8 Things No Serious Yuppie Can Resist!

2.  Recycling.
A Yuppie views themselves as worthless to society if they do not do their part to save the world. Recycling is a popular choice for most yuppies and involves not only recycling all recyclable materials but being extremely angry at people that do not recycle. This includes picking up recyclable materials that non-recyclers have placed in the trash and presenting back to them accompanied with a snide rhetorical question...

Example:

Non-recycler throws a soda can in the trash. An hour later an angry Yuppie arrives at his desk with the same soda can in his hand.

Yuppie: Did you just throw this soda can in the trash? Gosh I can't believe that!

The Yuppie will then proceed to place the material in the correct container in the hopes that the non recycler will learn by association.

3. "Hole in the wall" Restaurants.
A Yuppie takes great pleasure in telling you what they eat and where they eat:

A) Food you are not cultured enough to enjoy.

B) Food you are not adventurous enough to find.

Whether or not the food tastes good is not important at all. It  is more about the fact that the food is sold at a location only they are aware of and only they have tasted it. They will tell you that if you want to find the best  Thai Food, you need to go to the  "Thai Food Place"  in East China Town, behind the Vietnamese Laundromat, next to the Sudanese Restaurant, opposite the Eritrean Acupuncture Parlor. Once you all learn about it and find out that the food is pretty ordinary, they will tell you that the food was good before people found out about place, then they just sold out and the quality of their food went down. A Yuppie will travel great distances to eat at such places, especially if this reduces the chance of their friends finding out about it first!

4. Really expensive organic, all natural, zero calories, fat free food.

Never mind that stripping food of all it's fat and caloric  content makes it taste like lightly salted cardboard, a Yuppie must eat the most healthy food possible with little to no regard for the price. A Yuppie must always be on a diet which involves depriving themselves of one or more food groups combined with a regimen of various diet pills. Yuppies also value the manner in which the food is prepared. They will pay extra to know that the animal was looked after well, allowed to run free and provided with at least "The HBO" movie package. In addition to that, they'd like to know that the animal had a reasonable chance of escaping at the time of its capture. For these reasons, Whole Foods charges them $86/pound for salmon just because it came from one man's solo, salmon catching operation in Alaska where he caught the salmon with his teeth by dipping his head in ice cold water.

5. Bicycles.
Every serious Yuppie must own a bicycle. A bicycle shows that you have taken adequate measures to end your countries dependency on foreign oil. It is also a requirement that is documented explicitly in The Yuppie Handbook:

The Yuppie Handbook:

Law III: Article VII: The Environmentally Friendly Transportation Act (EFT).

All persons considering themselves Yuppies must own a bicycle as to be compliant with the EFT Act. Proper protective gear such as: helmets, absurdly tight coats and ill-fitting pants must be worn while operating the bicycle. Bicycle must include appropriate reflector lights, a very annoying horn, and basket for shopping goods. Basket must give you the appearance of a complete retard. 

6. Apple Products
After many months and numerous explanations, nobody knows exactly what the purpose of an i-pad is. My best guess is it is most effective as a murder weapon used to club your significant other over the head. My other guess is it is a surfboard for midgets. Interestingly, the i-pad's awkward size and esoteric nature didn't stop Yuppies from spending hundreds of dollars on it.

A Yuppie must support the little man. Apple is the small farmer on the corner of the street compared to Microsoft and for this reason a Yuppie has no choice but to buy whatever they are selling. So no matter what Apple releases, a Yuppie must have it, if nothing, so they can be rebellious and tell everyone that it's the only device that works when they visit The "The Hole in the wall" Restaurant on the other side of town.

7. HDTV

Yuppies separate themselves from the masses by watching better quality TV that they pay a premium for. They do so by purchasing monstrously large televisions that engulf entire walls and require HDMI cables, DVI cables and other cables too expensive for the layman to afford. With the advent of HDTV packages at hefty prices, Yuppies saw an opportunity to watch even better quality TV than the masses and pay even more for it. A Yuppie will claim that after watching HDTV, it is impossible for them to enjoy regular TV,  lcd projectors and other electronics that do not provide output in high definition.

If you deprive a yuppie of HDTV they may experience severe withdrawal s:

Symptoms include:
Excessive complaining
Cold sweats
Fever
Anxiety
Irritability,

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