Out of Pod Experience

Even with a monocle, it's not truly Hipster until MUTTONCHOPS are involved.

Also, which Sci-Fi author in the past predicted that the male look of the future was Revivalist Itinerant Preacher Man ???

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Nobody did.

beards.org The internet is strange. No, people with ideas for internet pages are strange.

I always thought hipster was someone that was always jumping on the band wagon to be considered in, cool or hip because they are worried about looking like they are 'down' with everyone.

What i see Reaver and others describing is what I call an individualist. One who is eclectic because they enjoy being eclectic not because they are worried about what others think about what they do or do not like.



Not sure she could stick that nose up any higher even if she tried lol

Wow. You are really cool. Such a forum hipster.

Like Grunge, microsoft, D&D, Indy Music, Star Bucks and pretty much anything else emerging from Seattle, Hipster started out as a small thing that some marketing people picked up and ran with and made a massive main stream fashion out of.

I am still waiting for Quarterstaves or regular Staves to be back in fashion when you go out for a hike or friendly bandit whacking upon the roads.

It's a little more complicated than that, and your clear ignorance on the subject is probably what "got their goat".

Trust me, it was all in jest. I was good friends with them even though I did not throw the middle finger up at convention quite as visibly as they. And guess what? They all threw up the same middle fingers, used the same hair dyes and listened to all the same bands as punks everywhere

The point was that we need to be happy with what we like and we should not worry about what others think about what we like and vice verse. It is a total waste of energy to do things to please or provoke people....a total waste of time.

P.S. You saying I was "clearly ignorant" of the subject is clearly an example of how judgmental the human race really is.

I think hipster originally implied a trendsetter. Moreover, a trendsetter for trends that weren't necessarily mainstream. To be hip was to know something, to be part of something that other people didn't realize existed and couldn't possibly appreciate. They were just too square. The modern hipster is someone who is looking for trends to set, if you see the distinction with "trendsetter." One is doing something and others are following; the other is doing something SO that others will follow. But, in the context of the meme that prompted me to post this thread in the first place, hipster has taken on a pejorative meaning, which is exemplified by the fact that it is no longer a term that someone would use to define themselves. To call someone a hipster is to call them desperate, needy, and obsessed.


Your response is more dramatic than my original post. Don't work yourself into a lather. My point was simply that the reasons for banishing threads to OOPE doesn't seem to be based on any real criteria. This thread had as much to do with EVE as Icelandic tourism. Yet, one was moved and the other wasn't. This has been a longstanding issue for the forums. It makes it appear as though these sorts of things are arbitrary and capricious.

Please do return my volley with another round of intense criticism and an examination of my soul. I, for one, believe that the only true perspective is that granted on teh interwebz. Are you going to provide the perspective?

I can't believe this offhand thread has lived this long.