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post #1 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:18am
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I don't see the controversy about hipsters.

Style-conscious skinny people in skinny jeans--what's there to hate?

My favorite variety is the couture hipster--the type who buys their stuff at Oak NYC or some such.
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post #2 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:20am
was a mustachioed dad in tube socks and boo shirt with hipster wife and kids in tow. should have killed parents and raised kids as my own, away from brooklyn and patchouli and all other affectations.
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post #3 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:26am
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was a mustachioed dad in tube socks and boo shirt with hipster wife and kids in tow. should have killed parents and raised kids as my own, away from brooklyn and patchouli and all other affectations.
I bet they live in Williamsburg.
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post #4 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:27am
The attempts at irony can go too far.
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post #5 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:28am
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I'd rather take skinny attempts at irony than chubby attempts at earnestness.
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post #6 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:29am
Hipster music is very good. LK, did you see Sunset Rubdown in San Fransisco, or do you only like Wolf Parade?
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post #7 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:29am
From Wiki:
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Elise Thompson, an editor for the LA blog LAist argues that "people who came of age in the 70s and 80s punk rock movement seem to universally hate 'hipsters'", which she defines as people wearing "expensive 'alternative' fashion[s]", going to the "latest, coolest, hippest bar...[and] listen[ing] to the latest, coolest, hippest band." Thompson argues that hipsters "...don’t seem to subscribe to any particular philosophy... [or] ...particular genre of music." Instead, she argues that they are "soldiers of fortune of style" who take up whatever is popular and in style, "appropriat[ing] the style[s]" of past countercultural movements such as punk, while "discard[ing] everything that the style stood for."[11]
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post #8 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:36am
I disagree. What I like about hipsterism is that it's very straightforward. Most countercultural movements end up being commercialized, and members of said countercultures go on decrying consumerism. Hipsters have never to claimed to be anti-materialist. They've only claimed to be better, more stylish, somewhat more conscious about their consumption than the average consumer. And for the most part, that's a pretty valid claim.
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post #9 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:39am
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I disagree. What I like about hipsterism is that it's very straightforward. Most countercultural movements end up being commercialized, and members of said countercultures go on decrying consumerism. Hipsters have never to claimed to be anti-materialist. They've only claimed to be better, more stylish, somewhat more conscious about their consumption than the average consumer. And for the most part, that's a pretty valid claim.
Who exactly are you disagreeing with? Nobody has brought up any of the things you mentioned...
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post #10 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:40am
hipsterism is not counterculturalism. there are roughly 11 million of them in greenpoint and the berg.
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post #11 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:41am
Sorry, not you, but Thompson and other stuff from the wiki page on hipsters.
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post #12 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:42am
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Sorry, not you, but Thompson and other stuff from the wiki page on hipsters.

Ok... because what you said doesn't make any sense in the context of a reply to my quote.
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post #13 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:46am
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hipsterism is not counterculturalism. there are roughly 11 million of them in greenpoint and the berg.

Serious question; do you think you'd like hipsters any better if there were less of them living near you?
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post #14 of 118
7/10/09 at 1:48am
i am safe from them, among the kirkland-wearing masses in the burbs. i find young hipsters entertaining. on the wrong side of 30, it is pathetic....kind of like bald space ninjas on the wrong side of 30.
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post #15 of 118
7/10/09 at 2:17am
Hipsters are people whose clothes wear them.
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