication spots floating around his head. If so, good for him. Have one for me until I’m off this medication.

  7. oh , hipsters have facial hair that’s usually more interesting then they are…..

  8. Only yuppies still wear goatees. They think it qualifies them as Hipsters despite the corporate logo golf shirt with baby vomit stain, pleated Dockers khakis, loafers and belt clip cell phone.

  9. The difference between yuppies and hipsters is that it’s cooler to hate hipsters.

  10. I’d agree that it’s cooler to hate hipsters, but I think yuppies actually get more hate.

  11. As a corollary to Chris L’s comment, it’s also more acceptable to call yourself a hipster, so long as it’s in the context of “Well, I suppose I’m a hipster, for lack of a better term, though I don’t really feel like one.”

  12. Hipster + (need for security) – (ironic detachment) = Yuppie

  13. jm, theres a new term for not so hip hipsters: bo-bo short for bourgeois bohemian. you have a job, you want to own a house, but tuesdays you get really smashed on cheep beer, listen to friend rock, make out with a stranger behind a dumpster, go to bed at two or three, and wake up to be on time to your 9-5.

  14. “Hipster + (need for security) – (ironic detachment) = Yuppie”

    DING! We have a winner!

  15. Ugh, Rachel C. pegged me. I recently drove four younger hipster friends to the fair in my 18-year-old station wagon. And I thought I was somehow beyond the stereotype by having a 3×9 gear bike…

  16. i calls it like i sees it. sometimes, i hit it outta the park.

  17. Hey Marc Fairbairn, I’ll trade you? I’d even throw in a copy of either ‘I never liked you’ by Chester Brown or ‘Potential: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag’?
    Contact is my post name + gmail.com.

  18. The “Special” – Looks just like a drink at a late night food/bar place near me (that is frequented by both hipsters and yuppies) called “The Ex-Husband”. It consists of whatever is the cheapest beer they have at the time (varies between PBR, Busch, Olympia, Miller HL and the like) and a shot of cheap whiskey.

  19. Erg. The drink is the Ex-Husband. Not the place, which is Montage…

  20. I feel like Montage is frequented by hipsters, yuppies, and teenagers on dates. I swear I’ve seen people in prom outfits there.

    My brother describes it as “that cajun vampire place.”

  21. I like how Kate Beaton sort of classified hipsters in one of her journal comics: someone who has enough money to look like they are poor.

    Personally, I’m just poor, but people think I’m a hipster cos I ride my bike everywhere and drink cheap beer, but really it is because I have no money.

  22. I live in a small town and there are thankfully little to no hipsters or yuppies. Sometimes, however, I feel like I’m missing out.

  23. A yuppie is a young person of big finances. A hipster is a young person who thinks too much.

    It’s easy to see why there’s a lot of overlap between the two groups.

  24. Joel, I think they both have big finances. But yuppies don’t pretend that they don’t.

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