Do you know any hipsters in real life?

Sh1tbag OToole

If you do, what is the most hipster-ish thing you seen them do? I don't know any hipsters personally, but I used to know people who I suspect have turned into hipsters. Of course they only associate with the 'in-crowd' which is why I'm no longer in contact with them. That and the fact that they don't really do communication outside of Facebook and whatever proprietary chat system Apple are using these days which I'm not on.

I am curious about real life experiences with hipsters and how to gain some more hipster cred myself

Donkey Oaty

Proceed cautiously.

Start with mild stubble and a bottle (not pint) of Smithwicks.

Gradually get used to drinking it with the label turned away.

At some point you will be approached with further advice.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Hipster jokes are so 2010.

GLaDOS

What are we defining as a hipster these days?

Chucken

I think I saw one yesterday. He was wearing a straight legged pants in a very becoming burgandy colour, a gingham type shirt,pointy toed shoes and...a bow tie.

Do you think he was one?

snollup

Most hipster types you see nowadays are just clones of each other.
I am lucky enough to know a few genuinely off-beat & original people. I wouldn't insult them by calling them hipsters.

BTW I am not very off-beat or original. I don't have a beard & dont ride a 80's 5 speed racer either.

Macavity.

ScienceNerd wrote: »

What are we defining as a hipster these days?

Anyone you don't like.

Diabhal Beag

Only what your typical AH type would consider a hipster. Don't know any proper hipsters.

Sonderkommando

Know a lad from school who was very quite but now has the stretched ears, tattoos everywhere neck hands and also a split tongue.

Terrible look IMO but each to there own as they say.

Lyger

No, don't think so. Too old I'd say. They're most under 25 I assume.

Donkey Oaty

Chucken wrote: »

I think I saw one yesterday. He was wearing a straight legged pants in a very becoming burgandy colour, a gingham type shirt,pointy toed shoes and...a bow tie.

Do you think he was one?

It's difficult to tell.

He might have been a "non-hipster" but you caught him on his day off.

Chucken

Donkey Oaty wrote: »

It's difficult to tell.

He might have been a "non-hipster" but you caught him on his day off.

*Insert Grandpa Simpson quote*

jimboblep

"Being a dickheads cool" on youtube is about the best description i ever saw of a hipster, dont know how to put it up here off the phone

The Th!ng

Kill them all.

Riddle101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

bodice ripper

I am such a hipster that just knowing me is enough to make you a hipster

Sh1tbag OToole

Riddle101 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

Now there's a blast from the past if there ever was one

MistyCheese

Back at school, in the 90s, the most popular girl in our year had a pair of hipsters and everyone thought they were sooo cool.

Sir Gallagher

Sh1tbag OToole wrote: »

That and the fact that they don't really do communication outside of Facebook and whatever proprietary chat system Apple are using these days which I'm not on.

The is defintely the most hipsterish thing on the thread.

Rothko

No because they don't exist

moc moc a moc

Reid Savory Fridge wrote: »

Hipster jokes are so 2010.

So... you liked hipster jokes before they were popular?

How Soon Is Now

I know a few that i dont see very often thank god!.

There mates of mates lets just say so there around every now and again.

Ah its impossible to avoid these kinds of people now a days i mean every second restaurant or trendy bar that opens in Dublin city center lately is designed for the pricks.

Skinny jeans dark black glasses that look like 3d cinema ones and checked shirts with a really tight t shirts underneath when i see all of this coming at me im ready to kill!! :pac:.

How Soon Is Now

Suas11 wrote: »

No because they don't exist

Where do u live? How do i get there!! :pac:

bodice ripper

Suas11 wrote: »

No because they don't exist

Don't you undermine my identity! The struggle is real!

bnt

No, but whenever I see a "fixie" bike in Dublin centre, I immediately think "hipster". There are good reasons why bikes have gears and brakes, people ...

KungPao

ScienceNerd wrote: »

What are we defining as a hipster these days?

Not wearing boot cut jeans.

DoYouEvenLift

Some hipster girls look hot...and then you talk to them and that's the end of that.

Pumpkinseeds

Nope, I don't know any hipsters, I don't really notice them. It's one of the great things about getting older, like music snobbery, you just ignore it and leave it to others.

rainbow kirby

I work near Shoreditch, I see way too many fixie-riding skinny-jeaned knobends every day of the week.

wiseoldelf34

i lost my virginity to a girl wearing hipsters back in 19dickity 2

e_e

Hipsters are a myth made by people who get bent out of shape about others liking something they don't.

porsche959

porsche959

e_e wrote: »

Hipsters are a myth made by people who get bent out of shape about others liking something they don't.

Hmm. I guess you haven't taken a stroll down Wexford Street recently.

Lyger

e_e wrote: »

Hipsters are a myth made by people who get bent out of shape about others liking something they don't.

There's definitely that, but there's a reality to it being an actual "style" too - moreso the clothes and accessories, and the fetish for ironic kitsch.
Not so much the taste in music/film - I think that's when the "hipster" catcall gets tedious. It's music and film that anyone could be into, not just "hipsters".

FunLover18

I know a lad, wears skinny jeans and shirts buttoned all the way up. He's into to all that filtered photography, "trendy" foods (which he takes filtered photos of), and craft beer. I haven't heard of mist of the music he listens to and he once took a bunch of us to 'the bar with no name'. He's harmless and sound enough, but he's a total twat

EazyD

porsche959 wrote: »

Hmm. I guess you haven't taken a stroll down Wexford Street recently.

I stroll down Wexford Street everyday. Nothing that hipster-ish about it tbh.

Eutow

FunLover18 wrote: »

I know a lad, wears skinny jeans and shirts buttoned all the way up. He's into to all that filtered photography, "trendy" foods (which he takes filtered photos of), and craft beer. I haven't heard of mist of the music he listens to and he once took a bunch of us to 'the bar with no name'. He's harmless and sound enough, but he's a total twat

The skinny jeans I don't understand why anybody would wear them, especially men, but when you say "trendy" foods what do you mean? Taking photos of the food is weird but look at the amount of people posting a photo of their dinner on Facebook.

As for the music and craft beer, how is that hipstertish? You have just proved e_e's point when he/she stated that it is just a term people like to label other people who happen to like something different to what the person throwing the label around likes.

FunLover18

Eutow wrote: »

The skinny jeans I don't understand why anybody would wear them, especially men, but when you say "trendy" foods what do you mean? Taking photos of the food is weird but look at the amount of people posting a photo of their dinner on Facebook.

As for the music and craft beer, how is that hipstertish? You have just proved e_e's point when he/she stated that it is just a term people like to label other people who happen to like something different to what the person throwing the label around likes.

It's hard to explain but it's not just that he likes this stuff it's the way he likes and talks about it. Its definitely a label I use but I only use it when people like certain things I don't like. I don't like rap but I wouldn't call someone who does 'a hipster', you know what I mean.

Trendy foods = burritos and pulled pork etc. It's grand to like all that but again, its the WAY he likes it.

GLaDOS

I like craft beer and a lot of lesser known bands.

Oh god I'm one of them :pac:

kumate_champ07

there are some nice hipsters, and some that are tosspots

BeerWolf

Knowing a hipster is so mainstream...

Baron Kurtz

Not gone on the catch-all term hipster, as they're are differing strains, but I suppose anything that's a bit left of the norm needs a name.

The worst offenders in this category are the snobbish, arrogant hipsters who look down their nose at people who aren't them. Much like the ordinary Joes disliking hipsters and vice versa. It's an intolerance thing essentially. Nothing more.

Oh, and awareness. Too self-aware be the hip ones.

SEPT 23 1989

My boot cut jeans probably scare them all away

Ash.J.Williams

People seem to "spot" conor mcgreggor all over the place ...i even spotted him myself....except he was in LA at the time....seems there's millions of them

SEPT 23 1989

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

People seem to "spot" conor mcgreggor all over the place ...i even spotted him myself....except he was in LA at the time....seems there's millions of them

Is he a hipster?

nxbyveromdwjpg

Going on about hipsters is so hip right now

o1s1n

Eutow wrote: »

The skinny jeans I don't understand why anybody would wear them, especially men, but when you say "trendy" foods what do you mean? Taking photos of the food is weird but look at the amount of people posting a photo of their dinner on Facebook.

As for the music and craft beer, how is that hipstertish? You have just proved e_e's point when he/she stated that it is just a term people like to label other people who happen to like something different to what the person throwing the label around likes.

You're picking up on this wrong.

A hipster doesn't drink craft beer because they thought they'd go out and maybe taste different beers after consuming Diagio stuff for years. Many people do that and they're not hipsters.

No, a hipster drinks craft beer because they feel like that's what they should be doing to fit into their chosen hipster lifestyle.

The fixie bikes, the whole term 'foodie', the craft beer, skinny jeans, oversized glasses, 'gentrification', it's all part of one overall fashion/culture statement.

People do all these things individually as they enjoy them. But if you get an individual who does all of them, in an almost religious, unquestioning way, it does make you wonder...

Ash.J.Williams

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Is he a hipster?

doubt it, but his dressalikes look like hipsters

SpaceTime

Several and also their even more extreme French counterparts "Bobos" (bourgeois-bohème).

TherapyBoy

I'm only half-hipster, on my mothers side.

Akrasia

Why did the hipster burn his tongue?

Because he drank coffee before it was cool