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Cybargs wrote:

thats some white people sushi right there/ still, looks good.

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

lol.

lol? Really?

#1 Gigi Edgely is not doing Adelaide this year, only Perth, wherever that is. Richard Dean Anderson does not compensate.

#2 I have had not had the time or energy to work up a good cosplay performance.

I was thinking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-bCGOthQ5k

I think I could make a replica minigun, and the Samurai outfit should hide my girth adequately.
Just need two cosplayers, could probably hire a Baby Doll for the day.

"lol" indeed.....

you know, there are two types of people who frequently apply the term 'hipster' as an insult on the internet:

1) the 'regular' joes who perceive hipsters and ostentatiously try-hard-to-be-cool/far-out/weird people as somehow outré, beyond the pale, weird and non-conformist, unconventional, contrived, etc. these are essentially your bog-standard people who will apply the umbrella term to classify anything that doesn't fit in with their own social norms and mores. these people have at least some validity in the application of the term, because 'hipster' in this sense just signifies someone living outside of the mainstream of society (the 'underground is cool' logic), and these people ARE the mainstream.

... & 2) sad people on the internet who have cottoned onto 'hipster' hate in the same way a bandwagon formed around hating emo kids several years ago. there is no ideology or reasoning here, like the regular joe hating the hipster for his unconventionality/beyond the pale conspicuousness/artifice. these people just hate whatever prevailing social fashion/custom is in the limelight, as a form of psychological 'casting aspersions'. these people are normally way below the level of functionality and social savvy of the 'regular joe', and instead use the hipster (or emo, or whatever the current on-trend scapegoat is) as a locus to offload their negativity and bile. in this sense, the free and liberal use of the term 'hipster' as an intended-insult is somewhat of a misnomer; it conceals a hateful and dishonest ideology constructed basically on wishful thinking.

based on your frequent use of the term here, and based on the contextual information you have provided - still lives at home, despite being fully into a career and in middle-age; attends cosplay conventions completely unironically; thinks lady gaga concerts are tres tres cool - which of the two aforementioned groups do you think you fall into? hmm.

Brasso wrote:

Cybargs wrote:

thats some white people sushi right there/ still, looks good.

ya i'm not the best when it comes to making it, but i'm pretty good at eating it

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Jay wrote:

Brother scheduled to fly out of Venezuela the day Chavez dies, and made it home safely. Yay!

you say that as if chavez dying implies a certain level of danger. how is a country in mourning meant to be dangerous? are you that suspicious of lefties in america? dictator dies --> chaos!!!!

13/f/taiwan wrote:

jay stop demonizing venezuela and talking nonsensical bullshit. did the us spiral out of control when kennedy was assassinated?  venezuela is not iraq or mexico. you do realize chavez was the most elected leader on this planet? get off your high horse.

"As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we've monitored, I would say that the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world."

-jimmy carter

Last edited by Jay (2013-03-06 13:31:36)

Roc18 wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

lol? Really?

#1 Gigi Edgely is not doing Adelaide this year, only Perth, wherever that is. Richard Dean Anderson does not compensate.

#2 I have had not had the time or energy to work up a good cosplay performance.

I was thinking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-bCGOthQ5k

I think I could make a replica minigun, and the Samurai outfit should hide my girth adequately.
Just need two cosplayers, could probably hire a Baby Doll for the day.

"lol" indeed.....

you know, there are two types of people who frequently apply the term 'hipster' as an insult on the internet:

1) the 'regular' joes who perceive hipsters and ostentatiously try-hard-to-be-cool/far-out/weird people as somehow outré, beyond the pale, weird and non-conformist, unconventional, contrived, etc. these are essentially your bog-standard people who will apply the umbrella term to classify anything that doesn't fit in with their own social norms and mores. these people have at least some validity in the application of the term, because 'hipster' in this sense just signifies someone living outside of the mainstream of society (the 'underground is cool' logic), and these people ARE the mainstream.

... & 2) sad people on the internet who have cottoned onto 'hipster' hate in the same way a bandwagon formed around hating emo kids several years ago. there is no ideology or reasoning here, like the regular joe hating the hipster for his unconventionality/beyond the pale conspicuousness/artifice. these people just hate whatever prevailing social fashion/custom is in the limelight, as a form of psychological 'casting aspersions'. these people are normally way below the level of functionality and social savvy of the 'regular joe', and instead use the hipster (or emo, or whatever the current on-trend scapegoat is) as a locus to offload their negativity and bile. in this sense, the free and liberal use of the term 'hipster' as an intended-insult is somewhat of a misnomer; it conceals a hateful and dishonest ideology constructed basically on wishful thinking.

based on your frequent use of the term here, and based on the contextual information you have provided - still lives at home, despite being fully into a career and in middle-age; attends cosplay conventions completely unironically; thinks lady gaga concerts are tres tres cool - which of the two aforementioned groups do you think you fall into? hmm.

lol shut up you hipster. 2 paragraphs defending hipsters? jesus.

Last edited by baggs (2013-03-06 18:14:29)

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

i would say you more than anyone else here uses the term 'hipster' to denigrate things you dislike/disapprove of on this forum. it's part of that internet psychology that saw everyone bandwagon hating 'emos' several years ago. what i'm saying is that you seem to fit a stereotype of a nerdy, live-at-home, socially awkward person. very neatly. the 'hipster' thing is just a popular culture manifestation of a certain sort of person's insecurity (defined above). it's quite simple.