dewihafta:
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.

Yeah Penn State really isn't strict about their dress codes. Funny even the PI's wear flip flops to work as well. When someone alerts the University about this nothing gets done.

/leaving PSU for good at the end of August thank god!

My favorite band, Rx Bandits, is coming to town in a few weeks so I'm getting a kick. They always bring some weirdass opening acts and in doing so attract a bunch of hipsters.

/there aren't TOO many in Orlando, I don't think
//never saw any really while I was in college here or in Miami
///they don't go to college?

Hipsters are pretty bad, but I would still take them over hippies or generic frat-boy douchebags.

There was a phish concert at the stadium next to my building a few weeks ago and when I left my office around 6pm all the hippies were hanging out in the parking lot waiting for the concert to start. As if it taking 20 minutes to get off campus wasn't bad enough, having to drive past all their filthy dreadlocks and tie dyed shirts made it really hard not to just mow someone down.

I like a lot of indie music, not because it's indie, but because I tend to like fairly eclectic rock, which doesn't have a large fan base. So, it's not that I like independent music, it's that the music I like generally doesn't become that popular.

Rapmaster2000: Gothnet: I liked garden state and I'm a cynical ex-goth.

WTF is a hipster?

A style that went out 6 years ago.

Which, to a hipster, means that its in.

Tatsuhiko: Who goes to the theaters anymore?

I go for the "big screen" experience...movies with lots of eye candy, special effects, etc. It has to be something that can really take advantage of a good theater's projection and sound system.

I netflix everything else.

LittleSmitty: I don't know about hipsters, but usually when critics say a movie sucks, it usually turns out to be pretty good

krazydiamond: I like a lot of indie music, not because it's indie, but because I tend to like fairly eclectic rock, which doesn't have a large fan base. So, it's not that I like independent music, it's that the music I like generally doesn't become that popular.

It's not the band I hate, it's their fans - Sloan

WRT music, I generally think Punk/metal/hardcore fans are teh worst. They always rave about how great bands used to be until they sold out (started making money to provide for families as they get older) while wearing generic T-shirts and skinny Armani exchange jeans with designer hair products keeping that emo bang or faux hawk from blowing in the wind. Just enjoy the music douche bags, everything else is just a farked up version of politic'n.

Celebrity Ninja: krazydiamond: I like a lot of indie music, not because it's indie, but because I tend to like fairly eclectic rock, which doesn't have a large fan base. So, it's not that I like independent music, it's that the music I like generally doesn't become that popular.

It's not the band I hate, it's their fans - Sloan

WRT music, I generally think Punk/metal/hardcore fans are teh worst. They always rave about how great bands used to be until they sold out (started making money to provide for families as they get older) while wearing generic T-shirts and skinny Armani exchange jeans with designer hair products keeping that emo bang or faux hawk from blowing in the wind. Just enjoy the music douche bags, everything else is just a farked up version of politic'n.

Excellent quote.
I've always loved Sloan and their communal/collectivistic approach to writing and performing. Growing up in small town Ontario I was able to see them at quite a few summer festivals.

LittleSmitty: I don't know about hipsters, but usually when critics say a movie sucks, it usually turns out to be pretty good

So you thought Catwoman was a pretty cool guy?

I find that critics are good for most things, but you need to understand that:

- a critic has to say that more of the same = bad. So if you like entertainment that isn't "art," you have to take reviews of blockbuster action pics, especially sequels, with a grain of salt.

- critics usually hate crude humor, so some comedies get panned even if they're funny. I for one thought Super Troopers was pretty great. Its tomatometer rating pretty bad.

But if something's pretentious and artsy, and the critics still hate it, that's a slam-dunk for me usually. And if it's action or sci-fi and critics actually like it, I find that those movies are usually among my favorites.

Excellent quote.
I've always loved Sloan and their communal/collectivistic approach to writing and performing. Growing up in small town Ontario I was able to see them at quite a few summer festivals.

Agreed. Though, as far as song writers go I'd have to say Tom Gabel (lead singer of Against Me!) is one of the best. He seems to capture western culture perfectly, both in his disdain and need to be a part of it in some sense.

I'm from Newfoundland myself. We don't get near the kind of exposure to live acts as the rest of Canada. Did see Pearl Jam play live (twice) though.

I hate everyone that isn't just like everyone else.
I hate everyone that is just like everyone else.
I hate your favorite band.
I hate haters.

This thread lost all credibility when someone implied that 300 was a better film than Lawrence of Arabia

It's useless trying to make a movie appeal to hipsters by putting hipster characters and hip music in it. Hipsters don't want to see other hipsters because they hate other hipsters. That's what being a hipster is all about.

And anyway, fashion changes so quickly for hipsters that, by the time a movie is in theatres, the audience it was made for no longer exists, having moved on to other trends.

These people like movies about dorky idiots, that have goofy music or old mainstream music like The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, not movies about bearded guys in girl jeans listening to the flavour of the month. And you know what else they like? farking Pixar movies.

It's like trying to make a movie appeal to tween boys by putting tween boys in it. Do tween boys want to see a movie about tween boys doing tween boy stuff like going to school and playing videogames and listening to tween music and jerking off? No, they want to watch a movie about a muscle man on Mars shooting dinosaurs with a bazooka.

timefishblue: It's useless trying to make a movie appeal to hipsters by putting hipster characters and hip music in it. Hipsters don't want to see other hipsters because they hate other hipsters. That's what being a hipster is all about.

And anyway, fashion changes so quickly for hipsters that, by the time a movie is in theatres, the audience it was made for no longer exists, having moved on to other trends.

These people like movies about dorky idiots, that have goofy music or old mainstream music like The Beatles or The Rolling Stones, not movies about bearded guys in girl jeans listening to the flavour of the month. And you know what else they like? farking Pixar movies.

It's like trying to make a movie appeal to tween boys by putting tween boys in it. Do tween boys want to see a movie about tween boys doing tween boy stuff like going to school and playing videogames and listening to tween music and jerking off? No, they want to watch a movie about a muscle man on Mars shooting dinosaurs with a bazooka.

Exactly. The only demo that actually likes movies about itself is the "Stuff White People Like" demo. And apparently black people, if the persistence of blaxploitation means anything.

I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."

Oh man, I am not doing that. You farking evil scumbags!

"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every farking thing on this planet!

"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."

God, I'm just caught in a farking web.

"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."

How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like farking babies at night, don't you?

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

I salute you

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. "

Hipster: You know the scene in Life Of Bryan where Brian addresses a huge mob outside his window and says to them, "You're All Individuals,", and the mob says back, "Yes, We're All Individuals," and one guy says, "Wait, I'm Not?" That one guy is a hipster.

timefishblue: It's useless trying to make a movie appeal to hipsters by putting hipster characters and hip music in it. Hipsters don't want to see other hipsters because they hate other hipsters. That's what being a hipster is all about.

As a hipster film critic who has seen 500 Days of Summer, I beg to disagree with you. You'd be right if the movie was just about hipsters being ridiculous and discussing what vegan bakery to have lunch, then it'd be intolerable.

500 Days of Summer is not like Garden State, but Annie Hall. Both take a completely unoriginal ideas (girl breaks up with guy), and add a bunch of weird references and visual gags. Instead of Marshall McLuhan appearing behind a wall (as in Annie Hall), you have a Hall & Oates musical number. Ironically, what saves 500 Days from being just another hipster movie is its universal appeal. Who hasn't felt like shiat after being dumped?

Good call on the older music, though. Tom (the main character) listens to the Smiths and wears a Joy Division t-shirt.

Rapmaster2000: PJ_the_Barbarian: As a grammar nazi, I'm glad to see they got "Batten down the hatches" right.

If I hear one more person express the opinion that hatches are for buttoning, I'll be slightly vexed.

For all intensive purposes, it's a perfectly cromulent phrase.

Irregardless, it is not as unique as it should ought to be.

There are different kinds of hipsters.

But generally I define it as what kids from various niche music scenes...punk/goth/the occasional hippy...grow into. They try to express their "different-ness" in more socially conservative ways in adulthood...buy purchasing whatever is marketed to them as counterculture hipness. iPods, Minis/VWs, designer jeans, and the like. They tend to actually be the most sheepish demographic in the adult population.

TypoFlyspray: Hipster: You know the scene in Life Of Bryan where Brian addresses a huge mob outside his window and says to them, "You're All Individuals,", and the mob says back, "Yes, We're All Individuals," and one guy says, "Wait, I'm Not?" That one guy is a hipster.

Every once in a while you see a real nonconformist: somebody in a long-tailed white tuxedo he got from Goodwill, with a sphygmomanometer wrapped around his arm for no apparent reason, and a tricorne on his head. I like those people, because they remind me of how ridiculous your average "nonconformist" is.

dittybopper: 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.

FTW!

boobsrgood: 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

W isn't a fricative. It's a voiced labial-velar approximant (pops).

I'm not even going to go near the rest of that.

/TMYK

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

Only if they suck for other reasons. Your fark handle immunizes you from any major consideration of suckage, though.

DWT Samus: This thread lost all credibility when someone implied that 300 was a better film than Lawrence of Arabia

Not the whole thread, surely, merely the 13 year old who posted it.

timefishblue: Do tween boys want to see a movie about tween boys doing tween boy stuff like going to school and playing videogames and listening to tween music and jerking off? No, they want to watch a movie about a muscle man on Mars shooting dinosaurs with a bazooka.

You're hired!

PJ_the_Barbarian: TypoFlyspray: Hipster: You know the scene in Life Of Bryan where Brian addresses a huge mob outside his window and says to them, "You're All Individuals,", and the mob says back, "Yes, We're All Individuals," and one guy says, "Wait, I'm Not?" That one guy is a hipster.

Every once in a while you see a real nonconformist: somebody in a long-tailed white tuxedo he got from Goodwill, with a sphygmomanometer wrapped around his arm for no apparent reason, and a tricorne on his head. I like those people, because they remind me of how ridiculous your average "nonconformist" is.

Do I know you?

TypoFlyspray: PJ_the_Barbarian: TypoFlyspray: Hipster: You know the scene in Life Of Bryan where Brian addresses a huge mob outside his window and says to them, "You're All Individuals,", and the mob says back, "Yes, We're All Individuals," and one guy says, "Wait, I'm Not?" That one guy is a hipster.

Every once in a while you see a real nonconformist: somebody in a long-tailed white tuxedo he got from Goodwill, with a sphygmomanometer wrapped around his arm for no apparent reason, and a tricorne on his head. I like those people, because they remind me of how ridiculous your average "nonconformist" is.

Do I know you?

If the person who the "white long tailed tuxedo from goodwill" bit made you think of was from Ohio and is no longer with us, I suppose it's possible.

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

I salute you

No one would have believed in the beginning of the 21st Century that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences hipper than Man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the indie media scene, intellects vast and cool and unsypathetic regarded our culture with envious eyes, and slowly and surely joined their plans against us.

Martstar: I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."

Oh man, I am not doing that. You farking evil scumbags!

"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."

Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every farking thing on this planet!

"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."

God, I'm just caught in a farking web.

"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."

How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like farking babies at night, don't you?

Why does Bill Hicks smoke girl's cigarettes?

Latinwolf: 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:

looks like Long Island

/swear to god, in Nassau county there is a Ginny Woods Rd

I'm not a hipster, but I have a thing for really bad horror movies. I'm a huge fan of Roger Corman flicks. I also love weird moves.. Rocky Horror Picture Show and Repo The Genetic Opera are both high on my favorite movies ever list.

PJ_the_Barbarian: you're saying that hipster bashing is wrong because there's a group that is more deserving of a bashing.

Um, maybe the group that makes all the rules, has all the money, declares all the wars and makes sure everything on TV sucks arse?

You know? Your buddies?

Hipsters are just people who know how much this culture sucks baboon balls. Every day, in every way. It's poo. And look Madge, I'm soaking in it.

This is supposed to be the next hit indie movie:
The Dirty Garage (new window)

Hipster check list:

Do you listen to NPR?
Are you holding a Mac Book right now?
Will you drink coffee that costs less than $4?
Are you proud of the fact know one knows any of your favorite bands?
Do you carry a canvas shoulder bag?
Do you only move your head when you dance?
Do your jeans look painted on?
Did you take up smoking just to impress your friends?
In the last year, have you bragged about not watching TV?
Did your liberal arts degree fail to prepare you for a real career?
Do you have multiple pairs of brightly colored Converse All-Stars?
Are your sunglasses big enough to cover 1/3 of your face?
Do you tell people you have never heard of Lady Gaga, eventhough you have?
Is your t-shirt too tight? Does it have an ironic 80's band name?


Un-hipster checklist

Do you listen to sports talk radio?
Do you take pride in having two mouse buttons?
Will you refuse to drink coffee with whipped creme in it?
You own multiple Nickleback CDs.
Do you wear a tie to work?
Will you air guitar at any given moment?
Do your clothes fit comfortably in the crotch and chest?
Will you smoke pot all by yourself?
Did you watch "The Biggest Loser" just so you have something to talk about at work?
Does your college degree prepare you for a trade?
Do you only wear sneakers at the gym?
Do your eyeglass frames NOT look like your grandmothers?
When you tell people you don't know Arcade Fire, are you serious?
Does your t-shirt have the current logo of a sports team on it?


Add up the top list, subtract the number from the bottom.

BilltheThrill: Hipster check list:

Do you listen to NPR?
Yes
Are you holding a Mac Book right now?
Company issued HP Notebook, No
Will you drink coffee that costs less than $4?
Yes, only coffee I drink comes out of my Mr. Coffee
Are you proud of the fact know one knows any of your favorite bands?
I'll give myself a point for this one, although I may be less hip than I think I am when it comes to indie-music.
Do you carry a canvas shoulder bag?
Nope
Do you only move your head when you dance?
No, I'm usually drunk and the rest of me moves as well
Do your jeans look painted on?
No, Old Navy jeans
Did you take up smoking just to impress your friends?
Probably in the beginning, before the addiction took place
In the last year, have you bragged about not watching TV?
No, but I brag about what TV shows I'm not watching (Jon and Kate are on the rocks? Who are they?)
Did your liberal arts degree fail to prepare you for a real career?
Engineering Degree, got me a regular type job
Do you have multiple pairs of brightly colored Converse All-Stars?
Pumas, nope
Are your sunglasses big enough to cover 1/3 of your face?
I have those awesome "Cops" style glass, so ya I guess
Do you tell people you have never heard of Lady Gaga, eventhough you have?
Who?
Is your t-shirt too tight? Does it have an ironic 80's band name?
Yes, but only because of the weight gain...

Total Points: 6 points (some I gave myself 1/2)
Un-hipster checklist

Do you listen to sports talk radio?
Yes, Mike and Mike when I can
Do you take pride in having two mouse buttons?
Yes, how the hell to do even LIVE?
Will you refuse to drink coffee with whipped creme in it?
No, I secretly wish that they accidently add some when I order
You own multiple Nickleback CDs.
No, but it's nice to know I'm not a hipster if I own just one
Do you wear a tie to work?
No, but I wouldn't be opposed to it
Will you air guitar at any given moment?
Why not? Shows off my ridiculousness skills
Do your clothes fit comfortably in the crotch and chest?
Mostly, but this relates to the weight gain...
Will you smoke pot all by yourself?
Don't smoke....ALL BY MYSEELLLFF
Did you watch "The Biggest Loser" just so you have something to talk about at work?
No, I gain no pleasure in watching others succeed
Does your college degree prepare you for a trade?
Sorta, kinda
Do you only wear sneakers at the gym?
As opposed to my platform shoes, of course
Do your eyeglass frames NOT look like your grandmothers?
Yes, they are different
When you tell people you don't know Arcade Fire, are you serious?
Yes, Arcade Fire?
Does your t-shirt have the current logo of a sports team on it?
Unless the Packers changed their logo over the summer, it's
currently my undershirt

Total Points: 9

Total Sum: - 3 points...I AM NOT A HIPSTER! I am better than those that are Hipsters!

/ah ha, Myspace style checklists on FARK!

well, this has been a successful thread after all. I have now read the word "hipster" so many times that it has ceased to have any meaning.

Problem solved

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

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Three rights make a left.

/had to say it

With my hair being the way it is, do I qualify as a "hipster"?

Land of the Lost is terrible. Just terrible.

Harry Lime: I hate everyone that isn't just like everyone else.
I hate everyone that is just like everyone else.
I hate your favorite band.
I hate haters.

too words.

"i hate everyone and everything"

/i actually was (and still want to) make a shirt that says on the front "I HATE PEOPLE"

and on the ack it would say "AND IF YOU HATE PEOPLE TOO, MAYBE WE CAN BE FRIENDS"

NeuroticRocker: /i actually was (and still want to) make a shirt that says on the front "I HATE PEOPLE"

and on the back it would say "AND IF YOU HATE PEOPLE TOO, MAYBE WE CAN BE FRIENDS"

Where can I get one of these?

shnackin: NeuroticRocker: /i actually was (and still want to) make a shirt that says on the front "I HATE PEOPLE"

and on the back it would say "AND IF YOU HATE PEOPLE TOO, MAYBE WE CAN BE FRIENDS"

Where can I get one of these?

when i make one, i can possible send you one. I need to do it in bulk.

im also getting / making a shirt that says

STOP
MEME
ABUSE

ugh damn. POSSIBLY** send you one.

boobsrgood: PJ_the_Barbarian: you're saying that hipster bashing is wrong because there's a group that is more deserving of a bashing.

Um, maybe the group that makes all the rules, has all the money, declares all the wars and makes sure everything on TV sucks arse?

You know? Your buddies?

Hipsters are just people who know how much this culture sucks baboon balls. Every day, in every way. It's poo. And look Madge, I'm soaking in it.

so the nebulous "power elites" are my "buddies" because I don't respect a subculture that represents nothing beyond its own special brand of self-satisfied egotism - who, in fact, define themselves by popular culture perhaps more thoroughly than any other group by trying to calculate its opposite and be that.

And on top of all of it, you persist in the fallacious argument that hipsters are either the only non-participants in pop culture or somehow ennobled by their disdain for it, without justifying either claim, and without explaining why "B-b-b-but Burger King!" isn't a red herring.

NeuroticRocker: when i make one, i can possible send you one. I need to do it in bulk.

Sweet. That shirt idea reminds me of a high school friend I had back in the day. He always used to say "I hate people" in a half serious, half joking tone. Everyone kind of thought it was a little weird and a little psychotic, but overall he was a really nice guy and we all got along with him. After going through college, getting a full time job, and meeting/dealing with lots of people along the way, I've realized why he always said that: society in general is full of idiots and morans, and the stupidity that is present is mind-boggling. My friend was wise beyond his years.

/still friends with him to this day
//one of my most reliable and true friends
///despite his psychotic rants, he never killed or hurt anyone ever (that I know of...)

shnackin: NeuroticRocker: when i make one, i can possible send you one. I need to do it in bulk.

Sweet. That shirt idea reminds me of a high school friend I had back in the day. He always used to say "I hate people" in a half serious, half joking tone. Everyone kind of thought it was a little weird and a little psychotic, but overall he was a really nice guy and we all got along with him. After going through college, getting a full time job, and meeting/dealing with lots of people along the way, I've realized why he always said that: society in general is full of idiots and morans, and the stupidity that is present is mind-boggling. My friend was wise beyond his years.

/still friends with him to this day
//one of my most reliable and true friends
///despite his psychotic rants, he never killed or hurt anyone ever (that I know of...)

well, yeah, society is full of assholes and retards....and cold-hearted coonts.

but im sick and tired of these "rules"...im not referring to laws. i mean rules. where we have to have these personas. being yourself is so difficult because EVERYONE is so goddamn judgmental and superficial and unforgiving. and selfish. and you cant trust anyone really.

oh and my favorite 2 are: lower your expecations. and 2...and this is the real kicker:

when you like someone, you cant show them you like them. youre supposed to pretend that you dont like them EVEN THOUGH they know you like them. so you finally win her over till you can say "i like you"

its a waste of time. and im not a game player. if i like someone, im not shy about it. i mean i dont stand outside her window singing songs, but i never played the game correctly anyway.

all these farking games and rules. its not a farking joke people.

here, this song HELPS sum it up:

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