Confessions

[Lethologica]

Witchblade comes to mind, though it's right on the line of pornographic content. Such a shame, because the premise is great, if only they would take it seriously.

As demonstrated by the comics.

[Vizzerdrix]

I suspect that I shall be fired from my job either tonight or in the next few days. I am okay with this. Walmart has become an aweful place to work in the last year or two.

Also, after having fresh bananas, I can no longer eat store bought bananas.

[Drakeburn]

Please don't kill me when I say this:

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I actually hate Jamba Juice. Their drinks are WAY too sweet and sugary for my taste.

[Aedilred]

My understanding has always been that a hipster is a person who avoids things that are "cool" or "mainstream" in the name of nonconformity, and may also claim that ___________ "used to be cool" or that they liked it "before it was cool." Plenty of stereotypes have grown up around the hipster (they drink PBR, they have beards, wear flannel, etc.), and they pretty much took over for emo kids as the stereotypically annoying and hated group of people.

Ultimately I think "hipster" has become a very broad category, especially since, unlike most previous subcultures (including the original hipsters) they don't self-define as such. A lot of irritating stereotypes about pretentious people have been rolled into it, along with a few innocents to boot.

I think the archetypal hipster has some combination of the following characteristics:

• Possessed of few original ideas and no real artistic ability, but works in a "creative" field anyway and takes pride in this. If they don't work in such a field as their primary occupation expect them to have it as a hobby and talk about it more than they do their actual job. Something like "self-employed artisan cheese maker" is a fairly typical hipster job.
• Non-reliance on an actual job for basic financial needs, especially when that job doesn't really pay much or anything. Often supported by family, an inheritance, trust fund, etc. Tend to be fairly middle class.
• An obsession with the esoteric. They don't purport to enjoy things despite their unpopularity and lack of exposure, they do so precisely for that reason. As soon as somthing becomes popular or mainstream they'll move on to something else.
• A tendency to claim they're doing things "ironically", to the extent it's ultimately hard to tell whether they're ever actually enjoying themselves or expressing themselves authentically. The typical tone of voice used by a hipster is "bored and condescending".
• Despite their desire to stay outside the mainstream, like most subcultures nevertheless they tend to dress in a similar way.
• Ironically, thanks to their desire to live in areas that aren't "mainstream" - and yet still experience some approximation of the quality of life to which they're accustomed, while having more capital and disposable income than existing denizens - they have a tendency to act as one of the first waves of gentrification, ultimately pricing out the people they're trying to emulate and turning the area more "mainstream". They're like reverse-locusts, filling an area with deli cafés, bakeries and vinyl music shops, before moving on to somewhere as yet untouched.

M\ny people have some sort of hipsterish tendencies, which is one of the reasons it's come to be so broadly defined - and not all of them, even most of them, are necessarily negative in isolation. And to an extent the hipster market does help to support startup creative endeavours with the one hand even while inadvertently destroying the circumstances which allow their growth with the other. I think the "true" hipster is ultimately a negative phenomenon, though, contributing nothing of worth to anyone or anything while making life more difficult and annoying for everyone around them.

I'm struggling to think of examples in media, for all that I'm sure genuine hipsters must show up a lot these days - and, not watching a lot of US TV, most of my examples are from the UK. Nathan Barley is basically a portrait of hipster London, at least as it was ten years or so ago (it hasn't actually changed that much, in essence), but that in itself is hardly mainstream stuff. The girl from Common People is pretty much a proto-hipster. Jez from Peep Show has many hipsterish traits, although is ultimately too much of a loser, I think, to be a real hipster (his alter ego in the "I'm a Mac/PC" adverts, on the other hand, pretty much ticks the hipster box, if combined with one's impression of Jez, which is hard not to do really). I guess Dan Humphrey from Gossip Girl looks quite a bit like a hipster at times, although in his case he's arguably an aspirational hipster and has a legitimate artistic background, so that's not entirely fair.

The wikipedia article is actually not bad on the subject.

[8BitNinja]

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I actually hate Jamba Juice. Their drinks are WAY too sweet and sugary for my taste.

Who would hate you for not liking Jamba Juice? I personally don't like the fact that they put what grows on a lawn in a smoothie.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion,evsn if it's wrong.

Don't worry, I don't think you are wrong

[2D8HP]

Ultimately I think "hipster" has become a very broad category, especially since, unlike most previous subcultures (including the original hipsters) they don't self-define as such. A lot of irritating stereotypes about pretentious people have been rolled into it, along with a few innocents to boot.
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The wikipedia article is actually not bad on the subject.

Your right that is a good link.
And I confess that the derision against "hipsters" seems wrong to me.
Pity seems the appropriate response instead. Maybe it's jealousy of the help they get from their families?

I also confess that I was wrong earlier:

On the subject (sorry) there was a mighty funny record album from the early 60's titled "How to speak Hip". It was mostly obsolete (and funny sounding slang). Sample: "I am now disguised as an actual hipster" "Hey man, who's the cat with the microphone in his beard?"..... "Well gotta go work to pay the rent" "What's he do?" "He's in the insurance business" "Hey he just got hit by a car!" "Yeah man, like I said, the insurance business".

The album was from 1959 not "the early 60's",

But it's as funny as I remember!

[8BitNinja]

I have yet to see the movie Alien

[Winter_Wolf]

Woooo! Fire! So I potentially almost burned down our apartment. Because I left the wok on the stove and didn't realize the heat was still on. Bloody electric ranges. Happily we're only out one cheap wok. And a set of cheap crappy blinds that refused to function properly when I tried to pull them open and open the window to get the hot burning stench and smoke out of the house and away from the smoke detector. On the second floor. And the day started out so well. Seriously, it was shaping up to be a nice day for once.

[themaque]

I am a lazy man and something of a slob.

People tell me at work I'm a good working and I think they are insane. I know how much work I COULD and or SHOULD be doing.

If I am the example of a good worker, something I have heard from multiple jobs, either my standards are wonky or we are in a lot worse shape than I thought.

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BONUS: I honestly don't deserve a wife who is so hard working and beautiful. I think we look like a sitcom couple with the goofy fat man and the way too hot wife.

[Bartmanhomer]

I make tarot reading and tarot curses videos on Youtube.

[8BitNinja]

I have played over 200 hours of Skyrim

[No-Kill Cleric]

I have played over 200 hours of Skyrim

There are people who haven't?

[Illven]

There are people who haven't?

Raises hand.

Not that I don't play Skyrim. I just am probably at like the 100 or so hour mark.

[Aedilred]

I have never played Skyrim, or any Elder Scrolls game.

[themaque]

I don't think I like Skyrim. I get bored and wander off to different games. Hardly have any hours at all in.

[Lethologica]

I spent about 2,000 hours playing LoL over 4 years. And I played 300 hours of Vindictus...in one month. Which totally didn't ruin my life again, or anything. (Well, it didn't, I'd already made the decision to screw myself over and Vindictus was just how I killed time, but still.)

[8BitNinja]

There are people who haven't?

Raises hand.

Not that I don't play Skyrim. I just am probably at like the 100 or so hour mark.

I have never played Skyrim, or any Elder Scrolls game.

I don't think I like Skyrim. I get bored and wander off to different games. Hardly have any hours at all in.

I never knew that so many people would talk about the elder scrolls when I mentioned Skyrim

[Vinyadan]

I think Morrowind is the best of the lot, although I only played Arena a few hours and never played Daggerfall. Online lost me at "collect x items on the beach".

[2D8HP]

I have played over 200 hours of Skyrim

I think Morrowind is the best of the lot, although I only played Arena a few hours and never played Daggerfall. Online lost me at "collect x items on the beach".

I confess that I have no idea what your talking about!
Videogames?
Please keep pop-cultural references to things that existed before 1987 so I may follow along thank you, Dagnabbit!

[Aedilred]

I think Morrowind is the best of the lot, although I only played Arena a few hours and never played Daggerfall. Online lost me at "collect x items on the beach".

There's an amusing Oglaf strip relevant here, but so much of the comic is so hilariously NSFW I can't justifiably link it. The strip in question is titled "Chamber of Commerce" (and is SFW) if anyone wants to seek it out on their own, though.

[TuggyNE]

There's an amusing Oglaf strip relevant here, but so much of the comic is so hilariously NSFW I can't justifiably link it. The strip in question is titled "Chamber of Commerce" (and is SFW) if anyone wants to seek it out on their own, though.

I have seen Oglaf linked in many places. Every last one of them labels it NSFW. Sometimes, it's the only link so labeled among many others.

And sometimes, the page it's linked from is *itself* somewhat NSFW.

Confession: I have a holy terror of just what that implies about Oglaf. (Auxiliary confession: I've never checked to see the degree of justification.)

[Aedilred]

I have seen Oglaf linked in many places. Every last one of them labels it NSFW. Sometimes, it's the only link so labeled among many others.

And sometimes, the page it's linked from is *itself* somewhat NSFW.

Confession: I have a holy terror of just what that implies about Oglaf. (Auxiliary confession: I've never checked to see the degree of justification.)

I think it might even have more "safe" pages than not, but it's not worth taking the chance. There's a lot of incidental nudity and a lot of depicted sex. And many of the strips and stories are explicitly sexual in nature even if the visuals themselves are safe on that occasion. But it is also quite funny a lot of the time, if you can get past how gratuitous it is.

[goto124]

Oglaf is highly sex-positive, LGBT-friendly, and anti-sexist with entire strips making fun of the silliness of sexism. Best NSFW thing you'll ever read.

[8BitNinja]

I confess that I have no idea what your talking about!
Videogames?
Please keep pop-cultural references to things that existed before 1987 so I may follow along thank you, Dagnabbit!

We need more people like you

I think that people who "need to get with the times" and "old fashioned" are the coolest people out there.

[Eldariel]

I tend to rhyme almost obsessively, and often nonsensically.

[2D8HP]

We need more people like you

I think that people who "need to get with the times" and "old fashioned" are the coolest people out there.

Thanks!
I'm reminded of a time Al Roker interviewed a woman who just had her 100th birthday.
Roker: I've bet you've seen alot of changes in your 100 years.
Lady: Yep and I've been against every one.


I confess that I saw a movie trailer on a DVD and after I watched it, I called my son over and said, I think this is just about the most frightening thing ever, if you can watch this it shows me that your really brave.
I then played the trailer.
It was the cast of "Anchorman 2" wearing circa 1980 fashions.
I further confess that I remember wearing clothes like that.

[blunk]

Thanks!
I'm reminded of a time Al Roker interviewed a woman who just had her 100th birthday.
Roker: I've bet you've seen alot of changes in your 100 years.
Lady: Yep and I've been against every one.

I just watched this:

Q: "Would you want one [of these 3-d printers]?"
Don: "Absolutely not."

<3 <3 <3

[8BitNinja]

I tend to rhyme almost obsessively, and often nonsensically.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...V5w1Nu4FuR1yLQ

[NoodleDude]

Two confessions: 1. This is my first post in this forum after saying "hello" in the appropriate thread.
2. After only been in on 3 D&D sessions, I found myself saying "Dang. I just failed a Dexterity Check" when I dropped a hand full of quarters at the laundromat the other day.

[Shpadoinkle]

I hate being around kids. And pretty much everything about them. Note that I don't necessarily hate the kids themselves- I acknowledge that they can't help being kids- but I despise being around them and/or having anything at all to do with them. I cannot imagine a single situation that would be improved by adding kids, or one that would NOT be improved by removing them. And I don't just mean bratty, annoying kids, I include polite and well-behaved children in this statement as well.

I am also one of about three people I have ever met who do not automagically find (human) babies cute. I have never seen a cute larval human in my life. Baby animals, on the other hand...