BRUCE KESLER: GOODBYE YUPPIES….HELLO DUMPIES
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 OWC 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.
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