Get a Job, Hipster

[Anenome]

This is goddamn ridiculous.

http://i.imgur.com/Lmm1Y.jpg

[Evil Avatar]

What should we be seeing that is so offensive? A guy with a really cool old typewriter? I think you are reading too much of your own frailities into this picture.

[Anenome]

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[Anenome]

What should we be seeing that is so offensive? A guy with a really cool old typewriter? I think you are reading too much of your own frailities into this picture.
Please. Anyone pretentious enough to use a typewriter simply to be seen using a typewriter is innately pathetic :P

I'm not saying it's offensive, I'm saying it's ridiculous. What frailties? He should be embarrassed to do something so silly when it's completely obvious he's doing it just to be seen doing it :P

No one's genuinely that poor AND desperate to type at a coffee shop AND happens to have an in-service 40's style type-writer. If you're that poor and desperate, you go to a goddamn library or school, sheesh. Hell, I had en electric typewriter when I was a kid, before computers--never had to suffer through one of those powerless models either.

[Anenome]

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[Agnostic Pope]

People over at Starbucks writing stories with their macs (masterpieces lol) > this.

[spdiscus]

I like the feel and sound of a typewriter. I used a Brother Electric for several years, so I can't blame someone for using the 'real thing.' Weird to tote it around, but he may actually be making a living with that thing.

[Jamikazi]

"You are a lone reed"

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[Hydroeric]

While the sight of a person working a typewriter is out of the ordinary these days, I don't see what is so ridiculous about what he is doing.

[Evil Avatar]

Pulitzer Prize winning Author Cormac McCarthy still uses a typewriter. So, there is that.

[lockwoodx]

This must be a west coast thing. You yell "hipster" around here and expect hip shots.

[Agnostic Pope]

Pulitzer Prize winning Author Cormac McCarthy still uses a typewriter. So, there is that.

Does he type out his stories in front of a coffee shot while he draws inspiration from the passing school girls?

[Anenome]

Pulitzer Prize winning Author Cormac McCarthy still uses a typewriter. So, there is that.
Yeah, he was born in 1933 - 77 years old! He grew up using one. He probably invested a ton of money in a really good one. And it's all he's ever known. And probably doesn't want to reinvest in learning a computer. I don't blame my stepdad for not wanting to buy a computer either, he's 70+ too. I'm sure you don't use a manual typewriter because great writers of the past did--it's pretty clear the manner of producing text has virtually nothing to do with its quality, pretty clear modern editing capability is far superior to the slog of a manual.

This pict has a dude who grew up using a computer. He could more easily type on an ipad than on an old typewriter.

[Anenome]

Typewriters are the creepiest kind of writer ;)

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[Anenome]

People over at Starbucks writing stories with their macs (masterpieces lol) > this.
http://i.imgur.com/5jzbs.jpg

[Agnostic Pope]

Yeah that's the biggest type of hipster around. Ironically they all own Macs...conformists lol.

[Anenome]

Hipsters generally aren't very computer savvy.

[Orz]

This is goddamn ridiculous.

Know what you CAN'T do with a typewriter? Make mocking, assumption-filled posts on the Internet about a complete stranger, literally behind their back. Maybe technology isn't that great after all.

[Evil Avatar]

Does he type out his stories in front of a coffee shop while he draws inspiration from the passing school girls?

I would if I was him. :cool:

[Evil Avatar]

Know what you CAN'T do with a typewriter? Make mocking, assumption-filled posts on the Internet about a complete stranger, literally behind their back. Maybe technology isn't that great after all.

You also can't sit there reading twitter posts or dumping hours into reading WoW Wiki entries when you should be writing your novel.

Hmmm... I think I have a manual typewriter around here somewhere. Might be time to drag it out of the closet. (And no "in the closet" jokes from you monkeys.)

[Anenome]

Know what you CAN'T do with a typewriter? Make mocking, assumption-filled posts on the Internet about a complete stranger, literally behind their back. Maybe technology isn't that great after all.
You may be right, that there's some unproved assumptions behind all of this. But will you, ignoring that, agree that a hipster typing on a typewriter primarily to be seen doing so, at a coffee shop, seriously and not for a joke, is a silly and pretentious thing to do? Or do I smell the cheap cologne of a hipster from your own post? :P It's about as silly as wearing thick rimmed glasses when you don't require corrective lenses to see normally, or buying a new shirt that's designed to look like a vintage shirt :P

[Agnostic Pope]

I would if I was him. :cool:

It was more of a pedo joke but I understand.

[Suicidal ShiZuru]

I saw someone with one of these once...


http://i.imgur.com/gZ4ly.jpg



Old school bluetooth handset...

[Anenome]

You also can't sit there reading twitter posts or dumping hours into reading WoW Wiki entries when you should be writing your novel.
That's why you write with the monitor off :P Or at least why I do :P

[Anenome]

I saw someone with one of these once...
Old school bluetooth handset...
That's actually kinda cool. I think a hipster would only use an actual corded "vintage" phone, dunno.

[Anenome]

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[Anenome]

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[Kreigmstr]

You also can't sit there reading twitter posts or dumping hours into reading WoW Wiki entries when you should be writing your novel.

Hmmm... I think I have a manual typewriter around here somewhere. Might be time to drag it out of the closet. (And no "in the closet" jokes from you monkeys.)


I'm sorta surprised you have one. I mean, I'm pretty sure you started writing on a computer. I'm not sure why you would go old school unless it was a preference thing.

[Anenome]

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[Suicidal ShiZuru]

PBR Iron Man is hilarious.

[Anenome]

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[sai tyrus]

That last pic was good.

[Anenome]

Hipster inauthenticity is the most repulsive aspect of hipster lifestyle. To put an ipod in a walkman shell is completely dumb. To actually listen to a walkman would make you old school. Just like that idiot typing on a typewriter--not because it's in any way good for that compared to modern tools, he just wants to be seen with vintage kit.

[Chimpbot]

Hipster inauthenticity is the most repulsive aspect of hipster lifestyle. To put an ipod in a walkman shell is completely dumb. To actually listen to a walkman would make you old school. Just like that idiot typing on a typewriter--not because it's in any way good for that compared to modern tools, he just wants to be seen with vintage kit.

I thought the iPod in the Walkman shell was rather awesome, actually. Besides, isn't it a little odd for a non-hipster to be commenting on acts hipsters would find repulsive within their "community"? How can a non-hipster accurately comment on their inauthenticity with such authority?

Is there something you're trying to tell us?

[Capt_Thad]

heh I think the walkman-shelled iPod is cool from a nerd perspective. Of course, from a nerd perspective I'd prefer a non-Apple mp3 player.

[Anenome]

I thought the iPod in the Walkman shell was rather awesome, actually.
Sure, it's cool from a nerd perspective, just like the wood paneled laptop. Hipsters are doing it for a completely different reason--to be seen doing it, not from the innate coolness itself. A real hipster should be listening to an actual working walkman with a real tape. If they're faking it, they fail. The nerd aesthetic does not require using actual old equipment like that.


Besides, isn't it a little odd for a non-hipster to be commenting on acts hipsters would find repulsive within their "community"? How can a non-hipster accurately comment on their inauthenticity with such authority?
I'm not sure how you misread my comment, but I'm not commenting on what hipsters would or should find repulsive. I'm saying what I find repulsive about the hipster lifestyle. In fact it's the number one problem I have with hipsters: inauthenticity.

Anyone who would buy a pair of nonprescription glasses and wear them while not needing them, for no other reason than to be seen wearing them, to me is simply dumb. Sunglasses have utility beyond looking cool, they lower glare, protect you from UVB, etc. What do hornrim glasses add?

Anyone typing on an old style typewriter, just to be seen typing on an old style typewriter, has earned my scorn.

Listening to horrible indie bands where the hipster aesthetic says that the more obscure and more terrible they are the better, is to me completely antihumanistic and ridiculous. Listening to good indie, and those who deserve more exposure is one thing, but these people will actually ditch bands that become popular. And then using obscurity as a pride point and dissing people who like more popular music? That's outright elitist and ridiculous.

[Agnostic Pope]

Listening to horrible indie bands where the hipster aesthetic says that the more obscure and more terrible they are the better, is to me completely antihumanistic and ridiculous. Listening to good indie, and those who deserve more exposure is one thing, but these people will actually ditch bands that become popular. And then using obscurity as a pride point and dissing people who like more popular music? That's outright elitist and ridiculous.

Make a game where you kill zombie hipsters...or just hipsters and you will be RICH.

[PSPfreak]

Whether Ane's right or not... the pic made me laugh my ass off, that's all that counts. Come to think of it most of the pics he posted made me laugh. Bravo!

[Anenome]

What also bugs me about hipsters: there's an innate hypocrisy in this mindset, it's one that requires you to say things you don't believe and engage in activities designed only to diss other people socially and make yourself look good socially rather than simply be who you are, say what's true, and derive self-esteem from your own opinion of yourself rather than from what others think of you.

Question: A friend of mine recently called me a “hipster,” and, I’m sorry, but I take offense to that. What’s so wrong with being a hipster? I mean, isn’t being interested in cool things, well, a good thing? —David

Answer: Sure, it’s great to be interested in music, fashion, art, and all the other fragments seen floating around your everyday hipster’s apartment. But many hipsters take offense to the term only because it is so reductive, implying they are nothing more than their interests. Sure, for some this may be true (those who believe Volkswagen ruined the song), but it certainly isn’t applicable to all (those who still like the song and also bought a Jetta).

Are you really a hipster? Here’s a list of signs you may be one—and we’ll let you decide if that’s ultimately a good, or bad, thing.

Signs You May Be A Hipster
You have paid more than $100 for used shoes.

You are 28 years old and still embarrassed to be seen out at dinner with your parents.

You stopped listening to your favorite band because your Abercrombie-wearing cousin told you he likes their new single.

You have on occasion said you never watch TV, but you know exactly how many times and under what circumstances Rachel and Ross broke up and got back together.

You also know where this season’s Real World was shot.

You throw the devil sign in photos—even at weddings… especially at weddings.

You started a band last week—actually three bands. Two broke up because you couldn’t agree on a name and the third disbanded because you couldn’t find anyone to be in it, and because you couldn’t agree on a name.

You will start three new bands next week. One will someday have a song used for incidental music on Road Rules. You, however, will already have quit them by then.

You have very precisely removed a GAP tag from a pair of jeans.

You wore a pair of GAP jeans to a party, and when no one noticed they were from the GAP you made sure to work the point into conversation.

Within two weeks you go through goth, country, and preppie phases, each involving a completely new record collection, wardrobe, and haircut.

For none of the following reasons:
—for job/work
—to attend school
—to be with a serious boy/girlfriend…

you moved to one of the following cities:
—New York
—Los Angeles
—Chicago
—Austin
—San Francisco
—Portland, Ore.

You had a tattoo removed based on what you read in a “WHAT’S HOT/WHAT’S NOT” column in Vanity Fair, which you don’t read, except when you do.

You broke up with someone because your styles were diverging.

You pay your rent with a platinum card.

You made friends with a homeless guy, then got upset when he puked on your boyfriend.

You stage-dove during karaoke. You “hated” the song anyway.

You wore a trucker cap into a truck stop and felt scared.

You dated someone because they knew Kim Gordon.

You dated someone because they knew Thurston Moore.

You dumped someone because they knew Steve Shelley, but no one else in the band.

You can tell when a band sounds just enough like Joy Division, but not too much, you know?

You seriously considered leaving a party, going home, changing clothes, and coming back because your pants flared too much. Or not enough.

You ended a friendship because a friend who you told about a new band told another friend about that same band, but didn’t tell that friend that they originally heard about them from you.

You boycotted shampoo for two years because you liked the way not shampooing made your hair look.

You talk bad about the city when you’re in the country and bad about the country when you’re in the city.

For three weeks you told anyone who would listen that Blonde Redhead is a “poor man’s Unwound.” Then you went to their show and said it there too.

You’re too cool to smoke pot with your parents.

You dry-clean your jeans. Or you don’t wash them at all.

You could, if really drunk, explain when it is and when it is not appropriate to dance at a concert. If not drunk enough, you will trash the person asking you to explain this. But you will drink more and the truth will come out.

You hid a Jimmy Eat World CD under your bed before your friends came over.

You started a conversation with a friend talking about how glad you are to see them and ended it talking only about yourself.

Sign You Are Not A Hipster
You honestly don’t understand why anyone would ever do any of the things mentioned above.

[Anenome]

This is an example of wearing a mustache "ironically." The glasses are real tho, but many who don't need glasses will wear non-prescription versions because they like the look or to wear them also ironically.

http://i.imgur.com/2erUj.jpg

[Anenome]

Hipster neckwear (afghan)

http://i.imgur.com/OA4oe.jpg

[Anenome]

You might be a hipster if...

Own a fixed-gear bike
Eat sushi
You're female with a fake mustache
Drink Pabst Blue Ribbon or Miller High Life
Have Side-Swept Hair
Wear black, thick-rimmed non-prescription glasses
Are a guy that wears TIGHT low-rise jeans
Have star tattoos
Smoke Parliament cigarettes
Own a pair of eccentric Converse shoes
Shop at Whole Foods
Are a Vegan or Vegetarian
Like independent, no-name crappy bands that nobody's heard of
Obsessed with local coffee shops (not Starbucks)
Own a Macintosh
Shop at goodwill, buffalo exchange, urban outfitters or American apparel
Don't dance at shows - just bob, or swing side to side to the music
Have a nose ring
Wear a headband or v-neck sweater
Carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag
You spend 4.25 on a hot dog.
Cut slits into the bottom sides of your jeans next to your ankles.
Wear Crocs in public.
Eat PHO.
Own anything made of hemp.
Wear your pajamas or slippers out of the house.
Are a guy that has a threaded design stitched on the ass pockets of your slightly 'flared' jeans.
Have been seen wearing a cowboy/straw hat and you don't ride horses/bulls or work on a ranch.
Own a hat with a fish hook in it.
Can name more then 5 'independent' films.
Paint your nails black.
You pay extra money for ripped up jeans.

[Capt_Thad]

Some of those are funny and more than spot on. The glasses and the jeans stuff for sure. Plenty of hipsters around here, you can always spot the skinny jeans and Buddy Holly glasses. There's an indie coffee shop right next to where I work, right across from a Starbucks. Known for the Hipster vibe, because their coffee certainly wouldn't pull anyone. Not that you shouldn't find a decent local shop; it's not that difficult to find better quality than Starbucks.

Not sure I'm keen on the Goodwill mention, my grandma taught us the fine art of thrift store and garage sale scouring. Nothing hipster about being thrifty. A lot of those stores put their money to a good cause too. Actually a pretty good way to shop for books. Books brand new are way overpriced, and you can find some hard to find stuff in thrift shops that carry them.

Also, sushi is awesome, and indie film is great. Not just saying that 'cause I work at an indie theater or anything... You get a lot of quality pictures from indie studios. Several of the big mainstream publishers have an indie studio, like Sony Picture Classics or Fox Searchlight Pictures. It's just a slightly different way of distributing film. If you dodge a film on how it's distributed and the label that earns it, you're likely as much a hipster as the guy who jumps all over it. If you can't name at least 5 indie films, you're prolly just not much into film.

There's plenty of great indie artists too, in regards to music. Think it started as a label from publishing, like film, but now it's sorta loosely associated with a style. 'Crappy' is in the ears of the listener. That "you've never heard of them" nonsense does bother the hell out of me though. I like music, could care less about popularity. heh Known more than a couple people though that put stock in that. Add people who insist on listening to stuff on records. I get the uncompressed sound vibe, but it's still a horrible format.

I also wear a bike messenger bag 'cause I get around on a bike. Can't get at a double strap bag without taking it off, which is a huge pain for biking. Imagine anyone who does a lot of biking has a messenger bag. Mine isn't one of those uncomfortable canvas ones with a ton of patches stitched in the back though, so it may not qualify. Ballistic nylon: comfortable, weather-proof and lifetime guaranteed.

Have to add on the biking point that I don't really get fixed gear bikes, outside of track bikes. No coasting, no shifting. Guess some people swear by them. They are lower maintenance and don't really need brakes.

Guess the inclusion of 'might' would be the key.

Have been seen wearing a cowboy/straw hat and you don't ride horses/bulls or work on a ranch.

That one seems off. Where is that hipster? Here that's redneck. They always wear cowboy boots and jeans too. Shop at clothing stores that specialize in that kind of apparel, blast country in their giant pick-up trucks. Can't generally complain about a pretty girl in a cowboy hat though, with those denim mini-shorts and boots. Not a terribly uncommon look around here. :cool:

Think the fish hook hat thing is a redneck thing too. Aren't hipsters and rednecks mortal enemies? Like pirates and ninjas. Seems there's some goth/emo blur in there too. Guess the lines cross around the edges.

[Anenome]

Just doing a few of those doesn't make you a hipster, 'might' is key, as you say :P I love sushi as well :P Some of them tho, only a hipster would do that.

[divinechaos]

You may be right, that there's some unproved assumptions behind all of this. But will you, ignoring that, agree that a hipster typing on a typewriter primarily to be seen doing so, at a coffee shop, seriously and not for a joke, is a silly and pretentious thing to do? Or do I smell the cheap cologne of a hipster from your own post? :P It's about as silly as wearing thick rimmed glasses when you don't require corrective lenses to see normally, or buying a new shirt that's designed to look like a vintage shirt :P

Wait... Seems like you're always hanging out at a coffee shop, are YOU a hipster?

[lockwoodx]

This is an example of wearing a mustache "ironically." The glasses are real tho, but many who don't need glasses will wear non-prescription versions because they like the look or to wear them also ironically.

http://i.imgur.com/2erUj.jpg

Haha this is too perfect I must share!

Back when I was around 19/20 working at a Starbucks no less, I had this sweet pair of Virus shades that looked exactly like this only the frame had this crazy cobalt marbled into it and the lenses were cobalt too. Fit my head and face perfect and I was asked a gazillion times if they were prescription.

http://www.sunglasses-shop.co.uk/FileRepository/Images/SunglassesPhotos/enlarge/maui-jim/akamai212-02.jpg

They were not, but I hadn't had my prescription checked since I was little, so after enough bitching from my manager to stop wearing them while I worked (despite the massive tip increase we'd get when I did), I decided to go out, drop the cash to have custom prescription lenses made for the frame and continued to wear them for the next 5 years. Between those glasses and my personality, I was asked out 3 times while wearing them at work and can't tell you where to begin when it came to all the other benefits.

Good times! :D

[Anenome]

Wait... Seems like you're always hanging out at a coffee shop, are YOU a hipster?
Newp. I'm not wealthy enough to be a hipster in any case.

[Agnostic Pope]

That one seems off. Where is that hipster? Here that's redneck. They always wear cowboy boots and jeans too. Shop at clothing stores that specialize in that kind of apparel, blast country in their giant pick-up trucks. Can't generally complain about a pretty girl in a cowboy hat though, with those denim mini-shorts and boots. Not a terribly uncommon look around here. :cool:

Think the fish hook hat thing is a redneck thing too. Aren't hipsters and rednecks mortal enemies? Like pirates and ninjas. Seems there's some goth/emo blur in there too. Guess the lines cross around the edges.

I wear Cowboy hats from time to time.(Like Woody's in Zombieland not those big ass 10 gallon hats :D) Am I a redneck? I also wear Fedora hats ,wear black shirts, videogame shirts, Heavy Metal band shirts, ect. Also I wear almost any kind of jeans...mostly "designer" looking jeans that fit correctly. (NOT skinny jeans though) I don't get the thrift store mentality. Clothes are freaking cheap. (outside The Texan type cowboy shirt/jeans/boots) Thad you are basically a hipster...yet you are not. Guess you aren't a hipster because what you wear/use comes from necessity.

[Anenome]

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[Anenome]

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[Anenome]

Ugh. Hipster-overdose.

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Kill it with fire!

LOOK AT ME. PAY ATTENTION TO ME. LOOK HOW ODDLY I'M DRESSED RIGHT NOW.

kill it with mainstream music!

He's so hip, even his unemployment is ironical.

Aaargh my eyes! It burns!

Omg...whats wrong with him...that tie does NOT go with those shoes

Cry for help: doing it right

The fucking sock garters drive this into Punch-on-sight territory.

This is why we hate them

Why is there not a pic of somebody beating him down?

Someone is BEGGING to get dick-punched...

why do i feel like stuffing him in a wall locker?

He looks like a retard IRONICALLY

Over a suit? I guess they ARE called overalls.

I'd seriously consider doing time just to put him out of his misery.

what is this i don't even

this outfit spells "douchebag"

Not another Borat movie COMEON!!!!!

Hipsters, you have found your KING!

No. Just no.

Isnt walking on legs too normal 4 u?

[Anenome]

All I gots ta say is, I hated hipsters before it was cool ^_~

[Agnostic Pope]

kill it with mainstream music!

lol!

[lockwoodx]

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[lockwoodx]

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[Hagetaka]

This is an example of wearing a mustache "ironically." The glasses are real tho, but many who don't need glasses will wear non-prescription versions because they like the look or to wear them also ironically.

http://i.imgur.com/2erUj.jpg

That mustache is awesome.

/carry on

[Anenome]

Goddamnit.

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[Anenome]

Not satisfied with mere mathematical methods of deducing what you're looking for, Google has resorted to hiring psychics! Well played.

http://i.imgur.com/GvbkS.png

[WileE.Coyte]

Please. Anyone pretentious enough to use a typewriter simply to be seen using a typewriter is innately pathetic :P

I'm not saying it's offensive, I'm saying it's ridiculous. What frailties? He should be embarrassed to do something so silly when it's completely obvious he's doing it just to be seen doing it :P

No one's genuinely that poor AND desperate to type at a coffee shop AND happens to have an in-service 40's style type-writer. If you're that poor and desperate, you go to a goddamn library or school, sheesh. Hell, I had en electric typewriter when I was a kid, before computers--never had to suffer through one of those powerless models either.

Honestly there is a 99.9% chance he's a hipster look at me i'm special, "douche". I did however read about this really cool experiment this guy did a few years back where he used only 1940's-1950's tech for six months or year. No computer, land line phone, bacon grease and cigarette for breakfast etc etc. If he's copying that experiment it's actually pretty cool.

[Anenome]

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[Anenome]

Gawwwwd.

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