What's a Hipster?

[jdhu]

What are you doing that's so significant?

LOL, nothing. But hey, at least I "know that I don't know."

 

[Bay Arean]

There are plenty of age 50+ hipsters, especially women. You'll find them driving VW Beetles, wearing retro 1950's glasses, flamboyantly colored hair, iPhone in a neon-colored case with paisleys on it, and blabbing about various artists and progressive causes.

I thought those are what Eldritch calls filthy hippies! Like the kind who go to Hardly Strictly and wear Vibram toe-socks.

 

[Entoptic]

I love glove and boots. They do a great Hipster video.

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[carries an axe]

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edit:
I like Paisley, they don't get to have Paisley

 

[frozenuts]

Hipsters: On the cutting edge of what used to be cutting edge.

see also "Nostalgia for an age that never existed"

 

[Zerox]

All future medical doctors in the U.S. will be either Indian, Chinese or Russian.

No hipsters.

 

[jdhu]

All future medical doctors in the U.S. will be either Indian, Chinese or Russian.

No hipsters.

Anti-post of the day.

 

[DReg350]

Well, this has been quite an eye opener. Bay Arean, and the rest of you, shed some good light on the topic. Being a visual kind a guy, the video shared by Entopic cleared up any remaining ambiguity I might have had.

I must admit to some disappointment with hipsters adopting Pabst Blue Ribbon as their sudsy beverage of choice. I'm a craft beer kinda a guy myself, but wheeling and fishing demand cans. PBR has always been my weapon of choice in a canned road soda. Good bye sweet PBR.

The good news is that while in Colorado over the holidays I discovered Dale's Pale Ale. Just need to find a local distributor. You guys think hipsters'll steal this from me too?

Oh, and I guess I can definitely leave all the retro t-shirts at Old Navy on the racks from now on.

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

Well, this has been quite an eye opener. Bay Arean, and the rest of you, shed some good light on the topic. Being a visual kind a guy, the video shared by Entopic cleared up any remaining ambiguity I might have had.

I must admit to some disappointment with hipsters adopting Pabst Blue Ribbon as their sudsy beverage of choice. I'm a craft beer kinda a guy myself, but wheeling and fishing demand cans. PBR has always been my weapon of choice in a canned road soda. Good bye sweet PBR.

The good news is that while in Colorado over the holidays I discovered Dale's Pale Ale. Just need to find a local distributor. You guys think hipsters'll steal this from me too?

Oh, and I guess I can definitely leave all the retro t-shirts at Old Navy on the racks from now on.

rembo groccery in SF carries that brewing company.
However I have only bought their Mama's Littl Yella Pils from them.

now do classify me or not as a hipster based on this post.. meh


I do not understand why 'hipsters' have to drink PBR. I would've thought that PBR is the drink of the Good Ol' Country. If you do show up in the Good Ole Country with $200 jeans, clean but yet long beard and hairdo, I wonder what the 'locals' will think of you.. if you get what I mean. So am I wrong? The local PBR drinkers will just love you?

 

[jdhu]

I do not understand why 'hipsters' have to drink PBR. I would've thought that PBR is the drink of the Good Ol' Country. If you do show up in the Good Ole Country with $200 jeans, clean but yet long beard and hairdo, I wonder what the 'locals' will think of you.. if you get what I mean. So am I wrong? The local PBR drinkers will just love you?

Would guess it's part of the irony? The irony being that they are educated and so aware of the world, but choose to drink this poor man/redneck beer.

 

[tuxumino]

2:00 min mark or 3:55 or 5:00


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[revnort]

Well, this has been quite an eye opener. Bay Arean, and the rest of you, shed some good light on the topic. Being a visual kind a guy, the video shared by Entopic cleared up any remaining ambiguity I might have had.

I must admit to some disappointment with hipsters adopting Pabst Blue Ribbon as their sudsy beverage of choice. I'm a craft beer kinda a guy myself, but wheeling and fishing demand cans. PBR has always been my weapon of choice in a canned road soda. Good bye sweet PBR.

The good news is that while in Colorado over the holidays I discovered Dale's Pale Ale. Just need to find a local distributor. You guys think hipsters'll steal this from me too?

Oh, and I guess I can definitely leave all the retro t-shirts at Old Navy on the racks from now on.

Hipster is the most overused, misunderstood term for a group of people ever.

If you alter your behavior in order to not be labeled a hipster that makes you kind of a hipster. Drink your PBR if you like it.

 

[Bay Arean]

rembo groccery in SF carries that brewing company.
However I have only bought their Mama's Littl Yella Pils from them.

now do classify me or not as a hipster based on this post.. meh


I do not understand why 'hipsters' have to drink PBR. I would've thought that PBR is the drink of the Good Ol' Country. If you do show up in the Good Ole Country with $200 jeans, clean but yet long beard and hairdo, I wonder what the 'locals' will think of you.. if you get what I mean. So am I wrong? The local PBR drinkers will just love you?

Hipsters really congregate in just a few areas, I don't think they are attempting to go to the country to be conspicuously ironic. It's play-acting for each other, although they will go on the road, if they can afford it, in dinky teardrop trailers (or would like to).

And, coming from a family of ranchers who live in the Good Ol Country, they don't drink PBR; mostly Bud or Coors Light. Go to a summer rodeo and that's what the beer wagons have on tap. But, I will say, that there is usally one tap of something nearly crafty, like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or Sam Adams, anymore, at least in California. Probably not in other states...

As for post above: I am thinking of a fairly small group of people, concentrated in just a few urban areas that you can count on one hand. These are the true enclaves; otherwise there is hipster behavior, but lack the critical mass. I know there is an area in Portland, one in LA, and Williamsburg,Brooklyn. That's who I am talking about. I'm not even sure there is one solid hipster n-hood in our Bay Area, but likely in SF, I guess.

But I have known a few people who were pre-hipsters. Always with the wacky clothes on the girls, with pointy 50s glasses, and the guys were doing the dickies and t-shirts and greased hair. It seems like they were trying to gentrify the Mission back in the 80s, I hear. They were around, but I don't think there was a name for them....when it's all said and done, hipsters seem to be kind of younger and more ignorant because of the failure of our public educational system, sort of like the way people laughed at the Occupy people compared to Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement. From Sartre to hand-signals.....from ties and jackets to hemp-n-friendship bracelets.

 

[revnort]

rembo groccery in SF carries that brewing company.
However I have only bought their Mama's Littl Yella Pils from them.

now do classify me or not as a hipster based on this post.. meh


I do not understand why 'hipsters' have to drink PBR. I would've thought that PBR is the drink of the Good Ol' Country. If you do show up in the Good Ole Country with $200 jeans, clean but yet long beard and hairdo, I wonder what the 'locals' will think of you.. if you get what I mean. So am I wrong? The local PBR drinkers will just love you?

Would guess it's part of the irony? The irony being that they are educated and so aware of the world, but choose to drink this poor man/redneck beer.

The PBR thing is hilarious. I drink craft beer and I drink shitty beer. Sometimes I just want a watery PBR, or Tecate. I don't always want a heavy high alcohol content beer. Sometimes I just want something to drink over the course of a couple hours that isn't going to get me totally wasted.

Call me a hipster if you want but every time I hear someone throwing that label around I think they are utterly retarded. Usually it is just an attempt to feel better about themselves and balk at someone else's choices by saying oh look at that hipster. I believe the other word for that is pretension. Which I thought is how you guys defined hipsters.

 

[Reli]

I'm quite certain the vast majority of PBR drinkers don't drink it because they like it. They drink it because they pride themselves on "re-discovering" a formerly dead brand. Because after all, that's the hipster mantra: "discovering" shit in order to thumb their nose at the mainstream. Same goes for their choices in music, fashion, etc.

 

[revnort]

I'm quite certain the vast majority of PBR drinkers don't drink it because they like it. They drink it because they pride themselves on "re-discovering" a formerly dead brand. Because after all, that's the hipster mantra: "discovering" shit in order to thumb their nose at the mainstream. Same goes for their choices in music, fashion, etc.

Wrong, PBR never went away. It is a cheap beer. People drink it because it costs $2-3 at a bar, as opposed to the $5-8 of hopstastic hopulater. Craft beer, and have you tried (insert some micro brewery), is way more hipstery.

 

[jdhu]

The PBR thing is hilarious. I drink craft beer and I drink shitty beer. Sometimes I just want a watery PBR, or Tecate. I don't always want a heavy high alcohol content beer. Sometimes I just want something to drink over the course of a couple hours that isn't going to get me totally wasted.

Call me a hipster if you want but every time I hear someone throwing that label around I think they are utterly retarded. Usually it is just an attempt to feel better about themselves and balk at someone else's choices by saying oh look at that hipster. I believe the other word for that is pretension. Which I thought is how you guys defined hipsters.

But, there is a generally agreed-upon definition of "hipster," right? Even though none of our descriptions matched precisely, they were all pretty close.

As for PBR, to me, it is interchangeable with Natural Light/Ice, even Bud/Coors. In other words, watery beer which is great for beer pong, in the summer, etc. I didn't know the stereotype that hipsters like PBR, until today (so, I consider today to be a successful day).

 

[frozenduc]

There are plenty of age 50+ hipsters, especially women. You'll find them driving VW Beetles, wearing retro 1950's glasses, flamboyantly colored hair, iPhone in a neon-colored case with paisleys on it, and blabbing about various artists and indie flicks.

Oh you mean liberals?

And don't forget this for the manly hipsters.

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

Wrong, PBR never went away. It is a cheap beer. People drink it because it costs $2-3 at a bar, as opposed to the $5-8 of hopstastic hopulater. Craft beer, and have you tried (insert some micro brewery), is way more hipstery.

whatever you're drinking but I've had $4, now $5 standard beers since forever. The trick is, just always get the Stella, or Anchor if you wanna be basic.

The PBR thing is hilarious. I drink craft beer and I drink shitty beer. Sometimes I just want a watery PBR, or Tecate. I don't always want a heavy high alcohol content beer. Sometimes I just want something to drink over the course of a couple hours that isn't going to get me totally wasted.

when I want a 'watery' beer I just get golden standards dude!!! Any Pilzen. Any Anchor. Any Pyramid or whatever. I'd have said Stella but I haven't had that soapy stuff in forever.

However I would agree that people simply drink PBR because it's cheap. I am not sure the ironic PBR thing is really true .. any more?

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

Weird thread. What do I know. I bet the 'hipster' label only exists on the internets. I haven't heard it in the real life.. much.


IMO I'd say there are hipsters AND trendsters.