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12 ticks. I'm not vegan and I don't knit, and I haven't worn a t-shirt in public for at least three years.
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Typewriters are preferred to laptops
Well ... I heard that someone whom I DON'T KNOW AT ALL recently bought a typewriter and used it to type a poem on a five pound note on the bus on the way to a gig.
He's not vegan, though. Er ... or so I've heard.
Bad_Science
Oliver Schick
@606
The full ONS postulating - https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/dvc399/shorthand/index.html
The once-parodied trappings of hipster sub-culture – from well-groomed beards to a taste for the retro – appear to have become increasingly mainstream in the last few years.
Their styles and tastes now feature heavily in advertising, for everything from snack bars to supermarkets.
Hipsters are associated with craft beers and spirits, speciality coffee and coiffured facial hair.
They love up-cycling, vintage, doing things ironically, gentrification, saving the planet and veganism, as well as wearing ancient band T-shirts.
Typewriters are preferred to laptops, bicycles instead of cars, knitting and urban bee-keeping instead of the rampant consumerism of buying a jumper and honey from a shop.
So perhaps it isn’t a surprise to see items in the latest Basket of Goods and Services, used to help the Office for National Statistics (ONS) measure price changes over time, which seem as though they could be at home in a hipster household.