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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2011 13:40:14 GMT -5
I hate the Boy Scouts, I hate Christmas, I hate little fluffy ducks. Part of me loathes Harriet Beecher Stowe. To actually contribute something to the discussion aside from the little rant that pops into my head whenever someone says "I hate" more than twice, I was shocked to learn PBR was some kind of trendy thing, because around here, it's a blue collar beer and is always among the cheapest you'll find. Which is exactly why the hipster crowd likes to drink it. Again, weird sense of irony. I'll say it again...why do so many of them bother to drink cheap beer when they grossly overspend on coffee and cigarettes? And why am I even trying to figure this out? Because people drink PBR to get drunk so the price doesn't matter. Great coffee is awesome and average coffee is crap.
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Post by The Line on Jul 22, 2011 13:46:34 GMT -5
Which is exactly why the hipster crowd likes to drink it. Again, weird sense of irony. I'll say it again...why do so many of them bother to drink cheap beer when they grossly overspend on coffee and cigarettes? And why am I even trying to figure this out? Because people drink PBR to get drunk so the price doesn't matter. Great coffee is awesome and average coffee is crap. It's like you know me!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2011 14:15:34 GMT -5
I just think it's amusing to see dudes with those really short shorts and v-neck shirts. I mean, I don't really have a sense of style or anything but it just seems strange to me.
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Post by Munkie91087 on Jul 22, 2011 15:01:52 GMT -5
You guys honestly just don't get it. Typical, stupid, mainstream tripe.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jul 22, 2011 15:13:03 GMT -5
You guys honestly just don't get it. Typical, stupid, mainstream tripe. Needs a Keffiyeh, or not a hipster.
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Post by jamofpearls on Jul 22, 2011 16:43:17 GMT -5
hey......PBR is like, the tastiest of the cheap beers . I think Natural Light takes that. Or High Life.
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Post by jamofpearls on Jul 22, 2011 16:44:48 GMT -5
I just think it's amusing to see dudes with those really short shorts and v-neck shirts. I mean, I don't really have a sense of style or anything but it just seems strange to me. Wait...V-necks are hipster? I've been wearing those for the better part of 15 years. Does this mean i'm finally hip?
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Post by babyfootball on Jul 22, 2011 17:05:08 GMT -5
I'm sure there's some hipsters out there that 'ironically' like wrestling. Pretty much the entire Lehigh Valley (PA) Punk Rock scene. A bunch of kids that used to be my friends until I realized that I was never going to be accepted into their clique because I like pop music as well as punk/indie, didn't fully subscribe to their ultra-leftist politics (despite the fact that I'm generally fairly liberal, but that's neither here nor there) and generally kind of grew up with time, rather than still being into the exact same things that I was into in high school. Also:
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jul 22, 2011 17:20:19 GMT -5
Which is exactly why the hipster crowd likes to drink it. Again, weird sense of irony. I'll say it again...why do so many of them bother to drink cheap beer when they grossly overspend on coffee and cigarettes? And why am I even trying to figure this out? Because Coffee is Serious Business. No room for irony. How ironic.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Jul 22, 2011 18:13:03 GMT -5
I just think it's amusing to see dudes with those really short shorts and v-neck shirts. I mean, I don't really have a sense of style or anything but it just seems strange to me. Wait...V-necks are hipster? I've been wearing those for the better part of 15 years. Does this mean i'm finally hip? Deep v-necks are hipster.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2011 18:17:37 GMT -5
Yeah hipsters get undue hate. I like the brightly-colored clothes and unique styles and hipster music isn't necessarily bad music, either. The usual subculture attempt to stay as indie as possible for as long as possible means branching out into avant-garde musical styles...and that helps keep the independent music scene fresh.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Jul 22, 2011 18:29:06 GMT -5
Yeah hipsters get undue hate. I like the brightly-colored clothes and unique styles and hipster music isn't necessarily bad music, either. The usual subculture attempt to stay as indie as possible for as long as possible means branching out into avant-garde musical styles...and that helps keep the independent music scene fresh. Yes and no. I do read Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan and the like, but mostly just for news and concert announcements. I don't often read the reviews, as sometimes I find their attempts to be contrarian really overt and annoying. For example, Pitchfork has reviewed the last three Keane albums. Now I'm not a Keane fan myself, but they make inoffensive rock. It's unremarkable, but it's by no means bad. Each of their last three records was given a review of under 4.0 by Pitchfork. Clearly, Pitchfork's target audience is unlikely to be a Keane fan, so why review the album? This seemed like an obvious attempt to bag on an easy target. It just seemed mean-spirited. There are other artists that they champion (Joanna Newsom, for example) who are completely unlistenable and that seems to be the sole reason for propping them up.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Jul 22, 2011 18:39:19 GMT -5
Yeah hipsters get undue hate. I like the brightly-colored clothes and unique styles and hipster music isn't necessarily bad music, either. The usual subculture attempt to stay as indie as possible for as long as possible means branching out into avant-garde musical styles...and that helps keep the independent music scene fresh. That's fine, I have no problem with that group of people. The clothes are, in my opinion, butt ugly, but that's personal taste. What I object to is how far up their own asses some of the people in that culture are about their life choices. If you want to listen exclusively to a band that only you and 6 other people(IE: The parents of the people in the band) have heard of, awesome, more power to you, but don't act so f***ing superior about it.
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Post by Citizen Snips on Jul 22, 2011 18:45:22 GMT -5
Yeah hipsters get undue hate. I like the brightly-colored clothes and unique styles and hipster music isn't necessarily bad music, either. The usual subculture attempt to stay as indie as possible for as long as possible means branching out into avant-garde musical styles...and that helps keep the independent music scene fresh. Yes and no. I do read Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan and the like, but mostly just for news and concert announcements. I don't often read the reviews, as sometimes I find their attempts to be contrarian really overt and annoying. For example, Pitchfork has reviewed the last three Keane albums. Now I'm not a Keane fan myself, but they make inoffensive rock. It's unremarkable, but it's by no means bad. Each of their last three records was given a review of under 4.0 by Pitchfork. Clearly, Pitchfork's target audience is unlikely to be a Keane fan, so why review the album? This seemed like an obvious attempt to bag on an easy target. It just seemed mean-spirited. There are other artists that they champion (Joanna Newsom, for example) who are completely unlistenable and that seems to be the sole reason for propping them up. Pitchfork is horrible, and I say this as someone who likes a LOT of the same music that they do. I think the writing on that site is what most of the people who hate "hipsters" are trying to nail down. They just pile on the purple prose and long-winded diatribes in an attempt to seem smart, but the technique just comes across as stilted and forced. There's no need for their style, it's just an attempt to validate their opinions by seeming "smarter" than the average reader. Me, I'd just like a review that says, "Hey, check out the new Rural Alberta Advantage album. It's pretty rocking." I don't need to know if it's going to fill the meaningless voids in my life.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Jul 22, 2011 18:47:00 GMT -5
Also, walking down North Avenue in Chicago has completely eroded my tolerance for hipsters. I didn't realize what the shop was at first, but after spending 5 minutes in Quimby's books, I wanted to punch everyone in that building.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Jul 22, 2011 18:50:56 GMT -5
Yes and no. I do read Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan and the like, but mostly just for news and concert announcements. I don't often read the reviews, as sometimes I find their attempts to be contrarian really overt and annoying. For example, Pitchfork has reviewed the last three Keane albums. Now I'm not a Keane fan myself, but they make inoffensive rock. It's unremarkable, but it's by no means bad. Each of their last three records was given a review of under 4.0 by Pitchfork. Clearly, Pitchfork's target audience is unlikely to be a Keane fan, so why review the album? This seemed like an obvious attempt to bag on an easy target. It just seemed mean-spirited. There are other artists that they champion (Joanna Newsom, for example) who are completely unlistenable and that seems to be the sole reason for propping them up. Pitchfork is horrible, and I say this as someone who likes a LOT of the same music that they do. I think the writing on that site is what most of the people who hate "hipsters" are trying to nail down. They just pile on the purple prose and long-winded diatribes in an attempt to seem smart, but the technique just comes across as stilted and forced. There's no need for their style, it's just an attempt to validate their opinions by seeming "smarter" than the average reader. Me, I'd just like a review that says, "Hey, check out the new Rural Alberta Advantage album. It's pretty rocking." I don't need to know if it's going to fill the meaningless voids in my life. Have a look at Ripfork. I don't think the guy has updated his site recently, but he looks at reviews from the major indie blogs and tears them apart based on the flowery, unnecessary "smartest guy in the room" prose. His stuff is really funny and he hates Ian Cohen, easily Pitchfork's worst writer, as much as I do.
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Post by nickcave on Jul 22, 2011 19:12:30 GMT -5
I'm glad that AT and T commercial where they cover the nation with orange cloth is gone, since that song nearly led me to throwing my TV out the window. Hey no need to throw that song under the umbrella of hipster garbage! That song came out in 1972! Long before the influx of douchey white guy acoustic songs we have now. It's no cover
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Post by noleafclover1980 on Jul 22, 2011 21:12:29 GMT -5
Yeah hipsters get undue hate. I like the brightly-colored clothes and unique styles and hipster music isn't necessarily bad music, either. The usual subculture attempt to stay as indie as possible for as long as possible means branching out into avant-garde musical styles...and that helps keep the independent music scene fresh. No, they don't. You may like the style/music... bit hipsters act like condescending douchebags to everyone about it, so no, that does not get undo hate. People hate them for being dicks about everything, not the style itself.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Jul 22, 2011 21:48:42 GMT -5
The douchebag elitist attitude permeates all facets of culture. Wrestling has smarks, Anime has them, pop culture junkies such as myself have em...I'm sure furries, tramps, and theives have em. The reason the hipsters get the hate is that the small percentage who act this way are of course the loudest of the bunch. They're the ones who write long meaningless prose about why this band is better than your mom's homemade cookies. They are the ones who bag on the clothes you wear while they go thrift shopping.
In short, like a wise man once said in some Mel Brooks film...we're all surrounded by assholes.
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Post by Tarik Dee on Jul 22, 2011 21:53:02 GMT -5
To add something to the discussion, here it's Arcade Fire (one of the Hipsters' favorite bands) with Rococo, a song against Hipsters:
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