Hipsters

[harperama]

Must haves - glasses, beard (men), big second hand overcoat, roll up skinny jeans, bright trainers / doc martens.

Optional - silly haircut, hat, vintage camera around the neck, old mans jumper (both boys and girls)

Never - straight leg jeans, short back and sides, hooded jumper, fleece.

Discuss.

[Otta]

Get yourself down to Dulwich Hamlet, there are a load of the annoying twats doing their best to ruin the matches.

[RosieH]

Hipsters

Must haves: so much fun and getting all the girls (or boys) that it makes lonely trolls angry

If you're going to give in to projecting your lack of self-esteem onto others, please make the effort to get your facts straight:

1) Beards are no longer hipster. They've passed the tipping point by some margin (Jesus, it was even on the Today programme that they ceased to be cool when all the non-cool kids started sporting them)

2) Not wearing a fleece doesn't make you a hipster. It makes you an individual with a modicum of self-respect (There is never any excuse for wearing a fleece unless polar exploring)

[Louisa]

Hipsters -

Must haves.

A first class honours in getting s*it faced in a s*ithole.

Getting the night bus home and being loud and posh whilst juggling a kebab or boxed chicken meal. Must be annoying on public transport.

A bad taste in vintage tops (preferably floral or ironic in some way). Tops with band names from the 70s seem popular too.

Never haves.

Never stay in a s*it area too long. No ones likes the p*sshead who hangs around on the streets at 6 in the morning, especially in a 'former' cool place. You're basically on a par with a park bench alcoholic if you do.

Never talk about yourself in terms of 'labels' - you won't have too many friends if you do.

Never laugh at something that's actually funny. It's the height of coolness. Keep a sarcastic face at all times.

Completely ignore everything I'm saying. But check out my sweater, cos it's dated ugly and from a long time ago, and you want it off me don't ya?

Louisa.

[brain_opera]

Otta Wrote:

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> Get yourself down to Dulwich Hamlet, there are a

> load of the annoying twats doing their best to

> ruin the matches.

You're wrong. I know who you're talking about. For a start, none of those people are rich, or even well off. None of them are posh. They're not slumming it which is pretty much what hipster is, appropriation. If you don't like singing, don't go to a football match.

[????]

I don't mind the hipsters, I see they are even wearing white socks now

[Louisa]

I wish I could grow a beard.

Louisa.

[spark67]

I just find it amusing that people can get still so narked by how some people dress and choose to live their lives in a certain style, that does no harm to anyone, get over it, good grief ... Ps I have no beard or any form of headwear, but would like some DM's as I loved wearing them in the 80's, but fear I'm a tad too over hill for them now ;)

[ianc]

Personally, I find intolerance more annoying than "hipsters" ;-)

Yes, some folks can wind us up with their ways or appearance, but stereotyping a group is a great way to cause division. We're all in at least a few groups whether we think so or not, and we all wind others up in some way or another; even just by existing.

I try to focus on what I like in ED, not what winds me up... there's enough in the latter category to fill a novel.

[KidKruger]

Nazi mentality. Have a word with yourself.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Not that many real hipsters around here anyway. I work next to Spitalfields and the demographic on LL isn't in the same league, so I think we can relax.

Just realised I've never seen a hipster with visible muscles. I wonder why?

[alice]

that's just basic. you have to be underweight.

[maxxi]

brain_opera Wrote:

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>If you don't like singing, don't go to a football match.

Even if it IS post-modern Gregorian chanting with a cynically lazy approach to the dative and ignorance of the ablative. Posh kids love footy too.*

*Play up Gentlemen!

[Robert Poste's Child]

Good to have that corroborated, Alice. That's me out, then - clearly I'd need a higher centre of gravity.

And be 20 years younger.

And have fashionable clothes.

And a hair style.

And care a bit more what I look like.

And have a creative job.

Oh dear.

[ianr]

Cool.

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[Otta]

brain_opera Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > Get yourself down to Dulwich Hamlet, there are

> a

> > load of the annoying twats doing their best to

> > ruin the matches.

>

>

>

> You're wrong. I know who you're talking about.

> For a start, none of those people are rich, or

> even well off. None of them are posh. They're not

> slumming it which is pretty much what hipster is,

> appropriation. If you don't like singing, don't go

> to a football match.

I love singing at a footy match, I just dont like some of the singers in this case.

And does one have to be rich to be a hipster?

And how do you know whether any of them are rich / well off, or slumming it?

[Dub Pistol]

Hi Otta

People like you are the lifeblood of the Hamlet :-) Hope to meet you next season. I bet you have been going home and away supporting the Hamlet.

Unlike the Hipsters you speak of? I bet you have more fun going away singing your songs when they don't go :-)

What's your favourite song at Dulwich to sing? We can have sing song next year away from them.

[fingers]

This post seriously embodies all that is cr*p about East Dulwich.

Some people with beards go to the football and sing, get over it.

I don't have a beard but seriously, come over and meet some of the gentlemen with beards, you might like them, then again I suspect you might only go to the one big game a year.

Down with singing and having a good time at a footy match I say.

Blokes with beards and a hat or tossers, I would rather stand with the beards.

[Seabag]

If Hipsters are young, skinny, wearing specs and skinny jeans

What are the older guys sporting American workwear, short hair, beards ,glasses, and packing a few pounds called ?

[Jah Lush]

Winkers?

[NewtwoED]

Seabag Wrote:

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> If Hipsters are young, skinny, wearing specs and

> skinny jeans

>

> What are the older guys sporting American

> workwear, short hair, beards ,glasses, and packing

> a few pounds called ?

..waist-sters?

[fingers]

Oh lordy, just seen his other post where he claimed that people singing ruined his enjoyment..... there are not the words.....

[Robert Poste's Child]

NewtwoED Wrote:

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> Seabag Wrote:

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> > If Hipsters are young, skinny, wearing specs

> and

> > skinny jeans

> >

> > What are the older guys sporting American

> > workwear, short hair, beards ,glasses, and

> packing

> > a few pounds called ?

>

> ..waist-sters?

If they happen to be gay that could make them bears, but not sure what the mainstream category would be. Normal middle age maybe?

[Sue]

Where do flat caps come into this?

Or don't they?

We started giving pubs a flat cap rating, but have noticed fewer around lately (caps not pubs :) ).