Awesome what a bunch of tools!

You have no idea, I live in a smaller town and everyone around here is like this thinking they are so modern. I guess every generation has to have their own hippies.

yeah, me too. hipsters are idiots, by en large.

Ugh. Welcome to my hometown. 'cept I think the only causes the hipsters around here are interested in are ironic mustache competitions and fixed-gear bicycle parades.
The hipster identifier that kills me the most these days is the stoopid f#(king furry hat with earflaps. In June. &$*@!#*!!

I'm sure you've seen... http://www.latfh.com/ just in case.

I ride BMX bikes (Freestyle Flatland rider) and we always lol at the "fixies" who ride ultra trendy tour bikes with flat bars and fixed gearing they must be the mobile arm of the hipsters. Now I should add that some of these riders are just artistic cyclists or bike messengers but the "fixies" know who they are.

EDIT: Aurthur that link was awesome, like I said earlier, tools!

we are overrun with tattoos, piercing, deviate, drug using, anarchist, hipster, and overpaid yuppies. ain't life grand? and my Moxi DVR (number 5) bit the dust tonight. glad I finally got around to watching the final LOST episode, because when the stupid things fry, all is lost.

So what you're saying is, not wearing horn-rimmed glasses or having ironic haircuts is going to be a big help for me on Franklin Street? SWEET!

Parts of San Diego are awash in the hipster craze too- every time I go out in those parts of town, this song runs through my head: (NSFW-language)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2OqgkAtCD0

My immediate neighborhood has a frighteningly high hipster quotient, along with their close cousins the emos and "scene" crowd. Their existence is unnecessary.

Wanna piss off a fixie? Ask 'em if they've seen the new fixedgear at Walmart. http://www.walmart.com/ip/700C-Men-s-Mongoose-Cachet-Fixed-Speed-Bike/13398142#ProductDetail
I worked at a bikeshop a few years ago, when the whole thing was really starting to take off. People would literally walk in and say, "I need a fixed gear. What is a fixed gear?" They almost always had the ubiquitous flat rimmed hat or ironic hair. Then they want us to take the brakes off 'cause its cool. I think they thought a fixed gear is like a coaster brake on a beach cruiser. Way to mindlessly follow trends, kids. Oh wait, that's called "being an individual", right?


Actually Franklin St. is mostly homeless people and dewey-eyed, fluffy headed college kids now. The hipster problem is more towards Carborro, West end of Franklin St. Horned-rim glasses are sooo 2007.
PS your vid wouldn't work.

Geez, every gen has it's "in-crowd" but I guess all of you were too square to be a part of it so you deride them for not inviting you to the party. Hipsters listen to cool music so STFU.

I'm a little baffled. I guess I'm old, but I wasn't even aware of the labels being discussed or social divisions or whatever they are. I guess I just see young people wearing modern sunglasses or whatever. Didn't know they had a specific name.

And as Hurri mentions, every generation has its young people doing things their way. What makes this particular crop the subject of such derision? Maybe I'm too old to "get it", but I really don't see these young people as much different than the young people of any other preceding generation.

And if they're listening to actual different music, it can only be an improvement over preceding years of late. I think I've had enough Snoop Dog, Black-eyed Peas, and Sir Mix-a-lot, so good for these youngsters if they've gone off in another direction.

Cheers!

Rick...

me'h
every generation has their younglings trying to stand out and be different (if they did not try to be different then I would be worried!)! hipsters, metalheads, hippies, punks, goths,

nothing new here...

I love this quote from the wiki article about Hipsters:



So effin' true!!

I agree that we all most likely went through some degree of alienation and independence. Mine was long hair, which was pretty radical here in the 60's, but I never considered permanent disfigurement like tattoos and piercings. The biggest difference I see in what I went through and some of the much more alienated youth today is that I was still pretty conventional in my values, of hard work yielding a decent living, community service, belief in my country, and generally working within the "system", rather than seeking its overthrow. The funny thing locally is that if all the supporting structure of current society were taken away most of the protesters would starve to death in the first winter.

No one's existence is necessary but to suggest your's has more value than theirs is just plain wrong.

hipsters are like clowns in real life, except they think they are so cool. it's the level of affectation and misguided sense of individuality that makes them so buffoonish, and so fun to ridicule. basically, it's like hanging a sign above one's head that states "i'm a hubristic idiot and hopelessly conformist, but think i'm a cultural iconoclast"

how could any intelligent person NOT find that hilarious?

How is it any different than you working out at the gym to make yourself look buff for the "chicks"? Both are just as shallow and ridiculous.

Amen to PM!

I grew up in the era of the hippies. Peace, love, dope, and all that stuff. A lot of it sounded good,, in theory, but in practice was unworkable, or just plain dumb. Living in communes for example. Sounded good. We'll all live together in peace and harmony, raise our own food, be at one with nature. Didn't turn out that way. People are messy, they don't necessarily get along, men fight over women, electricity and plumbing are worthwhile, the earth just doesn't spit out tomatoes and never a worm be seen. The vision and the reality were not one with each other.

Hippies didn't care to be told what to do, so they despised the government and the military. They protested, a lot. They rioted, a lot. And it didn't change what they said needed changing. Many of the so called leadership were in fact anarchists, fomenting rebellion at every opportunity. People got hurt, some died. Some of the anarchists who hated government, went on to be a part of that government. Again, they changed nothing other than making headlines for themselves.

I remember one year two buddies of mine and I took a road trip. At one point we were in San Francisco and decided to check out Haight-Ashbury. I guess we expected a corner full of bright flowers and musicians playing flutes sitting on mats. The reality was a dark, filthy intersection populated by scumbag drug dealers. The vision and the reality at odds with each other.