In defence of hipsters (1 Viewer)

[7 - No tomorrow]

"I'm a fucking skinhead!"

Haha. Deadly.

 

[Unicron]

Why did anyone do any of these things in the first place?

Because they were copying someone or something they saw, surely?

The kids are alright is what I'm saying.

I started buying music on vinyl to impress a girl.

 

[therealjohnny]

on second thoughts..

better not post images of willies

 

[therealjohnny]

as you were

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I started buying music on vinyl to impress a girl.

It's the only reason I do anything at all.

 

[therealjohnny]

On this 'fashion' thing

Recently I saw a gang of school age girls wearing biker jackets and skinny jeans

Cool! I thought, these kids are into classic thrash metal! Never thought I'd see the day!


Later I realised they were just copying whoever is in the charts and the clothes signify nothing


No harm to them, this is what kids have always done, but I was disappointed at the world again

 

[Hector Grey]

Sure, I dressed up myself. We all want to be a part of this undifferentiated ego mass, or at least one that will have us. It's normal. But these hipsters aren't kids, that's the first thing, and the second thing is that all the other kids who dressed like I did, liked the things I did: the Cure, being miserable, Pernod and the like. Hipsters, or at least this iteration of them, seem to be into consumerism and the only thing they've offered culture is infographics.

Now I have a bear and like pork as much as the next man, but I have a philosophy. Fair enough, it's mostly predicated on hatred of young people, but it's a manifesto I think a lot of us can get behind.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Later I realised they were just copying whoever is in the charts and the clothes signify nothing

I think that might be exactly what it signifies. The old tribes don't seem to exist anything as much like they used to.

Everything's up for grabs. Everything that has come before is all in a lucky bag for them to play to with.
It's the only legacy they have.

 

[Hector Grey]

I think there should be a law. If you can't recite the back catalogue of the band on your t-shirt, you should be beaten with a stick.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

The quiff and beard is a 'strong' look. How can a guy think, "he looks good I will also get a quiff and beard"?

Shit, I have a quiff and beard... both are small admittedly but maybe that's worse? What have I become?

 

[ernesto]

I'm going to fucking punch the next cunt not wearing socks with shoes
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ck76Lnet0...KgY/s640/98ab3581009a17eb44cf9dad16c94207.jpg

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Ha. Bring it on.

 

[pete]

I have a bear

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[Hector Grey]

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Yeah, well spotted. All us hipsters have bears now. The newest look is Russian circus master, circa 1912.

 

[Anthony]

When did most of us grow up? 80s? 90s? Back then like it or not you got defined publicly by the music you were into. Maybe it's because it took more/some investment. But there were gangs and types everywhere. Just like music barriers and that have gone and music is "free" people are less likely to stick with types. It's great.
Hipsters are the now version of rockers, goths, skins etc. put all the different fashions together and you're left with skinny jeans, left over from metal. Fancy javkets, from mods.. Biker beards, and so on.
Most of all, who cares? At least they're not scumbags.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Scumbags meaning poor people?

 

[Hector Grey]

Scumbags meaning poor people?

Oh, well done. Social commentary. Poor people. Like that's s demographic in these austere times. I think he means the kind of pricks who'd mug you in the street, or roam about in gangs looking for trouble. They weren't poor. For example, they had all my Walkmen.

Poor people. What does that even mean? For fuck sake. You need to go out on your yacht and have a think about that.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

You need to go out on your yacht and have a think about that.

Thanks for the insight on what I should do.

 

[Hector Grey]

Thanks for the insight on what I should do.

Yeah, no bother. Here to help.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I dislike the term 'scumbags' intensely, because it generally seems to be a catch all term for people that look a certain way or are from a particular part of town, rather than a descriptor of behaviour.

Surely scumbags would include tennis pros that kick your head in on Grafton St and boys from good homes that beat you to death outside Annabel's?

While we're at it. Denis O'Brien is a scumbag, Michael Lowry is a scumbag, Seanie Fitz is a scumbag.
To my way of thinking anyway.