Hipster or not?

Sink, for fucking fuck's sake.

Good point...

Well I'm in a quandary. I'm at a stage I could go either way. Do I got for respect or do I go hipster? Here's the background;

• I am a washer (well was). I used to wash pits and pubes back in the 80's and washed my face in the 90's. I haven't however been a hand washer. I've used them but just as tools.
  
• I wanted a new sink as I'm moving to london, got a few bidets but used my mates classic sink and I wanted one. Knew about Armitage Shanks sinks as I'd shaved with one a few years ago and liked the feel.
  
• I don't intend to wash again. I may get a bug and get involved but right now I don't see it happening. Going to do some shaves but nothing on the body.
  
• I'd seen some amazing looking sinks and loved the Shanks aesthetic. I love clean design and yes I admit it's fashion accessory as well as bathroom furniture.
  
  

Sometimes I wish I never joined here, then I could be washing my sick Genipits (Genitals Armpits) blissfully unaware people wanted me to die! But that's not the case. If I do something I like to research and really get involved. I decided against buying a Shanks sink. 1 because I'm not going to use it in the bathroom and 2 because I really didn't want to end up butchering a classic sink because I didn't know what I was doing.

So I ended up with a 90's plugged Ikea. Nobody is going to miss it so I'm free to do what I want with it. Now most people want the respect of the tribe that's relevant to them (and the situation) Hipsters want other hipsters to respect them and normal people to envy them. "Real Washers" (we need a term for the alternative of Hipsters!) want other real washers to respect them and envy them.

I either try to go with restraint and make sensible aesthetic choices form and function but I could easily get it wrong. There's a lot to learn and I can just imagine the mixer choice tap fitment fail I'd get. The bowl is already to small for me (6'4") so that's instant abuse but too late I love her already.

Or I make choices based on form over function. Nothing to stupid I'm not that kind of guy, not plugless with a shallow bowl. Just looks a bit before brains. God sometimes I want to get a soap dish just because I shouldn't. Maybe with "Yeah it's a soap dish but it's pretty" on it. I loved my flannels in the 80's but I think I'd look stupid with 20" flannels.

So what should I do? Go respect and then be envious of the way other people's sink look or go fakenger and know I'd feel guilty the whole time? Difficult questions at difficult times.