Hip to be square

The Grenade

What is the definition of a hipster?.

Logical Fallacy

Someone who uses Google.

It's okay, you're not one.

johngalway

The Grenade wrote: »

What is the definition of a hipster?.

That'd be them there low-rise jeans.

Chuck Stone

A person who's had a hip replacement.

AlmightyCushion

You can't really define a hipster but you can spot the gimps a mile off.

El Weirdo

The Grenade wrote: »

What is the definition of a hipster?.

hipst·er

[hip-ster]

noun.

Wanker.

papu

That hair... You know

MungBean

Got to be with it to be hip man.

entropi

Why did the hipster burn his mouth?

Tried eating his dinner before it was cool :pac:

Mammanabammana

I thought this thread was gonna be about Back to the Future.

It should have been.

Jesus Wept

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwicLgOGJOI

inode

its all about the hats, glasses, those skinny jeans and i liked it before it was cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU

Standard Toaster

People who take themselves desperately seriously but vigorously deny it in order to be 'ironic'...

Cunts basically.

Kojak

pragmatic1

People that shun the mainstream because they consider it uncool. Which is ironic because they are now the mainstream.

Not a new phenomenon. They've been around for years under different aliases.

nice_very

What do you call someone who was a hipster before the term "hipster" was coined???

Redlion

nice_very wrote: »

What do you call someone who was a hipster before the term "hipster" was coined???

A knob.

Da Shins Kelly

People who try desperately hard to be non-conformist and anti-mainstream, but dress the same and like all the same things that they have collectively decided are 'cool'.

Saila

they usually have fixies

De Hipster

Eh 'me' obviously

froglet

i didnt know what hipsters were when watching this... (rubber bandits look for hipsters in New York)
http://www.nialler9.com/10844-rubberbandits-nyc-episode-2-search-hipsters/
forgot to google it so im glad i found this thread..

are they the spas that avoid what is popular trying hard to come across inteligent and original and pretending not to care what people think of them, are they like goths that dont wear black basicially?
dickheads ya pure dickheads.

froglet

Saila wrote: »

they usually have fixies

googled fixies too, so i learned two thing from this thread:o

cocoshovel

HMV employees.

starviewadams

Lads and lasses who are ''part time dubstep dj's'' and who wear glasses without glass in them for some reason.

Logical Fallacy

starviewadams wrote: »

Lads and lasses who are ''part time dubstep dj's'' and who wear glasses without glass in them for some reason.

But they only play House and Electro music when they are playing at their mates birthday party.

Captain Darling

They all play synth.

Air_Bass

...just search for "being a dickhead's cool" on You Tube - it explains everything through the medium of song.

(I prefered it before it went mainstream though)

smurgen

we play synth........... we all play synth!

bnt

Hipsters were Hucksters on Napster, and now wear Hipsters while driving their Boxsters around Munster. Preposterous. :cool:

sensibleken

How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb?

Its an obscure number you wouldn't know it.

smurgen

they always roll their own too. and love sh!t dubstep. and are androgenistic.

Tea_Bag

and are planning a spiritual trip to Thailand..

sensibleken

Tea_Bag wrote: »

and are planning a spiritual trip to Thailand..

camden

Dr_H.Lecter_

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

People who try desperately hard to be non-conformist and anti-mainstream, but dress the same and like all the same things that they have collectively decided are 'cool'.

+1

Conor108

You should post this in the Hipster forum on boards, but you've probably never been in there.

enda1

sensibleken wrote: »

camden

Or even Sockwell or Dalston

sensibleken

You'll also recognise them by the fact they'll bitch about hipsters despite very obviously being one.

a similar tactic used by a lot of goths

naasface

Places to find hipsters (Dublin)

The Bernard Shaw
Trinity Arts Block
Crawdaddy
Pygmalion
Lost Society

Often look unwashed/dishevelled.
Basically that song being a dic.k.heads cool on youtube sums it up!

tony 2 tone

naasface wrote: »

Places to find hipsters (Dublin)

The Bernard Shaw
Trinity Arts Block
Crawdaddy
Pygmalion
Lost Society

Often look unwashed/dishevelled.
Basically that song being a dic.k.heads cool on youtube sums it up!

Don't forget NCAD, it's a ****ing breeding ground for them. The Grand Social and the flea market in New Market are infested too

PS also any ****ty art gallery launch with free drink, that they swip and try to drink in my local, even having the cheek to ask for glasses.

take everything

Hipsterism is so 2011.
Post-hipster revival is where it's at.

take everything

Deleted User wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzocvh60xBU

Never get tired of that.

The Grenade

Thanks everybody for threads, much obliged. Apart from the google thread comment.

bnt

Turns out that Hipsters are the result of Evolution in Action. Who knew?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbTI7eWaQbk

St.Spodo

Some who values independence of thought, so dresses like every other hipster.

But seriously, I do think there's something to be said for it.

Duggy747

They have similiar triats, these are only some:

• Love Apple products for no other reason than because Windows is so common
• You're not non-conforming if you don't have a pair of Chuck Taylors
• Skinny pants
• A 1950's detective hat.
• Garishly coloured clothing that must be all over the place and make you look like you're colour-blind (Bright yellow t-shirt, Dark Blue cardigan, Grey pants, Green shoes)
• Wear sunglasses when it's not necessary
• Listens to horrible music or terrible covers of popular songs because nobody else will and that makes them think that they solely found this band.
• Wear thick-rimmed glasses (no lenses optional)
• Go to clubs and dance to truly dreadful "techno" music like you're a marionette puppet with half of it's strings cut off. You know the dance....
• Only smoke rolleys
• The hair must be short on one side and out of control on the other. Curls are a plus since it makes you look like some mad fashion genius.
• If it's not mainstream then it's for you.
• Your favourite instrument is a kazoo

Follow some of these traits and you're well on your way to being a unique, independant, non-conforming and different person from the masses................like every hipster out there.

orourkeda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCdVOXYeq-U

Larianne

Duggy747 wrote: »

They have similiar triats, these are only some:

• Love Apple products for no other reason than because Windows is so common
• You're not non-conforming if you don't have a pair of Chuck Taylors
• Skinny pants
• A 1950's detective hat.
• Garishly coloured clothing that must be all over the place and make you look like you're colour-blind (Bright yellow t-shirt, Dark Blue cardigan, Grey pants, Green shoes)
• Wear sunglasses when it's not necessary
• Listens to horrible music or terrible covers of popular songs because nobody else will and that makes them think that they solely found this band.
• Wear thick-rimmed glasses (no lenses optional)
• Go to clubs and dance to truly dreadful "techno" music like you're a marionette puppet with half of it's strings cut off. You know the dance....
• Only smoke rolleys
• The hair must be short on one side and out of control on the other. Curls are a plus since it makes you look like some mad fashion genius.
• If it's not mainstream then it's for you.
• Your favourite instrument is a kazoo

Follow some of these traits and you're well on your way to being a unique, independant, non-conforming and different person from the masses................like every hipster out there.

I think a lot of hipsters have moved away from some of those things on the list.. It's scenesters that most people see these days.

Latchy

orourkeda wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCdVOXYeq-U

You beat me to it ,was expecting this to be second post in the thread tbh.

Duggy747

Larianne wrote: »

I think a lot of hipsters have moved away from some of those things on the list.. It's scenesters that most people see these days.

Scenesters are into the whole emo / punk / rock guff, aren't they? Anyways, here in Galway it's like a hive for hipsters.

Once went out with a girl whose friends turned out to be hipsters..........very, very annoying hipsters. Their influence on her was too stong and she was a lost cause by then, the snobbery and elitism was funny at first since they were easy to rise but I quickly got sick of her & their shìt and bailed out.

I drew the line when they said Die Hard was for "brain-dead morons" while **** over themselves on how brilliant and "like, totally random" Spongebob Squarepants is...........*shudders*