Hipsters

[Jeremy]

Architects drive Saabs?

Can you even buy Saabs any more?

[steveo]

I borrowed a Saab one night, lost the one and only ignition key on Gipsy Hill and had to have it towed to Croydon for a new computer.

One night in the Paxton = ?1,000

Not hip

[Salsaboy]

I don't think so.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Architects drive Saabs?

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> Can you even buy Saabs any more?

[Seabag]

I drive a Volvo Estate & a Ford Ranger pick-up truck

Oh, and a fork lift truck on occasions

Please judge me

[Jeremy]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Ford Ranger pick-up truck

OMG. The whole ironic redneck thing... you are the Hipster overlord.

[Otta]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Please judge me (because actually I'm pretty desperate for you to comment)

[david_carnell]

There is nothing ironic about his redneck y'all.

BBQ and diving for catfish are Seabag hobbies par excellence.

[Otta]

Does he chew tobacco?

[Otta]

I actually have a genuine stetson he could have. Given to me by a real life American and everything.

[steveo]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Oh, and a fork lift truck on occasions

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Do you use that around Dulwich?

[david_carnell]

Salsaboy Wrote:

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> I don't think so.

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> Jeremy Wrote:

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> > Architects drive Saabs?

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> > Can you even buy Saabs any more?

Well you can't buy new ones anymore since they went out of business.

But you can buy excellent second hand ones and the Swedes nationalised the spare parts business so there's no danger of them running out.

And I'm not an architect, of my own demise, or anything else beyond my son's lego.

[david_carnell]

Otta Wrote:

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> I actually have a genuine stetson he could have.

> Given to me by a real life American and

> everything.

Has anyone seen the Camberwell cowboy? I used to see him quite regularly when cycling through Camberwell. Guy in his 50s dressed in leather waistcoat, sheriff badge, one of those funny ties, cowboy boots and a stetson.

In Camberwell. I love that he exists and probably goes to work like that. Before going home to a tin of Stagg chili. And a DVD box set of Deadwood.

[Jah Lush]

Hmmm... sounds like Andy Alan who runs the Easycome nights at the White Horse in Peckham. He's permanently attired in cowboy boots and a big Stetson hat.

[Otta]

I've not seen him, but he sounds awesome!

[david_carnell]

No - it's not Hank Dog. This guy looks a little less rock and roll and more dressing up box.

[Otta]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/men-seeking-plausible-beard-exit-strategy-2014041685787

[Parkdrive]

"men are desperate to remove their facial hair without appearing to be weak-willed fashion victims" hilarious

[uncleglen]

Most of them have probably got something living in there anyway

[Seabag]

As beards go i'm noticing a lot of shaved necklines, to kinda put a chin/jawline where there isn't one

Please stop, it's weird and I find myself 'spotting' for them

[Otta]

I sometimes do that, but more because I look like an utter tramp otherwise.

My beard is tramp beard.

[JohnL]

My mother would say a man with a beard is a man hiding something.

She really stuck to that too (kept away from bearded men)

[Otta]

Christ she'd have had to have lived in an underground bunker these days.

[Seabag]

Otta Wrote:

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> I sometimes do that, but more because I look like

> an utter tramp otherwise.

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> My beard is tramp beard.

I'm with you to a degree, but how far that line goes is crucial. When it becomes a chip strap, then Nah!

[Earl Aelfheah]

Seabag Wrote:

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> As beards go i'm noticing a lot of shaved

> necklines, to kinda put a chin/jawline where there

> isn't one

>

> Please stop, it's weird and I find myself

> 'spotting' for them

I think you have to shave the neck. Otherwise they look really bad.

[red devil]

Or you could always do the reverse.

As BG will testify, great for hiding that double chin...

http://static.mumsnet.com/uploads/talk/201405/medium-229189-boy-george.jpg