In defence of hipsters (1 Viewer)

[washingcattle]

On the subject of socks I had my most hipster moment yesterday while talking to my lady I said :

"I can't wait to go back to Berlin to buy some socks"

As though I only buy vintage socks in a some Berlin thrift shop.

Really there's a department store there (Kaiser's maybe?) that sells deadly socks. I got 5 pairs for a €2.50 there and they're still going. €0.25 per sock like ?

C'mon like, that's fucking amazing.


So anyone need socks ?

 

[GO]

Gentrifying Berlin..one sock at a time

Thats not cool man

Apparentally its a big prob over there too..the Stoneybatterisation of Berlin

I read it on a blog someplace

 

[washingcattle]

Gentrifying Berlin..one sock at a time

Thats not cool man

Apparentally its a big prob over there too..the Stoneybatterisation of Berlin

I read it on a blog someplace

As long as The Rosenthaller Grill is still standing Berlin is in safe hands.

 

[GO]

Kebabs were invented in Kreutsburg!

And cheap gear

and the beer is for nathin..and its awesome tasty

what a town

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

If I could speak German I'd be there.

Currywursts are awesome.

 

[washingcattle]

If I could speak German I'd be there.

Currywursts are awesome.

Not mad on the curry part but for Wursts you have to leave Berlin Leipzig and Munich Wursts are unbelievable.

Kebabs were invented in Kreutsburg!

And cheap gear

and the beer is for nathin..and its awesome tasty

what a town

They were perfected at the Rosenthaller grill. Also Turkish Pizza €1.50 everywhere and they're fucking savage.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Theres fuck all wrong with this

yes, it's a fucking paint by numbers psych disaster

 

[oh shit]

Jagger? He's only just put his last lady-friend in the ground, has he no shame?

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[sleepy]

On the subject of socks I had my most hipster moment yesterday while talking to my lady I said :

"I can't wait to go back to Berlin to buy some socks"

As though I only buy vintage socks in a some Berlin thrift shop.

Really there's a department store there (Kaiser's maybe?) that sells deadly socks. I got 5 pairs for a €2.50 there and they're still going. €0.25 per sock like ?

C'mon like, that's fucking amazing.


So anyone need socks ?

The one time I went to Berlin I got a deadly pair of novelty boxers that had a rabbit poking out his head and waving from the hole in the front. They were cheap AND amusing.

 

[Space]

Theres fuck all wrong with this

It's an awful lot better than the Milky Onions band posted. Comedy bands. Bluergh.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Jesus is right, they're getting slated, hilariously.
They deserve it too for that 'branding' alone.

The apology seems on the level to me.

Weird that other establishments are piling on though.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Weird that other establishments are piling on though.

I found this weird. Seemed like a personal dig to me.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

When Irish lads over here opened new bars, they used to buy up old dive bars in slightly unfashionable areas.
They'd do them up and to keep out the old regulars they would take Budweiser off the menu for the first year.
If you don't have Bud, then the old lads and guys that spend an hour with a beer cos they have nowhere else to go, won't come to your establishment.

People didn't like that, but enough young people showed up that it didn't matter.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

This has made the papers over here. Well the Daily Mail and The Mirror and the likes. They've really fucked themselves. I didn't realise they'd tweeted a picture of the bloodstained floor.
Hackney cafe The Bonneville under fire for complaining about stabbing victim | Mail Online

Hackney Bar Apologises For 'Hateful' Twitter Complaints About Stab Victim

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I had someone that had just been shot multiple times approach me on the street and ask me for help.
I did not help him.
I got myself and the girl well away from him across the street and called 911.
The gut reaction to violent street crime is not altruism.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I had someone that had just been shot multiple times approach me on the street and ask me for help.
I did not help him.
I got myself and the girl well away from him across the street and called 911.
The gut reaction to violent street crime is not altruism.

Yeah but did you go home and tweet that he ruined your evening?

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Yeah but did you go home and tweet that he ruined your evening?

I think that was a given. Knowing me, I probably accentuated the part where I protected the woman.

I suppose I've seen how much goes into the opening of a new restaurant, that even a dropped plate or an error on the menu count as calamities.
People put their everything into these things. I certainly don't have the balls to do it.
Having your restaurant become a crime scene, is off the charts in terms of disasters.

Because I have friends that have risked it all to open restaurants, I am definitely identifying more with them. So I am biased.

And the shit that John in The Welcome Inn used to go through on an almost daily basis on Parnell St.
His lovely pub being a target for what was wanton violence.
I felt for the guy and was exasperated for him.

 

[washingcattle]

I had someone that had just been shot multiple times approach me on the street and ask me for help.
I did not help him.
I got myself and the girl well away from him across the street and called 911.
The gut reaction to violent street crime is not altruism.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Because I have friends that have risked it all to open restaurants,.

Risked it all? To open a fucking restaurant?

You have lead a sheltered life mate.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

What the fuck is wrong with you?

I don't want to get shot?

This guy had been shot seconds previously. It was an ongoing situation.
What the fuck are you, a doctor?
Or would you have held his hand and went "there there"?

I had someone with me, and my priority was to not have her, or me, shot.

I got the guy an ambulance, but the most dangerous place to be on that street was next to him.

When it happens to you, come back and tell us how you saved the day and sucked the bullet from his stomach and then chased down the shooter.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Risked it all? To open a fucking restaurant?

You have lead a sheltered life mate.

Maybe I have.

People mortgaging their homes to the limit, borrowing every penny they can from family and friends to follow a dream.
Risking everything they've achieved thus far in life.
I admire it as I play it safe and put my money in a 401k.

Is anyone here under the impression that opening a restaurant is some cheap, risk-free venture?