Craigs List Complaint Box
Posted by diehipster at 12/29/2007 5:19 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
More funny rants from CraigsList....
This Decade has no style....
Reply to: pers-497168899@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-03, 10:12AM EST
The 60's had a style, you know the hippies and the Beat poets.
The 70's had a style, you know disco and such.
The 80's had a style (even though it was bad).
The 90's had a style too.
But what about the 2000's?
This decade has no style or culture. No new music or fashions at all. The hip hop styles and songs are pretty much the same as the 90's. The hipster movement? They're pretty much regurgitating everything from the 80's with a dash of bootleg hippy. Punk rockers? Umm that’s not new. Nothing about this decade is original. Who's to blame? Is it social networking sights like myspace and facebook that put everyone’s business on blast and keeps people from being original and unique? Fuck this, I'm just gonna do my own thing. I'm thinking of bringing some styles back from the civil war era. I'm telling you by next year you're gonna think it's 1864.
Re x2 :How do I know if the person next to me is a hipster?
Reply to: pers-520000012@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-26, 5:52PM EST
Use this Hipster Checklist:
1. Does the hair look dirty?
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
2. Does he have a scruffy beard and he's only 23?
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
3. Does he/she have thick Black Frames.
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
4. Are their clothes Thrift Shop looking?
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
5. Carefully look at their shoes: Any Holes?
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
6. They park and chain their $40 Ten Speed Bike to an Apt Building
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
7. They read gay book titles on the train to attract other Hipsters
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
8. They play Shitty Indie Music and do senseless Gigs
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
9. Some Rent under Daddy or Mommy's Income
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
10. Did u see any Hipsters during the Holidays?
No___(They all went back West and Brooklyn felt like Brooklyn again!!!)
11. "Kickball tonight Anyone??"
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
12. They live with 2 roomates and up.
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
13. Hipster are never fat, Most $$$ Money goes to cheap clothing and rent
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
14. Girls say "Ya, like Ya, Totally" or "Who Hoo!!"
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
15. The i-pod is the Holy Grail.
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
16. Girls nails are cut, chipped or painted black
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
17. Its 25 degrees and they wear a Spring Jacket
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
18. Most will freelance and be home by 4pm
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
19. Some drive a beat up Volvo or Volkswagon
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
20. They come from the West: Oregon, Wyoming, Ohio, etc.
Yes(A hipster)___ No___
Mr Intellectual Hipster Dude Can't Engage In Serious Debate
Reply to: pers-522205160@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-12-28, 11:32PM EST
So the so-called progressive, artsy, hipsters are unwilling to accept
(much less engage in a serious & intellectual debate) the concept that
they did not invent the idea of a youthful counterculture and that all these
really cool ideas about fashion, art, culture and social mingling were fostered
by a very involved generation of people who are now all in their mid-fifties
and find your current "hipster" movement to be like a mass-produced carboard
cutout of something which barely resembles the real thing.
Unfortunately, because we all now communicate via blogs, text messages
and anonymous websites, 20-somethings are left with a desperate need
to "be noticed"...which they achieve either by putting themsleves online,
or by applying the external elements of "hipsterism" in an attempt to achieve
their fleeting momment of recognition.
Back in the 70's, Andy Warhol said that in the future, everyone would be
famous for fifteen minutes (YES...that's where it comes from) and it seems
as though the hipster generation is proving his prophecy.
Um...actually that first guy is wrong. Yes the 60s and 70s were pretty original (and is now completely tired so we can stop with the aviators, trucker hats, moccasins and beards, oh little douches) but alot of people don't realize that the 80s style (especially for women) was almost entirely influenced by the the late 1700s, the late 1800s, the 20s, the 40s and the 50s. A few things like neons, crimpers, acid-wash, spandex were "new" during that time but the silouettes and cuts (big shoulders, big hair, tapered pants, geometrics) were taken from the past. The 90s being called original is a HUGE joke! That entire decade was nothing but 60s/70s knockoffs!! Now it is a similar situation (alot of 20s, 60s, 80s) but we have shitty-ass music (yes even you indie music artists suck beyond belief)
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Update:
I stated on a comment from a post in September or October that I knew of a dozen people moving from here [Detroit] to Brooklyn. You can add 6 more in the next month. Sorry, guys. On the brightside, Detroit is looking less and less shitty.
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P.S.
Ann you sound like a hipster know-it-all elitist.
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oh really Molly?
...did you miss the parts where I insulted pretty much the ENTIRE hipster community??
I think some anti-hipsters are missing the point. The more valid facts you know about all the vapid fashion and music "revivals of the week" they're into, the more ammunition you have to slap them across the face with! You have to KNOW your enemy (a.k.a know more than you're enemy)!
Now that first guy obviously hates hipsters too, which is good to hear. But he is not doing himself any good by coming across just as ignorant as they are. for instance: Hipsters think the 80s was original but they like it. This guy thinks the 80s was original but he doesn't like it...where does that get us? No Where. NOW think if you were able to tell a hipster that the 80s was about 15% original and then explain to them why...they're puny world would fall apart and they would probably go jump in front of a train! Bye bye hipster.
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I am living in vancouver and have realized the whole city is a hipster recruiting center. everyone shops at thrift stores and aa or urban outfitters. everyone does all the right things, eat right, be in shape, have a positive attitude but all for the wrong reasons; to look dope, and show off their shit. well I'm just going to say fuck that. and fuck them all. I feel like I'm trappd in a disney world of fuckos. because of all these hipsters i cant sell any of my skatedecks, because the artwork isnt whats new or real. well fuck them, because its just not fair. If only there were real people living in vancouver
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get a goddang job. so what other people arent cool enough to fit you standards. That does it matter what other people wear or the jobs they have. i think the world would be a better place if all the jackass business men would drink more at nights and the hippies would take a shower.
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Wanna see hippsters in heaven before they die? forget san francisco some of the hippsters there have real money. Come to Portland, Oregon now the world capitol of hip. The hip thing has over run the town. Its like totally hip to be living below the poverty line and buying the right beer for $12 with your oregon food stamps in one of the new posh restaurants with names like PuPuos and cha chas and Challa la La.
The art scene also sucks hipstercock totally Le wang. Me too stupid Hipsterism is out of control in Portland. We invented bike riding in portland did you know? We are saving the planet too one $1899 bike at a time.
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The portland oregon hip art scene has met it's match with the Anti Art Movment and their campaign to stop art now. The Hippsters need the pretense that if they claim they are serious about making or appreciating bad art that by virtue of that fact alone it is all worthwhile. Nothing like having con artists represent hip artists to hip patrons. The City of Portland is about to embark on a project giving a local private art school 30 to 60 million dollars to renovate an over sized old federal post office building. The project is so hip that no one is supposed to question the wisdom of having a city secretly plan to transfer tax payers dollars to the private art school. Everything about the deal is misrepresented in the local media. The renovation figures for refurbishing the building for the hippest of the the hip is far more than represented and the schools endowment cannot possibly cover what I understand the expected costs of renovation are likely to be.
Insiders know what the real deal is because it already happened with the hipper than hip Armory theater. It's cost over runs were upto 50 million bucks mostly contributed by the city. Then once the place opened the city wanted the ticket purchasers to pay users fees so the city can recoup the cost of building the theater they subsidzed with tax funds for the public. Very curious. The government builds a theater with public money for the public but wants the public to pay them back for using the subsidy. Whose money is it and why are we supposed to be so hip that we can't question the authority ?
It also happened with the arial scam to scam hospital ohsu. The arial scam originally was supposed to cos the tax payers 15 million and the over run costs of the project made it 60 plus million dollars charged mostly to taxpayers with the government charging user fees to remake their public subsidy.
Hip and stupid as hell in Portland, Oregon. The public loves the arial scam and cannot figure out that they own the stupid thing so why they should pay more money in exhorbitant user fees when their money paid for it. I guess i'm just not stupid enough to be hip like the rest of them?
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