This NY POST article is headlined “Brooklyn gal tries for record-breaking subway ride“. It should say “Yet another Midwestern hipster transplant with infinite leisure time screams for attention” because based on her latest Facebook post she writes “the Quad City DJs have requested that you c’mon and ride the train.” The Quad cities are in the Midwest. Yep, only on a Tuesday during working hours will you find a hipster doing something like this. She claims this is to raise awareness of the upcoming fare hike; I say this is to raise awareness to herself. How is a 25 cent fare hike going to effect someone whose existence is subsidized by her parents? I’m sure the Van Nasalsmiths of Iowa will have no problem coughing up an extra quarter for their little precious sustainable artist/community planner/poet/barista so she may continue her NYC adventure. Like YAH – She’s sooooooo Brooklyn!
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“This has been crazy stressful,”
I’m sure it has, Stefanie. I’m sure it has. Probably as stressful as signing your parent’s monthly
staycation check and having the pen run out of ink.
Oh the horror.
OUCH.
LOL good one!
This does not even deserve a comment.
”Bringing awareness” is the best way to feel good about yourself without actually having to do anything. I’m getting tired if these hipsters/yups always saying, ”I’m doing this to bring awareness to…. (insert meaningless cause)”. Those words no longer mean anything.
Scratch that pneumatic riveter, Go_2_Hell!, I want a nail gun. I could carry it with me on the subway when I look for her and attempt to nail her thighs to the seat.
If she’s like most of these megans you’re going to need some LOOONG nails!
She’s doing to bring awareness to…HERSELF.
“Look at MEEEEEEEEEE!”
The video was a perfect microcosm of “Real NY’ers” versus “Transplant Douches.” The interviewer asks 2 hispanics and a black woman how the fare increase will affect them. They reply – subway service has been cut, it’ll hurt seniors on a fixed income, the subways are dirty, etc. Canklesaura didn’t articulate any of these specifics, just “Albany has to stop the fare hike” because like yah…it’s inconvenient or something
It’s all just LOOK AT MEEEE I’m so defiant! I’m PROTESTING something!! I take it that Stephonica the latest empty headed attention whore has never heard of the Straphangers Campaign. They do a hell of a lot more than “ride the train to increase awareness or like whatever”, because they’re already aware. Stephonica is just really late to the game, which would be par for the course.
http://www.straphangers.org/farehike2013/
Not that anyone who unloaded their U-Haul 5 minutes ago and now considers themselves “from” Brooklyn would know anything about that organization. Nor would they know what a straphanger is/was.
And here’s what “Transportation Alternatives” (note the t-shirt and the title and Meghan’s ID in the video) is about: “…committed to better bicycling, walking and public transit…” Subways – not so much. Attention-seeking turds.
Transportation Alternatives is simply a bicycles and bike rights advocacy nut group who push their agenda via “smart” publicity, they really don’t give two shits about people who have to ride public transit, or give two shits about people who use motor vehicles to work or give two shits about pedestrians in the way of bicycles or people who have to cut off bicycles chained to their property or give two shits about… well, anything that doesn’t have to do with bicycles. I’ve tried to talk to them about better public transit in North Brooklyn a few years ago, and all I got was offended snobby silence and snarky putoffs at the one meeting I did attend. F them. The riding every train to every station on one fare gig has been done a million times by the subway foamers and fanboys for decades. Not sure what Molly is trying to prove here except trying to impress someone in the bicycle twit frat hiearchy in TA.
public transit = buses and subways.
“The interviewer asks 2 hispanics and a black woman how the fare increase will affect them. They reply – subway service has been cut, it’ll hurt seniors on a fixed income, the subways are dirty, etc.”
Right, and this attention-seeking scrag seems more concerned about media documenting her attempt at a train riding record as she tweets non-stop during her little zany adventure. Also, no…she is not cute. Unless you like banging pasty little boys.
i think shes cute and really how is that relevant?
Makes sense…since all you kazoo-voiced mutants are attracted to “women” who look exactly like themselves. How relevant is that?
Every pet from now on is gonna be called Canklesaura. Best name ever.
Um, it sounds like she works for a 30+ year old 501(c). I think this is a publicity stunt. I also think it is supposed to be.
Quad City DJs were a Miami bass group who had a novelty hit called C’mon N’ Ride It (The Train)”
Not sure what you think you have exposed here.
Stupid townie.
She works for a non-profit AND has a useless degree? *head smack*. Who would’ve thought??? The juxtaposition of working people sharing how the fare hike actually affects them, with footage of this woman aggressively tweeting away is enough to put you off your morning coffee.
Too bad there were no roving DH reporters, asking the hard questions like: “what kind of person has unlimited time at their disposal to do something so pointless?”
Hipster narcissism. They think everything they do is imbued with such importance. What this will accomplish: nothing, but she’ll have an extra few thousand Twitter followers.
Townie? Why dont you go back to the farm from which you came if you dont like real Brooklyn people?
What the hell is a ‘townie’?
As I posted before, “townie” is one of those colloquial expressions used by hicks from the sticks to describe a “city slicker”. That usually means anybody who lives in a built up area with more than six standing structures with indoor plumbing, electricity and 50 residents. Did you know Ned is a Hollywood star? He played the banjo in “Deliverance”.
Thanks for the clarification. I just wanted to be sure because I’d never heard it before. Okay, so some transplant with deep-seated small town/ no town issues, comes to our city desperate to be a ‘big city hipster’, doesn’t like the natives and then tries to insult us by calling us ‘townies’? That’s truly pathetic.
Not sure what part of rural America you’re talking about, but I ain’t never heard ‘townie’ used south of the M-D line. Not once. Nor ‘city slicker’ for that matter. Much more colorful words than that are used for outsiders but the ‘you ain’t from here if you’re grand daddy didn’t die here’ native population doesn’t care nearly as much about outsiders as the outsiders like to believe they do. Too busy trying to scratch out a living every day or keeping the family farm going. ‘Townie’ sounds a lot more like some bread basket lexicon, ( e.g. Iowa, as someone else mentioned, but even then…), than anything a Southerner would use.
‘Townie’ sounds, too, like something some prep school brat would use.
Clarksville, Tenn. is certainly below the M-D line, right?
I heard the term “city slicker” used to describe me and my Army buddies from New York whenever we went to the Showdown, a fucking yay-hoo good ole boy bar which was located on HWY 41A South, just a little north of Clarksville, Tenn., back in 1979-81. We used to fuck with the local gomers by asking them if any of them were related to the banjo player in “Deliverance”. I also heard the scholars attending Austin-Peay, in Clarksville itself, refer to the out of state students from Chicago, NY, Cincinnati and, believe it or not, kids from Nashville and Memphis, as “townies” while hanging out and getting shitfaced at The Waterworks, the local hangout for the college crowd. I also heard those, and other archaic expressions, used by the locals living in numerous other rural backroad villes within the parts of Kentucky and Tennessee around Ft. Campbell more often than I care to remember. The most colorful terms that we ever heard were the pathetic requisite references to hoodlums, gangsters and criminals.
huh? a townie is someone who originates from a certain place.
ie, college town kids call the locals “townies” – has nothing to do with being a city slicker.
if you guys are going to be smug dickheads, at least be accurate.
When you go to college the locals are called townies. Kind of like the movie Breaking Away.. So in this case a native bklynite is considered a townie.
As a townie who remembers 35¢ subway fares, I also know that when the MTA says they are raising the fare, god himself isn’t going to stop it. Maybe Megan “from” bklyn will perform a miracle..
I also remember the subway being so crowded that we would board the train between cars by un hitching the chains. People already riding between cars would always help you climb on. This is a case where racism and bigotry was truly dead. Getting over on the city was a common cause that transcended all..
Yes, college kids called locals townie, you are correct.
Hey Northside Nerd I mean Ned why dont you put your little sisters jeans on and ride your “classic Schwin” back to the burbs.
Needy, Needy,Needy! Have they grown back? So you’re going to be back calling us townies again? Weak, lame and childish. Sincerely, Kaiser Soze.
Needy, be vareful or your mom’s going to give you another time out.
Hi, Burbs. Have you noticed that Needy’s butt hurt is so severe that he won’t speak directly to me or Verbal Kint? Typical hipster, won’t let anyone else have fun!
DH I think your reading and comprehension skills are lacking. The NYPOST article clearly states she is a “Brklyn gal”, sheesh.
Every kazoo-voiced curated authentic street dirt entrepreneur who has spent fifteen minutes here considers him/herself a “Brooklyn guy/gal”. Twiggy Pigeon Pelvis is no different. Checked he Facebook profile; blank, like the space between her ears.
http://www.thelmagazine.com/BrooklynAbridged/archives/2012/10/23/10-reasons-the-nhl-is-also-coming-to-brooklyn?page=10
Out of 10 reasons only 2 of them were actually based in reality as to why a NHL team might relocate to Brooklyn.
Enjoy your Brooklyn Flannels hockey fans of Brooklyn. ; 3
And a few hours later its announced they are moving to Brooklyn officially. Sall right then. >:V
Actually makes sense to have a hockey team in neubrocklyn… us midwesterners like us some hockey.
actually not so sure hipsters would be into Hockey.. way to manly of a sport. I guess it would be in an “ironic” way.
Hipsters couldn’t play hockey. They would be mistaken for hockey sticks if they would stand anywhere near the players’ box, which would’t be a bad thing.
Hipsters are much better at watching curling, just like at home. With a nice cold PBR, of course.
In defense of curling it seems like a stupidly fun sport to try once. Where? Bridgeport? Why Bridgeport?
http://www.nutmegcurling.com/home.asp
They apparently have a curling club with its own building which I don’t even get how but all the power to them. xD
One of the few places in Portland free of hipsters is Winterhawks (Major Junior hockey) games – a competitive sport with thousands of normal people is a scene that is so not deck.
Hipsters and sports don’t fucking mix ever. Check out some REAL hockey supporters.
With some actual passion. FUCK HIPSTERS
Jesus, what an attention whore. Zany Boyish Haircut Molly Rides the Subways is a perfect title. While REAL New Yorkers are using the subway to get to/from work, lug around groceries for their families, etc., this fucking Molly is having a Zany midweek adventure. LIKE YAH!! I’m surprised she didn’t grab her beanpole buddy Xander to play Shaggy and dress her dog up like Scooby Doo and bring him on the train as well.
It’s a non-profit pulling a publicity stunt. It’s her job. You townies sure are slow.
We’re slow? It took you six days to come back under this handle after you got schooled. Weak,lame, and childish. Sincerely, Kaiser Soze.
Non-Profits are so overrated. Any random monkey can start one or work for one. I know I’ve been there and know people who work for them. They’re full of it. Non-profits is where you turn to when you can’t make it in the real (working) world. So don’t think this is anything special because it’s not.
Yeah, publicity for HERSELF and her zany attempt at a train riding record and to have everybody talk about HER as she Tweets where SHE is at every moment…..fuckbag.
Xander won’t be able to make it. He was clotheslined and bludgeoned to death by a Hasidim while playing a flugelhorn and riding his vintage Schwinn unicycle on Division Avenue.
Ned is a punk bitch. Like every other transplant, you feel tough because the NYPD is CONSTANTLY patrolling the Northside. Pop that shit in a dark alley to a native. I know you won’t because you are a coward. Now go away.
“…the van Nasalsmiths…” LOL!!! I almost peed myself when I read that
Classic DH!!!
C’mon townies, meat-heads and random suburban wackadoos, at least try and keep up. Reading is fundamental.
I heard her speak yesterday on the news and she had the most obnoxious accent.
The only thing worthwhile from the Quad Cities was Bix Biderbecke, who would have no trucking with the DJs this attention seeker associates with.
Just admit it. Admit DH got it wrong. The Quad City DJs were from Florida. This girl was eight years old when that song came out. I’m sure it was a random pop culture reference based on the ‘train’ part. She is not an associate of them. There is no story here, other than DH isn’t very bright.
Quinn? Is everything ok? You jealous you can’t make the trip?
Just admit it. Admit you were fooled by your own trick even with a big clue on the bait. Come talk to me Needy or haven’t you gotten over the butt hurt yet?
And other than that somebody thinks this actually means something. Who cares about the part about Quad City DJs? Only you.
Sounds like Chicago. Maybe St. Louis.
You really are a fucking idiot. Have you ever heard someone from Chicago talk? Also, young people in general, especially educated ones, have all started to speak very similarly. College kids from New York sound a lot like those from Miami, Pittsburgh, Denver, LA, Seattle, Dallas, pretty much anywhere.
Even when making a statement, these baba yahyahs sound like they’re asking a question.
While I generally dislike hipsters, I see nothing wrong with this one. I’m certainly not in favor of any fare hike myself. She seems to actually be doing something productive for New York regardless of where shes from. I doubt it will help but this post is definitely a stretch.
The only thing that’s a stretch here is your attempt to validate this nonsense. How can this be construed as doing “something productive for New York”, except in the most me-monkey context? This won’t have any effect on the decision to raise fares. This won’t stem the tide of teenage pregnancies in low income neighborhoods. This won’t reduce my waiting time at the coffee wagon. Gedefuckouttahere!
Shes making an attempt to keep the subway fare where it is. She saw a problem and is doing what she can to raise awareness rather than sitting around bitching. Whether or not she is successful is almost beside the point. The fact that she is taking action is commendable. If you don’t think fighting a fare increase is productive for New York perhaps you’re as privileged and silver spooned as the transplants you spend your time making fun of.
I don’t like hipsters, what they have done to Brooklyn, or the generally mockery they make out of my city. That being said ridiculing non-issues just hurts your argument and makes you look stupid.
How is she helping exactly?Is she attending the community meetings held by the MTA to protest the fare hike? I think most people are already aware of the upcoming fare hike, so she is not shedding light on anything. The point is that she is useless, like every other hipster. Do you get it now?
There’s a good shot she is attending community meetings as well, considering shes already protesting and who she works for. It doesn’t matter that people are already aware if nobody does anything to change the situation. Shes doing what she can. Shes gained some publicity by being in the Post. Many hipsters are useless, I’m not sure she is though. Shes certainly more useful than you. What are you doing other than sitting online bitching about someone protesting. Hows that useful?
Actually, if you do a little reading and looking around:
- Her nonprofit is mostly about biking and walking, not rapid transit.
- She’s trying for a Guiness world record for fastest time on the MTA. Fare hike is secondary.
= She’s a fraud…
Thank you.
I also recall something being mentioned about…I dunno…a million times about her going for a Guinness record? Like Joe said .,,Fuckoutta here!!!! The only Guinness I want to raise awareness to is one you drop a 1/2 baileys 1/2 jame-o in and it’s called a car bomb. They’re so GOOD! And at $10 bucks a pop useful to my economy. As stated before. When the MTA decides to raise a fair there’s no stopping it. Try picking up a family member from Newark via the Verrazanno.
Fare* and MD… Was typing about the record apparently when you sent.
Has it occurred to any of you fucknuts that this is her JOB and it wasn’t even necessarily her idea to do this? But yeah, keep sitting on your fat asses at home making nasty fun of people, that’s REALLY doing something great for our city!
Fucknuts? I’ve never fucked a nut in my life! There was an unfortunate liaison with a casaba melon, but I was young and naive and just so lonely.
Aw, thanks for playing, Concern Troll.
Next!
Whether this girl is actually a hipster or not, it just seems like a waste of time. How is the MTA going to look at this and say, ‘Well golly! Let’s not hike the fares!’
They probably won’t but at least shes trying
No. She’s getting paid to feign caring and vogue for attention all Holly Golightly-like until something better comes along in her little scripted life drama. Like, say, getting knocked up by a Josh and becoming a Stay At Home Cultural Creative.
Right. If it was a mass rally of people marching on the MTA, it might have an impact. One Canklesaura from Waukesha running around the subways says…absolutely nothing. Just that she has lots of free time and a smart phone to show off to her friends about her quirky “protest”
amass rally won’t accomplish squat, either. The MTA board isn’t answerable to the lumpen. The hearings a just a formality required by law. Other than that, they don’t give a flying fuck about mass rallies or other symbolic gestures.
If you only do things you’re certain you will accomplish you’re spineless. Not only that, don’t complain when they do raise the fares since you’ve done nothing to combat it.
The MTA board is appointed, not elected; they can’t be voted out. Therefore, rallies and protests have no impact on their decisions. Why don’t you organize a rally to protest $15 artisanal grilled cheese sandwiches?
Because I have a choice to buy those sandwiches. There is no alternative for many people living within the 5 boroughs. I’m unclear why you would want someone fighting against a fare hike which ultimately would benefit you. And a little help from Albany would be one way to keep the fares down. But I’m sure you think protest/petition signing would have not effect on that route either.
Clearly, you’re new to these parts and do not fully grasp how things work around here. Anyone who knows New York and the MTA knows that this ridiculous specimen of humanity is tipping windmills in a “LOOK AT ME” campaign to show the world that she really is as cool as her mom says she is.
If the MTA decreess that there will be a fare hike, God Almighty would not be able to stop it. Harken back I’d say about 10 years ago when the MTA was caught double dipping with 2 sets of accounting ledgers – public and a private. Even in the wake of this accounting scandal, fares still went up. Her attempts to change the world one turnstile at a time are self-promoting and futile and only serve to piss the fuck out of us who have a vested interest in this city and are who not just killing time until ma and pa’s 401K fund dries up or, for those lucky ducks with a bottomless pit of parental funding, the Grand Poobah of Hiptardom declares some other city the new Mecca of All Things Quirky, Zany, and Ironic and they pack up camp and flee.
So, if you want to defend this twatwaffle and her attempt to fight the good fight, please do so on Gothamist or some other hipster-friendly site. You’re not likely to gain much support here and, frankly, you make me want to puke!!!
First off buddy, I’m from New York, born and raised. I’m very familiar with the MTA having taken trains my entire life. I grew up in Brooklyn in the 80s and have since lived in the city, Queens, and the Bronx. This girl sees a problem and is taking some action against it. Whether or not it works is beside the point. The point is her intentions are not harmful or malicious. I’m sure as you well know, subway service is not where it should be. Therefore it is hard to feel a fare hike is warranted. I am fortunate enough to have a high paying job where a hike will not affect my bottom line. That is unfortunately not the case for many New Yorkers and I can sympathize with them. You are probably right in saying this will not work and the fare hike will go through as planned. That being said though, why do you care if she wants to protest this or not? Its not a useless issue and it has no bearing on your existence. In fact if this is successful you would benefit. And the reason I’m not on some hipster friendly site (which you seem to be familiar with) is because I am not a fan of hipsters. A lot of the shit DH posts is true and funny. This though is a little off topic and a blatant stretch to ridicule someone. And honestly I’m not looking for support via some internet forum. Frankly, you can suck my dick!!!
Well, clearly I’ve hit a nerve. For someone who claims to dislike hipsters, I notice that you have spent a great deal of time defending the actions of one today. I think you doth protest too much.
Your diatribe kind of reminds me of the asshole who spent the best part of the day a few months ago defending Matthew “Speedo” Silver, insisting that he should not be reviled but rather revered for spreading love and happiness to all though his performance art.
You asked why I cared if someone tried to stage a protest, however futile and pointless. At the end of the day, I don’t care. I am not calling people to action to thwart her efforts. Simply, I find it irritating as apparently do the vast majority of DH readers. If this fetid transplant wants to improve the quality of life for New Yorkers she should start first by showering, second by going the fuck back to whatever flyover piece of shit burg she came from and, finally, encourage her cohorts to do the same.
I find it endlessly amusing when people become insecure and defensive when there is some dissention and feel the need to list their pedigree on this site with things like “I’m New York born and bred,” “I have a college degree,” or “I have a high paying job.” This may impress your grandma, but the rest of us could not care less. So, as for your high paying job, congratulations on your promotion to assistant weekend night manager at Starbucks, good luck with that. And, as for sucking your dick, no thank, I don’t want your father’s sloppy seconds.
I think protesting is better than sitting around with your dick in your hand bitching. I’m defending her because in this case the criticism is misguided/unwarranted. When you blanket arguments you dilute your real points. Your views become comical and you end up sounding like a Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly. Matthew Silver is a fucking moron. That ridicule was definitely warranted. Real men admit mistakes immediately. I’m not defending this chicks character, I never met her. However I won’t attack her as some “look at me hipster” similar to Matthew Silver. Those are two very different situations. If she was a black or hispanic native New Yorker DH would have put her picture in the “this is brooklyn” section. There are enough hipsters to shit on without making weak arguments. That is my basic point.
You called me a transplant, I simply corrected you. Furthermore I didn’t say any of that impress you. I’ll reiterate, I could care less what you or anyone else on this forum thinks of me. And my status does impress my grandma, shes proud of me. You know who else is impressed by me? Your wife
Why are you arguing with them?
They’re morons, functioning on pure bile.
Most of them don’t even live in NY. They’re from Ohio, Vegas, Maryland, Texas, frickin’ Teton County, WY. (that’s right Teton County, WY population 21k apparently has transplant hipsters).
Just make fun of them.
I mean, they’re leader is functioning on a 7th grade reading level.
They’re some of the most ridiculous people on the internet. Straight up comedy.
My guess: you don’t care about the issue per se, you just got a powerful tickle in your crotch gazing into her fey winsome slightly downcast androgeno-girly eyes. Just as the PR campaign of which she is part was designed to achieve. “To hell with how we organize infrastructure around here. Look! It’s elfin Lolita! With a mission and a boy-do!”
Hipsters. Can’t even ride their fucking bicycles without drawing attention to themselves.
I love people who actually buy into the idea they have rights and choices. It’s hilarious!!
About the only thing that might work is a mass boycott of the transit system, which isn’t really practical for people who need it to get to work, or seniors who need it to remain independent. And starving the system of cash just gives the MTA an excuse for an even bigger rate hike.
As for “awareness,” New Yorkers already seem to be well aware of the rate hike. Maybe Marathon Molly should hurl herself across the 3rd rail to raise awareness of electricity.
A mass boycott would certainly be better but it does have to start somewhere. And sure many people work making it difficult to during the week. Weekends are an option if you actually care enough. Sign an online petition. Takes no time. Have you even gone that far?
Also hilarious, is DH concluding that a publicity stunt is attention seeking. Haha. Duh. You’re really blowing the lid off things genius.
You fucking ignoramus, seeking attention is precisely the reason that publicity stunts are staged in the first place.
hahaha
I know! That was the point. I was making fun of DH’s ham-fisted “exposure.”
Are you all retarded?
The only point is the one on top of your head.
Ham fisted? Oh, you mean like your clumsy, years-long attempt to fool DH with your lame, weak and childish scam? Razor sharp, Needy, razor sharp!
You just reiterated what Northside Ned said
Go fuck yourself.
BAHHHHHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
You have a gift for conciseness my friend.
Publicity. Stunt. Almost certainly perpetrated by an “organization” that has its own interests much more firmly in mind than those of regular Brooklyn people and spearheaded by a “cutsey” self-promoting almost certainly not-from-Brooklyn… if it were a guy I’d say “codpiece”… so let’s go with “merkin”.
Isn’t pointing this sort of thing out exactly what DH is all about? Spot on, gentlemen, I say. You’ve found another one. Paint her so we can add her to the target list.
Heh. NYP removed all comments. An overwhelming majority were DH-worthy.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww, I wanted to read them
I guess NYP knows their audience is probably full of over-sensitive, politically correct urban yups of last generation, as well as dumpster-diving, toothpick-physiqued self-awareness-raisers.
Pete Hamill must have been reporting for the Post the last time you read it if you think its a politically correct publication for urban yups
This has been done before! Your not special, interesting or zany. This half a she male is just another loser hipster
At least Thanksgiving is right around the corner – that glorious time when the nasally ones fly back home and leave us alone for a few days. Nothing better than going out on that Friday and Saturday and not being confronted with skinny jeans wearing redbeards every 20 feet.
Amen. I love the holidays when they all go home. It’s like the city has gone back to normal.
And then it’s bad news for those of us who were glad they were gone. Hundreds and thousands of them hanging out everywhere, loudly scoffing “Oh, New York has a lot better [fill in the blank] than here” to nobody in particular. And yet they still feel compelled to honk that at the local Target, as if anybody really cares.
Amen, Leroy. Amen. These are but a few of the conversations that will be heard across the beautiful midwest this November:
“The chicken fingers in New York are so much better than the chicken fingers in Omaha.”
“What? My bar back in Brooklyn is fully stocked with Brooklyn Brewery products as well as PBR and you are telling me that here in Tipton, you only have Old Style and Budweiser? Pfft, I can’t wait to get back to Brooklyn.”
“Hey mom, this recipe would be so much better if you used Mast Bros. chocolate instead of inferior Hershey products.”
“Hey dad, when I come back for Christmas, I will bring you a couple of jars of that vadouvan mayonnaise I told you about.”
The one consolation is that TSA gets to screw around with them going and coming.
A good friend of mine lives in Towson. I am pretty familiar with the MD Suburbs. As such, I am 100% certain that you have no hipster problem. Maybe there is a website named DieFatAss.com?
When trying to insult people, as you attempted in one of your above comments, by saying they have a ’7th grade reading level’, it might be helpful if you knew the difference between ‘their’ and ‘they’re’.
….”I mean, they’re leader is functioning on a 7th grade reading level.”….
That’s just some funny shit right there.
I’m posting w/ a phone in my ear and not proofreading.
Excuses, excuses. That’s all you have after picking at every misspelling, typo or minor error someone else makes. Weak, lame and childish.
And a smartphone (if that’s what Ned is using) would autocorrect the they’re/their discrepancy.
You have a friend? Amazing! How much are the payments?
“A good friend of mine lives in Towson. I am pretty familiar with the MD Suburbs. As such, I am 100% certain that you have no hipster problem.”
http://citypaper.com/news/issue-43-bew-hon-1.1392450
Asshole.
So let’s summarize. Here is the real story.
24 year old girl, employed by 39 year old NYC based Transportation Alternative advocacy group, consciously launches a PR stunt to draw attention or raise awareness to purposed MTA fare hike. She references 16 year old novelty hit on Facebook with train in the title. She may or may not have grown up in NYC.
Idiot blogger, who either struggles with reading comprehension, or is blinded by delusional rage, get’s the whole thing wrong, and writes meandering diatribe that serves only to highlight his initial mistake.
END OF STORY.
“39 year old NYC based Transportation Alternative”
Isn’t that called buying a bicycle?
And PS: A 24 year old is a woman, not a ‘girl.’
Wow. This post got Neddy real mad. He either hates how right I always am or think this gender-puzzled, infinite leisure time transplant is a cutie. Ned, for a white-collared Brooklyn gentrification cheerleading guy with an amazing social life, you sure do spend a lot of time on my site. I guess that means I win. You fuckin herb.
Amazing you haven’t gone further in the world, with your keen insight, and intellect. I’m shocked that you’re worried about rents. It’s really surprising a bright guy like you isn’t cleaning up. But hey, at least your not embarrassing yourself under your real name. You got that going for you.
Ned this website owns you. You can find contradictions, errors, mis-informations, exaggerations, etc. But at the end of the day this site consumes you. You are practically all alone in your fight to defend the bearded arteestes. Remember, I own you , transplant.
You don’t even your apartment, townie.
*own
NeedleDick Ned, Hmmmm?…….sounds like a better name.
Can we just please keep them in Brooklyn?
They’re starting to jump off the L like rats and stinking up my neighborhood. And I live next to a hipster bar (my mistake when I signed the lease).
Damn near ran over one on what appeared to be a 10-foot long skateboard, hat/beard/long coat/skinny jeans/latest music ipod etc. so he couldn’t hear traffic.
(Daydreaming) ‘Damn officer, he just swayed out in front of me and ended up under my 21″s. I’d try to peel him outta my wheel well, but he’s a little greasy with that beard and all’
Another homonym error: your vs. you’re!
“Herb”…..BWAHAHAHAHA!. Nice! I haven’t heard that in a while. It fits him like a fixie up his ass.
Ned’s hot for her. It’s that simple.
Here’s a better story. A 36 year old Asian Nellie vampire trolls for years hiding behind multiple sock puppets while fooling no one then gets schooled in his own scam and runs away with severe butt hurt. Then he comes back and keeps beating it over an imagined mistake in a post that he considers a non-issue. END OF STORY? Nah, he just keeps trolling along serving only to highlight his delusional opinion of his own skills. Sincerely, Kaiser Soze.
Ok Stevie, Listen up, M-Kay!
If miss Molly Nasalschleimer wants to make a difference to the most New Yorkers, know what she can do? She can start a movement (since that’s what hipsters are sooooo good at) to…..
REMOVE ALL THE FUCKING HIPSTERS FROM NEW YORK AND BRING RENTS BACK DOWN TO NORMAL!!!
She can even go one further, start with herself.
Thank you!
Yesterday was our first “winter” storm here in Teton County, WY (or as I like to call it TaxBreaks County, HAR!). Anyways one of my family members is a plow driver for WYDOT and whilst trying to make the extremely dangerous Teton Pass (over 10,000 feet in elevation and has a 10% grade) safe for the commuters bravely driving in SCARY conditions to get to work, some douchetastic Hipster transplants decided wouldn’t it be ZANY and WHIMSICAL to drive up there, park on the top of the pass and LIKE YAH go sledding!! Who cares about the traffic, rock slides or potential soft slide conditions, it’s LIKE YAH SNOWING MAN…on a Tuesday in the middle of the day..the actions of these hipsters caused the following:
Soft Slide avalance into the road, car accident, road closed to all commuters wanting to get home to families on the other side of the pass, said commuters must drive 90 miles around the WRONG SIDE to get home, but Molly and Caleb got to go sledding on the pass. DIE HIPSTERS..
*end rant*
They have hipster transplants in Teton County, WY?
Ha, aren’t those called Ski bums?
Ski Bums work hard Spring, Summer and Fall so they can ski every day in the winter. I actually respect skids (ski bums) here. Hipsters are the same here as they are everywhere, Entitled, Parentally funded, and trying to sell us crappy fingerpaintings called “ART” (HAR!!). They don’t do what I consider MTN sports (skiing, snowboarding, XC skiing, or even snow machining) they do have a kickball league that whines when the actual Little League wants to play on the community diamond. They do wear tattered holey converse when it’s -15 and the snot freezes in your nose. They try (and fail) to open up restaurants (so many failed hipster eateries here where do I start..). If WYDOT closes off backcountry access due to Caleb and Molly’s sled adventures yesterday there are going to be a lot of missing, feared dead reports being sent out to distraught helicopter parents.
when i was in high school, i wore chuck taylors and only one pair of socks to the army/navy game at the meadowlands. i didn’t get frostbite, but i never wore them in winter again.
Have to say she’s pretty cute
Some “Mollies” are cute, like this one, but the overwhelming majority of them are fugly, big-time.
That’s why she was chosen to be the face of this PR campaign. If they’d chosen a 300-pound Jamaican-Latina woman supporting three grandkids and a disabled husband on minimum wage, it wouldn’t have gotten headlines. Or Ned’s wick dripping.
““I was a little miffed when I heard about it [FASTRACK],” she said.
Gray — who is going with a group of women volunteers — is also worried about bathroom trips.
“It doesn’t help that we’re all women,” she said
Translation: I’ve never been on a subway in my life until I decided to market myself.
In other news, anyone ever heard of the immortal comedy, Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best? Needless to say, the writer/director is from California, but that’s not why I bring crapfest up. No, I want to point out this paragraph, courtesy of the NYT:
“The band has an unusual, low-fi sound, performing with a collection of children’s instruments, like Fisher-Price pianos, kazoos and child-size accordions. “There’s no instrument over $40,” Mr. O’Nan said. “They’re the kinds of instruments that you got for Christmas in the ’80s, you played for an hour, and then you shoved under your bed for the rest of your life.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/movies/ryan-onan-and-michael-weston.html?_r=0
They’re a “They Might Be Giants” cover band.
I seem to remember, back in 89/90, some group of students riding the entire subway on one token for charity. It took them about 2 days and they did all the express and all the local lines in one go. And I doubt even they were the first (they even kept their pants on).
Typical hipster. Do something unoriginal, which thousands have done before you, and tweet and blog about it like it was a pilgrimage to Canterbury in the Middle Ages.
Yes I remember that. And they didn’t even have degrees in Geographic Whatever (too lazy to go back to read Zany’s credentials).
What’s annoying about her isn’t that she’s causey, I would be fine with that if that’s what she’s was really about. But it isn’t. She’s after is a Guiness Book record or at least coverage because yah that would be cool.
Typical hipster pud pull (female division)
maybe hipsters will “invent” riding back and forth on the staten island ferry as a cheap date.
Fact check: the Quad City DJs are a 90′s hip hop group from Jacksonville, FLA. They wrote the Space Jam theme. Her facebook status is a reference to “C’mon Ride it (the train).”
She looks like she could handle a 100 car freight train
Please add this to the incredibly long list of things that I don’t give a shit about.
The one thing that might be amusing could be now that she’s let everyone know of her plans, she will be shadowed by pimply overweight slightly stanky 25 year old subway fanboys getting their first look at a g-g-g-g-girl intentionally riding all the trains just like they do. *hope hope hope* Maybe she will even buy one of their subway photo calendars or help them with some bug they’re having on trainsim. Or strike up a conversation. This might be fun to hear how it actually turns out. Maybe she will so creeped out by them hanging around asking her “What is your favorite SMEE train?” or “I collect photos of graffiti on trains, do you have any you want to trade?” that she’ll give up on NY and leave on the next train (or bicycle) to Quad City.
I’d have to agree with you 100%, BEDT, 100%.
The coy sexual innuendo is part of the PR schtick.
Yeah, she’s riding while everybody else is frigging working.
It’s a job to her and she’s getting exhausted. Time for an around-the-city masseuse tour
It’s a job, as in she’s getting paid.
Got to love the posters here. Razor sharp bunch of “real” New Yorkers.
Like you were “razor sharp” when you bit like a trout on a mayfly and then met Kaiser Soze?
Believe it or not, there is a difference between “working” and “getting paid”… as in “Most New Yorkers have to work for a living whereas there are many who get paid to hang around in subways, delis and coffee shops and make their lives miserable.”
A “before” photo:
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltbnueCqK41qjwcrv.jpg
She’s a “political organizer”. Steph-Boyardee is listed as a staff member at Transit Alternatives. That, in itself, doesn’t mean she has a real job because part-timers and volunteers are also included in that list. Her Linkedin profile offers nothing. It only indicates that she attended Hunter. Other than that, nothing else about her. Twiggy tweeted that she used to live in Gravesend. That doesn’t necessarily indicate she’s actually from Brooklyn. I’m waiting for an invitation email to access her personal website so I can check her history out.
She’s not a New Yorker. Just listen to her voice on the NY Post video.
Question for the board – say you had a daughter who was moderately good looking and then she moved to Brooklyn to become a bike activist or public transit activist or OWS activist, all on your dime. Would you be more disappointed if she did that or entered to the pr0n business and became self-sufficient?
That monthly stipend would dry up faster than a spinster’s twat. Then again, I wouldn’t pay my kid’s way to playcation,
No child of mine would be on my dime past the age of 19, period–be it OWS agitator, subway ‘advocate’, or whatever. She can fail on her own dime, or lack thereof. Once she moved out, If she decided to go into the sex industry, that would be her problem and I’d hope that she would make better decisions in the future.
Cary Tennis’ response at the below link is precisely the sort of navel-gazing bullshit that hipster parents lap up, but sane people find satirical. If we think kidults are bad now, I think we’re really in for it in the years ahead, once the hipster breeders “raise” (using that term loosely) their spawn.
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/my_friends_child_is_a_brat/
Good ol’ Cary Tennis. I swear, it’s like he goes out of his way to give the worst possible advice, under any circumstance, just so people will read his goddamn columns. He’s the Gene Shalit of advice columnists, and lower than that I can’t get.
She’s from Ft. Lauderdale
I interpret “used to live in Gravesend” as follows: back when she was still in the cornfield, she answered a Craigslist ad for an apartment for rent in Brooklyn, along with the price being asked per month. As soon as she saw “Brooklyn”, she went nuts and bothered mommy and daddy nonstop until they agreed to sign off on it. She then collected her art supplies, organic cookbook, animal hats, vinyl records, ukelele, Play-Doh, converse, got an extra pair of Buddy Holly glasses, ran to the barber to get her bangs cut like Zooey, picked up a bunch of granny dresses, and ran to the airport to begin her artisanal urban adventure. She landed at JFK, and took a taxi (who promptly saw her as the rube she is and charged her $150) to her new fair trade latte haven.
Of course, it wasn’t to be, as once she was dropped off and unpacked, she walked the streets looking for this whimsical land of quirkiness that she heard so much about, but found nothing but real New Yorkers. That weekend, she hit Brooklyn Flea and shared her horror story with Harrison, Monroe, and Ethan; they were understandably horrified, and scrambled to find her more suitable housing in an area where her creativity would be appreciated by other transplants that understand her better. They then celebrated by playing a concert that Monday afternoon in the Bedford Ave. station. She moved out in the middle of the night that Wednesday, screwing her parents out of the first and last month rent they already paid.
This is how I see her Gravesend background.
Will you give me a trustfund so I can go to Brueklyn?
Will you give me a trustfund so I can go to Brueklyn?
Will you give me a trustfund so I can go to Brueklyn?
Will you give me a trustfund so I can go to Brueklyn?
Will you give me a trustfund so I can go to Brueklyn?
Will you give me a trustfund so I can go to Brueklyn?
LOL I think you nailed it exactly the way it happened. Ahahah the last Monroe I think I ever saw was the dumb guy on Too Close For Comfort. Wasn’t that his name?
“picked up a bunch of granny dresses” is the best part.
That smugness is too much to handle. Look at her face. It says, “I’m important for riding the subway.” She needs a twat kick.
What a disgusting annoying twat.
RIDING FROM THE END OF A TRAIN LINE TO THE OTHER END OF A TRAIN LINE IS NEWS?
Shit. I used to regularly ride from the end of the Bronx all the way down to Coney Island on a regular basis over 20 years ago. Never once did I think I was special or did I think my trip was newsworthy.
These fucking attention seekers will seek out attention for almost everything.
LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The internet is completely full of these videos. But she’s doing something totally new and unique:
http://vimeo.com/149692
etc…
Don’t judge me guys, but upon further review I would give her the dick…
Yeah, but she’s taking up a seat in rush hour. Twice.
I think DH is right, Ned is in love with this Meghan and thinks that if he defends her from random strangers online, she will somehow find out aboutu it and reward his heroism with some hummus-coated ironic sex….LIKE YAH!
Yeah, but the first face-to-face meeting will be a killer. “Oh my God…you’re a Canadian vampire wannabe!”
“Well, you can learn a lot about a person by the way they talk about hipsters. SQUAWK!”
LIKE, YAH! THOSE BROOKLYN GALS ARE LIKE, LIKE, LIKE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
UNPREDICTABLE. LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, LIKE, YAH!
To Diehipster,
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Thanks for making this website. It is so hilarious and I love how you have successfully shown to the world what is wrong with these fuckers known as hipsters. Honestly, whenever I go around and see people dressed up in v necks and skin tight jeans and other hipster apparel, I always ask why is nobody complaining about these awful fashion trends and personality disorders that hipsters have? Is this the new norm of our society?
It is thanks to people like you that we have this wonderful website as an everyday reminder of how horrible this hipster culture truly is and how it feels so good to vent out our anger and opposition towards these delusional modern day hippie freaks
Check out Zany Molly’s friend Lauren Colchamiro’s facebook comment. She apologizes for not sending the “corrected” version of the photo without the reflection of the authentic New York citizen standing nearby. See, it’s distasteful to have someone so tragically uncool in the pic, right Lauren? I mean, “that guy” has no oversize glasses AND he’s pushing, what, 30? Why should he get to be a part of your little New York adventure?
His Visa is part of her New York adventure, not so much him.
Mr. Van Beardswick – is this your kickstarter featured on her facebook page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2129058795/van-brunt-holster
I totally see the market for this. If you are wearing jeans or jorts that are so tight they look like they were painted on, you need somewhere to hang your iPhone because there is no room in your pockets. But you don’t want to look like you work for IT or anything, so that discrete pouch is really the only solution.
“Each individual holster is a very time–consuming, labor–intensive endeavor for me alone.” Holy crap, now what should a tailor say about their work? Shit like that is stuff for a sewing beginners lesson with 10yr old kids.
Oh, yeah, the old “I need to get paid for my time” argument. I see those types at swap meets and craft fairs all of the time. One guy in particular makes little wood handicrafts, like gumball machines and crib mobiles. The problem isn’t that they’re half-finished: the wood in the gumball machines, for instance, isn’t sealed, and the tops are held on with tape, and any high school crafts or shop teacher would tell him to put in some more time if he expected to get a decent grade. The problem isn’t that they’re exactly the same sort of goofy item that “Woodworker” magazine has been promoting for the last forty years. No, the problem is that since he “put a lot of time into it”, he expects to be paid for his time. He also thinks that he deserves $20 an hour for the woodworking equivalent of macaroni sculpture, so he can’t understand why he can’t sell his halfassed creations for $60 apiece.
he forgot to call his 1950s singer “vintage” since it is more than half a century old.
personally, i’m glad to see something like this appear. perhaps it will revive the dying art of artisinal pick-pocketry. all of the skills of sleight of hand and distraction have been fading away as people carry less cash and rely on credit/debit cards now.
rather than the crude grab and run, this pouch allows for a cruelty free method of stealing phones, as the hipsters don’t have to be victimized by the thoughts of theft. they can just assume it fell out during a look at me leap.
this is a stretch to hate on someone, but good try.
Here are some great old photos of what our subway used to look like:
http://life.time.com/history/new-york-city-subway-photos-from-the-1940s-1950s-and-1960s/#1
The woman with the accordion in #8 is blind. Today it would be a bearded, pierced, neutral-gender transplant on the L train non-stop tweeting how ‘awesome’ it is to be so ‘zany’ and ‘quirky’ in Brooklyn.
Well, let’s see what zany Stefanie has been up to before she started riding the rails -
BA, MA Geography, Hunter College 2006 – 2011
Research Assistant during that time; presented urban planning research at the 2010 and 2011 Association of American Geographers conferences (which coincides with her claim to be an Adjunct Lecturer (Weather and Climate)).
GIS Technician, Common Cause, August – October 2011
Freelance Campaign Organizer, Change.org, October 2011 – July 2012
Research and Mapping Consultant; Transit Campaign Coordinator, Transportation Alternatives, June 2012 – Present
My guess is she’s pretty much had a history of working for food after graduation with a useless Master’s degree…
And she was a poster girl on Russia Today (RT TV), whining about student loan debt relief [GEOG 7666: Being a Deadbeat 101]:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gKzJaJ-9w8M/0.jpg&http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gKzJaJ-9w8M/0.jpg&imgrefurl=http://article.wn.com/view/2012/06/23/Congress_nears_deal_to_hold_down_college_student_loan_rates/&h=360&w=480&sz=19&tbnid=Wxd8gyeOCr0LpM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=122&zoom=1&usg=__2ovVzOCr2bvc4gYIAzGCFug01EE=&docid=j7KJa9UR2-kJIM&sa=X&ei=FkWIUIGzAtTq0QGZ8YHgBQ&ved=0CD8Q9QEwBg&dur=5526
Question from that resume – now that Obama is president, does Change.org still want change?
As a staunch right winger myself, I am against most tax hikes, but I would support a 98% tax on all funds wired or sent by check from parents into what I call “Hipster Decimated Areas” – places where hipsters playcation all of the time as determined by me. It would be an amendment to the gift and estate tax laws and I suspect it would have widespread support. When I run for President in 2016, my campaign motto will be “America needs a haircut.” Let me know if I can count on your support.
Local art show poster features stencil portrait of soulful-looking, winsome, big-eyed, bearded hipster. Cue the music..
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46896052@N00/8120017809/in/set-72157630543765852/
Saw this on the NYP and raced over to DH to see if there was coverage. DH never dissapoints. How fast can she fly first class (paid for by parents) back to the Midwest?
I doubt she’s from the Midwest. If it turns out she’s from New York somewhere, you guys are all gonna freak. I think you guys have a homegrown hipster problem that needs addressing before blaming it on everywhere else first. But that’s typical New York willfull ignorance.
I bet you five bucks she’s been in the City for less than two years. I’m guessing Iowa.
Pony up the Lincoln, Matt. She attended Hunter for five years, Still doesn’t mean she’s from here, though.
Aww dang. You win some, you lose some. Has anyone found out if she was raised in the City? I’ll go double or nothing on that.
I’m still waiting for her approval, through WordPress, to view her private website. That’s gotta be a target-rich environment.
Believe it or not, this says she’s a Sheepshead Bay native.
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/10/6538289/transportation-advocate-seeks-quickest-subway-route-everywhere
Here’s the rub: most folks who have LinkedIn profiles usually include, at the low end, the high school they attended and some minimal background info. Shrew Barrymore’s existence, on the other hand, starts with Hunter. Now, I’m really interested to see what information she’s posted on that private website.
Just because she claims to be something of a railfan doesn’t cinch the “native Brooklynite” angle. There are a shitload of people who are subway geeks from out of state and post at the New York City Transit Forums.
I used to be sorta friendly acquaintances with this girl. She graduated from HS in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Her mom was a native NYer and I think she lived in the city during childhood at some point. She’s been in NYC for the last 6 years at least.
She’s a native from Sheepshead Bay yet somehow didn’t know about Fastrack screwing up the lines, or that subway bathrooms are, um, stank?
Right.
ahahahahahahaah she’s even from real Brooklyn.
Ha! Yep, she’s keeping it real with that Sheepshead reference. Yet somehow got her pixie cut, hightop wearing ass to Hunter without apparently knowing the subways at all, had to use her degree to figure out the system. Never heard of the MTA website, or even hopstop? Right.
Hey maybe she’s the same chick DH posted sleeping on the train the other day
Nah, the one catching some “zees” on the N train was meatier, in a porcine kind of way. This Dora the Urban Explorer looks she competed in the Bataan Death March.
Read on, Stevie.
Willful ignorance. Stevie, scroll on down the page to the entry where it’s revealed she’s from Florida. Once again you accuse others of your own failings. Weak, lame and childish.
She could have been born in Sheepshead and moved to Florida and come back. Fuckin idiot.
She could’ve been spawned in Coney Island Creek and made her way to Florida as a fucking larva. She is now a Sunshine State transplant.
Stevie, you’re in Toronto, what the fuck do you know about Brooklyn?
And in related news:
http://gawker.com/5954588/new-fashion-blog-lets-you-spy-in-real+time-on-williamsburg-hipsters
Now, remember the hue and cry a few years back about the plan to allow deer hunting with remote-controlled hunting rifles? I can see a variation on this. Wait for the most obnoxious hipsters to go by, and peg them with tranquilizer darts. They wake up back in Dogfelcher Falls with a radio collar that shocks them if they come within 50 miles of Brooklyn, multicolored ear tags that read “IF FOUND, PLEASE IGNORE,” and the word “LOSER” printed on their asses with yellow epoxy paint. I could see this becoming a major moneymaker, especially if it leads to franchises in Milwaukee, Austin, and Portland.
I wish I would’ve known that those bikers, who were busted, were selling that cannon. Set it up at the Bedford Avenue subway entrance, load it with rock salt, and wait until you see the whites of their neckscarves…..
Like your idea of tranquilize and transport! That has some real possibilities.
We’ll take one of those here in Providence. That would get rid of about 80% of the RISD and Brown assholes.
Oh, the apologists. I bet it’s because she’s got a “cute pixie-cut hairdo” and is wearing an almost tight t-shirt and these losers are thinking “Maybe she’ll see this… or some other girl will… and think I’m not so bad… I could have a shot with a woman some day…” Just a bunch of white knights telling themselves that the way to success with girls is by “defending the honor” of every two bit attention w***e who happens by.
If this were a 42 year old guy or a bunch of hispanic laborers everybody would be “Yeah, whatever, fares going up, get over it.”
At least one person here understands Game.
BA, MA Geography, Hunter College 2006 – 2011
Research Assistant during that time; presented urban planning research at the 2010 and 2011 Association of American Geographers conferences (which coincides with her claim to be an Adjunct Lecturer (Weather and Climate)).
GIS Technician, Common Cause, August – October 2011
Freelance Campaign Organizer, Change.org, October 2011 – July 2012
Research and Mapping Consultant; Transit Campaign Coordinator, Transportation Alternatives, June 2012 – Present
ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART ART…
Every lamp post and utility pole in Brooklyn needs to have a large metal coat hook attached about five feet off the ground. Hoist them hipsters up by the back of their skinny jeans and let them dangle!
They can then be utilized as pinatas. You know, your post got me thinking. Has anybody tied two sustainable bedbug consultants together and thrown them over a light post arm, like an old pair of sneakers?
Nice visual.
It seems that she comes from “south Florida” – whatever that means.
“In terms of social geography, given my roots in the diverse urban metropolitan areas of South Florida and New York City, I am drawn to the studies of urban and economic geography and the ways in which the two intertwine.”
http://www.geografiya.net/stefaniegray.net22
You can claim having roots in a city after having only lived there for less than 10 years?
Is this the new urban?
It’s actually the same old bullshit obfuscating response, a time-honored practice used by talking-out-of-both-sides-of-their-mouth douches who want to avoid any questions about their credibility which, in this case, centers on her “New Yorkness” quotient. Molly scores a -50.
term abroad in russia
I honestly barely noticed the increase, isn’t it always increasing? When I was a teenager it was $1.65, the GW bridge was $6, I could ride from Penn to Ronkonkoma station round trip for $11. Now I’m pretty sure crossing the GW requires a federal loan and a sexual favor… I dunno, I’ve become jaded and unsurprised as this place’s deep seeded greed.
“requires a federal loan and a sexual favor”
I believe that’s the going rate for the Verrazano.
I used to work with this girl and yes shes an uber hipster and kind of the worst but it is worth letting you all know, she’s an orphan so, …be nice(er)
actually she has had a pretty rough time of it, and I think she tries too hard but deep down shes a nice enough kid, and shes done pretty well considering
Yes. I did not like her personality at all but knowing these details makes the “trust fund” and “subsidized” jokes tough to read. She’s been more self-reliant than a lot of natives I know.
Say what you want about this project, but Stefanie lost both of her parents before she turned 18. So knock it off with that “subsidized” nonsense.
That’s a very rough break in life. Sorry to hear it.
Apologist -
Two words for you: Life Insurance.
her parents left her broke she was squeaking by on minimum wage when I worked with her and this is coming from someone who didn’t like her
That’s a tough break, but if she majored in a science or math at Hunter she could be raking it in with a Master’s and do the biking shtick as a hobby. And how could she afford Hunter on minimum wage anyway? Something doesn’t add up here.
she can’t:
“College tuition prices are skyrocketing following the Congress’ decision to raise interest rates on student loans, but the situation with unemployment isn’t improving either. That means Americans owe more money for their school loans then they do on their credit cards. Stefanie Gray of the Change.org knows about the issue first hand. The unemployed 23-year-old who is struggling to survive has a masters degree and $130k in debt. Stefanie Gray shares her sad experience with RT’s Lucy Kafanov”
She had some form of scholarship and took out loans. Lots and lots of loans. Trust me, she pulled some things I am loathe to defend her for, but she had it hard as hell. I lost both my parents much older than her, and it still sucks and its still hard. I can hold grudges against her for a bunch of things but I respect where she’s come from.
plus If i remember she majored in Geography…
Correct. An utterly useless major, as I said before.
Why would that major be useless? It might not be top five of the most lucrative majors one can get. But useless?
Yeah, useless. Even more useless than Northside Needledick Ned.
use-less
adjective
1.
of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile: It is useless to reason with him.
2.
without useful qualities; of no practical good: a useless person; a useless gadget.
Here’s a look at job prospects in the field over the next ten years, starting in 2010:
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/geographers.htm#tab-6
Only 600 potential job openings during that ten year period. That epitomizes futility.
Apologist,
I do feel bad about that but I will also say this: if you look like a hipster and act like a hipster then you have a good chance of getting ridiculed on the Internet.
Oh totally. And I’m not defending any of her stunt or internet persona in the least. But given the hand this girl’s been dealt, reading the “van Nasalsmiths” jokes made my heart break a little. Of course, there’s no way you could’ve known about her past.
OK, I think we understand the ‘guilt by association isn’t fair’ argument. My problem is that hipsters rarely give such breaks to natives.
Both her parents are dead. That’s too bad. But that is the case for many thousands of human beings in the states. Why not take up the cause for home placement/adoption/foster care? How about all the homeless people in NYC who I’m sure, if one were going to get into the ‘my past is sadder than your past’ rationale, could compete with her lack of parents? Lots and lots of people, old and young, lack family ties. This doesn’t mean they worry about looking edgy and setting Guiness records. Raise awareness about kids who get sucked into the loathesome porn industry. Raise awareness about old people eating dog food and being abandoned by their selfish, parasitic kidults. There are thousands of causes I can see someone with a ‘heartbreaking’ story applying their time to, but fares? Protesting and getting in Guiness? Assuming massive college debts with no eye to the future? For sad stories, I know people whose stories would cause her to combust, instantley.
Yes, FUWI! I’m getting a little tired of the “poor little orphan girl” speeches. I just buried a long time friend whose horrible experiences and upbringing make that woman’s life look like summer camp. Go back a generation and her mother hid for three years in a 4ft root cellar when the Nazis invaded Norway. Her grandmother walked home from Auschwitz to Denmark. Her grandfather hid in a barn for three years. She herself endured abuse in her adopted family that enrages me to this day. And she lived her life to help others. So pardon me if I can’t squeeze out a tear for an adult who worked minimum wage, got loans and went to college.
Noone obviously cares about your friend. Your so quick to point out her hardships , but dont want to try to empathize with others. You are pathetic! Everyone has their own problems, it doesn’t give you the right to bash others. Cry me a river, your friend helped others , and how do you know this girl doesn’t do the same?? You don’t ,so please continue to spew out the nonsense..we all cannot wait to hear more about your friend mother Theresa..
Making sarcastic jibes about someone with that life history is fine, even as a direct response to hearing about it, but when the person being mocked is a cool geek-chic Scott Pilgrim character type, the fact she’s suffered hardship makes her immune from criticism?
For a group with such an obsessive hatred of high school and anything to do with it, you really are determined to think like you’re still there, aren’t you? I suspect that if there was a website making exactly the same criticisms about, say, a preppy Disney Channel starlet who’d endured personal problems, those problems would fall somewhere between “no excuse at all” and “joke material” in your book.
You need to grow up as a matter of urgency.
You are beneath contempt. Also beneath my further notice. Troll away.
“How about all the homeless people in NYC who I’m sure, if one were going to get into the ‘my past is sadder than your past’ rationale, could compete with her lack of parents? Lots and lots of people, old and young, lack family ties. This doesn’t mean they worry about looking edgy and setting Guiness records”
This.
It’s very sad about her parents, and hard to bear. My dad died in the mid-70s, victim of a dumb kid with gun.
Can I have my fucking city back now?
you crackers are worse than reddit
Pissed off that your government cheese allowance will be reduced after November 6th, A-holio? Fucking skell.
Before you write this, you need to get your facts straight. A. This is her job! She is a hardworking individual like yourself. B. She’s from Florida and graduated with her AA when she was 17 and so she’s smarter than you and NOT from the Midwest. C. Your comment about parents was out of line. She’s an orphan and has been a majority of her life. No, I am not this girl that you write about. I was a classmate of here in college and I stumbled onto this horrible excuse for journalism. I haven’t spoke to this amazing young woman in years, but I know her better than you and I am appalled that you pigeon hole her and minimize her accomplishments because of a hairstyle. This is sexism and stereotyping to the nth degree. You are entitled to your own opinion, but get your facts and don’t be an idiot.
Please explain what sexism has to do with anything. You could find at least 20 posts from this year alone mocking the beards and bed-heads of male hipsters. Don’t try to throw the “prejudice” card in an attempt to poison the well.
Wow… You people b!+(# about the dumbest crap. I hate hipsters? Looks like you all have the same useless time you complain they have. The actual real New Yorkers, not you losers, would just not care and not give it a thought. This website is lame, and you people are ridiculous.
Waa! Somebody call the waaaaambulance!
It must be so damn nice to be able to judge people based on a 30-hour, press-filled train ride, and NOTHING ELSE. Her short hair obviously screams “my parents pay for everything!” even though her parents both passed away before she was a teenager. Her desire to work for 30+ hours straight, plus weeks of preparation, obviously scream PRIVILEGE! even though she’s been (for lack of a better word) poor for most of her life. You want a sad story? I know her, she could tell you one for every year of her life, more or less. But that’s not the point here. You’re making fun of a person who actually works hard and has had to fight for every single decent thing in her life. Is her accent really that much of a problem in your life? Stop watching her video. Is her haircut really offensive to you? Don’t look at her. Why spew vitriol to someone who is actually doing what you claim to want — someone who is actually doing something with their lives, for the betterment of others and herself, WITHOUT a trustfund. I hope your dicks feel bigger in your hands right now because you guys were soooo good at dissing a lady who doesn’t deserve it. Well done. You win at Internet.
I love how everyone sits here and assumes they know this girl. Posting ignorant assumptions such as “Probably as stressful as signing your parent’s monthly staycation check and having the pen run out of ink.” If you knew how much she has went through in her life you’d probably feel like the pieces of shit that you are! Why do you all think that she has a silver spoon in her mouth?? Her parents both died when she was extremely young , she was left as an orphan and she has still maintained to stay in school and worked extremely hard to graduate with honors and get her Masters Degree majoring in something that she loves; Geographic Information Systems, hence her protesting the hike. So yea it’s “only 25 cents” to you, but to her, an independent adult on her own, never asking for shit from anyone.. she actually cares and is trying to do something to stop it. It’s actually quite funny because most of you have said; she’s an attention seeker.. but yet you don’t see anything wrong with feeding into the B.S bashing blog that some loser created to draw the attention away from how insecure he really is! You only wish you were as influential and strong as this girl! Keep hiding behind anonymous profiles and trash talking people, just remember you are the scum that drives people to become more ambitious, driven and ultimately prove people wrong! Have fun living in your pathetic bubble! :]