hackney hipster hate

[DotCommunist]

they aren't christian- the lyrics of that sort go with the territory. The album is massively tinged with christian imagery but then the tradition they are apeing is as well.

 

[flypanam]

Really? I doubt that any self respecting hipster would be linked to a psuedo folk christian band.

More about the edgy stuff, shurely or obscure bands that are sooo cool they haven't even been invented yet. Chart toppers Mumford and Sons? Hardly!

Okay maybe not the full time hipsters, the ones who think they are artists, but the full time hedge fund managers part time shoreditch whore most certainly are laping up the mumford waves. I think that is my distinction. The full time ones i can ignore, it's the people who work in the city boast about their cash and their single speed steeds that whore around jaguar shoes that really fuck me off. 'Totally standard dudes' who have never had an opinion that they haven't read in the FT, Metro or NME.

 

[teuchter]

http://hackneyhipsterhate2.tumblr.com/

 

[hipipol]

it's better than being boring.

- wierd clothes, finding yerself, haha, v 80s - "we dressed up and....

 

[ska invita]

was on my weekly work visit to brick lance yesterday and went past the little junk furniture shack up by the railway bridge -theres an old boy who runs it and sits in the doorways most days. the poor fella has had to put a sign up saying No Photography (of him and his shopfront), as Id imagine he cant get a minutes peace without someone snapping this slice of 'authentic east end life' etc. (theres the occasionally good secondhand record in there by the way - house clearance style - though he's a mean haggler!)

first few times i went up that way i thought there was some kind of school photography assignment going on, every 5th person was walking around with cameras and taking pictures of walls and each other.

its all too visual for my liking

 

[teuchter]

Were they taking pictures on vintage polaroid cameras, or were they just taking them on their iphones with "vintage polaroid effect" setting turned on?

 

[TitanSound]

on one hand i want to pull them aside and ask, "you genuienly believe that you are a unique, special, fascinating, artistic individual, don't you, you twat?"

This is my biggest problem though. They all think they are unique and cool but they all lok like each other.

I went to a photography exhibition in Bethnal Green recently that was supposed to be a celebration of the "Noughties Nightlife" of the past ten years. All it was though was a load of fashion and art students who had taken pictures of their "unique" mates dressed up and all the pictures looked like they had been taken in the last year or so. Bunch of wank.

 

[Sue]

So, slightly off topic but anyone know a decent pub in Mare St? By decent I mean not filled with 'hipster' wankers with funny haircuts, just a normal pub for a few drinks? Otherwise the default is the Wetherspoons (which I've never been to but the friend I'm meeting knows where it is).

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

i have mixed feeling about the skinny jean brigade that swamp parts of london.

on one hand i want to pull them aside and ask, "you genuienly believe that you are a unique, special, fascinating, artistic individual, don't you, you twat?"

but on the other, I want to praise them for being unique, special looking, individual and probably artistic!

what i do hate though is a sneery attitude to anything "main stream" as if if you don't ware eighties glasses, ONLY listen to underground music, and use words like awesome and random then you;re some kind of brainwashed mainstream saddo.

cheers. my thoughts on hackney hipsters.

Life is like a Gordian Knot of complicated issues and alternatives, and figuring out what's best is like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube, when no one has shown you the way.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

i think it has only been used to describe these kind of people over the last 5 -6 years or so though? starting in Wlliamsburg, Brooklyn.

I think it's been used to describe these kind of people since Seinfeld. Kramer was a hipster.

 

[Bajie]

http://www.latfh.com/

Having looked through many pages of that site, I still can not work out just what it is about them that makes me what to punch them in their fucking faces.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Having looked through many pages of that site, I still can not work out just what it is about them that makes me what to punch them in their fucking faces.

Some things don't need an explanation.

 

[editor]

Man. Hackney's got it bad.

 

[pinkmonkey]

the sites a bit thin on content tho - is this because the owner is worried they'll get outed and have thier eyes poked out with the arm from some fluorescent rayban wayfarers?

 

[boohoo]

what i do hate though is a sneery attitude to anything "main stream" as if if you don't ware eighties glasses, ONLY listen to underground music, and use words like awesome and random then you;re some kind of brainwashed mainstream saddo.

Is this not the attitude of youth?

 

[Badgers]

I thought they were ladies trousers?

 

[boohoo]

This is my biggest problem though. They all think they are unique and cool but they all lok like each other.

This is funny...reminds me of this thread.

 

[boohoo]

I thought they were ladies trousers?

Yes, if you are over 30, that's what they are

 

[Badgers]

Yes, if you are over 30, that's what they are

Oh dear

 

[Steel Icarus]

Ah, they just wanna belong. They'll all be in offices in 5 years anyway. It's always been the same.

I wish they'd been around the early 90s, mind. I could have made a fucking fortune selling them Oxo cubes & Aspirins.

 

[killer b]

Fuck it, they look cool. It's a lifestyle I'd aspire to if I were 19 and full of spunk.

 

[_pH_]

you might need to sign in to stupid youtube:
or it might work from here without: http://www.b3ta.com/links/I_love_my_life_as_a_dickhead

 

[killer b]

Wow, not seen that before.

 

[_pH_]

Wow, not seen that before.

really? good job i posted it then.

 

[Badgers]

Do the hipsters refer to themselves as hipsters, like say a punk/mod/rocker would?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

"old grumpy gits don't like what young kids are wearing" shocker.

If I like what teenagers are wearing, listening to and doing, then quite frankly they're doing it wrong.

 

[Red Cat]

Do the hipsters refer to themselves as hipsters, like say a punk/mod/rocker would?

A ex-work mate of mine was labeled a hipster in an Observer feature on youth-culture a few years ago. The guy who wrote the piece was a mate of hers so I'm assuming he'd got permission to call her that. I never heard her call herself that.

She's a bit older than 19 mind. I'd say most of them are in their twenties. It's a post-uni trust-funded life in London isn't it? I'd never associated it with teenagers.

 

[_pH_]

"old grumpy gits don't like what young kids are wearing" shocker.

If I like what teenagers are wearing, listening to and doing, then quite frankly they're doing it wrong.

hahahahaha! you're only saying that cos you want them to turn up to your crappy club night and listen to shit 70s heavy metal and shit 80s electro pop being played ironically because it's, like, cool and hip.

 

[Madusa]

jesus wept

we fucking need some young people in this forum.

 

[strung out]

i'm a hipster