The fake glasses thing had me worried. Also the only man who can carry off wearing skinny jeans is Bruce dikeinson. Glad to hear you don't bother.

You don't have a moustache by any chance do you?

No, because I'm not a hipster. Hipsters wear terrible clothes and listen to terrible music just because they know that they are terrible and will get them attention. As far as my tastes go, you wouldn't know that I'm a "nonconformist" because I like lots of mainstream stuff along with niche stuff. Honestly, most obscure stuff is obscure for a good reason, but there are also lots of hidden jewels that you'll never find if you don't keep an open mind.

People think that conformism is liking good stuff and nonconformism is liking bad stuff. Really, though, conformism is pretending to like what everybody likes, anticonformism (hipsterism) is pretending to like stuff that very few people actually like, and nonconformism is openly liking whatever you actually like. One makes sense, one is just silly, and one is incredibly annoying (because being incredibly annoying is the whole point). That's what I think, anyway.

I think the whole thing is rather interesting. Everybody knows that it's "cool" to bash popular stuff. But now there are hipsters, a growing subculture known for bashing popular stuff, who are extremely "uncool" to everyone but other hipsters. Thus, if you want to be "cool", you have to bash stuff just enough to be "cool" but not enough to be associated with hipsters. Our species is completely ridiculous. :teehee:

Edit: Fun fact: In the 50's, "hipster" was a slang term for someone who was, you know, hip. Exactly the opposite of its current meaning. Sort of.

Well I haven't really grown facial hair to the point where it doesn't look like crap when not shaved completely off, but I'm gonna try different styles of facial hair...
Starting with with a goatee and mustache (like Gordon Freeman!)

Also compared to almost every other kid in my school is either "super-duper hipster" compared to me or pretty much unknown to most people there.

You're a hipster, man. Once a hipster, always a hipster.

I've been wearing plaid shirts since before they became cool (har har total hipster thing to say). Difference is I still wear them, unlike a hipster who would stop because being cool is so not cool.

Hipsters are what hold up my jeans


err.., call me a moron, but I thought that communicating to the mainsteam -the masses, was considered communicating at the lowest level, because you're dealing with the lowest common denominator of a given group.
The larger the group, the lower the common denominator is set at.

I think what you're describing are the use of universal iconographic representation of items, which when done well can reach a universal audience.

Like the nokia 3310. A design as recognizable as the old cathedral radio design, or lava lamp.



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Plaid is cool again?!?!

Holy [censored]! Quick, to the bat cave where all my other hideous 70's garb is boxed away!!

What is a Hipster?

I thought they were just people that hung around with musicians and artists but didn't have any discernible talent of their own?

Read just about every post before yours.

[censored], really? Then imma... imma... Neatster. Yeah! A neatster.

If only there was a whole thread full of posts telling you. Oh, there is, what luck!

I used to be with it, but then they changed what 'it' was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's 'it' seems weird and scary. It'll happen to you too!

My favourite vid on youtube! :rofl:

But I've been wearing my "style" since way before other people started...

does this make me the "original" hipster?

You kids seriously need to start thinking up some freshly original sub-cultures.

This is pretty shamefully for the generations of diggers, beatniks, greasers, hippies, punks, grungers, Goths and neo-punks that have come before you.


for;

In the beginning
Back in nineteen fifty five
Man didn't know 'bout a rock 'n' roll show
'N all that jive

Think outside of the box.

Let it all come full circle..




embrace rock 'n roll

:yes:

/here endth thy sermon :grad:

see...


The white man had the schmaltz
The black man had the blues
No one knew what they was gonna do
But Tschaikovsky had the news, he said

They do everything that I don't like, and they're really good at being hard to define.

No, that would be off shore tech support..

You can't deny it, Miked. You can't deny your hipster heritage! BAWAHAHAHHA!


[censored] hipsters!

Man I already love Rock n Roll!

And compared to everyone else at my school I am not a hipster...

How would one dress by your definition, to not be a hipster, but not look like an old person at the same time?

for we are legion :rock:

Ya got me there, sparky :hehe:







btw, lemme know if anything comes to mind :unsure:

I'm applying this to you friend. What's the elementary thing? "You're only saying you aren't one because you really are one!!!"

Fixed that for you.

Hipsters are the bane of political thinking and good artwork.

It's my understanding that they seem to prefer Vespas over Harley Davidsons.