It’s been a hard day’s night and he’s been shopping like a girl.
Sad but true: the city (Liverpool, England) which arguably brought us some of the greatest song writing in history (The Beatles) apparently has its own hipster infestation. Check out this woman’s email and pictures to me; you think she despises attention-starved, punchable, try-hard, mother fucking hipsters? It fucking baffles me how people – especially fully grown adult males – can publicly prance around day after day after fucking day in these fauxhemian costumes as if the average person believes they are some kind of rock star or world-renowned artist. I mean, the saturation in our cities alone of these hipster fucks is a sure sign that they’re all phonies. Do these spoiled sheep really think that us normal people think there are 1000′s of Bowies, Warhols, Jaggers, Dalis, and Hendrixes walking the streets among us? Do they??? Or maybe that’s not it. Maybe they expect us to believe that it’s simply an accident; that they went to sleep clean shaven and in their underwear and woke up with greasy, knotty hair, Smith Bros. Cough Drop beards, Robin Hood shoes, XX Small ironic Salvation Army bin shirts and Sherlock Holmes vests. Yeah, that’s the ticket – none of this is pre-planned douchebaggery. Here are the pictures and her email:
Hey man,
LOVE your site, read it every day. I’m an American but live in the UK and in Liverpool this weekend witnessed the absolute WORST offender of a hipster shitbag I have ever seen in my life. On the train back to St. Helens this asshole was in a VELVET suit, complete with paisley pocket square, hairband, long, greasy-ass insect-ridden strands of filthy hair, a fucking upturned, stylised moustache, jewelry like he was a five year old girl playing fucking pretty-pretty princess, “look at meeeee!” red leather hipster shoes and, naturally, he smelled like a sewer. However, don’t be fooled by the fact that he looks like he hasn’t bathed in weeks because he’s a 90 pound stick of a “starving artist”–he was carrying multiple shopping bags from obscenely expensive retailers like Topman. To top it all off, he stood there, resting on one leg like that, looking at EVERYONE on the train with this holier-than-thou, disdainful, disinterested, smug fucking apathetic look on his disgusting face for fully twenty minutes before getting off the train.Oh, did I mention that I took this photo at 2pm ON A WEEKDAY?
it’s almost as if the bad odor is permeating through my monitor screen…. x_x This guy looks stinky! Ugh!
Smug Smegmaster. Bet he cleared out that car real quick.
He’s coming back from an overpriced retail shopping spree at overpriced Topman. It costs a lot of (parents’) money to look poor. What he saved on a year’s worth of soap, shampoo, razors, shaving cream, toothpaste, deodorant, laundry soap etc., and bought the clothes instead. No laundry or shower for a year! bleccchhh
To think he spent all that money and STILL came out looking like a homeless vagrant. The dude has no style whatsoever.
I know it’s possible but he still looks way, way, way too OLD to be pilfering at his parents money still. Hobohipster needs some lessons in adulthood and another thousand lessons in masculinity.
LOL! I remember going up to London to visit family (I have family in East London) in 2004 and 2006 and the hipster problem was pretty damn bad then.
I mean, what can you expect from the people who brought us Nathan Barley????
http://youtu.be/lhAr_UeroCk
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAr_UeroCk&w=420&h=315%5D
BTW…they were onto something there. I think they were trying to warn us.
And someone else appreciates the wonder and horror that is Nathan Barley. Have you read the original collection of TV listings that inspired the series? http://thegestalt.org/simon/cunt/
Haven’t checked that out. I’ll check it out.
I felt embarrassed just by looking at those photos. Wow…
Nobody THAT dressed up has a place to go. They’d be too busy going places otherwise.
I’d like to split his skull with Maxwell’s Silver Hammer then give him a ride on the Yellow Submarine – with him strapped to the outside of course.
Paul
Well although the Beatles may be considered lame by Hipsters they will soon have their very own Hipsteriffic British invasion.
I read in “Guitar Aficionado” (don’t waste your money) that there’s a strong possibility that the sons of the Beatles may be
forming a new version of The Beatles.
McCartney’s kid has the greasy haired, homeless trustafarian look. Harrison’s kid seems grounded. I’m not sure if Julian Lennon and Zack Starkey
will round out the band. Zack is a highly accomplished session drummer (you must be to fill Keith Moon’s shoes) and Julian Lennon – well
the guy strikes me as having too much class (and talent) to cash in on his father’s fame. But I’m sure the poster child for over-indulgent helicopter parenting
Sean Lennon – who’s probably the most pretentious, self-important talentless gadfly ever – (the guy wears a f**cking bowler hat fer crissakes) will gladly
Ride daddy’s coattails for a couple of bucks.
Sean is definitely his mother’s son!
Not the real Beatles, but an incredibly (lame) simulation…
The Seitan Beatles.
brilliant!
The Dung Beatles.
Damn, I feel old. I can actually remember the Beatlemania commercial.
The worst part of all that?
NONE of them, not a one, are ‘kids’. They are long since past being kids of any kind. They’re just spoiled and rich, like most celebrities ‘kids’ are.
please….don’t
Wow what a fucking shitbag. I’m really struck by how identical he is to every grover bodied bedbug farm prancing around New York – they are about as unoriginal as it comes.
The best part is, if you asked him if he’s a hipster, he’d say no.
I bet this flea bitten toilet brush smells like rancid bacon fat.
Aqualung is alive and well.
I was in Liverpool in 1994, and though I wasn’t crazy about the city itself, I loved the people I met there. They were so real, and the most genuinely funny people I’ve come across. Shame they have to deal with this infestation.
And even though the Beatles went through their own bearded phase, they worked their butts off to get to the top, something the ‘artists’ of today wouldn’t dare to understand.
Toward the end of their career the Beatles were absolutely disgusting. Just take a look at
the “Let It Be” documentary.
But as you said, they made something from nothing. They were true musicians and craftsmen. I can’t see any The Bedford L subway Doodah band or Arcade Fire making any long lasting contribution to music.
The thing that says “you made it” is when artists who are so far removed from your style of music begin to record your songs: Like Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and (unfortunately) William Shatner.
Yep, being in a band USED TO mean doing 5 shows A NIGHT, every single night. It did not mean partying 40 hrs and playing a 45 minute set once every few weeks. The interwebs killed the artist work ethic. Well, it killed for the posers and wannabe’s anyway…
This guy looks a human hair clog. I think i snaked him out of my shower last week,
He really is a turd – what a fucking smug tryhard asshole. He just reeks of privilege – and rancid bacon fat. I can only pray that he pranced into a pub during a soccer match and gave the wrong customer a little attitude.
Oh and you should see the chick at our local Whole Foods (I got there occasionally for lunch). She’s white and has really long dreadlocks tied up in a scarf and piled on her head.
She looks like the creature from “Alien” – this huge, cloth wrapped appendage jutting out of her head at a 45 degree angle.
Anyone…please – how the f….do they wash their hair?
Whole Foods is a real freak show – you should see the parade of artisanal zombies that stroll into the Whole Foods on Bowery & E.Houston; every try hard for miles must congregate in that place. And the hilarious thing is, at least 60% of the kazoo voiced pussies that walk in have the quirky Asian girlfriend fashion accessory. Like Yah central; it must be like one giant Iowa high school reunion inside. Throw in the Eurotrash scarfies, and you have the ultimate gentrification roach motel.
I can proudly state I have NEVER been inside a Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. I guiltily have been to Fairway in Red Hook though. Their prices are better than my local supermarket and having breakfast out back early in the A.M. Before the hipsters are up on a nice day by the water is kinda cool.
I’ll have to disagree with you on Trader Joe’s – Trader Joe’s has inexpensive NON-artisan, televore food.
I had some lamb from New Zealand from TJ’s tonight – and 3 Buck Chuck is the antithesis of hipster food – cheap and accessible to even the poor.
They want Asian girls because they are taught to fake it, pretend to be interested when faced with boredom, pretend someone’s funny who never is etc etc. And these non-men with zero sex appeal and bedroom ability are too intimidated by women who know what good sex is and expect to get it.
Their shaky betamale egos need an equal pretender who will say,”You’re so funny. You’re so sexy. You’re so smart.”.Which, of course, these chicks text to all ten of their hiptards boyfriends who think they are her only guy, every single day LOL
Pat – you don’t wash dreadlocks. that’s the whole point. you can’t have dreadlocks if you wash your hair. seriously.
I knew a white girl, not very well, but pretty sure she was brought up as Catholic. She had the tattoo sleeves, gauged out earlobes, long spidery dreadlocks. She had them all tucked under her scarf at a 90 degree angle like that. She claimed (co-opted the look perhaps?) to be Muslim,and that the scarf was hijab. She got very defensive and argumentative when anybody asked her about any of this. She said that the Muslim men she was dating were always giving her shit(I think they were calling her out) about her beliefs, her religious practices etc.
I have several friends who are Muslim, their parents and all their families are Muslim, and that’s how they were brought up. Some of the girls I know wear hijab, some don’t. They are all very nice people, and if you ask them about their practices they don’t get militant, condescending or defensive. They talk very matter-of-factly about their holidays and practices, (Ramadan is coming up) if you ask them. It’s like Christians explaining Christmas or Easter holidays, it’s not a big deal explaining it to people. The Muslim friends and coworkers I know do not throw their beliefs in anyone’s face, they’re not confrontational, they’re just people like the rest of us non-hipsters, who are trying to make a living here.
My conclusion about this particular white girl with her dreadlocks, sleeve tatts, & gauged ears, is that it’s all about a big “Fuck You” to her perfectly normal, average family, and, OF COURSE, major attention-whoring. The last time I talked to her she said she was going to stop wearing the hijab because she was tired of it. SHOCKER. The women I know who wear it, wear it all the time,and the ones who don’t wear it, never wear it. They never not wear it because they “didn’t feel like it today”. And none of them have dreadlocks or gauged earlobes.
human hair clog, again, brilliant!
Like it or not this generation is definitely going down in history as the HIPSTER GENERATION.
Unoriginal pieces of shit who stole their style from times past and who’s parents paid their inflated rents so they could call themselves urban.
I’m sad to announce that the freaks have figured out that if they ride their bikes into Breezy they won’t get stopped at the gate. My son sent me a picture of one of those dreadlocked dirtbags on the tall bikes leaving the store and heading into Breezy and not out back to Tilden over the weekend. If they stay on the ocean side they may escape detection for a little while before the locals start calling security. I pray they start exploring on the Bay Side which is private property. Will alert all of my full time resident friends and family to keep their eyes open for this possible invasion as the word spreads amongst their kind. I also went to RIIS last week for the 1st time in years and they were everywhere! *sigh*
Hmmmmmm, Is there a place where a single strand of 60lb test mono-filament fishing line might be well placed? A car would break through it, too tall for a pedestrian…..double-height bike? You might have to experiment with the line test, and replace it if a truck goes through it but this might be an afternoon well spent.
How to create the next generation of Ethans, Zoey’s, Emmas – don’t fail them in school. Teacher (!) suspended for giving students zeros. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/06/25/edmonton-teacher-no-zero-policy-letter-termination.html
One of my best friends isan adjunct professor at a university in Philadelphia. He was told flat out – “you can’t fail anyone”. So the lowest grade he can give out is a C. Of course there are circumstances where you can’t avoid an F – like never showing up for class and not doing your work.
What gets me is that well to do parents send their idiot kids to private schools – where the curriculum is much tougher than in public schools. So when the kid comes home with failing grades they run out and get a doctor’s note stating that their precious Zooey or Logan has learning disabilities and require more time on tests.
…and to think this all started with grading on a curve.
I’d argue that it started with universities becoming businesses rather than educational institutions. If you fail poor Zackary, he won’t be paying tuition any more, and then what will you line your pockets with?
And then the pwecious Pawk Swope kids get in to universities with the Gentlemen’s Cs from the private schools ahead of A students from public schools…
Another haven of normalcy is being drowned in a cesspool of “hip”:
That reminds me of the last episode of Portlandia, where “Fred”, “Carrie” and the Mayor end up eating breakfast in an unhip, but authentic, diner (played by Pattie’s Home Plate in St. John’s, one of the last bastions against hipsterdom west of 82nd in Portland).
If that walking turd fell onto the Atlantic he’d leave a ring around it. Maybe there should be a new Olympic event in London: the Hipster Throw. Sort of like a Javelin Throw, but onto concrete.
He just went shopping at Topman. More ridiculous hipster fashions at their website, if you dare to look.
Gotta play devil’s advocate here. I comment here often and my history of hipster hatred is genuine. Obviously this guy sucks but so does the lady who sent it in. The top of the email says she saw this guy over the weekend and at the bottom she says it was 2pm on a weekday. Hipster stories need no embellishing. Just let it happen naturally.
Sorry, that was me that sent it in. I was in Liverpool for the weekend, starting on a Friday when I saw him as my Liverpudlian friend was taking a day off to show me around. I wasn’t back in reliable internet to send this until Monday when I got back home so for me, effectively, it was “over the weekend”. Apologies for any confusion. It was about 2pm on Friday the 22nd of June, that clear it up?
Emily
Much.
Time to go HELTER SKELTER on his skanky ass, baby! Or maybe he just needs an encounter with Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, yeah. If all else fails to take him down, always remember, happiness is a warm gun bang bang, shoot shoot.
Somehow I can’t see John, or any of the other Beatles for the same reason, advocating killing anyone, even a hipster, with a gun.
Now, a bat on the other hand…
Mean Mr. Artisanal Mustard…
While my I-Phone Gently Beeps
She’s (not) leaving Home
Mommy you can Buy my car
A..T…M (all together now!)….A…T…M
All reclaimed Wood
When I’m 34
Your Mother should Owe
Don’t forget:
(I Wanna Be A) Weekly Newspaper Writer
Dizzy Miss Etsy
A Day In The (No) Life
Happiness Is A Warm Trust Fund
Happiness Is A Warm Trust Fund
HA!
Sgt. Pepper’s Artisanal Food Cart Scam
Free as a Bird on It
Rocky Ironic Taxidermied Raccoon
“Sgt. Pepper’s Artisanal Food Cart Scam”
thats a keeper!
If a food cart meal is over $6, you’re doing it WRONG.
i like this game -
“All You Need Is Daddy”
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Macbook Away” (before some Puerto Rican Kid mugs you)
“Baby, You’re a Rich Man” (thanks to mom and dad)
“You Never Give Me Enough Attention”
“With a Little Help from My Parents”
“While My Ukulele Gently Weeps”
“Across the Gowanus”
“Why Don’t We Do It in the Rooftop Garden?”
“The Ballad of Josh and Zooey”
“Do You Want to Know a Secret” (i have bedbugs)
“She Came in Through the Food Co-op”
“Drive My Fixie”
“Hey Zooey”
“Yahsterday”
Hahaha those were great!
“Kickball Fields Forever”
“Zany Zoey”
“The Fool on the Rooftop Garden”
“Sustainable Pam”
“(Working) Eight Hours a Week”
“Yellow Penny Farthing”
“I’m Only Sleeping (Til 2 PM)”
“She’s Leaving Wisconsin”
“When I’m Mentally Stuck at Age Four”
“Emaciated Man”
“Run For Your ATM”
“Act Quirkily”
HAHA. This is absolutely fantastic…unfortunately, the song they’ve most taken to is Here, There and Everywhere….
You Never Give Me (enough of) Your Money
Crying Waiting Hoping (for parents’ check to clear)
To make matters worse, here’s the most vomit-inducing hipsteriffic wedding ceremony in history. Hipster heroes Animal Collective provide the “music” for a hipster wedding ceremony. Everything is an audition/music video/tumblr feed/viral youtube for these attention whores. I couldn’t make it to the end, so maybe something else happens, but I doubt it. Sorry if this doesn’t embed:
All I could take is 50 seconds. This is BLASPHEMY! GOD WILL SMITE THEM.
Speaking of weddings: beta male Russ will wed quirky Jess ►http://www.jessandruss.us/
So, this is how hipsters meet, breed, and such. Blech!
“He was a freelance web designer, touring the country with his indie-rock band…”
YOU DON’T SAY!
Thanks for the daily emetic!! All I can say is that I hope there was some agent in the bubble mixture that rendered everyone sterile so that the bloodlines end there and we will no longer be subjected to further generations of these pathetic excuses for human life.
Like, that was SO TRADITIONAL.
There’s a new kind of ceremony but you’ve probably never heard of it.
Well, thank God that somebody has made mention as to what is going on here in UK, though maybe I haven’t read about it earlier..
Think of Dalston, or should I say Dålstön, where everybody is an artist, writer or photographer — much to the chagrin of the long-time residents.
Prices in that neighbourhood have risen to a point where even bankers who make a lot of money cannot afford a place.
Let us not forget Broadway Market, where a simple cupcake costs £2.40 ($3.75). This is enough to put off one solicitor who makes six figures simply out of principal. (He also works hard as hell, I should add.)
In addition to everything else… you DO NOT EVER completely wrap your hand around the fucking pole. Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but I never put my hands on anything. I use my knuckles or the crook of my arm (preferably with a long sleeve shirt on) or lean with my shoulder or use my subway surfing skilz to maintain balance.
I’ve encountered all kinds of smelly on the other side of the pond and they’re not necessarily hipsters just bad about bathing. Otherwise, yikes!
Last year I visited Barcelona and unfortunately that town is crawling with hipsters as well. It’s a global pandemic!
“Dream of the 1890′s”….HAHAHAHA fuck you, you bearded shitbags!
Mr. Mustache at 1:55 looks like he’s holding a dead mouse. Yum! Warped fucks.
“Insert Hipster Hate Here”
Ahhhhh..MUCH BETTER. And for some reason the fonts are easier on the eyes. Did you change them?
Still need to work on that banner, die hipstermeister!
An article on “fun” companies – AKA Ecstatic capitalism.
http://city-journal.org/html/11_1_ecstatic_capitalisms.html
Sorry – I can’t see how hipster businesses like this can sustain growth.
They don’t. Most of them go under in the first year, and the vast majority go under in five. However, the employees will cry and piss and moan when they do, because putting everything into their jobs is better than putting anything into themselves. (Sorry, but I worked for a couple of ecstatic capitalist companies during the dotcom rush, and I had a lot of others that made a big deal about all of the fun, clever perks they were offering to justify people putting in 120-hour weeks. Every last one of them was dead by 2003.)
For a bunch of holier than though enlightened wunderkind they’re pretty damn stupid. All those perks are meant to keep you at work or in the beginning, getting you used to the idea of spending 90% of your day at the office.
This is why I’m always gobsmacked by the types of companies that make the “Best companies To work For” lists, The list of perks reads like a summary of day camp. None of them say anything about bonuses, competitive salaries, etc. Uh Uh. But you do get to have marshmallow fights at 2PM everyday in the fundrome.
I love my job. Having said this my criteria for a good company is:
Good pay
normal hours
good benefits
Good 401K
Stability
Respect and decency
minimum diversity and PC horsesh*t
Added bonuses for my job are free lunche (and dinner if you work late), working two miles from home, year end bonuses, free coffee interesting work and good people.
About ten years ago I went to a job fair. I stopped at a long time manufacturer of glassmaking and handling equipment. They could even get people to sign up for interviews,
Two booths down some zany promo company (run by quirky hipsters in tie dye shirts, pirate hats and glasses with springy eyeballs attached to them) had the d*8ches lined up across the room.
WE HAVE THEME PARTIES EVERY WEEK! HAWAIIAN SHIRT FRIDAYS! UGLY TIE TUESDAYS! FREE CANDY AND SODA!
WTF!?!?!?
Yeah, but the glassmaker will probably be around in a few years. I’ll bet $10 that the employees at the promo company won’t be able to get their last paychecks after working for free for a month “until things get better”.
Back at the tail-end of the Nineties, just about every bottom-of-the-class MBA in Dallas was trying to start up a dotcom of one sort or another, and job interviews with these geniuses were entertaining. Again, same deal: they couldn’t tell me what the company actually did, or if they did, it was some corporate doublespeak that translated to “we’ll send software projects to India or Vietnam, buy them back, sell the products to our frat brothers, and make a killing on the IPO.” In fact, most kept emphasizing “we’re pre-IPO!” as if that actually meant anything. Oh, but they made a huge deal about the parties, the theme days, and how you could bring in your dog or potbellied pig to work.
One of my absolute favorites was the company where the tech recruiter just simply wouldn’t accept “no” for an answer, and couldn’t understand why I wasn’t interested. After all, they had the foosball table, and the refrigerator stocked with beer, and promises of big corporate parties. Two months later, the company made the news, when employees came to work to discover the locks had been changed. Even better, everything inside, whether it belonged to the company or not, was now held as evidence by the FBI, and the top execs had fled the country literally hours before the feds could arrest them.
controversial posters popping up claiming “Hipsters deserve to Die” Actually, I’m sure it is a clever campaign run by the hipsters, but one can dream: http://perezhilton.com/2012-06-27-unusual-campaign-says-hipsters-deserve-to-die#.T-sMDRdSRLc
It’s not directed just at hipsters. This is tied to some campaign for a disease that kills 160K a year. i can’t help but notice a slight d**chey odor about the thing. Something doesn’t sit right because they will be announcing the disease soon.
http://www.noonedeservestodie.org/
But, American Spirits don’t cause lung cancer! Like yah, they heal your lungs from poisons and stuff…
I’m gonna just go with the Ramones: Beat on the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat….
The KKK took my Zooey Away
I’m waiting for someone to market a breakfast cereal to the hipster crowd called “Chinese Rocks”.
Braden Goes To BillBurg….
“I don’t wanna grow up.”
“Blog ‘Til You Drop”.
http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2012/06/mccarren-pool-reopening-dining-guide.html#photo=1×00004
Well i guess we know which children will be at the McCarren Pool when it opens.
$16 for a burger? $12 for a salad in a medium-sized plastic container? At least the $3 falafel is what street food should be – filling and cheap.
Picnic Fixings from Radish – $9? Fuck that! For $9 there better be some dope under the tomatoes.
I read an article today about the Millenial generation, and a few comments that had the hipster smell to them had been made underneath.
Though the author had plainly defined the generation of Millenials, these people would still say something like,”I’m 35, and as a Millenial…” or,”I’m 46, and as a Millenial…”
Just to get it straight: if you were born BEFORE 1982, you are not a part of the Millenial generation. They are people in their teens and UP TO their early twenties. It strikes me as very strange when grown adults, well past their youth, insist on claiming they are part of a generation of children and young adults. WTF?!! The turds have no pride and no honest self-awareness whatsoever.
The kids just might be all right.
The 13-year-old daughter of one of my officemates gave him her journal, which had a fictional day of all the hipster stereotypes, culminating with “I’m still not a hipster”, complete with sketch of Meagan.
Why the fuck would anyone WANT to be a fucktard Millennial?? Generation X, baby.
That shit has to be 35 and up man. He is like a child playing dress up really. Notice the regulation attire. Embarrassing really. You can tell this fuck is not a New Yorker.
Ha! “artists” located in Queens throwing a tantrum because they aren’t considered Brooklyn –
http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120627/bushwick/bushwick-artists-with-queens-zip-code-left-out-of-brooklyn-festival#ixzz1z10LHfA9
That is the whiniest article ive ever seen! The people are screaming “why didnt I get my trophy!” Holy crap i about popped an aneurysm.
And yet, morons like “Special Ed” from that “other blog” wonder why hiptards are universally disliked.
Waaaahhhhhh!!!!! Waaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!
If they were allowed to enter, and the rules changed afterwards, I could understand. Instead, they’re going to pitch fits about how they should be included. Hey, how about this: how about making such exceptional art that the Bushwick twits beg you to join in, instead of your begging to join their little “Special Persons Club” party?
ART HAS NO BOUNDARIES!!!!!!
ART ART ART ART ART SUSTAINABLE VEGAN ATM ART!
Off-topic, but here’s a palate-cleanser. I’m a ‘ferener, so I’m not too familiar with Brooklyn, other than from watching Welcome Back, Kotter, but I assume from what happened today, and the people involved, this didn’t happen in one of the hipster gentrified neighbourhoods.
http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-good-samaritan-saves-baby-after-stroller-rolls-off-subway-platform-20120626,0,4959180.story
The happy ending is that the hero who risked his life to save the baby was on his way to a job interview (a what??). I read after people heard about this he was flooded with offers and accepted one. Clearly, a native and not a remitance man.
As a thought-experiment, imagine how this would have gone down if the baby had fallen on to the tracks at a different Brooklyn subway platform. I’m guessing the kid would have died, but there would be 127 different iPhone videos of it on Youtube within minutes. And they would have been … ironic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/us/a-recycling-ideal-so-close-cities-can-smell-it.html?hp
Portland: Smells of Hipster
It also means that there are three different garbage trucks roaming around – one for trash, one for yard debris/compost, and one for recyclables (with a special pickup for glass bottles with no deposits – the legit homeless people (not the people who just look homeless, like the guy in the picture) take the deposit bottles within minutes of people leaving them out at the curb. Less garbage, but more emissions!
Which means that I put a tiny bit of food waste out each week (usually bones, fat, gristle, and any rotten meat we don’t eat) to be picked up by a giant truck. (We compost vegetable and fruit scraps and use it for growing vegetables (but not on the rooftop).
The freegans will take care of the compost. Or maybe they’ll BE the compost…
The article mentions seagulls, but I can only imagine just how much the rat and roach populations LOVE the new regulations.
Oh, and don’t forget how our edgy, innovative urban pioneers in Portland are dealing with potential fines on dumping too many diapers and scraps into their food waste bins by dumping them in neighbors’ bins. What got me is that the mayor honestly thinks that the way to deal with this is by offering rewards for Portland residents who tattle on each other. Like that isn’t going to go straight to hell. (Aaron, I understand that Portland used to be an interesting town before it became the focus of All Things Cool. I can only hope that someone decides that Portland is no longer cool, and fast, before everything that made Portland worthwhile is washed away in a tsunami of twee.)
..sounds like a Hitler – I mean – Hipster Youth movement. The difference is they fight with i_phones and use twnkle fingers instead of enigma codes.
Too late, Leroy…..Portland has become the Mecca for the rich and stupid….the smart people have moved mostly to the eastern areas of Beaverton for the good schools and access to Intel/Nike/Adidas. The blue-collar people who have money have moved east and south.
Portlandia is the first strike against the tsunami of twee – they even did a skit mocking the multiple recycling containers:
Too bad that waste of breath hasn’t crossed paths with some “tooled up” and “pissed” football hooligans.
http://www.businessinsider.com/nation-wide-campaign-says-hipsters-deserve-to-die-2012-6?op=1#
What a load of arse that campaign is. I swear to God that the hipsters deeply facist mentalities are evidenced by these ‘truth’ and anti-smoking campaigns. They want a sterile, safe world where everyone acts and thinks the same. Fuckin idiots.
The same people who say it’s not the governments business if they inhale pot or want to over drink or whatever, are the EXACT SAME PEOPLE who want cigarette smokers to stop.
They could replace their easter egg hunts with witch hunts and there’d be no damned difference philosophically.
I just checked out the Topman/Topshop website…
There are literally no jeans/pants that aren’t skinny/tight except for two.
Would you hate me if I said that I liked a couple of jackets and t-shirts on there?
We’re hiring a boatload of people. I’m one of several people reviewing resumesand conducting interviews.
All we’re in the design and engineering field. Except one. And that was the one that almost led me to manslaughter.
We need a graphic designer/web designer/overall system guy to help manage our database.
The guy arrives in flip flops and gym shorts – sort of the poor man’s Zuckerberg. He had decent qualifications and his portfoiio looked good. References were decent. BA in graphic design (among other things)
Then the interview starts. Actually he started:
I want 65K a year plus OT.
Can I work from home part of the week?
I need time of for some art classes I’m taking.
Does the company reimburse tuition?
I can’t work on Fridays because I HEAD DOWN TO BROOKLYN TO VISIT FRIENDS.
Do you have flex time?
I saw your website. Pretty boring.It’s going to need a lot or work.
Can I bring in my own espresso machine?
Bottom line: After my associate and I were done nodding our heads in mock interest we showed him the door.
We wound up hiring a kid from the local community college – with all the skills we were looking for plus- he said he had CAD skills and mentioned that although he’s doesn’t have a lot of experience in mechanical drafting he’d be more than eager to help out and learn when the graphic design work was at a lull.
20 years old, cleancutwearing a sport coat, straightforward resume, called me “sir”, shook hands and made eye contact.
And his protfolio made my jaw drop…it was THAT good.
Arrgh. Sorry for the typos.
Dayum, there ARE humans left in the hiring pool! Great news!
I read the hipster as “the poor man’s Zoidberg”…..yeeg, what an entitled jackass.
You dress up for an interview. Even a hipster should have a vintage sportcoat in their closet. You don’t ask *anything* about benefits or time off until you get the job.
LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
You crack me up!