Hipsters fucking love the hurdy-gurdy

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Ahh, the rewards of just being a hick.

DON'T

          you mean hickster?   

That reminds me of a discussion I was having last night about Christian hipsters, and whether they would be Chripsters.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Alanis was ironic at the same time I was a scrub.

Yep: 1995. And people have been smugly pointing out that her use of the term "ironic" is, ironically, a malapropism for most of the events in the song ever since.

[Adios]

Ahh, the rewards of just being a hick.

DON'T

          you mean hickster?   

We are far too simple for that, inbreeding demands it.

[Jasper]

Alanis was ironic at the same time I was a scrub.

Yep: 1995. And people have been smugly pointing out that her use of the term "ironic" is, ironically, a malapropism for most of the events in the song ever since.

In a sense, morisette was a pretty successful troll.

[Cramulus]

sweet merciful fuck I just realized this is the new hipster icon

[Cramulus]

Hal on Hipsters:

"Because it's funny to dress stupidly to mock people who dress stupidly because it's funny."

[Jasper]

Hal on Hipsters:

"Because it's funny to dress stupidly to mock people who dress stupidly because it's funny."

I think my eyes just went bloodshot.

[Aries Gurl]

I'm not sure what to make of this thread. That hipsters are bad people?

[Cain]

Hipsters are bad people, Islamic terrorists have giant beards, goatees always looked stupid and emos are fun to push down stairs.  These are all a priori assumptions any reasonable person can accept.

[Suu]

Do you know what they called Hipsters in the 1960s?


Mods.


Same shit, different era.


-Suu
Rocker.

[LMNO]

I think current-day hipsters would be much more amusing if they were constantly twitching from taking too much speed.

[Don Coyote]

I think current-day hipsters would be much more amusing if they were constantly twitching from taking too much speed.

So we take over a PBR brewery and introduce some speed into it.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Well fuck Eris with a Popsicle stick this thread just made me even more Confused. The Harbinger of Distraction and I were talking about hipsters last night and she asked "Well, what exactly is a hipster?" I had no good answer (hadn't seen this thread) so we googled it.

Based on all the definitions (some quoted early in this thread) all of my friends are hipsters. They dress like Gen X in college, even though they're Gen X post-30. They like indie music, they go to the monthly Gallery Hop, they drink cheap beer.

But, if Dok is right and Hipsters do these things because their friends do it and they think its cool... then it doesn't seem to fit most of my friends. Most of them have crap jobs with little money and the same wardrobe they had 15 years ago, not a newly purchased knock off of it. They drink cheap beer, cause they can't afford more expensive beer.

So are they hipsters, or are they poor aging GenXers? Or is there a difference?

I don't think we've ever made fun of hipsters, but we do go make fun of the goths at Outland.


Maybe Columbus is too backwater for actual hipsterism?

[Doktor Howl]

Well fuck Eris with a Popsicle stick this thread just made me even more Confused. The Harbinger of Distraction and I were talking about hipsters last night and she asked "Well, what exactly is a hipster?" I had no good answer (hadn't seen this thread) so we googled it.

Based on all the definitions (some quoted early in this thread) all of my friends are hipsters. They dress like Gen X in college, even though they're Gen X post-30. They like indie music, they go to the monthly Gallery Hop, they drink cheap beer.

But, if Dok is right and Hipsters do these things because their friends do it and they think its cool... then it doesn't seem to fit most of my friends. Most of them have crap jobs with little money and the same wardrobe they had 15 years ago, not a newly purchased knock off of it. They drink cheap beer, cause they can't afford more expensive beer.

So are they hipsters, or are they poor aging GenXers? Or is there a difference?

I don't think we've ever made fun of hipsters, but we do go make fun of the goths at Outland.


Maybe Columbus is too backwater for actual hipsterism?

If they dress and act the way they do because it's who they are or what they can afford, they're fine.

Hell, I go to galleries.   That doesn't qualify you as a hipster, if you're going to see the art instead of being seen seeing the art.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hipsters don't decide they are hipsters, other people decide hipsters are hipsters.

Hipsters decide other people are hipsters.

Part of defining what makes someone a hipster is claiming that they are inauthentic in some way, ie. a poser.

99% of people who look like hipsters and do the things hipsters do claim to not only not be hipsters, but to actually hate hipsters.

Ask a hipster why they go to galleries, and they will say it's because they like to look at the art.

Usually, hipsters also make the art.

While "metrosexual" and "mod" and "emo" actually have useful, delineated definitions, "hipster" doesn't, really. It basically means "not a yuppie or a hick".