Main Menu

Y'know what really grinds my gears?

Started by Link Prime, 12 April, 2014, 01:47:44 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

ZenArcade

You're pushing all the right Buttons however Jim
My bug bear is cyclists on the pavement. I fucking hate and despise the thoughtless dangerous pricks.
New wave punks and hipsters as just pretty inoffensive young people. Z
Ed is dead, baby Ed is...Ed is dead

Richmond Clements

Quote from: Hawkmonger on 04 March, 2015, 09:04:11 AM
People who complain about new wave punks and hipsters. As a culture it's no more ridiculous than anything the previous generation would have been like. Or the generation before them.

Ahhh, the innocence of youth..!
Just wait until you're in your mid-forties..!

Satanist

My only problem with hipsters is that they dress and act like they have no money then buy a bowl of cereal for a fiver. Not owning a tv isnt something to brag about. sort your fucking odd socks out while your at it. and cover up that sleeve tat and get a fuckin shave when your in the office. and no thats not a camper van its a fuckin transit van with a matress in it Oh I fuckin hate that cunt erm I mean them.
Hmm, just pretend I wrote something witty eh?

ZenArcade

Ed is dead, baby Ed is...Ed is dead

M.I.K.

Quote from: Hawkmonger on 04 March, 2015, 09:04:11 AM
People who complain about new wave punks and hipsters. As a culture it's no more ridiculous than anything the previous generation would have been like. Or the generation before them.

The majority of people I see complaining about them belong to the same generation as them.


ZenArcade

Ach sure they aren't doing any harm. Z
Ed is dead, baby Ed is...Ed is dead

TordelBack

#711
Quote from: ZenArcade on 04 March, 2015, 04:17:44 PM
Ach sure they aren't doing any harm. Z

They stole our beards. This here face fungus is a symbol of my individuality. I've had a beard for over 20 years, it was My Thing, and now evey snot nosed punk looks like Grizzly Adams. Why I oughta.

Old Tankie

What is a hipster, please?  I know what a punk is, but a hipster!?

Charlie boy

Exactly! Bloody hipsters! Beard and hair gel stealing (tho I never went for a somewhat Mark Kermode rockabilly inspired-look style like most of the "cool kids" are now going for, I did have gel to keep my otherwise bad hair in some kind of neat appearance despite a messy beard) annoyances. And as previously pointed out, it all seems very designer scruff. You're paying out the nose for jeans with rips in them! Buy jeans without rips in them, they could last twice as long! If you want a shirt that looks second hand, just buy a second hand shirt! Topman saw those lot coming when they were dressing the mannequins, that's for sure.
Not sure what new wave punk is. I am thankful however that whichever PR man came up with the term to try and convince people they can join a genuinely 'alternative' movement didn't spell it nu-wave punk or something. Although maybe it's because nu is something the old farts liked and noo wouldn't catch on.

TordelBack

Quote from: Old Tankie on 04 March, 2015, 05:16:39 PM
What is a hipster, please?  I know what a punk is, but a hipster!?

I think not knowing might make you one, Tankie!

It's just a stupid generation label for people who mix grungy 90s-style clobber with beards, pompadour hairdos and a commercialised rejection of commercialism, and mistake the combo for enlightened individualism. Young people, basically. Nothing to see here.

Rog69

I've come around on hipsters. It takes a lot of guts to all wear the same hat.

Old Tankie

Ah! Thanks TB, now I know!!  I'll give 'em a wide berth.

radiator

QuotePeople who complain about new wave punks and hipsters. As a culture it's no more ridiculous than anything the previous generation would have been like. Or the generation before them.

Couldn't agree more.

While it's good to be able to have a sense of humour about yourself - and I've definitely rolled my eyes and had a little chuckle at one or two Shoreditch twonks sporting a full-on twirly Salvador Dali moustaches and oversized specs in my time, the level of venom that regularly gets ranted about Hipsters in general seems totally unwarranted. The really nasty scorn says a lot more about those saying it than their targets if you ask me.

I think when people bemoan 'Hipsters' they're really talking about a very small subset of obnoxious Nathan Barley types, and subcultures always have a fringe that take things too far. For all the accusations of snobbery and elitism, in my experience on the whole they tend to be far more open-minded and easygoing than many other social groups I could mention.

Full disclosure - I hold my hand up to ticking more than a few Hipster boxes (and certainly have friends who are full-blown Hipster), and I live in Portland which is a Hipster mecca  - a land of bicycles, beards, artisan bakeries and craft breweries - and you know what? I bloody love it.

Quotebuy a bowl of cereal for a fiver

As someone pointed out on Twitter, anyone who has ever bought a Dominos pizza (which has even more of a crazy markup) is just as much of a chump.

TordelBack

Quote from: radiator on 04 March, 2015, 05:33:40 PM
I live in Portland

I was going to say.  I think you've been compromised, Radiator.

Nah, I've nothing against Hipsters really* - and the female of the species is apparently the Manic Pixie Dreamgirl, so that's okay. 


*Apart from making me want to shave.

Hawkmumbler

People who say the female of the species. Sorry, that really gets on me nerves Tordels.   ::)