What is a yuppie? | upwardly mobile | Money in the 80s | City of London | Larry Hagman | 1987

'Reporting London' correspondent Lindsay Charlton takes jaunt around the fashionable parts of central London to find out the answer to the following question - What is a yuppie?
On his travels he bumped into a couple of surprising interviewees.
first shown: 27/10/1987
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[@akira3287]

80's the best time. If I had a time machine I would definitely go back.

[@DashDrones]

Me too

[@paulplaskwa1600]

Couldn't agree more 👏 👌

[@juanr9446]

Me too but I would go way back to the 60's

[@troublebrewing99]

If you look back in rose tinted nostalgic glasses, then yes but the 80s was very tough to live and work in comparison to today.

[@juanr9446]

@@troublebrewing99 yes indeed

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

I remember the Yuppies. Pinstripe suit, brick mobile, filofax, red braces, BMW, snorting cocaine though a rolled up £50 note, Perrier water, "OK yah", working 18 hour days, "lunch is for wimps", burned out by 25, sold up and launching a micro brewery in Devon at 30. I blame computers. Back in the 70s, banks were still being run by gentlemen with bowler hats and umbrellas. The Captain Mainwaring figure whose word was his bond If the bank had a computer, it was down in the basement operated by a spotty 17 year old with an A Level in maths. If you wanted numbers crunched, you sent them down there then waited three days for the result to come back. Then suddenly one day computers got small enough that there was one on every desk. Captain Mainwaring, who didn't know a mouse from a floppy disk, was out and that spotty 17 year old was now a spotty 22 year old and Head of Global Finance. Money was round the world 24/7 and the Old Guard couldn't keep up. The Yuppie had arrived.

[@icedancer2370]

I think you are right. Now that spotty 22 year old is some 55 year old in Los Angeles getting their teeth perfected over green juice

[@saborfrancias]

They are all well spoken

[@SedriqMiers]

yup pre-cuntification !

[@didwest1249]

Plumbs in their gobs snobs

[@globalfamily8172]

I always liked well dressed. My husband was a yuppie, but we both had a working-class upbringing.

[@CARLIN4737]

without the black talk you mean .the gangstar talk that even white youths talk like now for reasons unknown to me.

[@DashDrones]

People who get up early and follow the Japanese market... 😂😁

[@infiltr80r]

Japan in the 80s was the number 1 market. It's still relevant.

[@infiltr80r]

@@DashDrones Not really or you're talking different context. Nowadays it's rare to find someone who gets up early to follow the Nikkei, I used to do that.

[@cebudave]

@@infiltr80r Bill Lumberg wants to know if you have his swingline stapler?

[@infiltr80r]

@@cebudave Walang stapler, walang pera.

[@energiam880]

@@infiltr80r They had among the highest GDP per capita for a major economy. They were booming so fast, they influenced a great deal of pop culture, particularly the cyberpunk theme, which envisioned a world dominated by Japan. However, Japan's been under economic stagnation for decades, with an insane amount of debt. They're still top class developed country, but they seem to have reached their growth glass ceiling. GDP. What's interesting is that Japanese manufacturing is still top-notch, despite almost 3 decades of economic stagnation. Unlike the UK, where industries are fragile even at the best of times, and we're far from the best of times today. Don't want to get too political as to why it's the case. Combination of piss poor British management, lack of investments, and lack of innovation. The UK has top-notch academic research but is generally poor at implementing them. It generally ranks quite low (relative to other advanced countries) on business/industrial innovation rankings, or even the number of patents producer per capita. The question now is, how long can the UK sustain its finance-driven, City-of-London-based economy? It used to have a FINTECH monopoly, but that's no longer the case. Beijing/Shanghai has overtaken London. On top of that, they also make the hardware that makes FINtech possible. We in the UK no longer do. It's even possible that Mumbai could overtake London, in the not-so-distant future. Genuinely curious, what are our plans for the future? The rise of the city of London was welcomed as a new era of new industries, replacing dysfunctional old ones. What will happen when the city of London can no longer manage a competitive edge? Like British Leyland of the 80s. I don't think we're there yet, but you can't say it's beyond the realms of possibilities. There's been a revamp on rejuvenating British manufacturing. But it kinda feels too little too late.

[@thestruggler7926]

People back then seemed a lot more well spoken than most people today.

[@bjdb]

Remarkably timeless piece of television on such a dated subject.

[@wombat1238marsupial]

That's a time I wish I could get back to. Great actors Derek Nimmo, Robert Morley and Larry Hagman. I loved the way that Peter described himself as an ex Yuppie. Get in quick, make your money and get out to enjoy your rewards😊💖💖

[@m3cvfm]

I remember Derek Nimmo interview Sean Connery in Las Vegas, Fremont Street. Driving the Mach 1 Mustang in Diamond s are Forever .

[@joanne26]

And Jilly Cooper. Oh the 80's -i loved living through the decade. The YUPPIE. I remember watching on TV men coming out of places like the Stock Exchange and around the BIG BANG carrying their mobile phones - like house bricks and what sticks in my mind is when the Thatcher Government started to sell off British Rail, British Gas and do you remember Maureen Lipman and the BT advert -you've got an ology.

[@ZodiacBoi42]

Nice, impressive. Now let’s see Paul Allen’s interview.

[@ratbagkennedy]

"I'm the oldest living yuppie" *laughs in posh*

[@LosAngelesRaiders]

Most under rated comment here!!!

[@JonSmith-cx7gr]

I was a yuppie. I remember one time eying up some girls in a wine bar and tried to play it cool. I leaned back against the bar, nice and cool know what I mean, but unbeknownst to me, the barman had opened the bar hatch and I fell over. One of my worst memories. That and the time my little brother filed my bloody fax!

[@tonyinit8488]

that mobile phone is so big it could be used as a weapon

[@jennytaylor3324]

THEY'RE GOING FULL-CIRCLE BY THE LOOKS OF IT!

[@rjjcms1]

Could hurl it through a shop window for an old-style smash 'n' grab.

[@kshinokevin]

a brick

[@content_generator_]

"particularly at the golf club" lol

[@marcusmcg9083]

200k a year before burn out with inflation that's like £700k year how were salaries so high in the city then

[@thesunandthemoon9995]

Aah the 80s! Was a good time!

[@MarioUcomics]

for some

[@billysinge8977]

My father was a 1990’s Yuppie. He has a lot of funny Yuppie stories, and still has some beautiful double-breasted Yuppie suits.

[@JustForCute]

What is Yuppie tho?

[@Apistevist]

@@JustForCute I was always told a yuppie is a young adult who usually recently graduated, gets married and engages in conspicuous consumption where in they spend more than they make on useless shit to impress people they don't even like. I'd guess this is 80-90% of the people in my country. You know, the 2.5 car 2,300 sq foot brick home in an urban neighborhood with a gym membership, tanning salon membership, subscribes to consumer report but never uses it and is leveraging their future in liabilities to impress other shallow plastic people.

[@johndong7524]

Did he manage to retain and increase his wealth?

[@bezwaarikteken6637]

Young Urban Professionals

[@lukespector5550]

Remember the slim width paisley tie?

[@zebedep]

A wonderful snapshot of a bygone era.

[@boristhegeezer9267]

I love this channel I've learnt so much that no one can explain anymore lol

[@danielschutt9641]

You ate a "Yabby" when you went to the Swan River.

[@nnttnormmwcducktttbsc9130]

The love child of Mcafee and Sam Hyde

[@markphillips8785]

So frightfully posh what what 😂😂

[@jakecavendish3470]

I love that we had "wine bars" in the 80s. They were always themed too, normally with sheaves of wheat and plastic grapes, and the wine was horrific and served with cheese and pickled onions on sticks

[@icysaracen3054]

Yuppie = Conservative Hipster

[@dan11438]

I just love the way people spoke back then

[@brandonneely9982]

Those brick cell phones were expensive. The service sucked.

[@kopthelotklopp1523]

At 2:32 I thought that was Cassandra off only fools and horses and when the interviewer said Rodney I thought this video was going to be a piss take and involve the trotters.

[@rutter1ify]

💯

[@maxwelloctavian4042]

The other guy talking reminded me of Cassandras boss Steven (Jolly Boys Outing Episode) They must of based him on that guy.

[@kopthelotklopp1523]

@@maxwelloctavian4042 yeah, absolutely.

[@jennytaylor3324]

😃I thought that to at 1st glance!

[@ryanyounger2595]

Maybe the writer John Sullivan was watching this when he was doing his research.

[@billysinge8977]

0:56 8.30 Res’ at Dorsia, *great* sea-urchin ceviche.

[@cockneybill]

Sweetings still going ! I was a bit too young in the 80's but frequent Sweets quite a lot now. I think that's Anghel at 59.00 - he's still there........!

[@reverendbluejeans1748]

I wanted to create a Yuppy album from the 80s

[@sirisiri7213]

"An animal'! Looool. People were so well spoken....it sounds so posh to us nowadays!

[@rjjcms1]

Some would say that description wasn't far off with some of them 😀.

[@googleuser7454]

A lot of them were posh or close to it seems.

[@Fsrjtyttzma]

Ah the British ...we do love a good “pigeon hole” ..

[@jasonayres]

Yes, Yuppies , and Dink's (- Double income, no kids -), eh. Fickle fashions, a bit of fun to remember the '80's. We, who didn't grow up in the Soviet Union.

[@minewheaties5029]

Mr. Burns inspiration Barry Diller clearly had a role in creating the movement. He was even head of Paramount when the company made Yuppie-predicting Taxi, with one episode even having Louie de Palma as a successful investor. Unlike Yuppie public idol Donald Trump though, Diller is not too much of a publicity man.

[@didwest1249]

Image smuggling one of those mobiles into a jail nowadays

[@janeporter818]

Great video

[@mixerman8]

What an incredible boom era for the UK, work your butt off and invest your rewarded. I’m working class/yuppie if that makes sense. Work for firm as a concrete boom operator but also a managing director of my own property buidness. Best of both worlds, earned income, passive income and invested income through stocks/shares etc. If I can do it anyone can, capitalism is the only true freedom we have and that’s coming from a capitalist working class pump operator 🤣. Long live the 80’s yuppie 😎.

[@icysaracen3054]

Bro the system is heading towards a Russian style oligarch but within legal boundaries - the days of entrepreneurship are dead.

[@mixerman8]

@@icysaracen3054 not really pal, its never been easier to figure out the stock market. Think about it pension freedoms in 2015, I can now trade in my isa/sipp on my mobile phone should I wish to close positions but im in for long term. In 2020 in North American there was more retail investors come to the game than the whole of the previous 12 years. Moneys still cheap to borrow. No need for expensive brokers anymore or high fund manager charges. Im heading towards indexing diversified at a cost of next to nothing. Its all a game, boom, bubble, burst, bottom, bull, repeat.

[@mixerman8]

@@icysaracen3054 I know there's a lot of gurus on you tube, but I really rate the honesty of this guy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6PYk4NjoNdjr80

[@johndong7524]

@@mixerman8 Where did you learn how to trade stocks?

[@mixerman8]

@@johndong7524 hours upon hours of research plus had a wealth management firm help me for few years just their fees were astronomical and I learnt the ways he was very savvy. I keep main holdings simple with Vanguard, the sipp purely a few shares of upcoming ev car makers now for fun and work pension changed default to pure equities. Its easy, diversification is key you can never beat the whole stock market over a 10 year time period.,

[@donarnold8268]

Thank You! Posting on Facebook...

[@marilina8861]

The first guy made me laugh so hard! :D

[@DaraM73]

Bit of sound sync slip. Probably the wrong kHz during transfer.

[@pepsi_man4962]

Yuppies are actually cool. Well the US ones are cool

[@tonyclifton265]

I was a 1990s yuppie and it was brilliant.

[@ingiemummalove130]

Watch 2:04 onwards - anybody Remember “Stephen” from Jolly Boys Outing ???!! Only fools and horses!!! He defo watched this and bingo copied it for his character!!!! 😂👌 infact - is it him????!!!!

[@JK-ms3qz]

Thought this too! Love it

[@maxwelloctavian4042]

I have just watched this and made the same comment. Steven must of been based on that guy "Yah, yah, for sure" lol

[@PorkChopExpress86]

Spotted it straight away , brilliant. Loves a game of trivial pursuit

[@BokorRider]

ha ha ha very good ....yuppies in London and huge unemployment elsewhere the 80's in Britain.....

[@Wahhhhhh735]

They wouldn’t live in Kilburn now 😂😂

[@janruudschutrups9382]

Lord Snowden who can't go upward any more before falling off. 😆

[@Hairycheese1]

Better days before we all everyone is upset about being misgendered

[@samnicholson5051]

Yes people not tolerating our desire to disparage minorities is a really serious issue, back then we only had to deal with minor problems like AIDS or the possibility of nuclear war.

[@Myndir]

@@samnicholson5051 Normal people didn't have to worry much about AIDS.

[@samnicholson5051]

@@Myndir I don't know what you mean by "normal people" but anyone can be at risk of receiving HIV, no matter what type of relationships they have.

[@BeliaLastes]

Now their Proper Hipster's 😂😂😂😂😂

[@icedancer2370]

Did not expect that man’s american accent in Sweeting’s

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

A yuppie is that "discount". Still the same go me.

[@betheey3248]

It's del boy 😂😂😂

[@sjguk267]

Now we have snowflakes

[@feyrol42]

Yup, Boomers whining about not being able to be gross sexists, homophobic, racists or whatever else makes them feel slightly significant.

[@googleuser7454]

​@Fey Rol boomers love the "revolution" until it comes to them

[@Kawasakifreak1]

@@feyrol42 - you like your labels don't you - I wonder what label you have for yourself ?

[@Jeffybonbon]

i was a special time

[@QuadMochaMatti]

Basshead was clearly not first in this instance.

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Perhaps his data package has run out.

[@m80tmm]

He’s in Wall Street hitting the Buy Buy Buy button!

[@LR_84]

Hes probably dead

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

@@LR_84 how u can say that

[@LR_84]

@@kamrankhan-lj1ng Because I have an obsession with second hand vacuüm cleaners made between 1994 and 2012.

[@tilerman]

Mid 1980's i was as working class as a working class young man could be, crap job, no money, no car, but i was a bloody good laugh and i had a very very middle class girlfriend who's older brother and sister were 'yuppies' and the dad a high court judge! High paid jobs in the city, right up their own arses and they made me feel about as welcome as one would a terminal illness. Horrible people but my girlfriend was wonderful and she loved me dearly, looking back i think she just wanted a bit of rough LOL.

[@wolfblitzer1981]

Del boy is a yuppie 😂

[@PiggyWiggyO]

Yes, he played in Tennis tournaments much better than Wimbledon! 😂

[@madwatermelon1316]

I think the joke was that deluded Del boy thought he was a yuppie but wasn't.

[@jonathanstempleton7864]

"Ow do you spell 'Arrods?" 😂

[@paulcowell7588]

80s were good but 70s even better..

[@markofsaltburn]

They were good times for people that like terrorism, bad food, football hooliganism, body odour, mass unemployment, ram raiding and the Bay City Rollers.

[@markofsaltburn]

Probably. They all blur into each other...

[@tomakafrankconlon3207]

@@markofsaltburn The Bay City rollers. Now that is a blast from the past. Jesus they were painful.

[@madwatermelon1316]

Why did you prefer the 70s to the 80s ?

[@jonathanleblanc2140]

puppies and guppies...

[@rogermoore-gd9do]

Im a yuppie and ive got considerably more more than you.

[@definty]

1:45 HAhaahhaha

[@potmej1]

...and now they are all ouppies :)

[@Gnarlyboi]

Uk yuppies are all in politics now.

[@navillus15]

A self made Lord? Perhaps I missed the irony.

[@LosAngelesRaiders]

I remember the time of yuppies. In fact I got very interested in the subject around the time I discovered the film "American Psycho". It really was a movement and whilst many of us look at the 80s through rose-tinted spectacles, there did seem to be much more optimism then compared to now. Nowadays, there is an air of tragedy, sympathy seeking and attention seeking that had replaced the 80s and early 90s optimism and the later 90s and early 00s fun and experimentalism. I guess on the surface it looked good, the suits, the cars, the lifestyle but you really had to be a workaholic, you had to know your numbers, make good predictions. That left little time for yourself and the ability to really spend your accumulated wealth. Come the early to mid 90s, the yuppie was finished and the butt of many jokes. The 90s morphed into fun and experimental ism.

[@toneill3818]

The beginning of the end.

[@punkaf2052]

Okay this is cringe but it dose makes sense that some yuppies don’t know what the term means but that guy saying that he’s coming out of closet just makes me disgusted man

[@scarlettskies100]

Yuppies....Thatchers soldiers

[@michaelsvoboda1024]

Proudly!

[@danwall6662]

Scum. They've ruined London.

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

Based on the British establishment in the 80’s, the yuppies rose, which resulted in the destruction of the U.K. and the preservation of the British establishment in our times - the only way back from the brink is for the British people to reject the establishment and return to the Catholic faith, the one true faith - we Irish Catholics never had any time for this in my teens in the 1980’s as many who tried were given a good hard “clip across the ear” by many an Irish Mammy in Rural Ireland and firmly told to “cop on to yourself” and many yuppies quite rightly got a good hard kicking from the Gardai in Dublin at the time, as it was quite rightly met with zero tolerance and zero patience

[@hugglescake]

... and now they're all dead

[@jpeg.600x2]

naw😭

[@feyrol42]

80s wasn’t that long ago, mate lmao

[@janruudschutrups9382]

This was the 1980's, not the 1880's 😋.

[@googleuser7454]

Most are in their 60s to 80s not dead 😂

[@dac8939]

Most are multi millionaire on yacht now