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Posted by diehipster at 6/3/2008 6:13 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
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If you have 22 minutes to spare, and I know you do, then please watch this King of the Hill episode on gentrification. It nails the whole hipster thing right on the head for the most part. I don't watch this show but I definitely liked this episode. Watch how they rid their town of hipsters. Maybe we should do the same thing here?
WATCH THE KING OF THE HILL EPISODE HERE
funny episode. but the hipsters i knew down south (Savannah GA) loved rednecks and redneck culture. The solution that the episode offered up by driving out the hipsters by adding white trash culture would never work. To hipsters "redneck" is still a type of odd culture to them, therefore.."hip." Much like how Austin is still full of rednecks, Aggies, and hipsters all coexisting together.
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Exactly. They would have found the whole neighborhood "kitschy" and would have stood around drinking beer with Hank and his buddies to be "ironic."
Funny episode though!
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I tell you what, I would shove propane and propane accessories up the ass of any hipster that got near me.
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yeah a hipster's style is defined by their surroundings. i'm sure there are some hipsters in Alaska who ironically dress as eskimos, a sure sign of their embracing of culture
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Here is particularly ridiculous example of hipster nonsense that I just found on msnbc.com: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24879628/
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Dumpster diving has been around well before Hipsters and will be around well after their trust funds are gone. Freegans are not a new idea either. I did it too in my day. Mind you it was out of poverty.
I predict however that this will be a Hipster hobby in a few years once all those trust funds dry up. Then watch as they compete with truly strong people for whatever scraps of food are left.
It's all part of the big future I see coming. The next generation will be web designers with iPods and laptops and no juice to power them off. Meanwhile the price of oil will be $10,000 (or 1 euro) a barrel and nobody will be able to afford gas or electricity any more.
Look on the bright side. IPods make some pretty ironic jewelry when you paint them. And titanium powerbooks can protect from bricks thrown by the residents you threw out on the street a decade earlier.
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Social attitudes and fashion trends that were revived over 15 years ago by creative types in Williamsburg have now been re-established into the mainstream and are gaining popularity at an exponential rate, in part due to the rise of the internet and various online social networking and photo-blog sites. Everyone from college students to investment bankers are adopting elements of hipsterism, to some degree, in one form or another these days. In a sense, the hipsters have won as they have successfully "hipsterized" modern day sensibilities. "Hipsters" are out partying, enjoying life, meeting new friends, and probably getting laid while the anti-hipster hate mongerers are sitting alone behind their computer screens resenting anyone else out there who is out having fun. I'm pretty sure the group of people they label "hipsters" would much rather prefer doing whatever they're doing, than to switch places with the anti-hipster ranters on here. Hipsters represent a significant fraction of the under-30 population in this city who enjoy keeping up with the latest in nightlife, music, art, and culture.
What does this all really mean? Anti-hipster sentiment is really based on a resentment of people who have healthier and more fulfilling social lives. Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, physically slimmer, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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Thanks for the cut 'n paste, how creative and hip. Hipsters are some of the most racially intolerant non creative idiots on the face of the earth. They are rednecks in skinny jeans. Fact!
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Go back home to Boston you fucking douchebag!
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Wow. That was certainly creative.
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Not creative, just true. Go take a look (if you can stand it) at Trey's myspace page. He's an ex-fratboy from beantown who found it too hard to maintain that image and also get laid, so he picked a new image and apparently has a much easier time catching VD from the tired-looking hipster-hags now.
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Aaaarrrghh!! I looked at his page!
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Who said anything about being creative?
I leave that up to you a-holes.
Just fuck off!
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Ahahahha, such a wide vocabulary range. Whoo, you've outdone yourself this time!
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Anon, get your skinny jeans wearin',tofu eating,kickball-playin', hipster ass off my block. Whiny-ass hipster.
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You have me confused with that other fag who posts here. You know the one that hopes things don't turn to total shit here in the city.
PS
It's coming you hipster fags. Better start packing everything in your knapsacks,get on your Schwinns and pedal your boney asses the fuck out of town.
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No confusion. You're a goof. You're no better than those damn hipsters.
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Fuck you too then fag!
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Running out of material there, aren't you? Go sharpen your crayons and come back with a new response.
Goofy ass keyboard warrior. You make us real New Yorkers look stupid.
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You could do a Clockwork Orange conditioning experiment and make Josh and Megan watch this.
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I really think there is something wrong with the people from Boston. I am from Morrisana in the Bronx, moved to Albany for 6 years of college and moved to Boston after wards. I am yout typical New Yorker, I am part Irish, Italian and Russian and I am muscular. I am built because weakness meant getting your ass kicked on a regular basis. Most girls in my neck of NY always laughed at skinny guys and wouldn't date them because they felt unsafe walking around with a guy built like a girl. In Boston, the homosexual looking man is ideal for some reason. I think it has to do with the fact that the homosexual facists have taken over the school system here.
These people are very closed minded. They hate anything masculine. I have been denied jobs because of my masculinity and on a regular basis have had other things questioned about me. Take for instance my musical talent. I was the guitarist for the NY Prog Rock band "Perdition" and for those of you from NY, you know we were quite good. In Boston these homo-facists think I am full of it because I look like I play football.
I can't wait for the day when the average man rises up against these people. I feel sorry for them since they need to realize that you can't use the government to push people around forever. Eventually they will get sick of it and come after you for pay back. Cupcake, you better watch yourself in the coming years. You people think you can manipulate society into your visions, you don't realize most people don't want your sick world.
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More proof again that...anti-hipster sentiment is really based on a resentment of people who have healthier and more fulfilling social lives. Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, physically slimmer, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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Hey cut n' paste boy, splain to me what in your own words what a hipster revolution is? Hipster revolution? Social change through mocking people who are different than you, how pathetic.
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you sound like a typical homophobic, xenophobic, racist Irish-Italian "native NYer" meathead. no wonder there is a tide sweeping social change against guys like you. the last time I looked; we were still in America; where anyone or anybody can relocate to any state he or she desires without any type of explanation to anyone!!! I, myself being a native NYer have witness NYC become a better place to reside in during the last five (5) yrs due to incoming people from all over the USA & abroad. It has also made NYC the safest city in America. All new comers to the city; don't pay no mind to these nayser's. there trying to give all of you a guilt trip for relocating to NYC. the nayser's want to continue the same B/Sh!t status Quo (e.g., welfare, section 8, rental assistance plus, keep people locked in poverty) so elected officials can stay in their paid positions & continue to give out free handouts(low rents) for people in their low-income districts in return for their votes @ election time! So in a way...you, so-called "hipsters"; are a big threat to their existence. Don't believe all the hype about displacement of so-called "long time" residents. it's the biggest con game going! the roaches & water bugs all see the writing on the wall; they know their con game is almost up. there trying to fight you tooth & nail on these blogs on how newcomers (Hipsters) are destroying the life of NYC; don't fall for any of those lies & tricks; years ago NYC was full of crime, gang infested, dirty & basically broke with half the population on welfare. that's the NYC of yrs ago. yes...rents are going up; just like everything else in life. now the lowlife's have to move or start working in real jobs. again, this is "America" where the people have the freedom of movement to anywhere they choose w/out a guilt trip!!! Future so-called "Hipsters", you are welcome with open arms to NYC anytime.
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Get mugged yet you fag?
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"Fag" is the only comeback you got? You just proved my point once again. Judging from their comments, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from "tough guy" non-intellectual homophobic macho types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, physically slimmer, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity. At some point in their lives they probably got mocked and ridiculed, or even had beer poured all over their heads, by some downtown girl with a tattoo (aka "hipster") after trying to pull some lame move on them. If you think about it, in some ways the entire hipster revolution came about to mock and ridicule such people and their mentalities. It's not about meat and muscle anymore. Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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Using ethnic stereotypes in the manner that you do show a sure sign of racial intolerance. Racist Irish/Italians, section 8, gangs welfare etc. Why don’t you use the ethnic slurs you mean when talking about the former residents on northern Brooklyn, slurs such as wop, mic, kike spic, nigger pollack etc. You really make me sick. You asshole, hipsters coming here did not decrease crime, crime decreased first and that’s why you came. You are worse than the fucking Republicans; you think because you have some money you can shit on anybody you want. GO FUCK YOURSELF!
Signed,
A college educated former section 8 housing recipient and current condo owner in Chelsea.
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Being denied employment because of your "masculinity" probably has more to do with how you act and carry yourself than how you look. It doesn't help your situation if you act like a neanderthal when you already look like one.
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Is a "facist" anything like a fascist? Maybe you were denied jobs due to (mis)spelling?
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http://gawker.com/tag/shut-up%2C-brooklyn/?i=395472&t=when-a-hipster-bar-becomes-a-prison
Help me I've fallen and can't get up!!
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I prefer the term young people to "hipsters". They do what young people always do - try to get by doing nothing, " live out their dreams", get drunk, get laid and have sex as frequently as possible. This group of young people seem particularly obnoxious because they are more entitled, affluent, are usually supported by their parents and don't come from the areas they are infiltrating. Fortunately, young people become old people and are replaced by other young people. Then the whole thing starts over with former young people complaining about the new young people being the worst ever.
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And don't forget that the people complaining about hipsters on here USED to be "young people" themselves in one form or another. That is exactly why anti-hipster sentiment is really based on a resentment of people who have healthier and more fulfilling social lives, and why anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can't keep up with social change and are envious of those who can. Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount they rant about hipsters.
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