Drinky Crow Wrote:
How about instead of resorting to "smelly", we say this:
Phish, Widespread, String Cheese, etc. fans are annoying because the neo-hippie concert culture surrounding all that shit is really tired and annoying. Phish stickers/ T-shirts/ posters/ etc, are really fucking ugly as is most merch by any jam band as is the whole tie-dye Dead aesthetic. Combine that with Birks and Tevas, incessant hacky-sacking, , horribly commodified, generic "drug culture" represented by the afformentioned tie-dye shit and pictures of "aliens" and 'shrooms, and upper-middle class white suburban college kids driving sticker-laden SUVs. It's remained pretty much intact since around 1994, and it's irritating. It's also fairly prevalent among the typical polo-shirt-and-khakis fratboy crowd who are pretty annoying in their own right.
Yes those are stereotypes. That's what happens when you make generalizations. They're still based on a whole lot of truth. I know this doesn't describe every Phish fan, but it fits a lot of the ones I've known.
Thanks, Drinky Crow, I just didn't have it in me to explain that BS attitude that just 'cause you smoke some herb and listen to a band (who often has a legitimate message) you're saving the planet.
