I normally like to link articles related to the NYC area hipster infestation but this one was a little hard to resist. Out in Portland, OR where there is a massive infestation of coffee stirrer limbed self-proclaimed creative types it seems that a bank was robbed by what witnesses can only describe with one word – “a hipster”. Seems like the parentally-funded parasites are getting desperate; it’s only natural though considering many of them never had to work for a dollar until they were 28.
Link: “Hipster”: only word that comes to mind of witnesses to bank robbery in Oregon.
So girls like this will have to get a job?
A cotton sock in her mouth would have been an effective image.
She is just the fucking worst – I’m sure the video pretty much exactly portrays what is going on in her empty hipster tryhard head.
Another 32 seconds I’ll never get back. She really is brain-damaged…
You could air this on TV as is and no one would be able to tell the difference.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
HIPSTERS APPEAR TO NOW BE GETTING A BAD REP. JUST LIKE THE EMOS, GOTHS AND MOSHERS, THE EVENTUAL DEMISE OF THE HIPSTER WILL HAPPEN, IT IS INEVITABLE. THE ONLY QUESTION THAT REMAINS IS WHEN?
Those other groups (emos and goths) are still alive and well. They may not bet he “in” thing, but just as they existed long before they were “in”, they will continue to do so long after they’re no longer a Hot Topic commodity.
An emo or a goth will acknowledge being what they are. Hipsters, being thin-skinned pussies unable to handle public ridicule, have been denying their hipstertude since 2009 when they became targets of derision. Even hipsters know their subculture is bullshit.
Real subcultures thrive on bad reps.
I don’t know what a “mosher” is since skinheads, headbangers, punks and run-of-the-mill hardcore kids have been moshing for the last two decades.
Makes sense. A sense of entitlement often has no bounds.
When caught, the thief would probably say, “The banks are corrupt anyway. I’m just getting my piece.”
The other prisoners will be getting their piece when that hiptard gets locked up.
And that rape whistle he normally carries in his man purse isn’t going to help in the joint.
Would actually get reacquainted with what “blow my whistle” actually means.
LOL!!!
The bank that the Hipster Robber robbed isn’t one of the corrupt banks – Albina Community Bank is known for investing in the community and loosening up lending standards for small business. So, hipster FAIL – they’re not doing Occupy work.
He did the robbery to get Kickstarter funds…
^ Hahahahaha
Or he probably did it because he couldn’t get Kickstarter funds.
I wonder if it was that Ian guy.
Looking at the comments section of the link and like clockwork, some butthurt hiptard or one of their apologists chimes in with “What’s a hipster?”
Nah! That’s just Stevie reminding us plebs how important he is and proving how important he really isn’t.
Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20′s and 30′s that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter. The greatest concentrations of hipsters can be found living in the Williamsburg, Wicker Park, and Mission District neighborhoods of major cosmopolitan centers such as Ne
w York, Chicago, and San Francisco respectively.
Although “hipsterism” is really a state of mind,it is also often intertwined with distinct fashion sensibilities. Hipsters reject the culturally-ignorant attitudes of mainstream consumers, and are often be seen wearing vintage and thrift store inspired fashions, tight-fitting jeans, old-school sneakers, and sometimes thick rimmed glasses. Both hipster men and women sport similar androgynous hair styles that include combinations of messy shag cuts and asymmetric side-swept bangs. Such styles are often associated with the work of creative stylists at urban salons, and are usually too “edgy” for the culturally-sheltered mainstream consumer. The “effortless cool” urban bohemian look of a hipster is exemplified in Urban Outfitters and American Apparel ads which cater towards the hipster demographic. Despite misconceptions based on their aesthetic tastes, hipsters tend to be well educated and often have liberal arts degrees, or degrees in maths and sciences, which also require certain creative analytical thinking abilities. Consequently many hipsters tend to have jobs in the music, art, and fashion industries. It is a myth that most hipsters are unemployed and live off of their parent’s trust funds.
Hipsters shun mainstream societal conventions that apply to dating preferences and traditional “rules” of physical attraction. It is part of the hipster central dogma not to be influenced by mainsream advertising and media, which tends to only promote ethnocentric ideals of beauty. The concepts of androgyny and feminism have influenced hipster culture, where hipster men are often as thin as the women they date. The muscular and athletic all-American male ideal is not seen as attractive by confident and culturally-empowered hipster women who instead view them as symbols of male oppression, sexism, and misogyny. Likewise, culturally-vapid sorority-type girls with fake blond hair, overly tanned skin, and “Britney Spears tube-tops” are not seen as attractive by cultured hipster males who instead see them as symbols of female insecurity, low self-esteem, and lack of cultural intelligence and independent thinking. Hipsters are also very racially open-minded, and the greatest number of interracial couples in any urban environment are typically found within the hipster subculture.
Although hipsters are technically conformists within their own subculture, in comparison to the much larger mainstream mass, they are pioneers and leaders of the latest cultural trends and ideals. For example, the surge of jeans made to look old and worn (i.e. “distressed”), that have become prevalent at stores such as The Gap, American Eagle, Abercrombie and Fitch, and Hollister, were originally paraded by hipsters who shopped in thrift stores years before such clothing items were mass produced and sold to the mainstream consumer. The true irony here is that many of the detractors of hipster culture are in fact unknowingly following a path that hipsters have carved out years before them. This phenomena also applies to music as well, as many bands have become successful and known to mainstream audiences only because hipsters first found and listened to them as early-adopters of new culture. Once certain concepts of fashion and music have reached mainstream audiences, hipsters move on to something new and improved.
Because of the rise of various online photo-blog and social networking sites, insights into urban hipster culture is reaching sheltered suburban audiences at an exponential rate. Cultural “norms” have been deconstructed by hipster culture as a whole. Hipsterism is often dismissed as just an image thing by some, but the culture as a whole is effecting changes in society, leading to feelings of insecurity and resentment in people who are no longer a part of the cultural ruling class. For example, a lot of anti-hipster sentiment evidently comes from culturally-clueless suburban frat boy types who feel that the more sensitive, intelligent, and culturally aware hipster ideal threatens their insecure sense of masculinity.
Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can’t keep up with social change and are envious of those who can.
How about attributing your copy-and paste work to urbandictionary.com?
Plagiarism (and laziness) is second nature to Hipsters.
must be Crossquackis work since not citing sources is his thang.
tommyleo knows!!!
(Just in case anyone’s forgotten)
HERRO STEVIE
Hey that’s the definition Stevie/Trey/2,000 other sock puppets wrote on urban dictionary and voted for 50 times a day for 2 years while he sat in his Toronto apartment funded by his parents who slaved at a restaurant so their effeminate vampire son can “find himself”. Is that you Stevie san?
“Anti-hipster sentiment often comes from people who simply can’t keep up with social change and are envious of those who can.”
I may not be able to keep up with so-called “social change” but I’m certainly NOT envious of those who pretend they can.
If they were truly able to keep up with “social change,” they would already be independent with a “sustainable” career.
Yeah, like professional compost.
I loooooove keeping up with the latest marketing ploy…er social changes. Yeah, gotta keep consuming and promoting fashion obsolescence. That’ll show those capitalists! Like… yah!
More wrong here than I feel like talking about, but here goes:
What are hipsters really changing? They are just buying different crap from what other people buy. That doesn’t change anything. And really, the hipster idea of beauty isn’t unconventional. Plus, I’ve never seen hipsters date other races, but I have heard them express fear of entering black neighborhoods.
Anyway, I don’t give much of a crap what Urban Dictionary has to say. When I see hipsters doing something that really makes a difference, I’ll believe it. Until then, fuck them.
@sylvanfox= amen to that! It seems to be a prevelant that a strong part of the hipster ‘trend’ is wallowing in delusional behavior, throw in a good dose of sociopathic tendencies and some narcissism and its a hotbed of hypocracy and contradictions. How they endorse this “carefree and love everyone” lifestyle but are assholes to anyone who is not part of the trend. It’s foolish and looks ridiculous and it’s a trend that’s slowly dying out.
So according to you, there are only two types of women, those with bleached hair wearing ‘Britany Spears tube tops’ [WTF?], or tattooed, nose ringed, militant anti-feminine try hard phony art feminists [who NEVER, ever bleach their hair because that would be too retrograde for their highly advanced and rigorously-attained and sustained progressive superficial images.] who have eunuchs for boyfriends.
That’s very sophisticated of you.
Thats total bullshit. I ve been an artist and supported myself my whole life as an artist or as a hard working ,ride in the rain,snow etc bike messenger. i live in a blue collar neighborhood in queens and have an accent. “insights into urban hipster culture” my fucking balls…as far is “indie rock” the real rockers were Chuck berry and Little Richard and the real Hipsters were Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington–you cant compare these lazy spoiled posers and their self-aggrandizing hokum to workmanship.quality and discipline. as an artist, I may live and die un-noticed by either so called” hipsters “OR mainstream and i dont give a fuck..whats cool about skinny jeans and a beard?? these people dont invent anything or improve anything…
how is taking a cell phone picture of food and putting it on facebook social change???hipster are just the latest version of the upper east side horrible “singles bar” people I used to jeer at when i was a teen…standing on a line to go to the “hot spot” for brunch…NYC always did have a certain %%% of superficial phony assholes but NOW???FORGETABOUTIT!!
You couldn’t have said that better. It’s an expansion of the superficial and lethargic youth culture that once was confined to certain neighborhoods. I imagine that back in the day, the UES and neighborhoods like that were the exceptions. These days, that superficiality (whether it’s fancy evening wear or fancy “I just got out of bed” wear) is the norm and everyone else is the exception.
“envious”? keep telling yourself that…
One of the hallmarks of a hipster post is the need to “create” 500+ word cut-and-paste posts. Izzat Stevie, Edd, or another in the LONG line of sockpuppets? Fuck off, douche. It’s a holiday for working people that you have no clue about, because for you every day is a holiday in Gentrified Disneyland.
CORRECTION:
Hipsters are urban-dwelling people in their 20s and 30s who put on ostentatious displays of non-conformity in lifestyle, occupation and personal habits to attract attention to themselves, often by appropriating the trappings of foreign, immigrant and working-class cultures and regurgitating them to make themselves seem “cultured,” but usually it’s to make up for their own lack of a strong cultural grounding. While some hipsters have full-time jobs, many live off their parents or work as bloggers or by making cups of coffee that sell for $5.
Their highest concentrations are found in neighborhoods like Brooklyn’s Williamsburg, Chicago’s Wicker Park, Seattle’s Capitol Hill and others. Though they may claim to be “from” these neighborhoods, they typically aren’t, but actually moved there from afar – yet instead of adapting to the local cultures, they seek to change them. Their presence attracts media outlets who fawn over their supposed originality and quirkiness; meanwhile, they gentrify the neighborhoods and increase housing prices, driving out the original inhabitants.
I can’t blame anyone for robbing a bank in this day and age. I hate hipsters, but I hope this guy gets away with it.
Aww, shucks, Mike.
Portland cops have released a sketch of the suspect:
http://www.designyourway.net/diverse/johnnydepp.jpg
For some damn reason it said access denied
A hipster fresh off the Williamsburg grill. Saw this vanilla bean-limbed, bearded, hatted, cotton tote-carrying example today in my lamentable Brooklyn neighborhood.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46896052@N00/7916190568/
Yeah, we have that problem here in London as well. They absolutely all look the same, it’s shocking, yet they keep insisting that they are “individual.”
I wonder what they do when somebody else shows up who actually is an individual.
What’s in those bags that they always carry, by the way?
What’s in those cotton tote bags? More Popsicle sticks. For body weight comparison.
Is he saving that popsicle stick for some shitty art project when he gets back to his parentally-funded gentrification apartment? That shirt is about a size Boy’s Medium and his filthy beard is about 90% of his total body weight. That pasty smug-faced yuppie scrag that’s walking with him has the same exact body shape. Fucking mutants.
When real individuals emerge around the hipsters, the hipsters dismiss them. The only way they can identify originality is with a mirror.
Thats Fucking Right!
His purse is bigger than hers. It would have been very difficult to stop myself from cracking open his kneecaps after dragging his jaw across the street.
Look at that shitbag in the background with his Bike messenger bag. What a douche parade. It’s become so intolerable to even leave the house anymore without feeling rage every time.
I don’t like to leave my house anymore. Especially on the weekends. This coffee stirrer-limbed transplant and his protective companion Megheehoughgan McCankles are a tiny drop in the bucket of the ocean of idiots that wander around here.
It’s the other way around for me in Portland – I want to stay in my office during the week, since I have to be in the downtown area and see them – but can avoid them by avoiding Alberta St. and the Arbor Lodge New Seasons on the weekends.
I pray for cold weather so the streets can empty out. I am so sick of seeing hipsters, tourists, Eurotrash, yuppies…. They all have a fucking attitude problem and don’t have a clue that THEY are the ones who don’t belong here.
I was in L.A. last weekend and saw this same scene played out many times at restaurants: hipster guy with attractive white woman. But when you listen to the conversations, the woman in these couples always the trying-too-hard-to-be-an-alpha-female type: that is, she is never a true alpha female, but trying to be one for some reason — and she found the perfect guy to put up with her acts.
Hard to imagine that mister stick figure can actually find a woman who would put her own sense and dignity aside to cater to his fantastic self-image. These girls are sad.
Those sunglasses are so big, they look like they are about to tip him over.
Just saw this one. If anyone here finds this doosh’s notebook, please scan it and post it for a laugh.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46896052@N00/7671991310/in/photostream/
Then go back and claim the reward (which is probably free art classes or a free gig with some Drew and the Medicinal Pen cover band so don’t bother).
Or just call that number and breath heavy.
GAHH..die hipster!! That pic..my eyes..the Zoey..the straw hat..the paleness..
I almost ran over a red bearded, pipe cleaner physiqued, fixie riding douche-canoe today..riding said fixie down the sidewalk (too pussy to ride on the road) I had to shout out “DIE HIPSTER” as I pulled out in my diesel fury…god I hate them so much!! I love your pictures though, don’t get me wrong, it’s the subject matter that makes me puke! Fight the Fight Urban Infidel!!
I love how similar the dude in the foreground is to the dude in the background. It’s like they pasted on different-colored versions of the same beard.
Yet another scene (bank robbing) the hipsters will manage to ruin and destroy.
Remember the days when bank robbers were MASCULINE with a TAKE NO SHIT FROM ANYBODY attitude like the guy in the above video?
Well those days very well might be numbered if the bank robbing trend catches on with hipsters.
Somebody within the bank robbing community need to put a stop to this trend IMMEDIATELY!!!!!
If I were a bank robber I would be offended at the thought of a skinny jean wearing, stick figure, tooth pick, piece of shit representing me and other bank robbers during the bank robbing segment on the local news.
FUCK HIPSTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Hipsters are terrified of weapons. There’s no way a Caleb or Zach did this. It was probably the witness’s lousy description.
Or a mediocre disguise. The thief could be as disgusted with hipsters as we are. He may figure that one of them will get picked up for questioning and shit his cargo shorts. The theif may simply enjoy that.
What about artisanal guns smithed in a communal warehouse/gallery late at night when no one else is there?
Wouldn’t get the job done. Bullets still would have to be cruelty-free. So, you’re left with Indian cotton BB balls.
How about bismuth bullets – no lead to contaminate the environment, and you can smelt them in an artisanal manner…?
That’s some hilarious shit right there.
Damn! It’s the Hipster Super Soaker Bandit! It cries when everyone in the bank points, laughs, and beats his ass before they call the cops.
Update from the field: i thought being a holiday weekend, they would go home while the rest of us hard working natives, transplants, and immigrants work. It would be peaceful. NOTHING but like yahs in the LES this weekend. Not one native, immigrant, normal transplant….it was a long weekend. However i did learn that myself and the cops are facists. As we heard it 30000 times over friday/saturday night as they vomited on and fell on to the streets and hoods of cars drunk because “theyre fine maaaaahn”
Sweetie, except for the projects, there are NO MORE NATIVES in LES anymore.
Peace Diehipster!!!!
This is the moment I’ve been waiting for!!!!!!
All fucking Bullshit comes to a end all of it!!!!
Plus watch all the “Retarded High End Restaurants” get shut the fuck down!!!!
After the election it all falls apart!
Enjoy your Labor Day!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
@nycityjeff You are not hip, you’re following a dying trend. sorry. next! try being a Goth, maybe you’ll find some peace.
The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List
http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/08/worst_hipster_bands_all_time_c.php
Thanks for that. The comments were great. This created quite a bit of a stir. The general opinion is that there is no way a hipster band could be bad. After all, they wre hipsters. You could not possible understand . Because its …….
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I’m disappointed they didn’t include Vampire Weekend on there. I’m sick of hearing about how I’m supposed to like Vampire Weekend because their keyboardist is gay, and I’m gay, and that means there’s some sort of affinity between us. I don’t like Vampire Weekend because they’re just another low-energy, pretentious, tuneless hipster band. Period.
More news from Portland.
http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2012/08/portland_will_lower_speeds_to.html
Portland will lower speeds to 20 mph on 70 miles of residential ‘greenway’ streets
The event will be open to th3e public. Everybody will be late because of the reduced speed limit.
Anti-hipster news – loggers and fishermen brawl in Astoria bar: http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2012/09/post_89.html#incart_river_default
Can you imagine a baristas vs. mixologists brawl? Slaps and messenger bags everywhere – until one of the back of the house staff cleans the floor with everyone….
yeah- it’s called a slapfight.
An old-timey hipster named Josh
Used Brit-speak like “piffle” and “tosh”
I respected his meme
Though he thought it extreme
When I bashed in his skull with a “cosh”
There once was a hipster named Zane,
His parents’ bank account he started to drain.
He first tried to barter
His band failed on Kickstarter
And a part-time barista he shall remain.
diehayseed – a spin-off site
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/it_play_ground_zero_now_qAzM19XpnqwuoAbdwOmC9J
What was even worse was watching the hipsters on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 mugging it up with their cameras and bicycles on my waterfront down block posing in front of the view of the burning pile of human bodies and WTC wreckage that day. Yes, that’s right, these callow, pathetic morons were goofing around with the smoke in the city in the background. These fuckers were also sunbathing along the banks that afternoon with death in the air. It was all I could to to keep from going absolutely ballistic on them and choking every single one of them. I was too much in shock to even speak. And right now it makes me angry just remembering it.
Of course: http://www.buzzfeed.com/scott/hipsters-for-obama
4 moar years!
not a hipster, For Obama. FauxNews is lying to you and stealing your future. Don’t confuse hipsters with politics. Leave your politics elsewhere. This is not what this board is about. You want to stick your tongue up Hannitys ass take your fetish elsewhere. Unless you are an independent millionaire, or trust fund trash, you are buying a bill off goods. There is not a single middle class person in Brooklyn that should be remotely interested in Republican politics. TURN OFF FAUX NEWS!! IT IS REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA!
Tells everyone to leave politics elsewhere…
….Fills their post with anti-Conservative drek
someone opened the door, I just walked through it. Dumb fucks want to walk O’Reily in here I’ll call them on their racist bullshit.
Oh come on. I’m a conservative and I’m not a racist. I know many black, hispanic and asian conservatives. None of them racist. Also I would think that people who don’t like hipsters aren’t liberals, because hipsters are liberals.
I’m a liberal who hates hipsters – hipsters have no beliefs whatsoever except for what shows them to have “good taste”.
For hipsters, it’s looking like a slob to show they aren’t “bourgeois”, and for yuppies, it’s whatever shows them to have good taste – if it’s political, it’s whatever is in fashion in their area of the country. In Park Slope, it’s environmental, sustainable liberalism, so they can show people that they’re better people than those benighted ones who shop at bodegas. If it’s a southern suburb, it’s tasteful conservatism, so they aren’t thought of as happy-clappy megachurch-goers.
Plus, there were a ton of hipsters squawking about voting for Ron Paul, and he’s no liberal.
Anyone who equates hipsters with liberalism misunderstands both hipsters and liberalism. And the confusion between hipsters/hippies/annoying young people and liberals has been a major crutch of the Republican party ever since the days of Nixon. At least Nixon realized it was bullshit, and and pushed through a reasonable agenda anyway (environmental regulation, ending of the goal standard, and the plan for universal health care that might have been implemented had he not resigned), even as he capitalized on hippie hatred to gain popularity among voters.
Nixon’s Republicans were smart, but today’s Republicans actually drink the Kool-Aid that they peddle, which is terrifying. They bank on hatred of hipsters/hippies in order to win popularity, but, unlike Nixon, they actually follow through with the anti-environment, anti-woman, anti-everything agenda.
To bring it full circle, many hipsters might be liberal, but most liberals are not hipsters, and it’s preposterous to equate the two. Hating liberals because you hate hipsters is like hating Christians because you hate people who are fans of The Chronicles of Narnia.
OK I’ll bite — what does Fox News have to do with a button spotted by Buzzfeed at the DNC?
Obama, like yah!
Not obscure enough – a true hipster would vote for Tom Hoefling, Tom Stevens, James Harris, Jim Carlson, or Jim Duensing, the minor party candidates obscure enough to not have their pictures on the Wikipedia third-party page.
Or Jack Fellure of the Prohibition Party for the irony.
mom, pay my rent! my trust fund is running out….when will it all stop?
http://thecaptainpower.blogspot.com/2012/09/i-have-bigger-penis-than-prince-harry.html
And for some serious cynicism, you’re seeing hipsters dealing in other ways when the money gets cut off:
http://www.newstimes.com/policereports/article/Police-Man-shoots-self-in-Danbury-3821912.php
This guy was my brother-in-law, and my sister was finally tired of subsidizing his voyage of discovery and started the divorce process. Among other things, he was insisting upon her paying for his rent (he was apparently planning to move to “Little Wisconsin” so he could be among his fellow try-hards from Fond du Lac), as well as an allowance and his cell phone bill. Oh, and he insisted that in the interim, she pay for him to go back to Dogfelcher Falls until the court date and then bring him back. When she refused to do so, well, he came over with plans to shoot his wife and kids and then himself. She was at work and the kids got out before he arrived, and he either shot himself when police finally rushed the house or (more likely) the moment he heard sirens. As can be expected, he didn’t want to be arrested: one way or another, he was going to prison for this, and there was no way that walking garden hoe would be able to handle life in jail.
I am very glad your sister and her kids are all right. This is horrible.
Unless you can certify that he was actually a hipster, I’d just say that he was an asshole – going berserk and saying “If I can’t have you and the kids, no one can” cuts across cultural lines to involve assholes of all social groups.
I’m sincerely glad that your sister and nieces/nephews are all right.
Trust me: I can certify that he was. I still remember the last time they came out to visit, and he made a big deal about wanting to get onto my computer to search for recumbent bicycle information. Then he spent the rest of the weekend not-so-subtly hinting that wouldn’t it be GREAT if his new brother-in-law bought him a brand new recumbent, seeing as how I had a job and he didn’t? (This incident also wasn’t a “if I can’t have the kids, nobody can” issue. This was a tantrum set off because the funds for him to expand his world were being cut off. If his parents were willing to subsidize him, then he’d have walked off without a second word. As it is, with his obituary, there’s a lot made about his “many interests, including his volunteering for Habitat for Humanity” but not a peep about his being married or having children.)
Terrible ending. My condolences to your family. Thanks to your sister, she and her kids are okay, due to her quick thinking and action. Being a suicide survivor myself, [my sister shot herself 25 years ago] I know what they are going through. He sounded like a very troubled guy who couldn’t handle reality.
Thank you. I realize that this is a lot of shit to dump over here, but he wasn’t so much a guy who couldn’t handle reality as a guy who couldn’t handle being told “no”. It’s bad enough from when Stevie was using sockpuppets to pretend that he’d killed himself, because that was just for attention. This goes to a whole new level, right up there with the Cat Piss Man who killed his mother because she nagged him about logging off World of Warcraft and getting a job.
Thanks for sharing. I wish your sister and your nephews and nieces all the best in living the best lives possible from this point on.
My deepest condolences to the family.
The hipsters have pretty much overrun much of the Northwest, to the point where it’s impossible to come away from any media representation of it without thinking their pseudo-culture is synonymous with cities like Seattle and Portland. I can’t speak for Portland, as I never lived there, but the gradual disappearance of Seattle’s blue-collar, port town culture is nothing short of tragic. Seattle has always had bohemian and artist types, but that was just part of the culture because it’s always been such a cosmopolitan city (not to the extent of New York, of course, but still significantly), but they’ve long since been overshadowed by hipsters who are as fucking obnoxious there as they are here.
Watch the 1984 documentary “Streetwise” for a taste of what Seattle used to be like.
Portland is whitened and brightened for the hipsters and yuppies in inner NE and SE, North Portland east of I-5, and most of the west side.
Going farther east, you’ll find immigrants from Mexico in the Cully neighborhood and Asians along 82nd and just east, and pockets of Anglos who work for a living that the yups haven’t been able to flush out. Then you reach “the Numbers”, the place in East Portland where the black people went after the landlords realized they could triple the price of rental houses and get yuppies to rent in inner N and NE. Then there’s Gresham, which is suburbia and hipster repellent.
Going west on Columbia, you hit working-class neighborhoods, the New Columbia projects, and the University of Portland area – all of which are pretty uniform. Then St. John’s, a working-class area that hasn’t quite started turning yuppie – the farmer’s market actually has affordable prices.
what he said.
I live in inner SE (about 5 blocks from the first cart lot) and the whole area is overrun with these fucksticks
Silly rabbit iPhones are for hipsters