"Hipster" as pejorative.

if you're familiar with 'buy nothing day' which is supposed to grind the capitalist consumer system to a halt

this is not true btw

-- J0hn D., Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:27 PM

u mad?

after the nightmares I got from that indie girl comedy mustache thread i have no problem with any mustache as long as it's worn by a man

no am0n I don't actually give a shit it's just kinda the actual objections to buy nothing day are all pretty valid without lying about it for lulz

"they think they're gonna change the world!" no they don't

if making fun of max's stache is rong i dont wanna be right

i got no problem with a stache as long as you're committed to it for life once you grow it, like wilford brimley or burt reynolds or rollie fingers.

lawl i dont have a stache

i have a post-ironic beard tho

http://weblogs.elearning.ubc.ca/ross/archives/buy-nothing-day.jpg

beards are sincere

I pray daily for the death of the mustache trend

GOTHICK 4 LIFE

mustaches are warlike

see am0n doesn't that strike you as being more about the benefits to the person who buys nothing, not the posited harm to the corporations? seems kinda painfully obvious to me

i went to a "moustache party" last month. seriously.

i knew no one going in except the person i went with. it was some guy's birthday party, and that was the theme he chose. i had some nice conversations with people there and drank some free-for-all beer that their fridge was stocked with. some band played. someone spilled a box of red wine all over the kitchen floor. there was dancing. it was fun.

Shave Nothing Day

I could get down with that one but only because I'm lazy

in fact if I don't make it to the sink before midnight, today will have been Shave Nothing Day for me for the third day running

i went to a "moustache party" last month. seriously.

i knew no one going in except the person i went with. it was some guy's birthday party, and that was the theme he chose. i had some nice conversations with people there and drank some free-for-all beer that their fridge was stocked with. some band played. someone spilled a box of red wine all over the kitchen floor. there was dancing. it was fun.

-- dell, Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

great fuckin story kid

I got ten bucks for dell if next time he goes to one of these parties he hangs around 'til everybody falls asleep and then gets real creative with a Norelco

ironic hitler staches for all

xkcd lols vs. hipster lols

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/2267248965_7ea04df8f6.jpg

who reads adbusters ?

hipsters

-- am0n, Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

oscar doesn't adbusters strike you as being more about the benefits to the person who buys nothing, not the posited harm to the corporations?

to a thread filled with decent zings the fail patrol has arrived

'Twas always thus?

I used to read Adbusters back when I was in lol college and all idealistic about shit.

idealistic am0n

I used to read it several years back. I thought it was worthwhile at the time...not sure what the hell this article is supposed to be saying, though.

it's not a terrible magazine and it makes some good points here and there but i don't really read it because most of its good points are also pretty obvious.

the only issue I ever purchased was all about the evils of psychiatric drugs (except for like two paragraphs from Douglas Coupland pointing out that once upon a time, we just locked people up rather than treat them). That was plenty for me.

the reason i asked was because i was curious as to who the writer of the piece was trying to direct "the message " to ? if it is directed at "hipsters" or whatever, kinda just seems like lame oneupmanship and playing exactly right into the kind of attitude he is attempting to excoriate.

i had to get up and get a drink after reading two of the quotes from that article; don't think i could read more. wow.

Great article.

i looked at the first few paragraphs and i'm still sentient. almost.

it reminds me of a girl named jessica i knew in high school. she was fond of making sweeping, unsustainable generalizations about the zeitgeist, à la "the whole culture is just slipping into darkness" or "people don't even know how to be happy anymore."

WTF at that article...

There will always be people who listen to certain bands/go to particular bars/wear certain clothes, not because they want to, but because they are trying to impress other people with how "cool" they are. Fuck them.

like this?
http://www.dickdestiny.com/gaybomb.jpg

The first marginally NSFW hipster thread on ILX?
My, that is a tiny little handbag...

This article was very o_O or whatever, the thing about the keffiyeh does bother me.

Adbusters in general is fifty percent interesting and thought provoking and fifty percent .O_o.

I guess I can't say anything about that adbusters piece that everyone isn't already thinking. I just wish that *cultural critics* who are actually published in magazines would be required to have actually read something about past cultural/countercultural movements before comparing them to some vague alleged current trend.

aren't hipsters just scenesters? It feels like every "movement" needs loads of hanger ons with disposable income and risky fashion choices.

<A href=Damned kids these days!;No, don't you see? Hipsterism is an entirely new, unique and threatening trend, totally unlike all those other youth movements of the past!</a>

It's so not a movement

So basically the only people left who are not considered hipsters now are polygamist cultists, QVC-shoppers and people who considered Bop Hope a real loss.

Even the Amish have beards and Shakers make stuff so they're right out.

^

“These hipster zombies… are the idols of the style pages, the darlings of viral marketers and the marks of predatory real-estate agents,” wrote Christian Lorentzen in a Time Out New York article entitled ‘Why the Hipster Must Die.’ “And they must be buried for cool to be reborn.”

this approvingly quoted article sucked too btw

Is there a way of life (assuming "lifestyle" is an obscenity in this context) that can't somehow be be targeted by people who want to sell stuff?