The Evolution of the Hipster
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hardrock94
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Good one!!
Arkay
Lunatic Member
Entertaining.
The only thing I don't like is the parallel between beatniks and hipsters. I do recognize the similarities, but I have a very different (remembered) impression of beatniks, than I have (today) of hipsters. Maybe it's just that my age has changed dramatically in relation to the groups, from younger than the beatniks to older than the hipsters, and with that change, my perspective and emotional reactions are different.
The only thing I don't like is the parallel between beatniks and hipsters. I do recognize the similarities, but I have a very different (remembered) impression of beatniks, than I have (today) of hipsters. Maybe it's just that my age has changed dramatically in relation to the groups, from younger than the beatniks to older than the hipsters, and with that change, my perspective and emotional reactions are different.
mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
far too mainstream for me to trifle with.
You could like it, but you have to like it because you are expected (as a hipster) to dislike it.
mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
good point.
arkay there are some actual leftover beatniks in my hood. they are almost worse than hipsters.
erin and i switched to Coors.
ekmanning5
Time has told me...
Uh oh...grandpa hat, Chuck Taylors, trendy facial hair, frequent trips to the dumpster diver of stores, Goodwill...
...Motherf@*&er I'm doomed.
...Motherf@*&er I'm doomed.
Just don't blow through a light on your "fixie" single speed, no-brake, bike and then look at me like I'M the asshole. I should just hit them and blame it on the fact that I removed the brakes from my Subaru so I could "feel the road, man."
This city has more hipsters than roaches.
ekmanning5
Time has told me...
I have a garage sale Trek...will I be all right?
mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
got brakes?
Says the guy driving a Subaru?
Hey, now. Around here hipsters don't even have cars. They ride the bus and fixed gear bikes, and tell me that having a job in the ad world is selling out- as they slide me my coffee across the counter at Filter, making money for some yuppie.
And your suspicions are valid- I was a member of the pre-hipster evolutionary cycle, the "'90s indie kid", and a scenster- both of which combined to form the hipster. So yeah, I'm a bit too close to home on this.
mhardy6647
Lunatic Member
Zipcars. Maybe a Trabant.
Hipsters, tripsters, real cool chicks, sir
Everyone's doin' that rag
- Robert Hunter (a long time ago)
Hipsters, tripsters, real cool chicks, sir
Everyone's doin' that rag
- Robert Hunter (a long time ago)
foonsped
Active Member
LOL...
I have a quasi-hipster neighbor that bitches about how they've raised the cost
of expresso shots at the local coffee house, and under the same breath
mentions he spent $11K on beefing up his Tesla electric roadster to finally take out Porsche Turbos.....
My house is at the bottom of a steep hill/road that packs of "midnight ridaz" bolt down every week....200 plus strong on fixies that block out the intersection while the mustached horde make Yipping and Whooping calls. I may qualify for a couple of the ailments ( facial hair, grandpa hat, chucks, custom bike ) but I sure as hell don't smell.
Not sure where the "smelly" got tagged with hipsters.....but
the other observations are spot on.
In Los Angeles ( especially around the Silver Lake, Echo Park uber-hipster area ) even senior citizens wear skinny jeans.
