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i'm still not going to see The Hangover

It's worth a rental.

T-Luv: Ikam: SkeetNinja: You sound like a hipster.

I'm too old to be a hipster, but I live in a neighborhood with a bunch of them. Some are okay, some (the sorts that take themselves seriously) get on my last nerve.

I agree, not all hipsters are bad. I hang out with a few "hipsters" and they are pretty cool, but when I go with them to bars where hipsters congregate, I get to feeling like punching most of them, and I'm not even a violent person. There are just so many obnoxious hipsters who think they're the shiat, but really, they aint shiat. All groups of people have assholes, but it just seems like there is a greater concentration of them among hipsters.

I have to disagree, I think there's a bigger concentration of assholes in this group:

Tyrone Slothrop: heavythumb

i'm still not going to see The Hangover

It's worth a rental.

All I saw was the previews, but from the previews it basically looked like someone took the premise from very bad things and remade it less dark.

mizkc: To Quote Sam the Eagle in "The Great Muppet Caper":

You are all a bunch of weirdos!



You wanna know what I think? I think you're some kind of deviated prevert. I think Drew found out about your preversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.

PJ_the_Barbarian: It's more than that: you forgot affection for Apple products, taking "disaffected" to its highest possible level, and being way into "indie" anything.

I'm gonna have to say you are completely wrong here. For one thing, disgust is free. Apple products, not so much. As for taking "disaffected" to any level, does that require any effort? Have you looked around? We live in a place and time where stupid is sexy, smart is reviled, violent is proud, and decency is silly.

Do you really want to take shots at people who have decided that all this sucks major arse?

PaisleyHunter: I know a secret about hipsters. They listen to Bright Eyes. I know this because I work at a bar across the street from a hipster music venue. Also, they do NOT wear flipflops.

Bright Eyes is so 2004. Don't you know it's Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band now?

/lol
//oh noes I've become one!!

More like 'FAIL' than 'Interesting'.

When Hollywood is so desperate for viewers that they consider
'hipsters' a viable niche then the industry has its' collective cranium inserted into its' collective rectum
(damned near killed 'em!)

boobsrgood: PJ_the_Barbarian: It's more than that: you forgot affection for Apple products, taking "disaffected" to its highest possible level, and being way into "indie" anything.

I'm gonna have to say you are completely wrong here. For one thing, disgust is free. Apple products, not so much. As for taking "disaffected" to any level, does that require any effort? Have you looked around? We live in a place and time where stupid is sexy, smart is reviled, violent is proud, and decency is silly.

Do you really want to take shots at people who have decided that all this sucks major arse?

Yes, because they've decided it all sucks and therefore they're not going to do anything about it besides sneer at it. If they made a movement out of it and tried to change things I'd respect them.

mesmer242: PaisleyHunter: I know a secret about hipsters. They listen to Bright Eyes. I know this because I work at a bar across the street from a hipster music venue. Also, they do NOT wear flipflops.

Bright Eyes is so 2004. Don't you know it's Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band now?

/lol
//oh noes I've become one!!



Conor Oberst is barely a draw these days.

Animal Collective, Girl Talk, Beirut... they are more current.

latfh.com NSFW language is a general purpose hipster bashing site.

arghyematey: mesmer242: PaisleyHunter: I know a secret about hipsters. They listen to Bright Eyes. I know this because I work at a bar across the street from a hipster music venue. Also, they do NOT wear flipflops.

Bright Eyes is so 2004. Don't you know it's Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band now?

/lol
//oh noes I've become one!!



Conor Oberst is barely a draw these days.

Animal Collective, Girl Talk, Beirut... they are more current.

Yeah, I don't actually care. That's part of the joke.

I like the music I like. I'm picking out the music for my wedding right now and I've got everything from Emiliana Torrini to She & Him to Deelite to Beach Boys to Stevie Wonder. I have no problem with music snobs, but a huge problem with people who pick music based on what other people say is cool.

Ooo Zooey Deschanel is making a new movie. Will she sing in this one?

mesmer242: people who pick music based on what other people say is cool.

That's the heart of the "indie" fallacy. A reverse-bandwagon is still a bandwagon - when you abandon your favorite band just because it becomes popular, that's just as much a mindless reaction to pop culture as deciding you like whatever's on the top 40 just because it's there.

PJ_the_Barbarian: Yes, because they've decided it all sucks and therefore they're not going to do anything about it besides sneer at it. If they made a movement out of it and tried to change things I'd respect them.

I think I'd be classified as a hipster if I wasn't an eternal optimist and didn't think that people are generally decent.

I like indie music, philosophy, and health food, but I just can't go around thinking everything in the world sucks except for people who think like me.

PJ_the_Barbarian: If they made a movement out of it and tried to change things I'd respect them

Is that your condition for respect? Just living a life out loud isn't good enough for you? I have to start a "movement"?

Let me ask you a question. If there were no movement, why would we be discussing the term "hipster" so often on Fark?

I'm just a pathetic old Kurt Cobain fan. I haven't started any movements beyond my bathroom. I'm pretty sure I'm not a hipster because I'm over 40 and fat. American culture sucks rotten arse, though. I yell that at clouds. Suuuuuuucks!

boobsrgood: PJ_the_Barbarian: If they made a movement out of it and tried to change things I'd respect them

Is that your condition for respect? Just living a life out loud isn't good enough for you? I have to start a "movement"?

Let me ask you a question. If there were no movement, why would we be discussing the term "hipster" so often on Fark?

I'm just a pathetic old Kurt Cobain fan. I haven't started any movements beyond my bathroom. I'm pretty sure I'm not a hipster because I'm over 40 and fat. American culture sucks rotten arse, though. I yell that at clouds. Suuuuuuucks!

Why yes, I do believe that living in a perpetual state of disdain for your fellow man, and choosing not to contribute in any way to your own betterment or the betterment of others, can never be praiseworthy and is in fact contemptible.

One sure way to identify a hipster is their utter disdain for hipsters (they have no idea they are hipsters themselves). Hipsters are like a subculture of Clayton Bigsbys.

Sybarite: One sure way to identify a hipster is their utter disdain for hipsters (they have no idea they are hipsters themselves). Hipsters are like a subculture of Clayton Bigsbys.

I thought it was denying that there's such a thing as hipsters. Maybe it's both.

PJ_the_Barbarian: mesmer242: people who pick music based on what other people say is cool.

That's the heart of the "indie" fallacy. A reverse-bandwagon is still a bandwagon - when you abandon your favorite band just because it becomes popular, that's just as much a mindless reaction to pop culture as deciding you like whatever's on the top 40 just because it's there.

There's a huge difference between "hey, my friend told me about this band because they think I might like them" and "I'm going to listen to this band, go to this club, quote this movie, because other people are and I need to be in the know."

You're lecturing the wrong person, dude. I've never stopped listening to music that I like because of other people's opinions, good or bad.

PJ_the_Barbarian: Why yes, I do believe that living in a perpetual state of disdain for your fellow man, and choosing not to contribute in any way to your own betterment or the betterment of others, can never be praiseworthy and is in fact contemptible

Agreed. But what does that have to do with being a hipster? These kids do volunteer work. They tutor in Americorps. They learn ASL and help the deaf. They move overseas and teach English. They dole out soup in shelters. They work at recycling stations.

Disdain for your fellow man? Really? You miss the point entirely. It is a love for the fellow man that precipitates the disdain for a shared destructive cultural agreement.

It's disagreement. Get it?

I'm not a hipster, I donn't think anyway. There's really only 1 band I like that could be called indie, and I don't dress like a goddamn moran. Sure I wear jeans and a t-shirt often, but they are the correct size.

That said, 500 Days of Summer looks like it might be ok.

mesmer242: PJ_the_Barbarian: mesmer242: people who pick music based on what other people say is cool.

That's the heart of the "indie" fallacy. A reverse-bandwagon is still a bandwagon - when you abandon your favorite band just because it becomes popular, that's just as much a mindless reaction to pop culture as deciding you like whatever's on the top 40 just because it's there.

There's a huge difference between "hey, my friend told me about this band because they think I might like them" and "I'm going to listen to this band, go to this club, quote this movie, because other people are and I need to be in the know."

You're lecturing the wrong person, dude. I've never stopped listening to music that I like because of other people's opinions, good or bad.

wasn't a lecture, I was reinforcing the point.

Bands are for kids. When you grow up you have to listen to opera.

PJ_the_Barbarian: That's the heart of the "indie" fallacy. A reverse-bandwagon is still a bandwagon - when you abandon your favorite band just because it becomes popular, that's just as much a mindless reaction to pop culture as deciding you like whatever's on the top 40 just because it's there.

Some bands do get more bland and lose character by the third album though.

1st album - Interesting, unpolished, pure them
2nd album - Better because they've worked out how to do this stuff, but loses a little bit of the rawness of album 1. This album is what breaks them to the mainstream.
3rd album - The label has started to interfere more and take more control, the music becomes plasticised and populist.

I'm not saying it always goes like this, I just think that it does quite a bit. I do think that sometimes bands become worse as they get more popular.

Either that or I liked the original sound and they've moved off it to a new sound by album 3.

Gothnet: PJ_the_Barbarian: That's the heart of the "indie" fallacy. A reverse-bandwagon is still a bandwagon - when you abandon your favorite band just because it becomes popular, that's just as much a mindless reaction to pop culture as deciding you like whatever's on the top 40 just because it's there.

Some bands do get more bland and lose character by the third album though.

1st album - Interesting, unpolished, pure them
2nd album - Better because they've worked out how to do this stuff, but loses a little bit of the rawness of album 1. This album is what breaks them to the mainstream.
3rd album - The label has started to interfere more and take more control, the music becomes plasticised and populist.

I'm not saying it always goes like this, I just think that it does quite a bit. I do think that sometimes bands become worse as they get more popular.

Either that or I liked the original sound and they've moved off it to a new sound by album 3.

That's a fair point, but then there are other bands where success allows them to buy voice lessons, and they actually start sounding like they know how to sing after that.

It's rare, but it happens.

Yeah, it's the hipsters that suck. They're awful. So bad it hurts.

boobsrgood: PJ_the_Barbarian: Why yes, I do believe that living in a perpetual state of disdain for your fellow man, and choosing not to contribute in any way to your own betterment or the betterment of others, can never be praiseworthy and is in fact contemptible

Agreed. But what does that have to do with being a hipster? These kids do volunteer work. They tutor in Americorps. They learn ASL and help the deaf. They move overseas and teach English. They dole out soup in shelters. They work at recycling stations.


Just curious...what's your definition of a hipster?

Sybarite: One sure way to identify a hipster is their utter disdain for hipsters (they have no idea they are hipsters themselves). Hipsters are like a subculture of Clayton Bigsbys.



I'm part of a subculture of Clayton Forresters. Now excuse me while I adjust my guy-row-scopic mechanism.

I thought it was tight pants, big sunglasses, and tiny t-shirts with obscure 80's references that made someone a hipster. Oh yeah, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

boobsrgood: Yeah, it's the hipsters that suck. They're awful. So bad it hurts.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

FatSteveWasted: I thought it was tight pants, big sunglasses, and tiny t-shirts with obscure 80's references that made someone a hipster. Oh yeah, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Just remember that PBR by itself does not make you a hipster. It can just mean you're broke.

/remembers when PBR wasn't hipster beer

PJ_the_Barbarian: That's a fair point, but then there are other bands where success allows them to buy voice lessons, and they actually start sounding like they know how to sing after that.

It's rare, but it happens.

I hate it when that happens. Honestly. I LIKE the whiskey and cigarettes rasp because it sounds genuine. A lot of times after they get voice lessons it sounds like they're on Valium.

Ashtrey: FatSteveWasted: I thought it was tight pants, big sunglasses, and tiny t-shirts with obscure 80's references that made someone a hipster. Oh yeah, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Just remember that PBR by itself does not make you a hipster. It can just mean you're broke.

/remembers when PBR wasn't hipster beer

I barely can. My dad drank it in the 70s. The first time I went to the EARL in summer 2000 (when I moved to ATL) it was already the hipster beer of choice.

It was also the beer of choice at Moes and Joes, which is for non-hipster college kids. Go figure.

"Hip" has permeated the mainstream deeply. I'd say that after the 1960s, it spun out of control, and lost all of its cachet. Nothing left to pierce; no place left untattooed.

So, yes, "hipsters," the way to "assert your individuality" now is not so much based on how you look; you're going to have to tuck in your shirts and get a freaking life. Yours, Goethe.

PJ_the_Barbarian: Two wrongs don't make a right.

Rofl! Are you my personal troll? How is complaining about the weather wrong? If all your friends decided to do battery acid, would you jump off that bridge?

Wrong. Let's examine that word through text.

Wwwwww...pierced lips, larynx engaged, fricative.

rrrr...same as before, but cheeks flexed and sound moved forward

oooo...an open sound

nnnn...the back of the tongue touches your palate

ggg... it was a monster mash

dittybopper:
I'm part of a subculture of Clayton Forresters. Now excuse me while I adjust my guy-row-scopic mechanism.

Cut across their lines of magnetic force and any object will simply cease to exist. Take my word for it, General, this type of defense is useless against that kind of power! You'd better let Washington know, fast!

Jubeebee: I hate it when that happens. Honestly. I LIKE the whiskey and cigarettes rasp because it sounds genuine. A lot of times after they get voice lessons it sounds like they're on Valium.

"genuine." Whatever. What you really dislike is that when someone is any good, you perceive it as being talked down to. Get over yourself. Don't worry, you're not alone; the stupidity of this attitude is matched only by its ubiquity.

howski: Jubeebee: I hate it when that happens. Honestly. I LIKE the whiskey and cigarettes rasp because it sounds genuine. A lot of times after they get voice lessons it sounds like they're on Valium.

"genuine." Whatever. What you really dislike is that when someone is any good, you perceive it as being talked down to. Get over yourself. Don't worry, you're not alone; the stupidity of this attitude is matched only by its ubiquity.

Hey, can we all at least agree that Weezer used to not suck and now they really, really do?

I once asked a hipster to name an "epic" movie (since he thought things like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, the Odyssey, the 300 were not epic enough)..he said Lawrence of Arabia was one of the best, most epic movies of all time... Ok grandpa. f-ing tight-pants-wearing d-bag

I am so confused.

Chimpasaurus: I once asked a hipster to name an "epic" movie (since he thought things like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, the Odyssey, the 300 were not epic enough)..he said Lawrence of Arabia was one of the best, most epic movies of all time... Ok grandpa. f-ing tight-pants-wearing d-bag

It was epic, but I still am not sure how I felt about the film itself.

As much as I love Natalie Portman, I couldn't get through 20 min of Garden State.

Hipster: The main driver of consumerist culture. Always looking for something to separate themselves from the general populace, the general public eventually catches on and creates a new trend and every trend means something new in everybody's home and more money spent.

T-Luv: I agree, not all hipsters are bad. I hang out with a few "hipsters" and they are pretty cool, but when I go with them to bars where hipsters congregate, I get to feeling like punching most of them, and I'm not even a violent person. There are just so many obnoxious hipsters who think they're the shiat, but really, they aint shiat. All groups of people have assholes, but it just seems like there is a greater concentration of them among hipsters.

Once they have reached a certain age it is required that they make a pilgrimage to Alaska to go backpacking in Denali. This usually results in spending a day there and the rest of the week clogging all the bars in Anchorage. I have to avoid drinking heavily otherwise I start losing control of the urge throw anyone in tight jeans, retro pumas, or ironic trucker hat through glass windows.

thefrailandwretched: dittybopper:
I'm part of a subculture of Clayton Forresters. Now excuse me while I adjust my guy-row-scopic mechanism.

Cut across their lines of magnetic force and any object will simply cease to exist. Take my word for it, General, this type of defense is useless against that kind of power! You'd better let Washington know, fast!

According to information from foreign sources, the hipsters are working to some kind of a plan. Now what it may be isn't clear yet. Simply because once they begin to move, no more news comes out of that area.

boobsrgood: PJ_the_Barbarian: Two wrongs don't make a right.

Rofl! Are you my personal troll? How is complaining about the weather wrong? If all your friends decided to do battery acid, would you jump off that bridge?

Wrong. Let's examine that word through text.

Wwwwww...pierced lips, larynx engaged, fricative.

rrrr...same as before, but cheeks flexed and sound moved forward

oooo...an open sound

nnnn...the back of the tongue touches your palate

ggg... it was a monster mash

You posted pictures of a disgusting burger king ad and a random vapid right-winger, then said "Yeah, it's the hipsters that suck. They're awful. So bad it hurts."

I see two possible interpretations for this, both of them fallacies: Either you're saying that being a hipster is good because the only alternative is full buy-in to consumerism (and apparently the GOP), or you're saying that hipster bashing is wrong because there's a group that is more deserving of a bashing.

Neither is a cogent argument.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Points at more than half of Fark.

What - no mention of Paul Blart - Mall Cop? Word of mouth got me to watch the movie with the hubby. I know it was dumb but we were laughing just the same. Lots of physical humor.

Watched Inkheart with Bendon Fraser. lIked it.

I don't care what anyone sayz, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is and Epic film

geekluv: God I farking hate hipsters..... If I have to see another one walk into my Cancer Research Lab I am going to scream!

spacechicken170am: Haha, I love this urban dictionary defintion of hipster.

"Someone who thinks that they are being "special" and "unique" for liking some underground bullshiat no one else cares about. And they pointlessly look down on people who don't know anything about indie culture, because that's the only thing they know anything about. They're quick to call the rest of the world conformists when in reality, they are the ones conforming by partaking in a "too cool for mainstream so i am going to reject it by looking and acting like a grungy asshole" way of life only to seem uber-fashionable. They just end up looking like idiots. "

That is a very good description of the idiots I have to deal with in my lab. Seriously they may be the dumbest people on earth. I am still trying to understand why they want to wear flip flops in a research lab where they can spill acid on their feet which will burn their skin off.

/waiting for the Darwin awards to show up for the idiots in my lab who wear flip flops.


I'm at a cancer center, too. If your lab is funded by a university, then check their lab dress guidelines. You may be able to force closed toed/closed heeled shoes on the damn, dirty hipsters.