Hipsters...
08-08-08 | 08:12 AM
#128
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From: Brooklyn, NY
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I think that's the largest available, unless you were to ask her politely:
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08-08-08 | 09:54 AM
#130
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From: NEBRASKA
Bikes: 2001 Trek 800 Singletrack (single speed for singletrack and chores), 2007 Giant TranSend DX, 1973 Schwinn Varsity ss
There are a lot of characteristics of the stereotypical hipster that I share. Most of the things I am match up side by side. But I don't think I'm a hipster....am I**********? www.myspace.com/iloveaerosmith
I mean: vegetarian, love to read, love organic/fair trade coffee, I've toured in a punk rock band, liberal, like bikes, have been part of a "micro-culture" since high school (subculture is too belittling)
^ that stuff makes me sound like a jackass!!! But I think I'm a respectable guy.
Bike Hipsters: https://board.vivalavinyl.org - look for any picture thread or bike thread
I mean: vegetarian, love to read, love organic/fair trade coffee, I've toured in a punk rock band, liberal, like bikes, have been part of a "micro-culture" since high school (subculture is too belittling)
^ that stuff makes me sound like a jackass!!! But I think I'm a respectable guy.
Bike Hipsters: https://board.vivalavinyl.org - look for any picture thread or bike thread
08-08-08 | 12:14 PM
#133
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From: San Francisco
Bikes: Steelman eurocross, Surly CrossCheck, IRO Rob Roy...
08-08-08 | 01:34 PM
#135
doom rider
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From: Boston, MA
Bikes: 2011 Cinelli Histogram, 2008 Redline 925, 1986 Haro Master (original owner, too!), GT (mtn/off-road. It's old. Don't know the model name)
08-08-08 | 01:41 PM
#136
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yo son, hipster is anti-hippy in more ways than the pant leg cuff. maybe this generation smokes less reefer, but they definitely smoke less love... it's mostly haters hating other haters. i'm not going to judge you, son, if you have a tight cuff. however, i will instinctively process how difficult the task of using this pants must be, and be left with a bad taste in my mouth. props for making a cultural and most likely historical impression though. that is some love for the haters hating other haters.
seriously though, the clothing style is mad homogenized son. no one wants to be labeled. hopefully in 10yrs the television shows won't make fun of the generation. many people have succumbed to elaborate forearm ink, with coins in their ears and what have you. these things will be surefire sore thumbs and indicate to those of us that held out, that the man with the ephemeral junk on his arm once tried to be an individual by sweating other individuals and is-as a result-not an individual. white people are so weird. this time is just like disco, man... leave the cool to my black brothers and i and to the james dean characters and a select few puerto ricans. if things are cool, it means you have to be concerned that things could potentially be hot. right? i don't like the police, but those dudes love to pick me up, take my photo, do my fingerprints all that ****. you ain't gangster because you mowed the lawn and got a wheelset with under 6 spokes, son. you're gangster because you're gangster. and if you were gangster, probably, you would secretely wish you were less gangster/more white so you could score a lady with some manners. if you want to be gangster, you're not gangster son. if you try to be cool, you might as well be a narc.
like i say, most peoples are just zombies and copycats, son.
seriously though, the clothing style is mad homogenized son. no one wants to be labeled. hopefully in 10yrs the television shows won't make fun of the generation. many people have succumbed to elaborate forearm ink, with coins in their ears and what have you. these things will be surefire sore thumbs and indicate to those of us that held out, that the man with the ephemeral junk on his arm once tried to be an individual by sweating other individuals and is-as a result-not an individual. white people are so weird. this time is just like disco, man... leave the cool to my black brothers and i and to the james dean characters and a select few puerto ricans. if things are cool, it means you have to be concerned that things could potentially be hot. right? i don't like the police, but those dudes love to pick me up, take my photo, do my fingerprints all that ****. you ain't gangster because you mowed the lawn and got a wheelset with under 6 spokes, son. you're gangster because you're gangster. and if you were gangster, probably, you would secretely wish you were less gangster/more white so you could score a lady with some manners. if you want to be gangster, you're not gangster son. if you try to be cool, you might as well be a narc.
like i say, most peoples are just zombies and copycats, son.
08-08-08 | 01:42 PM
#137
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From: Boston, MA
Bikes: 2011 Cinelli Histogram, 2008 Redline 925, 1986 Haro Master (original owner, too!), GT (mtn/off-road. It's old. Don't know the model name)
...But I don't think I'm a hipster....am I**********? www.myspace.com/iloveaerosmith
As for the hipster thing, I think Sartre summed it up best. "Two people can come from the same back ground, have the same job, and live the same lives. However, one may have an existentialist perspective, while the other does not. Therein, the difference between them lies."
The same thing is true with the so called "hipster" crowd. On the surface, two people may appear to be very much the same...
08-08-08 | 01:45 PM
#139
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I sold my fixed gear because I realized that I hated the image of people that I tended to see riding them (and I looked just the same).
Stereotypical Hipster Has:
Facial hair
a cap (not a hat)
rolled up pant leg
bandanna around neck
lots of opinions about society
ironic T-shirt (small)
one or two tats
an oldschool record player
a lot of interest in music, and "finding" bands
...a fixed gear
Stereotypical Hipster Has:
Facial hair
a cap (not a hat)
rolled up pant leg
bandanna around neck
lots of opinions about society
ironic T-shirt (small)
one or two tats
an oldschool record player
a lot of interest in music, and "finding" bands
...a fixed gear
08-08-08 | 04:49 PM
#142
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From: NEBRASKA
Bikes: 2001 Trek 800 Singletrack (single speed for singletrack and chores), 2007 Giant TranSend DX, 1973 Schwinn Varsity ss
Love your Christopher Hitchens quote.
As for the hipster thing, I think Sartre summed it up best. "Two people can come from the same back ground, have the same job, and live the same lives. However, one may have an existentialist perspective, while the other does not. Therein, the difference between them lies."
The same thing is true with the so called "hipster" crowd. On the surface, two people may appear to be very much the same...
As for the hipster thing, I think Sartre summed it up best. "Two people can come from the same back ground, have the same job, and live the same lives. However, one may have an existentialist perspective, while the other does not. Therein, the difference between them lies."
The same thing is true with the so called "hipster" crowd. On the surface, two people may appear to be very much the same...
I would agree with you there. I guess it all boils down to principle and morality; not what's superficial.
08-09-08 | 05:42 AM
#148
i'll probably break it
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08-09-08 | 11:34 AM
#149
thread derailleur
Joined: May 2008
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From: beyond Thunderdome
Bikes: 82 Bianchi ECO Pista, Pake, Kilo TT, some *** bmx i found underneath an old house
i find it strange that any subculture/scene that receives exposure & gains traction with news media outlets will inevitably cannibalize it's own. Skateboarding, hip-hop, punk/hardcore, 80's revivalism, they all eventually eat their young. I understand why, no one wants to see their clique get co-opted by the masses, and poseurs abound everywhere. Still, it would be good to see people not sweating this stuff so much. One more bike, even if it's only for 6 months or a year, is still better than nothing at all, right?
08-09-08 | 06:38 PM
#150
take out and make out!
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From: San Francisco "the city"
Bikes: "a ****ing fixie, so do not be silly"
Hipster huh? Scenester that's the ****. I live in SF and they are everywhere but hey SF is one of the original fixed, messenger (original), scene riding city's. It really doesn't matter you ride a bike and have fun. I ride an IRO (cause they are the best for me) and I own deep V's because they are damn good rims (I ran into a taxi at 30mph and my deep V's are still true). I am trendy as **** but I really don't care a bit. haha and like that someone once said, hipster is in the eye of the beerholder!