Fuck Yuppies!

Most days of last week a handful of students took to the streets of Berlin to protest higher tuition. I think they were also in solidarity with squatters, who I saw stopping traffic on Rosenthaler Platz. Anyway, I'm all apologies for the NSFW nature of the slogan pictured above, but I couldn't resist because it's a complete German sentence, using entirely English words.

That said, I think in many areas of the English-speaking world "yuppie" has jumped the shark. I'm not convinced most of the protesters could tell you what yuppies is an acronym for. Young, Urban Professional. Auf Deutsch? Juppie?. Just yoking.

"Fuck", on the other hand, is timeless and universal.