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Hipsters...

Never really thought much of the term's definition, really, but if it's easier to use than simply saying "w*nker" when a kid in Wayfarer-type glasses with no lenses in them screams "we want Friendly Fires!" repeatedly whilst Spiritualized are playing, it'll do for me. Never really fathomed what it means to be a hipster though.

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...That wouldn't necessarily mean that topman clothes....you know like as in the "topman" ..the billy big bollocks, the chieftain of a London street gang. (Also see: Next guy).

East Village, Stratford next init, it will be all retro and ironic to live where the Olympics were soon enough...plus with a name like East Village!!!!

Do hipsters exclusively inhabit London then? :P I wonder what makes a northern hipster? Are the Northerners still into "Donk" ?

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Tyler the creator and Earl sweatshirt are performing this year, so no doubt thats where to go or avoid.. depending on your preference. I get called an artfag a lot when I paint, so maybe il go with the hipsters :)

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Thing is, if a 'hipster' is determined by their dress sense - ie. being cool/following a certain sense of fashion - isn't everybody who has ever bought a new item of clothing from a shop a 'hipster'? I'd love to meet the guy who turns around and says, "yeah I make my own clothes for purely utilitarian purposes - in winter, I slay my own goats and use their skins to make my coats, and as you can see, I write poetry too..."

Being a neo-Luddite is so cool? Like, literally, like so cool?

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The implication being what though - that you didn't spend enough effort or money on you appearance?

Mrs B insisted that middle-aged men do shop in Top Man so, a year or so ago, I ventured in to a branch - I think I was the only person in there who had passed through puberty. And do they make the sales assistants cum on each other to get that scruffy, sticky-up hair?

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