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• #27
for what? i mean, seriously, for what? because of some guevara-esque appropriation of an iconic woOdy guthrie stance? because by rights, she should be impaled on the tubing for having that sticker.
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• #28
because of some guevara-esque appropriation of an iconic wody guthrie stance?
er what? i dont know what that means.
because it made me laugh. simple as.
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• #29
who is this wody guthrie of which you speak?
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• #30
I think he was a fook singer.
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• #31
i kind of loved the girl who owned this frame for the two mins i was in her shop.
looks a bit self-conscious and Shoreditch to me - not quite getting it right and drawing attention to itself.
Hipsterish, dare I say it.
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• #32
yeah. i think the only people who get upset about the term 'hipster' are people who know they are one, or at least that people probably think they are one.
this was exactly my point. i'm sick of hearing about it, yet in complaining i have further exacerbated the situation. a cruel paradox for which i am sorry.
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• #33
all it needs is a 'one less car' sticker, then i'd love her for sure.
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• #34
i kind of loved the girl who owned this frame for the two mins i was in her shop.
"so ironic it isn't, so unironic it is"!
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• #35
this was exactly my point. i'm sick of hearing about it, yet in complaining i have further exacerbated the situation. a cruel paradox for which i am sorry.
that's the hipster paradox, sort of like schrodinger's cat, but infinitely more complex.
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• #36
i'm not familiar with said cat.
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• #37
looks a bit self-conscious and Shoreditch to me - not quite getting it right and drawing attention to itself.
Hipsterish, dare I say it.
Ah, but the right kind of hipster. One who understands that the cliches of flat-bars and tight jeans look really naff.
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• #38
I'm all for putting some hipsters in a box and then firing a gun at it... in the name of scientific research.
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• #39
I'll give you £25 for the lot, Dale.
:)
:)
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• #40
before i came to london last year i hadn't even heard the word. is it an american term?
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• #41
looks a bit self-conscious and Shoreditch to me - not quite getting it right and drawing attention to itself.
Hipsterish, dare I say it.
yep. exactly. except it was in ny not london
all it needs is a 'one less car' sticker, then i'd love her for sure.
one less hipster sticker?
"so ironic it isn't, so unironic it is"!
eh what?
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• #42
I think hipster is going to be the next emo. In 1998 if you listened to some obscure Indie Rock bands from Chicago or DC you might have been called emo. In 2008 and you wear a black T-shirt you might get called emo.
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• #43
i am enjoying the similar threads link below
fuckin hipsters heh - you gotta love em
You calling me a hipster???? : )
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• #44
The first time I heard Amy Winehouse sing was last tuesday when I acceidently stumbled across VH1, I am so old I think country and western music ought to be hip, I'd love to be young enough to be a 'hipster' if I could figure out what one was, I think they have NH spectacles and beards but that's just the girls, no?
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• #45
long before the current use there was the "ageing hipster". Can't remember where i read it but that's a fair few years ago. Sounds Tony Parsons-y or Martin Amis-y but prob neither of those. One of my favourite phrases that was.
"so ironic it's not, so unironic it is" is one of the wittiest things I've seen for ages, I'm with Superprecise.
You got to go to the original "what is a hipster?" thread - in fact i bumped it today cos I watched the video clip it's on.
It's packed with unbelievably sharp stuff pretending to be throw away.
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• #46
I think hipster is going to be the next emo. In 1998 if you listened to some obscure Indie Rock bands from Chicago or DC you might have been called emo. In 2008 and you wear a black T-shirt you might get called emo.
fuck i thought that emo had turned into hipster not the other way round.
goth-grunge-emo-hipster.thats how it looks to me but i live in a social vacuum so my views may not be valid.
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• #47
hipster is an old term, used endearingly to describe the young, hip, NY jazz crowd - read Kerouac for all the most pertinent usage.
This, from font of all knowledge, that is Wikipedia:
Hipster, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular modern jazz, which became popular in the early '40s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: manner of dress, slang terminology, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes. Early hipsters were generally white youths adopting many of the ways of urban blacks of the time, but later hipsters often copied the early ones without knowing the origins of the culture.
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• #48
oh shit, there's a what is a hipster thread? sorry ...
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• #49
I'd find it hilarious if someone ever called me a hipster. Its not likely to happen though. My bikes have gears, my jeans aren't skinny and I don't have a single tattoo.
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• #50
hipster is an old term, used endearingly to describe the young, hip, NY jazz crowd - read Kerouac for all the most pertinent usage.
This, from font of all knowledge, that is Wikipedia:
Hipster, as used in the 1940s, referred to aficionados of jazz, in particular modern jazz, which became popular in the early '40s. The hipster adopted the lifestyle of the jazz musician, including some or all of the following: manner of dress, slang terminology, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty, and relaxed sexual codes. Early hipsters were generally white youths adopting many of the ways of urban blacks of the time, but later hipsters often copied the early ones without knowing the origins of the culture.
Wasn't it Omelette Ertegun or Jerry Wexler who coined the term? Referring to, as you say, the appearance in the 40s of the white negro?
I'm gonna start ridin' in a Zoot suit with a 2 metre long gold chain... Now that, would be rad, dad...
i kind of loved the girl who owned this frame for the two mins i was in her shop.
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