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Started by LMNO, July 20, 2013, 04:48:19 PM

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LMNO

#30
July 21, 2013, 05:22:19 AM
I, for one, am pleasantly surprised to see the amount of good conversation regarding such a banal post.

Suu

#31
July 21, 2013, 04:19:18 PM
It makes me wonder what exactly attracts Hipsters to Federal Hill...only they insist on calling it the Westside, because the Eastside is a NICE place, and we're fucking guinea brats over here. Granted, we DO have the best restaurants in the state and some of the best in the country within walking distance of my house, which is a huge draw for "foodies," but still. The houses are mediocre, and it's mostly college students that go to JWU and nice Hispanic families on my end of the hill, interspersed with the old Italian folks. I do know that about 15 years ago this place was very run down and bad, so I wonder if they think they're living in the "bad" part of town? I know I used to see several all the time when I lived in Elmwood, and they ADORE Olneyville, which I avoid like the plague EXCEPT to get killer barbecue at Wes' (again, the food.) They even tell me that Olneyville is "up and coming!" Which, if you ask any person who has lived here for a while, the only thing up and coming from that side of the tracks are the crackheads breaking into our cars at night.  Maybe because it's cheap and reasonably nice?

Or maybe they just want to annoy the fuck out of me with their trust funds and vegan brunches at Julian's. I dunno. If anything, the urban farming supply store that opened around the corner from me is worth it. Though she's older and very much a gardening guru who knows her shit rather than some bratty kid who wanted to spend their financial aid or parents' money on an old gas station full of fertilizer and chicken feed.

that reminds me...I need to re-pot some basil.
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#32
July 21, 2013, 04:40:52 PM
Quote from: MMIX on July 20, 2013, 10:30:35 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 20, 2013, 10:21:49 PM
He is super-duper special.

Only insofar as some people have sufficient financial capital as to enable their social capital to be able to survive stuff/behaviour which is infra-dig. I don't think that that makes them any more "special" than anyone else, just well-positioned.

I'm using "special" as a euphemism for batshit crazy.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#33
July 21, 2013, 04:44:19 PM
Quote from: Suu on July 21, 2013, 03:01:14 AM
I was just in Brooklyn. I did not see these. Sounds like I need to go over to Park Slope.

-Suu
Just had to explain to her psychologist cousin what a hipster was. Her response, "Oh god, THOSE PEOPLE."

That installation was a couple years ago, they're long gone.

"Hipster" is just a lazy way of othering and devaluing people who are determined to not be part of one's ingroup. As a category it's fairly meaningless, it just means "Young urban person who isn't one of those Abercrombie & Fitch douches".
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

MMIX

#34
July 21, 2013, 04:46:05 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 21, 2013, 04:40:52 PM
Quote from: MMIX on July 20, 2013, 10:30:35 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 20, 2013, 10:21:49 PM
He is super-duper special.

Only insofar as some people have sufficient financial capital as to enable their social capital to be able to survive stuff/behaviour which is infra-dig. I don't think that that makes them any more "special" than anyone else, just well-positioned.

Yeah, ok, the traditional expression would be "eccentric" but I guess "batshit crazy" will eventually replace the older usage. God bless the internet it condenses everything down to the icky essence.

I'm using "special" as a euphemism for batshit crazy.
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#35
July 21, 2013, 04:58:10 PM
Quote from: MMIX on July 21, 2013, 04:46:05 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 21, 2013, 04:40:52 PM
Quote from: MMIX on July 20, 2013, 10:30:35 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 20, 2013, 10:21:49 PM
He is super-duper special.

Only insofar as some people have sufficient financial capital as to enable their social capital to be able to survive stuff/behaviour which is infra-dig. I don't think that that makes them any more "special" than anyone else, just well-positioned.

Yeah, ok, the traditional expression would be "eccentric" but I guess "batshit crazy" will eventually replace the older usage. God bless the internet it condenses everything down to the icky essence.

I'm using "special" as a euphemism for batshit crazy.

Um.

McAfee is not eccentric. That aristocrat you posted, he might be eccentric. McAfee is batshit crazy. I know that usually if someone's rich we like to refer to them as eccentric, but McAfee... well, this: http://gizmodo.com/5958877/secrets-schemes-and-lots-of-guns-inside-john-mcafees-heart-of-darkness

This is funny, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bKgf5PaBzyg
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#36
July 21, 2013, 05:02:15 PM
He's also kind of an awesome internet troll.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

MMIX

#37
July 21, 2013, 05:13:12 PM
Wow, I never, I mean, just Wow.  :eek:

Quote"Rich white men who come to Belize and act strangely are kind of a type," one local journalist told me.

Quote"Success, for me," he has said, "is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old."
or apparently wake up and feel a 12 [17] year old!

I hadn't come across this guy before. I guess that I was lucky -  and then the luck ran out.
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#38
July 21, 2013, 07:17:23 PM
He's the kind of batshit that Charlie Sheen aspires to. And he's now a Portland local, fitting in seamlessly.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

MMIX

#39
July 21, 2013, 08:30:43 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 21, 2013, 07:17:23 PM
He's the kind of batshit that Charlie Sheen aspires to. And he's now a Portland local, fitting in seamlessly.
Majestically Batshit then.
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

Freeky

#40
July 21, 2013, 08:33:02 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 21, 2013, 07:17:23 PM
He's the kind of batshit that Charlie Sheen aspires to. And he's now a Portland local, fitting in seamlessly.

I'm so sorry.   :horrormirth:

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#41
July 21, 2013, 08:44:22 PM
Quote from: Freeky Queen of DERP on July 21, 2013, 08:33:02 PM
Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on July 21, 2013, 07:17:23 PM
He's the kind of batshit that Charlie Sheen aspires to. And he's now a Portland local, fitting in seamlessly.

I'm so sorry.   :horrormirth:

It's how we roll.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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