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(11-12-2016, 09:48 PM)hollodero Wrote: I can give it to you (my take I mean), but I guess you might find it boring. A Bobo to me is not a clown, and Bobos wouldn't shop at Aldi. I wikipediad the word's origin. The word as I use it stems from the New York Times and describes a new kind of upper class people.
Here that means - those who want to stay generic and down to earth by behaving as though they were working class people. That are left, full of idealistic ideas, obsessively casual, but then again they percieve themselves as smarter, more important, more meaningful beings that are just too modest to show it. They are widely hated. Economically because they tend to overtake some low-class areas and lifestyles and therefore making them more expensive, while then again shopping at fancy places (think Whole Foods) and feeling proud about themselves and wondering why all the other dumb people don't get their meat from special happy biological cows at ten times the cost. And personally because they are smartasses who never would deviate from their opinion the tiniest bit no matter how dumb, easily refuted, narrow-minded and arrogant that opinion is, and treating their own verbal effluxions as if the words came directly from Mount Wisdom.
 
These people.
Not a fan.

I looked the word up too, lol and saw the surprising reference to David Brooks of the NYT, who was credited with advancing if not coining the phrase as well as sort of calling himself one. I just call him a tool. Interesting that I had never heard the phrase and thought it was something from your local community, then I look it up and find out it is part of the lexicon in many communities. Cheers!