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are you a hipster? (Original Post) gejohnston May 2013 OP
I'm not convinced a hipster can admit it OriginalGeek May 2013 #1
I'm past the point where I can deny it. Chan790 May 2013 #2
I like film cameras. hunter May 2013 #3
True hipsters linux the fuck out of Apple dorks. n/t Chan790 May 2013 #4
Debian all the way here. hunter May 2013 #7
Does owning an Apple computer make one a hipster? Sekhmets Daughter May 2013 #8
Nawwww gejohnston May 2013 #14
Perfect...thanks! Sekhmets Daughter May 2013 #17
Nope, but... Wait Wut May 2013 #5
I am a hipster!!!!! Taverner May 2013 #6
Sometimes people think I'm a hipster. harmonicon May 2013 #9
I am a total geek. Tuesday Afternoon May 2013 #10
not me hibbing May 2013 #11
PBS, meh BainsBane May 2013 #12
Too many hipsters are assholes. I'm a nerd... Locut0s May 2013 #13
Not many hipsters in my neck of the woods gejohnston May 2013 #15
Don't know what I am Xyzse May 2013 #16
or simply your own person? gejohnston May 2013 #18
That too! Xyzse May 2013 #19
i'm a grownup datasuspect May 2013 #20
i'm surprised no one has ever accued me of being one fizzgig May 2013 #21
Why did the hipster burn his mouth? Tommy_Carcetti May 2013 #22
thanks, gejohnston May 2013 #23

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
1. I'm not convinced a hipster can admit it
Thu May 30, 2013, 03:32 PM
May 2013

I think a goodly sized portion of being a hipster is being completely oblivious to one's hipsterness even while pointing and laughing at others for being hipsters. I think the second one realizes one has hipster tendencies the hip just drains away like impurities from a leach field...only to be absorbed by surrounding hipsters in the never-ending hipster circle of life.

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
2. I'm past the point where I can deny it.
Thu May 30, 2013, 03:42 PM
May 2013

I'm like the example everybody around me points to and says "fucking hipster"

hunter

(38,303 posts)
3. I like film cameras.
Thu May 30, 2013, 03:45 PM
May 2013

I own two Kodak Brownie Hawkeye cameras, I clip 120 rolls down with a fingernail clipper to fit, and I develop the film myself.

Oh, I also like Polaroids, and have been known to buy products from http://www.lomography.com and http://www.the-impossible-project.com. My Polaroid Super Shooter is maybe the most "hipster" camera I have.

But no, I swear to you, I'm too old to be a "hipster" and I have never bought an Apple computer. But I have found some nice ones on the curb with "FREE" signs on them. Last time I plugged it in my SE/30 still worked.

hunter

(38,303 posts)
7. Debian all the way here.
Thu May 30, 2013, 03:56 PM
May 2013

On computers I recovered from the trash.

But I don't shave nothing. The buzz cutter is never set to less than five.

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
14. Nawwww
Fri May 31, 2013, 12:33 PM
May 2013

it means you have good taste. Once you go Mac, you never go back.
I have Linux, so I guess that makes me a nerd?

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
17. Perfect...thanks!
Fri May 31, 2013, 12:52 PM
May 2013

I am so clueless with computers...my mac is easy enough for even me to use! I have never cared for pigeonholing people... but I guess some do. It was an interesting video.

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
5. Nope, but...
Thu May 30, 2013, 03:49 PM
May 2013

...back in Chicago I was most definitely a yuppie. I've discovered you can take the yuppie out of the urban, but you can't take the urban out of the yuppie.

harmonicon

(12,008 posts)
9. Sometimes people think I'm a hipster.
Thu May 30, 2013, 05:05 PM
May 2013

The truth is, I'm the kind of person they're ironically making fun of.

Locut0s

(6,154 posts)
13. Too many hipsters are assholes. I'm a nerd...
Fri May 31, 2013, 01:11 AM
May 2013

Computer, games, science, math, nature, nerdy nerdy nerd. I find hipsters are too often assholes.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
16. Don't know what I am
Fri May 31, 2013, 12:50 PM
May 2013

However, at some points I was considered a trend setter.
Where I show something months to a year before it becomes cool, thus inspiring geekdom.

Perhaps I may be a hipster if one considers those who takes from different sources and adopts something cool, before discarding it once it becomes mainstream and over-run by geeks(even if I am a self proclaimed geek in certain things).

Still, if it is only in regards to dress, I can't help it, my work tends to keep me in a suit and tie, so that's about all I wear.
I also only go for solid colors and pinstripes. I avoid anything that shows an icon or brand name.

So, I guess I might not be a hipster, but a self proclaimed snob.

fizzgig

(24,146 posts)
21. i'm surprised no one has ever accued me of being one
Fri May 31, 2013, 01:07 PM
May 2013

i've got the shaggy hair and thicker black glasses with rhinestones on them, i shop at thrift stores and often look like i got dressed in the dark.

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