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Monday, October 17. 2011

AOL Irony Gold: Goodbye YUPPIES, Hello DUMPIES

Replacing the YUPPIES, AOL hits the irony jackpot today, naming the 2010s young generation the DUMPIES, downward mobile, unemployed, poor.


Of course, relatively few of last decade's young were Yuppies, and relatively few of today's are Dumpies. But the Dumpies appelation does seem to fit well the Occupy Wall Streeters. Besides the most common fecal meanings of "dump" as displayed by the photo of a protester defecating on a police car, there's more definitions found at the Urban Dictionary that fit their OWS scene:


*To refer to a place or setting that is in poor condition or standards.

*One who wallows in their own laziness.

*A very lazy, trashy person, often smelling of foul body odor and looking like an all-around ragamuffin.


*A word used to describe a person/object/situation that is definitely not even good. Often used in a situation where a boring person makes a boring statement or is just generally being a fail.


*To whine about one's problems and let out many emotions to any unfortunate person who has to listen.


*Noun; to be someone who's annoying or stupid and annoying.



Posted by Bruce Kesler in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 11:23 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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The dumpies sounds like an intestinal disorder that afflicts a person after eating tainted food, the PC name for Montezumas revenge.
#1 Ray on 2011-10-17 13:15 (Reply)
The Dumpies badly need some context. The hundred or so deliberate perps in the financial catastrophe were only playing free-market capitalism --they are actually the command echelon the OWS foot soldiers are attacking --and by doing so, serving.

The irony is stupifying. That it was counted on (observe the Obama stance!), takes the cynicism of Bolshevism back to the heights of old.

Every one of them should read the current Nyquist column. He seems to've written it for the purpose --no big words, short sentences, a two-minute read with a giant pointer.

http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/jr-nyquist/2011/10/17/the-truth-and-financial-meltdown
#2 buddy larsen on 2011-10-17 14:00 (Reply)

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