Listen up you Dosey Doe-ing mother fucker. Nobody wants to hear your fucking violin at 9 o’clock in the morning in Brooklyn while going to work. This bearded Josh fiddled for like 7 stops. Of course he holds the violin on his chest rather than his shoulder as to set himself apart from all the other subway violinists. This guy was so out of place and it was my first time seeing him. As you can tell, nobody else cared for him either. Find one person in that picture that is even remotely interested in hearing some itchy looking, flea-bag hipster fiddle away like some happy fucking camper while the rest of us have to get to work on a Monday morning.
However, this pic was snapped before the stations of 7th Ave thru Bergen St. At that point, quite a few of the hip/yups who got on the train gave a little smile in the direction of this moonshining muppet. Ahh, one of their own they probably thought to themselves. Something other than quiet, non-attention seeking Brooklyn natives to look at for the ride to work or whatever it is they do. Goes well with the $4.00 cup of fair trade BoCoCa/Slope coffee. By the time we hit Jay Street, this hipster had not gone up and down the car once to collect money as far as I saw. It seemed as if he really had the time and obviously the money to be putting on a little concert on a Brooklyn train on a Monday morning. No where in particular to be. No boss. No obligations. Yet living in the most expensive city in America. Sound familiar?
My last DH comment ever:
Here’s a possible solution to stop the invasion of Queens and Brooklyn. Check out http://www.diediehipster.com for more.
IN SUM
-Make Upstate New York or Jersey City or Hoboken more appealing to these guys than Queens or Lower Brooklyn instead by creating a “Craigslist” and or community website like “BushwickBK.com” that makes it easier and quicker for them to get real estate up there.
-Sell them on having nature – and much cheaper rent for upstate. For New Jeresy, sell them on cheaper taxes
-Make sure they can commute via the transportation and show how its more economical than paying more for rent in the city.
You can’t stop the Hipsters like me – we all know that. More and more people want to live in NYC area. Just deflect them to other areas.
I’m sick of your bitching. Maybe if it was funny and not the same stupid comments about beards and organic food, I would read this site more.
Peace.
Bye and don’t let the door hit your bedbug bitten ass on your way out, you hipster piece of shit.
You dumb shit-eating fuck. Hoboken has been a gentrified yuppie haven for over 15 years.
A JUGGS Magazine article from 1990 says that a steady diet of cum can give you a type of spongiform encephalitis similar to Mad Cow disease in which you become more and more demented until you forget how to breathe. I didn’t know cum-induced neurodegenerative dementia really existed until you came along Eddie.
Oh Eddie Shitsandwich! With a broken beer bottle up your rectum and a tampon in your crotch, what will you and all your other fellow inbred closet Nazis do when the time comes to die a bloody death; either at the hands of real human beings, as opposed to your fellow children of the fucking corn, or in the fields of war, where you and yours will be mowed down like the disgusting weeds that you are.
“You can’t stop the Hipsters like me – we all know that. More and more people want to live in NYC area. Just deflect them to other areas.
I’m sick of your bitching. Maybe if it was funny and not the same stupid comments about beards and organic food, I would read this site more.”
- I hear shit like this from you and your fellow bedbug trading cunts, and I’m convinced more and more, that you’re no different from the likes of Newt Gingrich and Carl Palladino, in short, greedy, money hungry, racist, classist, and,(in your case) closet conservatives.
People such as myself are getting screwed up Shit Creek with no paddle, and no fucking canoe, and we’re getting tired of folks like you pushing out people that need to work, live, and even get an education here, or all of the above (such as myself), somehow you yuppies don’t seem to understand that. We’re growing tired of your antics Yuppies! In less than ten years you Yuppies will be running scared all the way back to Mom and Pop, or Connecticut, or Kansas. Same shit. The unlucky members of your kind will be dead and dying from the anger of the people. Why? Because you fuckers pushed them WAY TOO FAR!
“My last DH comment ever”
Lies! Perhaps under the Edd Sandwhich sockpuppet..
“Maybe if it was funny and not the same stupid comments about beards and organic food”
..but it IS funny, and much more than that!
What are you reading?
Your attention-seeking attempts to gentrify this blog have failed. Back to Williamsburg with ye, fuckhead!
“Gentrify this blog,” lmao
He should spend his time doing something more conducive to his yupster transplant creed, like searching for an ugly Asian girlfriend or walking around “BoCoCa” aimlessly with a banjo case and holey Converses.
Bill, this shitty pointless 14 minute commercial for something equally shitty and pointless (though I would titfuck that fat whore) has inspired me to create my greatest masterpiece. Yes, it’s all becoming quite clear now. I shall finish what was started by a misguided postman and his talking dog in 1977. Yes, except the Bocockinmyasshole Art Orgy shall be my canvas. When is the next one? My public awaits.
I want to smack the living hell out of mr pink shirt doing his little faery dance.
Bococa indeed. I hope she wound up swallowing him whole. And I don’t mean in a good way.
If only it was true. I don’t know why you think people can’t stop the hipsters, as it would be very easy to get rid of them. Most normal people mind their own business and live and let live, so they don’t do it. One of these days though, hipsters will push too far…..
Personally, I would LOVE to see all the hipsters try that shit here in Mexico. But they are too afraid to come down here, with the exception of a few tourist traps (one of the many benefits of living here). The beatings would be sudden and continuous, then when they call the police they would get robbed, and would deserve it. Its not that people are more violent here, they are NOT, but they do not allow the abhorrent behavior and the disrespect that hipsters are notorious for. If a bearded Josh pulled a stunt like this on a bus here (no trains), he would have to pull that violin out of his ass afterwards.
I am sad to see this crap, and am bummed by the state of Brooklyn. I lived in alphabet city and Willimsberg through the 90′s, and in only a few years it went from affordable to insane-brokers in Brooklyn? That’s when you know the end is near! I also survived some time in Austin, which has a terrible population of hipsters that I think are even worse because many are over 40 years old and STILL acting
like13yr olds. The biggest group of conforming “non conformists” I have ever seen, and as rude as can be.
I would LOVE to see a post where we could all post about our cities bedbug jockies, and figure out who has the worst hipster infestation. Ive been to every ci in the country, and many out of the US, and some places harbor worse pests than others.
Sorry for the rant, I shouldn’t read this stuff to early in the day (Pacific time).
you know its bad when you see squatters traveling through Coney Island on a summer day looking for $
Are there actually suburban gutterpunk squatters in Coney Island now? My friend told me a story last summer about seeing one get stomped on the boardwalk by a couple of Puerto Rican kids but I figured the squatter wandered down there by accident.
I hate those gutterpunk motherfuckers almost as much as the yups. They have the same entitlement mindset and even come from the same suburban shitholes.
Most of those worthless filth-bags will play and pretend to be street punks and “anti-establishment” all summer long while they pester every fucking working person around, but when the weather starts to get frigid and the days get shorter, they jump on that first train/bus back to the suburbs where mom has their warm sheets and hot chocolate waiting for them.
Yup. And yet each and every one of them has some sob story about being a runaway because they were molested and abused as a child and came from a broken home full of domestic violence. Meanwhile, like you said, the vast majority spent their childhoods getting shuttled back and forth to suburban soccer practice in the Dodge Caravan.
That shit pisses me off more than just about anything. I hardly ever see real bums or panhandlers in Manhattan any more, yet every time I go to Times Square or Union Square I pass by half a dozen white kids with dreads and backpacks begging for spare change. If they were black, Hispanic or over the age of 30 they’d get hauled off by cops in thirty seconds.
The ones that cant manage the cold come out here to the West Coast, or down to Austin, to spread their filth in the warm weather. Theres not many in San Diego, they prefer LA. I guess the large population of military and latinos keeps them away from SD, as neither group are tolerant of those clowns.
Its funny how you never see the same ones two years in a row. Excepting the hard core junkies, they all go back to Momma after their street adventure gets too rough. I hate seeing them bumming change or using soup kitchens, when their homelessness is a choice. Too much entitlement indeed!
Yep, piss stinkin, gutterpunks. When I was younger, I used to see them in the city, and I hated them and their arrogance but I knew they were a part of something and I could respect their traveling and directionless life choice, even if it was just for a little while. They’re a lot more real than the hipsters and I give em some credit for that. However, what’s changed is that Manhattan is no longer the center for all of this. Brooklyn has become so glorified and famous that no one even wants to be in Manhattan. Its gotten to the point where I can respect the city for being what it is and for attracting people to it, but I just don’t like the domino effect into Brooklyn.
And there you sum up half of the Portland “experience”. When I was living there, I had a co-worker tell me that half of the panhandlers in Portland were just suburban kids who wanted to hang out in downtown all day, and I figured that it was complete bullshit. I mean, who’d want to sleep in doorways and bum change if they had a choice, right?
After I’d been there for about six months, I not only discovered that this was true, but that it was even worse than my co-worker had been relating. You have so many Gresham, Tigard, and Hillsboro suburban heroes bumming spare change all day that they were starting to cut into the income of the fulltime panhandlers (and that’s a whole subject for another day, as you had bums moving to Portland because they’d heard how Portlanders were easy marks and the city offered lots of shelters during bad weather). Just being 15 and having a fabricated sob story wasn’t enough any more, so the next big thing was to get a puppy or a kitten, put it on a leash, and ask for handouts to get Bowser or Muffin something to eat. Amazingly, though, the next time you’d see them, they’d have another dog or cat.
Anyway, that game ran all the way from May through August. September, though, meant two things. First, school started. Second, the rainy season began, and wouldn’t let up until next May. In yet another miracle, suddenly the only time you saw a panhandler under 40 was with someone who really was thrown out. Usually for refusing to come home before 5 in the morning, but there you go.
Im not from NY, nor have I ever visited but I was on that train at 9am, I would of dropped a a crushing elbow right on that fiddling fucks collar bone. Take that you Simon and Garfunkel looking douche.
My bad, typo correction so this makes sense.
Im not from NY, nor have I ever visited but if I was on that train at 9am, I would of dropped a crushing elbow right on that fiddling fucks collar bone. Take that you Simon and Garfunkel looking douche.
Even feel s better saying that twice.
He fiddles not for money, or for love, or even for the love of music. Rather, he fiddles for that which every gentrified Brooklyn yup fervently desires, more than anything else: ATTENTION.
ahahaha so true.
Fucking muppets.
god forbid you should tell one of these mofos to shut the fuck up! when i’m on the train going to work/play i don’t want to hear some fuckin fiddling douche! i LOVE the mexicans–NOT the freaks who just want attention.
Talk about CAPTIVE AUDIENCE! The dude didn’t even change cars? DRAG.
I don’t like ANY kind of music or panhandling pleas while I am sitting on a train on the way to a long day of work or on the way way home after that long day of work. I especially don’t want to see some hipster showing off!
Sorry you had to experience that.
His parents are paying thousands of dollars in rent each month just so he can fiddle on the train.
Fucking scumbag.
Goddamn how pathetic. If you saw his face, I bet he was glancing up occasionally to see if anyone was watching and appreciating the musical genius that he is.
Of course. I’ll bet $10 that this wanker was one of those types who plays in the park, and got tired of people walking off. “I’ll show them. I’ll play where they can’t escape.” The only reason why he isn’t cornering people in highrise elevators is that security in those buildings is allowed to beat the fuck out of attention-seeking scum.
I’ll be honest. He wasn’t bad at all. He could definitely play in some jug band or whatever-when it’s called for. Not in Brooklyn on a train at 9am where people can give 1000 shits. Attention starved bastard. These people are so annoying. I mean if nobody has gotten up and started slapping their fucking knee along with you after 2 stops, just get the fuck off the train and go back to Kansas.
He’s just like the beardo clown I saw on a DART train here in Dallas who was (get this) making chainmail jewelry on the train. He actually got into the junction between cars, laid out all of his equipment and tools on the floor, and started making rings in the hope that someone would ask him about it. What, the local RenFaire wasn’t avant garde enough for you, you twerp?
You should’ve offered him $5 to stop. Oh wait he already has all the free money he needs. Hmm, the only other thing I could think of is… you should’ve offered him an asian girl accessory.
I know plenty of talented musicians – they all have egos, but none of them force their talent into the faces of people who are not interested. This is solely pathetic, attention-seeking, spoiled brat behavior. It’s disrespectful and pestering and this adult-child is only riding his narcissistic needs.
If he was good – he should do something with the talent. Turning a skill and talent into a formable career or positive contribution to society is a lesson these pampered fucks were never taught. They just don’t understand how to function correctly outside of their suburban bubble.
Oh jeezuz….what a fucking clown. While Philly is, like many large cities, experiencing an awful hipster infestation, I have yet to see these types of beardo bards on our subway trains. Although, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time.
I’m an avid guitar player, but I have ZERO desire to see anyone playing insturments on the train. People just want to get to work/school/whatever..in peace.
I bet he sucked, too.
Well, holy shit. It looks as if Stevie and Ed haven’t just been over here crying into their Ovaltine. There’s a whole world of humorless butthurt out there:
http://www.regretsy.com/2010/09/27/my-favorite-butthurt/
http://www.furutech.com/a2008/technology.asp
Check out this company. They make GOLD PLATED USB CABLES!!!! For $100 each. Not to mention various gold plated holistic plugs and sockets for your house, also over $100 each.
Folks! THERE IS NO REASON WHATSOEVER FOR THESE PRODUCTS TO EXIST. Except of course getting rich people (like hipsters) to part with their (parents’) hard-earned money.
Note: I’m still researching this one. But they do carry some weirdly overpriced shit. Mostly techie stuff which requires the buyer to have no fucking clue about techie stuff.
Does gold-plating a cable do anything other than advertise “I have too much money and am an idiot?” I used to know this awful Wall Street yuppie douche who loved to brag about how he dropped four figures on a set of fancy gold-plated speaker cables for his home theater system. I don’t know anything about audio engineering, but I always imagined that the salesmen at the store were laughing and high-fiving as soon as he turned his back.
They use gold on the terminals because gold is the best conductor, its not a bling thing. That being said, most people would never need them, who really notices a connection that is one or two nanoseconds faster anyway?
I have lurked here for a long time, but all the videos of nitwits showing off their 3k a month hovels is just too much. I don’t know what is more pretentious and annoying, this bearded loser annoying people with his music, or roof top gardening. Its a tough one.
On an unrelated rant, I am waiting for a roof farm to cave in with a Josh and Megan on it. I work in Solar, and I know how low the weight loads are for roofs, esp in NYC. I’ve seen many systems need special equipment and engineering so the roof doesn’t fall in, and I know those bozos aren’t bothering with all that stuff that’s “required by the MAN”……..
Fer shers here, Stacey. I knew a bunch of these types in the Bay Area. They’d go pile tons and tons of soil on their landlord’s roof, water it down, then complain and huff and sniffle when the house’s owner wanted them not to do this to her/his roof, or they’d complain and huff and sniffle when the roof leaked. Some of them, I just prayed for an earthquake.
Rooftop gardens are great and fine and probably a good idea on a lot of levels (including urban cooling and rainwater management) IF and ONLY IF they are built into the design of a place. Otherwise they are no more than doctrine-masked vandalism of the MOVE cult sort.
But I can resolve the “which is more pretentious and annoying” question. How about the ones who put in rooftop gardens then hold Suzuki violin lessons and “string-alongs” there for their incredibly untalented, tone deaf, sniveling sprogs?
And then we have a handy party game: “Try To Guess Which Band Member ISN’T a Hipster”:
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/131336-deerhunter-halcyon-digest/
Okay, I don’t care whether or not Deerhunter is actually talented, or whether it’s popular among hipsters because it makes them feel smart. (This also explains the popularity of Nickelback, Creed, and Teen Hearts among the braindead set.) However, stealing Joey Ramone’s corpse and propping it up in the back, even for these attention-starved smirking geeks, is inexcusable.
What’s the dude in the orange stripes, maybe 50 lbs. soaking wet?? Eat a fucking hamburger already.
On a slightly related note, did you all hear that the Joey Ramone street sign is not 20 ft. in the air because people keep stealing it?
I bet it’s been mostly outta towners / hipsters who have been stealing it…
*now* 20 feet in the air…
I don’t know who was more annoying: him or the smirking shit to the left of him.
The guy in the forground looks suspiciously like Stevie Lame…
He can’t be. Not enough makeup, and his arms are too big around.
I almost threw up in my mouth looking at that wasted POS. WTF?
Why would ANYone would looked like THAT wear a shirt with no sleeves? Hopefully a gust of wind…or wafting sewage stank from newton Creek…will up and blow his sinkky arse up,up and awayyyyy!
This article is just sad.
There’s been some unexpected byproducts of the internet age in music, but perhaps most perplexing among them is how—with all this access to music, and the glut of opinions on it coming out of the woodwork—our insecurities as fans get amplified. Not all that long ago, we didn’t have thousands of blogs and forums around to champion or tear down our tastes. But now, with so much music so easily had, and with so many authoritative voices chiming in to play tastemaker, it’s easy to feel inadequate, even uneducated about music.
You know what’s even easier? Just listening to the stuff you like and not giving a shit what other people think of it.
I’d almost feel sorry for this guy if I couldn’t imagine meeting him in person and having him sneer at me for saying something so hopelessly uncool and out-of-touch…
“You know what’s even easier? Just listening to the stuff you like and not giving a shit what other people think of it. ”
EXACTLY!
The person who wrote that article sounds REALLY insecure. The internet has done for music reviews what it has done for just about everything else: it has given tons of people with no knowledge or credibility an outlet and an audience for their mindless drivel.
I just got done listening to a few deerhunter tunes on youtube. I’m unimpressed. Their songs sound like a combination of M. Ward and Coldplay, without the sounds that make those artists distinct. ( I didn’t say good)
A lot of these hipster bands have verses that last WAAAAAY too long with the same boring simon-like guitar and bass riffs for the entire song and then a chorus based upon loud noises and groaning shrieking from the lead singer. And there’s absolutely NO reason for this Deerhunter band to have three guitarists… and the drummer is not very good. His style has that manic “almost good enough to play in public” sound that you hear from high school drummers with promise and crappy cover bands. If he didn’t record with a click track, he certainly should have, and if he did, hes not very good at following it.
Not a revolutionary band. No one will remember them after they’re gone. End of review.
And in other developments, even Portlanders are starting to get sick and tired of hipsters:
http://beastard.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/fuck-portland/
Oh Texas, if only. Puddletown is far from over it’s love affair/celebration of all things hipster.
It’s a nightmare here, as you well know.
(p.s. I enjoy your posts on bojack’s blog. Always witty and spot on!)
I live in the heart of hipsterdom, about 5 blocks from Hawthorne and 12th (where one of the first foodcart parking lots is located). Yes, there are MANY portlanders sick of the hipster trash that populates this city. This blog and its comments section is one of the few respites from the countless dipshits inhabiting this town. Thank you!
Not for nothin but that guy just looks like your standard haircut needing nerd.
Can’t you just imagine this guy bragging to his friends about how responsible he is because he gets up early for work?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27stinkbug.html?src=me&ref=general
Move Over, Bedbugs: Stink Bugs Have Landed
SABILLASVILLE, Md. — When they retreated from the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate troops passed by the area that is now Richard Masser’s orchards. If only the latest enemy — the brown marmorated stink bug — would follow suit.
Damage to fruit and vegetable crops from stink bugs in Middle Atlantic states has reached critical levels, according to a government report. That is in addition to the headaches the bugs are giving homeowners who cannot keep them out of their living rooms — especially the people who unwittingly step on them. When stink bugs are crushed or become irritated, they emit a pungent odor that is sometimes described as skunklike.
Suddenly, the bedbug has competition for pest of the year.
Farmers in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and other states are battling a pest whose appetite has left dry boreholes in everything from apples and grapes to tomatoes and soybeans. Stink bugs have made their mark on 20 percent of the apple crop at Mr. Masser’s Scenic View Orchards here. Other farmers report far worse damage.
“They’re taking money out of your pocket, just like a thief,” said Mr. Masser, flicking stink bugs off his shirt and baseball cap as he overlooked his 325 acres, a few miles south of the Pennsylvania border. “We need to stop them.”
No one seems to know how. Government and university researchers say they need more time to study the bug, which has been in the United States since about 1998. Native to Asia, it was first found in Allentown, Pa., and has no natural enemies here.
Some people noticed an increase in the stink bug population last year, but all agreed that this year’s swarm was out of control. Researchers say the bugs reproduced at a faster rate this year, but they are unsure why.
“These are the hot spots right now, but they’re spreading everywhere,” Mr. Masser said. “They even found them out in Oregon.”
(click link above for more)
It’s almost scary how you could change the word “stinkbug” for “hipster” in that article, and absolutely nothing about the article would change.
you took the words right outta my mouth…
FUCKING TRANSPLANT PIECES OF SHIT
NORMAL PEOPLE ARE JUST TRYING TO LIVE THEIR DAY TO DAY LIVES WHILE THESE FUCKING TRANSPLANT ATTENTION SEEKING PIECES OF SHIT FEEL THE NEED TO FORCE THEIR ART ON US IN PUBLIC PLACES
THESE FUCKING TRANSPLANTS FEEL THE NEED TO SHOW EVERYBODY HOW URBAN THEY ARE
“LOOK AT ME” “LOOK AT ME” “LOOK AT ME”
NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOUR SHOPPING CART RACES AND YOUR SNOWBALL FIGHTS
NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOU WEARING NO PANTS ON THE SUBWAY
NOBODY GIVES A FUCK
FUCK ALL OF YOU ATTENTION SEEKING PARENTALLY FUNDED TRANSPLANT PIECES OF SHIT
FUCK ALL OF YOU
http://theirtoys.com/sexblog/10-ways-to-get-some-hipster-trash-ass-trust-me-its-easy.html
#11: Pretend that silly hipster games are serious.
Is this shit for real…? Sigh…
I FINALLY had to suscribe today….
the worst part is that these people doing the underwear shit on the train is that none of them could even follow the damn directions of not giving any attention to yourself or other people doing it! they are all taking pictures and videos of themselves!! makes sense considering these idiots were probably all on ADHD drugs as kids and teens!!!
but here is the real reason i signed up today… a post over on brownstoner about a house in bay ridge. :-/ look at this shit… pay close attention to the “element of jersey and staten island trash” ugh! that jersey and staten island trash will always be way more urban and nyc than you or your stupid transplant family paying a million dollars for that house you bought could EVER hope to be!!! i dont know why this particular thing set me off, maybe it’s cuz i grew up in jersey and i really hate when people fresh off the truck from you know where start bashing the locals. yeah jersey is NOT nyc, but it IS the metro area, and staten island? youre calling staten island some sort of “element”? what? did you already run out of minority neighborhoods to infest? where you used to call them the “local element?” grrrrr. hate hate hate hate hate
is bay ridge really going down the shitter as much as this post indicates? im posting it here. if i get banned from there for cross posting i dont give a shit.
…
“Not really sure why there are so many Bay Ridge haters on this blog, but, since I live right in this neighborhood and, since I am a recent transplant, I’d like to address.
There is a sewage plant on the water which I can smell on certain summer nights only when I am exiting the BQE at 67th street. I live in the mid-70′s and I never ever ever have smelled the sewage plant at or within walking distance of my home. I don’t really get why people would prefer to live closer to the gowanus canal — which is a brownfield, potentential superfund site and all around environmental/safety hazard — rather than in northern Bay Ridge, where, some distance away, there is a sewage plant that one can smell on occasion during a quick drive by on the exit ramp of a highway.
I also don’t get the argument that moving to the suburbs makes more sense than living in Bay Ridge. That is a purely personal choice. As I have stated in a recent post on the same topic, my husband and I (who are not originally from the NYC area but very much enjoy raising our children in NYC now) opted to leave Carroll Gardens for Bay Rdige instead of the suburbs (including after a visit to Montclair) because we wanted our kids to have space (indoor and outdoor) but retain all of the wonderful benefits of living in an urban area. Personal choice. No one can tell me that moving to Montclair would have been better for our family. And, honestly, I am MUCH closer to work from Bay Ridge than I would have been from Montclair. It takes me 30 minutes on the subway (I do work downtown) and under 15 minutes in the car (admittedly, during non-rush hour times) to get from my house through the battery tunnel. The R train is two blocks from my house. I can take that directly to my office or transfer to the express in Sunset Park. No car-to commuter train-to subway action for me.
Finally, one of the great things about Bay Ridge is one of the things we used to love about Carroll Gardens in the late 90′s early 00′s — it has an authentic feel, with a lot of original Brooklynites of varying ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Sure there is the “Jersey Shore”/Staten Island element, but there are also some lovely, very well-educated and industrious people that we are fortunate to have as neighbors and community members. And, of course, there are the increasing number of hipsters and yuppie families (not unlike ourselves) who have realized that paying under $1 million for a full house and yard makes so much more sense than paying over $1 million to cram your family into a two bedroom just because it’s between Smith and Court. ”
BARF!
*rob*
They need to shut the hell up about the area being authentic, as it has probably ceased to be long ago, thanks to people like them pricing the rest of the neighborhood out. Oh, aren’t you so special that you can spend a million dollars on a home, then complain about the “elements” like they arent people, you fucking entitled transplant asswipe.
I HATEHATEHATE the yup and hipsters with kids, like these two, they are so insufferable. Talk about judgemental assholes, these jerks take the cake! These are the selfish, immature jerks that insist on taking babies into BARS, not pubs, BARS, where they then give normal patrons dirty looks for acting like adults and clog up the place with thousand dollar strollers. They think that everyone should cater to their brats, no matter how inappropriate their request. Nothing is sadder than seeing a parent who is 40, acting 13, with a kid in tow that is wearing the same hipster garb.
Worse, they are a danger to everyone else because they believe in crazy things like not vaccinating their kids. They are
too”educated” for vaccines, their pwecious snowflakes couldn’t bear the pain of a needle, that is until they are old enough to shoot themselves up with one, but I digress….
These jerks are raising the next generation of entitled brats that think the world revolves around them, just what we need. I am sensitive to this cuz I just had my first kid.
“authentic feel” my ass! that flew out the door the second you and your family financed a million dollar house in bay ridge!
quote:
it has an authentic feel, with a lot of original Brooklynites of varying ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. Sure there is the “Jersey Shore”/Staten Island element
wtf does that even MEAN!?!??!
*rob*
Damn, these yups aren’t satisfied with anti-black and anti-Hispanic covert racism, they’re anti-Italian too.
(Although it’s not even about Italians, really, it’s just code for “people who are scary because they’re not exactly like us.”)
YES! that IS it. not being exactly like them. the second you make a fuss about 10 dollar ice cream scoops and 8 dollar cups of coffee you get scoffed as being some “rube” who doesnt get it. seriously? i dont GET it? sorry but im not putting my HARD EARNED MONEY towards that shit and others dont want to either even tho there are hoardes of people who seem to have no problem with it.
so because im not a fan of wine bars, overpriced organic groceries, and other shit like that, i shouldnt live in park slope. this is the sentiment ive gotten from other people who live here for the 2 years ive lived here. like i originally said, i moved here cuz of my dog, cuz the rent was good for the location nearest work, and because honestly i dont want to live in an area where people are struggling to put groceries on their table.. i lived in a horrible area of New Jersey (the projects in north jersey from the ages of 13-18) and it SUCKED. the people didnt suck but HAVING to live there did…
so i want to tell people to get their stupid noses out of my wallets when i complain about how ridiculously expensive lame things are in areas like this. sorry, im not buying your 10 dollar cholate bar. i didnt grow up that way. money doesnt grow on trees, and especially on a tree in brooklyn. it just get fed-ex’d over in monthly checks (seriously i see this all the time) back from parents. fuck that shit, im signing for your rent check that your parents sent you? gack.
*rob*
Don’t stop there bro. They are anti-Irish too–as well as anti-Greek, anti-Polish, anti-Russian, etc. They are basically anti-anyone who has a discernible ethnicity and culture and still identifies with it–I.E., just about all of pre-gentrified Brooklyn. I’ve seriously lost count of how many times I’ve heard or read some yupster transplant mutant making snide comments about the non-Wonder Bread people remaining in Brooklyn.
The bottom line is, if you’re not a Wonder Bread midwestern white just like them (or an ugly Asian chick willing to fuck beardos), then you are subhuman to them.
and that ginormous snowball fight (moonface flash mob) full of what looks like snowflakes to begin with would have had the NATIONAL FUCKING GUARD CALLED ON THEM if they were not all white!!! how do these people away with this?
*rob*
I was driving over the Williamsburg Bridge today from the city and was stuck behind some van with Nebraska plates driving way too fucking slow. I was finally able to get around it and when I passed it it contained 3 emaciated bearded shit-sticks all sitting together in the front seat. The driver had huge-ass Buddy Holly glasses, one guy had his fucking $5000 camera sticking out the window feverishly taking photos of all the “urbanism” while the third douche-face was slobbering down some organic noodle slop out of a container.
Wow, who would ever expect to witness this scene while driving into Williamsburg?
http://dcist.com/2010/09/car_fires_lead_to_skepticism_of_fir.php
Beardos and Yupsters cars in DC with out of town plates get TORCHED.
anyone who has lived here in the last 10 years i guess? but yeah what a vile sight that must have been. it’s funny here in park slope, people keep their original home state plates cuz i guess it’s cheaper or something?
*rob*
That was sarcasm. I’m sure they immediately changed their Facebook and blogging hometown status from Omaha to Brooklyn during their nasal journey here. Fucking pseudo-urban, unviable, lemming assholes.
We should consider meeting up sometime for beers and beatings on Bedford, those of us who live around here. We could go to Barcade on Lorimar or some other douchenozzle joint, I know where they all are, and make fun of hipsters.
Oh, they’ll change their Facebook status to list Brooklyn as “home”, but they won’t change their license plates or their driver’s licenses until they have no choice. This way, if they have to leave in a hurry, they don’t have to go through the whole DMV scene (which would be a lot more fun if the DMV offered crayons and coffee) when they get back to Dogfelcher Falls.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! they always list their homeworn on facebook as where they currently live in nyc. that is NOT your hometown!!!! why are people so embarrassed about where they came from!?
*rob*
Welcome to Diehipster, Rob.
http://wanderingbrooklyn.wordpress.com/
thanks, i hope i dont get a bashing for being who i am here tho.. been here 10 years, straight outta jersey (transplants HATE people from jersey) even tho ive been coming to nyc for ever (have some sad tales about being a kid in the fire hydrants as a small kid while my mom copped drugs outside of port authority). not relevant i guess, but i get so pissed when people from iowa make fun of people from the nyc metro area, especially the ones who make fun of staten island and non-gentrified neighborhoods in the outer boroughs. they claim to be all city-centric but then piss on the people who HELLO fucking STAYED in the city during the bad times.
*rob*
As far as I’m concerned people from Jersey are essentially from NY anyway. The accent and culture are pretty much indistinguishable. Don’t let some worthless yupster transplant stringbean act like he’s cooler than you because you’re from NJ but he’s suddenly “from” Brooklyn as of two years ago.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/dc/rash-of-iphone-robberies-in-dc-092810
^ Yups are getting their I-PHONES snatched in DC.
Purp approaches Yup…
“Hey can I see your phone?”
“Do you mind inf I make a phone call?”
Yup hands over phobe…
Purp takes off running!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
WHAT A BUNCH OF STUPID FUCKS
THEY DESERVE TO GET THEIR SHIT SNATCHED
FUCKING TRANSPLANTS
FUCKING MORONS IS WHAT THEY ARE
Holy sweet fucking shit. New god damn fucking York, what a douche-apocalypse. I remember when subway attention whores were actually scary. Now the subways are filled with talentless ex-teenage Presbyterian choir boy hipster fuck-tards, exibiting their crushing normality by boldly and horribly playing banjo on the god damn subway.(or the violin, or the acoustic guitar, or whatever instrument is the most metro sexual viagra-like reassurance of your ironic coolness you can find.) We all know: no one in your family respects or likes you, otherwise they would have told you how crack head stupid it was for you to move to that highly-priced, formally relevant, cultural facade of a third world existence in the first place.
Seriously, I would call them retards, but it wouldn’t be fair to mentally challenged people.
http://bkuaa.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/2010-bkuaa-fishing-derby-starts-oct-1-ok-really-sept-30/
All we need to do is convince these “urban anglers” to eat their catches. If the mercury and cadmium don’t kill them, the PCBs will.
New York City “Common Man’s” Fishing Competition?
Is ‘Common Man’ an angler term? Is that term really necessary?
Someone should have bashed that shit, Belushi style.
Why is this a story about some hipster you saw on the train fiddling away that you snapped a picture of, and not a story about you telling some hipster on the train to stop playing his violin? Are you that passive aggressive? You talk a big game in your blog, but when these people annoy you right in your face you don’t say anything; passive aggressive.
Right. I’m going to just get up and cause a scene and ruin my day. Also, possibly end up getting into a real fight, charged with assault, and sued by his Daddy-Chairman of North Dakota. Most of us would love to do what you say I replace with passive aggressiveness but you and we all know that’s just not how people normally deal with annoyances. However, the day a hipster lays a finger on me is the day I pound him into a veal cutlet. Anyway if I didn’t maintain this site, you wouldn’t be secretly enjoying your daily read of it. Have a great day Holden.
unfortunately these people really ARE protected snowflakes. look at everytime one of them gets robbed (i mean gladly hands over) their ipod? in 4 minutes it’s ALL over the internet and they already have 5 lawyers up their sleeve.. barf.
im so tempted myself to just rob one of these people on the train (it’s SO easy) or in a coffeeshop… they think nothing of leaving their 3000 dollar laptop out while they go use the little boys room.
this happened to me a while back in soho, shit you not.. im outside smoking a cigarette and some guy says, hey can you watch my bike while i go upstairs? um okay. it’s like what? too bad i was at work that would have been on craigslist so fast your head would spin. i know nothing about bikes but it looked like an expensive one.
*rob*
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