You might not be a hipster if....

[Bluepoet]

http://xkcd.com/1220/

[s2y]

LOL, fixed gear oddball bike is mandatory.

I remember when my 2nd to last band broke up and suddenly everything was dominated by hipsters. I was a fretless 6 string bassist playing custom stuff that they didn't like and let me know it. At that time I got more into cycling, which was when local hipsters were also doing the same. I shortly became a time trial specialist. Somehow some hipster who has never raced was always willing to tell me how riding a fixed gear bike was the only "true" riding and how it would fix my pedaling.

[Chicago Sandy]

You have no tattoos, and the thought of getting one makes you squirm.

Your girlfriend has no tattoos.

If you’re a woman, you wear makeup other than just black eyeliner and red lipstick.

You visit a barber shop or hair stylist that doesn’t play ambient electronica or hip-hop music in the background, and doesn’t have exposed brick walls.

If you have dyed hair, you get your roots touched up instead of considering them a fashion statement.

You dye your hair colors that occur in nature....and only on hair.

You eat at restaurants where neither the chef nor the servers have visible tattoos.

You drink your wine out of glasses that have stems.

You wear pants that have zippers and jackets that don’t.

You don’t go outside in your pajama pants except to pick up the mail or your newspaper.

You refuse to pay insane prices for things that are completely unflattering to you, especially eyeglass frames.

You actually care not just if your clothes fit, but flatter you.

You wear any sneakers other than Converse Chuck Taylors.

You can walk into a coffeehouse, finish an entire beverage without going online, and then walk out.

You pay at parking meters with coins or by swiping a credit card instead of using an app.

You own vinyl LPs recorded before 2005.

You hail taxis on the street instead of using Uber.

You read stuff printed on paper.

You have a landline.

[harmonics101]

I'm not sure if I'm a hipster or not, but darn if I don't want me some of those Converse Chuck Taylor tennis shoes !! The only problem is, they are terrible if you walk alot, I guess Hipsters use their skate boards or single gear road bikes when wearing them

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[Pitar]

Isn't a hipster simply a disestablishmentarian? That about describes a cross section in every generation history can tell stories about. So, it went from rebels without a cause to simply hipster. Same shit, different flies. If I didn't know better I'd say you're hipster blues are nothing more than baleful yearnings for your own lost youth. BTW, I'm 59 and some hipster if filling the slot I left vacant. Get the idea?

[Chicago Sandy]

Not quite all "rebels without a cause"--for instance, hippies wouldn't have qualified, but beatniks might have if they had a bit more money and considered most of society their intellectual and aesthetic inferiors. And many modern hipsters do have their pet causes--just not within the realm of electoral politics.

[barley]

They qualified They just are the only ones that will never realize it.

[Fireside_Guitar]

It's easy to belittle people and make fun of them so I`m not going to play along as it doesn't promote anything positive. It just means I`m cooller than a Hipster but not as rich as I need to be. You figure it out.

What I do want to say is now I understand why I see Pabst Blue Ribbon(PBR) and Old Milwaukee around here. See where I live in Canada PBR was the cheapest American beer you could get across the border and Old Milwaukee was never seen in a liquor store until a few years ago.

I was in a pub last weekend I had never been too and a buddy was already sitting there having a beer so I ask him what he's drinking? He answers "I think it`s called Past or something, some guy drinking here recommended it" I'm like HUH? Is this some new cool micro brew? The waitress comes out and asks for my order and I ask what is my buddy drinking? She says Pabst Blue Ribbon and my tongue drops.

You see in Canada we have loathed the taste of cheap American beer for as long as I can remember...and for good reason as it taste awful. We even have jokes about how bad American beer is(not the great micro brew stuff) PBR, Rainer, Old Milwakwee, Coors, Budweiser and MGD to a lesser extend etc. Seeing PBR on tap in a pub here was shocking and I thought the world might end that day. Seeing folks walk out of the liquor store with boxes of Old Milwaukee has me looking twice at my medication bottles to make sure I`m ok.

What has the world come to?

[mtsusean]

I feel the same way about Molsen

[Fireside_Guitar]

Originally Posted by mtsusean

I feel the same way about Molsen

No doubt the same can be said about Labatt`s Blue or any other big brewery North American offering. In Canada we had access to Molson and Labatt`s for mainstream but imports like Beck`s and Heineken were easily available and far superior to either of the Canadian beers. The micro brews changed the way we look at and consume beer here. We had a beer company come around around 1986 called the Shaftebury Brewing Company and they brewed Shaftebury Cream Ale, from that moment on everything changed here locally and beer was never the same. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaftebury_Brewing_Company

For many years I would rather spend the money on one nice micro brew than a case of Labatt`s or Molson. The only time I drink these are when they are offered as the only beer.

[Dirk Hofman]

You've forced me to post this again...

[Irish Pennant]

You're not a hipster if:

You embrace your receding hair line and don't shave your head bald.

Speaking of bald

You named the bald spot on the back of your head.......The "solar panel"

[DesolationAngel]

I was all over mocking hipsters... before it was cool.

[Silly Moustache]

Heh!

I'm not a hipste3r by your definitions of preclusion.

and - I had a beard since I was 17 (1965).
Owned my own home since 1976.
Don't do debt.
Wash regularly.
Don't dress for effect.

but ....my eldest grandson used to ring up and ask to "hang" with me. I asked why - he said "because your cool"

That'll do for me.

[crikey]

Originally Posted by Irish Pennant

You're not a hipster if:

You embrace your receding hair line and don't shave your head bald.

Speaking of bald

You named the bald spot on the back of your head.......The "solar panel"

http://youtu.be/wr3hGBAD4As