Unfortunately nowadays, "hipster" is just a meaningless label thrown around by obese men who wear cargo shorts to describe anyone who has an alternative taste in music or wears slim-cut jeans.

 

I thought the obese men wearing cargo shorts were the hipsters???

Unfortunately nowadays, "hipster" is just a meaningless label thrown around by obese men who wear cargo shorts to describe anyone who has an alternative taste in music or wears slim-cut jeans.

 

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Let me tell you about the wonders of jorts

 

Let me tell you about the wonders of wearing jorts under your Utilikilt

 

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Unfortunately nowadays, "hipster" is just a meaningless label thrown around by obese men who wear cargo shorts to describe anyone who has an alternative taste in music or wears slim-cut jeans.

 

I thought the obese men wearing cargo shorts were the hipsters???

 

Not quite. Those are neckbeards. Hipsters wouldn't be caught dead wearing cheap cargo pants.

 

 

 

@Langzor

 

 

 

Lolwut?

I thought the obese men wearing cargo shorts were the hipsters???

Thus comes a plot twist worthy of any horror movie. We are all the hipsters.

I'd argue that most of the hatred towards hipsters stems from attitude. If you like music that I think sucks, power to you. But liking music no one has ever heard of doesn't actually make your farts smell like roses, and trying to convince us sheeple otherwise will only earn our scorn.

 

Then we become the blind followers of 'the man' which only gives the hipster more reason to be smug, and us more reason to hate them.

 

 

Society loves to hate on some group of people. The hippies, the emo teenagers, and now the hipsters. And in a few years, we will start to grow board of ripping on hipsters, and we'll rip on whatever other group is loudly proclaiming that they are special at the time, and the cycle will continue. Or at least the teenagers will. Most of my primary education was set during the emo hate years, thus my natural enemy is guys with tight jeans and bangs over their eyes, not people who wear cargo shorts and toques all 12 months of the year.

You know what's worse than hipsters? People who have to actively hate something even when it's not even relevant at the moment. "Better love story than Twilight" or "I wish I wasn't born in the '90s, everyone around me likes Justin Bieber! Lol he looks like a girl, right? RIGHT?" At least hipsters have the decency to not constantly talk about the things they hate.

“Hipster” is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone else’s authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself. It serves no conversational function and imparts no information, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker. Meanwhile, a market myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural boogeyman consisting of elusive white 20-somethings who wear certain clothes (but no one will agree on what), listen to certain music (no one can agree on this either), and act a certain way (you’ve probably sensed the pattern on your own). You can’t define what “that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle” actually is, nor will you ever be able to. That’s because you don’t use “hipster” to describe an actual group of people, but to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that annoys you. The twist, of course, is that if it weren’t for your own insecurities, nothing that a “hipster” could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - “Do I wear what I wear because I want to? Do I listen to my music because I truly like it? I’m certainly not like those filthy hipsters!” - so you project those feelings. Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a hipster; the term is always applied to an Other, to separate the authentic Us from the inauthentic, “ironic” Them.

pretty much hits the nail on the head

“Hipster” is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone else’s authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself. It serves no conversational function and imparts no information, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker. Meanwhile, a market myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural boogeyman consisting of elusive white 20-somethings who wear certain clothes (but no one will agree on what), listen to certain music (no one can agree on this either), and act a certain way (you’ve probably sensed the pattern on your own). You can’t define what “that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle” actually is, nor will you ever be able to. That’s because you don’t use “hipster” to describe an actual group of people, but to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that annoys you. The twist, of course, is that if it weren’t for your own insecurities, nothing that a “hipster” could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - “Do I wear what I wear because I want to? Do I listen to my music because I truly like it? I’m certainly not like those filthy hipsters!” - so you project those feelings. Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a hipster; the term is always applied to an Other, to separate the authentic Us from the inauthentic, “ironic” Them.

pretty much hits the nail on the head

 

hipster

Yeah I should've inb4'd my post, I would've bet plenty of money that that was going to be the first reply.

You know what's worse than hipsters? People who have to actively hate something even when it's not even relevant at the moment. "Better love story than Twilight" or "I wish I wasn't born in the '90s, everyone around me likes Justin Bieber! Lol he looks like a girl, right? RIGHT?" At least hipsters have the decency to not constantly talk about the things they hate.

They do, they just dismiss whatever isn't contrarian by labelling it 'mainstream'. Perhaps not as strong as hate, but they certainly look down on those who don't desperately absorb every cultural phenomenon that looks different.

 

On a different note, people who simply claim that 'manga/anime' are things they like annoy me - not because manga/anime can't be good (Spirited Away kicks everything Pixar has ever done into the dirt, for example) but because liking everything that's Japanese and animated, without much discernment, is, like a hipster, merely striving to be different for the sake of difference. And was it not a Japanese priest who wrote that "a craving for novelity in all things is a sign of a person of superficial knowledge"? I think it was.

Yeah I should've inb4'd my post, I would've bet plenty of money that that was going to be the first reply.

 

I MADE THAT REPLY BEFORE IT WAS COOL

You know what's worse than hipsters? People who have to actively hate something even when it's not even relevant at the moment. "Better love story than Twilight" or "I wish I wasn't born in the '90s, everyone around me likes Justin Bieber! Lol he looks like a girl, right? RIGHT?" At least hipsters have the decency to not constantly talk about the things they hate.

They do, they just dismiss whatever isn't contrarian by labelling it 'mainstream'. Perhaps not as strong as hate, but they certainly look down on those who don't desperately absorb every cultural phenomenon that looks different.

 

On a different note, people who simply claim that 'manga/anime' are things they like annoy me - not because manga/anime can't be good (Spirited Away kicks everything Pixar has ever done into the dirt, for example) but because liking everything that's Japanese and animated, without much discernment, is, like a hipster, merely striving to be different for the sake of difference. And was it not a Japanese priest who wrote that "a craving for novelity in all things is a sign of a person of superficial knowledge"? I think it was.

 

Pretty sure that was Lincoln, buddy.

 

Or maybe Morgan Freeman

I get called a hipster often enough. I like finding hidden gems of cool things that aren't necessarily popular. I don't like pop music, or sports, or a lot of other things considered mainstream. My favorite genre of music is relatively unknown - electroswing - and my favorite things in most pop culture are things just below the surface of the mainstream.

 

Yet I don't look down on others for liking pop music or Harry Potter, or anything else mainstream, no matter my opinion on it. Your interests are your own, and you're allowed to have them. What annoys me is when others don't accept my opinion, our someone else's. Calling me pretentious because I enjoyed the percussion concert and you fell asleep is frustrating to no end. I'm not thinking I'm better than you, just that I enjoy something you didn't.

I get called a hipster often enough. I like finding hidden gems of cool things that aren't necessarily popular. I don't like pop music, or sports, or a lot of other things considered mainstream. My favorite genre of music is relatively unknown - electroswing - and my favorite things in most pop culture are things just below the surface of the mainstream.

 

Yet I don't look down on others for liking pop music or Harry Potter, or anything else mainstream, no matter my opinion on it. Your interests are your own, and you're allowed to have them. What annoys me is when others don't accept my opinion, our someone else's. Calling me pretentious because I enjoyed the percussion concert and you fell asleep is frustrating to no end. I'm not thinking I'm better than you, just that I enjoy something you didn't.

 

Harry Potter is considered main stream?

I get called a hipster often enough. I like finding hidden gems of cool things that aren't necessarily popular. I don't like pop music, or sports, or a lot of other things considered mainstream. My favorite genre of music is relatively unknown - electroswing - and my favorite things in most pop culture are things just below the surface of the mainstream.

 

Yet I don't look down on others for liking pop music or Harry Potter, or anything else mainstream, no matter my opinion on it. Your interests are your own, and you're allowed to have them. What annoys me is when others don't accept my opinion, our someone else's. Calling me pretentious because I enjoyed the percussion concert and you fell asleep is frustrating to no end. I'm not thinking I'm better than you, just that I enjoy something you didn't.

 

Harry Potter is considered main stream?

 

It's one of the most popular fiction book series that I can think of, so yes.

Yes, without doubt.

It's my favorite movie series, but I didn't think teens of today consider it mainstream.

You know what's worse than hipsters? People who have to actively hate something even when it's not even relevant at the moment. "Better love story than Twilight" or "I wish I wasn't born in the '90s, everyone around me likes Justin Bieber! Lol he looks like a girl, right? RIGHT?" At least hipsters have the decency to not constantly talk about the things they hate.

They do, they just dismiss whatever isn't contrarian by labelling it 'mainstream'. Perhaps not as strong as hate, but they certainly look down on those who don't desperately absorb every cultural phenomenon that looks different.

 

On a different note, people who simply claim that 'manga/anime' are things they like annoy me - not because manga/anime can't be good (Spirited Away kicks everything Pixar has ever done into the dirt, for example) but because liking everything that's Japanese and animated, without much discernment, is, like a hipster, merely striving to be different for the sake of difference. And was it not a Japanese priest who wrote that "a craving for novelity in all things is a sign of a person of superficial knowledge"? I think it was.

 

Pretty sure that was Lincoln, buddy.

 

Or maybe Morgan Freeman

 

It was the priest Yoshida Kenko in Tsurezuregusa. I only wish I could remember which of the 243 essays it comes from.

When my internet decides to go down for 2 hours. >.<

When people like to insist their definition of a word is correct, going as far to ignore high-quality dictionaries that say otherwise, especially when it derails a topic you were discussing with them about.

When people like to insist their definition of a word is correct, going as far to ignore high-quality dictionaries that say otherwise, especially when it derails a topic you were discussing with them about.

This post is epic.

When people like to insist their definition of a word is correct, going as far to ignore high-quality dictionaries that say otherwise, especially when it derails a topic you were discussing with them about.

This post is epic.

What a fail post.

 

OT: Overseas shipping. I managed to get free shipping on a purchase coming from China, but now have to wait up to a month for it to arrive.

Cheapskates can't also expect quicker shipping. :wink:

^Yeah but we can complain about it. Hot air is free after all.

Tell that to my gas bill. :P

 

Speaking of which, it annoyed the hell out of me when my ex-girlfriend moved out and only gave me part of what she promised to cover the bills. <_<