Inspired by the Rockford thread, there appears to be some confusion. What exactly is a hipster and how would I identify a hipster in the wild?

4/6/2010 4:56:54 PM

the only real definition is that you'll know one when you see one

4/6/2010 4:57:47 PM

You don't. They identify you as a square douchebag and leave you alone.

[Edited on April 6, 2010 at 4:59 PM. Reason : terms change]

4/6/2010 4:58:03 PM

Pilgrimshoes is a hipster

Thegoodlife3 is a hipster

Skack is a hipster

Thats the only ones I'm sure of, tho several others are under suspicion

4/6/2010 4:58:07 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%28contemporary_subculture%29

Wikipedia never lies.

^^ lol, to each his own, but I don't disagree with that definition.

[Edited on April 6, 2010 at 4:58 PM. Reason : x]

4/6/2010 4:58:09 PM

i'm pretty sure i'm a hipster because all i do when i go in public is judge other people. and i hate myself. and i drink cheap beer. and i don't think i'm a hipster, which i'm pretty sure is the most important point

4/6/2010 4:58:47 PM

music snob does not equal hipster

just fyi

4/6/2010 4:58:54 PM

blah blah blah irony yadda yadda plaid ramble ramble kerouac blah blah blah nonsense

4/6/2010 4:59:02 PM

they have paper mache breasts.

4/6/2010 4:59:54 PM

yeah it does

4/6/2010 5:00:26 PM

I don't know the answer but I hate eastern BBQ and I don't tip airplane treadmill

4/6/2010 5:00:43 PM

Lolkipedia:

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""Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay. They're the people who wear t-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you've never heard of and the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good beer. They sport cowboy hats and berets and think Kanye West stole their sunglasses. Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care." — Time, July 2009[4]"

4/6/2010 5:01:22 PM

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"Airplane treadmill"

It takes off.

4/6/2010 5:01:39 PM

PLAID! i love plaid i love plaid

PBR! i love pbr i love pbr. i mean, it isn't LOVE love. but its a you are cheap so i love you kind of love. i also drink other cheap beer though. i mean, who am i to discriminate against cheap beer? i am a poor student, afterall.

JEANS! i love jeans i love jeans

MUSIC! i love music i love music

NOT SHOWERING! i mean, sometimes its cool to not shower. i don't smell though if thats what you're asking (that would be hippIE)

BIKES! i love bikes i love bikes! maybe if i rode one i'd be skinner

[Edited on April 6, 2010 at 5:02 PM. Reason : .]

4/6/2010 5:01:43 PM

i don't care what kind of vibe you're trying to put off, showering is a must.

4/6/2010 5:02:15 PM

i think hipsters are fairly clean for the most part

they just rock the disheveled look

4/6/2010 5:03:16 PM

Saw a pornstar the other day who looks like kadwachel

I couldn't beat to it tho because the guy creeped me out

4/6/2010 5:03:54 PM

for dudes, these are hipster traits:

bangs that are longer than the rest of his hair

too tight jeans

thick, black frame glasses

vintage road bike

messenger bag

lip piercing

arm sleeve tattoo

4/6/2010 5:05:04 PM

4/6/2010 5:05:25 PM

lolz

4/6/2010 5:06:19 PM

i think they all have to move to the homeless shelter when jackpot closes

4/6/2010 5:06:38 PM

i guess this means i'm old b/c i really don't understand it at all

4/6/2010 5:07:14 PM

IBT"What's a nubian?"

4/6/2010 5:07:17 PM

oh come on

you people act like you've set foot in the jackpot before

"AHHH PEOPLE LOOKED AT ME CAUSE I WAS WEARING A POLO SHIRT"

nigga please

don't nobody care what you wear in there. everyone here is wayyy too into themselves thinking all other people do is sit around all day and think about them and their polo shirts. jeeebus christ.

besides the new kings is opening. 3 levels of hipster glory. you guys might wanna run before THEY start taking over. uh huh. keep a look out over your shoulder for the scenester jort bike patrol.

[Edited on April 6, 2010 at 5:10 PM. Reason : .]

4/6/2010 5:08:41 PM

This looks like a fun game:







[Edited on April 6, 2010 at 5:12 PM. Reason : .]

4/6/2010 5:09:49 PM

I'm pretentious and stuck up because of where I drink. That's all I know.

[Edited on April 6, 2010 at 5:10 PM. Reason : ^ haha, I've never seen that]

4/6/2010 5:09:50 PM

4/6/2010 5:10:27 PM

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"scenester jort bike patrol."

HAHAHAAHAHHA

4/6/2010 5:11:36 PM

i left out bearded

crap.

4/6/2010 5:12:20 PM

wait

jackpot is closing?

4/6/2010 5:12:46 PM

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"jackpot is closing?"

I have actually been there a few times. Not bad, just never my first choice for a boozing establishment

[Edited on April 6, 2010 at 5:17 PM. Reason : ..]

4/6/2010 5:15:39 PM

^^ that is the word. not like right this second. but they think it is coming

and all the non-hipsters should watch out. you have told us all too much already. i see you over there at hibernian while i'm nomming my tofu burrito at the rockford. now that all my hangouts are gone i guess i'll just have to hit up glenwood south.

what do you say guys? FIRST we can go to hibernian (or should we start at tobacco road?) then we can make our way down to high 5 for a dance partay. OMG WE ARE GOING TO BE BEST FRIENDS!

4/6/2010 5:18:42 PM

we sat next to a couple of excruciating douchebag-hipster hybrids in montreal this weekend. a guy who did all the talking and a girl who just ate up anything he said.

let's see. . .

- guy with tight jeans & tight shirt
- girl had a secondhand dress on that made her look like the kool-aid man, and . . . bright red rayban wayfarers
- smoking the cheapest cigarettes they could find
- scene hair

guy was trying hard to act interesting by:

- nonchalantly mentioning having friends in a band ("no, they're not signed, a guy came to watch them but that's not how the music industry works")
- knowing what they think is a lot about literature (wrong)
- knowing that all rapists are actually necrophiliacs deep down (wrong)
- claiming "i have to be made uncomfortable by a person the first time i meet them in order to like them"
- being smarter than all his professors
- nonchalantly listing all the drugs he's done
- advising that it's a bad idea to masturbate on MDMA (he wouldn't call it anything else)
- advising that you don't do mushrooms in february

complaining about:

- people who have 9-5 jobs ("they're okay if you're fine with giving up your joy")
- people who go to concerts anywhere larger than a small club

the girl just sat there and exclaimed "OMG I KNOW!!!!" about everything the dude said. he had something she wanted. i don't know what it was but she was all about agreeing with him.

oh, by the way, the guy works as a grad student assistant in English.

the girl works at starbucks.

4/6/2010 5:18:45 PM

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"Hipsterdom is the first “counterculture” to be born under the advertising industry’s microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations. Less a subculture, the hipster is a consumer group – using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion."

4/6/2010 5:19:24 PM

http://www.latfh.com/

4/6/2010 5:19:47 PM

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"- people who have 9-5 jobs ("they're okay if you're fine with giving up your joy")"

LOL!

4/6/2010 5:20:19 PM

so are scenesters and hipsters synonyms now?

i already gathered that emo and hipster were.

4/6/2010 5:20:30 PM

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"what do you say guys? FIRST we can go to hibernian (or should we start at tobacco road?)"

You know, talk shit all you want, but Tobacco Road is actually a GREAT place to watch games... no matter who you are. Especially around happy hour or late night. Pretty much the entire menu is either $1.99/$2.99. And the TVs are fantastic.

I used to go to Woody's in Cary and Downtown a lot back in the day for games but now I would probably take Tobacco Road over that now every time.

4/6/2010 5:22:28 PM

was the girl hot?

sounds hot

4/6/2010 5:22:36 PM

^^ lol i've never actually been there. i've always wanted to go but it has always been SUPER packed when i've tried. i heard they had good happy hour specials too. from someone who also goes to the jackpot. SHOCKER! jk. i mean about the shocker part.

it looks really nice on the inside though. i'd love to watch a game there sometime or hit it up for happy hour.

[Edited on April 6, 2010 at 5:24 PM. Reason : .]

4/6/2010 5:23:44 PM

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"Pilgrimshoes is a hipster Thegoodlife3 is a hipster Skack is a hipster Thats the only ones I'm sure of, tho several others are under suspicion"

Nah...I'm too fat to look good in nasty old clothes from the thrift store and I'm way too much of a consumer with my house, two cars, two boats, and all the other junk I own. I'm more of a post punk pseudo yuppie. I do get along with the hipsters pretty well and I always see at least 5-10 people I know every time I go to The Jackpot, but you've got to keep in mind that The Jackpot has been around a lot longer than the trendiness of the word "emo", "hipster", or whatever you'll be calling them next year. Fuck terms. I just live.

4/6/2010 5:23:55 PM

Hmm. Cool.

Then, what's a cripster?

4/6/2010 5:28:53 PM

i have friends from all walks of life because i'm not pretentious or racist

so i guess i'm neither a hipster nor a frat boy

finally i feel like i'm well on my way to finding out who i REALLY am

4/6/2010 5:28:58 PM

Can girls be assholes?

Or do we go all the way to the C-word?

because you're sounding like an asshole here

4/6/2010 5:30:11 PM

tobacco road is a great place to go if you don't want to be able to even hear yourself think

^i think she's being facetious

[Edited on April 6, 2010 at 5:32 PM. Reason : ]

4/6/2010 5:31:55 PM

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"was the girl hot? sounds hot"

she was husky enough that i thought not

4/6/2010 5:32:18 PM

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"Thegoodlife3 is a hipster"

negative ghostwriter

4/6/2010 5:32:46 PM

think of something incredibly shitty.

does someone do said thing?

do they do it ironically?

then they are a hipster.

4/6/2010 5:33:16 PM

prove it

4/6/2010 5:33:23 PM

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"^i think she's being facetious "

4/6/2010 5:33:31 PM