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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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 Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:25 am Post subject: Hipsters |
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| Who are they? Why do they exist? And have they not yet figured out that they suck, and therefore should cease to be? |
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Gorf
Joined: 25 Jun 2011
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| I dunno man, but maybe you should stop asking questions and do some research or something. |
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DIsbell
Joined: 15 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 7:44 am Post subject: |
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I'll let Gavin McInnes say it: http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/hating-hipsters/
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If you have been associated with �youth culture� well into your late 30s you are probably used to getting calls from journalists writing features with names like Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.
You may have noticed these titles sound eerily similar to Arthur Herman�s neutron bomb of a book The Idea of Decline in Western History where he proves that people have ALWAYS been bitching about how bad things are getting and WILL ALWAYS glorify their youth as the salad days of the scene. That�s why I hate when people hipster-bash. It�s not because I invented hipsters or because they�ve been my bread and butter for 15 years. It�s because people sound like such bitter, old, unlaid, fat, ugly, lonely, grumpy losers when they say, �I hate hipsters.� It�s the same as saying, �I hate fashionable people who are younger than me.� Why?
Well, the first reason is, journalists doing pieces like this are usually getting closer to 30 and they see this new generation of kids as worthless young upstarts who don�t care about stuff as much as they should. This is a natural part of getting older. Seniors will always hate sophomores. That�s why there�s wedgies. The problem arises when you try to categorically prove this generation sucks and you were the real deal. Sorry, but your youth was not that special. |
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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:21 am Post subject: |
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| Gorf wrote: |
| I dunno man, but maybe you should stop asking questions and do some research or something. |
That's the thing. I keep hearing about them yet have never met one. I'm curious who they are and why they seem to be a thing.
From: the guy who cannot read, and never will.
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Pa Jan Jo A Hamnida
Joined: 27 Oct 2006
Location: Not Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:20 am Post subject: |
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| Dipsters. |
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bekinseki
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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What we currently think of as hipsters congealed in more recent years, but I remember dealing with their equivalent in the '90s. It's an interesting group that denies its hipsterdom but is still very cohesive. When I see a guy riding around on his fixie with a pencil moustache wearing his sister's jeans and an ironic sweater, I know hipsterism is not above mocking.
It was pointed out to me the other day, if you were to bring a nerd from before 1995 or so to the present day, everyone would think he was a hipster now. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| bekinseki wrote: |
What we currently think of as hipsters congealed in more recent years, but I remember dealing with their equivalent in the '90s. It's an interesting group that denies its hipsterdom but is still very cohesive. When I see a guy riding around on his fixie with a pencil moustache wearing his sister's jeans and an ironic sweater, I know hipsterism is not above mocking.
It was pointed out to me the other day, if you were to bring a nerd from before 1995 or so to the present day, everyone would think he was a hipster now. |
Hipsters is just a label. They'll be called something else in ten years. It's all been done before. Kids have been putting on crazy stupid clothes that their parents and older siblings would never be caught dead wearing in the name of expressing their individuality and rebelliousness nature ever since that first kid who wore a saber-toothed tiger pelt when everyone else in his clan wore bearskins. |
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Ribena
Joined: 07 Apr 2011
Location: UK
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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I blame this all on Shane from the L Word...she started it..the stupid clone brained teenage lesbians started doing it...then the straights started doing it.
So yeah I blame Shane from The L Word, she also wrecked the last season of the show by shagging Jenny's girlfriend (you know the one who was NOT based on Lindsay Lohan) and then getting involved in the a creepy relationship with Jenny herself. Shane from The L Word unleashed fashion hell upon the world and she should never be forgiven. The actress is also a strung out bitch, apparently. She also looks like she smells bad.
So yeah blame Shane. |
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bekinseki
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| 12ax7 wrote: |
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What we currently think of as hipsters congealed in more recent years, but I remember dealing with their equivalent in the '90s. It's an interesting group that denies its hipsterdom but is still very cohesive. When I see a guy riding around on his fixie with a pencil moustache wearing his sister's jeans and an ironic sweater, I know hipsterism is not above mocking.
It was pointed out to me the other day, if you were to bring a nerd from before 1995 or so to the present day, everyone would think he was a hipster now. |
Hipsters is just a label. They'll be called something else in ten years. It's all been done before. Kids have been putting on crazy stupid clothes that their parents and older siblings would never be caught dead wearing in the name of expressing their individuality and rebelliousness nature ever since that first kid who wore a saber-toothed tiger pelt when everyone else in his clan wore bearskins. |
Sure, and I think the whole hipster identity is a cynical response to this. It is quite different from earlier countercultures, which all came with a sense of cohesiveness and pride. |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:18 am Post subject: |
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Hating Hipsters is just so mainstream now. I quite like them in an ironic way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxsy5l_JzJ8
This video (a bit old now) kind of sums up the hipster vibe quite well. |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:44 am Post subject: |
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| Go to Bar Carmen in Kyonglidan on the weekends. YOu'll see a lot of hipsters. |
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bekinseki
Joined: 31 Aug 2011
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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I like how "dickhead" is the de facto name for hipsters in the UK. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 2:01 am Post subject: |
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| bekinseki wrote: |
| 12ax7 wrote: |
| bekinseki wrote: |
What we currently think of as hipsters congealed in more recent years, but I remember dealing with their equivalent in the '90s. It's an interesting group that denies its hipsterdom but is still very cohesive. When I see a guy riding around on his fixie with a pencil moustache wearing his sister's jeans and an ironic sweater, I know hipsterism is not above mocking.
It was pointed out to me the other day, if you were to bring a nerd from before 1995 or so to the present day, everyone would think he was a hipster now. |
Hipsters is just a label. They'll be called something else in ten years. It's all been done before. Kids have been putting on crazy stupid clothes that their parents and older siblings would never be caught dead wearing in the name of expressing their individuality and rebelliousness nature ever since that first kid who wore a saber-toothed tiger pelt when everyone else in his clan wore bearskins. |
Sure, and I think the whole hipster identity is a cynical response to this. It is quite different from earlier countercultures, which all came with a sense of cohesiveness and pride. |
Kids being cynical? That's pretty typical, actually (Aren't they all at one time or another?).
Besides, hipster fashion is a lot of the same stuff that I wore when I was a kid in the late 80's. Kids will wear the same stuff their parents wish they could forget wearing 20-25 years earlier. The cycle repeats itself every 5 years or so. That's the irony of fashion (and parenting). Kids will rebel against their parents or express their independence from them by being, unbeknownst to the kids, just like their parents were as kids. |
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