I've developed some unspoken/internal rules about that sort of thing. For example, if I and two of my co-workers take a walk to grab lunch, I make sure not to "geek out" with one co-worker about something the other one isn't into. But if there are four or more of us, I figure it's ok if I geek out with one because the other 2/3 can still talk to each other.
― Hier Komme Die Warum Jetzt (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 June 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
also when i do meet people to talk about music or whatever with, i've rarely felt like they are trying to compete with me. i didn't really identify w/ the tumblr guy who wrote that.
― marcos, Friday, June 20, 2014 9:46 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
also this doesn't really happen to me because ime men (usually it's men he's talking about, right?) do not appear to feel compelled to compete with me. other things maybe (rarely), but not competition. i dunno. ultimately who cares? i would rather talk about bill callahan than talk about how people should talk about bill callahan in an inoffensive way.
― La Lechera, Friday, 20 June 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
bottom line --avoid conversations with these people!
― La Lechera, Thursday, June 19, 2014 5:26 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ftfy
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:03 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Z4nuglo.jpg
― 龜, Friday, 13 March 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
almost certain that they did not
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 March 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
knew this was why this thread got revived
― gr8080, Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:16 (nine years ago) link
Bad, yes. Ass, yes.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 14 March 2015 04:19 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3mc0yvRNk
feel like this was an important formative moment in the creation of the millennial hipster
― supreme problematics (D-40), Sunday, 5 July 2015 07:14 (eight years ago) link
There was a point when the term hipster was non-pejorative wasn't there? 1940s or '50s? Something that people like Norman Mailer was trying to connect with as the 'white negro' or similar. Somebody that could always ride the cusp of what was happening musically/culturally/philosophically.Or was it pretty pseudo and wanky even then?Just wondering when hipster became pejorative. I'm seeing people around Galway dressed in the style people were being derided for as hipster around 10 years ago or have elements of that skinny jean very short beard thing become universal and non ironic?
― Stevolende, Sunday, 5 July 2015 07:48 (eight years ago) link
fwiw i remember all my friends singing along to that dandy warhols song in a van on the way to see them at a festival in 2003
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/read/hw-the-definitive-guide-to-hipster-music-genres-hipster-week
― Gaz Khan (sarahell), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
SerialismYears Active: 1920s-1980sDefining Artist: Arnold SchoenbergIn true hipster fashion, we don't understand exactly what this is, like, at all. Like, we get it kind of enough to make John Cage "notes between the notes" jokes at the bar, but, if pressed, we'll hide behind the first smart looking motherfucker we can find, push them at our assailant, and say, "12-tone techneez nutz!" Or something to that effect.
― Gaz Khan (sarahell), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
that list of things is a list of things
― a cruet of destiny (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
yeah, idk how "hipster" it is to make lists of things ... but I think reading them haphazardly is cool
― Gaz Khan (sarahell), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
If this is a troll and not sincere, then it's really the best imitation of a Wave 1 hipster I've ever seen. It's eerie. https://t.co/gdnObn1kr0— T. (@RickyRawls) May 3, 2017
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:31 (seven years ago) link
i'm sorry this is hilarious lol
One interesting thing about the idea of the Nazi and fascist right having a more vibrant youth scene than the liberals...the NY Mag articles— T. (@RickyRawls) May 3, 2017
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
yeah idk I think the problem with gavin mcinnes is not that he sincerely believes all these things
also the vines lol
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link
sorry everybody you should click on that tweet and read the thread
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
it is a bad thread with the exception of some good replies this ricky person does not get
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 21:03 (seven years ago) link
if it was a hipster imitation it by definition couldn't be sincere. this is entry level stuff @rickyrawls, cmon
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
anyway, hope joe is still alive after all of the brutal owns
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 21:07 (seven years ago) link
rip
― 龜, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
lol good thread
― marcos, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link
tony is not chill, glad he's admitted he is a hipster tho
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:46 (seven years ago) link
lol, I mean ricky, whatever
― a landlocked exclave (mh), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
French dictionaries just added some new words: ubérisation, hipster (pron. 'eepstair') and of course, post-vérité https://t.co/qV9TznnhDh— Katy Lee (@kjalee) May 30, 2017
― j., Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
'eepstairs downstairs
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
I'm just an eepstair for your love
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
Life in the capital may be good for the govster, but is it good for the country?
omg what a fucking dork
― los blue jeans, Sunday, 13 May 2018 10:16 (six years ago) link
aaahahaha omg that was so cringey and long winded, I only read about half and skimmed the rest but I still don’t get what the takeaway is supposed to be, also gentrification and superficial trendiness don’t make a city “cool”???
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 13 May 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
omg it never ends
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 May 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
this david fontana guy is cool
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 13 May 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
literally burst out laughing when I got to the reveal line explaining what a govster is
FWIW, the phenomenon he is describing is called extreme wealth inequality and that's why the same thing is happening in every city
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 13 May 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
apparently what distinguishes d.c. govsters is their knack for columbusing gentrification, not identified as such of course because they're so "cool"
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 May 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
Yet the culture of urban hipsters — people who wore trucker hats but had never been in a truck
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Sunday, 13 May 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
A dynamic country may need a little cool in its capital; but have things in Washington gone too far? The question is as old as the republic, and arguably more important than ever.
how is this not the onion
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 13 May 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
Sparky’s Espresso Cafe was a few blocks from my apartment off 14th Street NW, but in the years after I moved to Washington in 2006, it felt to me like home. To get there from my apartment, I needed to walk by a decaying dry cleaner and a homeless shelter.
“needed” is doing some interesting work there
― omar little, Sunday, 13 May 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
Today, Sparky’s has been gone for 11 years — replaced first by the more stylish Cork Wine Bar and eventually by a make-your-own meatball chain opening its first location outside of New York.
i'm sorry a what now
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 13 May 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link
i assume you use a piece of spaghetti to string them on
― The Beatles' Solo Deaths Poll (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 May 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
I disagree with Fontana's "govster" diagnosis but I completely sympathize with the idea that if DC actually becomes a "cool" place to live then an important quality of American life - that our national capital and most powerful city is a place for dorks, really only worth visiting for the museums - will be lost. But the silver lining of having cool kids move here could be that we finally make some lasting headway on the homeless problem and run Dan Snyder out of town and change the fucking team name.
There is a lot of weird reverse NIMBYism from longtime Washingtonians, regardless of race or class categories, about neighborhoods that used to be run-down (i.e. that had homeless shelters, dry cleaners, bodegas) now being full of posh businesses. I'm a little guilty of that myself, when Dupont Circle stopped being gay it got incredibly fucking boring practically overnight.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 13 May 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
it's hard to believe a gayborhood had anywhere to go but up!
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 May 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
I had to look up the address. It's a branch of a chain called Meatball Shop. That's a restaurant that serves meatball sandwiches and pastas. You don't make your own meatballs there.
― mick signals, Sunday, 13 May 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
here's courtland milloy's old take on the 14th street turnaround, which he makes explicitly about race and income inequality: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/yes-14th-street-may-be-better-these-days-but-something-vital-is-missing/2015/07/21/f144a65c-2fce-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 13 May 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
brb gonna open a chain of make-your-own-meatball restaurants
― martin short's interiors (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 13 May 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
That's a baller idea
― mick signals, Sunday, 13 May 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link
does "cool kids" moving someplace really have much to do with Zagat stars as mentioned in the article? or with addressing homelessness?
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 May 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
nobody cares about zagat ratings and michelin stars but they are a lagging indicator of the DC food scene's development over the last 15 years or so.
gentrifiers, by providing lots of new property tax revenue among other things, could enable DC to do a lot of good things for our poorest people. Unfortunately our big plan right now seems to be paying suburban hotels $80,000 a night to house homeless families. Wishful thinking on my part.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 May 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
if it’s like every other city, the property tax revenue is blasted in the short term by abatements and “affordable housing” that flips into condos at the first opportunity
so maybe in a number of years there is more tax revenue, but just as likely you end up with high-priced single rental units, secondary properties, etc
― mh, Monday, 14 May 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
The people he's describing just aren't that cool. To a certain extent it's probably the same phenomenon that happens with every cultural movement, where eventually a little bit of it rubs off on people in all walks of life, even government. In the 70s capitol hill aides had long hair and huge sideburns. Today they partake in locally sourced foodie culture or w/e.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 14 May 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
now you just end up with chain department stores selling decent shirts that are inspired by trends of a few years back, as always
the devil wears prada movie had a dorky fashion dialogue scene about this, that color you’re wearing hit the shelves because a bunch of people fought it out and it won and it was couteur and then copied and then downmarket
― mh, Monday, 14 May 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link