hackney hipster hate

[Steel Icarus]

Yeah, but you could say the same about Kurt Vonnegut, or H P Lovecraft, or y'know lots of things.

But they're not called "Lovecraftians".

 

[Madusa]

Seems like it's all surface, then, and no depth. Fashion as rebellion. Just a massive circle-jerk of people pretending to know something nobody else does, like people collecting rare records with misprinted sleeves but about everything. Is this accurate?

well no, not quite. Why dont you do some digging of your own if you're so curious.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Seems like it's all surface, then, and no depth. Fashion as rebellion. Just a massive circle-jerk of people pretending to know something nobody else does, like people collecting rare records with misprinted sleeves but about everything. Is this accurate?

 

[_pH_]

Seems like it's all surface, then, and no depth. Fashion as rebellion. Just a massive circle-jerk of people pretending to know something nobody else does, like people collecting rare records with misprinted sleeves but about everything. Is this accurate?

much like this place then really.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Oooooh. Feel the love.



I'm just idly wondering, really. I'm actually far too cool to give a shit about hipsters, as it happens.

 

[Bajie]

Harmless and pretty pretentious but a lot of the guys and girls, look freaking hot.

A great part of the problem is the non-hotness of the girls, as least with hippies there was a chance of a filthy shag and a free bit of weed after.

 

[pk]

Is it just me or is it only in the past few months that people have been describing them as "hipsters"?

I must say I do prefer the term "cunts".

Only one syllable, and far more accurate...

 

[twistedAM]

I must say I do prefer the term "cunts".

Only one syllable, and far more accurate...

Jesus, so what would you call a priest that rapes small boys or an ex-Prime Minister that starts a war by lying about stuff?

 

[Sunray]

You lot are like a baying crowd of these

As long as they ain't breaking too many laws, people can do what the fuck they please which clearly includes how they dress.

These are the facebook generation. Nothing is secret. Everyone knows everything everyone is doing. Nothing is unique.

So its ended up being essentially random clothing with skinny jeans because the more random it is, the more likely nobody else is wearing it.

 

[Madusa]

A great part of the problem is the non-hotness of the girls, as least with hippies there was a chance of a filthy shag and a free bit of weed after.

that's nice dear. x

 

[boohoo]

Agree with Sunray - this is a grumpy OLD gits thread ( apart from Madusa, the voice of reason! and youth )

 

[Steel Icarus]

Agree with Sunray - this is a grumpy OLD gits thread ( apart from Madusa, the voice of reason! and youth )

I've been a grumpy old git since I was 18-odd, especially when it comes to scenes and movements and young people.

 

[Red Cat]

I thought people thought they were cunts because a lot of them are rich and living in what was, and still is to a large extent, a very poor area of London.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I've been a grumpy old git since I was 18-odd, especially when it comes to scenes and movements and young people.

...so what you're saying is that you were a posey, affected teenager?

 

[Steel Icarus]

...so what you're saying is that you were a posey, affected teenager?

Erm...no.

 

[editor]

I thought people thought they were cunts because a lot of them are rich and living in what was, and still is to a large extent, a very poor area of London.

That's certainly the perception from the US where the term originated. When the hipsters moved into Williamsburg, their trendy shops opened and upmarket stores followed in their wake, pricing out the local businesses.

One rich hipster knob got his dad so buy two shop units in to sell about five designer t-shirts and DJ in while he waited for the property prices to rise all around him.

 

[fogbat]

Blimey. Sounds like Brixton.

 

[Bajie]

Agree with Sunray - this is a grumpy OLD gits thread ( apart from Madusa, the voice of reason! and youth )

No way, they are not 'the yoof', but annoying middle/upper class turds hooray henrying all over the place 21st centuary style.

 

[strung out]

No way, they are not 'the yoof', but annoying middle/upper class turds hooray henrying all over the place 21st centuary style.

not nice to say that about madusa

 

[FridgeMagnet]

No way, they are not 'the yoof', but annoying middle/upper class turds hooray henrying all over the place 21st centuary style.

Only not.

 

[Madusa]

Blimey. Sounds like Brixton.

At least fridgey is down with the kids. The rest are trying to take a cultural pulse at the elbow.

And strung out, I'll deal with you later.

 

[editor]

Blimey. Sounds like Brixton.

You've clearly never set foot in Williamsburg then!

Brixton's like a slum compared to W'Burg, which has completely changed in the last ten years after developers won a rezoning battle to let them build yuppie flats on the old industrial river side factories.

Gimme sarf London every time. Proper filth.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

wow

urban has really changed

i remeber when this forum was nothing but theads about gentrification

 

[sam/phallocrat]

this thread reminds me of the daily mail comment section, with what appears to be the most informed content coming from really old people, or ex-pats

 

[nudistmonkey]

Nothing wrong with the good old daily mail, you've got to make sure you know what's going to give you cancer in this crazy post-modern world! A lot of hipsters do actually read (or at least claim to have read) beat-era literature because that's when the original hipsters were from, what we have no is style is a rehash from the 50's mixed with a bit of the romantic era

 

[jusali]

I find the whole movement buttock clenchingly awful. I can't put my finger on it but the glasses the flat caps the skinny jeans reminds me of that prick on the gadget show.

 

[Wolfie Smith]

Male fashion has been dismally dull for years, with a conservative trainers/jeans/t-shirt/hoody combo being seemily de rigeur for virtually all blokes. I really enjoy the fact that some young men are making an effort and dressing up a bit again. In the early 80s I was a keen attender at the Dirtbox and Mud Club and was well into the sorta 50s/punk look that was hip at the time. If I was 25 years younger would definatly be pursueing some version of the hipster look today. When done well the neat hair/beard/tattoos thing looks bloody brilliant.

 

[g force]

I agree to some extent....esp on the dull male clothing, esp when it's crap liek Superdry clothing

 

[rutabowa]

speaking as urban 75's only hipster i would like to point out how wrong everyone has got it

 

[Red Cat]

Tease.