Yuppie Running vs. Blue Collar Running

Yes. FW, you're out of your element here.

H2Oh-yeah wrote:

Most of the blue collar types that I know like Guinness, especially those of Irish-Catholic descent. If you don't believe me, go to a bar in Southie and exclaim that Guinness is a yuppie beer. See what happens. For maximum effect, go during a Red Sox game. And if the objective is to really get drunk, why drink beer at all when you can have a fifth of JD?

P.S.: My mom lives in a trailer.

Where the )(*)&@#$& are you guys running and who the )#@$(*@#&$ are you running with????

I run with a group of guys who most would consider extremely wealthy and some worth 8 figures or more. You should see the lousy clothes, the holes in the socks, the 1970's faded t-shirts. Food and shoes? Just the basics will do, and they have only one requirement: a very low price! Sure they're not elite, but most of them can still break 3 hours for the marathon or finish in the top three for their age category in most races across the US.

You guys have it all wrong...it's the Blue Collar Guy trying to keep up to the Joneses with those fancy cars, shoes, clothes and food. Take a look around at the next 'marathon' expo. They aim the corporate advertising at the low to middle class guys who would mortgage their great grandchildrens future just to have it now and keep up to the next guy. Who else would be so gullible in ignorant as to buy into the crap they sell??

Yuppie: Comes equipped w/ water/gatorade mix for 10 miler.

BCR: Water? You'll just sweat it out anyway.

Yuppie: Owns Garmen Forerunner

BCR: Once borrowed a wheel.

Yuppie: Likes Galloway.

BCR: Used to like Galloway.

Yuppie: Spouse ultimately owns your running schedule.

BCR: Spouse will hopefully still be there after I finish this 20miler.

When your work shoes consist of duct tape and steel toes. Many days you have to lift your own body weight over and over again. You work outside in the winter and can't do your job while wearing gloves, but you do wear gloves when you run. You have a hard time determining if you got injured at work or while running. You can do all your training onflat surfaces, but are still a decent hill runner because you climb multi-story buildings all day long. You know your ready to race when you look at your rivals and have to fight the urge to just knock the shit out of them. I did run Churchills in 2002 I think. 27 mph winds and that was not the gusts. Well put on race, but it was tougher than hell. I really enjoyed it and my hat goes off to those who continue to go back. Label me as you like, but I don't run to make freinds. I run to get faster although I have met some nice folks.

Idol:

YR: Roger Bannister, Alan Webb, Bob Kennedy

BC: John Landy, Zatopek, Prefontaine

Bugs wrote:

Yes. FW, you're out of your element here.

H2Oh-yeah wrote:

Most of the blue collar types that I know like Guinness, especially those of Irish-Catholic descent. If you don't believe me, go to a bar in Southie and exclaim that Guinness is a yuppie beer. See what happens. For maximum effect, go during a Red Sox game. And if the objective is to really get drunk, why drink beer at all when you can have a fifth of JD?

P.S.: My mom lives in a trailer.

Hmm. I'll have to take you for your word there. So, is Guinness Blue Collar or white trash then? Maybe it's different regionally. I know that mostly yuppies in Ohio drink it. Same was true when I was in Michigan (oh the horror) and Maryland and California.

As far as getting drunk goes, what's cheaper, a fifth of JD or the equivilent number of beers?

I guess that depends on what kind of beer you're talking about. A bar down the street from me will sometimes have Satuday specials when they put really cheap stuff on tap. Examples: Ham's, PBR, (my favorite)Old Milwaukee, Old Style, Stroh's, and Schlitz. I can get lit for about 6 bucks. The cheapest fifth of whiskey I ever bought was 12 bucks and it was called "Early Times". The title was fairly accurate because after I was finished with it my night was over very early (11 or there-abouts). So, I would say beer would be cheaper than whiskey. Vodka however is another story. There is vodka here in Illinois called Hawkeye vodka, I swear you can buy a liter of this shit for about 8 dollars, possibly a little more. Maybe someone else in the midwest can back me up on this?

Sex:

YR: Masturbation

DCR: Muff diving

WT: Anal

Flagpole Willy wrote:

Hmm. I'll have to take you for your word there. So, is Guinness Blue Collar or white trash then? Maybe it's different regionally. I know that mostly yuppies in Ohio drink it. Same was true when I was in Michigan (oh the horror) and Maryland and California.

As far as getting drunk goes, what's cheaper, a fifth of JD or the equivilent number of beers?

guiness can in no way be considered white trash. maybe a bit blue collar by those guys in s. boston who are 5 generations removed from the potato famine, but its certainly not white trash.

white trash is drinking moonshine or turpentine or gasoline. even more white trash is attempting to "make" your own gasoline and drinking the product.

Hey Hams (or Hamm's),

I never understood the advertising concept for Hamm's. They used to run TV commercials with that cartoon bear. Made it seem like they were going after 8 year olds.

Here are some images:

http://www.trayman.net/images/Animals/Hamms%20Bear.jpg

http://www.beermachines.com/PicturesAndLogos/Vendorlator%2056%20-%20Hamms.jpg

http://www.vintagedepotdirect.com/media/C17.jpg

http://home.planet.nl/~mhamm/Video/PHILIPS/v2000/HammsBier2.jpg

anyone remember the old ranier beer commercials with the motorbike that made the noise:

raaaaaaaaniiiiiiiiieeeer beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

Winter Running:

Yuppie Runner

Wears Nike Dri-Fit and Under Armour jogging on treadmill at $400/month gym that he joined yesterday for his New Years resolution to jog 3 times a week, bought clothes at running store next to gym.

Blue Collar Runner

Wears whatever he got at the Salvation Army Thrift Store last year to run to work before sunrise and home from work after dark, in the snow, with his work clothes (also from Salvation Army) and his lunch (soup in a thermos) in his backback, which is held together by tape and glue.

j squire wrote:

Flagpole Willy wrote:

Oh yeah, there are lots of white trash beers.

I'll separate some out into three categories - Yuppie, Blue Collar, White Trash.

So where does my ballpark favorite, Stroh's, fit? And am I still a yuppie if my import is Foster's (the garbage can o' beer)?

Ghetto beer: any malt liquor in a 40-oz (but MD 20/20 was a bit more popular when I lived there)

j squire,

Good questions. Stroh's is blue collar I would say. Foster's here in the States has the luster of Yuppiedom because it is an import, but it has a general blue collar feel about it, so I think I'll go with blue collar for that even though I said all imports are yuppie. I guess Foster's and Guinness can be exceptions to the rule.

Good addition of Ghetto beer. Malt liquors are definitely ghetto.

Prices and taxes vary, but you can get a fifth of Jack for about $15, and a case of 30 cheap domestic beers for the same. Of course, you can get a cheaper liquor or beer to drive those costs down to $10 or less.

For JD (86 proof),

Cost/(fl oz alc)=$0.014

For beer (7 proof),

Cost/(fl oz alc)=$0.012

This is a little deceptive, however. You have to drink greater than six times more beer than Jack for the same effect. If you count the extra fluid in the beer that dilutes the alcohol (the "beer," I guess), the time it takes to drink all those beers, and the number of times you have to go take a piss, then it's even harder to get drunk.

Speaking of alcohol ads targeting kids, this golden oldie does the same thing with cancer sticks. Yabba dabba doo!

And in keeping with the topic:

Response to "Run, Forrest, run!"

YR: "Why, sir, that's hardly a creative utterance, but it reminds me of the time when I was having martinis on my private yacht..."

BCR: "#@%$ you!"

That was hilarious. Thanks.

crossboss wrote:

Haircut

YR: makes an appointment

BC: gets the hair clippers and goes into the bathroom*

*exceptions possible for going to a real barber (not a stylist) who tells dirty jokes, has sketchy personal friends hanging out in the waiting area, and charges less than $10.

I probably ought to be a yuppie runner, but that's the way I've been getting my hair cut ever since I was in seventh grade and was told by my parents that if I got a small allowance I had to pay for everything besides books.

Guinness, and a host of other stouts, was around in the 18th century - back when brews were viewed as "meds." No need to educate - you either know the difference or you don't.

YR- votes for Kerry

BCR- votes for Bush