Hipsters

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Originally Posted by War Angel

Hipsters are the lowest form of life on the planet. They are cultural parasites, leeching off the creativity and identity of others, and steal the various superficial attributes from each culture - without understanding or respecting anything about them.

So, you have hipsters with keffiyahs that they stole from Arabs, fake glasses that they stole from nerds, shirts and hairstyles that they stole from metal-heads or punk-rockers, pants that they stole from your sister and hats that they got from your grand-dad's gay buddy.

They end up looking utterly ridiculous and their smug, self-gratifying act doesn't do them any justice, either. Fortunately, they are always mentally and physically meager and can be dealt with, exerting little effort.

To conclude my point, I will say what must be said - hipsters should be killed with fire. They are a social contagion and if one of your friends turns, kill him with fire, too, before the disease spreads further.

Protect yourselves, protect society - abolish hipsterism.

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That is SUCH a mainstream view of things.

I don't even understand the hate.

I'm fine with people that don't care about what others think about them and are proud of being unique.

I'm not fine with people who act like they're better than others because they think they're unique, or people that act condescending about things they supposedly know more about than others (which turn out to not really be that important, usually). Which I think is the main identifying mark of a hipster. There's the proud ignorance, the "I'm better than you because I know underground things" attitude, and the fact that a lot of the clothes/accessories/things they like (whether they're actually cool or not) aren't exactly a good idea to flaunt in public. For example, I like Mario too, but I'm not going to wear a 1up beanie and a Yoshi hoodie everywhere I go because I might run into somebody who may one day decide whether or not I get hired for something, and you never know whether or not that person has their own Mario bias (or even a general opinion on proper "public-friendly clothing") so I wear smurfing normal clothes and eat normal tasty smurfing food. And I don't act better than any "hipsters" just because I've realized that conforming to certain social norms is easier than fighting the ones that aren't worth fighting.

I can't put exactly what I'm thinking into words right now but my point is in there somewhere.

The only two "hipsters" that I see on a regular basis totally fail at it. They wear the fake glasses but they don't even look cool, they look ridiculous. Just by looking at them you can tell they're TRYING to be hipster. >.>

The music they listen to is just so BAD!

So what defines a hipster then? And how many of those criteria do you have to fulfil before you're deemed hipster enough to actually be a hipster? Because I don't smurfing get it. I do things because I want to do them without trying to adhere to a cultural trend.

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Originally Posted by Jiro

I do things because I want to do them without trying to adhere to a cultural trend.

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Not understanding that principle is one of the main qualities required to be a true hipster.

i dunno tig i only wear shirts to restaurants because of cultural trends
and believe me the whole world is missing out on theze gunz

Wearing shirts isn't a cultural trend, it's a social norm.

...Right?

i dunno

tig let's just go get gyros and have a beer

wtf are we doing here wearing shirts

you're all welcome to join us guys

Oh, you mean it's normal to wear shirts out in public...?


.... Well then.

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Originally Posted by krissy

tig let's just go get gyros pizza and have a beer

wtf are we doing here wearing shirts

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Alrighty then :D

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Originally Posted by Nikki

Oh, you mean it's normal to wear shirts out in public...?

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NOT ANYMORE :jess:

Oh good... I don't want to do anything too mainstream. :bigsmile:

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Originally Posted by Tigmafuzz

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Originally Posted by Jiro

I do things because I want to do them without trying to adhere to a cultural trend.

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Not understanding that principle is one of the main qualities required to be a true hipster.

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Kinda like how being a gamer requires you to be an overwieght virgin with a big neck beard! Am I right!

*goes for high five*

smurf those smurfing smurfs.