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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: Lord of the Ales on May 02, 2015, 04:47:58 PM
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...are a mixed blessing. And I still can't work out whether I am one, or just like a lot of the stuff they seem to like but without having as much money. :P
A part of town near where I grew up has become a hipster enclave, complete with vintage shops, craft beer shops/bars, lots of beards worn with retro haircuts and artisan produce emporiums. I think the turning point was when Saltaire was granted World Heritage Site status - the place became a Destination - then the hipsters moved in. Now every second shop along Bradford Raod/Bingley Road appears to have been transplanted from Shoreditch and locals think its okay to wear brogues/loafers and no socks. My personal gripe with them is that wherever they colonize everything I liked becomes fucking expensive.
Any thoughts on them?
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TBH I don't know the full definition of a "hipster". Whenever I think I know, somebody comes along and changes the definition.
Vintage shops? Craft beer? Yes, I like those. But other than that, I don't know.
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http://www.downvids.net/hipster-vs-real-men-588101.html (http://www.downvids.net/hipster-vs-real-men-588101.html)
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Shit Hipsters Say (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-RtayJQubY#ws)
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The only consolation is that in a few years what is fashionable will be all out again. While you keep on liking it. Prices will drop. And you'll be the weirdo of the street again.
The "blessing" is that now people do not think you are "weird" but that you are "creative and original".
Sometimes it annoys me, sometimes I like it. This evening I teased a colleague that she had turned into a hipster, photographing her food. She just is as she has been all the time in the thirty years I know her. A funny spazz.
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http://www.downvids.net/hipster-vs-real-men-588101.html (http://www.downvids.net/hipster-vs-real-men-588101.html)
:GA:
I tried watching through this, I really did.
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It's way bigger than hipster, there is also the "brocante" hype. Some of it is really old stuff. Big chunk of it is rubbish painted with chalk. And then there are people finding awesome finds, and painting that with chalk.
AAAARRRRRRCCCHHHHH!!!
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http://www.downvids.net/hipster-vs-real-men-588101.html (http://www.downvids.net/hipster-vs-real-men-588101.html)
:GA:
I tried watching through this, I really did.
It's one of the funnier things I've seen lately :)
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It's way bigger than hipster, there is also the "brocante" hype. Some of it is really old stuff. Big chunk of it is rubbish painted with chalk. And then there are people finding awesome finds, and painting that with chalk.
AAAARRRRRRCCCHHHHH!!!
You're not helping. :GA:
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My only consolation is that this too will pass.
:meditate:
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George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebtC3ORg9fU#)
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I have mixed feelings about them also, on one hand at the flea market they buy a lot of the type of stuff I sell on the other hand they have made it harder for me to find the stuff I have always liked at reasonable prices.
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Thats what I need to do - find something to sell to them. :thumbup:
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TBH I don't know the full definition of a "hipster". Whenever I think I know, somebody comes along and changes the definition.
Hipsters can't be classified because that would be so mainstream. :zoinks:
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TBH I don't know the full definition of a "hipster". Whenever I think I know, somebody comes along and changes the definition.
Hipsters can't be classified because that would be so mainstream. :zoinks:
:laugh: