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Are you a hipster?

post #1 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:24pm
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I just want somebody to tell me if they are one. I've been looking for hipsters from North America to Europe, and they aren't very popular around here (or very susceptible to people looking for them). But they all say, "Fuck no! I'm no hipster," so I suppose they are not, unless they're trying to be ironic and are definitely hipsters - so let me say, I'm a hipster, so I will not be mistaken for one.

Anybody?
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post #2 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:27pm
I dig the shit out of scenester bands and my fashion sense is from about a decade ago so yeah I could probably get my Hipster on if I went fully ironic.
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post #3 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:27pm
Fuck no! I'm no hipster.
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post #4 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:27pm
Check out Williamsburg. That's where they go to breed.
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post #5 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:29pm
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Originally Posted by myk View Post
Check out Williamsburg. That's where they go to breed.
Colonial Williamsburg?!?
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post #6 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:31pm
Every hipster I know swears they're not a hipster.
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post #7 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:31pm
Let's see.

I'm 29, vegetarian, and a bleeding heart liberal. I wear Chuck Taylors, Tina Fey-lookin' glasses, plastic jewelry, and ironic t-shirts. My husband's in a band. Oh, and I'm a librarian.

No getting around it, I'd say. ::shrugs::

edit - So if I say I'm a hipster, does that mean I'm not? Whew. I was worried there for a second.
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post #8 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:32pm
A related thread. In this very forum.

http://www.chud.com/forum/showthread.php?t=107169
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post #9 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:34pm
I think Midwesterners are more self-aware (and less in denial) than a lot of East Coasters, MissZ.
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post #10 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:36pm
Not a hipster, but definitely a douchebag.
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post #11 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:38pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Not a hipster, but definitely a douchebag.
Honesty. I like that. Wanna go to the new hookah bar by my apartment? It's right next door to the mindfulness center and the leftist bookstore. The one down the street from the independent record store, not the one over by the library...

oh god...
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post #12 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:39pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
I think Midwesterners are more self-aware (and less in denial) than a lot of East Coasters, MissZ.
Oh, you'd be surprised. Some of the biggest hipsters I know (less peripheral to the hipster community than MissZooey and I are) are self-denying hipsters. But I guess that's always sort of the case, isn't it?
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post #13 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:42pm
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Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post
Let's see.

I'm 29, vegetarian, and a bleeding heart liberal. I wear Chuck Taylors, Tina Fey-lookin' glasses, plastic jewelry, and ironic t-shirts. My husband's in a band. Oh, and I'm a librarian.

No getting around it, I'd say. ::shrugs::

edit - So if I say I'm a hipster, does that mean I'm not? Whew. I was worried there for a second.
Well, minus the Tina Fey glasses, the plastic jewelry, the vegetarianism, the husband in a band, and being a librarian, you and I are EXACTLY alike.

As for whether or not I'm a hipster, I don't know...maybe. Though I think at 34, I'm probably too old be designated as an official hipster.

This is too hard.
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post #14 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:42pm
I'd never heard the term 'hipster' until I started posting on CHUD.
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post #15 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:44pm
Well, I'm not quite sure of what being a hipster is, but I was told that the characters of Cloverfield are hipsters. Since I didn't get killed by a giant monster while being filmed by a shaky cam, I'm not really a hipster.
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post #16 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:45pm
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Originally Posted by Eric Cordo View Post
I'd never heard the term 'hipster' until I started posting on CHUD.
That's because you live in Florida. It's too warm to wear Dr. Who scarves and fingerless gloves, so no hipsters.
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post #17 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:45pm
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Originally Posted by Eric Cordo View Post
I'd never heard the term 'hipster' until I started posting on CHUD.
Oh, my God!!! You're one of them!
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post #18 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post
That's because you live in Florida. It's too warm to wear Dr. Who scarves and fingerless gloves, so no hipsters.
I was wearing a scarf last night, indoors none the less. And it wasn't Dr. Who, it's Burberry.
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post #19 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:47pm
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Originally Posted by Eric Cordo View Post
I was wearing a scarf last night, indoors none the less. And it wasn't Dr. Who, it's Burberry.
You are one of them!

Get him!!
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post #20 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:48pm
Rest assured, Eric, you are not a hipster.

http://www.burberryusaonline.com/fam...184&cp=2119969

Nice scarves, though.
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post #21 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:48pm
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Originally Posted by MissZooey View Post
That's because you live in Florida. It's too warm to wear Dr. Who scarves and fingerless gloves, so no hipsters.
That's cool now? I love my tramp gloves, but I never dared wear them outside.
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post #22 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:48pm
I have a homemade Dr. Who scarf. Does that qualify me for hipster status?
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post #23 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:48pm
As long as I've been outed, I just like everyone to know that the characters in Cloverfield are not 'hipsters'. These days we call them douche bags.
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post #24 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:50pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage View Post
Well, I'm not quite sure of what being a hipster is, but I was told that the characters of Cloverfield are hipsters. Since I didn't get killed by a giant monster while being filmed by a shaky cam, I'm not really a hipster.
Those were not hipsters. They were yuppies.
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post #25 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:51pm
Oh, and here are my fingerless gloves, Zooey..

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post #26 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by Sonic Boom View Post
Those were not hipsters. They were yuppies.
Damn, I was told wrong.

So, I could be both douchebag AND a hipster? Is there list of traits of what makes you a hipster? I need to know!
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post #27 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:53pm
Hipsters are also people who are in or about a scene and either make or talk about making shitty art - though such can involve working in a book shop, record store, used clothing shop, etc. By definition. I'm not sure, though, about needing a strong metropolitan setting. South Dakota may have hipsters, but the very nature of South Dakota, I don't know how hip they could be, because I don't know what sort of scene SD could have that they could be a part of. SD may have a burgeoning punk scene, but I think since there is no contrast, it may be legitimate and not ironic.

More than ironic T-shirts, the culture embraces bad taste and celebrates it. Whether or not that look can transition from bad to good is in the eye of the beholder.

The other thing about hipsters is that they are either upper or middle class people who desperate pretend to be lower class. They may have spent $200-400 dollars on the ensemble, but it shoud look like it cost $25.
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post #28 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:53pm
Everyone in this thread sounds like an old person.
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post #29 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:54pm
Well, Dellamorte is old, but acccording to his definition, I'm only an asshole. Phew!
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post #30 of 181
10/14/08 at 12:54pm
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Originally Posted by Eric Cordo View Post
Everyone in this thread sounds like an old person.
EDIT: Picture won't show up. Failure.
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post #31 of 181
10/14/08 at 1:21pm
hahahaa this thread
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post #32 of 181
10/14/08 at 2:20pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post
I dig the shit out of scenester bands and my fashion sense is from about a decade ago so yeah I could probably get my Hipster on if I went fully ironic.
Never go full ironic.
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post #33 of 181
10/14/08 at 2:37pm
For all the hate this particular clique engenders here, they're rather like the Jackalope aren't they? Everyone claims to have seen/known one, but all they can produce are blurry photos or vague descriptions.

Hey, everyone! I stuffed and mounted a hipster last weekend, and you can see him/her/it if you pay me five dollars, squint while you're looking through a curtain, and don't mind the almost-total lack of lighting!
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post #34 of 181
10/14/08 at 4:24pm
You are a hipster if you look like any one of these people:

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post #35 of 181
10/14/08 at 4:26pm
Those aren't hipsters. Those are ugly people.
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post #36 of 181
10/14/08 at 4:28pm
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Originally Posted by InTheShadows View Post
You are a hipster if you look like any one of these people:
Pasty skin caused by watching Andy Warhol's experimental film, Sleep, in it's entirety one too many times? Check

Sunglasses that make you look retarded? Check

Suit jacket that looks like it was found in the dumpster but really cost $125 bucks, covering what could possibly be a YES shirt? Check.

No, those are hipsters, which is interchangeable with ugly.
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post #37 of 181
10/14/08 at 4:28pm
But hipsters none the less.
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post #38 of 181
10/14/08 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by Eric Cordo View Post
Those are ugly people.
Truth. Plus, how is anything they are wearing ironic?

Edited to add: Looks more like they were shopping at Goodwill, than a trendy store.
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post #39 of 181
10/14/08 at 4:31pm
It's ironic because it isn't.
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post #40 of 181
10/14/08 at 4:31pm
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Originally Posted by HBarr View Post
Truth. Plus, how is anything they are wearing ironic?

Edited to add: Looks more like they were shopping at Goodwill, than a trendy store.
It's ironic because they have more money then you do but dress like that. DON'T YOU GET IT!?!?! Their like, totally sticking it to the system, man.
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post #41 of 181
10/14/08 at 4:47pm
I know for a fact that I'm not a hipster if the prerequisite is that I dress like a refugee from an AHA video - but I'm still confused.

So the defining characteristic of 'the hipster' is that they have money, but dress like they don't?

And irony is involved? But sometimes it isn't?
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post #42 of 181
10/14/08 at 4:47pm
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Originally Posted by Jesse Custer View Post
For all the hate this particular clique engenders here, they're rather like the Jackalope aren't they? Everyone claims to have seen/known one, but all they can produce are blurry photos or vague descriptions.

Hey, everyone! I stuffed and mounted a hipster last weekend, and you can see him/her/it if you pay me five dollars, squint while you're looking through a curtain, and don't mind the almost-total lack of lighting!
I think this is because you are stuck in the forest. Just stop and look at a tree.
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post #43 of 181
10/14/08 at 5:21pm
Don't forget the Pabst Blue Ribbon. Hipsters all drink shitty beer too.
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post #44 of 181
10/14/08 at 5:22pm
God I really love when this board has hipster conversations. So delightful!
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post #45 of 181
10/14/08 at 5:26pm
I'm amazed at how out of touch so many people on this board claim to be. This always seems to end up in the 'get off my lawn' territory. Don't people here go to music venues?
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post #46 of 181
10/14/08 at 5:43pm
Hipsters don't like you either, unless you are one.
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post #47 of 181
10/14/08 at 5:50pm
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Originally Posted by James May View Post
I'm amazed at how out of touch so many people on this board claim to be. This always seems to end up in the 'get off my lawn' territory. Don't people here go to music venues?
That'd entail going out like a grown up.
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post #48 of 181
10/14/08 at 6:13pm
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Originally Posted by Spike Marshall View Post
That'd entail going out like a grown up.
Who acts like a grownup at concerts?

Oh yea, boring hipsters.
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post #49 of 181
10/14/08 at 6:15pm
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Originally Posted by James May View Post
I'm amazed at how out of touch so many people on this board claim to be. This always seems to end up in the 'get off my lawn' territory. Don't people here go to music venues?
That assumes one listens to hipster music.
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post #50 of 181
10/14/08 at 6:24pm
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Originally Posted by billylove View Post
That assumes one listens to hipster music.
Okay, this should be good for a laugh.

Please describe hipster music, citing bands and genres.
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