"Hipster" as pejorative.

they're scrawny insecures with nerdship of the body

some of them probably flaky enough to be interested, but there's far less religiosity here

american plutocrat ssb might look like this piece of shit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince

xp

okay see, that's perfect. they want to be beefy upscale party bros but are not, and work too hard at it, and thus are creepy. i know them. they have their own bar just around the corner.

erik prince is a total upssb - half-formed mind, resources of wealth, resembles dork, runs playground killing operation

exactly! uk ssbs don't have the support structure of fundie xtianity to cathect their various inchoate psychoses into a useful work ethnic, they're doomed forever to walk between the winds of lumpen aggro and MBA technocracy

ethic, obv

this sounds terrible! has anyone notable escaped this fate? would that guy on top gear count?

lol at "useful work ethnic" tho

top gear is several degrees too establishment for ssbs although some of them presumably watched it as kids

also can I just

'cathect'

you do realise you can't use words like this and not elicit wide-eyed wonder from yrs flailingly

this sounds terrible! has anyone notable escaped this fate? would that guy on top gear count?

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:20 (3 minutes ago)

if it's the person i think you're referring to he would be more 'typical well-heeled rugby jock'

this thread (and meme) are like this magic petri dish in which the bacteria-cum-debate never stops changing _or_ growing.

Bacteria cum? Gross.

it has been great to learn about other countries' hipster problems - of course the American variety is superior

I dunno. It seems like American hipsterdom is purely transitory and self-correcting while these sports scientists appear
to be a permanent untouchable caste where social intervention only makes the problem worse!

they're not hipsters. the reason i mentioned them is because the last couple of years they've started to dress a bit like a certain kind of london hipster from ten years ago. i suspect this is because a lot of those ppl* are in the media/design mainstream now.

*as described by tvgohome/shoreditch twat circa 1999/2000

the british caste system is way too protean and complex for any outsider to understand, a subgroup like ssbs can only be identified ~because~ it is already in its death throes and is likely splitting and metastasizing through the culture in unforeseeable ways

hipsters tho are pretty easy to define and more or less transnational.....they seem to be more or less the same in london or new york or talinn or wherever

peter saville should be appointed as some kind of "style tzar" to sort all this mess out, imo.

i'd like to read a peter york essay on SSB's:

"there's a certain kind of lower middle class boy, you probably know him. that chap in the superdry top. yes. drinking the magners..."

i think it was suzy? who noted a while back how the hoxton fin (long extinct in hoxton) was basically a suburban/provincial thing these days.....maybe even an ssb thing

^^^ exactomundo. (via david beckham)

Exactomundo was from Fonzie from Happy Days!

Just to conclude in response to way up there somewhere:

I don't feel bad about judging hipsters who are so concerned with letting strangers know exactly what they're into.

the only things I've ever seen you post about is that you really like 90s lo-fi and think hipsters are shallow

Hey a man's gotta have a rounded set of interests.

This thread has done some tremendous work btw. Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen.

i recognize ssb, but i'm not sure lj does

kind of powerskimmed through the recent posts... none of yall are talking about hipsters!?

wonder if dom has an angle on 'brit-guido' dudes

yes, when the u.s wakes up we're going to be in trouble!

i was thinking v. much of dom. feel like there is probably a shitty private school in northampton that produces a lot of these guys.

I feel like the SSB discussion has now added more to the stock of sociological knowledge than "lol Hipsters" in the 2K10.

My nephews are total SSBs - I think most of the youth from places like Stevenage are. In fact the younger one is returning for his second year studying something called "Sports Psychology" at "uni" right now.

Ha I was going to suggest Hertfordshire suburbs as SSB ground zero, I'm guessing they have them in Essex too

They nurture a level of mannerism/speciation that used to only occur in yr dedicated alt types but for various reasons even ppl w/ convictions for ABH want extravagant personal brands these days

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/c069e869.jpg

http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/assets_c/2010/09/hipsterfaith-thumb-233x312-51186.jpg

lololol the first words of the article's byline are "To remain relevant..."

In order to remain relevant in this new landscape, many evangelical pastors and church leaders are following the lead of the hipster trendsetters, making sure their churches can check off all the important items on the hipster checklist:

- Get the church involved in social justice and creation care.
- Show clips from R-rated Coen Brothers films (e.g., No Country for Old Men, Fargo) during services.
- Sponsor church outings to microbreweries.
- Put a worship pastor onstage decked in clothes from American Apparel.
- Be okay with cussing.
- Print bulletins only on recycled cardstock.
- Use Helvetica fonts as much as possible.

whoops I missed

- Leverage technologies like Twitter.

im gonna start dropping some "super suggest bans" if this ssb thing keeps up

iirc hipsters care more about social networking than social justice but whatev

im gonna start dropping some "super suggest bans" if this ssb thing keeps up

― how to train your dagon (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:20 (12 minutes ago)

self-aggrandizing hardman schtick, inflated sense of self worth.....not even gonna ask about yr roid usage

s1ocki do you drink Relentless

-ly

On each can of Relentless is a extract of poetry, except in the case of the Original variant. [2] Cans of Inferno-flavoured Relentless have excerpt taken from Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, specifically the first five lines of Canto IV Stanza 137:

"But I have lived, and have not lived in vain:
My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire,
And my frame perish even in conquering pain;
But there is that within me which shall tire
Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire;"

the only things I've ever seen you post about is that you really like 90s lo-fi and think hipsters are shallow

― being a ringmaster's crul (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:29 AM (5 hours ago)

Totally.

Stoked someones actually been paying attention.

Not being sarcastic!

I hadn't noticed the 'hipsters are shallow' bit I gotta say

i think we should all pretend this thread is locked and in a few days someone with an actual girl problem thing to say about hipsters can come ask about it, and until then we can all go somewhere else

― max, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Barely anybody acknowledges what I say here so I only ever bother putting effort into a few subjects anymore. Was wondering if anyone noticed how often I just reword the same things over and over.

there's fuck all left to say about hipsters that wouldn't be better in the hro thread unless yr gonna link to every american regional newspaper's thought piece abt hipster fertilizer brands

all that's left is the charred wreckage a decade of this nonsense has left in the wider culture

i'll give you laid back, evan

there are ppl who won't even buy energy drinks unless they've got bits of mallarmé written on them

Haha, I acknowledge you! You're the Swirlies street-team! xxxp

nakhchivan otm - there's a lot to discuss although in these postpassantino days probably not inna What's the worst subculture? style