A Solution (RE: A Problem)

[Jasper]

I am trying to imagine Johnny Bravo acting like Roger

and failing.

[Freeky]

DO THE MONKEY WITH ME! HYAH!

[Triple Zero]

DO THE MONKEY WITH ME! HYAH!

[ThatGreenGentleman]

Yeah, but the Japanese took it to the motherfucking wall.

Just google "harajuku" and you'll see what I mean.

I will not.

Click the link.  It's shiny!

You bastard.

Dok, be happy it wasn't a link to "Ganguro Girls". They look fucking terrible.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm going out this weekend, too.

I will be wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt, and engineer boots.

woooooooooo

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

People should dress in as many crazy outfits and styles as possible. At least its not Gap or Old Navy!!

I can't afford the Gap.

What the fuck is wrong with Old Navy?

Obviously you are not trying to dress teenagers in something they don't mind being seen in for a price you can almost afford on a single mom's salary.  Sorry if it's too gutter for ya!

[Cramulus]

just to interject a tangent:

my problem with gap/old navy/banana republic is their history unethical labor practices in third world countries. Their operations in the Honduras were only a smidgen different than slave labor. Only difference is that they made the slaves sign contracts.

/tangent

[Doktor Howl]

just to interject a tangent:

my problem with gap/old navy/banana republic is their history unethical labor practices in third world countries. Their operations in the Honduras were only a smidgen different than slave labor. Only difference is that they made the slaves sign contracts.

/tangent

Just about every clothing manufacturer uses what is essentially slave labor.  Some are worse than others (Nike, etc), but even Levis and Wranglers (American made until a few years ago) are made in sweatshops now.

[Eater of Clowns]

just to interject a tangent:

my problem with gap/old navy/banana republic is their history unethical labor practices in third world countries. Their operations in the Honduras were only a smidgen different than slave labor. Only difference is that they made the slaves sign contracts.

/tangent

Just about every clothing manufacturer uses what is essentially slave labor.  Some are worse than others (Nike, etc), but even Levis and Wranglers (American made until a few years ago) are made in sweatshops now.

Yeah, this.  Last I checked Brooks Brothers is still American made, so if you want to buy a $70* tie, you're totally in the clear.

*Ahaha, I just wrote this thinking I was exaggerating.  I double checked, it's actually $75-$175.

[LMNO]

I'd be willing to bet that $75 for a tie is only slightly marked up, and represents more closely what fair market value would be for a silk tie not made by a starving 9-year-old girl.  Those things are actually really hard to make properly; I had a friend make my tie for our wedding out of the same material as Mrs LMNO's sash, and it took a few days to get it right.

[Eater of Clowns]

I'd be willing to bet that $75 for a tie is only slightly marked up, and represents more closely what fair market value would be for a silk tie not made by a starving 9-year-old girl.  Those things are actually really hard to make properly; I had a friend make my tie for our wedding out of the same material as Mrs LMNO's sash, and it took a few days to get it right.

Oh, I'd be willing.  I think Brooks Brothers has awesome clothes.  It's a matter of, you know, being able to.  I think a very small amount of people actually are.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm a hipster.


There, I said it. Every morning, I dress up in uncool, weirdly matched clothes, I go to work staring at bug dick, I eat uncool food, I listen to uncool music, and I read uncool books. I am the epitome of weird-uncool. Therefore: I am a hipster.

My solution is to take "hipster" back from those who mock the wannabe hipsters. Besides, I'm a hipster and I do it unironically. And no wannabe hipster wants to be called a hipster, because frankly they're just pretenders. They have to pull this ironic shit so they look like they MIGHT be a hipster but then reject it outright. In some pseudo ironic non-ironic irony. Or some shit.

Besides, I liked hurdy gurdy before it was cool. And still like it even after it is cool. And will continue to like it when it is uncool again. Isn't that, truly, the definition of hipster?

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Not in my mind.  Your manner seems to hearken back to an uncomplicated definition of 'cool'.  Instead of sweating the depths of ironic/sincere recursivity, you're just doing a thing that feels right, and making it yours.  That's where cool normally comes from.  As Wikipedia says, "uncool redirects here".   That's the point.

I know someone who truly believes "cool" is a function of popularity.  They're one of my best friends despite this.

I have met people who think cool is authenticity, as your garden variety hipsters do.  They fetishize it to an absurd degree.  It's unreal.

I don't know what coolness is, but I have my doubts that it has a static value.

I think that the dialogue of defining "cool" and defining "authentic" is a core part of wannabeism.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm just going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess that the fire chief was a dick to these guys about not paying the "fire department subscription fee".

I confess I probably wouldn't pay a fire department subscription fee either.

[Adios]

Not in my mind.  Your manner seems to hearken back to an uncomplicated definition of 'cool'.  Instead of sweating the depths of ironic/sincere recursivity, you're just doing a thing that feels right, and making it yours.  That's where cool normally comes from.  As Wikipedia says, "uncool redirects here".   That's the point.

I know someone who truly believes "cool" is a function of popularity.  They're one of my best friends despite this.

I have met people who think cool is authenticity, as your garden variety hipsters do.  They fetishize it to an absurd degree.  It's unreal.

I don't know what coolness is, but I have my doubts that it has a static value.

I think that the dialogue of defining "cool" and defining "authentic" is a core part of wannabeism cannibalism.