Hipsters

RasTa · 27-06-2015 7:24pm #1

Do we have them this bad over here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfR6TUcNOVI

The Backwards Man · 27-06-2015 7:27pm

I'm not all that busy at the minute, but still there's no way I'm watching ten minutes of whatever that is. What's it about?

pmasterson95 · 27-06-2015 7:28pm

Have you looked around NUIG/UCD/UCC. Ireland is infested with hipsters.

Birneybau · 27-06-2015 7:28pm

Irish hipsters are a copy of a copy of a copy.

One More Toy · 27-06-2015 7:31pm

I thought of posting this before it was cool

kneemos · 27-06-2015 7:34pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm not all that busy at the minute, but still there's no way I'm watching ten minutes of whatever that is. What's it about?

Clown makes sex potion...literally.

Mint Sauce · 27-06-2015 7:36pm

pmasterson95 wrote: »

Have you looked around NUIG/UCD/UCC. Ireland is infested with hipsters.

Pretty much any University/College town.

SEPT 23 1989 · 27-06-2015 7:37pm

they are trying their best to be different but they all look the same

Joey Jo-Jo Junior · 27-06-2015 7:38pm

Maybe I just don't pay attention to people that much but I've seen very few hipsters here. In fact, I hear them being talked about more often than I see them!

keith16 · 27-06-2015 7:39pm

Who cares?

The Backwards Man · 27-06-2015 7:39pm

kneemos wrote: »

Clown makes sex potion...literally.

Is he a circus performer or is it made from love juice?

Mardy Bum · 27-06-2015 7:39pm

That has to be satirical.

The_Valeyard · 27-06-2015 7:39pm

Why defines a hipster?

Goodshape · 27-06-2015 7:40pm

So long as they're serving good coffee and good beer, which they seem only too happy to do, I'm happy for them.

SEPT 23 1989 · 27-06-2015 7:41pm

Sirius A wrote: »

Maybe I just don't pay attention to people that much but I've seen very few hipsters here. In fact, I hear them being talked about more often than I see them!

turn on your tv open a magazine same boring bearded faces everywhere

kneemos · 27-06-2015 7:43pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Is he a circus performer or is it made from love juice?

Freelance clown by the look of it .

buried · 27-06-2015 7:44pm

Send them all over to fight islamic state. The Battle of the Bearded Flat caps

Mr.Goodman · 27-06-2015 7:53pm

Being a hipster is too mainstream.

kneemos · 27-06-2015 7:56pm

Mr.Goodman wrote: »

Being a hipster is too mainstream.

I'm a Teddy Boy.

Cold War Kid · 27-06-2015 8:02pm

Sirius A wrote: »

Maybe I just don't pay attention to people that much but I've seen very few hipsters here. In fact, I hear them being talked about more often than I see them!

Aye, although I'd make an exception in relation to Dublin - it is pretty hipster central around Grafton/Dame Street from what I observe.

A lot of the time people just use the term in relation to people whose tastes they don't share - for a while I wasn't sure it was a real thing, but it is all right I think. The Simpsons episode The Day The Earth Stood Cool actually nails it, which is strange for a recent Simpsons episode.

The thing of being into retro tat ironically and so on was around long before 2010/11 when it seemed all the talk of hipsters was just starting (yes I'm aware of the hipstery-ness of that statement).

nokia69 · 27-06-2015 8:04pm

Birneybau · 27-06-2015 8:04pm

Cold War Kid wrote: »

Aye, although I'd make an exception in relation to Dublin - it is pretty hipster central around Grafton/Dame Street from what I observe.

A lot of the time people just use the term in relation to people whose tastes they don't share - for a while I wasn't sure it was a real thing, but it is all right I think. The Simpsons episode The Day The Earth Stood Cool actually nails it, which is strange for a recent Simpsons episode.

The thing of being into retro tat ironically and so on was around long before 2010/11 when it seemed all the talk of hipsters was just starting (yes I'm aware of the hipstery-ness of that statement).

The reason that episode nailed it was they had Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen from 'Portlandia' as guests, the show which gently skewers hipsterism and is highly recommended by me.

demanufactured · 27-06-2015 8:11pm

Galway is full of em

DEFTLEFTHAND · 27-06-2015 8:16pm

demanufactured wrote: »

Galway is full of em

Can anything be done about them?

Joey Jo-Jo Junior · 27-06-2015 8:20pm

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

turn on your tv open a magazine same boring bearded faces everywhere

Surely it takes more than that to be classed as a hipster?

Cold War Kid wrote: »

A lot of the time people just use the term in relation to people whose tastes they don't share - for a while I wasn't sure it was a real thing, but it is all right I think. The Simpsons episode The Day The Earth Stood Cool actually nails it, which is strange for a recent Simpsons episode.

Thanks, I haven't seen it but I'll have a look at it later. It better not be like the rest of season 20-24!

Clandestine · 27-06-2015 8:24pm

Birneybau · 27-06-2015 8:29pm

I actually spent a few months in Williamsburg and to be honest, a lot of the 'hipsters' over there are much less up their own holes than their Irish counterparts.

Day Lewin · 27-06-2015 8:30pm

I'm a hippy and proud of it. I remember the Seventies.

Intend to die in a hippy way and be buried in a cardboard coffin. Under ferns.

Birneybau · 27-06-2015 8:31pm

katemarch wrote: »

I'm a hippy and proud of it. I remember the Seventies.

Intend to die in a hippy way and be buried in a cardboard coffin. Under ferns.

Yeah, completely different.

Giblet · 27-06-2015 8:37pm

I was in Vermont recently, it's pretty much the hipster capital of the world. I half expected to see a few Penny Farthing.

Anesthetize · 27-06-2015 8:38pm

It's strange that people are still going on about hipsters in 2015. Hipster culture really died out towards the end of the 00's when it got consumed by pop culture and became distorted. The whole idea of a hipster sitting in a Starbucks on a MacBook wearing clothes from some high street store is the complete opposite of what the modern incarnation of a hipster (from mid/late 90's) is supposed to represent, which was a reaction against capitalism.

Pumpkinseeds · 27-06-2015 9:15pm

Whatever happened to diversity? When did people decide to become clones? I'm sick of seeing young fellas in tight jeans, NHS type glasses, with stupid beards and even more stupid hair. So many young girls don't even seem to bother making any effort any more and more or less live in unisex hoodies and tracksuit bottoms.

I'm not saying girls should cake themselves in make up or spend a fortune on clothes, just make a bit of an effort with their appearance. Leisure clothes just looks slovenly.

darkpagandeath · 27-06-2015 11:59pm

If I see another Hitler youth or side part haircut ...

JupiterKid · 23-11-2016 5:28am

Are hipsters and millenials the one and the same?

Where is overrun with hipsters? Seems like Stoneybatter is a bit hipster haven.
Should we carry out a cull of hipsters?

Anyone here an out and proud hipster? Do you farm chickens in your urban backyard, cycle a fixed gear bicycle and have an old-fashioned mechanical typewriter? Do you deliberately NOT own a TV?

elefant · 23-11-2016 7:13am

Joey Jo-Jo Junior wrote: »

Maybe I just don't pay attention to people that much but I've seen very few hipsters here. In fact, I hear them being talked about more often than I see them!

As an earlier reply indicated, the term 'hipster' is thrown around all the time in Ireland to describe anyone who dresses or expresses interests somewhat outside of what their peers expect. Which is quite sad.

Anesthetize · 23-11-2016 7:27am

JupiterKid wrote: »

Are hipsters and millenials the one and the same?

Where is overrun with hipsters? Seems like Stoneybatter is a bit hipster haven.
Should we carry out a cull of hipsters?

Anyone here an out and proud hipster? Do you farm chickens in your urban backyard, cycle a fixed gear bicycle and have an old-fashioned mechanical typewriter? Do you deliberately NOT own a TV?

Holy crap it's 2016. Not 2009.

RWCNT · 23-11-2016 8:11am

I don't really get the lambasting so-called "hipsters" for all looking the same when the vast majority of men wear similar clothes anyway.

The few people I know who wear completely off the wall clothing get slagged off for being "attention seeking" anyway. I think you have to be pretty insecure to give half a ****e what other people wear anyway to be honest.

whiskeyman · 23-11-2016 8:15am

Hipster bashing used to be cool...

andekwarhola · 23-11-2016 8:34am

I know it's inaccurate but for me, the classification usually puts me in mind of a certain type of person of my (mid-30s onwards) generation: still clinging to a certain po-faced subcultural/politcal affectation that befits younger people while still being ineluctably middle-class, status-aware and avid consumers.

I try not to apply it to people in their teens to late 20s because it's entirely the natural way of things that they should have daft hair, clothes and personal politics, and that I should be midly irritated/amused by it.

fizzypish · 23-11-2016 8:43am

Please people. PLEASE! Some of us cant help it. It just happens to some of us over time. We can't help it. I just started by growing a beard. I just did it because it was the first time I could properly in 22 years. I don't groom it I swear! The pipe smoking.... that just happened, you've got to believe me! I'VE NEVER VAPED!!!!! O god.... finally, the trilby style hat...... I JUST LIKED THE STYLE, I SWEAR I WASN'T TRYING TO BE DIFFERENT.... "Sobs onto keyboard wishing this was trolling"

andekwarhola · 23-11-2016 8:47am

Anesthetize wrote: »

The whole idea of a hipster sitting in a Starbucks on a MacBook wearing clothes from some high street store is the complete opposite of what the modern incarnation of a hipster (from mid/late 90's) is supposed to represent, which was a reaction against capitalism.

Close call for capitalism. It must have been quaking in its boots.

CalamariFritti · 23-11-2016 8:50am

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

they are trying their best to be different but they all look the same

To be fair this is happening through all the generations. When young we were trying to be very different but we still want to be part of a group. Even punks adhered to some kind of dress code.

JupiterKid · 23-11-2016 1:43pm

On another web forum someone posted that hipsters have always been around - arty, creative types that moved into run down urban areas and gradually improved them by opening businesses and living there. Temple Bar was touted as an example of this...:rolleyes::

But I do think the cloned hipster look and so-called "alternative" lifestyle screams "pretentious gits.":D

jimgoose · 23-11-2016 3:05pm

Jack Kerouac's Beatniks were the original, and only, "hipsters" maaan - in his words, "beat, meaning down and out but full of intense conviction" ... "solitary Bartlebies staring out the dead wall window of our civilization". What we saw in the '00s, and which still lingers wherever stupidly expensive craft beer is to be had, is this:

JupiterKid · 24-11-2016 2:46am

Are there any AHers who openly admit to being card carrying hipsters?

Now now...don't be shy!:D

Arghus · 24-11-2016 3:29am

JupiterKid wrote: »

Are there any AHers who openly admit to being card carrying hipsters?

Now now...don't be shy!:D

You'd be hard pressed to find any self-proclaimed hipsters anywhere.

The way it works: I might like some craft beers, listen to synth revivalist acts, have some tattoos, with elaborate facial hair and wear glases of high size, but low prescription - but I'm not a hipster... It's the other guys that are the hipsters.

worded · 24-11-2016 3:46am

How did the hipster die?

He fell into the main stream

pragmatic1 · 24-11-2016 4:44am

Hipsters have always been around, we just didn't have a suitable name to christen them with.

Mr. FoggPatches · 24-11-2016 4:58am

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Hipsters have always been around, we just didn't have a suitable name to christen them with.

Didn't we used to call them t*ats?

pragmatic1 · 24-11-2016 5:25am

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

Didn't we used to call them t*ats?

Come to think of it yeah, I think that is the term we used to describe them.

I think that the original Vice magazine team of Gavin McInnes, Shane Smith and Suroosh Alvi are largely responsible for this current incarnation of the hipster. Vice dictated what was cool and what wasn't cool. Those lads have a lot to answer for.

Stoogie · 24-11-2016 10:02am

Day Lewin wrote: »

I'm a hippy and proud of it. I remember the Seventies.

Intend to die in a hippy way and be buried in a cardboard coffin. Under ferns.

Like my cats ?

Hipsters

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