"Hipster" as pejorative.

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"It's the stupid foodies," said Britton Clouse, 60, who admits she speaks frankly. "We're just sick to death of it."

how's life, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 10:02 (ten years ago) link

sorry but i think that britton clouse person kind of sounds like an idiot

marcos, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link

also see shit that looks like an onion article but isn't

marcos, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link

She sounds awesome:

"People don't know what they're doing," Britton Clouse said. "And you've got this whole culture of people who don't know what the hell they're doing teaching every other idiot out there."

copter (waterface), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link

Is it just me that was thrown off by ",critics say" rounding off the headline?

Studied keyboard mash (tsrobodo), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link

i don't know, i don't live in NYC but most of the people i know who raise chickens aren't hipsters and know pretty well what they're doing

marcos, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link

Obviously the woman who runs a chicken shelter in Minnesota disagrees with you.

copter (waterface), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link

four weeks pass...

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Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 8 August 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link

spam as pejorative

maven with rockabilly glasses (Matt P), Thursday, 8 August 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/nyregion/manson-whitlock-typewriter-repairman-dies-at-96.html?hpw

can't even make it through this awesome obituary without hipster intruision

j., Sunday, 8 September 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link

the word "hipster" appears exactly 30 times in that article

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 September 2013 17:26 (ten years ago) link

ts: who spends more time worrying about the other's style, hipsters or norms

Z S, Monday, 16 September 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link

same old story from the nyt but i did kind of appreciate this one line:

Has there ever been a subculture this broadly defined?

b/c it does somehow seem like "hipster" is taken to just mean youngish urban resident with some creative interests who likes books, music, film, etc

marcos, Monday, 16 September 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link

"hipster" is as vague as "indie" and they generally come as a set.

Evan, Monday, 16 September 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link

http://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-was-a-hated-hipster-meme-and-then-it-got-worse

I posted this in the Ridicule thread, as well: Ridicule

It crosses over from ridicule to 'hipsterism'.

c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link

stuffisthings (#1,352)
Here's a fun thought exercise: try imagining someone who lives in New York but is definitely NOT a hipster. What do they look like? What do they wear? What kind of music do they listen to? What do they do with their day?
Posted on September 18, 2013 at 5:16 pm

stuffisthings (#1,352)
OK, did you do it? Maybe you imagined an immigrant taxi driver or a black single mother in the Bronx or a Staten Island garbage man.

Now: imagine that person complaining about "hipsters" on an Internet forum.
Posted on September 18, 2013 at 5:24 pm

Dan I., Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link

lol reminds me of when an ex-girlfriend lived in a house with an annoying hipster dude

beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link

that is, her housemate was dating an annoying hipster dude

beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Thursday, 19 September 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link

three weeks pass...

are we doing this one in another thread already?

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20131013_Phila__should_be_grateful_to_its_hipsters.html

Saul Goodberg (by Musket and Pup Tent) (s.clover), Sunday, 13 October 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link

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乒乓, Sunday, 13 October 2013 21:49 (ten years ago) link

hipsters are just young republicans?

http://www.ryot.org/5-ways-republicans-different-hipsters/419053

reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 14 October 2013 19:55 (ten years ago) link

hardly a new viewpoint, the Vice axis, while it's tilted back toward the middle since the McInnes years, was hardly a stranger to conservatism

beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 14 October 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link

i like the handy 5-point summary though

Crapping on Everything Without Offering an Alternative
Retro-Obsessed
Irony
The Phony Everyman
Self-Denial

also, "trust-fundamentalist"

reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 14 October 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link

Because everyone knows a hipster when they see one — unless it’s them. And in today’s republican party, everyone can identify a wackadoo, right-wing asshat except when they’re it.

This is inane.

clueless mom complaining about miley Cyrus (sarahell), Friday, 18 October 2013 08:18 (ten years ago) link

equality ain't just a river in egypt

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 October 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link

Inane doesn't mean your swimming near first world war battlefields.

In times of osterity, these Eton-educated poshboys (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 18 October 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link

hipsters are just young republicans?

http://www.ryot.org/5-ways-republicans-different-hipsters/419053

― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, October 14, 2013 1:55 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did anyone not know this

sleepingbag, Friday, 18 October 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link

i didn't. i don't really know many young republicans

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 October 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link

lol ok my bad i don't know why i have to phrase everything i post like an asshole lately. but yeah, hipsters are a maybe not 'republicans' but certainly exhibit a weird type of conservative thinking that i'm sure will lead to some odd political positioning in some of these young ppl's future

sleepingbag, Friday, 18 October 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link

yes this clear-cut, easily definable group of people that has come to be known as "hipsters" clearly "exhibit" an identifiable "type" of "thinking" as a group. Thank you for your insightful post.

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 18 October 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link

maybe the whole crew doesn't but the trust-fundamentalist subset clearly exhibit a type of "reflexive dismissive" "sarcasm"

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 October 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link

Really stupid article. Hurting otm.

Treeship, Friday, 18 October 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link

most people attacking "trust fund" types couldn't provide a working definition of what a trust fund is anyway, it just means "ppl I don't like & totally consider myself different from"

― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:11 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fresh (crüt), Friday, 18 October 2013 18:23 (ten years ago) link

hipsters getting touchy itt

sleepingbag, Friday, 18 October 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link

"trust-fundamentalist" doesn't make any sense.

Treeship, Friday, 18 October 2013 18:48 (ten years ago) link

lol ok my bad i don't know why i have to phrase everything i post like an asshole lately. but yeah, hipsters are a maybe not 'republicans' but certainly exhibit a weird type of conservative thinking that i'm sure will lead to some odd political positioning in some of these young ppl's future

― sleepingbag, Friday, October 18, 2013 12:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtf are you talking about

marcos, Friday, 18 October 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link

knowing what a trust fund is counterrevolutionary

flopson, Friday, 18 October 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link

hardly a new viewpoint, the Vice axis, while it's tilted back toward the middle since the McInnes years, was hardly a stranger to conservatism

― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, October 14, 2013 4:18 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(xp)

flopson, Friday, 18 October 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link

I am in awe of how well they've jettisoned that guy in the last couple years

mh, Friday, 18 October 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link

trust-fundamentalism makes sense if you've met hipsters from wealthy backgrounds who are culturally progressive but having never really worked real jobs have some quaint notions of what life is like for people who don't come from wealthy backgrounds. think of a poet whose heart bleeds for poor people in africa but gets pissed at how rude the waitstaff is at the campus coffee shop

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 October 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link

indeed, think of that poet

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 18 October 2013 19:15 (ten years ago) link

he's just a Skynyrd fan

fresh (crüt), Friday, 18 October 2013 19:21 (ten years ago) link

southern poet man don't need rude waitstaff or poor africans around anyhow

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 October 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link

Ok I can't think of it, I give up. Is it James Dickey?

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 18 October 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link

dickey's dad had lawyer money when james was growing up but not fuck you money

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 October 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link

I had a bf with a trust fund once! His trust fund consisted of $25,000 to pay for college tuition once he turned 21 (which paid for one year of tuition at the time), and another $25,000 once he turned 25. This trust fund obviously meant that he did not have to work an honest day in his life.

clueless mom complaining about miley Cyrus (sarahell), Friday, 18 October 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link

that's not the kind of trust fund that minimally furnished social media tech start-ups / recording studios are made of, for sure, but it sure beats nothing

reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 18 October 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link

"Trust fund" is just a legal designation -- it doesn't really speak to the amount of money involved. It's just used as shorthand here, obviously.

#fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Friday, 18 October 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link


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