I. Hipster is a vague term (you say hipster, I say why?).
II. There are a lot of “groups” of people who dress the same, it’s a signifier to other like-minded people (politicians do it, punks do it, geeks freaks and bros do it, and so do you).
III. The “grain” only runs one way. If you are going against the grain, you are doing so with a lot of other people, and vice versa (you are with the program or with the other program).
VI. Keeping a well-groomed beard and sharp haircut takes a lot more attention to detail and care than shaving every day and slapping on a baseball cap.
V. In regards to male dressing habits, clothes and shoes that fit and are made well age well (beer box freebies are made for an imaginary size of person).
There is no need to bitch about “hipsters.” They’re not harming anyone, and if you feel so strongly that they are, then go help the people/places/things the evil “hipsters” are harming. -Snobs Over Slobs?
This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2014.
Oh go shoot yourself in the head with a Mauser M-1910. It fires 6.35mm ammunition, an obscure calibre that you’ve probably never heard of.
I will take the hipsters over the thugs any day of the week.
Hipsters don’t harm anyone??? YOU have never heard of the hipster mafia, those ruthless bastards will you down while drinking a star bucks and taking a picture of whatever gluten free shit they’re eating at the time!
So hide yo kids, hide yo wife cause they hippin’ everybody out here!
Yea we know they don’t harm anyone, they’re annoying like mosquito bites… everyone hates those.
If a hipster falls in the forest, does anyone mock? A resounding yes.
This bitch blew my mind! How do you skip from 6 back to 5 and miss 4? Oh, you suck at Roman numerals! OK, carry on then…. Oh, FYI – 4 is IV, not VI.
Halifax Hates Poor Grammar! At least I do… in order to make the verb in your heading operative, add an “s” please….
Shamira – apparently there’s an obscure number between III and V that only a few indie afficionados have ever heard of. And it’s not IV
Hipster hate hipster? Where’s GDM when you need it?
“The “grain” only runs one way. If you are going against the grain, you are doing so with a lot of other people, and vice versa (you are with the program or with the other program).”
First. Your sentence hurts to read.
Second. The grain runs two ways, cream tits.
Poor hipster. Halifax hates hipster.
I pity the hipster!
I don’t care about hipsters at all, cept when they turn their sweet 10 speed handlebars up to look cool.
I. I say because!
II. Agreed. It signifies pompous, needy, etc.
III. Make your own grain, like a boss.
VI. IV? False assumption; only two options? I don’t fit either.
V. Fitted clothes look great. That’s not the point.
This bitch makes it seem like the only two types of guys in Halifax are hipsters and bros, rooting for their team and drinking aggressively marketed American beer. That just isn’t the case.
Halifax embraces hipster. Gourmet burger joints (fuck we even have a weeklong celebration), growler fillers on every corner, and now….board games! Halifax, the new Portland. We even have Circus School!
I think we should all just accept that Halifax is trendy as shit and a lot of people just need to be told what to like and follow the great hipster overlord’s commands.
I will sign up for circus school. Thanks.
Hipsters suck because in a world in ever deepening crisis, they are obsessed with appearance, and coffee, and taking photos of each other pretending to be edgy. That is why we hate them.
There is no room in the world for preening, self indulgent 30 year old children.
What we need is courageous youth, who think intelligently and put their hearts in the struggle.
FB is not a community, and vintage doesn’t count as thrift.
P.S.
I do fail to see the validity of criticising good beer, and quality locally grown food. Pretty hard to argue in favor of pesticides and fungicides in food, because they have the same suffix as words like homicide/genocide. Just saying.
Zuke;
I think the beer and food thing is just in jest. The Hipsters like to claim that they’re the only ones that like this, or that they somehow invented good beer and food, etc. So many beard bars all over Halifax today drawing all the hipsters out of their vintage homes.
God is dead, long live the superhipster,
I am superhipster.
“Hipsters suck because in a world in ever deepening crisis, they are obsessed with appearance, and coffee, and taking photos of each other pretending to be edgy.”
As opposed to the fap-tivism of “movements” like Occupy.
“There is no room in the world for preening, self indulgent 30 year old children. “
Life unworthy of life – what a novel concept.
“What we need is courageous youth, who think intelligently and put their hearts in the struggle.”
Like the Hitler Jugend, Komsomol, the Red Guards, the Khmer Rouge, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Baader-Meinhoff Gang, the Manson Family, The Army of the Lord….
RSVP
: Ivan Sonofabitch – Men’s Rights Activist (04/12, 10:17AM)
“There is no room in the world for preening, self-indulgent 30 year old children.”
Who are you quoting? I think you have crossed a very ugly line. Some people think they are clever enough, witty enough, verbose enough to carry them off and make them sound satirical and edgy. They are wrong.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Oh Montrealman. Whomever could stay mad at you?
Certainly not I
XXX OOO
RSVP
: Ivan Sonofabitch – Men’s Rights Activist (4:20PM)
Shouldn’t that be “whoever?” In any case, what is going on here? The question isn’t whether you could stay mad at me or not but it is something else. What could it be? I think we might have some cognitive depth here. Let’s explore. My reflections are numbered for easy reference.
1. It’s true, I was having a bit of fun, quoting you back to yourself – a “jeux d’esprit” if you like – but there are significant differences in the meaning of our identical phrasing. Unlike me in respect to the Flyspeck (aka The Turd) for whom I couldn’t give a fiddler’s, you were serious about your contempt for hipsters. Clearly, you thought they were actually “30 year-old children”. So there’s major conceptual slippage here.
2. Disturbingly, there was also self-contradiction. While you thought the hipsters were “30 year-old children” lacking all serious conviction, you also rejected the Hitler Jugend, the Komsomol, and so on who you marked down precisely on the basis of the fact that they DID have serious convictions. The take-away conclusion seems to be that while one should have convictions they should not have ones with which you happen to disagree. Does this sound right? Do we detect a concealed authoritarianism here, some sort of hidden ideological totalitarianism?
3. Most disturbingly, one wonders about your proclivity to “draw lines” in the first place, to legislate proper behaviour among those with whom you happen to disagree in order that they might be warned so as to avoid your displeasure. Could this be little more than an exercise in unwarranted arrogance? Could it be that, behind the mask of jovial “bonhomie” one normally sees in your online banter there lies, in fact, the iron fist of the inquisitorial zealot, one who will brook no contradiction, one who will tolerate no argument?
As I say, I think we might have some cognitive depth here.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
1) Reread the original comment that my quotes are drawn from. Conceptual slippage #1 They are not my quotes.
2) See above and repeat.
3) Without question.
CONCEPTUAL SLIPPAGE
RSVP Ivan Sonofabitch (04/12, 9:09PM)
Good morning. I trust you slept well. Let’s look at the numbers.
1. “Conceptual slippage #1, They are not my quotes.”
Mine of 04/12, 3:03PM was a direct transcription of yours of 04/10, 8:58AM (“I’m Glad My Cat Bit You,” Thursday, April 3, 4:28PM). Being an indisputable matter of record it’s difficult, as a consequence, to see how you can claim that it is not your quotation. But then it is also distinctly possible that you might invoke #3 below.
2. “See above and repeat.”
I followed your instructions this morning but obtained the same result. As a consequence, as with #1, it is difficult to see how you can claim that it is not your quotation.
3. “Without question.”
Then you agree that your proclivity to “draw lines” in the first place is little more than an exercise in unwarranted arrogance, that behind the mask of a false bonhomie there lurks the inquisitorial zealot, one who will brook no contradiction, will tolerate no argument. While my intuitive insight has clearly been borne out, this does make one wonder about the role of dispassionate reason in your views. Indeed, it makes one wonder if it has any role at all. I hope your adoring fans will not be startled to hear this but, on second thought, not being paragons of dispassionate reason either, they will not be unduly ruffled.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
“The person who says he has many dislikes and is disinterested in so many things has given themselves less opportunity to enjoy life. Conversely, those with many interests have given themselves just that many more opportunities for joy.” Sounds familiar.
Hipster Philosopher says….
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I’m going to ignore your “jeux d’esprit”, MM, since it appearsto be some kind of weird moon man language and seems vaguely anti-semitic.
Suffice to say that through either senile dementia or willfull obtuseness you still have not rumbled to the fact that I was having a bit of fun with my machine-raging-against little chum, zuke.
Beyond that, I am most content to be the Gruppenfuhrer of my sofa and my word is writ within the walls of my modest 3 bedroom Dartmouth pied a terre.
Ivan, I used to think that he was being deliberately obtuse, but I’ve since come to realize, he isn’t pretending.
RSVPS
: The Flyspeck (04/13, 9:29AM)
See my reply (04/13, 10:06AM) on “WTF?!! REALLY YOUNG PEOPLE.” Take heed.
: Ivan the Live Infidel (04.13, 9:43AM)
Ah, where before you falsely charged me with with being in favour of pedophile tours and rape jokes, I now see that I am to be similarly – and falsely – charged with “weird moon man language” as well as being “vaguely anti-semitic.” Dear, dear. I’m a crude, linguistically-challenged racist. And that’s not all. I am now seen to be suffering from either senile dementia or willful obtuseness.
You obviously do like to arrogantly draw those lines, don’t you. Don’t write back.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I only ever charge you with having terrible editing abilities.
: )
“You obviously do like to arrogantly draw those lines, don’t you.”
Another epistemological triumph.
I guess I owe you a Pepsi.
“I’m a crude, linguistically-challenged racist…suffering from either senile dementia or willful obtuseness.” – Very good Smeagol, admitting you have a problem and realizing your faults and shortcomings is the first step in Self-Improvement.
You go girl.
Flyspeck 3, Gnatbite 0.
A tip of the derby to you, Sir Hugo.
‘Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.’ – H.L. Mencken
Thank you 😉
Gnatbite lolz, made me think of Mike the TV.
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