An Australian diehipster.com reader sent me this link to an article where the writer/hipster defender uses homophobia as the reason why we do not like hipsters. It’s one of many made up reasons to defend the most annoying ‘subculture’; other ones include that we are racist even though I personally grew up with people of all colors of skin, and many different nationalities and religions. Then there’s the excuse that we can’t keep up with style and social change; that we aren’t familiar with art or good music or good food or culture. Or that we don’t like ANYONE moving into our neighborhoods. All bullshit.
There is a difference between being homophobic and finding straight men who are effeminate annoying – polluting the world normal men live in. Where real men once worked hard and supported families and now have been pushed out of their neighborhoods so emotional gardeners can prance around with lattes supporting their attention-needing hipster lifestyle. I have no problem with gay people; I have some gay friends, I have some straight friends that have many gay friends – gay is not the issue. Hating on someone because they are smug, pretentious, wear condom-width jeans and emulate lumberjacks even though they can barely lift a bag of cotton balls does not make you homophobic.
Link: DailyLife.com – In Defense of Hipsters
Here are some real reasons why hipster hate is so strong:
Hipsters have doubled and tripled our rents.
Hipsters have jacked up the price of coffee and food.
Hipsters over use certain words like: local, organic, sustainable, and urban.
Hipsters have filthy facial hair; beards and moustaches belong on certain men – not every last gentrifier that moves to Brooklyn.
Hipster love paving our streets with bike lanes yet 90% of them are unused. They don’t know how to ride bikes in a city and chain their vintage Schwinns all over the place.
Many hipsters are hypocrites – they claim organic is healthier (which it isn’t) and want to line our streets with rainbow kale and fountains that spout hand-crafted artisanal water yet they smoke, drink, and do drugs constantly.
Hipsters are music, art and literature snobs. It’s impossible to have a normal conversation with one without them trying to show you their superiority even though they have none.
Hipsters avoid all types of born and raised locals of the city they move to. Here in Brooklyn, if they hear a real Brooklyn accent you are immediately looked at as an uncultured idiot or an unlawful brute.
Hipsters can be found at all hours of a normal working day just walking around like zombies in their wannabe rock star and artist uniforms somehow managing to pay for overpriced rents, foods, and accessories. (Somehow = parents)
Hipsters make males look bad: they strive to have the physiques of Shaggy, Nancy Reagan, Olive Oyl, spatulas, toilet brushes, PEZ dispensers, and parking meters.
Hipsters’ main idea is to be different from normal society yet have to be the biggest group of conformist this planet has ever seen.
This list can go on and on – but I guess that article is right: It’s purely about homophobia.
Typical hipster bastards. If you don’t tolerate them you MUST be some sort of bigot.
I AM a bigot against pretentious lazy rich kidults.
@ diehipster:
The one and only reason that normal people hate hipsters is because they are the left-handed lightbulbs of society: totally useless, with the exception of providing something to goof on here.
More than that one reason actually, which is why I listed what I listed – and that list is still incomplete, I just had to go.
The list was a good description of the demographic, and, unlike a lot of common arguments hipsters, it doesn’t also apply to weird people who are *actually* cool, nor does it also apply to any old group that a person decides to hate.
Can’t argue with your reasoning. Your list is specific. Might make a good party game. never mind. Neckbeards would coopt it and turn it into “Why people hate us”.
I watched a documentary about the Rolling Stones recently. It was shot in 1965 – very early in their career. When they were popular, but not yet the gigantic media stars they’ve been for the past 40-odd years. They all still saw themselves as a working band who would probably peter out and have to break up in the near future. It was interesting.
Anyway, it got me thinking about Mick Jagger, and about feminine men in general. Mick Jagger, you can see in the movie, is (especially when he was young) a very feminine man. Homophobes feel threatened by him because he’s genuinely different, and genuinely messes with the average concept of manhood. He’s feminine, but he also could probably attract your girlfriend away from you, and could possibly beat you in an arm-wrestling match (in 1965, anyway).
Hipster men are not Mick Jaggers. They’re not androgynous like Mick Jagger. They’re barely even “feminine.” They just have an utter absence of manly qualities, combined with an obvious desire to look manly, but combined with a misunderstanding of what that would entail. I’m far from the manliest man myself, but I understand that, if I want to look more “manly,” I should probably lift weights rather than grow a beardo beard.
“probably” attract your girlfriend? In the late 60s & 70s, Mick had to fight them off with sticks. Same with Bowie. And they both apparently were bi for a while…possibly with each other…haha. These guys were originals, especially Bowie.
Husker Du was one of my favorite post-punk bands from the 80s. They came from Minneapolis and wore flannel and had shaggy hair that didn’t really fit in with the punk crowd. They toured all over the US non-stop like REM to build up a fan base. Packing & unpacking the van, sleeping in fans’ basements or crappy hotels. Two of them were gay and you would’ve never have known it back then or frankly cared. They still rawked!
Yeah, actually your response is pretty homophobic. If you have to rely on saying these jackoffs are effeminate then yea, you’re pretty clear in your homophobia. If you can’t see that …
You’re making no sense. We all know many effeminate (non-hipster) straight men. We also know plenty of masculine gay men. Yet your post implies that “effeminate = gay”. It doesn’t.
Wrong pal. Plenty of gays who post here. Many who are serving our country as we speak.
I bet the followers of this blog hail from just about every demographic you can draw on. Men, women, black, white, straight, gay, liberal, conservative, republican, democrat, American, Canadian, European — pretty much anything you can think of all united by our dislike of hipsters and the wreckage they leave in their wake.
Hahahaha Caleb! You’re proving my point. You’re angry about this site exposing hipsters for being attention starved kidults so you need to label us as some kind of bad guys. In this case it’s homophobes. Come back tomorrow and call me a racist, ok ?
Yeah, DH, the homophobia charge is what makes it so easy to expose hatehipster as Needy Ned, Zach, Stevie ad infinitum. He thinks we only hate hipsters as a reaction to perceived homosexual traits so his rants contain only rabid insults to do with being gay. This premise is as poorly thought out and transparent as his sock puppet disguises.
4finger Riff, you really are an asshole. still think i am pretentious hipster or because i used the word “tyre” you assume I am a pretentious hipster. Man fuck you.
Not one person on this site believes you Nedlington. You might have gotten past us if you had continued to post as Northside Ned and maybe set up arguments between your two sock puppets. But that would require forethought and a bit of expertise.
Special Edd is obsessed with DH.
This shitface hasn’t been here long enough to realize that there are posters on this board that are gay.
You must not know or have met very many gay or bi people. Many of them are not effeminate by any stretch of the imagination. If anything, some can be described as “hyper masculine”. Your claim holds no water.
Man have you got that shit straight! I have a friend who’s a maintenance man for a large rental concern. He’s in his late 50′s, hauls heavy appliances up and down stairs and does pick and shovel landscaping. He’s gay and out since high school, back when out could get you killed in rural Ohio. The only way most people know he’s gay is if he tells them. He self describes as a “stealth queer” and calls hipsters “faggots” and “sissies”. Is he a homophobe?
He calls’em as he sees’em. Honest opinion to a lice farming tongue depressor with legs is like garlic to a vampire.
The homophobia defense is nauseating. See, this is the thing that these flyover fucks just don’t seem to get; when you grow up in NYC, you are exposed to every type of person on a constant basis from very early on in life, rich, poor, and in between; you figure out as a kid that there are cool people of every class, color, and preference, and some fucking dickheads of every color and preference. These children of the corn come from a different place, where for most of them anything that doesn’t look like what they see in the mirror is an exotic novelty. The way we go to the zoo and see exotic animals is the sad way these hipsters see everyone who isn’t their race, preference, and subculture. They look at everyone else as ignorant, scary, and beneath them.
This would also explain something that has recently become an absolute epidemic in NYC: hipsters taking photos of the homeless. Not a day has gone by the last 5-6 weeks where I haven’t seen at least one bearded, skinny, ultra pale fucking asshole with a camera taking snapshots of a homeless guy on the streets. Again, to these fucking Ethans, they are encountering an exotic animal to be photographed and placed in their gentrification blog. It is completely sickening behavior.
A co-worker of mine told me they pull the same shite with the Amish up in Lancaster County, PA.
But the homeless thing is typical in any hipster-iffic area. You see them in Philly all the time. One time about two years back there was one guy taking a photo of a homeless guy sleeping and I had to say something. He walked away while honking, “you’re hampering my creativity, maannn!”..
I wonder how “creative” he’d be if he was on the receiving end of a curb job?
To emphasize DH’s list, if there’s anything that really drives me nuts with these walking guitar slides is how they turned food and eating out into a fetish. Here’s an example:
http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2012/10/spinning-plates-alinea-documentary.html
Whenever they break out the tweezers, you know it’s bullshit.
My culinary hero is Jacques Pepin, he cooks real, non-pretentious food and makes it look easy. No tweezers, nitrogen, or molecular fuckery.
Jacques Pepin is a gifted instructor. I’ll give credit to Julia Child and her accomplishments, but in a way she was more of a francophile than Pepin. Pepin was gentle, approachable, humble and taught (and always reviewed the basics). You try to go out and find a cooking show today that explains, knife skills, making stocks and technical explanation of sauteing, braising, etc. Watching his shows is like going to cooking school. His ego and personality take a back seat to what he was trying to demonstrate.
I absolutely hate The Cooking Channel and The Food Network. How embarrasing is it for an accomplished chef to take part in a “reality series” where they’re racing across town like apes escaping a jungle fire or giving ridiculous tasks to amateurs that have nothing to do with cooking so they can win a friggin’ food truck!??!
The shows on TV are more about food info than cooking. That’s why they appeal to hipsters. It’s food porn – pure and simple. Lots of pictures, escapades, guys working with tweezers, dry ice and emulsions..and they all so quirky with their tattoos and hats! It’s not about effort – trust me not one of these a**hats would last a week in a busy italian restaurant where it’s “get the food out…made properly, consistent and well seasoned and quickly over and over and over again. This is what real cooks do.
I rail against these shows that are more like infomercials – I mean how many friggin’ burger and rib places can Guy fieri say are the best he’s ever had? And the talking head shows on The Cooking Channel that are hipster apologists for overpriced desserts and zany foodstuffs?
I was once taken – against my will – to a place in Philly – the name escapes me, but it was Tony Clark’s Anyway it was a hotspot. The food network at the time was hailing this guy as the next great thing. So my wife dragged me there. It was the worst meal of my life. A f**cking plate decorated with a fried potato lattice work and 50 garnishes, doesn’t mean sh*t if I have to send the same 3 oz portion of meat back because it was overcooked. This to me is a big fail. The guy is now hawking coldcuts and renting himself out as a “Private” chef.
My cookbook collection consists mostlyof Pepin, Betty Crocker, some Italian Cookbooks translated into english and The CIA collection..oh and a few books on confections by some swiss guy named Wybauw.
yes, but i was into betty crocker before she was cool.
i say that because my father was looking for some improvement on a soup recipe. he looked in several current books and websites. they were identical to his, but without the overwritten descriptions.
he then took down his betty crocker from the 70s and remembered that’s where he got the recipe in the first place. it seems there had been no improvement in nearly 40 years, only an increase in needless prattle.
There was a point, twenty years ago, where I appreciated the push toward understanding the science behind cooking. That was the time, for instance, when you first started seeing the big displays using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream in thirty seconds. The idea wasn’t to show off, but to demonstrate why well-made ice cream tastes the way it does. The problem, though, was that then the guitar slides started focusing on the tricks themselves. Don’t even get me started, for instance, on the dillholes who won’t shut up about grilling techniques, like our “flavor bridges” character from a few months back. The idea with real artistry is to understand the techniques and make it look easy, like a good stage magician. Not only are the slobs hyperfocusing on something that’s incredibly easy to do with a bit of practice, but they’re spending time yammering about special marinades and cooking theory to cover the fact that they could fuck up pouring themselves a bowl of Cocoa Pebbles in the morning.
Speaking of liquid nitrogen, have you read about the girl who needed her stomach removed to save her life?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19878511
Another reason for hipsters to die painful deaths.
So long as there’s frozen custard around, I will never eat ice cream again.
Sadly, the places that make it are few and far between because when yuppies hear ‘frozen custard’ they either think ‘frozen yogurt’ or fucking puddin’ pops. My soul’s salvation is that there’s a tiny place that makes it fresh every single day and people come from states away to get some during the six months of the year it’s open. I can’t stand ice cream and won’t eat the crap sold in most places because they blow so much damned air into it you have to work the crap with a fork to get it to some decent consistency and state.
If you ever find a place that makes stellar frozen custard visit it often and keep it to yourself or it will get stormed by idiots who start quacking and honking about everything they don’t understand.
There’s a big damn difference between ice cream and frozen custard, and you aren’t kidding about the idiots. A real frozen custard place opened not far from my house about seven years ago, and they made the best frozen custard I’ve ever had outside of New York. Problem was, the place was flooded with yuppies who thought they should be getting the soft-serve shit they grew up with from Dairy Queen, and it went under a year later because “they don’t make it taste the way it SHOULD.”
Has Anthony Bourdain visited any of these places yet, or haven’t they sent a check? Seriously, my head exploded when I heard “From the moment that you put that pot of soy milk on the induction burner…” HUH? WHOA! NO restaurant I’ve ever been to could afford to put in induction kitchen equipment – it’s an expensive gimmic. Gas is just fine on this or anyother planet in this solar system.
The main reason that these douches get away with this crap is that rubes are willing to wander in and throw down miniscule quantities of food that looks absolutely disgusting, and drop a huge wad of cash as a result. For bragging rights. And the one “chef” in the clip looks and sounds exactly like the dropouts and rejects I used to see every day coming out of the Art Institute Cooking School.
Once the crash comes, the assholes in the preview clip will be back to flipping burgers at the Golden Arches Supper Club in downtown Des Moines. Rightfully so.
There’s a new product on the market; Northside Ned’s Artisanal Trollhouse Cookies. Made with Mast Bros chocolate and now with more HBH!
walking guitar slide…that’s very good. thx for the laugh!
I am a retired school teacher and saw this wave of over-privileged, under-achieving generation make their way through the system being told that they were “great” and “special” just for walking through the front door. I sat by and witnessed (with a bloody stump for a tongue) as well deserved end-of-the-year accolades (inspired by true competition) were transformed into semesterly “awards assemblies” where EVERY student was “recognized and celebrated” via meaningless trophies and medals that were bestowed simply for showing up.
It’s no surprise to me how these helicopter mommies of a decade or so ago have now morphed into the full time enablers of their kidult children – now known as hipsters.
That said, welcome to the “feel good” generation of yesteryear’s children….who were never disciplined, told “no”, were allowed to fail, or were the recipients of a good swift kick in the ass.
I fear for our society’s future.
Philly-
Glad to see a local ’round here! I live across the river in South Jersey.
We’ve found that kid’s who are involved in the more rigorous sports, crew, wrestling, football, basketball, lacrosse, swimming…sports that have a high
potential for injury and require a lot of discipline usually have almost zero entitlement. The kids for the most part are good and hardworking.
My son is in 4th grade and attends a very strict parochial school. According to his test scores he’s off the charts – particularly in math and science (he hates Spanish). So to keep him occupied they pull him out once a week for some advanced academics. His teacher allows him to help classmates with their classwork. It’s refreshing that the school avoids the “everyone is special” nonsense. You distinguish yourself…you get noticed.
“Special” status entitles (there’s that damned word) the bearer to get his back plastered with “Kick me!” signs as long he attends school, or moves to GreenBillSchwickStuySlopeVilleHeights.
The ONLY exception to that is the Special Olympics. Those kids WORK their ass off at a sport. My hat’s off to them and their caregivers. To appropriate the word “special” for the worthless deserves a very large “Kick Me” sign, IMO.
Very well said and thank you for mentioning the Special Olympics participants. Seeing those kids work their backsides off with NONE of the physical capacity of most kidults is something the hipsters should be tied up and forced to watch.
But, you know, ‘Shame’ just isn’t ironic enough I guess.
Welcome to the party, friend. I was going to share this article with the crowd in general, but it will probably have particular poignancy with you:
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/magazine/108186/generation-whine
Good article.
“Koenig said. “I don’t think I’m being entitled to desire employment in the field I spent so much time and money training for,” she added. “But the fact that it’s next to impossible to stay alive is so frustrating. … My education was $200,000 and I have a BFA [Bachelor of Fine Arts], and what does that mean?”
Self-delusion. They do think they are entitled. They think they can major in whatever the hell they want and expect to find a job immediately. How about researching the job prospects first and changing majors if necessary OR accept the reality that you will have to intern during the day and work nights waiting tables or whatever until an opportunity arises.
Dammit Leroy!
I don’t know if it was the tone of the article or what but it really made me punch a wall.
Parents tell their snowflakes they’re special. So they think “hey – I know the odds are against me in getting a paying job in the arts – but I’M SPECIAL”!
How can you go through 4 years of f**cking college (not to mention the fact that every art ART ARTIST) you know is unemployed) and not once think
“Oh jeez – I’m gonna have 200K in loans due and I don’t think this profession will pay well”.
The young engineers we get here are mostly from India. Why? Because we can’t find any in the USA. If you ask one he’ll tell you it’s not that American students aren’t capable it’s that they don’t want to go to school for something that requires effort.
I’ll give you a little clue Meghan – if your internship is unpaid, there stands an excellent chance that you won’t get a job in your chosen field.
Meanwhile….plumbing, engineering, accounting, machinists, CAD, electrician, truck driver, mechanic, welder, steam fitter, etc..ALL have PAID INTERNSHIPS.
My fear is after reading this article that, the new trend is to continue living the hipster life, whining on a blog and hope to get a book deal.
Finally. I watched an episode of “Gallery Girls” on Bravo. The one hipster dingbat who borrows money from her parents to open a gallery (right out of school) with some friends, cries to mommy because Con Ed is going to shut off the power due to unpaid bills.
Does anyone here know how many months you have to go before the utility company shuts you down?
Meanwhile – they’re flying to Miami, and going out every night for dinner, drinks and every time you see them they’re holder a five dollar coffee.
Maybe it’s because of my old background, but I get extremely angry at the people who ask my advice about journalism degrees, and promptly ignore it because they figure they’ll beat the odds. It was damn hard to crack into weekly or daily newspapers fifteen years ago, when both had more advertising money coming in than they knew what to do with. Now, assuming that you’ll be able to make a living by freelancing for a weekly is just fucking insane: the ones that will survive Christmas have been getting by with unpaid interns for the last four years, so why the hell should they pay when they can get halfassed movie and music reviews for free?
I agree with your frustration Pat but have to disagree that there being HB-1′s available as ‘the reason’ we can’t find engineers in America is a huge over-simplification of what is more an issue of economics than a lack of engineers. Many employers went wet in the crotch when they realized they could hire these folks at about a quarter of the cost of even a recent CE grad, which displaced many, many excellent American engineers, some almost permanently.
These same companies are slowly, very slowly, starting to realize that their risk analysis was very short sighted and, as usual, costs more in the long run than they gained in initial savings ( such as project suicides in the millions, poor s/w products with huge costs and not just in liquid, destabilization of management, etc etc ). There are many engineers, experienced and not, who’ve been wandering the wasteland created by muleheaded investors that might, ( but just by a treacle of a thread ), be seeing some positive turns back in their favor. Anyway, that time period’s pretty well known and it was that more than anything that gave a lot of potential engineering students pause, more specifically the computer engineering studies. It shouldn’t have to come down to: you’re either good enough in the scienes to get into MIT, or you work as a day laborer.
Sorry, pardon my poor grammar. I’m typing too fast here. I only meant to say I think those several years of uptake in foreign engineers had a huge impact on American engineering jobs and the problem has less to do with desire or ability and more to do with immediate profit margins.
“But I have a real BFA! I even studied abroad because I have rich parents who could afford the tuition! I’m good at using iProducts! So I deserve a job in fingerpainting! Now Mom and Dad, go and get me one!! And by the way I need money for my drug dealer” (Pretty much sums up my Precious Snowflake nephew)
“Gap is looking for result-oriented individuals with a BFA, or better, to join the team as unpaid interns. This position will be a plus on any resume.”
Gap FAQ:
“What can i do with a degree in English?”
For starters, you can shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. Nobody gives a rat’s ass, Josh. No more stupid questions. Now, get back to work refolding those tee shirts before I throw you and your sheepskin-infused anal cavity through the door.
The illusion that so many have bought into, that ‘Art is Easy And Anyone Can Do It – Yay!’ or ‘It’s My Artistic Vision That They’ll Notice’ as being credible and a sure thing, if you just have enough Hope, does people no favors. The real favor is in putting things as they are: the competition is IMMENSE, there are people better looking than you with less talent who will get the job, people who invest in these things that make these people huge stars very, very rarely give a flat god damn about ‘artistic vision’ or ‘crediblity’ as they do in: is this gonna make us money, or not? THAT is the norm. But the illusion is that you can ignore that and everyone will just see how grand you are and bow down. Gawd…
Anything worth doing and having takes two words, painful as they are to digest for some people they are still true: HARD WORK.
agree with the sentiment here, but school is always cheaper (often superior) abroad. universities in europe are well funded by the government and some are even free. universities in america are just bloated money making machines and funding for education is sorely lacking. can’t say ‘iProducts’ aren’t useful in making money though. thank you cheap chinese labor.
What does hating pussified straight guys have to do with homophobia???
^^^^This.
Or as I like to say, not all gays are fags, and not all fags are gays.
Alternatively, not all women are bitches, and not all bitches are women.
Perhaps a Venn diagram is in order.
LS, you nailed it! Venn diagram unnecessary on DH – we get it.
‘Hipsters make males look bad: they strive to have the physiques of Shaggy, Nancy Reagan, Olive Oyl, spatulas, toilet brushes, PEZ dispensers, and parking meters.”
Good 5 minute laugh at this – of course, it also happens to be 100% true
“Transforming the idea of the Straving artist”.
http://bushwickdaily.com/2012/10/darcy-skye-holoweski-transforming-the-idea-of-starving-artist/
Ok She has a degree in Ecology and Biology. She started teaching but it left her “empty”.
Her husband is a “visual artist”.
ART and Bushwick.
This “article” made me want to punch walls.
You should focus your anger into more constructive pursuits such as punching Hayden, the artisanal litterbox decorator, in the face as he pedals toward you on his vintage recycled Ross Apollo Girl’s Speedster. Not only will you vent, you’ll create a new ghost bike. You’re gonna love the squishy sound he makes when he hits the deck.
LOL! Being that I am a petite female who plays sports, I think that if I really did punch a Hayden I would probably end up killing him and then end up going to prison, so I think for now I’d rather punch imaginary walls
They offer more resistance than a hipster beta-male would.
Inner Wisdom Coach? I can’t. Basically, she is a wannabe psychologist who didn’t have the chops to get into a Ph.D program.
She openly cops to inventing this dubious pasttime. “It’s a career she’s created for herself in order to fulfill her purpose and follow her deep passion to be of service to people.” Nauseating.
Ah, the world’s oldest profession.
Gee, what a flattering pic…..
“Despite being constantly skeptical about the energy medicine school, she kept on taking little steps and completing the program. “It’s called the divine paradox,” Darcy smiled. ‘The choices that seem the biggest are the smallest and the choices that seem the smallest are in fact the biggest, and the truth and the power is always hiding in the bushes. Gods never show off, they don’t have to. And so the path that I took was the smallest choice next to the smallest choice. Each step seemed in the whole continuum of my life as a random choice but when I look at it now that’s absolutely how our lives unfold just by taking the next small step…’”
It was then that she learned how to give absolutley awesome head. The rest is history…
You could use the sign language translator at 1:37 to sum up everything that you just quoted…
Oh, and I think one boob is lower than the other.
LOL This is exactly the kind of person cult leaders go into kartwheels over. Yep, she’s ripe for the picking.
“Inner Wisdom Coach”….BAHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA….too funny! She’ll be in the Southwest in about five years either humping peyote or cooking meth up in a trailer for her precious, enlightened leader.
I hate hipsters because they are a bunch of ugly motherfuckers. period.
their fashion, unclean shaven faces and smelly odour makes me want to swing a tyre iron at them. pussy ass bitches.
Hi, Needy!
Yup, right on cue.
Oh, and BTW, only Brits, Aussies, and pretentious hipsters spell it “tyre”. Oh, and the occasional CANADIAN. Never play poker, Needy, you are a walking “tell”.
Ned doth protest too much to be credible.
Hi asshole. how are you doing?
Just fine, Needy, and still waiting for you to answer the question. You KNOW which one.
which one asshole?
Why, the one about you calling us cowards for posting anonymously when you won’t identify yourself. I guess using multiple handles has confused you and you can’t remember what you said under which persona.
http://steve.rabins-lam.com/2006/12/happy-birthday-2/
Needy Ned, aka Steve Rabins Lam (I think he’s trying to turn Jewish or something) is almost 36 years old and still trolling like a 12 year old. Imagine Stevie, finishing your Comp-Sci degree when you had the chance and making as much money as me.
Oh, and what really happened to your redhead? Did she dump you for a real man, you know one who doesn’t need penis pills to stay up?
Nah, the only penis pills in Lammy’s life are the ones his dad takes to achieve erection when Lammy blows him for his monthly check.
The following words no longer have any meaning for me, due to excessive usage by douchebags, which has robbed them of all meaning:
homophobia
islamophobia
nazi
sustainable
curated
xenophobic
racist
Add:
Artisinal
Sustainable
Organic
Add:
Art
add:
epic locavore
So reading the article, if hipster hate is all because of homophobia than it stands to reason that the writer thinks all hipster men are gay. Who again is stereotyping?
Didnt this stupid fuck above tell his fans on Facebook that the followers of this blog were members of the KKK?
He is delusional if he truly believes that because I myself am part Jewish and I know for a fact several of the commenters on here are Jewish as well.
You’re right, Wash, but telling him this? Es vet helfn vi a toytn bankes!
I bet you love to do what this crackpot does every night 4finger Riff
Lame, weak and childish, as always, Nedlington!
Nedlington? Real clever….not
“Really clever… not” Like I said, lame, weak and childish.
Neddy, your mother called–she sold off your last partcipation trophy and can’t cover the rent on your rilly kewl urban adventure loft anymore. You’re going to have to stand on your own knobby, twizzler-like legs from now on. Time to be a man–or at least a reasonable facsimile of one.
Like I said, NOBODY believes the little pisher, and he keeps coming back like the bedbugs in his loft.
He is delusional, but all hipsters are at pains to describe or paint the people who dislike them in the worst possible terms, just to reveal how shallow and hypocritcal they are.
I have a family member who lives in Williamsburg. He is gay and he hates hipsters 1000x worse than me or anyone on this site. He said the hipsters have destroyed the trajectory of the neighborhood. First the gays and artists move in. Then, a Whole Foods and some Starbucks come. Then, the middle class folks flood in and the artists get pushed out and the gays make a mint selling their real estate. He claims the hipster infestation in Williamsburg is like nothing he’s ever seen in any other NY neighborhood because somehow (trust funds and exponential growth of the hipster population) the hipsters have been able to linger in the neighborhood well beyond the standard development curve and they aren’t actually artists, they are just mooches sucking the life out of society.
When he moved to NY about 20 years ago, he dreamed of scoring a gig on Broadway. That dream was dashed less than 10 seconds into his first audition and he immediately went and got a real job. A lot of the best artistic, writing, musical and acting talent in the world congregates in NYC, and his realization that he had passed into adulthood came immediately, yet these hipsters have been getting ribbons and participation trophies their whole life, no one has told them they suck. That is what makes this website so important, there is no other voice of reason telling these people that they suck and that they need to actually get a job and do something accretive to our society, something bigger than making beardo oil or growing lead and mercury infested local cabbage.
The sad thing is that many people just plain don’t need to get a job.
What’s sadder is the amount of working people who visit NYC and see a bunch of “creative types” around and think, “If these poor-looking people can survive here while working a cool low-paying job, then so can I.”
Then they arrive, and they discover that the “creative” people they saw were actually just hipsters, and that they’ll never be able to afford living their dream in NYC… but they’ve put all of their savings into making the big move, and now they can’t afford to move to somewhere more affordable, either.
“but they’ve put all of their savings into making the big move, and now they can’t afford to move to somewhere more affordable, either.”
As long as it keeps the beardos of my backyard, it works for me. Although I did see a fixed gear bicycle near my house the other day and that has me worried. The hipsters pose a greater threat to this country than the hippies did. Most of the hippies grew out of it and became productive members of society, but many hipsters are beyond the age of “growing out of something.”
Neither of those things are what I was talking about. I was talking about how many hipsters are too rich to have a *reason* to do something “productive” with their lives. I say “productive” in quotes because rich hipsters spend so much money that they do actually make a contribution to society… as consumers. Hell. Some of them buy more shit than I do and use less government services than I ever have.
As for not being able to afford the city, yet also not being able to afford to leave, I was saying that that, unfortunately, keeps the beardos IN. Middle-class hipsters (the ones who aren’t rich but just mess with the economy of cities by living off of credit cards) end up fucking themselves over with their ignorance of how much the city costs(and their obliviousness to how rich their fauxhemian acquaintances are). Some of them would gladly leave, but they can no longer afford to, and so they sit around pissing off locals and hating themselves.
I was also talking about people who are not necessarily even hipsters, but get the impression that it’s a good idea to move to NYC and live on a low budget while pursuing some sort of dream career, and they get the impression that it’s a good idea because they see all of these crusty looking hipsters and think they’re actually poor, and think, “If they can survive, I can,” only to discover that those poor-looking hipsters in their cheap-looking slums are actually paying out the wazoo, and that normal people who just have a dream will be completely fucked if they try to live there.
“As for not being able to afford the city, yet also not being able to afford to leave, I was saying that that, unfortunately, keeps the beardos IN.”
Yep, we’re on the same page, buddy. Keeping the beardos there for any reason keeps them out of the Midwest. Interesting take that you have on hipsters purchasing power being beneficial to the economy. My take on that is it merely reallocates capital to something that appeases the hipster tastes, such as beard oil, cupcake shops, ripoff vintage clothing stores, Mast Bros and other stuff that drives up rent for businesses that might otherwise provide something useful to decent members of society. Are there any actual barber shops left in Williamsburg? And when I say barber shop, I mean some old Italian or Cuban guy cutting hair and talking sports and politics, not Try Hard Tristan offering beard grooming and de-liceification services to hipsters.
Haha, that is true, too. I do wonder about that – if maybe some people’s purchasing is so specialized that it actually fails to stimulate the economy at all.
I didn’t realize you were coming from a Midwestern perspective – should’ve read your handle more closely! It’s so funny to imagine that… a bunch of cool people sitting around in Milwaukee going, “Man, I’m glad we’ll never have to smell that beardo again, cause he just moved to the most expensive city in the country.”
So true. Another sad thing is future hipsters hear stories from Skylar or Molly or Caleb or Kyle’s parents in Buttcheek Creek about how well they’re doing in Nieuw Breukelen, what great “jobs” they have (at unpaid internships). They overhear Kyle’s mom telling everyone within earshot “I just talked to Kyle. He just got a job as a DJ in Brooklyn(once a month), he says he’s just about to be discovered”. So that adds fuel to the fire and by the time they’ve finished their BFA at Michigan State they’re frothing at the mouth to get here.
Then they get here, dad drops them off and returns the U-Haul. Suddenly they find that it’s 20x more expensive than they thought, because all the other jerkoff hipsters before them raised all the prices and turned any paying jobs into unpaid internships a long time ago, so, no job. Then they discover the big secret behind being able to look poor, not work much, afford every iProduct under the sun, party every night, buy overpriced used clothes and eat artisanal food: parental subsidy. If they have it, they can stay. If they don’t, they won’t be here long.
Some of them go the crust punk route: whitebread idiots come here from perfectly fine middle class homes in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, wherever to become junkies, live on the street with their dogs or squat in abandoned buildings, wind up in methadone programs here. Why they can’t be junkies back home eludes me. I guess it’s not kewel and gritty enough for them in Kansas City.
Very good description – of course their parents are so proud of them when they don’t see how pathetic the lifestyle really is. And, sometimes, even after they have seen what their kids’ lives are really like, they go into denial about it – “My kid really is going to get discovered, we just need to give him another $5000 from our retirement fund.”
As for the NYC-junkie magnetism, I do wonder about that. Is heroin easier to find in NYC? Is it more comforting to do heroin here because there are more addicts here? Or do we just *see* more transplanted junkies here because, in cities with less clinics, the junkies just die?
It fits in with their sense of irony, whatever the fuck that means. It’s not as hip to O.D. in a Bonanza Steak House in Clarksville, Tenn. as opposed to shooting some hot shit and dropping dead in the Brooklyn Bowl. Nike is the best selling brand of smack in Billburg, which has become “junkie central” for transplanted druggies:
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/13013-punks-invade-williamsburg-as-heroin-addicted-hobos-set-up-shop-in-trendy-brooklyn-neighborhood-daily-news
The reason for junkies is twofold- one, because dope is great in NYC, one of the last places for powder, non Mexican, heroin. It’s super easy to get, and CHEAP.
Two, heroin is “glamorous, artistic, kewl” in some circles, and these hipsters all think they can control it, until it’s way too late. They get high because scoring dope and shooting in some gross coffee shop bathroom is “so cool and NYC”, but end up selling everything, including themselves faster than you can find a beard hair in a Mast Bros candy bar.
They stay because they don’t want their families to see them as addicts and the few states between NYC and Pennsyltucky guarantee that they can hide it. Sure, they make appearances at holidays, but they dont stay long enough to start scratching. As long as mommy pays, and they can hustle sex, they will stay.
Plus, many of the places these hipsters come from, in flyover states, don’t have methadone, and the clinics that do exist can have years long wait lists. There’s a giant corporation making huge money by putting clinics in these places (like Parkersberg WV), but there are still many more junkies that programs. I’m all for clinics because they do work, but the cost is pretty high, and no, insurance won’t cover it and Medicaid is rarely taken at the for profit clinics in flyoverland.
Its best when they OD and die in NYC, so no one at home knows just how pitiful they are, and they stop being a drain on their parents.
(Can you tell I know several people who did just this?)
<b.“(Can you tell I know several people who did just this?)”
Do you have pictures? Strictly for comedic value, you understand.
I don’t know about heroin in Portland, but there are *tons* of street kids here with their dogs – I don’t know how many of them are suburban kids doing a hobo vacation or how many of them are genuinely down-and-out. (I suspect the genuine poor kids are *not* staking out prime corners in downtown Portland, but trying to squat in abandoned houses elsewhere….)
“Crusties”. The canines are props to elicit sympathy and simolians from gullible passers-by. These ironic Boxcar Willy impersonators pull the same shit in New York. These grungy, funk-encrusted endorsements for post partum abortions park their asses on the corners of, or in the middle of the block, high traffic areas populated by high end (tourist and trust fund dollars) establishments and sit on mats while holding signs begging for money, using the poor dog’s involuntary plight as a way to make people feel guilty for letting these shameless vagrants to put the animal in this fucked up predicament in the first place. Funny thing is, neckbeards have deep pockets and short arms when it comes to helping out one of their own.
The reason why they become junkies in New York is because in Kansas City the junkies are methheads who’ll stab them to death with a broken broom handle to get their i-Crap
I’m on my way to work today in Bay Ridge ,and as i am walking to the office that i work in , I see a Megan all cracked out , with her baby minion , leaving the salvation army store . And it wasn’t the first time . I was hanging out with some friends at night , and this hipster family was scavenging all the shit people drop off in front the store .
And the other day , city workers were actually working on making Bay Ridge look nice after never doing shit . I bet Bloomberg has a picture of Robert Moses that he jerks off too at night .
I wish the hipsters were actually gay…the gay people in NYC are among the most productive, responsible folks in the entire city. The hipsters are pretty much the opposite.
Well said CM!
I just started a new job on Alberta Street, and am noticing that the people working on the repair projects on the houses in the neighborhood are *not* the hipsters who are on the street in the middle of the day – they’re generally Mexicans.
Therefore, a Mexican is a poor person who works hard at an unglamorous but necessary job, becomes an adult early, and has good hygiene – the opposite of a hipster.
On why the hipster exists – deep thoughts by Hipster Glock 9 – The Mental Hipster Beating
Hipsters are the completely useless, brainless unemployable loser children from fairly affluent families from Shittztown USA .. Mommy and Daddy are embarrassed by the adult toddlers and don’t want them to be seen back in the cul-de-sac on full display for the neighbors with their filthy and ridiculous clothes, dirty hair, and dumpy (but alleged Vegan) cankle queens in tow. So they export them to Brooklyn and they pay money to keep them there and out of the basement. Out of sight out of mind as they say in Shittztown. If they only come home to Shittztown a couple of times a year around the holidays then perhaps the neighbors are too busy to notice.
So there you have it on why they exist.
How can anybody claim that the legions of people from all walks of life in numerous, albeit English speaking, countries hate hipsters…because WE are homophobic?
Why is it too much for hipsters to understand why we hate them? Look at the pictures on this post: the guy in the center riding a tricycle and the rastafarian hillbilly pretending to be Ernest Hemingway. If one doesn’t even consider how these dicks are displacing real people and just judges by the self-centered behavior, who wouldn’t celebrate seeing Mr. Fedora Tricycle getting clotheslined by piano wire? And how about Hemingway? “Hey everybody, look at me! I cut out the seat of my Haystack Calhoun overalls so I can simultaneously shit in a bucket and pretent to write even though I can’t find a typewriter ribbon anywhere on the east coast. Am I the only one that would enjoy watching him get kicked in the face?
“Hipsters avoid all types of born and raised locals of the city they move to. Here in Brooklyn, if they hear a real Brooklyn accent you are immediately looked at as an uncultured idiot or an unlawful brute.”
It’s funny how the attitudes of these supposedly “enlightened”, “progressive” hipsters are in fact not entirely dissimilar to that of European colonializers in the heyday of imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
“Hipsters avoid all types of born and raised locals of the city they move to. Here in Brooklyn, if they hear a real Brooklyn accent you are immediately looked at as an uncultured idiot or an unlawful brute.”
Accents stem for mispronunciations, and as such almost always ARE a hallmark of the uneducated, uncultured & untraveled. I have worked in NYC for 15 years, have worked with MANY people who grew up in the city, and have never worked with anyone who had the stereotypical New york or Brooklyn accent. Granted I am a white collar professional, but seriously no one. I have had a couple contractors and plumbers who have had it. So while I don’t necessarily look down upon them, there is certainly a distinction.
“Accents stem for mispronunciations, and as such almost always ARE a hallmark of the uneducated, uncultured & untraveled.”
Categorically false. The invention of the British accent (Received Pronunciation) was a concerted upper-class effort of mispronunciation in order to “beautify” English and place it on a par with the Romance languages. What we know as the Queen’s English does not follow the rules of pronunciation in the dictionary or elsewhere. That’s to say nothing of the multitude of regional accents in the U.S. Even Californians have accents. Bill Clinton retains his southern drawl but he likely has a higher IQ and certainly more education (in school and out) than you. It does not follow that anyone speaking with an accent is “uneducated, uncultured, & untraveled.” Next canard please.
PS: Education is not the same as intelligence.
Almost all educated people use rhotic pronunciations. The Brooklyn accent would be an example of non-rhotic pronunciations. Bill Clinton has a SLIGHT southern drawl. It is noticeably less pronounced then uneducated people from the region.
Ned – your perfect accent makes you smart right? Smart enough to pay $3.00 for coffee and $30.00 for a bag of organic veggies. Don’t forget the additional 20% markup for the word artisanal on all your other north Brooklyn products. Very smart. Last but not least – you’re smart enough to argue daily and even hourly with a bunch of Brooklyn knuckle draggers on a site full of idiots. I must say you are one smart dayuuuuuude. Go go go Williamsburg!! Yah yah yah, rah rah rah!
I’m sitting at my desk at work. I’ve posted less than a dozen times. You’ve spent how much time on this website?
The rest of it, who cares? I’m not worried about a dollar or two on a cup of coffee. I honestly don’t even pay attention enough to know what a bag of veggies cost. I’m not going to lie, I do enjoy an occasional $12 ‘artisanal’ cocktail. I know it’s nonsense and really just another way to market to rich people. But that is where we are now. I think that’s why people dislike hipsters. It’s the same age old class envy except now it’s projected at the beards and flannels while 25 years ago it would have been Lacoste shirts and BMWs.
Ned you are the demise of Brooklyn. See, you don’t mind being stupid and overpaying for normally inexpensive things and ruining it for 2.5 million behind you. Why aren’t you in Manhattan? To save money or to be Nieuw Kewel? You save $1000 a month in rent to be able to blow it on organic arugala and vintage hummus in Brooklyn? You belong in the city you fucking prick. Are you rich, middle or poor? Make up your artisanal mind you fucking coffee-stirrer-in-a-bike-lane bastard. Why are you even on this site? To remind you of what a shit you are? You like the pain? I’m 1000 fuckin percent sure you are a regular commentor on Gothamist and Brooklyn Paper under some other hip/yup name.
Well, you’d be 1000% wrong. I’ve never posted on either of those sites.
The rest of it wah, wah, wah. I don’t rent, I own. In fact, I am a landlord. That’s what happens when you spend your time working and not whining. Trying to build yourself up by pulling the next guy down doesn’t work.
I lived in Manhattan for two years, and than moved to Greenpoint, where I’ve lived for the last 12 years. Rented for five years and then bought my first place. Do you think I did it by obsessing about the cost of a cup of coffee? Like I said who the fuck cares? Concentrate on making money and don’t sweat the small stuff.
I’ve already explained why I am on this site, mainly to laugh at you dopes. Thanks for keeping it extra dopey.
Fast forward 24 min, dopey.
“Almost all educated people use rhotic pronunciations.”
Incorrect. The only education it might indicate is an American English-pronunciation class. Earning a Ph.D. or an M.D. does not automatically confer on the graduate a non-rhotic accent. See: Immigrants, Indian. I will grant you there was a time when refining one’s accent was part and parcel of one’s formal education, along with table manners and other etiquette. That time has long since passed. If you judge a man by whether he drops his R’s or not, I feel sorry for you. Additionally if you judge a man’s intelligence by where and what he studied, you’re in for a sheltered and disappointing life.
F**k that. I have a Master’s degree and will NEVER lose my Brooklyn accent. I work in the corporate world and could care less what some transplant wannabe New Yorker thinks of it. Cawfee
Cawfee. That’s de ticket. Are ya from Bensonhoist, or Greenpernt, maybe”? De dames an’ gorillas from de udder neighbahoods don’t talk so swell like dat.
So, ya want dat wit sugah an’ milk to go, toots?
Close, Gravesend!
Now you’re tawkin’ – I’ll have a non-artisinal Medaglia D’oro!! My personal favorite
Dem’s my kinda people down dere. I use’ta offa some o’ de bums a little bit’a “advice” about de ponies at de old track. Just let some o dem neckbeard bastads try sumthin’ funny an’ dey’ll get de business.
Nothing wrong with a “Brooklyn” accent when it comes from a born and bred Brooklynite. My childhood friend Russ and I ended up in the same unit in the Army. We caught beaucoup shit from the the flyover state yay-hoos about that “funny” accent. It wasn’t so funny when we explained in our uniquely Greenpernt accent and delivery what could end up happening if they kept voicing their displeasure. Our Sergeant Major didn’t think we “talked funny”. Big John Carvallo was from Cahnasee.
Here’s an interesting link which does a good job explaining accents in early America:
http://outofthiscentury.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/early-american-accents/
Note that Teddy Roosevelt spoke with a distinct Brooklyn accent.
Interesting… I was stationed with a guy who had a “deep and wide” NY accent (like me). I asked him where in the city he was from, and turns out he was from northern Louisiana. And everyone where he was from talked the same way. We got along famously.
Oliver Hardy was from Louisiana. He speaks in the same style as T.R. T.R. spoke with distinct “Brooklynese” pronunciations, Listen to Ollie say “foist”
A traditional New Orleans accent, especially spoken by Caucasians there, sounds a lot like a Brooklyn accent. Listen to the lady at the beginning of this video:
She sounds O.K. to me, like she comes from Lon Geyelant.
Damn, every time I hear a Brooklyn accent, I think of the guys from Brooklyn I knew when I was in the Army. Salt of the earth, every last one of them, and so long as you were honest with them, they’d do anything to help out. Goddamn, I miss those guys, even when they gave me shit because I was from Texas but didn’t have a Texas accent.
Amen. In fact, listen to recordings of FDR speaking. Who does he sound more like, a New Yawkah or some stoned surfer?
Wow, Ned. This statement couldn’t be more incorrect. Not just in NYC, but you can find many educated and successful people in New England and much of the Atlantic South speak with a non-rhotic (dropping r’s) accent. Outside the U.S., the non-rhotic pronunciation can be heard spoken by highly educated people in England, India, Hong Kong, Australia…
Accents are not a reliable indicator of intelligence. Word usage and vocab, maybe. Plus, one’s spoken vernacular can vary greatly from their writing style. Plus, there is subconscious “code switching” — I work in an office filled with people on the phone, being and sounding professional, and then at happy hour after one beer you’ll hear accents sliding in from everywhere from the hood to the sticks.
i have a NY accent and I am an attorney. I had many friends who graduated law school with me and passed the NYS Bar exam on the 1st time (2nd hardest exam after California). They all had NY accents. You are an elitist punk. The “educated” people you speak of with no accent are either transplants or probably grew up in suburban NY in an all white non-ethnic community, i.e. your vision of utopia.
My God, you can just SEE the sneer, can’t you?
And when Vinnie & Louie were done wit’ ya, they wanted to give ya a knuckle samwich. Flyover gavone.
I know you’re not calling me a flyover gavone, chief. Born in St. Catherine’s Hospital and lifelong ‘Pointer.
That’s straight ignorant Ned. Accents are not a hallmark of the uneducated, uncultured or untraveled. The used to be regional. Developed from everyone around you speaking in a certain manner; doctors, teachers, plumbers, news anchors etc. What changed, and essentially killed the accent, was the nationalization of media. Now when you turn on your television or radio all you hear are non-regional accents therefore regional accents began to slowly die out. Its actually a shame that many regional accents have died out. Its just another sign of how everything in America is geared to mass production. Something I would think you’d be against.
Gay people don’t choose to be gay. Hipsters choose to be hipsters.
A message to hipsters: wouldn’t it be most ironic if you stayed in Ohio? Try it. All of you. Please. Brooklyn is SO post ironic. It’s like a band that doesn’t suck and people have heard of.. It’s the Led Zeppelin of cities.
^ diehipster approves this message.
This whole Hipsterism is actually Homophobia! argument is one that a transplant to your fair city, Amanda Marcotte of the blog Pandagon, deploys pretty much daily. She’s from the other hotbed of hipsterism Austin, tx and self-identifies as a female one. Who the fuck would wear their obnoxiousness as a fucking badge of honor? Oh yeah, dipshits who grew up in buttfuck Iowa who thought their lack of friends meant they were just over the heads of everyone else in their shitty hometown and the only people who could truly appreciate them all lived in NYC, that’s who.
Anyway, long time reader first time commenter. I find this whole you have hipsters cos you are a closet homophobe to be on par with the same one where if you ever disagree with a policy of the current Preznit you are a racist. It’s the liberal version of authoritarianism. Also, Booboo is totally fucking right!
Please don’t disparage Iowa. Iowans were smart enough to ship the Mast Bros out.
True enough and much props to the state of Iowa where some of the nicest people I have ever met have hailed from, so no disrespect meant. I just get tired of saying buttfuck Egypt, you know, as in the midwestern acronym BFE, and thought I would change it up a little.
My point still stands, though; most hipsters are dipshits who weren’t well liked by the people in their hometowns not because they were gay, misunderstood, too intelligent, too creative, or any of that other ego stroking bullshit. People hated and continue to hate them because they are some of the most obnoxious, superior acting, annoying fuckers ever to be born on this or any other planet. My hate for them and the way they have fucked things for future generations of kids who really are misunderstood and different knows no bounds.
Oh, and on the subject of how hipsters aren’t racist:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/15/the_gap_pushes_manifest_destiny/
Half of the fun is the mere idea of making a “Manifest Destiny” T-shirt and selling it through the gap. The other half is the designer getting a good case of Hipster Butt Hurt when he got called out on it on Twitter.
The frickin Gap is hipster? The Gap?
They definitely try. Over and over, and they sure give a lot of work to beardo models to pose in their crappy clothes. Neddy, have you ever considered getting some Preparation H to deal with your butthurt? Those hemmorhoids of yours have to be slapping against your knees when you walk.
It’s so generic and middle America that hipsters do secretly love it
Needy, Needy, Needy. You keep making the same mistake, disappearing in one persona when you switch to another. Though this time you took my advice and changed your tack but forgot that Ned and hatehipster used to sound alike,used the same insults and made the same typos. Weak.
She’s right about one thing, Australian men are tough mother-f’ers. Aussie football is like American football & rugby with no pads. They don’t have many guns down there but they beat the piss out of each other in the bars and would drink us under the table. I’d be quite scared to be sipping a latte, wearing my girlfriend’s jeans and typing on a typewriter outdoors in parts of Sydney.
This is for Northside Ned. You are not alone. I’m a fellow resident and hate these townie haters as much as you. That buckeye fucker 4finger thinks you’re someone else! Lol! Let’s pile onto that Ohio loser and show what a dipshit he truly is!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sock+puppet
He posts a hundred times a day. From Ohio. Do we really need to do anything?
Gotcha! I Kaiser Sousayed you and didn’t even need the double blind I set up in the next two posts! You are alone Needy, and fooled by your own trick. You didn’t even pick up on the Usual suspects clue!
Oh and Needy, by my count I posted 19times to your 14(including hatehipster) up to the point where you ran away like a little bitch.
Sure/ You need to do this: Get the fuck outta here and find another board to troll in. And die.
He split, Burbs, as soon as he met Kaiser Soze. And then, just like that, he was gone.
Weird. Maybe they were trolling the Chicago Tribune site,
What’s a ‘townie’?
That’s yokel colloquial for somebody from Dogpatch, Green Acres or Bugtussle. They are known for wearing “tenny-sneaks”, drinking “pop” and keeping HSN or QVC on the tube 24/7.
Why are you using my avatar you little pisher? You must be yet another Needy Ned sock puppet. You can’t fool us, Nedlington!
WTF! Trying to appear like me so it seems I’m pulling a sock puppet routine? You’re getting craftier, Ned, but FAIL!
Damn, Nedlington! You’ve been gone for an hour and a half, must be a monumental case of HBH you contracted from my little prank. Well, heal up and try again, Snowflake.
Thank you for the break down. We need to tattoo it on their skinny arms.
“There is a difference between being homophobic and finding straight men who are effeminate annoying – polluting the world normal men live in”
Your argument collapses in a heap right there. The fact you think a man can’t be “normal” and be effeminate makes you homophobic irrespective of how gays may not be effeminate. The old “but I have gay friends” is just another version of Ku Klux Klan member Hugh Black’s defense “Some of my best friends are Jews”.
Troll away, Neddy.
You’re right, I should have wrote straight “hipster” men instead.
That’s how I read you comment: referring to hipsters, not the general population. But people will parse your worse to read thing the way they want to read them.
‘Scuse me DH, but you can’t use men and hipster in the same sentence let alone describe hipsters as men.
Straight out of the feminazi handbook: Masculinity=bad. Straight men who embrace the effeminate do so in hopes that by identifying with women they will become attractive to them. Of course we all now how that turns out. If you’re straight and act effeminate you are capitulating to PC femworld my friend. It’s not “wrong,” but, uh, enjoy your lifetime of having women cry on your shoulders about the alpha who dumped them. It’s actually a form of Game, but a terribly unsuccessful one.
Most gay guys I know, myself included, have impeccable hygiene and an actual sense of style and wouldn’t be caught dead in public looking like the bunch of unkempt slobs or fashion victims that hipster males are.
That brings to mind this anecdote: My boyfriend – who’s from China and generally pretty unfamiliar with the whole hipster thing,but is a pretty fashionable guy – were on a late-night N train recently and caught sight of a hipster douche in a burgundy suit, polka dot shirt, ugly striped socks and red Chuck Taylors, looking around the car with this expression that mixed contempt for everyone else and a sullenness that seemed designed to get people’s attention, and my boyfriend turned to me and said, “See that guy? He looks like a clown.” And he meant that literally.
He was totally right. That guy was a very sad clown to be sure.
“burgundy suit, polka dot shirt, ugly striped socks and red Chuck Taylors”
That is what is referred to as formal attire by the denizens of Nortsouthwestwiscotuckyvaniabraskagon. It’s normally worn on special occasions like going to Applebee’s for the all-you-can-eat buffet.They usually accessorize the outfit with a cardboard valise when travelling.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff149/SfanGoch/fashion-fail-hobo-or-hipster.jpg
Haha – rushing off to his time machine to his apothecary job in 19th century London
Add a bowler hat and he could be an odds maker at ye olde fistcuffs emproium.
Or a contestant at Kit Burns’ Rat Pit
http://www.terrierman.com/billymastiff.jpg
Hipsters are fragile. Hipsters are pussies. Whether they like cock or not has nothing to do with it.
Hipsters will cry foul when they see this snl video.
Pubic hair-bearded, fast food fry-physiqued kickball event coordinators are like cats, in that, they don’t recognize their own reflection when place in front of a mirror. In this case, it’s a TV. Perhaps, one day, we can pay off our debt to the Chinese by sending these pipe cleaner-armed wastes of oxygen to work as slave laborers in an Apple assembly plant.
You want to see real talent and you want to see a great show?
Then watch these 2 clips above.
Fuck Hipsters and Fuck Matthew Silver!!!!!
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The internet sucks. Stop being such greasy assholes and take it to the streets.
Oh for Christ’s sake, you just don’t get it, Nedlinton.
lolz. FAGGOT.
That Neddy is really a stitch
When he uses the user-name switch
But he sure doesn’t linger
When caught by4finger
He scurries away like a bitch
FAG
You just revealed 1: your identity. 2: your intense feelings of butt hurt. When you lash out with reflexive curses instead of arguing on merit you reveal yourself to be a petulant, attention seeking child. Lame, weak and childish.
FAG.
Repetition is another indicator of childishness. So is hiding back here, far away from the real conflict. Show some balls and post under the Northside Ned handle.
FAGG.
And now you’ve forgotten how to spell as well as having a severe case of latency. Only one thought left in your immature little pate. Now come back like a good little troll and call me a fag (note correct spelling). Yawn, it’s been a long one, see you tomorrow.
Repetition is not a form of change. And fag has one g. You can’t even do the troll thing right, fuckface.
These cunts are all over Boston…a lot of them are “Mixologists”, with the requisite facial hair, pomade, vests, pocket watches, and that insufferable superior attitude. Look shitbird, I remember when this bar catered to regular people, it had two pool tables, a juke box, the game on, and everyone was happy. They probably made one martini per year. It was a beer and whiskey place, but now you cunts came in and turned it into a “Gastropub”….well FUCK YOU, you arrogant, ignorant, entitled little turd.
These shit stains HATE born and bred Bostonians, because they view us as a nuisance, an unpleasant background noise that ruins their constructed Hipster fantasy city.
The nerve of these people is beyond belief. Why move to a city and then look down your nose at it’s inhabitants? Who the fuck do you think you are?
Gastro-fucking-pubs. That shit is fucking nuts. Pub food is supposed to be easy and hearty, not full of “organic” whatnots and purchased from real, urban, slow food producers (read urban farmers). It’s working class food that fills your gut and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg, not some hoity toity bullshit.
FAGG
4finger Riff = FAGG.
I concur.
OMG hipsters, please do not drag gay people into your bullshit; none of us asked or want to be associated with what you stand for. I sure as hell didn’t.
First let start by saying the argument that people hate hipsters because of homophobia is just purely ridiculous. But along with that I do find a lot of what you say/do to promote your hate of hipsters equally ridiculous. You are obviously smart enough to state your opinions and in some ways clever when you do. But while you attempt to show Brooklyn the “evidence” of why hipsters are destroying the borough, the truth is you just look foolish doing it. Let’s look at your list:
Hipsters have doubled and tripled our rents.
(Ask yourself, are hipsters the ones really doing this or real-estate developers? Sure hipsters have put the spot light on once immigrant rich areas but are they the ones who are buying up property by the water and creating these asinine apartment buildings most people can’t afford? Are they the ones who have pushed all of the working class out of places that are now “cutely” labeled DUMBO and pushing the vast array of immigrants out? The answer is No. Real-estate developers creating things like this http://observer.com/2011/11/greenpoint-colossus-massive-10-tower-complex-could-rise-next-year/ are the ones who push these families out.)
Hipsters have jacked up the price of coffee and food.
(True the increase in “trendy” coffee shops have increased prices of coffee and on some foods but if you are so pissed about it, support your local “true Brooklynite” places instead of caving to go to these “hipster coffee havens” Sure maybe these “true” places have to stay competitive and raise rates but are you so upset that you need to pay 25 cents more for a cup of coffee? This argument sounds strangely familiar: http://diehipster.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/zany-boyish-haircut-molly-rides-the-subways/)
Hipsters over use certain words like: local, organic, sustainable, and urban.
(Yes the over use of these words are annoying and yes hipsters love using these terms in abundance, but I do believe the word “urban” has been used for quite some time now. You seem to be REALLY stretching instead of actually stating legitimate reasons that hipsters are destroying Brooklyn)
Hipsters have filthy facial hair; beards and moustaches belong on certain men – not every last gentrifier that moves to Brooklyn.
(While they love their “ironic” facial hair your argument is really quite a thin one. What is next you complaining about the facial hair of the Hasidic community? Of course not! You’ll own it up to being apart of their “culture.” Isn’t that now apart of the “hipster culture?” Yes, a culture you hate which DOES make you a hateful person. You claim to accept various cultures of “newly arrived” immigrants but dedicate your time to expressing how you hate others. Maybe instead you should be HELPING these working class families or newly arrived immigrants. Go do something productive for your community. Expressing yourself like an angry elementary school child online does not help your community and adds fuel to violence in a community of Brooklyn you apparently love)
Hipster love paving our streets with bike lanes yet 90% of them are unused. They don’t know how to ride bikes in a city and chain their vintage Schwinns all over the place.
(Listen, lets be honest, is it really only hipsters that are terrible at riding bikes around the boroughs? The answer is, No. Manhattan has this problem. Queens has this problem. Hell, even Staten Island has this problem. With that said, it is pretty funny that Hipsters do love their Schwinn bikes but is that how they are ruining Brooklyn? If so, please see previous real-estate link.)
Many hipsters are hypocrites – they claim organic is healthier (which it isn’t) and want to line our streets with rainbow kale and fountains that spout hand-crafted artisanal water yet they smoke, drink, and do drugs constantly.
(The organic argument again? Are you running out of things to complain about? Or is your argument for the destruction of Brooklyn just that thin? Yes they smoke, and drink and at times do drugs but are they the only culture that does? If you hate organic shit, don’t eat it. Are some being hypocritical? Sure. But by generalizing in your “argument” you look just as hypocritical since you seem to accept all “TRUE” Brooklynite cultures)
Hipsters are music, art and literature snobs. It’s impossible to have a normal conversation with one without them trying to show you their superiority even though they have none.
(Reading this statement almost made me want to give you a pat on the back to tell you its going to be “okay.” Have you been scorned by a hipster literary snob? Did he/she tell you that Proust is so AMAZING and that your Dan Brown novel was “lame.” Listen, you obviously have some sort of intelligence since your writing does express glimmers of this, if you can’t defend the type of music, books or art you like then grow up. People are never going to like the same crap as you and they will express themselves regardless of what social culture they come from. Hipsters are no different than every other asshole who will state that THEY are right and everyone else is wrong. Although you know that does sound familiar: http://diehipster.wordpress.com/f-a-qs/)
Hipsters avoid all types of born and raised locals of the city they move to. Here in Brooklyn, if they hear a real Brooklyn accent you are immediately looked at as an uncultured idiot or an unlawful brute.
(Question: what is a REAL, TRUE Brooklyn accent? Is it my father’s accent, who was born, and raised in Bushwick from German parents who settled in the area from off the boat? Is it the Polish immigrant from Warsaw who created a business 20 years ago? Or is it the Italian spoken in between the apartment windows? Or maybe the Chinese between parents and their children? What about all of them? The fact is there is NO “real Brooklyn accent” unless you are referring to only English speaking individuals because if that is the case you seem to be negating the rest of the “true Brooklyn families” which you so often emphasis to “protect” (with witty words and posts!) against the dangerous “hipster culture.”)
Hipsters can be found at all hours of a normal working day just walking around like zombies in their wannabe rock star and artist uniforms somehow managing to pay for overpriced rents, foods, and accessories. (Somehow = parents)
(It amazes me that this argument is so important for your to emphasize. I, like you apparently, (though who really knows) have to go to work every day and work my ass off for my rent money. But guess what? So does the rest of us. Just because there are a few spoiled young 20 something year olds walking around while you go to work doesn’t mean that a whole culture of individuals look for ‘bail outs’ from “parents.” Most of these people work and work hard at terrible jobs. Many work more than one job which makes you generalizing again, but I think we already covered that.)
Hipsters make males look bad: they strive to have the physiques of Shaggy, Nancy Reagan, Olive Oyl, spatulas, toilet brushes, PEZ dispensers, and parking meters.
(Let me start by asking, what does a real male look like? Are they to have blonde hair? Blue eyes? And with calloused hands fit to work in the factories to benefit the “industries” of this great borough of Brooklyn? Are we judging others for the way they look versus the way they should look (according to your manly expertise?) Please tell me you work in the shipyards along the water in you beloved “true” Brooklyn….oh wait it has all been sold to Manhattan real-estate development firms.)
Hipsters’ main idea is to be different from normal society yet have to be the biggest group of conformist this planet has ever seen.
(And what have you become? One of many who have now felt that hating hipsters is the most important thing to benefit society. Or maybe you just think it is extremely humorous? So you wrote a blog, to attract other “non-conformist hipster hating people” and to form a community where people have similar interests and express themselves vocally. Sounds familiar..)
But even after all that, and the hipsters go the way of the hippies, punks and beatniks, you will still be drooling in your rocking chair, old and angry, ranting about yet another group that is different than you, but I honestly hope that by then you, for a short time, decided to actually do something with your life to benefit others and our beloved borough of Brooklyn, other than complain about a few silly individuals from a large social culture that may just need a thesaurus and a Bic raiser.
Congratulations! You win the Verbosity Award for comments on an 11 day old thread.
Well, he thought he’d get in the last word. TL;DR, “At least my mom thinks I’m cool.”
Damn A,
You are really in pain because of this site. Wow. All that typing and you are still wrong and I’m still right. That sucks.
Pain? No, I just happened to come across your site from another blog and fortunately this will be my last visit. Pain is the wrong word, I think I would define how I feel is the saddening reality that the opportunity for you to actually do something to help the people of Brooklyn is slowly slipping away. Grow up my friend. Being pissed off all the time won’t help you or others. Godspeed.
Being pissed off all the time won’t help you or others.
You, on the other hand, seem to enjoy getting pissed on. DH has helped you decide to stay away, A-holio. Go fuck yourself; and, please make sure the door does hit yer ass on the way out.
And being a professorial troll will help others? Pseudo intellectual bullshit is still bullshit. May Jebus guide your way.
Self-righteous, pontificating bloviators always assume they’re the smartest one in the room, virtual or otherwise. Until they get bitchslapped back into reality.
“Effeminate” doesn’t mean “pansy.” A guy can be VERY overtly feminine and girly but still be a hard-working and respectable person, and could still kick the asses of a hundred pansy hipsters and still have the energy to paint his nails.