Hipsters

[El Pibe]

My mates and i had a session down the pub and vowed not to stop drinking until we came up with an idea that made us rich.

Eventually we came up with the idea of patenting car tyres that had different coloured rubber at the level where the tread has worn down too much so its really obvious.

Pleased with our work we drew up a patent and one of us went to the patent office.

Someone had got there first a couple of years previously.

20 years later I'm less annoyed as they clearly didn't get rich either!!!

Still think it was a good idea though.

I'm changing my mind about hipsters bit by bit. They may be a bit irritating in a 'Yes, we are all individuals' kind of fashion, but they are at worst boring, utterly harmless and at best entrepenuerial, even if we can laugh at some of the ideas, at least they're putting their money where their mouth is and living up to Napoleon's ideal.

Better than sittin gon your arse complaining about how the government has disenfranchised you and then nicking some trainers and burning down your neighbour's business innit.

[Jeremy]

I have do not have an entrepreneurial bone in my body, so I always admire people who can take an original idea through to implementation and make a success of it - especially when it's as eccentric as this. Must have taken some serious determination to get this off the ground.

[Jeremy]

El Pibe - nobody wants to advertise the fact that they're driving around on worn tyres..

[El Pibe]

That's rather the point. If they become mandatory then you've struck gold!!!

[Help-Ma-Boab]

My Flood Lit Funerals business plan never left the boozer either.

[clockworkorange]

Good on these guys. Not going to mug myself and pay those prices but they've started their own business and enough people have bought into the idea to make it a success. More than most the bores on this forum have achieved. Good tats too!

Louisa and all those that jump on the same narrow minded grey bandwagon with the slogan "I hate change" I feel it's time you understood what london is. Since the dawn of time it's been a melting pot of people, cultures and ideas. The london you're thinking of didn't,doesn't and never will exist.

That is all. Off to buy thick cut toast (granary of course) from an artisan cafe and then spend the morning picking crumbs from my beard and reading poetry.

[Jeremy]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

> My Flood Lit Funerals

Sounds like a bad emo band...

[Otta]

I always wanted to open a pancake cafe in Guildford, but I'm not big on risks.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

The Whole Flood Lit Funeral thing then moved into planning funerals that were a bit different. You know, instead of a hearse an ice cream van etc. That sort of thing. Got as far as the strapline: We put the FUN in FUNeral.

anyhow - straying off topic!

[Jeremy]

Otta Wrote:

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> I always wanted to open a pancake cafe in Guildford, but I'm not big on risks.

Is that a joke? I don't get it...

[El Pibe]

when hatchet jobs go bad http://usvsth3m.com/post/so-i-visited-the-cereal-killer-cafe-and-what-happened-next-surprised-me

[Huggers]

I paid 3.50 for a slice of cake in a place that sold nothing but different varieties of cake, apparently these caked themed slaps in the face of impoverished Shoreditch are called 'Patisseries'. I hope they never take off! Hipster idiots!

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Louisa's eyeing up places for her 'Just Cheese on Toast' gaff as I type

[Jeremy]

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> Louisa's eyeing up places for her 'Just Cheese on Toast' gaff as I type

The menu at Four Quarters consists only of cheese toasties!

[uncleglen]

Why use the cereal killers? ?2.19 for porridge with banana and honey or fruit compote and unlimited coffee in wetherspoon's......or 3 minutes in the microwave diy oats. Mind you after reading their background- manager of E-lite cigarettes, the other a manager for Superdry, seems like a natural progression....

[Jeremy]

Harvester : ?3 for unlimited cereal, pancakes and syrup, fruit, toast, crumpets, muffins.

Great value. And a thoroughly joyless experience.

[RosieH]

Come on Jeremy, if it's a thoroughly joyless experience you're after, who needs Harvester when uncleglen's invited us round to his?

[MrBen]

My heart for new businesses and creativity is big. And I'm sure they're nice. All hipsters are nice.

But they can still both be a couple of cockwombles for coming up with a concept like this. The idea of going out to eat Weetabix you cannot dispute is totally mad.

[Otta]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > I always wanted to open a pancake cafe in

> Guildford, but I'm not big on risks.

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> Is that a joke? I don't get it...

No joke. Back around 2001 I spent a lot of time around Guildford (a lot of it with a white cane and a blindfold) and decided that it was a town with shed load of young people, but young people with money. I decided a p[ancake cafe would do well.

[miga]

W.

[El Pibe]

but all your examples are going out to a specialist who makes a better product.

This is literally weetabix in a bowl isn't it?

[miga]

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[El Pibe]

I'm not convinced. But if they want it they will come

Peronally I wouldn't invest in a business that was quite so obviously faddish or based upon, essentially, one pun.

But who knows, i genuinely wish them luck. And their mum and dad seem nice too!!

[miga]

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[Jeremy]

I was under the impression that they specialised in imported American cereals (the ones which are basically sweets in a box).