I hate to admit this to everyone, but I'm a hipster. My jeans are a tad too tight, I wear vintage collared dress shirts and my facial hair is somewhat lumberjackish. I will wear a fedora on occasion, smoke clove cigarettes and even use a demi tip a lot of the time. I listen to indie bands that no one has heard of, and if you know them, I will then go on a diatribe about how they've sold out.
I hate to admit this to everyone, but I'm a hipster. My jeans are a tad too tight, I wear vintage collared dress shirts and my facial hair is somewhat lumberjackish. I will wear a fedora on occasion, smoke clove cigarettes and even use a demi tip a lot of the time. I listen to indie bands that no one has heard of, and if you know them, I will then go on a diatribe about how they've sold out.
I live off Queen St W. I could get a bingo every couple of mins...
Ugh, this is bad news for me. I didn't get the Hipster Bingo Blackout by any stretch, but I do wear "retro" shoes and I laugh at David Cross's jokes.
Before anyone accuses me of being a hipster I better get to the mall. It's tan slacks and brown shoes from Eddie Bauer from now on. If I'm feeling frisky, I'll stop in at HMV for Dane Cook's latest.
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From what I understand, it's a pejorative term used by people who aren't awesome to refer to awesome people who listen to awesome music, read awesome books, watch awesome movies, wear awesome clothes, and are awesome.
Beyond that, I don't know. I've been called a Hipster. A guy I know who looks like Charles Manson is widely acknowledged as a Hipster.
I guess a consuming sense of irony is the main mark of Hipsterism.
Labels are a bunch of crap anyway. I know that I like people labeled by the mainstream as Hipsters. That's a pretty huge range of people, though.
Hipsters are people that dress like idiots, often wearing as large of glasses as possible whether or not their vision needs correction, all the while thinking other people think they are awesome, but deep down surviving in a scared, insecure existence where they hope people notice their $100 haircut, not their face.
Oh yeah. Hipsters suck at sports.
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I love how you edited to change the ancient civilization you're attributing the word to, but didn't bother correcting the multiple other mistakes in your post.
Hipsters are people that dress like idiots, often wearing as large of glasses as possible whether or not their vision needs correction, all the while thinking other people think they are awesome, but deep down surviving in a scared, insecure existence where they hope people notice their $100 haircut, not their face.
Oh yeah. Hipsters suck at sports.
I basically live in Williamsburg (what Hipster neighborhood around the world want to be when they grow up), and that's about as accurate description as it gets. It basically boils down to "Too cool for school on the outside. Scared little girl on the inside". I remember a little while ago I was walking down the sidewalk by McCarren Park, and some super awesome hipster who clearly spent hours on his outfit that day to make himself look like a bad-ass James Dean or the like was walking towards me. When I got near him, a pigeon on the sidewalk suddenly flew up by this guy's face. Dude let out the biggest girlish Ned Flanders scream I've ever heard, totally betraying his attitude.
What's really unfortunate is that I have to live through these tryhard fashion trends here, and then when I go back to Calgary during the holidays, have to relive last-years trends again as the hipsters there are a little bit behind. I'm thinking I'll be seeing a lot of fixed-gear bikes next month on my visit....
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I hate to admit this to everyone, but I'm a hipster. My jeans are a tad too tight, I wear vintage collared dress shirts and my facial hair is somewhat lumberjackish. I will wear a fedora on occasion, smoke clove cigarettes and even use a demi tip a lot of the time. I listen to indie bands that no one has heard of, and if you know them, I will then go on a diatribe about how they've sold out.
I find this thread horribly offensive.
All this attention on Hipsters.....as long as you're happy and contributing positively to the world, wear whatever clothes you want, listen to whatever you want, and grow whatever facial hair you feel the need to. Seriously, if we're going to wage war against a group, let's hit the Emo crowd. The only good thing they've ever done for the world is give us the line "I wish my grass was emo, cause then it would cut itself". BTW - whoever has that line in their signature (I forget the user), thank you. Without question, that remains the funniest line of text I've ever read....with the possible exception of "Congratulations, enclosed is you Alberta High School Diploma".
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Whats cool about wearing trash from Value Village?
Because its cool to have rich parents and dress like a homless person. Hipsters are worse than hippies because they claim to have some sense of entitlement and "unique" style. Whereas hippies stink because all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
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Because its cool to have rich parents and dress like a homless person. Hipsters are worse than hippies because they claim to have some sense of entitlement and "unique" style. Whereas hippies stink because all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
My favourite hipsters are the ones that wear their mirrored aviation sun glasses indoors but have to tilt their head to look over or under the frame of their glasses because they can't see a damn thing. They look like tards. Just take your glasses of fool.
Or punk hipsters that buy $200 pants and $300 pairs of shoes, then walk around complaining about evil corporations.
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I have a hell of a time defining hipsters. Perhaps that means I'm old? Perhaps that means I am one? I don't think I am ... I can't pull off skinny jeans and I wear my insecurity like a badge of honour.
