The Hipster Thread! Love em or Hate em, Hipsters are certainly entertaining.

[Overmind One]

Hipsters. personally, I have become somewhat of an aficionado on the different species of hipsters, from the pretend-poor rich hipster donning the attire and behavior of poor homeless people because they think it's cool, to the ACTUALLY poor hipster who sacrifices 4 months saved money and the equivalent of 1000 recycled bottles to buy the iPhone just so it can connect to wireless (because they cannot afford a phone contract or pre-pay). There are so many varieties, so many flavors and styles that it takes more than one post to talk about this.

This OP will start with Jimmy Kimmel seeing what happens when the names of artists and bands who do not exist are "recognized" by wannabe hipsters wanting to seem pre-cool.

 

[Overmind One]

The science of Hipsterdom....once you become a hipster, you suddenly become mainstream...how ironic.


Hipsters were UNCOOL before it was uncool to be a Hipster. How is that for pre-cool?

 

[Overmind One]

Hipsters love coffee. They started out at Starbucks, which connected them to drinking lots of coffee, but that became to "current", so they started with coffee presses and have moved forward to Turkish coffee presses and now all manner of coffee brewing contraptions. Check this one out...yes, that is a coffee maker (looks a lot like a table fountain ordered from Alibaba, doesnt it? ). I have been treated to the utter spectacle of watching a hipster buy coffee beans in Starbucks, then go outside and actually grind the beans with a battery powered grinder and use his coffee press on the table. OMG, how uber-alternate is that? NOTE: raised pinky AND index finger.

Okay, its a parody.

 

[Overmind One]

 

[ecgordon]

I'm old enough to have been a Hep Cat before hippies were hip.

 

[Jim of WVa]

The science of Hipsterdom....once you become a hipster, you suddenly become mainstream...how ironic.


Hipsters were UNCOOL before it was uncool to be a Hipster. How is that for pre-cool?

I like how the mentioned study applied mathematics to a phenomenon in sociology. Psychohistory here we come.

 

[Jim of WVa]

Hipsters love coffee. They started out at Starbucks, whichconnected them to drinking lots of coffee, but that became to "current", so they started with coffee presses and have moved forward to Turkish coffee presses and now all manner of coffee brewing contraptions. Check this one out...yes, that is a coffee maker (looks a lot like a table fountain ordered from Alibaba, doesnt it? ). I have been treated to the utter spectacle of watching a hipster buy coffee beans in Starbucks, then go outside and actually grind the beans with a battery powered grinder and use his coffee press on the table. OMG, how uber-alternate is that? NOTE: raised pinky AND index finger.

One time in college, I pulled an all nighter and drank Turkish coffee the next day at lunch. It did not help.

 

[Jim of WVa]

I'm old enough to have been a Hep Cat before hippies were hip.

You are probably not much older than OM1 and myself. How old are you?

 

[ecgordon]

I'll soon be 65.

 

[Overmind One]

I'll soon be 65.

OMG! You are older than both Jim and myself! I defer to your wisdom and longevity. . I am going to be 55 on the 24th of this month. I think Jim is a couple of years younger than me?

 

[Jim of WVa]

OMG! You are older than both Jim and myself! I defer to your wisdom and longevity. . I am going to be 55 on the 24th of this month. I think Jim is a couple of years younger than me?

I will be 51 on April 9, 2015.

 

[Overmind One]

I will be 51 on April 9, 2015.

Youre still a Boomer like me.

 

[ecgordon]

Longevity maybe. Not sure about the wisdom part.

 

[Rac80]

I like how the mentioned study applied mathematics to a phenomenon in sociology. Psychohistory here we come.

they have been doing that since the 70's at least. Sociology & Psychology use a lot of statistics. still have my psychology statistics text books.


as to my age...I am younger than OM1 but older than Jim. actually i am nearly exactly 20 years older than my daughter, snookie.

I will say I am NOT a baby boomer- there was actually a drop off in the birth rate from '56 to '60, I am part of the boomlet covering '60 to '64. We are VERY different from our older siblings!

 

[Gate_Boarder]

Okay all you hipsters pull out all those stove-pipe black jeans from the early sixties. Darn, I wish I still had my 'Man From U.N.C.L.E.' guns. My old raccoon hat is probably kinda ratty by know wherever it is? Hawaiian shirts on a nice and hot day was a treat.

To be old and have a memory, now that is a treat to end all treats.

 

[Overmind One]

Okay all you hipsters pull out all those stove-pipe black jeans from the early sixties. Darn, I wish I still had my 'Man From U.N.C.L.E.' guns. My old raccoon hat is probably kinda ratty by know wherever it is? Hawaiian shirts on a nice and hot day was a treat.

To be old and have a memory, now that is a treat to end all treats.

A short list:

Members Only jackets
Converse All Stars
Disco shirts by Nik Nik
French jeans (just lol!)
Heineken beer (still around, but no longer considered THE beer)
Italian Ice (gelato has replaced this)
VHS tapes (video stores started this way)
High end turntables for vinyl records

 

[Overmind One]

 

[Jim of WVa]

they have been doing that since the 70's at least. Sociology & Psychology use a lot of statistics. still have my psychology statistics text books.


as to my age...I am younger than OM1 but older than Jim. actually i am nearly exactly 20 years older than my daughter, snookie.

I will say I am NOT a baby boomer- there was actually a drop off in the birth rate from '56 to '60, I am part of the boomlet covering '60 to '64. We are VERY different from our older siblings!

I was kidding.

That being said, sociology and psychology use a lot of statistics and mathematics, but neither field employs initial value differential equations. Initial value differential equations are of the form:

Xtt = f(X)

Where: X is a vector of unknowns,
Xtt is the second partial (or ordinary) differential of X with respect to time.
f(X) is a function of X.

It is this that separates sociology and psychology from psychohistory.

 

[Jim of WVa]

The best way to tell a hipster from a homeless person is their smell.

 

[Overmind One]

The best way to tell a hipster from a homeless person is their smell.

LOL, that is actually true for the most part! Many hipsters do not use soap because it is animal based. Others cover their body odor with mashed flowers (or fresh ones). Others wear expensive colognes.
--- merged: Feb 23, 2015 7:06 AM ---
PBS Ideas: Are you a Hipster? This was interesting...