Dude, we're all computer hipsters. All those IBM collectors? Hipsters.
Dude, we're all computer hipsters. All those IBM collectors? Hipsters.
Can confirm,
Source: hipster
caring about what other people think is so 2k14
fixies are badass btw
Dude, we're all computer hipsters. All those IBM collectors? Hipsters.
Can confirm,
Source: hipster
I'm using this to post on GH :thumb:Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/4o1CfkY.jpg)
Nubb we're in the clear. We did it before it was cool.
Nubb we're in the clear. We did it before it was cool.
Phew, I thought my ironic nose ring and unabashed love for saying "I don't have a TV" even though I watch Netflix would lump me in with them, but I'm safe.
Also, ****, I hit quad 6s and missed the screen shot. :(
Complains about hipsters, wants hobby to remain underground and not become mainstream.
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It is already happening!
Also I don't understand why you have a problem with your bike now. Just ride and don't care - as long as you don't only drive 2km without helmet to school or work :)
Hipster is new term for fashion, so this will change all the time.
Considering how popular clicky switches and loud key cap sets are, I fail to see a distinction in your argument.
Where you're mistaking enthusiast/geek for hipster is that there is nothing even remotely trendy or fashionable about computer keyboards.
Nobody really knows about them, or cares, even the IT people I deal with all over. That defeats something from being hipster and just makes it obscure.
Considering how popular clicky switches and loud key cap sets are, I fail to see a distinction in your argument.
what is a loud keycap set?
Where you're mistaking enthusiast/geek for hipster is that there is nothing even remotely trendy or fashionable about computer keyboards.
Nobody really knows about them, or cares, even the IT people I deal with all over. That defeats something from being hipster and just makes it obscure.
Are you kidding me? I post my keyboards on facebook, reddit, geekhack... everyone loves it!
People are always curious and wanting to find out more about it, and I'm always happy to educate :thumb:
I hear you talking, but I still hear hipster. Everyone always talks about hipsters in terms of irony and obscurity. It's not about being trendy and hipsters often eschew something after it becomes hip.
What would happen if there was suddenly a large demand for customized keyboards? Would the demand increase our options and availability with the market? Or would it just get flooded with low-quality stuff as their standards would be lower.
I was talking with some people about hipstersNote, when you lead off any conversation with this line, that probably means you’re a “hipster”. “Young, mainstream, urbanites, of a particular brand”† is not nearly as close a predictor for who can be classified as “hipster” in my experience as “people who talk about hipsters”.
Is 'urbanites' the new word for 'townie'??No. “Townie” refers specifically to young (as in, 15–25ish years old) local residents in university towns, who had/have a mutually antagonistic relationship with students. “Urbanites” just generically means “people who live in the city”. (Also, “urbanites” is a stupendously stupid word.)
In b4 jwaz. :P
I’m sure you’ve figured out from the other responses here that the majority of geekhack is hipsters already. I think you are using the wrong word for the concept you’re describing. The word you’re looking for is poseurs, not hipsters. I know the way language works, we tend to take words which originally have some specific denotative meaning, and because we have strong feelings about some group or concept associated to that word, we then morph the word usage into a purely generic “thing I don’t like” connotative use. There’s even a term for this, pejoration (Steven Pinker calls it the “euphemism treadmill”). But resist the urge, Altis. It cheapens and degrades the language, and takes useful words away from us without usefully replacing them.
Is 'urbanites' the new word for 'townie'??No. �Townie� refers specifically to young (as in, 15�25ish years old) local residents in university towns, who had/have a mutually antagonistic relationship with students. �Urbanites� just generically means �people who live in the city�. (Also, �urbanites� is a stupendously stupid word.)
As a kid of the midlands (YES MATE) anyone from a town or city is generally considered a townie, be they young or old... anti student or a student themselves...Yeah, people in modern England constantly redefine useful words into meaning something totally generic and pointless. :P
As a kid of the midlands (YES MATE) anyone from a town or city is generally considered a townie, be they young or old... anti student or a student themselves...Yeah, people in modern England constantly redefine useful words into meaning something totally generic and pointless. :P
As far as I know, the definition I mentioned before has been the dominant sense of the word �townie� since at least the early 19th century, a shortened form of �townsman�.
As a kid of the midlands (YES MATE) anyone from a town or city is generally considered a townie, be they young or old... anti student or a student themselves...Yeah, people in modern England constantly redefine useful words into meaning something totally generic and pointless. :P
As far as I know, the definition I mentioned before has been the dominant sense of the word �townie� since at least the early 19th century, a shortened form of �townsman�.
aye duck
As far as I know, the definition I mentioned before has been the dominant sense of the word “townie” since at least the early 19th century, a shortened form of “townsman”. The idea is...
aaAs far as I know, the definition I mentioned before has been the dominant sense of the word “townie” since at least the early 19th century, a shortened form of “townsman”. The idea is...
I swear all your posts read like they were looked up on Wikipedia the minute before posting ^-^
i want/wish to be able to stab/shoot people (men/women) over the internet/www.thats not very ****ing nice of you, ruski
I swear all your posts read like they were looked up on Wikipedia the minute before posting ^-^Who do you think writes Wikipedia? ;)
:mindblown:I swear all your posts read like they were looked up on Wikipedia the minute before posting ^-^Who do you think writes Wikipedia? ;)
I swear all your posts read like they were looked up on Wikipedia the minute before posting ^-^Who do you think writes Wikipedia? ;)
"I have nothing against hipsters, really, truly... but I'll be goddamned if they get their macchiato-holding paws on my precious keyboards."
Things can feel less special I suppose when too many people know about them, but hipsters aren't mainstream or the majority of people. Using film cameras didn't suddenly become unfun to use because of Lomography.com (quite the opposite).What would happen if there was suddenly a large demand for customized keyboards? Would the demand increase our options and availability with the market? Or would it just get flooded with low-quality stuff as their standards would be lower.
Why do you assume the standards would be lower? Typically they're the ones in the market for good quality products, especially of the limited variety, hard to find, or vintage. Gamers are more of that market than hipsters.
Is 'urbanites' the new word for 'townie'??No. �Townie� refers specifically to young (as in, 15�25ish years old) local residents in university towns, who had/have a mutually antagonistic relationship with students. �Urbanites� just generically means �people who live in the city�. (Also, �urbanites� is a stupendously stupid word.)
As a kid of the midlands (YES MATE) anyone from a town or city is generally considered a townie, be they young or old... anti student or a student themselves... and yes 'urbanites' is the dumbest sounding **** I've come across... especially from people condemning 'hipsters' lol
I was talking with some people about hipstersNote, when you lead off any conversation with this line, that probably means you’re a “hipster”. “Young, mainstream, urbanites, of a particular brand”† is not nearly as close a predictor for who can be classified as “hipster” in my experience as “people who talk about hipsters”.
I’m sure you’ve figured out from the other responses here that the majority of geekhack is hipsters already. I think you are using the wrong word for the concept you’re describing. The word you’re looking for is poseurs, not hipsters. I know the way language works, we tend to take words which originally have some specific denotative meaning, and because we have strong feelings about some group or concept associated to that word, we then morph the word usage into a purely generic “thing I don’t like” connotative use. There’s even a term for this, pejoration (Steven Pinker calls it the “euphemism treadmill”). But resist the urge, Altis. It cheapens and degrades the language, and takes useful words away from us without usefully replacing them.
† I know old hipsters, countercultural hipsters, suburban hipsters, poor hipsters, etc. Likewise, I know many young, mainstream urbanites with various values and styles who are most certainly not hipsters. And what’s a “particular brand”? Does that just mean “has a personal style”?
We are keyboard hipsters :/
Hipsters, in Canada anyways, refers to people who are super trendy and fashionable but are effectively 'poseurs' in their temporary hobbies. For instance, my sister bought a vintage Minolta film camera because it looked hip and trendy... she took two rolls of shots that were all completely black (underexposed) and hasn't touched it since. It was simply the fashion that made her get it, not an interest in it. That's what people, around Ottawa anyways, refer to as "hipsters". They differ greatly from enthusiasts of vintage or unique hobbies. It's more about being seen doing/using something rather than the experience. Hence, our hipsters at Bridgehead (because Starbucks is mainstream) using loud typewriters; it's about being out making a statement.I don’t think your preferred usage of the term “hipsters” is very valuable as a concept, that’s all. I agree it’s becoming one of several not-quite-commensurate definitions in common use.
Not everyone uses the same terminology as the midlands.
But this thread is pretty stupid, you should care less about the opinions of those you don't know.
Enthusiasts / hobbyists are passionate in a focused, tunnel-vision sort of way (not to say that you can't have multiple hobbies) and expend their energies toward a sort of abstract self-satisfaction.
I apologies for nothing
I apologies for nothing
I apologies for nothing
chav?
I apologies for nothing
chav?
uwot
Not everyone uses the same terminology as the midlands.
And the world is worse for it...
But this thread is pretty stupid, you should care less about the opinions of those you don't know.
I apologies for nothing, bloody townies...
...wut... I wasn't criticising others for use of language, just asking what a word meant and if it was similar to a word I knew... though not sure why should I add a Z to the spelling?
and bloody in that context, makes perfect sense...
*pulls up trousers*
I don't care who shows up if they are bringing in more buying power for making groupbuy MOQs.
My mistake! It was someone else who was on about the incorrect use of terms.
But "trousers"? Now you're just making up words..!
And in Australia, people wear their "thongs" on the outside... and on their feet.
I don't care who shows up if they are bringing in more buying power for making groupbuy MOQs.
^^^
And this thread still cracks me up. Complaining about hipsters coming in and ruining an obscure thing and making it popular is such a hipster thing.
And in Australia, people wear their "thongs" on the outside... and on their feet.
Thongs were rubber sandals (aka "flip flops") in the US until the 1980s.
But then stiff competition ensued.
Starbucks have free wifi and nice hot chocolate, while it's not cheap it's a nice place to chillout and browse the web that isn't just being sat at home infront of my desk.let's hang out and be the most vaporwavy hipster ****s in the joint
Starbucks have free wifi and nice hot chocolate, while it's not cheap it's a nice place to chillout and browse the web that isn't just being sat at home infront of my desk.let's hang out and be the most vaporwavy hipster ****s in the joint
Starbucks have free wifi and nice hot chocolate, while it's not cheap it's a nice place to chillout and browse the web that isn't just being sat at home infront of my desk.let's hang out and be the most vaporwavy hipster ****s in the joint
thats exactly why were hipstersStarbucks have free wifi and nice hot chocolate, while it's not cheap it's a nice place to chillout and browse the web that isn't just being sat at home infront of my desk.let's hang out and be the most vaporwavy hipster ****s in the joint
Vaporwave is so 2014 m8
Some might say it's vintage now.Starbucks have free wifi and nice hot chocolate, while it's not cheap it's a nice place to chillout and browse the web that isn't just being sat at home infront of my desk.let's hang out and be the most vaporwavy hipster ****s in the joint
Vaporwave is so 2014 m8