yuppie is a four letter word

[lilcolumbian]

the other day i was chatting with my mom about my latest purchase...a brand new wool coat. it's beautiful, fits me like a glove, and was on sale so i couldn't resist. granted i won't even be able to think about wearing it until sometime next year, but it's just that wonderful of a coat. my mom had asked me how much it was and i told her it was a

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[y2korean]

you're simply a young professional. don't start stereotyping anything, you dirty gook canuck southerner.

perhaps she could refer to us as wage slaves?

[cjshrader]

I really don't even know if calling you a yuppie is even accurate. I looked it up!

a young, ambitious, and well-educated city-dweller who has a professional career and an affluent lifestyle.

I'll give you young, ambitious, and professional career, but I know you spent a couple years at SPSU and that's like a reverse education so I can only give you moderately educated at best. Luckily your year(s) at Auburn keep you from being "I went to college but got no formal schooling," which would be my ranking. I doubt you live physically in a city, though I don't know, and I'm not even sure what an affluent lifestyle is.

In conclusion, have you seen The Sting lately? Horrid. Also, happy belated birthday!

And also I don't think yuppie is an accurate word for you. But you're also the person who just had to touch everything at Fred Segal's.

[annasaurusrex]

an affluent lifestyle is the life the people who read jezebel lead. or want to lead. i'm not quite sure how the readership goes, but remember that woman who sat next to you at the opera with those little glasses on a stick? she leads an affluent lifestyle. just remember everything you giggled about that night and consider it "affluent."

[cjshrader]

I wish I had tiny binoculars on a stick.

[lilcolumbian]

i just have to say that i can't really picture cj going to the opera. we went to the fox once and that was funny enough. the opera is a whole other level!

[redziggy]

I don't think I'd take offense to yuppie, but it does seems to be a little bit of a misuse of the term. I'm not sure what the correct word would be though. I mean, what she meant by it does seem like a compliment: young and well off. I guess the negative is that I tend to think of a yuppie as maybe aloof and a having a feeling of entitlement to their affluent lifestyle. Plus, it does seem to be a very 80s word. I'm not sure I'd use it to describe anyone nowadays.

A $250 jacket? It better be pretty nice.