Can’t you see how fucking hard I am trying not to care? I grew some facial hair and wear the hipster attire so that my circle of hipsters – which is growing ever so large – will accept me. I am desperate for attention, but people don’t seem to notice because of my thick rimmed glasses. I am so original. Look at me, can’t you see? I drink Pabst Blue Ribbon and local beer whilst I read The Great Gatsby, which I was the first to read.
Just so you know, I liked pitchfork before it was cool, but I’d rather not talk about it, because that’s how little I care. Are you looking at my ironic tattoos yet?
Come check out my band, I’ll be wearing an ironic t-shirt under a plaid shirt and expressing myself under my facial hair. But whatever. —ughh….
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Supposedly Uncle Si thinks that “take a selfie” means to have a bowel movement. Also, he served in an unpopular war on the Asian landmass before it was cool. And those whiskers…
Who’s the rube – you may well ask.
You’re not that original if you’re trying to look like a hipster….just be one and get over it. Don’t forget the timmies cup as you take your place on SPR with fellow hipsters.
gad, is this the same person posting all these in hope that others will think it’s a groundswell of disdain for some young guys who dress alike?
a big so what. how does their behaviour/attire…..cripes, how does their mere existence skin your nose so badly? why are you so jealous of these guys?
Enough with the Hipster bullshit. It isn’t how someone dresses, its how they act… Just because I have short hair, wear a plaid shirt and have glasses, I should not be lumped into said group…. jeeeesh….
GDM,
I’m not even gona say a word! lol.
oh my god shut up about “hipsters”. nobody gives a shit and you sound like a whiny turd who can’t accept current trends.
nobody cares about what you don’t like.
stop.
Someone should write a hipster love. Restore balance to the Universe.
jhey, you are only allotted 1, 972 comments about hipsters. you said you were not going to say a word on this thread.
this’ll put you over the limit.
I did say write a LOVE though. You know, balance and all.
you just can’t stop can you jhey?
does it, like, itch or something until you write something on hipsters?
or is it more of a jitter?
I’m actually not really saying much. Just saying. You have exceeded your “Jhey stop writing about hipsters”quota.
I’m just kidding, as I assume you are.
Well… if they have a dick and a heartbeat, I love ’em!
god, i love seeing the pre-edit version of comments fly past my email.
added the heartbeat eh meaty? getting picky in your old age!
“Supposedly Uncle Si thinks that “take a selfie” means to have a bowel movement.”
LMFAO Ivan, you kill me sometimes!
I have a beard and sometimes wear plaid shirts. Does that mean I’m a hipster or a lumberjack? Is there a difference?
LOL – Hoist. That’s my new euphemism, I tell ya hwut!
Beard & plaid shirt, Huh?
You could be a U-Boat skipper.
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Dear Sir,
I wish to complain on the strongest possible terms about the previous
Entry in this file about the lumberjack who wears womens’ clothes. Some of
My best friends are lumberjacks, and only a FEW of them are transvestites.
Yours faithfully,
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong, Mrs.
P.S. I have never kissed the editor of the radio times.
Next time send your thoughts to a Dal/Kings newspaper, where they may be temporarily relevant, and let’s get back to shitty drivers/shitty bikers/the daily crosswalk hit and runs. Is this forum moderated?
No god please not the shitty driver/shitty biker/shitty pedestrian bitches. They are so fucking boring.
LOL GDM, I’m not saying that I wear women’s clothing!!!!
But I’m not NOT saying that.
So when did you grow up OP? 90s? 80s? 70s? You were just as ridiculous. I’m just glad I narrowly missed the facebook era. These kids won’t be so lucky and will never live down their unfortunate fashion choices once they have been immortalized online. Way she goes.
TJ902,
“you were just as ridiculous”
I agree that every youth generation tries to identify with a self imposed image. This becomes a reference point later on in life.
However, the Hipster trend seems to be snaring a lot of much older individuals. I see a lot of 30 and 40 year old hipsters around here.
If it was just youth culture, I don’t think it would get so much attention. I don’t even think they’re hipsters anymore. Just needy. Maybe they just need lots of hugs.
But maybe I’m wrong.
I still don’t know what a hipster looks like. I happen to like my facial hair. And, my love for plaid pre-dates the grizzly adams show.
You open up a couple interesting avenues of conversation with that statement Jhey. Two things come to mind.
1) It’s now cooler than ever to try and be youthful and follow trends at an age where previous generations were too busy having kids and doing other adult things.
Crap, I forget what the second thing was.. but it was insightful! I swear. Something about how the whole bucking of societal trends seems to be a cornerstone of this hipster subset maybe? I dunno.
I still see a lot of people my age and up who still dress like I did in high school though, so it’s not unique to the hipster crowd.
I don’t care how you dress or what your interests are but any time I detect any pretentiousness I start to apply the hipster label.
TJ,
Yes, I would agree. I just wish they could be honest, and stop pretending they’re being original and expressing their “individuality”. Just come out and say;
I am a hipster. I like looking like everyone else trying to be trendy. I need the attention, and I chose to get it by looking like this. And I like this look, because others like this look.
I’m OK with that. It’s usually the attitude that drives me away. But I don’t converse much with Hipsters on a daily basis, so I guess I’m lucky.
in the 60’s and 70’s i was absolutely disgusted with ‘old people’ trying to look cool by wearing bell bottoms, growing their hair or wearing any kind of paisley. it looked gross (to me)
nothing changes except the players. each generation wants to own their style (which they invented, of course, like sex, contempt, music and poetry) and gets disgusted when it goes mainstream.
Yeah but I mean, that would have been like the high school me admitting that I was a suburban white kid who just wanted so badly to be different than my boring priviliged environment and to prove so badly that I was tough,resulting in the chip on my shoulder I carried around well into my 20s.
Keep wishin away. Not gonna happen. Some people grow out of these things, others don’t. Hipster is the new wigger, lots of people are, no one will ever admit it.
Isn’t hipster dress these days merely what they used to call “grunge” back in the early 90s? Oh, right – nowadays you have to shell out huge sums to recreate what we were sorting through, sniffing for relative unfunk, and throwing together 15 minutes before class. Don’t get me wrong – I know fashion’s cyclical. I just wish it wasn’t all so fucking ironic all the time and that Jarvis Cocker would berate a few of these hipsters for trying to co-opt the “poor” lifestyle.