A Solution (RE: A Problem)

[BabylonHoruv]

I'm going out this weekend, too.

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

Dok,
Can reasonably count on NEVER being in style.

Sounds like understated punk, if I had to pigeonhole you.  That has been in style before, and probably will be again.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm going out this weekend, too.

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

Dok,
Can reasonably count on NEVER being in style.

Sounds like understated punk, if I had to pigeonhole you.  That has been in style before, and probably will be again.

More like "Joe Blue Collar, 1978-2010.

[BabylonHoruv]

I'm going out this weekend, too.

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

Dok,
Can reasonably count on NEVER being in style.

Sounds like understated punk, if I had to pigeonhole you.  That has been in style before, and probably will be again.

More like "Joe Blue Collar, 1978-2010.

Yep, punks and skinheads tend to draw their fashion from blue collar standards. (well,the punks also do crazy shit, but the basic outfit usually starts as blue collar)

[LMNO]

I am cool and authentic, and you aren't.

Because I said so.


There.  I hope that settles the issue.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm going out this weekend, too.

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

Dok,
Can reasonably count on NEVER being in style.

Sounds like understated punk, if I had to pigeonhole you.  That has been in style before, and probably will be again.

More like "Joe Blue Collar, 1978-2010.

Yep, punks and skinheads tend to draw their fashion from blue collar standards. (well,the punks also do crazy shit, but the basic outfit usually starts as blue collar)

So all blue collar people are punkers?   

[LMNO]

No, but most punkers are middle-class trust fund rejects who want to appear to be "working class heroes".



LMNO
-middle class trust fund reject.

[Doktor Howl]

No, but most punkers are middle-class trust fund rejects who want to appear to be "working class heroes".



LMNO
-middle class trust fund reject.

But I don't have a cranium piercing.

[Adios]

No, but most punkers are middle-class trust fund rejects who want to appear to be "working class heroes".



LMNO
-middle class trust fund reject.

But I don't have a cranium piercing.

I have a drill motor with a diamond bit.......

[Doktor Howl]

No, but most punkers are middle-class trust fund rejects who want to appear to be "working class heroes".



LMNO
-middle class trust fund reject.

But I don't have a cranium piercing.

I have a drill motor with a diamond bit.......

I have 300 ton hydraulic press and a ball point pen.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't like "hipsters" now I found out what they are.

Why? Simple.

Nothing to do with their fashion, passion, musical choice, or anything like that.

I hate them because they are the cool people I'm never likely to be.

I've never been cool, probably never will be, but hey, that won't stop me hating on those who are where I want to be, i.e the cutting edge of cool.

That's why I hate "insert current cool people here". Small, petty, stupid, pointless? Yes. But that's who I am, and I'm cool with that.

So, when the next fashion craze kicks off, let me be the first to offer my hate to the new cool people and my sarcastic condolences to the old used to be cool people, who are now in my shoes of not being cool.

Circle of life and all that.

for recognition.

I watched the BBS documentary movie last night in a whole room full of oldschool BBS geeks. There, on that screen, were our people, and we were not cool. But we love each other, so that's OK. I was OK with being a geek then, I am OK with being a hipster now, and I will be equally OK with being a weird old lady in a few years.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I don't like "hipsters" now I found out what they are.

Why? Simple.

Nothing to do with their fashion, passion, musical choice, or anything like that.

I hate them because they are the cool people I'm never likely to be.

I've never been cool, probably never will be, but hey, that won't stop me hating on those who are where I want to be, i.e the cutting edge of cool.

That's why I hate "insert current cool people here". Small, petty, stupid, pointless? Yes. But that's who I am, and I'm cool with that.

So, when the next fashion craze kicks off, let me be the first to offer my hate to the new cool people and my sarcastic condolences to the old used to be cool people, who are now in my shoes of not being cool.

Circle of life and all that.

for recognition.

I watched the BBS documentary movie last night in a whole room full of oldschool BBS geeks. There, on that screen, were our people, and we were not cool. But we love each other, so that's OK. I was OK with being a geek then, I am OK with being a hipster now, and I will be equally OK with being a weird old lady in a few years.

RAH!

[East Coast Hustle]

No, but most punkers are middle-class trust fund rejects who want to appear to be "working class heroes".



LMNO
-middle class trust fund reject.

I'm pretty sure that having a trust fund disqualifies you from being middle-class.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

No, but most punkers are middle-class trust fund rejects who want to appear to be "working class heroes".



LMNO
-middle class trust fund reject.

I'm pretty sure that having a trust fund disqualifies you from being middle-class.

Yes, but one of the things I've learned from living in the same city with Reed College is that rich kids refuse to acknowledge that they grew up rich, and insist on calling it "middle class".

[LMNO]

To be fair, there's usually someone who's family has a lot more money than your own.  

My folks didn't have Oprah money, that's for sure.  But hey, if you want to call me upper class, fine with me.  I don't regret it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

To be fair, there's usually someone who's family has a lot more money than your own.  

My folks didn't have Oprah money, that's for sure.  But hey, if you want to call me upper class, fine with me.  I don't regret it.

There is ALWAYS someone whose family has more money, unless you're a Hilton or a Trump.

The main reason it rubs me the wrong way when my upper-class friends claim to have been raised middle-class is because they aren't properly appreciating the privilege they were born with. You shouldn't regret it, deny it, or downplay it, in my opinion; you should acknowledge it and be grateful for what happenstance got you born into. I've finally berated one friend (currently in law school, paid for by Daddy, of course) into acknowledging that growing up in a five-bedroom Colonial in Irvington with lawyer parents is NOT the typical middle-class experience. Upper-middle-class, maybe... but living in a $400,000 house when the median home prices were $35,000 kind of bumps you out of the "middle" part of "middle class". Oh, and then hanging out with him and his mom once, they started talking about HER upbringing and it all became clear; she was raised in a $2 million dollar estate in Alameda, CA.