Do you ever feel "hip"?

[resonance]

I am an aspiring hipster. I've always want to be in the know, wearing obscure fashions and listening to pretentious Indie bands. I have a deep fascination for the quirky and unappreciated.

What do you do when you want to feel sophisticated?

 

[wilbur33]

What do you do when you want to feel sophisticated?

Watch Jerry Springer.

 

[Drugstore Cowboy]

i spoke lots and lots of weed.

 

[bankside]

I base my self-worth on disdaining hipsters.

 

[bankside]

Actually I don't. I base my self-worth on the certain knowledge that I'm above all that. I hate their aesthetics. The beards. The heavy-framed glasses. The ennui. I hate their music and their champagne-socialist politics. Ummm. And their shoes.


....What do you mean this microphone is on?

 

[zoltanspawn]

Complaints about hipsterdom are for people who aren't secure in their own arena.

I feel cool most of the time.

 

[hermanding]

I have no idea what 'hip' is. I try to be myself.

 

[LilBit]

I worry about breaking my hip, especially when the sidewalks are covered with wet leaves.

 

[resonance]

I am silently discerning your "hipness" based on the contents of your posts.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Are the "hipsters" of today supposed to be a new version of the original hipsters?

 

[Drugstore Cowboy]

weren't the old hipsters beatniks

 

[pat grimshaw]

^
Urban Dictionary says hip and hep have been used from the 1940s. I'm sure I heard Sidney Poitier use 'hip' in 'Paris Blues' which was late 50s. People wore low-waisted hipster pants in my country in the 60s.

 

[cron9por]

usually I feel both hips

..when I'm doing some serious throating

I was going to say when I'm working my way up or working my way down

 

[rareboy]

I am an aspiring hipster. I've always want to be in the know, wearing obscure fashions and listening to pretentious Indie bands. I have a deep fascination for the quirky and unappreciated.

What do you do when you want to feel sophisticated?

Wear socks that don't match.

 

[GL]

there is an alternate, pocket universe where i am the coolest frakking hipster on the whole frakking planet

its just not this one

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Fuck no.

Shoot me if I ever aspire to wear an "ironic" mustache and plaid. I don't follow trends purposefully - especially mainstream ones(oh, the IRONY).

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

^Beard is not a mustache, nor is your style borne from the perversion of coffee house beatniks trying to be vainly post-grunge asshats.

 

[mbamike]

What do you do when you want to feel sophisticated?

Nothing. I just be myself. People can take it or leave it.

 

[bankside]

Well, shit, when it comes to me I suppose 9 out of 10 people would lazily describe me as a hipster. I don't really care, I just think it's funny that so many people these days can summon so much hate for something as unimportant as music preference and style of clothing.

What makes my eyes roll is how someone can summon enough love for a particular kind of music preference and style of clothing to restrict themselves to it as a kind of social uniform. But it also makes a difference how you define hipster.

For instance I find this definition problematic because I think this:

I am an aspiring hipster.

...is by definition the opposite of this:

I have a deep fascination for the quirky and unappreciated.

Most of what I see referenced as hipsterism in a quick scan of pop culture is clichéed and not particularly quirky anymore, and overdone rather than unapreciated. Hasn't the real avant-garde moved on by now?

 

[maxpowr9]

The problem with hipsters is that many of them will hate something for the sake that it is popular without any rationality.