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― sarahel, Sunday, 3 January 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
isn't that true of many super-words?
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Sunday, 3 January 2010 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Nabisco was being pretty reasonable and lucid (as usual) about the subject upthread, and this is a hard subject to be lucid about.
I was trying to think of something succinct to say about this, and I thought that a lot of the recent confusion about hipsters and the word's definition comes from the fact that the traditional counter-culture v.s. official culture dichotomy no longer exists (and it was through that prism that the traditional meaning of hipster made sense).
"You will always have the hip among you," but the idea of the hipster as some sort of cultural warrior doesn't fit in with the modern world anymore, I don't think. Or not quite like it used to fit.
― Cunga, Sunday, 3 January 2010 07:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i49.tinypic.com/5ycaiu.jpg
― Cunga, Sunday, 3 January 2010 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
if being hip is a crime then put me in jail man
― latebloomer, Sunday, 3 January 2010 08:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://unhappyhipsters.com/
― kenan, Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://webtech.fdresa.org/amiller/images/COOLLINK.gif
MODE NOTE: This URL sets off malware warnings. Stop using this image please.
― ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 30 January 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Uhhh... where are the hipsters?
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
They're dead. DEAD! They're all DEAD and you KILLED THEM, DEAD!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Maybe they're so sad they couldn't even step into the frame. Or so dead.
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
these are just pictures of wealthy north americans.
― free the charmless but occasionally brilliant Dom Passantino (history mayne), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
huh.
maybe the hipster is the one making the bitchy comments about the pictures
― lukevalentine, Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i.e. the blogger
― lukevalentine, Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I feel like hipsters are so easy to make fun of and yet I haven't once seen it done well.
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ <--- at least not funny/clever like this
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
let's hear you try!
― lukevalentine, Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone has linked this by now, right?
http://www.latfh.com/
― Evan, Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHA HIPSTERS
― ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Guess, since people will apparently link to anything that has the word "hipster" in it, maybe you can help me make this a meme
http://hipsterpuppies.tumblr.com/
― ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
xp yes that's exactly what I was referring to. Like, this could actually be really funny if you had half a brain and didn't shoot for the most obvious/lowest common denominator
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwk2ybRzUJ1qzzhzdo1_500.jpg
“What’s all the plastic wrap for? So I don’t burn my chest. Duh.”
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kugejuldVz1qzzhzdo1_500.jpg
“Check out my old school fixie!”
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
lol@ hipster puppies but like all of you including me get what ur asking 4 when u open this thread tbh
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I wonder if there's a corelation between what "level" of hipster one is in the soon-to-be-developed hipster rating system and when you were alerted to the existence of the unhappyhipsters site.
― sarahel, Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
the only thing interesting to me about hipster bashing is that it appears to only recently have become mainstream. like, hipsters were bashing hipsters before hipster bashing was cool. but like actually that is the case.
i have heard benighted med school dorks wearing khakis zinging each other for hipsterdom because say someone wore a bright purple retro nike vest, or had an earnestly held opinion about an "indie" band. and there is often something smug about the delivery that would suggest that the person feels like they are on the cutting edge of takedowns, that there is just no way that anyone would have seen it coming
― in Lakota you are now Snow Tubes With Gangbangers (gbx), Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I think it's interesting how the definition varies, how it's one of those things that the consensus is generally, "I know one when I see one," but is it really? The fact it's so arbitrary is what interests me. The points of agreement and disagreement as to what/who constitutes a "hipster" - there being different levels of hipsterdom - Whiney's idea - I think is interesting.
― sarahel, Saturday, 30 January 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Psh my dad's been making hipster zings at me for years now. Am like so over it.
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
You can call someone with a beard and a flannel shirt and an Out Hud 7" a hipster, and you can call a weirdly-haircut head-to-toe tacky/flashy/neon/Urban/AA Misshapes dude who doesn't even know who Out Hud is a hipster, and the two probably would hate each other and have little in common at all.
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
xp stevie otm
well it's also kinda how i reflexively think about it anyway. again, classmates seem to think i'm a despicable hipster because i own a track bike and played in a band once and am "into" music or w/e, but my immediate reaction is like "jesus i've got nothing on, like, this guy Coyote who has a different pair of glasses every day and is a DJ and parties in brazil and wears neon all the time"
― in Lakota you are now Snow Tubes With Gangbangers (gbx), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:04 PM (9 minutes ago)
well yeah there's different kinds and they mostly all suck
― max ipad (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Teen1: Oh, here comes that cannonball guy. He's cool.Teen2: Are you being sarcastic, dude?Teen1: I don't even know anymore.
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh so you're the guy behind ShitMyDadSays
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
what strikes me the most is this myth of hipster attitudes. Most everyone thinks they're these lame ass pretentious trust fundies, and while some of them are, a great majority of them are NOT, and yet everyone pretends they're not a hipster because they don't want people to think they're one.
It's this really bizarre phenomenon of what everyone holds as a definition vs. what the definition actually is being different things.
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
xp i wish
― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
the word ("hipsters") sounds so antiquated, so 60-ish. there has to be a better word.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
hot chipsters
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
The word hipster has been thrown around so vaguely for so long it just sorta became this meaningless phonetic blob to me, and whenever it pops up it's treated like this king of ba-zings and everyone is so invested in or bothered by it, and I'm over here like you ppl are all fuckin wierd.
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
king of ba-zings
what does this mean?
― sarahel, Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm not bothered by what it represents. i just think there could be better words for it.
yes, like hot chipsters.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
It is a supreme zing, the trump card of zings if you will, xposts to sarahel
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
― max ipad (k3vin k.), Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:15 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
hipsters suck!!!
― brews before HOOS (s1ocki), Saturday, 30 January 2010 21:55 (fourteen years ago) link
mostly! i'm half-trolling because it is FREAKING 2010 IIRC and we're having an earnest discussion on hipsters
― max ipad (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
but we still don't know what they are it's like the fuckin TAO
― guammls (QE II), Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Wait for Monday, y'all, me and sarahel are gonna break it down for u
― ben bernankles (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah can't wait for that
― Goon's Anatomy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm gonna take the day off for it
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
in alternating, one-sentence "tweets," plz.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
("tweets" are the new thing, apparently)
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Monday!!! http://www.jeffpylenz.com/INCREDIMAIL%20VOL.2/HOTLETTERS/jail.gif
― Möbius dick (╓abies), Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
this is gonna combine my two favorite things: sarahel's posts and whiney's thoughts on other people who live in new york city
― Goon's Anatomy (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaahahaahahaahahahaahaha
― wtf lebron, that chick doesn't need a gatorade bath (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 January 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link