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The word "hipster" sounds very unhip to me. But then what would I know?

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh for fuck's sake not again, please God no... DON'T YOU EVER YEARN FOR CHANGE?!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 27 February 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Why should it sound 'hip'? The word 'lame' doesn't, erm, sound 'lame'...

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 27 February 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

This board needs a hipsterectomy!

sorry

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 27 February 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to hurt you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 27 February 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

do it quickly, and wear a trucker hat.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Friday, 27 February 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't hurt me. I am a soft bunny rabbit in search of hipster nirvana.

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hipster&f=1

― waxyjax (waxyjax), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"someone, usually a teenager or 20something, who adheres to a counterculture ranging from indy-rockers to neo-hippies to skaters. they tend to define themselves by the music they listen to, and the outlandish clothes they wear. hipsters are opposed to other countercultures like goths, metal-heads, and gangstas, and they also avoid preps, eurotrash, white trash, and jocks

question: why does he only listen to bands that are never played on the radio?
answer: he's a hipster"

The mists of incomprehension are beginning to clear...

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, can't I be a hipster and eurotrash? Life's just not fair.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

hipsters listen to *some* radio stuff. or i guess they do anyway. they don't avoid 'preps' (um, like Zack in 'Saved by the Bell'?) cos preps pay their wages.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't hurt me. I am a soft bunny rabbit in search of hipster nirvana.

I thought that said hipster vag1na. and was gonna suggest su1c1degirls.com

it's late in the day and i've had not much sleep ok?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Hipsterism: it's what you accuse everyone else of getting involved with even though you do, too.

― maypang (maypang), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

That makes you a dumpster, Momus.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Derivation?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick wins.

I accuse everyone else of hipsterism, yeah, but I seriously don't get involved myself. Really I don't. Nooo.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Is the person speaking Hipster, or Eurotrash:

'My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. A sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. If I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fifteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum. At the age of eighteen, I went off to evil medical school...'

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I seriously didn't expect Momus to be keen on Austin Powers! The other people who've quoted that par at me are, well... not much like Momus. Not hipsters!

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Hipsterism: it's what you accuse everyone else of getting involved with even though you do, too.

Let us put this to the Googletest.

Searched the web for "I'm a hipster" - results 1-10 of about 206.

Searched the web for "I'm not a hipster" - results 1-10 of about 143.

Unsupported!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's Googlism's verdict:

hipster is a hitster
hipster is not a part
hipster is someone who is hip
hipster is naive
hipster is my personal favorite local band
hipster is eric reese
hipster is very excited to announce the unveiling of a brand new search engine that will revolutionize the way you "surf"
hipster is a busy man
hipster is a reflection on the erratic lifestyle kerouac pursued
hipster is a isp
hipster is still alive and well
hipster is looking for in his 'coolness'
hipster is available made
hipster is a perfect model
hipster is always part of "them" since his style and soul are completely
hipster is your
hipster is the key that opens up the slammer to the chicken fricassee
hipster is a slimmer
hipster is out in full force
hipster is no longer a rock n' roll outfit but an outfit for the young and the young at heart
hipster is to be of an indubitable
hipster is aided by pixie
hipster is light and breezy
hipster is battling some common thugs
hipster is ready to conquer the rest of the continent
hipster is your solutions provider
hipster is now working with nevada bell to provide you with local phone service anywhere in northern nevada
hipster is a literary zine dedicated to the advancement of social causes and an
hipster is a premier whitewater spray deck that offers killer features and new color combinations tent
hipster is a premier whitewater spray deck that offers killer features and new
hipster is the premier whitewater spray deck that offers killer features and ultimate performance in any
hipster is the premier whitewater spray deck that offers killer features and ultimate performance in any whitewater environment
hipster is an enfant terrible turned inside out
hipster is a man from whom the concept of hip was derived
hipster is perfect for comfort and style
hipster is satisfied if what he says manages to
hipster is a white person who has chosen to adopt the anti
hipster is watching you
hipster is just so daring to wear
hipster is a sassy hipster boyleg
hipster is a medical device used for hip replacements
hipster is surprisingly well
hipster is beautifully embroidered with mesh detail and offers full back styling
hipster is adorned with a luminescent elastic trim and offers full back styling
hipster is known as a real gentleman at classy ladies
hipster is saying something even more creative and post
hipster is enamored of spanish tapas
hipster is past caring
hipster is on the move
hipster is firmly rooted in the sixties?southern wrote or co
hipster is leaning forward in her chair
hipster is a sensuous
hipster is single billfold style made little larger to fit comfortably in hip pocket with id window
hipster is brought to you from the hanna lingerie collection
hipster is ignorant when it comes to ethnic food
hipster is now home to a far
hipster is greek
hipster is the coolest thing going and she knows it
hipster is actually playing interesting
hipster is available
hipster is a new "retro" styled mini cruiser from kymco
hipster is hanging out with his pals
hipster is an old time rock & roll band
hipster is the
hipster is designed for low rise trousers
hipster is a sticker punk
hipster is extra soft and young
hipster is a little dangerous
hipster is
hipster is back in denim
hipster is a conscious choice for members of the intellectual élite
hipster is the perfect companion as you go on the road
hipster is still listening
hipster is a middle
hipster is to fake today's blackness
hipster is a large wallet available in a variety of leathers including progression

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to hear that proclaimed by John Giorno!

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Fact and simple and facts are straight...

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Selections from Googlism's definitions of 'eurotrash':

eurotrash is like a sloppy wet whore grinding her pelvis
eurotrash is great because it is… sorry
eurotrash is available for our fans in america
eurotrash is the ideal way to help orangina gain a solid foothold amongst young adults
eurotrash is now coming out of the british closet
eurotrash is camp
eurotrash is being fraudulently sold as a sensitive coming
eurotrash is a name that reflects the selfconscious feeling of enthusiasts that what they are watching is culturally damned
eurotrash is isabelle huppert
eurotrash is "devoted to chronicling this historic leap and the ensuing chaos
eurotrash is the worst
eurotrash is unmistakable
eurotrash is not designed to enlighten european citizens about their continent
eurotrash is not only about what you wear; it's about money
eurotrash is a light entertainment program with titties and stuff
eurotrash is so dumb
eurotrash is a guilty pleasure
eurotrash is very important
eurotrash is still trash
eurotrash is killing me
eurotrash is great

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't Dr. Evil also say "there's nothing more pathetic than an aging hipster", Momus?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Boo-yah

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyways, if I didn't have the word in the name of my blog I wouldn't get so many googlers looking for trucker-hat scapegoats.

I'm guessing that about, oh, 98% of the people all het up about "hipsters" are fans of the Velvet Underground.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Donyt be silly! Being hip is nothing to do with age, except that if you were alive in the 60s you get a lot of extra hipster points.

Is the speaker here a hipster?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe the quote had to do with Austin's special Byrds-CD-on-a-portable-record-player brand of outtatouchness, but whevah, if you're hip and old I guess you can be excused for not understanding this rap stuff or something.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nate, you're being a bit cryptic with the Velvets ref... can you explain? I wouldn't call mice elf a 'fan' of them, and I dislike Lou Reed, but I also use anti-hipster rhetoric.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Facetious japery re: people who were OLD-SCHOOL hipsters, dammit, and like REAL subversive music, not this trust-fund shit

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"no no you're doing it all wrong" (LCD Soundsystem to thread, yet again)

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

God, I'm so unhip I've never even heard LCDS. Or Momus.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

yay for you

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm kind of superficial in that I'm not so concerned over "is someone a hipster" than I am "is someone a douchbag", but this is me living in flyover land here

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought this word was a mild put-down for people who haven't noticed that their particular counterculture no longer exists. I imagine a dude in faded jeans and corduroy jacket w/patches on elbows and a scraggly greying beard snapping his fingers and going "yeah Miles Davis is pretty far out but I can dig it."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

douchebag is the guy who everyone slapped on the back in gym class
douchebag is determined to make mankind hate baseball to drive down labor costs
douchebag is sitting there by himself
douchebag is busy yelling at the ref
douchebag is going to show me up
douchebag is a hygenic product
douchebag is able to piss me off with his rhetoric
douchebag is obligated to protect its reputation and trademarks and douchebag
douchebag is a 'writer'
douchebag is right up my ass with hi
douchebag is posing
douchebag is a little extreme
douchebag is american slang for a contemptible person
douchebag is cranking out any kind of verses out of his cubicle
douchebag is michael jackson
douchebag is an iffy one
douchebag is posting messages in newsgroups under this e
douchebag is gone for a while at least

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

("but doesn't being a hipster automatically mean you're a douchebag?" "get out of my sight")

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it unhip to admit to being hip?

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

If I project my inner 'x' on someone else, does that mean there's no 'x' in me any more?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus, are you admitting to being hip? This could be a Cretan liar question.

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

All the Big Questions get asked here.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

troll is self
troll is not a grumpy monster that lives beneath a bridge accosting passers
troll is selfish
troll is very well loved even by volkswagen owners
troll is capable of moving large objects
troll is hiding out in my room
troll is attacking you
troll is subjective
troll is a troll is a
troll is not made of rocks or stone or anything like that
troll is someone who posts
troll is encouraged
troll is attracted to its own mirror image in water which
troll is the dominant subspecies
troll is as tricky as a troll can be
troll is the internet
troll is a strong creature who eats garbage and nuclear waste for a living
troll is a particular "parodic" discourse which tries to look indistinguishable from "real" or "serious" discourses
troll is as important to me as my fishing pole
troll is never played with
troll is the only creature in the forgotten realms made entirely of phlegm
troll is considered a plant and affected by plant spells
troll is attacked flames
troll is bit easier to take than an amtrak ride through oklahoma
troll is a fictitious humanoid monster of folklore
troll is actually made up of two different robots
troll is almost exactly like a regular troll
troll is a large stupid
troll is black and he is gigantic
troll is cool
troll is fine
troll is unlikely to be armed
troll is not only norway's largest gas field
troll is more of a compliment than something to fear
troll is being developed
troll is great

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

So you're a troll, Momus? Is that what you're getting at?

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

He has issues

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

cathexis is used to describe an investment of libidinal energy in an object or an idea
cathexis is a concentration of emotional energy towards a person
cathexis is a collection of music videos based on the bronze ova
cathexis is failing
cathexis is energetic; try
cathexis is an energy that binds thoughts together
cathexis is withdrawn
cathexis is what it says about its other
cathexis is present in the story as "smelling good things to eat
cathexis is used as both a notion of the willfulness and vigor elicited by a social object
cathexis is the feast of the dead and the feast of change
cathexis is not repression; you don't deny the existence of difficult emotions and feelings
cathexis is de facto antinarcissistic
cathexis is determined by feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with one's body and is important to self
cathexis is a gendered social structure that is organised on a bipolar masculine/feminine opposition
cathexis is a bottle or breast
cathexis is irrelevant to the communication
cathexis is music videos
cathexis is a freudian idea that refers to one latching another to oneself and not allowing that other any independence
cathexis is to find an emotional response to things
cathexis is a word used by psychiatry to describe something that we love
cathexis is "the selection of an object or person as the love object"
cathexis is often coupled with self
cathexis is dangerous business
cathexis is a necessary starting point for love
cathexis is not love
cathexis is a nasty
cathexis is rather trite
cathexis is kind of bizarre
cathexis is a psychoanalytic term for the investment of emotional significance in an activity
cathexis is simply an example of the ego's flight from suffering in accordance with the pleasure principle

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

So you're a libidinal charge of energy, Momus? Is that what you're getting at?

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Whatever 'saying' says, so am I said, sad to say.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Gnomic. But I reserve the right to interpret it as "ageing yet adorable hipster with a large penis".

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent." Aye, verily, the peace that passeth understanding.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"If Momuses could talk, we wouldn't understand what they were saying."

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you 'ave a gnome to go to?

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Hipster to me implies having a certain amount of experience, which in turn leads to cynicism and superiority. But of course it's entirely misleading as hipsters simply follow - even being the 2nd person to adopt a trend makes you a shallow plagiarist.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I am a metrognome. My absinthe beckons.

― thighster, Friday, 27 February 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

i think hipsters wear hats, don't they?

― the angry cowboy (dick), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread makes me wish I had an mp3 of "The Laughing Gnome" handy.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

http://z.about.com/d/history1900s/1/0/W/S/wwiip224.jpg

― velko, Thursday, 15 January 2009 18:51 (seventeen years ago)

velkro

― Carne Meshuggah (libcrypt), Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

had to be done, i guess

― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

So many great googlisms in Momus post:

hipster is aided by pixie
hipster is light and breezy
hipster is battling some common thugs

― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

hipster is watching you
hipster is just so daring to wear
hipster is a sassy hipster boyleg

― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

hipster is enamored of spanish tapas
hipster is past caring
hipster is on the move

― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

hipster is designed for low rise trousers
hipster is a sticker punk
hipster is extra soft and young
hipster is a little dangerous

― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

Googlism is a popular tool for the generation of non sequitur humour. "It's like a zany-madcap humour generator" - Waldopepper, FilePile. It is also a presentation of internet postmodernism.

― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:46 (seventeen years ago)

hipster is a popular tool

― Aimless, Thursday, 15 January 2009 19:52 (seventeen years ago)

momus is a sex tourist
momus is deplorable

― Simon Jartvik (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:05 (seventeen years ago)

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/aRichardLinklaterDazedandConfusedCr.jpg
I would like this to become a new hipster look because I love girls who look like this

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1982/posters/annie.jpg
?

― Simon Jartvik (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

also this
http://www.afterellen.com/sites/www.afterellen.com/files/AlisonCrop450.jpg

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:35 (seventeen years ago)

in fact, I would be pleasantly surprised if the whole hipster culture went a lot more Freaks and Geeks in terms of look.

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

hipster vs. nerdymom

― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Thursday, 15 January 2009 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

plaxico would be all abt the chick who cuts my hair

― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Thursday, 15 January 2009 21:05 (seventeen years ago)

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