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What's a Hipster?

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DReg350

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I'm an ol' dood, so I really don't know. Thought a hipster was associated the with Hip Hop scene, but I'm not so sure anymore.

If I wanted to be a hipster, should I have a specific mind set? Dress a specific way? shop at specific stores? Eat at specific restaurants? Listen to specific music? Live in specific neighborhoods or cities? Drive/ride a specific car/motorcycle? What does it mean to be a hipster? :dunno
 

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DReg350 said:
I'm an ol' dood, so I really don't know. Thought a hipster was associated the with Hip Hop scene, but I'm not so sure anymore.

If I wanted to be a hipster, should I have a specific mind set? Dress a specific way? shop at specific stores? Eat at specific restaurants? Listen to specific music? Live in specific neighborhoods or cities? Drive/ride a specific car/motorcycle? What does it mean to be a hipster? :dunno
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I suspect hipsters are like pornography. I can't define one, but I know one when I see them.
 
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Good guide from Paste magazine here. There's a spectrum.

I ride a naked bike, drink espresso and occasionally use a messenger bag, so I am probably 5 -10% hipster...
 
Start with rediculous clothing, stupid hat of some sort, stupid glasses of some sort, and drink beer that doubles for piss. Pretend you like things that no one else has heard of, music especially. Don't think I've seen a fat hipster, so be skinny I think, and have some tats.

Miss anything?:laughing
 
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Anyways, my definition is young people into contemporary alternative fashion.
 
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It's all about being ironic.

But it's funny how some things never change...

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there's several levels of hipsters...

there's the skinny jeans, clothes too small type hipsters

and most common in san francisco , only because they're too fat for skinny jeans, are the carhartt wearing mofos, thick plastic framed glasses, greased up rockabilly type hair, long side burns, usually wearing a mechanic jacket or a carhartt jacket, work boots all while working as a bicycle mechanic that only has one tool..
 
Hipsters are young people under fifty who talk too loudly and take up space. They should be shot and dumped into the Bay. When I go to Starbux for coffee, I don't want to have to listen to other people.
 
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Hipsters are young people under fifty who talk too loudly and take up space. They should be shot and dumped into the Bay. When I go to Starbux for coffee, I don't want to have to listen to other people.
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So... hipsters seem to like irony, right? So... you go to Starbux, which is a public place where you can count on running into scads of people, yet you don't want to have to listen to other people? Ironic, isn't it? You a hipster yourself? :laughing
 
Hipsters are people who wish to be engaged in the eternal group activity of being "current", but do it in an extremely self-conscious and ironic way. They use the word "authentic" a lot, and practice it, by adopting historic folkways of past generations, like nerd-goggle classes from the 50s and 60s, drinking beer from America's industrial age , adopting "looks" from iconic movie characters or mythologized American consumers. All of the play-acting is the "ironic" part. They COULD drink good beer, like craftbrews, but ironically drink bad beer, like PBR, because it's evocative of the American industrial past.

To me, they are harmless and very positive and gregarious people that I have nothing in common with, except for disdain of excessive corporate consuming. They contribute to the local economy and encourage businesses that promote local culture and color over bland, corporate monoculture.

I find them amusing and a bit precious. How can you not laugh at 20 hipsters who have made the commitment to find and restore old Mo-peds just so they can ride them around ironically? They are just having fun and gawdknows we need more social fun, when so many people are living extremely isolated lives with their portable computing devices.

As for seeing them at Starbux? That's surprising to me, I think they would prefer a one-off cafe called "Mom's" or something that features the ridiculous new trend of single-serve slow-pour coffee. They've even brought back bland medium or light-roast coffee, which slays me; considering I have lived long enough to see the majority of people go from Yuban to Peet's.
 
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Good guide from Paste magazine here. There's a spectrum.

I ride a naked bike, drink espresso and occasionally use a messenger bag, so I am probably 5 -10% hipster...
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Even though I've heard the term for years I never bothered taking the time to figure out what defines a hipster. That poster is a good recourse.

Now I get it, they're the people I ignore :thumbup
 
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I still don't understand liking things "ironically".
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Well being ironic is the sort of annoying thing: they want YOU to know that THEY know that things have changed and progressed over time for a reason, but they are chosing to evoke a past age.

this ties into something that is kinda sad. Hipsters seem to operate on the basic premise that they have thus far lived bland, uninteresting lives in either suburbia or small town America, lacking the vitality and evolution of big cities. They are also acutely aware that older generations had more "authentic" upbringings, which is in fact, true (my childhood was infintely more interesting than my kids' generation except for farm kids. So they flock to certain parts of major cities and go crazy out-of-their-way to self-consciously be "interesting" Ms. BA's dtr lives near Williamsburg in Brooklyn and she relates that many of the hipsters she have met are all from somewhere else, not native New Yorkers.

Editing in: though I am far from a hipster in so many ways, I was informed HERE that owning a Bonneville is kinda hipster. And I realize why: my bike basically looks like its 50 years old. It doesn't have all the Transformer robot plastic swoopie-doopie look (AND features, like water cooling) of sprotbiles. For me, there is an element of nostalgia, but that's because I actually am old enough to have lived when those bikes were current. I wanted one then, and finally got it! For a young hipster, its not nostalgia, its irony that they would reject all the good modern things new bikes have to ride something that looks old. And I'm sure they would prefer an actual old Bonneville, not the modern retro that I ride.
 
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Just look for these..
 

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Yeh, the nerd goggles are a great example. The fact is, modern eyeware is infintely more comfortable, lightweight and durable than nerd-goggles (and on most faces, better looking). But hipsters wear 'em to be ironic.

In their own way, they are fashion victims, but on purpose. Which is ironic.
 
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