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Stalin84
Joined: 30 Dec 2009
Location: Haebangchon, Seoul
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 Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:04 am Post subject: Anyone else annoyed by 'hipsters'? |
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I can't think of a self-described 'group' of people that annoy me more than hipsters do. I always thought that being 'cool' and belonging to a fashion clique revolved around love of a certain artform/kind of music, etc. and celebrating that interest as a group. Hipsters are cold and to excel at being one is to be completely nihilistic and almost sociopathic in how quickly you go from mildly enjoying something to hating it the second someone else likes it (unless it's ceritified 'classic', like an old NES console or a record player with a collection of vinyl records). It's like a cult of 'meh' and "we're better than you." I also hate that 'hipsters' are usually 20-somethings that grew out of being 'emo' or whatever else and into the adulthood-friendly practice of wide framed spectacles, tight pants and grandmother clothes. I just don't see the appeal in any of that.
I also hate how they've taken over my favourite kind of hangouts and restaurants. I want to eat my damn food/talk to my friends, not get judged for listening to an ipod with semi-popular music on it or for playing a PSP by a bunch of people I don't even know.
Anyone else just want to walk around punching hipsters in the face and kicking them in the junk? Especially if guys do it. What the hell is wrong with girls that go after guys that straighten their hair and wear 12-year-old boy pants...
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:21 am Post subject: |
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There should be a 'like, dislike, and neutral' on these threads.
I'm neutral, they're doing their thing, they don't get in my way.
Here's an idea: Next time a hipster starts judging you, kick him in the teeth. I AM ONLY KIDDING DON'T DO THAT. |
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Stalin84
Joined: 30 Dec 2009
Location: Haebangchon, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| Died By Bear wrote: |
There should be a 'like, dislike, and neutral' on these threads.
I'm neutral, they're doing their thing, they don't get in my way. |
They don't get in my way either, at least not so much here.
I just got back from my home city and did a round of seeing everything because I haven't spend much time at home in the last few years. Hipsters have taken over everything. It went from being a small annoyance limited to certain university campuses to being a widespread thing in the time that I was gone, which spurred this thread. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:33 am Post subject: |
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| Stalin84 wrote: |
| Died By Bear wrote: |
There should be a 'like, dislike, and neutral' on these threads.
I'm neutral, they're doing their thing, they don't get in my way. |
They don't get in my way either, at least not so much here.
I just got back from my home city and did a round of seeing everything because I haven't spend much time at home in the last few years. Hipsters have taken over everything. It went from being a small annoyance limited to certain university campuses to being a widespread thing in the time that I was gone, which spurred this thread. |
You realize that time heals all - in time they will be fat, no more skinny jeans. In a few years another group of 20 somethings will kick them in the teeth with their thug boots and black leather jackets.
Edit:
In another ten years, emo looks will be right up there with mullets.
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cragesmure
Joined: 23 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:34 am Post subject: |
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How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb?
I could tell you, but it's such an obscure number that you have probably never heard of it. |
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Died By Bear
Joined: 13 Jul 2010
Location: On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:35 am Post subject: |
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That was funny  |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:42 am Post subject: |
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I agree that the way they assume they're intellectually and culturally superior to everyone else is very arrogant........which I forgive in those who are young enough to be guilty of youthful arrogance......
........but anyone who gets a bit older and still thinks they shouldn't enjoy anything that is popular,because it is popular, is just becoming an idiot. |
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Stalin84
Joined: 30 Dec 2009
Location: Haebangchon, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
I agree that the way they assume they're intellectually and culturally superior to everyone else is very arrogant........which I forgive in those who are young enough to be guilty of youthful arrogance......
........but anyone who gets a bit older and still thinks they shouldn't enjoy anything that is popular,because it is popular, is just becoming an idiot. |
Just before 'hipster' was being called that, I was a student in Halifax doing my undergrad. There was this campus near mine called King's University and they have this programme called FYP. All this kids from suburban Ontario would roll in on the first day wearing normal t-shirts and jeans like everyone else. A week later, they'd be covered in hemp, sitting in beat circles reciting Kerouac or they'd be walking up and down Quinpool street with "Meat is Murder" t-shirts.
We used to call them King's kids and not many people could stand them. However, they were limited to their own little bubble around their university pub and surrounding shops so if you wanted to ignore them it was pretty easy.
Then I graduated and went to Korea. Every time I go home to visit it seems like these 18-year-old kids have infected 50% of people aged 18 to 30. All the good coffee shops, restaurants, bars, parks and hang outs are just crawling with them. They don't smile, they don't say hello or excuse me when the situation calls for it and for some reason they're all non-controntational backstabbers who will make fun of you for not being them while thinking that you won't pick up on it.
It's like, at the end of the 90s and into the early 2000s there were a bunch of different subcultures. Now there is one big subculture, hipsterdom, and it's simultaneously adsorbed/rejected every other subculture. It's like artistic cancer. I used to hate all the white people in my hometown who dressed like inner-city thugs from the US, driving around in '91 Honda Civics with no muffler blasting bling rap... but in comparison to hipsters, I actually welcome these people. I even welcome gangsta rap over the miserable indie bands with 18 minute drum solos. |
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BaldTeacher
Joined: 02 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:29 am Post subject: |
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I also hate hipsters. They represent everything I dislike:
-Lack of masculinity in males (bad for our future)
-Aspergerish lack of femininity in girls
-Rejection of 'conformity' and norms that actually make sense in exchange for even greater status jockeying.
-Snarkiness and cliquishness
-Retarded left-wing political views that they only half believe in (I at least half-way respect the real wing-nuts, because they put their money where their mouths are and go help Palestinians or whatever). Hipsters are usually at the upper end of middle class and spend a ton of money to live like bohemians.
There are a lot of things in society that I hate right now. When I see a Kesha video, I get so angry that I actually get sick. On the other side of the spectrum, there's the hipster phenomenon.
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They don't smile, they don't say hello or excuse me when the situation calls for it and for some reason they're all non-controntational backstabbers who will make fun of you for not being them while thinking that you won't pick up on it.
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You nailed it right there. For all their 'coolness' and all the time and money put into their appearance, there isn't a single one of them who wouldn't fold like a lawn chair if they were all of a sudden slapped in their face, or even if you raised your voice. Maybe they should work on skills that would actually help them outside of their little bubbles. They don't know how to be men and the women don't know how to be women and they're just a bunch of fake, passive aggressive little snots.
F hipsters and if you're a hipster who's reading this, that means you too nerd. |
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jammo
Joined: 12 Dec 2008
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cragesmure
Joined: 23 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:42 am Post subject: |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AEuCFdEm1g
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sweet |
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SteveSteve
Joined: 30 Jul 2010
Location: Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:47 am Post subject: |
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http://www.diehipster.com
http://stuffhipstershate.tumblr.com
Two awesome websites.
Used to live in New York City, and would have to take the L train through Brooklyn to get to my apartment in Queens. Brooklyn is like the hipster Mecca, and I can't tell you how much most of these people piss me off. It's one thing to be a cultural snob, but the Brooklyn hipsters are so retarded that they have been willing to pay ridiculous prices for crappy housing in an industrial part of town. Now, because of their gentrification of traditional working class neighborhoods, the rent has risen astronomically, pushing away the working class further and further away, along with the REAL diversity. And for what? Authenticity? Street cred? Seriously, 9 hipsters will share a warehouse space and install temporary walls to make "rooms" and still pay at least 900-1100 dollars a month. Per person! And that's on the low end of the scale for living in Williamsburg or Bushwick. |
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nero
Joined: 11 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:53 am Post subject: |
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I also hate hipsters. They represent everything I dislike and make me feel inferior and insecure.
F hipsters and if you're a hipster who's reading this, that means you too nerd. |
I fixed it for you.
If the last part of your rant was aimed at me, I must tell you - it worked. I have a little tear, right in the corner of my eye.
Also, I'm hardly a hipster. I'm nearly 32 years old for heaven sakes - and hardly 'cool' to begin with. What I fail to understand is how these kids can affect people to the point that they reach boiling point and post on internet forums about them. |
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BaldTeacher
Joined: 02 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:06 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, a guy who can't even bench-press his own body weight and is henpecked by some feminist with short hair and horn-rimmed glasses makes me feel really inferior.
Maybe you should go take pictures of some leaves and put them up on blogspot, because you're not gonna win this one. |
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cragesmure
Joined: 23 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:11 am Post subject: |
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| nero wrote: |
| BaldTeacher wrote: |
I also hate hipsters. They represent everything I dislike and make me feel inferior and insecure.
F hipsters and if you're a hipster who's reading this, that means you too nerd. |
I fixed it for you.
If the last part of your rant was aimed at me, I must tell you - it worked. I have a little tear, right in the corner of my eye.
Also, I'm hardly a hipster. I'm nearly 32 years old for heaven sakes - and hardly 'cool' to begin with. What I fail to understand is how these kids can affect people to the point that they reach boiling point and post on internet forums about them. |
What???? |
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