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Wearing a Monocle? You're Officially a Hipster

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#41 - 2014-03-12 21:11:51 UTC
Qalix wrote:


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.


The Icelandic tourism thread has the possibility of discussion about visiting CCP while in Iceland.

This thread is about the current RL monocle nonsense and Hipsterism, neither of which has a thing at all to do with EVE Online the game.

OOPE is clearly defined as for threads not directly related to the game.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#42 - 2014-03-12 21:55:23 UTC
Qalix wrote:
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
Slade Trillgon wrote:
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.
Actually the real definition of hipster is a person who closely follows the latest trends. It's a term that goes back quite a ways. But lately people use the term to refer to people who believe themselves to be anti-conformist but are in fact the opposite, in response to a large and growing set of fads centered around breaking from the mainstream.

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.


That is completely logical. All I will retort with is that I may have come up in the time where the words were perverted. But yes, when I go to a CLUTCH show and see this, I here others complain how the scene has changed and there are too many hipsters here. I kind of chuckle as it means that CLUTCH will come around even more Big smile


Just looking up hipster now and this page gave me a laugh. Even though a number of them could have easily been set up.
Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#43 - 2014-03-12 22:18:05 UTC
Damn hipsters ruining everything

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#44 - 2014-03-12 23:04:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Krixtal Icefluxor
Apparently the word "hip" derives from African-American slang in the early 1900s, but became more in use with the Zoot Suit wearing Hep-Cats of the 30s.

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Farsiris Arbosa
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#45 - 2014-03-13 00:21:26 UTC
Well...it was a pretty slow day at the New York Times, wasn't it?

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#46 - 2014-03-13 01:10:22 UTC
Farsiris Arbosa wrote:
Well...it was a pretty slow day at the New York Times, wasn't it?


That I highly doubt.

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Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#47 - 2014-03-13 01:14:25 UTC
Mizhir wrote:
Damn hipsters ruining everything


How can you say that when you are one.

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