A positive indicator: Fourbucks closing 10 stores in NYC.
Posted by diehipster at 7/19/2008 12:49 AM and is filed under uncategorized 
"Waaaaaaaah Waaaaaaah! Where will I be able to sit all day now, sipping on my 4 dollar, 15 syllable beverage showing off my hipster uniform while I play on my Mac looking important?"
The good news: 10 less places for hipsters to sit. One is in Brooklyn. (hooray)
The bad news: Still 225 left.
Don't get me wrong. I've had Starbucks quite a few times, but can definitely live with out it, and so can you! What I love about Starbucks is ordering a small coffee right behind someone who ordered a 15+ syllable coffee. That person sometimes looks at me with that "you don't know shit about coffee" stare. The "barista" sometimes says " you mean tall, right?". Fucking zombies. Maybe now some local places that sell coffee will make a few extra bucks.
It would be great if someone opened up a coffee shop in place of every Starbucks closing and had a big sign that said "You must say small, medium, or large and your computers will not work in here."
New York Times: Starbucks closing 10 stores.
Whatever. Real New Yorkers know that Starbucks are great places to take shits at.
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That's true.
Ten less places to take a shit.
Ten less places to steal napkins and toilet paper from. (you just have to bring a big bag to hold those big rolls)
Starbucks ain't bad - as long as you bring your own coffee from outside. The stuff they serve is the recycled dump you just took in their toilet.
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Yup, spoken with some real class...typical of "real native" NYCers huh?
For a more intelligent and relevant critique of modern hipsterism, visit http://www.hipsterrunoff.com instead as this site has become nothing more than intelligent people making fun of "native" NYCers for being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and generally idiotic.
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Yes Trey.
Call it Frappuccino. Call it Macchiato. Call it Amaretto. Either way you just drunk a previous customer's dump with frothed milk (if it's even milk) on top and paid $5 for it.
God, the head of Starfucks must really love you hipsters. See, us native New Yorkers buy coffee for 50 cents - $1 from a deli or breakfast truck and save our money for something useful. Sure it tastes like piss but at least it's cheap piss. Not like overpriced Shitfucks coffee.
Then again, anyone who posts links to gay fantasy sites and Ayn Rand real estate sites must consider drinking shit to be a high class luxury.
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An interesting observation on these anti-hipster ranters are their failed attempts to hijack online "hipster blogs" with their incoherent babble. These blogs often document various cultural activities in the city, and upon closer inspection of pictures therein, you'll find many people who don't fit a hipster stereotype at all, but are all thoroughly enjoying themselves. Of course, anti-hipster ranters still shout "hipster" at anyone and everyone they don't agree with. If you own an Ipod, they will call you "hipster". If you've ever gone to Starbucks, they will call you "hipster". If you are a freelancer and have your own work hours, they will call you "hipster". If you own any clothing from a thrift store or have edgy urban fashion sensibilities, they will call you "hipster". If you listen to bands on an indie record label, they will call you "hipster". If your hair is a little messy or scruffy, they wil call you "hipster". If you drink cheap beer like PBR, they will call you "hipster". If you are vegan, they will call you "hipster". If you simply exist, they will call you "hipster".
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.
For a more intelligent and relevant critique of modern hipsterism, visit http://www.hipsterrunoff.com instead as this site has become nothing more than intelligent people making fun of "native" NYCers for being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and generally idiotic.
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Yawn......your post bore me as they lack irony.
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Hello! I want to dispel the myth that children do not have the ability to decide what they want to do with their lives. Children are people. Some children have good ideas and others don't. Children are human. Age is an irrelevant factor in the ability to comprehend rationally. There are totally irrational and totally irresponsible adults out in the world.
I am twelve years old. I have been gay from a very young age and I feel that I am as much a gay person as someone walking down Christopher St. or the Castro or any so called gay neighborhood. Some gays do not recognize that a young person could be gay.
I believe in gay liberation. Gay liberation must include all aspects of the sexual freedom struggle. Young gays should be made to feel at home in the gay community. The gay rights lobby denounces the "lunatic fringe" groups (boy lovers, TVs, S&M, etc) to gain a more "respectable" look, and to collect funds from liberal politicians at election time. These actions could destroy the gay liberation struggle by splitting the gay movement. If we are to survive, all froms of gayness must be accepted.
One of the most important lessons you must learn about liberation is that you never sell out to the people oppressing you. The time is here where we must stay by our convictions and be ourselves, in order to show that no matter what they do to us, our ideas will live on in other peoples minds. We must flaunt love and fight oppression.
Changes are not made overnight. In order to change attitudes, we must find a dialogue to communicate with parents and authorities. In my life I just leveled with my mother. At first she didn't know whether I thought I was gay or just experimenting with gayness. She is fully supportive of my decision to be gay. Most parents are not like this, though.
I am gay. I am proud. Please be supportive of young gays. It's hard enough for adults to be gay. It is almost impossible for a gay boy to have a good healthy open relationship because of the atmosphere of the community towards youth. I accept all. You should too.
Yours in the struggle for liberation,
Trey Parasuco
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Starbucks is for yuppies, not hipsters. Hipsters only go to indie coffee shops. At least get your targets right, jesus.
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A yuppie is a hipster with a job.
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No, hipsters with jobs are called baristas.
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I was going to mention the same thing, that hipsters go to smaller coffee shops, and therefore make them much more obnoxious places to be.
It's funny; for all their staunch individualism, they all look and act the same. It's like there is one template that is sent to every place; oh look, there's the trustafarian paradigm, there's the "artist", ooh there's the "musician" playing 2 chords, damn he's proficient.
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You are probably right except you forget that these meatheads don't listen to reason. They shout "hipster" at anyone and everyone they don't agree with. If you own an Ipod, they will call you "hipster". If you've ever gone to Starbucks, they will call you "hipster". If you are a freelancer and have your own work hours, they will call you "hipster". If you own any clothing from a thrift store or have edgy urban fashion sensibilities, they will call you "hipster". If you listen to bands on an indie record label, they will call you "hipster". If your hair is a little messy or scruffy, they wil call you "hipster". If you drink cheap beer like PBR, they will call you "hipster". If you are vegan, they will call you "hipster". If you simply exist, they will call you "hipster".
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.
For a more intelligent and relevant critique of modern hipsterism, visit http://www.hipsterrunoff.com instead as this site has become nothing more than intelligent people making fun of "native" NYCers for being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and generally idiotic.
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For a more intelligent and relevant critique of modern douchebagrism, visit http://www.treyisabigfuckingjerkoff.com instead as this site has become nothing more than intelligent people making fun of "HIPSTER" NYCers for being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and generally idiotic slaves to dweeb fashion.
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Yup, spoken with some real class...typical of "real native" NYCers huh?
For a more intelligent and relevant critique of modern hipsterism, visit http://www.hipsterrunoff.com instead as this site has become nothing more than intelligent people making fun of "native" NYCers for being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and generally idiotic.
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Look I can cut n' paste, boy am I special.
For a more intelligent and relevant critique of modern douchebagrism, visit http://www.treyisabigfuckingjerkoff.com instead as this site has become nothing more than intelligent people making fun of "HIPSTER" NYCers for being racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and generally idiotic slaves to dweeb fashion.
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For a more intelligent and relevant critique of modern hipsterism, visit www.hipsterrunoff.com, as this site has become nothing more than intelligent people making fun of native NYCers for their hypocritical hatred of hipsters.
Don't forget that anti-hipster sentiment, of the type we see here, 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 and way by which they rant about hipsters on this site.
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You win again, your powers of cut n' paste are both cunning and baffling.
Remember...you can always rate the amount of insecurity someone has by the amount and way by which they rant (cut n' paste) about non-hipsters on this site.
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Hello! I want to dispel the myth that children do not have the ability to decide what they want to do with their lives. Children are people. Some children have good ideas and others don't. Children are human. Age is an irrelevant factor in the ability to comprehend rationally. There are totally irrational and totally irresponsible adults out in the world.
I am twelve years old. I have been gay from a very young age and I feel that I am as much a gay person as someone walking down Christopher St. or the Castro or any so called gay neighborhood. Some gays do not recognize that a young person could be gay.
I believe in gay liberation. Gay liberation must include all aspects of the sexual freedom struggle. Young gays should be made to feel at home in the gay community. The gay rights lobby denounces the "lunatic fringe" groups (boy lovers, TVs, S&M, etc) to gain a more "respectable" look, and to collect funds from liberal politicians at election time. These actions could destroy the gay liberation struggle by splitting the gay movement. If we are to survive, all froms of gayness must be accepted.
One of the most important lessons you must learn about liberation is that you never sell out to the people oppressing you. The time is here where we must stay by our convictions and be ourselves, in order to show that no matter what they do to us, our ideas will live on in other peoples minds. We must flaunt love and fight oppression.
Changes are not made overnight. In order to change attitudes, we must find a dialogue to communicate with parents and authorities. In my life I just leveled with my mother. At first she didn't know whether I thought I was gay or just experimenting with gayness. She is fully supportive of my decision to be gay. Most parents are not like this, though.
I am gay. I am proud. Please be supportive of young gays. It's hard enough for adults to be gay. It is almost impossible for a gay boy to have a good healthy open relationship because of the atmosphere of the community towards youth. I accept all. You should too.
Yours in the struggle for liberation,
Champion of NAMBLA
Trey Parasuco
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Hey Trey when you get finished blowing all the old fags. How about blowin' town?
Better yet... DROP DEAD!
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Molested and Glad!
Dear NAMBLA,
When I was 13 years old I had my first sexual experience with someone older: my adult camp counselor. He had been my counselor for three years, was a school teacher somewhere, and was very kind to me.
My first year in camp I was very home-sick and this kind and gentle man would hold me close to him, in private, and allow me dignity as I cried onto his shoulder. He held me, stroked my back but in no way did he take "advantage" of me.
Over the next two years I had my parents request this man, whom I believed to have been in his late 30s, to be my counselor because I liked him and thought he was a very nice man.
During my third and final year I began having sexual desires for him, wanted him to kiss me, and tried to give him several hints. While other boys were working their way towards medals and projects they could take home, my project was to climb in bed with this man.
My chance finally came on a rainy night after all of us went to bed. I could not sleep and instead I went into his private quarters where he invited me to climb under the sheets.
He finally took the chance and fondled me finally kissing then sucking me over and over again. It was the most exciting sexual experience I have ever had.
The next day and for the final week of camp we reacted toward each other as if nothing had happened. I left camp never to see or hear from him again.
As a gay man in his early 30s I am now attracted to children but not to older men; perhaps thinking of my counselor. But my case is one to refute the charges that once molested as a child, a person grows up to be a molester of his own. I was not molested. I was loved and I feel I am better for it.
Sincerely,
Trey
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THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR HIPSTERS!!!!
From Starbucks Gossip
http://starbucksgossip.typepad.com/
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"The Five Stages of Starbucks Grief" -- a guide for those upset about their neighborhood coffee shop going under
The intro to this humor piece says: "The grief associated with losing a branch of a ubiquitous coffee chain can be hard, especially when finding an alternative location can require the use of the sun to navigate, a skill mostly lost to history. That and the ability to walk 100 feet." (Read the Minyanville.com piece)
July 23, 2008
Newark is traumatized by the closing of its Starbucks
"I was shocked that with the revitalization, with the face-lift here, they would remove the Starbucks," says one regular of the Newark Starbucks. "I'm confused about what message they're trying to send." It should be pointed out that other high-profile national retailers, including Old Navy and a FedEx/Kinko's, have quietly left the area. (Read the New York Times story)
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July 22, 2008
Starbucks won't sell any more Clovers to independent cafes (and it apparently isn't investing much time in Clover training at its stores)
Mf_clover2_f I had a Clover this morning at the Intelligentsia Coffee store in downtown Chicago; it was almost $4, but it was worth it. Will a Starbucks-made Clover be good enough to shell out that much money? This doesn't sound good:
Mathew Honan writes: I'm standing in line at a hilltop Starbucks in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood -- one of Clover's beta sites. I do a taste test: a cup of Clover coffee versus brewed coffee. A young barista tells me they're out of the first two specialty coffees I request and suggests instead Starbucks' everyday blend, called Pike Place. During brewing, the barista stirs the grounds into the Clover with a clunky rubber spatula -- not a metal whisk -- and pours the concoction into a crummy paper cup. I smell, I sip, I inhale. I can't tell which cup of coffee is which -- and neither is anything special.
(Read the Wired Magazine story)
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July 21, 2008
Here are the areas hit hardest by Starbucks closings
Regionally, the South and Great Plains are worst off. Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama are all losing more than 10% of their Starbucks. Iowa, North Dakota, and Nebraska are hurting in the Plains. Of the bigger cities, Baton Rouge is the worst hit with nine out of 12 stores folding. Mobile, Ala., and Las Vegas are the next two big cities to be hit hardest. (Read more at Slate.com)
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7540480.stm
Good On Ya Mate!
Seems like Fourbucks is getting the boot Down Under. Wonder how the Aussie Hipsters are taking that one??
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Shunned Starbucks in Aussie exit
By Phil Mercer
BBC News, Sydney
The mighty Starbucks coffee empire has been handed a heavy defeat by thousands of small Australian cafes in the fight for a nation's taste buds.
Eight years after it began selling its espressos and frappucinos in Australia, the US giant has succumbed to powerful financial and cultural pressures and has closed 61 of its 85 shops across the country.
Savouring a morning cup of coffee has become a ritual for millions of Australians - yet one that Starbucks failed to capitalise on, in spite of the way the chain had become a global cultural phenomenon during the 1990s.
"It was maybe too standardised," says Michael Edwardson, a consumer psychologist in Melbourne.
"Early on it was unique and different, but as it became a global chain the standardisation made it lose some of that coolness and edginess. It was quickly copied and lost its lustre.”
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