Just thought I would post a few recent e-mails.
You sir, have made my day…and its barely 10am PST. I am a 52 year old long time Mission district San Francisco resident who is thoroughly appalled at the ongoing gentrifying influx in my historically poor/working class neighborhood. (starting circa 1995 with the post grunge junkie chic-ster’s and continuing to the present batch of skinny-jeaned, pastel-colored fixie bike-riding, bearded hipsters)
The next time I push my way through a sea of scratchy Pendleton shirts to get to the bar of my favorite (and now crowded) local dive, I will be thinking of your phrase “estrogen lumberjacks” (I grew up in Oregon too..they remind of my uncles at childhood christmasses past….except it’s 80 degrees and sweaty in this bar) It won’t explain why my Guinness tap has been replaced by PBR (who knew it came in anything but a can?) but it will soften the cruel blow.
I was in fear that I was becoming “crotchety” in my old age. (not to be confused with crocheted) but you (and your loyal comment posting readers) have alleviated that fear.
Now I must go stand in line at my favorite greasy spoon. Gone are the days when one could simply walk in, grab a stool and read the paper while enjoying a second cup of coffee. Now i must stand around outside in a fog of blue American Spirit smoke while waiting to be rushed. I must get there before the brunch crowd shows up.
keep the beatings coming
m
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Hi
First of all I love your diehipster page. but these fucking hipsters are now coming all the way across the atlantic to Ireland, I recently witnessed a Tweed fucking bike ride in my city, and found their page on Facebook, full of pictures of fucking moustached hipster scum. a good friend of mine has been consumed into their group, used to be a normal guy, but now wears jeans so tight i can see his balls
keep up the good work, i shall fight the hipsters on this side of the sea
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Hey there,
I grew up in Wappingers Falls, NY, where I NEVER would have expected those dirtbag, try-hard midwestern organic losers to spread their lameness. Now I see that nothing is safe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/nyregion/hudson-river-valley-draws-brooklynites.html?bl
Goddammit. I will mail you a crate of Louisville Sluggers if you promise to use them on popsicle-stick limbed freekin veegans before they spread beyond Brooklyn.
Thanks for the great blog. It keeps me laughing at hipsters when I want to be igniting them, but I have a family and don’t wanna wind up in the can. Plus I don’t imagine they’d burn for long. Waste of gas.
Thats fantastic
I live in the Bronx on Fordham Rd, I have seen maybe 2 Hipsters and they may have been just visitors. There’s nothing Healthy and Organic up here. But you can find good deals. They wont even throw in the word Organic up here because the Latinos would laugh and say that’s not real food. I love it up here in a way. Everything is at low cost. Last week they had a sale at my local market. A 2 Liter Coke was 99 cents, and Cans of Sprite that someone was selling on the sidewalk in his cooler was 50 cents only. My local Coined Laundry Matt costs only $1.25 for the smallest wash machine with free parking. And this morning my Bodega was selling small coffee for 50 cents, and it tasted good.
My point is that my community understands that you can still make money by selling items at lower costs and not be greedy towards your people. But I’m sure they won’t move up here, the minute they pretend dress up with their Hipster looks they will get runned over!
Looks like NYC’s Starbucks has had enough:
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/08/05/many-nyc-starbucks-locations-about-to-put-an-end-to-squatters/
There’s an outcry over this on a lot of tech websites. Most of the crying is done by hipsters toting their MacBooks as evidenced by some of the responses when someone made that distinction.
Some of the comments against hipsters were gold though. You can find it on AnandTech.
Besides, those squatters should not be taking up tables that paying customers are looking to use, and use for only an hour or so at most and won’t sprawl out as if they owned the joint like the squatters do.
i work in soho and the starbucks near there is essentially a giant computer lab. and i know people love to hate on tourists, they are the bread and butter of our local economy. sad when they stop in for a coffee and cant find a spot to sit because josh decided to turn it into his home office. one thing that makes me laugh tho is that starbucks has a police report at least 3 times a day because someone thought it was find to leave the laptop out in the open when they go to the bathroom only for it be stolen. along with all their other stuff. how are people THAT dumb?
*rob*
Too true. Because my wife loves Starbucks we visit one most days and invariably some (ahem) person will leave their laptop, cell phone, Crackberry, whatever while going to the bathroom or out for a smoke. The smart ones will ask someone to keep an eye on their property, but many won’t.
To our foreign brothers in the war against fauxhemia – keep fighting the good fight; never let Harrison, Josh, Hummus, Zoe, Megan, and the rest of the assorted whiny Warhol-kazoo-voiced pseudo-creatives convince you that they are the norm. These people are nothing but swizzle stick armed High School failures who are trust fund enabled adult infants.
LIKE YAH
Sorry, upstate hipster hater, but your loss is our gain.
It’s every man for himself now that the hipster epidemic has reached runaway zombie stage….you know, the point where a news announcer is doing a piece on the hipster invasion and hipsters coming running onto the set and devour him live on cam, to the sound of tinny screams and off-stage automatic weapons fire….
Even here in the 5 boros it’s brother against brother. DH himself recently refused to redraw his NO HIPSTERS BELOW THIS LINE map of the city with another red line in southern Queens. Basically saying FU Queens residents, as long as Bay Ridge is free of the grover-bodied tryhards I don’t care what disgusting spectacles of gentrification and rooftop local organic farming and urban tourguiding and flashmob pillow fights take place to the north.
So we;’re sorry to hear a report in the New Hipster Times about the plague of lumberjacks on estrogen spreading up the Hudson River valley, but the more of them opening their laptop bars and cupcake stands in your town, the fewer of them to ride unicycles on my street.
I suggest that you advertise a free Dan Deacon gig with a puppet show for an opening act in an old disused steel mill and when all the local pixie stick armed gnome bearded fixed gear hipsters show up, drown them in a giant vat of Benzene.
Woah man! Ain’t saying FU to Queens at all. I have friends and family there as well. Just happens to be that the creator of this site, me, is from Brooklyn – hence the line is in Brooklyn. It would be nice if someone started a sister site to this site hating on Queens hipster issues.
you mean someone like…
Me and my father want to start one for Los angeles.
Here’s a good start. Maximum butthurt about “yarn bombs” in your neighborhood:
http://www.coastlinepilot.com/news/tn-cpt-0812-yarnbombs-20110808,0,1211840.story
NATURALLY, this crazy wants the police to investigate and prosecute. Also naturally, if the police tell her that they have much more to do than track down yarn fetishists, she’ll probably threaten to hold her breath until she turns blue. A little tip: in the search for the stolen yarn bombs, did anyone check…the garbage?
If these stupid hipsters get someone prosecuted for removing thier vandalism, then I’m going to sue the railroad for painting over all my tags from when I was a kid…
Boyd not only wants the pieces returned, she wants the thieves identified and punished. She was not pleased that no police report was filed for the theft that she described as intentional and vicious in a letter to the Coastline Pilot.
“All of this is so disturbing, awful, shameful, and sad,” Boyd wrote. “…nothing justifies this horrific behavior toward other artists! Especially an approved innocent, volunteer, donated project like ours.
“Who would believe something like this could happen in our art colony, Laguna Beach? We can only hope the persons responsible are identified and the appropriate actions are taken!
“Whoever took them down did not even have the courtesy to bag them and leave them at the Sawdust offices for (Twisted Sisters) club members to retrieve them.”
Boyd said Monday that she could not understand the animosity toward the yarn bombs.
An art colony? ? Is the junk in the background that looks like it’s from the $1-all-you-can-carry bin at a yard sale a part of the art? Because the thieves should have gotten rid of that too while they were at it.
I think the animosity is towards the fact that she’s an idiot, and she is acting like this is a major art theft.
Everything is art to these morons. Take a shit on a plate and say it’s an expression of the current economic situation and they will lavish you with praise: “Like yah…it’s so deep and, ya know, it means something. I truly see where the artist is coming from, like yah.”
What are these fucks doing in Laguna Beach? I thought only well to do people lived there. Sadly I saw plenty of hipsters roaming around Huntington Beach though. After spending some time with some people I knew I hurried back to my temporary place near Miramar Marine Air Station in SD… a safe haven.
Hi jack sprat,
wish it were that easy… unfortunately, our “gain” is not really your “loss”, so to speak. As with any zombie invasion, the spread is not through the movement of zombies, per se, but through the contagion. the spread to the hudson valley doesn’t mean they are not gonna be in your backyard too, just that there are more. brooklyn remains the breeding ground – wait, strike that – LANDING PAD for these idiot try-hards. for this reason, containment in brooklyn via local incineration would help the cause.
jack, hate to tell you but I almost drove into a car yesterday when I spotted a hipster Scout Family (hat, beard, full arm tattoos, skinny jeans) walking down Third Avenue at 75th just like normal human beings yesterday at noon. My wife had to hold her hand over my mouth to stop me from screaming “Get out of Bay Ridge, hipster scum!”
Brilliant!
trust me they are all over queens, maybe not as much as williamsburg. But I’ve been seeing more and more of these asshole in Forest Hills..
I’m not bullshitting: I saw one of these no upper body strength art yuppies riding a unicycle down my Queens street in broad daylight. These dweebs have no fear of reprisal! What’s next, mimes? Street theater? Jugglers? Fire eaters?
bad enough, I see them out here in there fuckin clam diggers and fedoras. I really wish they would stay the fuck out of queens.
hmm… I own some property in Astoria. Might be nice to rent at ridiculously high rates to these d-bags and never have to work again…. Nah. I couldn’t do it.
Already my real artist friends have been driven out of Queens by the high rents; not to mention many other good working class families. AND my building has had at least 2 bedbug invasions…never saw bedbugs in Astoria til THEY started coming….and from my window I’m constantly being assaulted by the sound of ‘yah…blah blah like yah!’
Back in the early 90s, I had a lot of friends who lived in Manhattan. They gladly paid the high rents of the time for the extra coolness. ($1,400 between 2 people in the East Village was considered high rent back then). They wouldn’t even consider Queens or Brooklyn.
Then, as the 90s moved on and Giuliani cleaned up NYC, the same friends were forced out to Queens and Brooklyn by skyrocketing rents. Next they were paying the same rent for Woodside or Williamsburg.
Now, the same friends have either left the country or moved even further out to some Bumbleweed LI or Upstate where they have to get the bus into the Port Authority every morning. And they’re worried about being priced out up there.
God! When I look at the amount of brains and coolness NYC has discarded just to make a quick buck, it makes me want to go postal.
Thats exactly what Bloomberg and Guliani wanted though they’re both scumbags who sold out NYC
YEP!
I lived in the East village in 94, had a 2 bd, $995 (e.13 btw 2/3rd) Got priced out in 96′ went to Williamsburg, had a 2 bd $750 (s.2/btwn Marcy and Havemeyer). Eventually moved in 2000, but couldn’t come back because the rent skyrocketed. I was astonished how quickly the changes occurred. One year 5th street (1/A) had abandoned buildings and a squat, the next year it was all rich people.
Now it’s all so boring and vanilla in those areas. Hipsters and rich yuppies as far as the eye can see. NYC used to be a place that the creative and unusual people escaped too, built a better life for themselves, now its all trust funds and bankers. Lame. And the boroughs were for families and hard working people of all ethnicities.
Guliani sure did “clean up”- and ruined the place. Sell out.
in forest hills? that’s because they ride their vintage french twizzler dick bikes up metropolitan from brooklyn.
I wish I could say they were riding there bikes but these were walking around, But I believe they will not infest this area since there are not art galleries or DIY music venues around here.. hopefully they were lost and doing some urban exploring. But they do pop up over here from time to time. Forest Hills might be a little to straight laced for there liking..
as for this vermin moving upstate, that will not last long with the locals. I use to date a girl from putnam valley years ago, she had a job in the city and on the weekends we’d head up to her moms place. These little fucks have no idea what they are in for.. I hope they like fighting with locals and having guns pulled on them.. some of these guys upstate don’t play that shit let me tell you. And 99% of the shit they pull down here will just not fly up there. what they forgot with these hard times we are now in most people are now in a survival mode, I give them 6 months tops and they’ll either be back in brooklyn or even better back home eating grill cheese sandwiches in their parents basement back in ohio or where ever the fuck these assholes come from.
they think us New Yorkers are townies, mark my word the people upstate are just like the type they left back home… I hope they all freeze to death this up coming winter..
Yup, I see ‘em all the time. i saw a Caleb and his pal actually stop once and call their mom and say, “You’ll never guess what me and Hummus are doing, mom? Yeah, riding our bikes in fucking Queens! Hahahaha!” BTW, mama, the check didn’t hit the bank yet. Is everything okay?” I made that last sentence up, but the rest is true. Assclowns.
if hipsters are making it cool to be seen in the countryside, why bother with brooklyn? That place is so last week.
I guess because they feel that Brooklyn is there Ellis Island, they can now go upstate and pollute the fine people of Westchester, Putnam and maybe even Dutchess. And tell everyone “like yay I’m from Brooklyn, I came to bring art and culture to you rubes” The funny thing is people upstate will see right through them in a matter of months… I hope these fucks get aids and die…
http://youtu.be/xIhyZaA8yqo
Rollins vs Hipsters about 1:30 into the video..
“…like ya I’m from Brooklyn, I came to bring art and culture to you rubes…”
ahaha so fucking true.
yep. apparently the in thing to do these days is moving upstate and open up an art gallery. none of the art is any good btw. trust me on this…
*rob*
DH-
The one letter you posted with the NYT article. Photo 13 of 14 in that article (there’s a link, “more Photos” on the photo at the top of the article – both saddens me and makes me want to take a fucking tire iron to these smug little fucks. Their looks (my boss would call people like these “Smack faces”) juxtaposed with the guy pushing the shopping cart says it all.
You can bet the “cultural revival” won’t include the guy with the shopping cart, and the unemployed people hanging out. in the photo before it.
This is fucking unbelievable:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/nyregion/hudson-river-valley-draws-brooklynites.html?_r=1&bl
So the hipsters have not only “soy double-foam latte”-ized the Hudson Valley like a plague of fucking locusts, but have actually squawked so loudly about their green agenda that they’ve cock-blocked a cement plant that would have provided jobs to potentially hundreds of local, working-class families.
And of course, by “green agenda” I mean, “like, yah, the icky smoke would affect the taste of my rooftop organic heirloom tomatoes…”. But they couldn’t care less — hipsters talk a big game about multi-culturalism, but at the end of the day, they don’t give a shit about factory workers who aren’t going to have the disposable income (or lack of common sense) to spend $8 on the organic gluten-free buckwheat-and-hummus locavore cupcakes that the hipsters make in the cutesy storefronts that their parents are funding for Zoey, Jake, Josh and Meghan so that they can have their “I’m a modern-day pioneer!” moment.
And of course, by squeezing out everyone except other like-minded, white hipsters who can (or are willing to) afford their completely bat-shit crazy and totally unsustainable economic model of outrageously overpriced “artisan” handiwork, they eliminate the likelihood of having to deal with all those scary people they secretly hate: hard-working, no-nonsense blue collar types; real locals whose families have lived for generations in the towns and neighborhoods the hipsters infest; and any minorities who don’t wear a beret and speak with a French or British accent.
Hey man. Hummus the drummer and his local cupcake pals are coming to bring art and culture to the workaday lives of your upstate townie schmoes. OK, maybe not “workaday” since they turned the cement plant into a puppet show venue/knitting class school.
favorite quote:
“Jenifer Constantine and Trippy Thompson, bartenders in Williamsburg, found the adventurous loft life there a bit too precarious after the birth of their first child in 2007, and moved to New Paltz to open their own minimalist, Brooklynesque bar and restaurant in Rosendale, Market Market, with a locavore menu and weekly spoken-word slams.”
Add “grover bodied” before bartenders and you’d pretty much have something DH worthy.
“Tim Davis, 48, in Chicago Bulls cap and colors, has lived in Beacon almost all his life, but he is moving to Atlanta. “There’s no work here,” he said. “Basically they’ve turned this place into Antiqueworld. When we had the factories, this was a money-making town. Now it’s not. Everyone I know is moving to the South.” So many people have moved to Beacon from Brooklyn that people now call it NoBro, he said.”
It’s easy to claim a stake on a dying working class neighborhood and proclaim its revitalization through antiques, “art” and “culture” when you never have to worry about making a living ever. These trust fund artist wannabes that infest these areas need to be taken down by any means. They are not for the community, they are only out for themselves. Their only goal is to feed their narcissistic needs and feel like their “artistic” expressions are more valuable than feeding and employing families. These areas need jobs for the lifelong families, not pretentious, overpriced art communities and cafes that only cater to other interloping fruitcake scum.
BTW, if you like hiking don’t let the hipsters discourage you from Beacon. Right behind it is Storm King, one of the nicest mountains in the area and would prove a fair challenge to a weekend hiker. Having been born in Brooklyn and raised in the city I was quite surprised on my first hike to notice both rattlesnakes and a pair of aggressive hawks I startled. Great Views of the Hudson Valley from the top
exactly. i actually work in “the arts” but what so many people do to communities is actually hurtful. people love to say that artists and the gays (im gay) revitalize neighborhoods. BULLSHIT. you do nothing but jack up the rent, bring in stores that sell shit that is 10x more than what its woth, and look down on people who dont believe in your philosophies.
*rob*
I have a theory: Anyone running for local who thinks that a revitalization plan mean revitalizing the waterfront, bringing in a casino an converting ye old arsenic and radium factories into luxe condos, etc. tar and feather ‘em.
In order to revive a town you need, safety, jobs, families(from diverse economic backgrounds) and good schools and reasonable priced homes.
But no every pea brained pol always incoprated the MBA Cliff Notes plan.
We have a small town near us that revitalized it’s busienss district. although there is the odd antique or coffee shop, the merchants include a shoe repair place, pizza shop, printer, hobby shop (with awesome HO race tracks),etc. in other words – businesses people actually use. hell even the hardware store is doing a booming business.
Great point. I think it’s part of the “short time gain”/”one quarter profit” phenomenon that’s killing our country. No one has the patience to wait for a plan that would really revitalize a city- it takes time, hard work, effort and investment in things not glitzy and exciting. It’s much easier to make a few ugly buildings hip, bring on some idiots who will pay high prices to live there, and open a business that makes instant cash, by draining those who live there. bringing in new businesses, supporting those that are their, investing in the workforce and education, health care and housing- no one wants to do that stuff.
and we wonder why our cities are falling apart and services are few and far between.
So they move to an area, shape it into a high priced playground then get weary about the locals they’re displacing which leads to them leaving to ruin another area.
This shows everyone who visits this site how hipsters are actually causing very real harm when feeding their egos and pretentious lifestyles.
Shame about the cement plant they helped block… makes me angry enough to actually hunt them down to give them a good beating.
Maybe if the company decided to make the plant look run-down, aged and rusty, the hipsters would
flock to it, take some snaps to post on their blogs.
We had a similar thing here. A local defense contractor was going to expand to the city – and add badly needed technical jobs. All the Anti-war and environmentalist nutjobs pretty much shut them down. The propoganda spread whined about radioactive materials and bomb making materials. Then the managed to get unions and the local left wing rags involved.
Actually the facility was supposed to be R & D. No more radioactive than the cluster of radiowaves emitting from the local McD’s, Starbucks and Subways.
1200 Engineers, Scientist, designer, and office personnel jobs lost.
The CEO at the time was pissed and gave the city an earful. They had spent a lot of money at the city’s urging to redevelop an area of the city that was rundown. Many local businesses would have benefitted.
The company got a lucrative offer from California or New Mexico. They moved the R&D center there.
Then guess what? All the local papers who fought the center was now bashing the company for pulling out oof the deal.
This reads like a parody from The Onion.
Out here we had an influx of hipsters in Voorhees. so many in fact that the Art house cinema chain in Philly opened an outlet here. Initally the tryhards flocked there. I liked it because I could finally get to see a few films that I only read about.
It lasted a couple of years. Now they realize that the real paying public wants to see mainstream movies. So they changed their format. now their thriving.
The hipsters? A few years older, their like some nomadic tribe. I think they’re thing is to drive in from the city, hang out at a coffee shop and make fun of the locals while loudly proclaiming how lame the suburbs are.
So… will they start bullshitting on the Metro North trains now? How will they handle the harsher winters (despite not being too far north the winters are different from NYC) when they go ride their fixies?
gotta share this with you guys… yesterday me and a friend took my dog to prospect park. there are a giant group of people having a BBQ and it was near the end of the day and it looked like it about to rain so they were putting everything away. they wound up giving us a TON of food and said take it home, eat it, etc. they supplied the containers, bags, everything. i didnt know what to do with all that food. so me and my friend were walking towards grand army plaza and we spotted a big group of people who could probably be described as “homeless” one of them had a dog and that’s what made me stop and talk to them. anyway, i gave all my food to them and they gobbled it up like a bunch of freaks and i didnt get a single thank you :-/ i wasnt looking for a thank you or anything but just like 10 minutes before i profusely thanked the BBQ’ers who gave me that food. i wish i just took it all home instead of sharing it people. i hate to bring race into this but it was so blaring obvious. the people who gave me the ton of food to take home (and they even fed my dog) were all black. the scrubs who took that food from me with zero thanks were a bunch of scrubby white people in their 30s who seemed like they set up a hobocamp in the park. i was really pissed when i left the park that i offered all that food to them. they threw the plastic containers on the grass when they finished and i thought wow what a bunch of unappreciative pricks.
*rob*
How awful. What rude assholes. Of course they were white! They have so much privilege, and had it for so long, they thought they were ENTITLED to your food.
Haha…I still can’t get over whoever said this site is “practically racist.”
As someone who is practically a black sharecropper from Mississippi, I am practically insulted by your attitude!
If trust fund hipsters are a race, call me racist.
If the people “looked” homeless and had a dog, that’s your first red flag.
When crusties beg for cash, I ask how they can afford pets and tattoos, ’cause I certainly can’t.
It usually leaves them sputtering.
“It’s just my comfort zone,” said Rebekah Blu, who has specialized in rock ’n’ roll, celebrity and what she calls Goddess photography and moved to town with her husband and two infants from the East Village two months ago.”
“Specialized in Rock ‘n roll”? STFU. That is just another way of saying “I’m a total asshole”. I feel so sorry for those townspeople. They didn’t do anything to deserve that infestation. And now they’re stuck with the fair trade organic rooftop $15 E-Z Bake Oven cupcakes, unicycles, nasal voices, beardo wool caps in the summertime thick eyeglass crowd.
So, now that this idiot has been living in Millerton for the past 2 minutes, does she call herself a Millerton-ite? Because when those douchetards move to Brooklyn, they start calling themselves “Brooklynites”, like yah, “from” Brooklyn as soon as they begin unloading the U-Haul.
You know, I’ve been having some really scary thoughts lately. I’ve been predicting the Next Big Thing which will come after hipsterism – homelessness. Once the trust funds run out, where are these shitfaces going to go? I mean, the ones who’s parents’ took out a second mortgage to pay for Cankelpusses snot sculpture Made-in-Brooklyn emporium.
What about their children? What about the crotch-fruit of Matt Grossest wannabes? What will happen to them once Hummus and Stephonica’s trust funds run dry? Will Little Cambodias spring up in the East Village and Billyworld for the Gary Glitters of NYC?
You already see them sitting on their asses on the sidewalk begging in many areas. Not only that, but they have that disdainful “well, I’ll take your money but you have to walk over and bend down and hand it to me” look.
As if, beardo. To quote G. Thorogood (out of context), “Get a haircut and get a real job.”
They leave our area and expect the hard working folks to clean up their mess while they move on to another area that will give them money to settle in.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2020265/Homeless-hell-Americas-Midwest-thousands-middle-class-families-forced-bunker-mattresses-economic-crisis-bites.html
Hmmm. I’d be wary of anything the BBC prints about the USA.
Why? Because it’s not Fox news lies?
Nope. The BBC pretty much puts a negative slant on anything that doesn’t fit in with their world view.
Englandis bruning and they’re still calling the looters, muggers and anarchists “protestors”.
Dailymail is not a BBC outlet.
It’s simple. “where were you born?” if it says Ohio, you are from Ohio, Mine says Wyckoff Heights Hospital. Where is that located? end of story
I’m telling you all, when they breed they get even worse. Who wants to bet this idiot had her babies in her East village apartment, then went on to all the other annoying sanctimommy crap. She will probably “unschool ” them too, while breast feeding until they are 12.
I have absolutely no idea why that behaviour isn’t regarded as child abuse.
If the poor or minorities were doing those things, it would be called child abuse. Because white trust funders and upper middle class wanna be hippies and hipsters do it, it’s cool and “progressive”.
It’s another way of saying “I’m not in a band, but I’m trying to make it sound like I am.”
Well I have to admit last night was kinda fun on the bus. The extreme hipster was out in the east village. The “normal” beardos stayed in I guess because of the rain, so I was left with the super quirky unique obnoxious garbed and tight scantily clad beardos. But friends let me tell you, we ended up sending at least 3 to the tombs, 2 to the hospital huffy and mad at us and at least called out 6(for the sake of the natives)in front of the natives, for being “from Brooklyn.” Completely humiliated! It was GREAT!. Its amazing what a fiercely angry transplanted ally and a group of natives can do to make a dufus turn red, tear, up, and try to call mommy and daddy at 345am when we work together!
As usual great to see all you regular posters, and hello to the newer people as well.
Damn, those hipsters had to do something really bad to be sent to the Tombs (central booking).
resisting arrest…..well….i mean for them, no upper body strength and all.
and one for assault on me and my partner…..again if you wanna call it that.
That would’ve been grounds to at least get a couple of smacks, punches or a swift kick in the ass on these fuckers.
Shame that charge isn’t given to all of the clowns that look like they’re resisting arrest. Like the one on the Williamsburg Bridge.
NO KIDDING! but brother, you know what it means to be a TRUE professional. As much as wouldve loved an ass whoopin, I have to be nice, WHILE DEFENDING MYSELF, in order not to hwert the pwwwoor willttle snowflake . Restraint tactics are best, as sad as they can be………when youre dealing with a Brooklyn bound L train at 300am, you have 900000 i phones on you.
My restraint tactics usually involve hairspray, a lighter and a 9 iron.
now THAT is a MacGuyver ass whoopin!
Do you not believe as a person who has power over another beings life that it is funny to joke about how you would abuse that power if it weren’t for witnesses. This is what I mean about cops you guys are worse than thugs because you pretend to be above them. When you are really just lazy criminals.
He’s a paramedic. I’m in forensics but I’m more with the people than corrupt people in terms of being a police officer.
I guess you missed the part of the assault by the hipster? That’s justification to give them a few knocks to restrain them. Considering how many of them are essentially spoiled brats and causing very real harm to the city and hard working locals I find it’s no different from beating a corrupt city official.
That’s what I love about the martial arts. You get to restrain them while inflicting as much pain as you see fit but without it looking obvious. (for those whiny hipsters who might come on here: martial arts also teaches painless restraint but fuck you).
I hated living in Brooklyn. These people are insufferable and their strength grows in numbers.
It’s like Lord of the Flies in some parts.
whoever runs this website probably needs a blowjob
Wouldn’t hurt, you offering?
HERRO STEVIE!!!
MMMATT DAMON!
These days Hipsters are like Free Masons, a group that’s right in front of us who claims they don’t exist.
Even your fucking avatar looks like a smug piece of shit.
I LOVE THIS!!
http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/172103-5-reasons-why-indie-rock-doesnt-rock
All too true. I think you can just substitute “rock” for “indie-rock”. I am old enough to remember when music was this bad once before. About 5 minutes before punk showed up to save it. Music is product now. Don’t know who killed it (take your pick, the record company’s, concert promoters, ticket master, iPods, radio, probably all of the above). Nothing happening here, nothing new under the sun. I don’t want to insult rock by saying I’ve outgrown it, but rock and I have moved apart. Maybe we really are just too old and this is something to be enjoyed by the young. I hope so, and I really do hope the young are enjoying it as much as I did. I moved on. Once I went to a concert of a bad I used to enjoy and found out that the crowd was so old that they ran out of handicapped parking hours before I just moved along. Your mileage may vary
That’s an awesome article. You could just swap a few words out and you would have an analogy between real art and hipster performance art (think Jill McDermid, the cherry twat lady, saying “Not all art is watercolors of flowers you know”. No it isn’t but watercolors of flowers require real talent. Pulling cherries out of your twat requires none.)
It also reminded me of the whole dot-com fiasco. Obviously the hipsters were spawned by that whole non-movement. Just reading the bit about layers of irony totally nailed it for me. I hope this guy writes more.
“These days Indie Rock Hipsters are like musical Free Masons, a group that’s right in front of us who claims they don’t exist.”
Amen.
Remind me to copy and paste this all over the internet every time Stevie shows up.
I personally blame David Geffen. His endless push for safe corporate rock in the Eighties and Nineties brought us both Edie Brickell (to the point where he cut free the rest of New Bohemians and made her a solo act, because they were much better musicians than she ever was) and Kurt Cobain. This just made the suits go “Well, we’ve got to get ourselves acts just like what Geffen has,” and they spent ever-increasing amounts of cash on promoting their latest whiner rock champions. Worse, existing acts are told that they need to sound like the latest flavor of corporate rock, or else they can kiss their contract goodbye.
(Personal confession: back in 1993, my best friend and I went up to Denton, north of Dallas, to catch a live show from a band we’d both heard good things about. They weren’t incredible, but they were a lot of fun, and you had people dancing, cheering, and generally having a blast. Three years later, that band, Deep Blue Something, was all over the radio with that godawful anthem “Breakfast At Tiffany’s”, and I asked “Was this the same band I heard back then?” Apparently a lot of other people thought the same thing, because they don’t even get airplay on “cutting edge of rock” stations any more. In the meantime, a lot of bands getting contracts back then, including a couple involving personal friends, were told by the suits “You need to sound JUST LIKE these guys, because they’re the hot thing right now.” The bands that got it in the shorts worse than the ones that refused were the ones that agreed.)
And so we’re here at the present day. The same idiots responsible for previous forays into corporate rock are continuing to flood radio with the likes of Nickelback and Vampire Weekend. In the process, these are the same geniuses who want Congress to force phone and MP3 player manufacturers to include AM/FM receivers, because –surprise, surprise!– their intended audiences would sooner catheterize themselves with bowling trophies than have to listen to a Creed reunion.
Ugh. Reminds of a guy I used to work with. When “Breakfast” came out the guy I sat next to would constantly play it all day – every day. did so for about two weeks.
Oh well. At least it wasn’t “Oh Yeah” by Yello or “Right Said Fred.
If you liked that article, you’d like Joe Carducci’s book “Rock and the Pop Narcotic” which basically makes the same argument at book length with extensive documentation and rock scholarship.
And meanwhile in Toronto….
http://torontoist.com/2011/07/the_garbage_phoenix_a_gift_from_sao_paulo.php
Hey, that’s a useful skill to learn. I mean, they’ll need to find a way to build houses after their trust funds run out……. using lots of flammable materials I hope. Muah ha ha ha ha!
I know a guy named Stevie who might be calling on their assistance soon. He will pay in blow jobs don’t worry.
Once again I have to say how moved I am to see people of different nationalities,different ethnicities, different religions, gay and straight, united as one in hatred against these useless, pretentious fuckwads known as hipsters.
Amen.
Hatred really is the tie that binds. When used responsibly, that is.
lol
but yeah agree with Ami
*rob*
The Coalition of Sanity.
let’s take a tour of luke’s ‘midtown mansion’ as he calls it. keep in mind his reason of living there is the challenge of dealing with the space and certainly not to show off to the double wide bucktooth backwash fam back home.
It’s so obvious to any normal, non-narcissist how this fucking pipecleaner with arms touts his own, cool, holier-than-thou, if-I-have-to-explain-it-to-you-then-you-just-don’t-get-it attitude:
- “I’m a vegetarian…” Naturally you are, Skippy. Because like all hipsters, you don’t really like food, have no understanding of what qualifies as “good” food, and deep down, you despise the fact that you have to eat in order to survive. But you had to let us all know that, didn’t you? After all, you wouldn’t want anyone thinking you weren’t special.
- “Since I work from home, I don’t need a lot of office clothes…” Translation: “I don’t work for The Man, unlike you fucking office laborers, who morally and ethically speaking are all far, far beneath me.” But of course, you’d take that office job in a heartbeat if it were offered to you, Skippy… especially if they could meet your terms (minimal actual “work” required, 5 Starbucks breaks per day, and the ability to spend at least 20 hours per week coordinating gigs for your vegan barbershop quartet collective’s weekly unicycle-and-fixie flash mob in McCarran Park.)
- “I grew up sharing a bathroom, so it’s OK to hold it for 5 minutes.” Translation: “I’m tougher than you because I can live with this terrible hardship”… despite the fact that immigrants to NYC have lived in far worse conditions over the course of the past 200+ years. You’re not a pioneer, Skippy… you’re just another fucking hipster, trying to make themselves look like some sort of urban martyr. Nobody’s buying it.
- “In my last place, living in Kenya…”: Of course you were “living” in Kenya, you vegetarian, Buddy Holly-eyewear sporting, “look at meeeeeee!!!” filthy hipster. Because by not-so-subtly inserting that statement, you desperately hope to make other people say, “Wow, he lived in Kenya… he’s so worldly, and yet so anti-materialistic!” But we both know the horrible truth, don’t we Skippy: you’d kill your own mother to be “discovered” in the city. Fucking hipster trash…
If one goes on a vacation to Kenya, they can say they “lived” there. My rule is that you have to have lived for at least several months in some place to talk about living there.
instantly reminded me immediately of this:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N7hIVWXe_s&w=560&h=349%5D
Hey I lived in a smaller space in the college dorm. Is somebody going to document it on video? Do I need to wear dumb glasses to get noticed for it?
If he thinks that’s tight then he should go visit Hong Kong where the apartments are much smaller. Small to the point where a bed either goes into the wall or is taking up 1/4 or 1/3 of the apartment.
My family is from there and my friend just moved there on a job offer. There’s no way I would have more than 1 person in that apartment, and just barely at that.
yeah this doesnt impress me at ALL. is it supposed to? what are you supposed to take away from this video? i’ve lived in many similar spaces of this sized, but never thought i was being “quirky!” i was just BROKE. this isnt even an apartment, it’s an SRO room. you could get cheaper bigger ones in that exact same area. (seriously). no kitchen and sharing a bathroom with strangers down the hall? that is NOT an apartment. that would be like me claiming that my bedroom i am posting this in right now, that has a couch, and doubles as a sorta living room etc, is also an APARTMENT!
also a murphy bed is just STUPID for a space that small. just put a couch along the wall and sleep on that. youd save a ton of time making the stupid bed and putting it up and down twice a day.
landlords see this shit tho, and think, wow if THAT can get 700 dollars a month, welll then… no matter how much you might hate the MTA we have the best public transportation system in the country (i think), why it’s SO important to live in a specific area (especially if you “work from home”… i GET overpaying to live near work for some people, but if you are working from home!? jeez.)
and how much you wanna bet that broom closet smells like a crusty jizz sock?
*rob*
Good point, its not an apartment, it’s a bedroom. It’s like our roommate being on video, saying his room is an apartment, but he has to share a bath and you know, the rest of the house….
At least he is employed. I cant imagine a girl that would date this guy. Maybe a canklesaurous?
OK. I call bullshit on this video. NO WAY is he paying $800 for that palace. $800 is what his share will be once the triple-decker bunk bed goes in and 2 more bearded canklesaurus rexes move into the other beds.
Total rent: $2,400 + utilities sounds more like it.
Landlords may be bastards but they ain’t stupid. I sense a bait and switch.
$800? There’s a landlord laughing as we speak.
I don’t know why this is special though. Welcome to most of the world, where people have less space, and have to share it too!
Im in West Hollywood. And I’ve been going to this place called the Silver Spoon down the street for years. It used to be a quiet bar mostly old drunks you could go there for a drink and just unwind. Now i have to fight through a crowd of hipsters outside smoking with there dumb fuck voices screeching to get inside. They think its cool and grungy and ironic to be at a dive bar I guess. Well guess what they’re not welcome. This is a place for REAL people. I went there with my father for a beer on his birthday and all night we had to listen to this loudmouth hipster cunt talk all night about a bunch of proto pop culture philosophy nonsense and I just wanted to smash my glass of beer into his head. Im so god damned tired of these hipsters. He’s lucky he didn’t catch my father on wrong night!
I seriously hope you’re not the one calling cops the lazy thugs in a previous post when you’re talking about smash a bottle on a hipster’s head. I only say that is because your avatar and name is similar to the poster RC.
Don’t talk to me like that boy. what is that a fucking threat? You “seriously hope” Im not the one. Even If I was, why? There is no contradiction buddy in those two seperate comments. If I smashed a glass over his head I would have had to pay the consequences. I could be charged with all sorts of things depending on the mood of the cop and judges. Cops for the most part do not have to worry about facing the repercussion for there actions. They run around like pimps killing kids, beating up blacks, hispanics, extorting hard earned money from criminals. If it were them who smashed the glass over a hipsters head they could just say the hipster attacked him and of course his partner will swear to it. They also can smash the phone/camera of anyone filming and arrest them, even though that is illegal, they do it all the time. And even if the cop was caught attacking this hipster by film and witnesses, For something like that, what, he gets suspended with pay, moved to another precinct at worse. They kill a black boy in Harlem, oh, suspended with no pay, and a nice big stack of paperwork. Thus power abusing Cops(PIGS) are just lazy self entitled criminals, thugs. They can do whatever they want to. They sure don’t have to really “work for a living” while criminals do, they just fill out paperwork, ride around trying to look all pretty in there shiny cars with there guns and get in other peoples business. They’re criminals who don’t have to pay there dos and push people around who have, and if you don’t like it well fuck they’ll you put you in cage. They are creeps and against the natural fabric of universal law. I also said I “wanted to” that is hypothetical dipshit, I didn’t say I smashed my glass over some hipsters head.
OPEN YOUR FUCKING STORE.
^means use your brain kid.
Who the fuck you calling boy?
So just because I want to become one I’m a fucking bad guy? You’re a real piece of shit. So it’s fucking wrong to use what I learned to genuinely help people out regardless of ethnicity?
Dont you talk to me like that. At least I still have respect for people, even a tiny bit for hipsters.
Once again you haven’t read what I wrote. I’m talking about corrupt cops(PIGS). There’s nothing wrong with helping people. There are a million different ways and things you can become to help people. But once you become a cop regardless of how “Good” you are, you are one of them, you are with them, not with us, the people. When it comes down to it, When shit hits the fan, who you gonna be fighting for? Your government or your people? Who would you want to trust you? Us or them. You should watch the film Serpico if you’re considering being a “Good” cop, especially if you’re in NYC where corruption runs rampant like a disease. And read 1984 which shows what CONTROL does to people how it destroys. Fucking with power is pretty serious, especially if you’re a good guy going in you can get sucked into some really dark shit worse than any drug, anything. Brain gets all fucked up.
Mahalo
First of all, this isn’t the 80′s anymore. More of the cops nowadays are younger and decent people. Also, I’ve grown up with a lot of the people in recent graduating academies. Various people coming from hard working italian, black, hispanic and filipino immigrants.
Secondly I will be posted in southern California, except for LA, because of the general respect between the cops and regular citizens. Many people in those cities are military folk and disciplined. Considering you don’t know my character you should refrain from being presumptuous.
I like 1984 and the like too but I won’t become some paranoid freak about it while still keeping a good eye on bad government officials. Which the people are also to blame for voting them into office the first place and not voicing loud enough when shit happens.
There are bad eggs everywhere and in every group, even the civil do-gooders.
Nowhere was I presumptuous. Young cops like, young snakes are even more dangerous. There are plenty of self hating black, hispanic, filipino cops. Im italian and any Italian I ever knew sure wouldn’t trust a cop.
Some of my points are made simpler in the songs “Black Cop” by KRS One and Fed up wit the bullshit by Big L.
Having lived and grew up in both NYC and Los Angeles I personally have been abused by police and seen terrible things happen by there hands. A lot of said things in the 1990′s and 2000′s. I live in Los angeles and there sure aren’t much “military folk” here, and there is a general distrust of LAPD. You think control freakism, violence, corruption, abuse is still not a major part of police then you’re a complete moron. Tell that to Oscar Grant. Tell that to Fred Hampton asshole.
Most “military folk” as you so sweetly put it aren’t disciplined in a good way and they just aren’t very bright. I’ve known plenty military “folks” Half the marines, army, navy guys I’ve encountered were either assholes or confused lost kids. Manipulated sensitive kids who come back so damaged from war they can’t even function and for what? Military type discipline is good for being a Dog or something, Not a human, it’s not an intelligent discipline.
Fuck those macho idiot military “folk” any one who signs up to participate in a war thats sole purpose is to spread imperialism and to steal natural resources, by way of killing innocent people making a few bad people VERY rich proves them to be so stupid there life is almost worthless anyway.
I mean these simple “good” military folk, god you talk like some naive American cow, Like a child. You sound like you work for the American Family Association or some other “simple” “good” organization.
Cops(Pigs) and Government are a White Force. Any brother or sister is a cunt imbecile to join the force no matter what their reasons.
I may not know your “character” but there are some general things you must believe to become a PIG. I mean You want to put people in a cage? huh. You think you have the fucking right to do that? Big man huh. You actually think thats OK ? That you can comprehend the reality of a situation so clearly you’re willing to take away pieces of somebody’s life from them? You think know the RIGHT way? And because you know the RIGHT way your willing to make other people pay with there lives for that belief?
Its not some simple situation with a few bad eggs. With cops those bad eggs they steal away irreplaceable time from innocent people they leave kids dead bloody or bruised. And the good eggs are participating in same shit as the bad ones.
Do you understand that you will be working for people who are destroying this world and don’t give a fuck about you or I. Jail is a business. Crime is business. Government is crime. Government creates crime. Life is crime. God is crime. It’s all crime. Can’t you see?
Cops are hired guns protecting what is in essence a giant corporation. They are there to create an illusion of safety. The presence of justice. They used to hang innocent people to do this. metaphorically they still do.
Government spends our money on finding the best ways to fuck us while trying to appear as doing the opposite. And you want to be part of that?
We give guns to the Drug Cartels. We fund the Afghanistan cartels. We spend money on guns that are killing our own troops. We bring the majority of drugs into this country. We placate the masses with pharmaceuticals, alcohol, and all the other legal distractions. Cops and government can do what they please to any citizen with the passing of the patriot act. Our public school systems tries to tattoo patriotism into our heads by weaving it into the forced curriculum and there rule policies. We have laws and things going on that are in clear violation of the Constitution which proves that it really doesn’t mean much anymore and that people our powerless to protect themselves from government or PIGS by legal means. They’ve gang banged every loophole they could find in it to best control people. The president, Politicians are owned. And laws are bought. And you think the law is something to uphold to protect. You think the law is some good thing? That you’ll be helping people by upholding the law? You think the law is there to help people? It’s not even a real thing. Its made up. It’s Nonsense. The universe is indifferent.
You know actually I don’t give a two penny fuck about your moral conundrum you meat headed shit sack. Go ahead become a cop. When people are finally pissed off enough you can be as holy as you want while your blood lines the street.
Today there are between 70,000 to 80,000 “no knock” search warrants executed in this country each year. As Radley Balko said in his “Overkill” article: “Police typically serve these warrants just before dawn, or in the hours just before sunrise. They enter the residence unannounced or with very little notice. The subjects of these raids then, are awoken from deep sleep, and their waking thoughts are confronted with the prospect that their homes are being invaded. Their first reaction is almost certainly alarm, fear, and a feeling of peril. Disorienting devices like flashbang grenades only compound the confusion … It isn’t difficult to see why a gun owner’s first instinct upon waking to a raid would be to disregard whatever the intruders may be screaming at him and reach for a weapon to defend himself. This is particularly true of someone with a history of violence or engaged in a criminal enterprise like drug dealing. But it’s also true of a law-abiding homeowner who legally owns guns for the purpose of defending his home and family.”
In fact, on June 10, 2011 the Houston Chronicle reported that 53-year-old Lt. Donald Hamilton with the Houston Police Department shot two of the three men trying to invade his residence as he was getting dressed for work. The natural instinct is to shoot to kill anyone trying to invade your home. That’s what Cheryl Noel and Kathryn Johnston did. These two women died, not resisting arrest but defending their castle as Lt. Hamilton did. As John Whitehead said in his 2003 article “No Knock-Knock”:
“Incidents like these used to outrage people, but they barely make headlines anymore. Unwilling to learn about their rights, the American people have continued to relinquish them to the so-called ‘guardians of the peace.’ So it is somewhat understandable that police officers think they have tacit approval to act in such a way… Yet to paraphrase James Madison, one of the greatest minds in American history, if all men were angels, no government would be necessary. But the fact is all men are not angels. That’s why the founding fathers drafted the Constitution as a contract to hold the government accountable in respecting the rights of the people—and vice versa.”
We could not have said it better. We have continuously warned against the militarization the nation’s law enforcement agencies which have placed us all under a virtual “police state.” The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision expanding the “no knock” powers of the police, and the Fourth Circuit’s decision in the Noel case insulating the police when they abuse the “no knock” powers, are evidence of a growing police state in this country—a state that will eventually erode away the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and our court system.
A ton of these have ended up in the death of innocent people. You could be a “Good” cop doing your job and end up behind the gun that shoots an innocent person or child because of how inherently corrupt things are. The good eggs are part of the same stuff the bad eggs are because you are run by the bad eggs. you understand?
…I agree people should voice more loudly there truths and opinions. Im not sure if people feel hopeless or what. But the voices gets kind of drowned out for the most part or the cops(or affiliated government agencies)come in and kill them or put them away for a long time heres a list of things affiliated with the US Government:
Kent State Massacre, Chicago Civil Rights Protests, The Violent Destruction of the Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton, The FBI turned Ernest Hemingways life into a paranoid nightmare pushing him into suicide, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Martin Luther King Jr., Oscar Grant who actually didn’t do anything. Lets not forget about MKULTRA, COINTELPRO, The Vietnam War, Osama Bin Laden, Al quadea, The War in Iraq, The war in Afghanistan The torture and unconstitutional imprisonment of US soldier and young man Bradley Manning, How about unethical Human experimentation, the slaughter rape forcing of catholocism of the American Indian people, how about this 14 year old boy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiK4dy7x_ak murdered by a police officer recently, The bombing of Laos and Cambodia, The Bay of Pigs, Taking over the Philippines–Hypocritical in nature, Forcing Japanese citizens into internment camps, Starving children and the creation of Ghettos, The introduction of crack cocaine to black communities, alcohol for the American Indian communities, The Trail of Tears, Watergate, The CIA saying they would back the rebels against Saddam Hussein who didn’t show up and let them all die back in the 90′s, Insane levels of corruption in Chicago PD, NYPD , LAPD, and all the thousands of innocent lives stolen resulting from said corruption, The American Family Association, Pfizer, Guantanamo Bay, Guys like Rick Santorum, Eric Cantor, J Edgar Hoover, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Senator McCarthy, Selling arms to Kharzai and protecting his drug trade, The pentagon makes illegal arms trades and makes lots of money, All the dead kids in Iraq, all the dead Soldiers, Destroying the Middle east, the invention of the atomic bomb, The Massacre at wounded knee–performed by “good” agents of the F.B.I. doing “good” work…
all these things are products of The US Government just like the Police just like what you want to be a part of. As a “Good” officer you could be called upon to kill your own people if they are deemed enemy of the state. As a “good” officer you might just end up becoming a creep criminal and not even realize it. Because that is what police are sir.
This really only scratches the surface….and you know what the real dark people and things are set in place, They’ve molded the way government works. And it works like the deepest creep criminal organization conceivable. A lot of questionable things happen during Elections. Im not sure about that route as far as a voice. anyways have a good night. There is so much beauty and adventure to be had in this place, becoming a cop is some weird dark shit I wouldn’t mess with.
now to finish off this whiskey…
Mahalo
Sounds like a hipster didn’t like the king of the hill episode about hipsters:
http://www.tv.com/shows/king-of-the-hill/lady-and-gentrification-1180777/
It’s the second review
Okay… which one of you guys made this? lol
Some more jabs at the end of the articles
http://www.goldenstateliberty.com/2011/05/beer-of-obnoxious-hipsters-comes-to-los.html
http://blog.timesunion.com/marshall/hipsters-dont-believe-in-census/377/
Hipster knocking web comic? Interesting shit you find when flipping through google during down time.
http://www.hipsters-comic.com/2011/04/hip033/
The other day I saw a guy walking a dog (probably a dog named WiFi) who looked just like the guy in the comic while I was driving around. Blonde irony-stache, tight jeans, the works. So I said “sup irony-stache”, kept on driving, and put him in a state of confusion.
“Like yah ur too simple to understand my vintage 1920′s bootlegger look, you backwoods retard, erm, I mean meathead, because retard is like, totally not politically correct anymore, like yah”
Ah, I see you also noticed that infuriating cell phone commercial!
Hanks Bully is another great episode. Those parents are likely the types that engrave this “unique” behavior into their kids’ brains from the start.
Yes, another episode that I liked, while at the same time grew irritated at the little snot Caleb and his parents.
The part about Hank taking his bike away only to have the police come to get it back reminded me of how my friends, public school teachers, have no power to discipline their students. They can’t even scold them without risking some kind of disciplinary action themselves.
Great! The hipster virus is beginning to affect Jersey as well…
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/no_longer_just_a_kids_game_kic.html
Their parents need to be seriously b***h-slapped….
Sadly, this has nothing to do with the parents. I’ve seen this behavior before, and it really only manifests itself after the kids have moved out and they realize “you know, there’s really no reason why I can’t buy that whole action figure collection I wanted as a kid.” Kickball is the same thing: the really sad part is when they get nostalgic for a half-assed game that kids played when they didn’t have the upper-body strength for something serious like baseball.
http://www.kensingtonprospect.com/art-music/you-oughta-be-in-pictures
Read the flyer for ‘extra’ for the Blue Bloods TV show. I laughed my ass off. I love how they use the word ‘real’. The word hipsters was thrown in too!
“We don’t want to grow up,” said Mike DiVito, 27, of Flemington. “What’s a better way to relive your childhood than playing kickball?”
..Relive..? Christ on a stick. The only time I played kickball was when I was nine – and that was only in gym class. By Ten I was goal tending on a street hockey team that played with a real puck and no protective gear.
How can any full grown male admit to this – and brag about it? Have your nuts not dropped yet? 10 year olds are playing rugby 50 yards from you and your playing kickball you ‘Eat-Pray-Love” eunuch.
Shit, I relive my childhood sometime by playing Megaman and other old games on an emulator- in the rare free time that my work allows me. As for sports, kickball sounds fun but I’d rather get back into Judo, or try something new like boxing. You know, sports.
I’m surprised these guys aren’t playing fucking Tee-ball. I guess that would take too much upper-body strength to swing the bat accurately.
They will play T ball, they just haven’t gotten tired of kickball yet. Its still “hip”.
..or Duck duck Goose.
Maybe a gmae of “Hot peas and butter played with a fucking horsewhip.
i witnessed an “adult” duck duck goose game once. on a rooftop at some bar. i was like i HAVE got to get the fuck out of here.
*rob*
Ah Flemington, NJ. Rich, spoiled brats. I had a few friends from there but they all overdosed and died. Towns full of crazy, wealthy, junkies and crackheads.
Or they get sucked up in the vortex of the Flemington outlets never to be seen again.
Oh, and here’s a test. Someone’s been listening to bullshit from hipster foodies, haven’t they?
http://www.uhpinions.com/natural-harvest-a-collection-of-semen-based-recipes/
The two reviews are snark, but they are so spot on. The second reviewer even adds her own breastmilk(because she doesn’t like how dairy cows are treated, like yah) to some of the recipes, and feeds her children and unsuspecting dinner guests with it. LMAO that’s one dinner party I’m glad I’m not invited to!
Comment #18 sheds a different light on things…Just a thought for whenever floor mop shaped twizzler armed foodie hipsters start in with their “body secretions in food is soooo cutting edge” bullshit.
Man, it must take a loong time to make a creme’ brulee.
I searched on Amazon for this. I couldn’t findit,but this came up:
Pornogami: A Guide to the Ancient Art of Paper-Folding for Adults
Oh, and just to let you know, you guys aren’t the only people in New York sick and tired of hipsters taking over subway trains to throw goofy parties:
http://gawker.com/5829590/dont-even-think-of-throwing-a-subway-party
To the douchebags who keep orchestrating your games on the subway, keep it up. Really. You think it was humiliating when Stacy from the anime club in high school used to corner you with her wheelchair while she repeatedly punched you in the nuts? Just wait until that little old lady whose commute back home was fucked up by your little games proceeds to show you the inside of your brain before you die.
Cunts. I hope they all die a violent death.
The economy is in the shitter. Normal hard working people with families who grew up here are stressed everyday about their jobs or loss of jobs they had for 20 years. The rents continue to rise to insane levels catering to these fuckbags while displacing the very people who just want to live a normal life and the only markets left are “specialty” yupster-shops selling $15 cupcakes and $20 “rooftop local sustainable organic” honey and $30 slices of breatsmilk cheese. The few hard working people FROM the area, who have already taken pay cuts and taken more work are subjected to this type of nonsense by these interloping trust fund wannabe urbanites. What a fucking insult to our city and is deserving of nothing less than ultimate contempt and violent rages against them. I am fucking sick and tired of these fucks and the way things are going I will probably be locked up for battery by the end of the year. I’m ready to start paying crackheads to start assaulting these scumbags.
Shit. This was the train I used to take home. I tused to be nothing but suits, secretaries and construction workers.
This is beyond disgusting.
Anyone every see this? it’s pretty funny.
My favorite line: “I’m a vegan because i fuckin’ hate animals”.
Dude…make diehipster.com shirts, I would love to wear that shit, and walk around brooklyn getting plastered!! They havn’t had much success taking over Jersey City…although they’re def. trying…our rents are gradually increasing…lumberjack sightings are increasing *sigh*