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The new skanger look?

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  • #32
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,691 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Was in a night club in Waterford over Christmas - looked around to see two identical mcgregors standing behind me. Man buns, beards and cheap top man 3 piece suits.

    It takes one class of a bellend to go out dressed like him, but two of them? That's skangers for ya.

    I assume that when/if they stared at you, you immediately looked intently at the floor while mentally rehearsing how you were going to put them down on social media.


  • #33
    Special Circumstances
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Special Circumstances


    mrsdewinter wrote: »
    What do hipsters believe in?
    being a d1ckhead is cool
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I


  • #34
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,937 ✭✭✭Calibos


    mrsdewinter wrote: »
    What do hipsters believe in?

    ...Anything Social Media tells them to believe...


  • #35
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    I assume that when/if they stared at you, you immediately looked intently at the floor while mentally rehearsing how you were going to put them down on social media.

    Let's play spot the hipster skanger!

    Still have the man bun?


  • #36
    esforum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,420 ✭✭✭esforum


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Man buns,

    What is a man bun?

    (I knew what a snapback was)


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  • #37
    Wibbs
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    mrsdewinter wrote: »
    I'm not sure I agree. I don't remember the hippie or punk eras but they were probably more diverse than the pictorial depictions that survive.
    I remember the punks alright and the photos of the time pretty much cover it, though the full on punk look was a minority thing and beyond a few hold outs didn't last long.
    Plus I'm not sure the hipster look is as racially diverse as you're suggesting. I'm only going on what I see in town, rather than media representations, and it seems confined to white people.

    ETA: I'm talking about Dublin here; I've seen hipsters in NYC, Ldn and Oz but I wouldn't have been there long enough to get a proper handle on the scene.
    Well Ireland is overwhelmingly white anyway, so percentages of non white hipsters are going to be tiny. In more diverse places you'd see more of them about. I've certainly seen a few black hipsters in London for example.
    I'm not sure hipsters stand up to being compared to hippies or punks as those movements were underpinned by distinct philosophies that set them apart from the mainstream. Hippies: peace n love. Punks: anarchy, anti-establishment.
    Punk yeah, though just like hippies before them the fashion toned down went suburban mainstream very rapidly, appropriated by the "non believers".
    What do hipsters believe in?
    The general vibe seems to be some oddball post modernist hunt for "authenticity". They don't really believe in anything really, which is the belief system in many ways.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #38
    AnonoBoy
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    Special Circumstances wrote: »
    being a d1ckhead is cool
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

    6 years on the go. Still a great tune!
    Wibbs wrote: »
    Well Ireland is overwhelmingly white anyway, so percentages of non white hipsters are going to be tiny. In more diverse places you'd see more of them about. I've certainly seen a few black hipsters in London for example.

    There's black hipsters in Dublin. Not that many but you'll see them about alright.

    Here's a question though has the "hipster" (whatever that is!) aged. They're now settling down and getting proper jobs etc.

    What's coming up behind to replace them? What's the reaction style called?

    The name for it probably won't enter common parlance for a few years yet (much like how hipster has been in common usage in Ireland for about 5 years or so but has been an identifiable trend for 12/15 years or so.

    So come on young people - what's the new anti-hipster look/style called? I want to get in on the ground floor with hating these new young people and their new fangled ways!


  • #39
    AnonoBoy
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    daithimac wrote: »
    Southsoiders! Southsoiders everywhere.
    The bang of popped collars and hairspray is overwhelming in this thread.

    The belief that the majority of southsiders are popped collars douchebags is as simplistic and silly as the belief that the majority of northsiders are dole-scum skangers.

    Neither is true but it takes someone like me (who was born and lives on an island in the Liffey and so is the only TRUE DUBLINER on this thread) to point it out.


  • #40
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Was in a night club in Waterford over Christmas - looked around to see two identical mcgregors standing behind me. Man buns, beards and cheap top man 3 piece suits.

    It takes one class of a bellend to go out dressed like him, but two of them? That's skangers for ya.
    Ah,The Foundry. You'll find plenty of em in there bai!


  • #41
    TerrorFirmer
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    Vinnie Ryan did not have the expected appearance of your average violent criminal...

    http://i4.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/article7468695.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/3PNG.png


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  • #42
    Baraics Pollox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭Baraics Pollox


    sugarman wrote: »
    Its almost like they've suddenly began to evolve.

    10 years ago it was all Nike/adidas tracksuits with 0 back and sides, 1 on top haricuts

    That slowly progressed to that ratty 80's mullet style haircut where a lot of them used "male" straighteners to straighten their hair. They also moved onto Colombia jackets and timberland boots.

    Then it was all jersey / Geordie shore styles. Top man / h&m shirts 2 sizes too small to show off their big upper bodies and arms that looked ridiculous compared to their skinny chicken legs from never doing "leg day".

    Finally. We have the McGregor hipster look.


    Sugarman knows what the score is. Pretty much sums it up.


    I do almost get a sense of nostalgia when you see the odd "old-skool" lad dragging himself around the inner city in a classic Lifestyle Sports tracksuit, manky Nike Air-Max on his feet, a bottle of Coke in one hand and a John Player Blue in the other. The type with the 5 euro,"2 back and sides" haircut and usually with that look of aggressive bewilderment on his face.

    Fair play to the late 90's skanger of today for not giving a féck about whats trendy, drinking cans in the morning and giving the 2 fingers to the Garda. Fair play :P


  • #43
    Pinch Flat
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    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    Ah,The Foundry. You'll find plenty of em in there bai!

    Actually it was shorts. Equally as classy an establishment :pac:


  • #44
    Anesthetize
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    I find it hilarious that the general public's idea on the modern incarnation of "hipster culture" has now become what it was meant to be against in the first place. Originally a reaction to the increase of capitalism's influence in popular culture, and including the increase of branded sports clothes being worn as everyday atire e.g. by skangers.

    Unless today's skangers are buying their skinny trackies as vintage from some thrift store I think we can safely say that hipster culture as we knew it is well and truly dead and it's time to move on.


  • #45
    harry Bailey esq
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    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    Actually it was shorts. Equally as classy an establishment :pac:

    We'll agree to differ on that, shortts door policy is a bit more selective than the Foundry, I use the phrase 'selective' loosely, but in fairness to shortts at least you have to be over 18 to gain admittance...


  • #46
    djflawless
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    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    We'll agree to differ on that, shortts door policy is a bit more selective than the Foundry, I use the phrase 'selective' loosely, but in fairness to shortts at least you have to be over 18 to gain admittance...

    I remember being in the foundry for a mates stag.
    Id imagine its the sort of place Adam Johnson could find comfortable


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