How are you a liberal stereotype?

[SallyMander]

I frickin' *love* NPR :D

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. Ima durned intellectschual leetest.

:D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

57. I also drive a Volvo, listen to jazz music and protest rock, read a shit-ton of books,

have a profane mouth, study non-Judeo-Christian philosophies, find organized religion frightening but fascinating, recycle, use the family's own bags at the grocery store, live in New England, plan on going to college (possibly an Ivy), support abortion rights, support gay rights, support being environmentally responsible, and have a mother and several aunts who refused to change their names upon marriage.

If you wanna get specific about it.

:D

[TZ]

2. I like lattes and I live on the East Coast...

:)

[suninvited]

4. I recycle

and hug trees.

[Pierre.Suave]

77. LIES!!!!!!!!!!!

:P

[ghostsofgiants]

3. I own sneakers that are made of hemp?

I dunno. I don't know if I really fit any "liberal" stereotypes.

[Orrex]

8. I only smoke weed made from recycled hemp sneakers

Actually, that's not true. I don't smoke anything, recycled or otherwise.

:shrug:

[TZ]

23. You are a science fiction geek

Oops I'm sorry thats not a stereotype..thats just you...;-)
Actually I think you have that intellectual elitist liberal thing going for you...

[Orrex]

44. Note to self: Add Turtlensue to the "completely fooled" list

"Intellectual elitist."

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

10. Is "really white kid with dreads" a stereotype?

If it's not, I'm making it one. So there.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Haha, that's where I've got you...

I cut them off last night. (Seriously. No pics yet, sadly.)

[LeftyMom]

17. .

:wow:

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Haha, I know!

[lost-in-nj]

31. OH NOES!!!!

why????

:shrug: :shrug:

no one triple double dogged dared you did they?????

:hi:



lost

[ghostsofgiants]

53. Like I just replied to tigereye, I had been planning to for a wile.

Just wanted a change. I do not regret it. The ease with which I can change a t-shirt now is worth it alone, haha. :P

[tigereye]

34. wow that's a surprise!

looking for a new look? Or a job where they fuss?

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

52. Just looking for a change.

I had been planning to do it for a while, but it finally happened last night.

[Midlodemocrat]

99. OMG! You did!!!!

:wow:


TTIWWP.

[Mezzo]

5. I drink lattes, live on the East Coast AND drive a volvo!

love NPR too, and am already against the beginnings too all future wars.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

28. Ooh the Volvo-driving, forgot that.

Okay, that makes me an East-Coast, Volvo-driving, intellectshual leetest. :D I hate all coffee-type drinks, so that cuts the "latte," but really, I'm not doin' too shabby, stereotype-wise.

[AlCzervik]

6. i like to read books.

[KitchenWitch]

7. I bring my own bags to the grocery store

[GOPisEvil]

11. I do that too.

Those bags hold a lot more than the plastic ones do. I crammed 70 bucks worth of stuff into 3 bags today.

[KitchenWitch]

16. They are a lot easier to carry too

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Same here

I also watch a lotta PBS and I recycle like... someone who recycles a lot.



Oh — and I'm 52 and have longish hair. :hippie:

[Connonym]

26. I wish they would outlaw plastic bags

In the winter when the trees have no leaves to hide them you see so,so many plastic bags stuck in trees and it really hits home how much they are polluting our environment on so many levels, aesthetically, landfill clogging and the chemical ickiness. I haven't completely switched over to all my own bags (just because my money has lots of other places to go) but I only take paper bags, which, although they DO have environmental implications, the city recycle wants newspapers and stuff to be placed in a paper bag so at least they're being recycled. I also use them to mail packages and decorate them to wrap presents.

[PeaceNikki]

65. When they ask "Is plastic OK?" I reply, "NO! Plastic sucks! It's terrible for the environment!"

:D

[IronLionZion]

97. Paper (and plastic) bags can serve many purposes

book covers
stand-alone garbage containers (why not?)
garbage bags
bags to carry anything

There's more:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/21874/15_uses_for_brown_paper_grocery_bags.html
http://www.greenfeet.net/newsletter/debate.shtml
http://www.essortment.com/hobbies/usesbrownpa_twrl.htm

also for plastic:
I use them to wrap all kinds of stuff to protect them while moving.
lunch bag
garbage bags
cut open to serve as a sheet to catch anything that makes a mess
hold shoes and other items when traveling


more
http://www.realsimple.com/realsimple/gallery/0,21863,1097755,00.html

[stuntcat]

41. right on!

the checkers just lately stopped acting weird, they used to act like I was the 1st person in the world who ever did it :eyes:

[XemaSab]

9. I loves me some fancy espresso drinks

:9

[LeftyMom]

12. I'm vegan.

For the gap-toothed freeper sort, that's pronounced "what's a vay-guhn?"

[nuxvomica]

13. I like an occasional latte but I've not a single pair of fancy pants

I'm afraid I'm not holding my own as a stereotype.

[deucemagnet]

19. I'm a college professor, love Starbucks coffee, love NPR.

I do drive an SUV (I need the 4WD where I live), but I feel guilty about it.

[femmocrat]

20. I love NPR, too, except when it's booooring. (snore)

And I drive an SUV.... but I need it to haul around all my recycle-ables.

[Initech]

21. I'm a lazy hippie!

:smoke:

[pokerfan]

22. I bicycle

I own a telescope and a canoe. (Never run into rwers engaging in either activity.)

I read more than one book and listen to classical music.

[Fox Mulder]

24. I'm an intellectual...

who is trying to go vegetarian/vegan. I love to read and I love "classical" music. I went to an exclusive liberal arts college. I eat mostly organic food.

[Connonym]

25. I'm a poor single mom

I didn't graduate from college, I read A LOT, I'm starting to do worm composting, a love a good mocha latte, I'm agnostic and anti-religion.

[Cabcere]

27. I own (and wear) a ridiculous amount of tie-dyed clothing

although maybe that's more "retro-hippie" than "liberal," I don't know. :shrug: I love drinking chai lattes, especially the ones at the local eco-friendly fair-trade coffeehouse. I get "outraged" over things like bigotry and hate crimes. My car isn't a Volvo, but it gets killer gas mileage (45 mpg on the highway is pretty decent, IMO, especially for a 12-year-old secondhand auto). :) I live on the East Coast. I'm something of an academic elitist - although my university is not one of the Ivy League schools, it is one of the original Public Ivies, and I am quite proud of our long tradition of academic excellence (which, if I may, extends to not accepting people just because their daddy is rich/famous) and sense of honor (which, if I may, extends to our crew team not purposefully smashing other boats with our oars and starting the race before our number is called). I favor peace over war (although I do understand that sometimes war is necessary), and understanding over willful ignorance. I don't subscribe to the idea that I should submit to the authority of all men automatically simply because I am a woman.

Blah, blah, blah. ;) I could probably go on and on, but I think for now I'll just leave it at that. :hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

29. I recycle, love NPR & PBS, watch Daily Show, read voraciously,

pro choice,
inclusive in my friendships
support gay rights
believe we need national health plan
hate the damn war

[CreekDog]

30. I live in the Bay Area and love NPR

I like NPR and could watch the KQED (PBS) World Digital Channel pretty much all day.

But in some ways, I don't fit the stereotype:

All those "world/international" type NPR shows, my gosh, they all sound the same to me. Always some stereotypical "foreign" music as the theme, but never the theme from "As it happens" (guess that's not foreign sounding enough).

I like Fresh Air, except when they do a those "weeklong" thematic interviews, ala, "it's our week with yukele playing Hawaiian pan-African gospel musicians, but first the news... :wtf: :boring:

Oh yeah, I LOATHE NPR RADIO EXPEDITIONS! :puke:

here's how that broadcast works:
1. go somewhere far away and interesting (okay so far)
2. have weird sounds from the place overtake the broadcast (water sloshing, people singing or chanting in unison in a foreign language, other weird sounds). note: this is a lot like the song "Yellow Submarine". :think:
3. with all the annoying/weird sounds, I've completely forgotten where the guy went and what was so interesting about it.

British Accents:

Unlike most liberals, I glaze over when I hear British accents on tv (in person is fine). I have many flashbacks to a rough childhood featuring lots of evenings with "Masterpiece Theatre" and "Willy and the Amazing Mystery Detective solve another mystery while sipping tea"

Okay, by now you are thinking I'm probably a Republican and I've blatantly admitted to some extremely provincial stereotyping. I'm sorry, forgive me. :hide:

[electron_blue]

32. I like quiche and prefer cats to dogs

[skygazer]

33. I think

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. I'm a fan of NPR and PBS; I use my own string bags for grocery shopping;

I recycle; all my light bulbs are CFLs; I go to independent coffee shops and buy fair-trade coffee; I have a bunch of cats; I don't go to church; I take tai chi lessons; and I have an electric lawn mower.

However, I do own a shotgun; I wouldn't be caught dead in those ugly-ass Birkenstocks; and sometimes I forget to bring my string bags to the store. Are those liberal-stereotype demerits?

[Richardo]

36. I love NPR

My coffee order at Starbucks is getting more and more complicated :eyes:

I believe in the public sector

I drink white wine

I vote Democratic

[baldguy]

37. I am a wine snob.

[Richard Steele]

38. I have long hair and a goatee. How utterly clichéd!

[ZombieNixon]

39. I believe in reality.

I think that intelligence is something to be valued, not scorned.

If that doesn't make me a liberal elitist, I don't know what does.

[stuntcat]

40. I love it too hehe

Also half my friends are gay.
And I'm an extremist when it comes to the environment.
Also, violence is an idiotic shame of humanity I think-

[CBGLuthier]

42. foreign movie lover here

them there 'merican films just ain't good enuff for my hi-falootin tastes.

[Skittles]

56. I just saw The Counterfeiters

AWESOME! :thumbsup:

[hellbound-liberal]

43. I believe in "WE first" rather than "ME first"

I am also a vegetarian, anti-death penalty, pro-environment, and Bernie Sanders is my favorite politician.

[Neoma]

45. I drank a green tea latte.

[hippywife]

46. Gee, where do I begin? LOL

We were organizers for the local peace group for about three years, worked for DK's campaign for the 2000 election, recycle anything we can, I take canvas bags to the grocery, growing our own organic garden/raising our own chickens for eggs because of big agribusiness, try to buy organic/natural from the local co-op whenever possible to support local/sustainable farming, compost our food scraps, gave away our dryer to save energy, limit our driving to only what's necessary, DH built about 50% of our house out of recycled building materials, we have 8 acres but leave most of wild for the birds and animals, support gay rights, pro-choice, against the death penalty, believe that nonviolent methods are the answer to settling issues, for legalization of pot, help out those in financial need whenever we have a little extra and can, love to listen to that subversive folk music, NPR is the only radio station we listen to (even tho there are times they aren't very liberal at all!) except the one in CA I listen to on my computer, don't watch TV except for PBS, don't shop at WalMart, every Thursday night is energy saving night - no lights, no computers, no TV, absolutely love Howard Zinn...

I dunno tons of things. Anything we can possibly think of to make things better in the world.

But the funny thing is that stereotypes are silly. Except for the first and last thing on the above list, and maybe the gay rights and pro-choice support, there are many people who aren't even close to being a lefty who do the same.

Hiya, sweetpea! :hi:

[SallyMander]

84. ...

:loveya:

[BlueIris]

47. I have been known to drink not just lattés, but breves.

Sometimes more than one per day (...I know).

[CBHagman]

48. Here goes.

I love NPR.

Ditto Garrison Keillor.

I've always supported the local PBS station, even when I was at university.

I complain a lot about the lack of a national health insurance plan.

I wear sensible shoes and use public transportation.

I write poetry and love classical music.

[triguy46]

49. Love NPR and Garrison Keillor. Expensive coffee and wine. France...

Buy at the farmers market. Use 'green' products. Just ordered a hybrid Civic. Give $ to dem. party.

[liberaltrucker]

50. I paid for 3 abortions today

Had wine and brie for lunch(with a post-meal "smoke")

Emailed my Senators to PLEASE raise taxes and spend like
a drunken sailor (with apologies to drunken sailors).

Told James Dobson to fuck himself.

Sent a donation to PETA while eating a porterhouse-just
to show my liberal hypocrisy.

NPR-Gawd, I miss Linda Wirthheimer!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

51. I'm proud to be a tree hugger.

Does that make me a stereotype?

[jakefrep]

54. I'm a Starbucks-drinking secular Europhile.

How's that?

[Skittles]

55. I CARE ABOUT PEOPLE OTHER THAN MYSELF

yes INDEED!!!

[SallyMander]

81. EVEN WHILE YOU'RE KICKING THEIR ASSES!

Right? :D

[Fenris]

58. I love Volvos, especially the "Brick" 240s

I own two pairs of Birkenstocks (I do not wear them out of the house).

I use a pushreel lawnmower.

I compost.

I have multiple cats.

I buy organic produce and use organic gardening products.

I don't think we should indiscriminately bomb other countries and I genuinely care about the homeless and oppressed.

[Political Heretic]

59. I love lattes, and I am an elitist :)

[Political Heretic]

60. Oh, and I'm finishing my second degree, and I don't go to church

[DBoon]

61. I drive a Prius

I'm trying hard to think of anything else...

Oh, I don't care for sports.

[DarkTirade]

62. I've got long hair and I rarely bother to shave...

although that's partly because my body rarely bothers to grow facial hair...

I'm a wine-drinking classically trained musician. And yet I'm poor, and was raised as such. So I've got both ends of the spectrum covered. :)

I listen to NPR most of the time in the car... and of the two cars I have access to, one of them is a hybred.

I own probably probably somewhere around ten times as many books as I have DVDs.

I have never watched a sports game in my entire life.

[Deep13]

63. Imported car, imported wife, she kept her name. ...

...
I'm a lawyer, from Massachusetts and am anti-religion. Listen to NPR.

Ways I'm atypical as a liberal: gun enthusiast and an assistant district attorney.

[TZ]

69. ....

Yeah you work for da Man thats almost as bad as being a Pharma Shill...:D

[NewJeffCT]

64. Let's see

I'm an atheist.

I live in the northeast.

I support universal health care, gay marriage, getting out of Iraq ASAP.

I'm against the death penalty in all cases.

I have this annoying habit of seeing several sides to every issue, even if I disagree with the other sides.

I have cloth bags for my grocery shopping.

I'm pro-choice.

I believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

I'm against torture.

[MountainLaurel]

66. Married, no kids

Both of us have graduate degrees, drive a Prius, listen to NPR. I didn't change my name. We avoid chain restaurants, eat brie.

[1gobluedem]

67. I buy organic

Love NPR, listen to jazz, use a push mower, refuse to own an SUV, refuse to shop at WalMart, wear a peace sign necklace occasionally, own Birkenstocks, watch PBS, love bookstores, don't go to mall movies, vote in every election.

On edit: Oh, I also recycle as much as I can.

[mike_c]

68. I'm an aging hippie, not a new age hippie....

eom

[Iris]

93. the best kind!

:hug:

[Juche]

70. Its a long list

I'm a secular, agnostic college graduate who is under 30 and who would rather live in a large city than a small town.

I am an elitist who thinks a good deal of the GOP base is misinformed and uninformed about the issues and vote because of fear and prejudice against various outside groups (secularists, blacks, latinos, gays, muslims). I look down on uninformed people who vote based on prejudice.

I consider myself a global citizen instead of just a US citizen. Alot of the charities I donate to are global charities.

I think the rich are undertaxed.

I got my first real job not too long ago.

I think Cheney is a bigger threat to world peace and US security than Ahmadinejad.

I also hate america and use the flag as rolling paper.

[nomorenomore08]

71. Well, I smoke a lot of pot, graduated from UC Santa Cruz, drink expensive beer,

read the Nation from time to time (my parents are subscribers), and I still live with the folks (though I'm only 23). I think that about covers it.

[ElboRuum]

72. I have a brain and I'm not afraid to use it. n/t

[Iris]

94. That's downright unpatriotic!

[IzaSparrow]

73. i'm sort of a nihilistic revision of

my traditional, christian, country good-ol'-boy upbringing; i like npr (except splendid table); support local businesses; usually commute by bicycle; go to the bar and talk about science or philosophy....

[Redstone]

74. Are you kidding? We have TWO Volvos in the driveway.

No matter that one of them is an absurdly powerful, high-pressure-turbo convertible that gets embarrassingly low gas mileage.

It's still two Volvos.

Redstone

[SPKrazy]

75. I have a bleeding heart...

although it has coagulated more as the years have gone by, I still believe that a responsibility of government is to bring everyone up to a standard of living that allows them to succeed and achieve more. I think that if you follow the pull yourself up by the bootstraps philosophy of purist capitalism (which even the "purist capitalists" don't follow as corporate welfare is more common now than any other kind of welfare it seems) someone is always going to be stepped on so someone else can get to the top. I think society needs a safety net that provides for things like affordable health care for everyone, and assistance for those who lose their jobs, tax relief for companies that STAY in the US and that BUY THEIR PARTS in the US, and help for all those who are unable to care for themselves for whatever reason.

I think we spend way too much on defense (mostly in pork and corporate welfare, but also in "fighting" a "war" that doesn't exist in that we attacked a sovereign nation that was held together by a fragile balance, and now we are trying to make that country (which is really 3 countries) adopt a US like government.

Okay, what else? I think NPR is okay, its about the least biased news there is as far as I can tell, however the righties have even tried to push their influence there as well. I don't trust most of the news anyway.

I don't believe we have a liberal media, in fact the opposite is more true. Even our most liberal media outlets are more conservative than their European counterparts.

I'm all for taxes as long as we are actually spending them on worthwhile things. I think for the most part now, we spend our tax dollars on war and making right wingers more wealthy than we do on taking care of people.

[Burma Jones]

76. I have a Doctorate, have lived in the NY-DC corridor for all but 7 years of my 48

I drive a Hybrid and used to drive a Volvo. I buy Organic Free Trade coffee from a local roaster. We shop at Whole Foods Market.

[quakerboy]

78. a better question

how am I not?

[SallyMander]

79. You will have to find XemaSab's thread for that one!

:D

[Starbucks Anarchist]

80. I listen to jazz.

[poebango]

82. I don't hate poor people

... even the ones that are Republicans, are single-issue voters (i.e. make sure gay people don't marry) and constantly vote against their (and our) own best interests. Hmmm... waiduhminute...never mind... I'm nice, but not that nice.:spank:

[SallyMander]

83. Hey, welcome to DU!!!

I am honored to be the OP for your first post :D

:toast:

:hi:

[poebango]

85. Thank YOU

SallyMander! I've been a rabid DU reader since 2000 (or 2001?). It's been my beacon of light all this time.:hi:

[SallyMander]

86. Wow! And it took you this long to get sucked in

(especially to the Lounge... haha)

Glad you decided to start posting! :hi:

[poebango]

91. I disgust even myself!

I've never even read posts in the lounge up until now (they're pretty entertaining, though). I always read Latest Breaking, General, and General Politics. But I'm afraid to go wander over there because of my Low Postameter Count! I'll hang around here for awhile until I get up the courage to dip my toe in over there. I know.... I'm pathetic. I disgust myself! ha ha! :shrug:

[IronLionZion]

100. I don't hate them either, I just know what's best for them

because those single-issue voters are just too stupid to vote for their own interests. I'll vote for their interests. I also look down my nose on people who grow the food I eat, make the stuff I use, transport the goods I buy, clean my building, and anyone who disagrees with me on anything. Around half of Americans are my enemies, because Republicans are my enemies. I make no distinction between Republican party leaders, Republican voters, or voters who recently switched their registration to the Democratic party. They are all my enemies and need to be punished badly.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[poebango]

103. Yay!

Ha ha ha! Thank God for you! (No kidding) :yourock:

[SoCalDemGrrl]

87. Drive a Prius

[BreweryYardRat]

88. I've got a major weakness for expensive coffees.

Especially from Seattle's Best. Yum.

I also drive a Volvo, but that's hopefully changing soon, since the damn thing's a gas-guzzling money pit.

[UndertheOcean]

89. Hey, I love npr too

My car radio is always on NPR!

[annonymous]

90. I admit to a few liberal sterotypes

1. I live in an urban ara
2. I usually bring my own bags to the grocery store
3. My entire house is lit with compact florescent bulbs
4. I recycle
5. I grow some of my own vegetables organically but have limited gardening space
6. I hate talk radio

[Tommy_Carcetti]

92. I drink lattes, but it's from Starbucks, a large corporation....

Does that cancel itself out?

[Aristus]

95. I enjoy gourmet coffee instead of truck-stop-style boiled mud.

B-)

[IronLionZion]

96. I'm self-righteous and judge people who don't live the way I want them to.

You can find a lot of similarities between self-righteous judgmental liberals and self-righteous judgmental conservatives.

I recently started using reusable grocery bags to purchase the lean meats, whole grains, and fresh produce that many poor people wish they could afford. Saving the world is so easy! ;) :P


Yes, my girlfriend got me hooked on MPR so I listen to that a lot now. I've never liked lattes or even regular coffee. What else? I do like museums and ethnic restaurants if those things are considered liberal.

[BarenakedLady]

98. Most of them, I guess.

:shrug:

[Z_I_Peevey]

101. I have a compost pile.

I prefer cappuchino to plain coffee.

I adore Stewart, Colbert and Olbermann.

I am developing a major crush on John Oliver.

[Greyskye]

102. Listen to NPR while driving the Prius

Secular Humanist married to a teacher.

Both have too much tie-die.

Take the family to multiple music festivals every year.

Picture in the living room of our son hugging a tree.

Believe in "We First", not "Me First".

Drink imported and micro-brewed beer.

Take our cloth bags to Trader Joe's.

Have been a vegetarian for extended periods of my life - though I'm not now. :(

"Earth Friendly" and "Greenness" are major factor in all purchases.

Am a music snob, and if it gets much airplay probably don't care for it much.

Grind my own organic free-trade coffee beans.