The LA Times released an article yesterday titled: Has America Finally Had All The Hipsters It Can Take? An article with a title like this can be deceiving. Sure after all that’s been discussed and hoped for over the years on this site at least – you would think that one day, soon, every form of hipster you see and hate out there would just go :::POOF:::: and vanish into thin air. Sure, hipsterism has gone mainstream without a doubt – which we all thought would be the cure to the disease – but it’s not. Unfortunately, the only way to cure this epidemic in the infested cities would be severe economic turmoil, riots, or military force.
I see no end of it in Brooklyn and parts of Manhattan; I see no shortage of bearded, estrogenized lumberjacks and wanna-be artists; vapid urban exploring liberal arts degree holders; or parentally funded foodies fusing together Swedish meatballs with Pad Thai and locally sourced cruelty-free wild Bushwick roof top salmon and selling it out of a Scooby-doo van just for kicks - and I don’t see them going away any time soon. I have only one option to avoid these fucking frauds: to stay and defend South Brooklyn from the infestation and to keep it from becoming a Romper Room of over-privileged, talentless, nasally, transient hipsters that North Brooklyn has become. Come on down Zack, Hayden, Timmy and Kyle. The Hipster Beater awaits you.
And here’s another f’ing Occupy beardo: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/15/us-usa-occupy-profile-idUSBRE85E0GI20120615?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
He’s a professional bum. He’ll get a show on MTV if he’s not careful.
This is all good. The more the press remains obsessed with it (and in many cases, that obsession is with themselves), the sooner it ends. They will eat themselves. I remember when grunge peaked with Nirvana, even though the subculture and look had been around since about 1984. By 1992 when the mainstream press became obsessed with Gen X, and fashion designers started dressing models in “grunge wear”, it didn’t take long before it all dissolved. It just needs to fall apart piece by piece. When every other NBA player is wearing the glasses, and when a growing number of major league baseball players are sporting the facial hair in the hipster manner, you know it is getting to saturation. Any real trendsetters will begin distancing themselves from it.. and without fanfare, the look will gradually become more modest. Hooded sweatshirts, less-skinny jeans, a more anonymous look. If for no other reason that these hipsters are aging and the backlash is growing.
Different like everybody else always culminates in embarrassment. Anyone looking like L.M.F.A.O. today is going to feel pretty fuckin’ stupid tomorrow.
The Bronx is the last bastion of old New York. You could never hipsterfy, or yuppify this place. They’re trying, but it’s going to be an uphill battle and it’s never going to work and it’s not even worth it. I feel sorry for real Brooklyn people.
Actually South Brooklyn is absolutely hipster free and I love it. Maybe it’s the one hour commute to Manhattan for them to play, not work of course. Maybe it’s the scary mafia movies they saw during rice krispy treat and Zima sleep overs. Maybe it’s the rate of reproduction of the Chinese and Mexicans since hipsters usually hate breeding and if they do they go to Park Slope to do it. Maybe its their supportive parents telling them to avoid the commie Ruskis. All in all, South Brooklyn is like kryptonite just as the Bronx seems to be.
But have you seen the cheese shop that opening up in Bay Ridge? I think things might be beginning to change.
You cannot walk two blocks along Fifth Avenue south of Bay Ridge Avenue without passing several sleeve tattooed emaciated wise asses. It’s also bad on Bay Ridge Avenue itself as you walk west to Shore Road : scrawny feminist wiccan types complete with skateboards and yoga mats. And forget about the R train. Just gross.
Wasn’t the South Bronx recently renamed ‘SoBro’ by some real estate developers in an attempt to attract hipster types?
I hope the Russian Mafia stays on the ball.
I heard that the Russian Mafia promotes violence. Maybe Special Edd and WordPress is going to have them shut down???
I wonder if Edd’s parents have been introduced?
Most brothers and sisters have been, especially in Connecticut. You can’t just expect them to have a quick fuck in the coat room at the debutante’s ball, can you?
..Or it could be the thought of having to deal with no nonsense hot guidettes AKA real women who won’t hestitate to impale their licorice whip necks with a 5 inch stilleto heel when some beardos scratch their nail polish with an oversized backpack.
*sigh* I miss Brooklyn.
Anything along the East River is there’s.
Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Hunters point, LIC, Astoria, EVEN SOUTH OF THE BRUCKNER and up to the area around The Bronx Civil court building is to them.
Any neighborhood or area that is 40 minutes via train to Union square is undesirable to them.
Anything East of the BQE in QUeens
(Almost) Anything South of Foster Avenue in Brooklyn
and anything North/Northeast of 170th street is the Bronx is safe from hipsters.
Wherever hipsters are now, Puerto Ricans once were (for the most part).
South bronx below yankee stadium has its fair share of hipsters, I see them almost everyday.
I agree that the news obsession over hipster style is a major factor in why this shit continues, but don’t expect the hipster backlash to start there. If anything, considering the number of tryhards moving to journalism because they think writing isn’t really work, expect them to double down and push the hipster party line even harder. After all, when you’re a balding, no-chin 45-year-old 401(k) lamprey whose validation comes from being invited to parties hosted by people young enough to be your children, the lsat thing you want to do is admit that you wasted more of your life than you thought.
The further away you travel from the trendy areas of DC the less try hards you will come across. They seem to be allergic to areas where regular everyday people are just trying to live life day by day and get by.
That’s because they’re still deathly afraid of people of color. Even the ones they score their drugs from.
I don’t mean to kill any optimism on this thread, but hipsterism is here to stay. Their uniform, tastes and trends may change. But the essence – the core of the hipster mindset is here to stay. It’s infiltrated the rank and file, engrained itself into our DNA.
I’m an idiot but here’s how I see it. Our greatest generation – the ones who built our highways, dams, fought in Europe and Korea and essentially made this country what it is (or was) are dying off. These were the parents and grandparents who had a strong morals, a can do spirit and the ability to innovate and get things done.
What do we have now. The one segment of the population that we could depend on and look to for some sanity and hope are f**cking aging hippies. They raised a**holes and now the a**holes crated the hell spawn that infested Brooklyn, Portland, etc.
You don’t need a fedora or tats to be a hipster. I walk into Barnes and Noble and I see the typical hipster population in the café slowly being balanced out by senior citizens who waltz into the
seating area with a CART OF BOOKS and a goddamn picnic lunch. They don’t even have the grace and class to buy something. They lack the manners to clean up after themselves
and return the reading material.
The bagel store down the street has four tables. In the six years they’ve been opened I’ve never have been able to sit down and enjoy my meal. At 8AM every day a gaggle of fossilized Buick Jockeys buy a cup of coffee and nurse it for hours while they chat and everyone else has to take their food home. I spoke with the owner about this problem, he’s afraid to do anything because they will stage a protest (see a trend here?). These are the same self-absorbed FOPS who petitioned, threatened our local officials because they did not want the township to build a badly needed middle school – blue ribbon no less – because they didn’t want higher taxes and did not want to hear school buses rumbling up the road outside their little retirement utopias.
Hell I can’t even make it out of the local Dunkin’ Donuts in less than 20 minutes because these geniuses have no regard for the working stiff. They have time to kill so they’ll take up to ten minutes to order a cruller and a cuppa Joe.
Then there’s my generation. The only helicopter yenta in my kid’s school is waging a war on the lunchroom. She’s a health nut and her kids are lard *sses. So she – who has a lot of money and way too much time on her hands hired a nutritionist to review the cafeteria’s menu. In short, she wants to ban all junk and fried foods.
Then there’s the mini me hipsters on my kid’s swim team. 9 years old and wearing fedoras, mohawks and diamond studs (yes their boys). There’s the little 6 year old she beast in Best Buy who loudly cursed at her mom like a fishwife because mommy wouldn’t buy her a new i-Pod.
I guess I’ve stated the obvious. Shallowness, entitlement, self-centered-ness and self-righteousness transcend fashion. A 60 year old yupster may think that wearing a ski cap in the middle of summer is stupid but it’s not gonna stop him from sending his little Propecia and Haiku 10,000 bucks a month so they can pretend to live like a public charge.
this is fantastic.
the hipsters have single-handedly infected and ruined EVERY generation from seniors to kids!
the apocalypse is nigh!
you sir, are a genius of observation and analysis.
Yes….yes I am.
But ut started with the seniors. Must have been the drugs at Woodstock.
It was a combination of things. The drugs in Nam. The drug scene in the states. The “touchy-feely” 70s. Dr. Spock – may he burn in Hell forever and a month. Then came the original “me generation” 80s and the followup 90s (remember the “Harvard MBAs who trashed American production capability?). And so on… That’s how we got to today – a steady self-corruption over generations. Crap, I think I just pulled something – I need a drink.
Boomers were shitty parents.
Now their kids are parents. And even shittier.
You’ll LOVE this:
http://www.naturalnews.com/036199_parenting_tips_children.html
Look at the short bio on the bottom. Blind leading the blind…
anything on Natural News is bullshit. that page is the worst of the psuedoscience garbage.
A-men! I read one, and only one, article of theirs. Talk about a monumental pile of horseshit granola, neo-hippie claptrap.
WWII was the last time we pulled together as a nation. Since the 60′s we’ve become a country of self-centered narcissists. Every individual is a walking bag of self-interest and a political special interest. Things are only gong to get worse. When I was a kid no one wore a helmet to ride a bicycle and no one was alergic to peanuts or wheat or milk. I’m glad I grew up when I did.
Hey Gorlock. I ride my bicycle down to Coney most weekends and yes I always wear a helmet in my self-interest – my interest not getting killed by some dude in an SUV yakking on a phone and driving into me.
Bikes aren’t just for hipsters and helmets are necessary unfortunately. Moan about drivers if you don’t like helmets. Also – the hipsters don’t wear helmets, if you’ve noticed. They think helmets are uncool and consequently get their head bashed in when they fall off their fixie.
The hipster cyclists are giving us a bad name.
“when I grew up, no one wore a helmet and no one was alergic to peanuts or wheat or milk”
This country has become a nation of pussies. Ok, so when I get crushed by a car, my head will be intact. How did I ever live this long?
they were pussies in WWII – they didn’t fight with swords like back in the day.
What’s your point?
i’m just saying are people really pussies for wearing helmets? don’t know how old you are but it’s probably true there’s more traffic on the streets now and lots of suvs that are bigger. plus back then people didn’t have cellphones to yack on meaning they’re not paying attention.
just watch who you’re caling a pussy. that’s all
CAN YOU READ THE WORDS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH! “This country has become a nation of pussies”
That is a general statement. However, if you are feeling butthurt because you think that I am calling you a pussy, well… I guess you are, then. Does your pussy hurt, too?
relax gorlock. i’m friendly. you’re using people wearing bicycle helmets as an example of how we have become a nation of pussies. i wear a helmet, therefore i must be a pussy, no?
I didn’t come here to beef with someone on a righteous crusade about helmets. I was replying to Pat I’s post. But if you insist… yeah, when I go to ride my bike along the trails and bike path I see hordes of 20 & 30 somethings wearing all manner of expensive biker krap – helmets, Batman type toolbelts, camelbacks, faggoty-ass spandex biker shorts and suits – just to coast along around. That’s in addition to the bankers and accountants that ride the Harley garbage wagons that would cause them to get chain-whipped by a real Harley biker.
I grew up when the dashboards were made of steel, there were no seatbelts, let alone seat belt laws, no airbags and no peanut or gluten warnings on food packaging. Yeah, we’ve been taken hostage by the politically correct safety police. And if I want to drink a 44 oz Super Slam of Coke, I god damn will!
Humans don’t evolve as quickly as lesser species, but we can at least get the process started http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/us/to-avert-liability-washington-town-drops-helmet-laws.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120619. So if the little tykies aren’t situationally aware enough to keep from getting hit, then evolution will take its course.
i agree with you no-one should be forced by law to wear a helmet. absolutely.
so, you’re saying iit’s the responsibility of the cyclist not to get hit and it’s good that those that do are taken out of the gene pool?
what about if the cyclist gets rear-ended though when they’re just cycling along? how can they avoid it?
“what about if the cyclist gets rear-ended though when they’re just cycling along? how can they avoid it?”
Then it’s their time to go. Shit happens. You can’t live forever.
what if some drug-crazed hipster charles manson-type (i know they’re normally weak but run with me here) smashed your head in with a hand crafted rolling pin? would it just be your time to go?
so to pull this together, if there was another blackout like in ’77 and a drug crazed hipster charles manson type crept into your house when you were asleep and bashed your skull in with a hand crafted rolling pin aided by the force of gravity, it would be fine because it would be your time to go, despite the fact your death could have been prevented by wearing a bicycle helmet, but you refuse to wear one, and once he’d bashed your head in that would be it – no afterlife?
First of all, that wouldn’t happen. The only way it could is if I were asleep. And if so, then yeah, it would be my time to go.
are you indian by chance? if you believed in reincarnation it would explain why you’re not worried about when it’s your time to go?
I am American. Born in the U.S. of A. and I only believe in things that don’t require my belief to exist, like electricity and gravity. I’m not worried about my time to go because there’s nothing I can do to stop it – not a bicycle helmet or anything else.
it sounds like you want to get bashed by a hipster – that’s some pussy shit right there, no?
WTF is this nonsense? I’m done. I have work to do. And no, I don’t wear bicycle helmets to bed.
you sound a bit depressed gorlock. i’m giving you a friendly virtual manhug over the internet.
“you sound a bit depressed gorlock. i’m giving you a friendly virtual manhug over the internet.”
I’m giving you a friendly kick to the nuts.
but i’ve got my helmet forming a cup so it won’t hurt
that’s meant to be my nuts smiling at you from beneath the helment while you’re trying to kick me because they’re safe.
come on though, seriously lets man hug this out. at 2.20 I’ll hug my computer screen and you do the same.
you’ll feel better for it.
awwwwww. i hugged but i don’t think you did
Gorlock’s right. We’ve become a nation of hamsters. As a child in the 70′s I used to ride my bike all over Brooklyn- no pads..no helmet, mirrors, etc. In all my years i saw two accidents and they invloved pedestrians trying to cross the street bewteen parked cars. You talk about
SUVs – in say ’75, people still drove cars that were 10-15 years old. And these cars were massive – heavy, full of sharp points and the only crumple zone in the car was your skull. Seat belts were things that were cut off or tucked under the cushions. In terms of mass a modern SUV cannot compare to a land yacht from the 70′s.
But we understood the basic physics. Big heavy and fast VS small light and slow. We obeyed the rules. Common sense was the order of the day. You can also go on about cellphones but back the everyone smoked and drivers were constantly trying to light cigarettes while driving.
Drinking and driving was far more common than it is today.
What people tend to not understand is that ad agencies do not market cycling as a safe and economical way to get from point A to point B. Cycling is depicted as a group of a**holes in full body armor mountain biking through the woods over the steps of big buildings. Movies do the same. So given the lack of personal responsibility programmed into the modern hipster
and the need to take rural pasttimes and bring them into the city – like raising chickens – it’s only a matter of time before they kill themselves or cause serious injury to others.
But how does modern society solve these problems. I ride like an a**hole – so you must give me bike lanes to protect me because – like – you’re not the boss of me.
My kid’s fat. Ban soda.
I can’t get a job with my MFA in Foreskin sculpting. You must pay me 45 dollars an hour to make coffee.
I just moved from Ohio to Little Italy. Stop the 200 year old feast of San Genarro. It’s tacky and the smell of non-artisianal sausage offends me.
Hey – CHURCH! Stop ringing your bells at noon! It wakes up my little Emil Wind Sock from his nap and seriously cuts into my “ME” time.
And finally. You’re right WW2 soldiers did not fight with swords. But unlike Hoplites or Centurions they fought with bayonets, stormed beaches by the thousands while being riddled with bullets, garroted Nazis behind enemy lines, Drowned on D-Day, Jumped out of planes
and swam miles to plant mines on enemy ships.
MY best friend growng up was killed by a driver who was lighting a cigarette. When it’s time to go, it’s time to go and no helmet is going to save you.
Casual Harley riders (OK, squids) who wear only helmets are called “organ donors” cuz helmets keep them alive just long enough for the harvest. Oh, and they ride “douche canoes.” This is heard on the road.
MD Burbs, I used to date an ER nurse, and she called them the same thing. Oh, she had stories about the weekend riders coming into her ER, and her only regret was that these assholes usually killed someone else in the process of fucking up. That’s why I’m glad that Texas offers the option of riding with a helmet or riding without so long as you carry enough insurance to cover your vegetable ass: truthfully, dying on impact without a helmet is preferable to surviving a crash with a helmet and being paralyzed for life.
And drunk driving would get you a ticket and a night in jail to sleep it off.
I’m a child of the 60′s and we ate factory food and our teachers taught us to fear the hippies. Guess what? That shit made us stronger. And when it was time to enlist, we fucking did. And you know what else? I’m still fucking alive.
Now, hipster bitches, bring it! I say again, over, I am glad I grew up when I did, oorah! Because when the shit hits – and it will – I am well prepared. When we all inhabit the post-apocalyptic hell-scape, I am well prepared to steal the radioactive squirrel from the mouths of emaciated, hungry, starving hipsters who were never able or willing to avail themselves of the basic tactics of fire and maneuver – and never learnt the joy of humping it in the mud.
There is something good that did come from the draft and selective service. BTW, selective service is still in effect for all you noodle-limbed cunt-wipes – don’t believe me, goto the nearest post office.
you seem scared gorlock. the offer of the manhug is still open my friend.
hey gorlock, isn;t it obvious i’m a troll? you fucking simpleton.
Really ?
A few years ago at the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer I was greeted by an old man with one arm as a brother because I had the same patch he did. Having stood on Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc, anyone who went through that has brass balls so big that any swordsman’s are BBs by comparison. I say this as someone who has been shot at, mortared, rocketed, and ambushed and not worthy to spit shine the boots of that old man.
You can take your pussy comment and shove it up your ass with a pineapple.
I didn’t even know what to make of, or even respond to, this comment. Seriously, I was stunned into extreme befudllement. Have you ever been so angry that you can’t even see straight… that you get dizzy? Who is this ‘Bicycle dude’? This fucktoy kept trying me. I let it go a while back.
Stevie wannabe. Another try hard.
My reply was to bicycle douche, not Gorlock, next time I’ll include a quote as the layout of these threads are not a marvel of clarity who is responding to whom.
It’s a little easier when posters make the easy and effective decision to simply choose one handle, and use it all the time.
But, you know…some people can’t handle elegant thought without sitting near a bottle of white whine.
A minor point – this nation has become a nation of passive-aggressive pussies. The pussies hide behind government to implement their views for them, instead of growing a pair and looking around and doing what needs to be done. That’s why we’re being regulated to death.
Do you think a large soda ban would have been possible in the 50s or 60s? City Hall would have been the laughing stock of the entire world. Literally. African nations would have been pointing and laughing.
Now we are being chased down six-way bike lanes by Bloomberg’s drones clinging to our 17-oz. sodas and salty french fries. Our once great city is the nation’s laughing stock.
unlike others here i don’t mind the bike lanes so i don’t have to drive my kids everywhere at the weekend and can chill with a six pack. lol.
That’s a great point. These hipsters are so immensely hypocritical when it comes to their fucking high minded ideals.
What’s so damned egalitarian about only hiring your peers and people like you and people you are ‘comftorable with hiptards?
There’s a company in a nearby city to me, extremely successful software company, and the owner not only has not lost jobs and has an extremely low turnover rate of talent, but he also hires mentally and physically handicapped people – gasp! – ON PURPOSE. Now, there’s no chance whatsoever they’re going to take over the engineering and they are all usually living in assisted facilities. They keep they money they make and they are treated with THE SAME RESPECT as all other employees. He’d probably pop the knees of any employee who mocked or made fun of them and is rich enough and in a position enough that a night in jail ain’t gonna hurt him a damn bit.
THAT is putting into practice ‘equality’ kids. That is giving back to the community and helping humanity. So fuck you and your precious expensive rat penis chocolate and artisanal cheese collectives that include only you and your trustafarian friends.
When I was in school, one would indeed see the occasional kid who would be either allergic to peanuts or suffer from lactose intolerance. But those were legitimate allergies or reactions to certain foods. which is/was normal. Again, it was only once every so often.
The difference now, however, is that all these hipsters claim to be allergic to something as if it is some sort of trend (Indeed, they seem to enjoy advertising it). I am prepared to bet that the great majority of them are just claiming that in order to look keeewl, however, and have either a minor reaction to something or no allergy at all.
In any event, they will certainly make sure that the world knows about it and be ready to complain to any food retailer — even at trendy cafes and coffee shops that infest every neighbourhood (When is economic Darwinism going to kick in and do its work on that phenomenon, by the way?)
I am allergic to sunflower seeds, for some reason, though I simply avoid them and eat something else. I certainly have no need/wish to make a big thing of it in any event.
I see what you’re saying and sorry you have legitimate allergies. I have a couple of friends who do as well and, like yourself, they’re *real*. They’re not fashion. They’re not parroted concoctions of the ever annoying foodie facists who simply cannot resist cramming their every dietary habit into the course of the most mundane conversations. And god forbid you’re eating something they find condemnable. Pull out a Snickers bar and they act like you’re waving an axe in their face.
I eat pretty healthy but not all the time and I know people who delight in processed foods, grease, and dairy products. This does not make them stupid, bad, or less moral than me or anyone else. When I eat with them, I eat what they eat and it tastes damned good. It would be the height of bad manners to do what hipsters do, which is try to shame people. I’ve seen them in action before and am astounded at how completely oblivious to the rights of others they are all the while preaching freedom. All I can deduce is that they’ve got to be deeply inbred.
Absolutely spot on. I’ve always thought that the “problem” is not the hipster garbage; they are just the final and inevitable product. The real problem was the destruction of the American “spirit”…I don’t know how to describe it; the American individualism. But, I’ll make the assertion that this happened precisely during WW2, and as a result of it, rather than after. This was the first time that the government took over people’s lives, and turned them into clients. The first time the relationship of people to each other, and to the state, was fundamentally transformed. War…kills societies. There are no winners in wars of that magnitude.
When they came home, they craved the infantile lifestyle they had become accustomed to in the military and the war economy. They didn’t just create a generation of infantile baby-boomers, who later spawned the hipsters…No. They were the first such generation. They seem “rugged individualists” today to us, by our standards. But when you think about it, these were the people who brought us every social trend that exists today. I don’t blame them; WW2 and the great Depression was a massive shock to the system of this country.
Also, this was the time when immigration to the US was coming to an end. What recharged America’s batteries before, were immigrants. When you get 5-10% population increases per year from people who come to work, to build, and to improve, it is hard to lose the “American spirit”. When you get a generation or two of comfortable sedentary existence…you get hipsters. It is the inevitable result of civilization.
So you’re right, hipsters will never disappear. They always exist when society infantilizes itself.
I agree that it appears as though the hipster, or traces of it, have seeped into and permeated nearly all aspects of culture. At least in the U.S. it seems to have. It’s not going to stop, and the “fashion” characteristics are by now so firmly entrenched in the mainstream that people I know, who may not yet act like hipsters, are wearing the glasses or the ironic t-shirts without fully appreciating that these new purchases are the uniform of the pretentious, precious douches we all know and hate. When I happen to run into an old friend who obviously believes that the color of their i-phone now defines them as an idividual I can’t help but feel they’ve already sold their soul.
As a tangent, it’s always interesting yet disappointing to me when posters from around the world (Australia and Europe seem fairly frequent) submit here that hipsters are thriving in their home countries or cities as well. I have to assume these people aren’t just sighting fedoras and ball-crushers on the street, but are also subject the same sense of entitlement, disregard of genuine concern for society and community, lack of contribution to anything meaningful, and culture-raping that we see here in the States. The only place I’ve ever been where I couldn’t find a trace of the hipster was living in Djibouti City. I’d bet good money that if I’d tried a little harder I could have found a couple of filthy “like yah’s” living in a tin shack try-harding the locals into harvesting free-range, cruelty-free, fair trade, sustainable, organic khat.
Dear Hipster Beater, If you can’t join them, beat them !
OTOH, I see a faint glimmer of hope with immigrants. I sometimes go to Whole Foods for fish. Two people in line usually means a twenty minute wait because Josh and Caleb – both dressed like the Gorton’s Fish Stick Guy – have to preach about every little nuance regarding their offerings: sustainability, farm raised, organic etc. But when it comes to them actually cleaning and dressing a fish they are slow pathetic and unskilled.
Now a few miles from me the local Asian community redid an abandoned shopping center. The crown jewel is a full service supermarket. I stopped by on Sunday to pick up some fish for my parents. The seafood counter has tanks with live fish that are cleaned to order. The place is packed. Service is quick. The place has 8 guys working at a stainless steel table with pressurized water nozzles. All these guys do is clean fish. And they are HAULING A**.
The guys behind the counter are courteous and the customers know not to waste their time. Then I see than., Actually heard them – the nasally honk…the mating call of the hipster. They are walking around basking in all the glory of multiculturalism. So they decide to go to the fish counter. Out come the i-Phones.
“like this is soo cool”.
“Look the fish are swimming!”
“Get a shot of me”.
So they decide to engage the counter guy: “Is the fish fresh? The guy looks at them much with a look of disgust, pulls a striped bass out of the tank and with the orneriness of an old school Chinese waiter pushed the wriggling fish toward Meghan and says, “It’s breathing! What do you think?
Many questions follow – origin…”is the fish line caught? Sustainable”. The guy cuts them off and yells, “I’m busy! you want goddamn fish or not?”
They really are professional ballbreakers aren’t they ? You just know that Caleb from Whole Foods sent them there to make trouble. The Asian guy should have slapped them down on the work counter and gutted and filleted them.
Yeah, we started shopping at a Korean supermarket some 30 miles away. In and out, friendly reliable SERVICE. The few hipsters who wander in because it might be the next cool thing get their asses run over by the regular shoppers, so they don’t come back. Nirvana.
Yeah, I am visiting San Francisco and the GOOD supermarkets with American-made produce and meat are the independent places run by Asians. Whole Foods is the main corporate supermarket chain here and it is heavy on imports and overpriced, and I got rude, sassy service there from some tattooed fuckwit there today.
Los Angeles has no concept of the Brooklyn hipster. Far from being over, it’s only the beginning. It will further mutate and spread, but the epicenter is here.
“…the epicenter is here.” Um, I think that would be more like the asshole.
Wow..As a Queens guy this is disturbing…
http://brooklynbased.net/event/2012/06/the-total-astoria-immersion/
“For the third immersion this summer with Brooklyn Brewery, we’re taking a field trip to that alternate universe known as Astoria, Queens–a place many of us would likely relocate to were we forced to leave our beloved borough. It’s just far enough, and just foreign enough, that it’ll make for an excellent beer-soaked day trip on Saturday, June 23″
So glad I remember NYC when it was dangerous in the 60s, 70s’ and 80′s and kept people like this away.
are there any hipsters in queens apart from astoria?
Along Broadway and ending at 49th street (woodside houses). Basically anything west of the BQE is hipster land, QUeens style.
There are a few in Forest Hills and Rego Park, a few more in Jackson Heights, almost none in Elmhurst that I can see. Woodside and Sunnyside, too – some hipsters and yuppies. On the whole, though, they’re way less douchey out here than in the “homeland” (aka Brooklyn).
They have been spotted in Sunnyside and, to a lesser degree, Woodside. Fortunately, most of Queens is far too inconvenient for these dregs of humanity and they leave us alone. They tried setting up camp in areas like Forest Hills and Kew Gardens, but (thankfully, so far) it hasn’t really caught on. One night on the way home from work, I encountered some lice-ridden busker singing for his supper at the corner of 71st and Austin, I kicked over his “cap of karma” and told him to go back to Omaha and fuck his mother. Now, as the summer is fast approaching, I heard a rumor that there is something now called the “Rock-a-bus,” which leaves from some hipster enclave of Brooklyn and carts these fuckers back and forth to Rockaway Beach. I have this little daydream where the bus breaks down somewhere around Beach 20th Street and is taken over by the locals. The hipster carnage that ensues is glorious – it sure is nice to have a dream!!!
Born and bred in Queens and it makes me sick that these clowns are infesting Astoria. Fortunately there are still enough real people around to dilute the hipster stench.
Fuck that immersion thing – why do these kids need to have their hand held to go find a damn bar or restaurant. Fucking sheep. Stay in Nu-Brukolynne or whatever the fuck they call it now.
As for that Rock-a-bus, If Caleb and Zoe are hogging my surf-fishing spots, kids are going to get their feelings hurt at the very least – I keep my hooks very sharp. Rockaway was always a haven from the hustle of the city and we don’t need these jerk-offs spoiling it for the rest of us. Just wait until some fucktard drowns in a rip current and the city starts to crack down.
It’s all about “the army of one”, “greed is good” mentality. This country began its descent in the 80′s and we’re seeing the “trickle down” effect now (multi-corps, banking deregulation, etc..). the Hipster generation grew up “watching” the war (if that’s what you want to call it) from the comforts of their laptops and 50″ screens. The problem with Hipsters goes beyond their styles and fashion. As iterated elsewhere before, it’s the Hipster mentality we should fear most; it’s only spreading and it’s being instilled in the future generations. Fashion comes and goes. If they shave their beards and burn all their skinny jeans, the low rents and the history of our neighborhoods are not coming back. We’ll just get the next crop of dipsh*ts of Hipsters only under a new moniker. Like DH said, this article doesn’t really say anything; it’s more of an ad for a few clothing brands using the subject of Hipsters as a vehicle.
Any time there’s tanks, fighters, bombers, helicopters, bullets, supply chains, guns, knives, RT comm, flak, frag, death and destruction, you can safely call it a war. It may not appeal to Hollywood versions of war, nor those who adapt their definitions of war to those versions, but you won’t be so far off the mark someone nearby would accuse of you confusing badminton with war.
Funny, I was thinking about this as the college kids in South Brooklyn are coming home for the summer kinda looking like hipsters. They have the beards and plaids and the girls are wearing the black rim glasses but the funny thing is the hats are sports teams and the skinny jeans aren’t that skinny. All of the NBA press conferences running up into the finals have had players wearing the Buddy Holly glasses and trying to out do one another on the costume scale. With the exception of Bosh Last Thursday. I was hoping these were signs of the Hipocalypse but who knows.
Yo South Brooklyn!
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Hit me up.
http://city-journal.org/2012/bc0615hh.html
iNTERESTING ARTICLE/REVIEW. We know hipsters are getting annoyed when they begin to refer to themselves as “new millenials”.
i also blame bloomberg for making manhattan too expensive though – his talk of making new york a ‘luxury city’. and i blame the wall street.
most of the hipsters would probably still be living in lower manhattan and not brooklyn is manhattan wasn’tv so expensive. i want to know who caused that???
that’s a good article. ny might end up like paris where the poor all live in shitty projects around the edge of the city.
Might end up? Manhattan is for the rich and its outter areas along the east river and hudson. As you go further out to from manhattan the poor actually live between the Manhattan and between the suburbs (Westchester, Long Island etc…).
That’s exactly what they want to do to Portland – yups and hipsters live close-in, and can revel in “Like yah, I don’t need a car, I have a $5000 artisanal fixie or the streetcar to go to work!”
Then they make fun of people who live in the suburbs (Gresham and Vancouver are the worst “offenders”, as well as the invisible people who live east of 82nd Avenue) for being fat, driving cars, and killing the planet. They ignore the immigrants from overseas or Iodakotexas who move to Washington County to work at Intel or one of the contractors building their facilities and who teach their children to work hard and do well at school.
Yeah, it sucks. I would like to live where I didn’t need a car, but I don’t have a trust fund and our income only goes so far. They would probably make it suck anyway. oregonians are very friendly, until you hit the city center full of hipsters from elsewhere. (sound familiar?)
I live in logging country about an hour away. I have never, ever, seen a hipster up there.
then what the fuck are you doing here moaning stace?
You’re nobody’s worst nightmare you twee dork.
Did she not begin her statement eluding to having a tight budget?
Ah, right. Living within your means is something you have no experience with because you actually live within mommy and daddy’s means. If they cut you off, living within your own would have you pissing in your pants.
“But mawww-meeee…I haffa live in nawt rich parts mawwww meeee…”
ROFLMAO
And don’t forget that the city is encouraging this shit. I just heard about the ridiculous live/work apartment space in SE that never opened (it’s been covered with plastic for two years) that was pretty much paid for by the city, and the mayor and his pet rimjobbers are trying to get more built before he finally leaves office. Lots and lots of apartments for “the creative class” (meaning “insane rents and lots of assholes partying until 4 on a Monday morning because they don’t need to work”), and the city assumes that everyone living there or visiting will walk, bike, or take the streetcar. The people living and working around them, though, know better, and they know that all of the available parking will be taken up by the dorks who figure that everyone else should walk or bike to work and the grocery store, not them.
Leroy – just Google “Sustainability Center” for the grandest example of Sam Adams attempting to give sweet sugar to his contractors – the most expensive office space in Portland for the city agencies and Portland State – replacing a building that is just being paid off!
Microsoft finally takes on ishit, steps on own crank. We can’t make squat any more.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/06/why-microsoft-surface-tablet-great-even-if-it-sucks
This was a dumb idea at so many levels. But… if MSFT is committed and is willing to throw billions at it for several years, it just might catch on. Their history is one of releasing mediocre products and using their marketing muscle to push them until they mature and turn into something people want to buy. They’d better be prepared to spend/lose a lot of money for a long time.
I made it! I was smuggled by a friend of mine into normal Brooklyn. Ive been here 2 days and no longer do I feel like Im going to have a stroke. The guys at the deli are nice and sell Bustello instead of 8 dollar coffee, the people on bikes arent wobbling all over the road, everyone is clean shaven except the Hassids, there is a neighborhood bar that sells normal booze and they talk about normal sports(ie not trying to pretend they have european sensabilities)….Guys I cant begin to tell you how much life has improved! I HAVENT SEEN A BEARDO IN 2 DAYS!
I’m happy for you!
Jesum Christ don’t tell anybody. They’ll come in and ruin the neighborhood.
never! i fight with DH.
Welcome home. Have a slice of (real) pizza.
A shibboleth to screen out hipsters: “How about that R.A. Dickey!?”
Right answer: “Two one-hitters in a row, fuckin’ A!”
Wrong answer: “He, like so sold out when his music was used in that commercial, like yah.”
Amen. By the way, I think I’m in love with R.A. Dickey.
Dickey’s the man. Gotta love his story. Viva la knuckler!
Welcome! : )
Good point about normal sports… I remember back in 1997, I was walking around the East Village, looking to have a drink with a friend and watch a ball game. I knew things were changing for the worst when it was really hard to find a watering hole showing the Yankees playoffs series, that wasn’t filled with fratty douchebags. I’m a diehard Mets fan but I love baseball and it’s THE PLAYOFFS in NYC. Have some civic fucking pride.
Why the fuck do these hipsters affect being fans of European sports? If they love FC Barcalona so much, they really should go move there and get killed by real soccer fans.
“locally sourced cruelty-free wild Bushwick roof top salmon”
I LMFAO’d.
Off topic but there are an enormous amount of hipster trash in Winston-Salem nc.and quite a few live in Brooklyn.they all work in a resturant owned by a another nc hipster and refuse to stray from their safety flock for fear of,you know people of color.theyrefrom the south,like ya know.to reply to an above post the hipster is only a fashion disaster its a terrifying mindset,using that very loosely.selfish shellfish they is.
Hipster saturation peaked when those fucking lice-infested beardos the Spin Doctors annoyed us back in the early ’90′s. I wanted to beat them back then and still do now.
Holy shit. I’ve lived in LA for nearly nine months now. I haven’t yet seen a famous person, but I’ve seen roughly six million hipsters who think they are.
one of the best postings from that article:
“These clowns are all frauds, pretenders, imposters, trend-suckers, interloping nobodies who are trying to create some B.S. whimsical creative urban progressive movement funded by their cuckold parents and other navel gaving idiots. They all hail from the whitest of the whitest cul-de-sacs from middle America. They have been spoiled and told how special they are all their lives. They throw around the terms “culture” and “community” to support their nonsense, but in reality are the most racist, condesending and segregating classist people you will ever meet. They co-opt denim and flannel but despise manual labor. They listen to whiny indie rock and dubstep, easily the worst music? ever created by man. They pay obscene gentrifying rents, buying a “cool” zipcode to act like toddlers. Pretentious know-it-alls who will continue to flock to yupster meccas to ensure that this post-modern nightmare never ends.”
That dude summed it up perfectly.
But hipsters and Hispanic immigrants mingle elsewhere — like the Associated Supermarket on Knickerbocker Ave., which in deference to the newcomers stocks $2.49 slabs of organic tofu and $3.99 packages of organic basil garlic polenta.
At Central Cafe, an artists’ magnet that serves $1.75 cups of Intelligentsia coffee from a coffee roaster that passes muster with the cool crowd, Hispanics were largely absent from the customer lineup until recently.
They Came, They Saw, They Conquered!….Needed, Real Good Ass Hipster Beater’s….Benefit’s, Take All The Tofu, Pabst, And Any Other Organically Grown Foodie Stuff You Can!!!!
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/venezuelan-empanadas-2-pabst-bushwick-hispanics-hipsters-intersect-article-1.1099945#ixzz1ypngIVMk
Can you come down to New Orleans? Hipsters have taken over Bywater and are edging into the Marigny…HELP US!!!