Hipsters

[guypjfreak]

ive got a top hat that ive sprayed yellow ..........just thought id let you know

[King Kong]

Dear lord, how could you stop at just one?

[knivesout]

i like fluoro jumpsuit man

[Thearg]

I'm none the wiser,they just look like young people to me but then I do live in London so am surrounded by them.

No 6 looks the most slapable to me,metaphorically speaking of course but I would rather be surrounded by these then football shirts at G.

[Somersetsun]

Apparently it's Peckham, it's sort of driven by the tech roundabout but sort of not, earning lots of money but not trust funds, so creative it hurts, generally wielding a Bromptom or a fixie in an obnoxious colour, I work in an office full of them and they're lovely.

I'm not a) a hipster or hot.

Happy to help.

[LondonTom]

Hold on, from reading this thread, if I like spaceman 3 and kerouac and have black rimmed glasses I'm a 'hipster'? I tell you what, that's a fucking result. I feel like I've been promoted. I bet they get more gash than a 'washed up over the hill fat fucking forty something'.

Edited June 4, 2013 by LondonTom

[ninetyeightytwo]

Those that might have been described as hipsters almost completely ruined Field Day last weekend.

I don't use the term myself, as it seems to apply to a staggeringly broad gamut of incongruous behavioural tropes that might not even exist in the first place. So you'd rather watch a subtitled French film than the latest Star Trek? That doesn't make you a hipster. What if you just really like subtitled French films? Though isn't it fabulous that what was once the nerdiest or nerdy favourites is now apparently the yardstick by which mainstream cinema is judged.

However, last weekend at Field Day there were scores of people who were obviously just there to be seen. They had little to no interest in the music. Whilst I'd spent hours upon hours poring over the line-up and deciding an ideal itinerary that would allow me to see as much as possibly, they'd spent at least twice as long deciding upon their outfit.

It's not innately "hipster" to talk at gigs, but who talks about MARKETING during a HEADLINE PERFORMANCE at a FESTIVAL? Animal Collective were rendered pretty much unwatchable thanks to the droves of people who were treating their set as background music to their conversations.

And here come the comments that "Animal Collective are unwatchable anyway", or perhaps it will be insisted that liking Animal Collective means that I am, myself, a hipster. But honestly, who cares?

For many, live music has become just another night out, and this sort of behaviour is bleeding into the festival circuit. There'll be people at Glastonbury who'll be there just so they can say "I've been to Glasto". And they will call it "Glasto". "Glasto" and nothing else.

I have no problem at all with some of the outlandish outfits posted elswhere in this thread, and I can just about stomach lairyness. One thing I cannot abide, though, is such antisocial behaviour at gigs that makes me feel like the weird one for wanting to hear the music.

I don't fear a swarm of hipsters at Glastonbury (and when did we stop calling them "scenesters"?), but I absolutely dread an infestation of those who don't seem to understand that people might want to hear music at a music festival.

I'm particularly wary of the Rolling Stones crowd. How many people will be there to watch the Rolling Stones, and how many will be there just so that they can say "yeah, I saw the Stones"?

[Bobs]

I hate the breed of people, i dress in clothes which i like, which means i overlap into 'hipster' clothes sometimes, but saw a girl the other day wearing basically nothing, yet still managed to keep her 'BOY LONDON', beanie on, i dont get it?

The ones who wear their sunglasses indoors i dont get, the overly fat ones who wear them silky jegginns (is that what they are called), who pout permanently 24-7.

Being from Liverpool, the derogatory term for wearing jeans when i was 14-18 was calling me a wool, and not wearing trackies and fred perry, now i'm a wool for not dressing like a twat.

At glastonbury, i'm expecting some of the following to be high in occurance

• Animal Hats
• Hunter Wellies (even in the sun).
• Ray-Bans (I Own ray-bans, but will not be taking them with me)
• large crowds acting cool
• Lots of peace necklaces
• Dweeb, Dork, Geek tees
• 'Hipster' Frames.
• Large crowds at the stones, acting cool, then moaning at being crushed by proper fans
• Big Amounts of Instagram snaps being taken, during said performance
• iPhones galore

I hate kids.

Edited June 4, 2013 by Bobs

[FloorFiller]

i wouldn't consider myself a hipster but i guess i conform to a lot of the things that many would consider 'hipster-ey', as do a couple of my friends, and when i told them i was going to watch the Rolling Stones at Glastonbury they sniggered and said things like 'ha, really? what's the point?'. i think a lot of what would be considered 'proper' hipsters would avoid the Stones and rather go and watch the likes of Fuck Buttons or little known ambient / deep house / Japanese folk act playing the Twat Tent. i'm sure the Stones crowd will still be full of people wanting to say they were there etc but a hipster wouldn't want to 'conform' to that... although all that said, it's becoming even more of a hipster thing to enjoy the popular acts and look down your nose when somebody questions your listening to Enrique Iglesias's first album, so i dunno

[LondonTom]

I don't fear a swarm of hipsters at Glastonbury (and when did we stop calling them "scenesters"?), but I absolutely dread an infestation of those who don't seem to understand that people might want to hear music at a music festival.

[ninetyeightytwo]

That pretty much everyone in this thread has said something along the lines of "though I have certain traits I'm not a hipster" should be enough for us to conclude that the term is a vapid weapon to be used against anyone whose fun or existence you resent.

[Guest]

old people getting pissed off with young people...

plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

[TheSeventhOne]

Well this has become quite a hateful thread, eh?

[Thearg]

old people getting pissed off with young people...

[russycarps]

old people getting pissed off with young people...

plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

[mrtourette]

old people getting pissed off with young people...

plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

[Dave The Hedgehog]

What if you just really like subtitled French films?

[Ponyegg]

All this talk of hipsters reminded me of this.

[Ed209]

I think it's more the fact most hipsters don't like subtitled French films but say they do just to appear somehow better in some way to another person; more cultured.

[russycarps]

That's just called being a bit of dick. That kind of thing is by no means reserved to "hipsters". That happens everywhere with all kinds of people in all walks of life

This thread is pretty depressing.

Seems a lot of hating on people just because of the clothes they wear or what their interests are. Dalston and shoreditch are for example are both very integrated inner-city areas with all kinds of people from all socioeconomic backgrounds living there. I'm sure most of these people being referred to are actually very affable human beings who sit on the more socially conscious, liberal, pro-gay rights, anti-racism end of the spectrum.

[mrtourette]

This thread is pretty depressing.

Seems a lot of hating on people just because of the clothes they wear or what their interests are.

[Ed209]

shoreditch has people from all kinds of socioeconomic backgrounds?? you obviously havent been there recently. It's like walking around balham these days.

Edited June 5, 2013 by Ed209

[Ed209]

No it isn't, it's a lot of hating on people because of the fact they choose to base decisions surrounding their appearance and interests on what they think makes them look cool rather than what they actually enjoy.

[russycarps]

Just because all the trendy bars round there that you go to Russy are filled with the wealthy, doesn't mean that is what shoreditch is. There's still large amounts of social housing in the area and it is also still very ethnically diverse, although admittedly not to the same extent as it was 10 years ago.

[Ed209]

have a look on rightmove at the house prices round there!

these people are not good for an area, far from it.

This is what the local community in brixton think of these sorts of people moving into the area