Opinion! How to Live Without Irony

Takeda Shingen · 11-20-12, 10:16 AM

We've got hipsters here on SubSim. I've seen their photos posted. I don't think there's anything wrong with them. Certainly not something I'd shoot myself in the head over.

mookiemookie · 11-20-12, 12:35 PM

I made it five paragraphs in before that article put me to sleep.

This lady needs to realize that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Some people gravitate towards a certain fashion trend or what have you simply because. Not because they're trying to make some deep philosophical statement.

Hottentot · 11-20-12, 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Not if you study semiotics. That stuff is seriously surreal, I'm telling you.

Egan · 11-20-12, 04:01 PM

Hipsters. Ah yes. Well, they're all over the place here, with their skinny jeans and 'Where's Waldo' hats. It's when they all started wearing Black Flag and Misfits t-shirts I got annoyed. I mean, some things are just sacred.

Penguin · 11-20-12, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Penguin · 11-20-12, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by soopaman2

*shoots himself in the head with a .50cal.*

*pries the 50cal from soopas cold, dead hands*
*checks ammo*
*walks to the nearest Starbucks*
"Hey Hipsty, Hipsty! Hey Hipster!" (ironic Platoon movie reference)

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Originally Posted by Stealhead

I like this basically she is saying if you dislike hipsters you see something of yourself in them.Therefore you should change yourself.

"People may choose to continue hiding behind the ironic mantle, but this choice equals a surrender to commercial and political entities more than happy to act as parents for a self-infantilizing citizenry."
"So rather than scoffing at the hipster;a favorite hobby, especially of hipsters; determine whether the ashes of irony have settled on you as well. It takes little effort to dust them away."

This sounds more like a problem the author of the article has with herself. If she wants to dust off her irony, that's not my problem. As if Hipsters were the first who used irony or sarcasm.

Despite that, her approach and her article are too intellectually constipated to me.
To me Hipsters are the same as Preppies: a bunch of shallow trustafarians who are members of a club to which you gain acces by consumerism. Wear the right clothes, then you're part of the gang.

Stealhead · 11-20-12, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Penguin

This sounds more like a problem the author of the article has with herself. If she wants to dust off her irony, that's not my problem. As if Hipsters were the first who used irony or sarcasm.

Despite that, her approach and her article are too intellectually constipated to me.
To me Hipsters are the same as Preppies: a bunch of shallow trustafarians who are members of a club to which you gain acces by consumerism. Wear the right clothes, then you're part of the gang.

I noticed that which is why I liked the article I thought is was kind of interesting that she really had her own problem but never addresses it.I like articles where the author makes a fool of themselves but fails to realize it.

I always feel that if you are confident in your ways it should not bother you if someone buys into your style so to speak.A true connoisseur has no need to advertise at all.So if it is a guy with a Black Flag shirt unless it is at a 1984 concert I know the guy just wants attention if I see a guy with a NRA sticker on his truck I know that he just wants to seem like a bad ass gun owner he may not even own a single firearm he just got the sticker in the mail x10 for the "I dial .357 not 911" bumper sticker.

At the same to time to mock such a person does not mean that you are laughing at your inner self.

Penguin · 11-20-12, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Stealhead

So if it is a guy with a Black Flag shirt unless it is at a 1984 concert I know the guy just wants attention

HEy! I once was given a ride in the US by some guys with thick glasses who saw me hitchhiking while sporting a BF-shirt!

Glad they were outdoor-nerdrock-guys on their way to a canoe tour and no hipsters.

Oh, this happened in 2006.

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Originally Posted by Stealhead

At the same to time to mock such a person does not mean that you are laughing at your inner self.

Laughing at your self is never wrong. Laughing at Hipsters, too. Laughing at the author, three.

I agree that the author doesn't notice how much the article tells about herself.

Stealhead · 11-20-12, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Penguin

HEy! I once was given a ride in the US by some guys with thick glasses who saw me hitchhiking while sporting a BF-shirt!

Glad they were outdoor-nerdrock-guys on their way to a canoe tour and no hipsters.

Oh, this happened in 2006.

Laughing at your self is never wrong. Laughing at Hipsters, too. Laughing at the author, three.

I agree that the author doesn't notice how much the article tells about herself.

Ah they knew that you where the real deal and wanted a little to rub off on them.

I laugh at myself everyday with all the stupid things I have done.You are talking to a guy that once stood on top of an old upside down aquarium which of course caused the glass to shatter and cut the crap out of my ankle.I was only 12 or so at the time.

Egan · 11-20-12, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Stealhead

A true connoisseur has no need to advertise at all.So if it is a guy with a Black Flag shirt unless it is at a 1984 concert I know the guy just wants attention if I see a guy with a NRA sticker on his truck I know that he just wants to seem like a bad ass gun owner he may not even own a single firearm he just got the sticker in the mail x10 for the "I dial .357 not 911" bumper sticker.

I'm currently wearing a T-shirt with the Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition logo on it. I believe that is the hattrick right there - Hipster attire with nods to both geek and nerd. I am the Omni-dork and my hep styling is so dense ordinary coolness bends in my presence like space-time near a black hole.

Stealhead · 11-20-12, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Egan

I'm currently wearing a T-shirt with the Dungeons and Dragons 2nd edition logo on it. I believe that is the hattrick right there - Hipster attire with nods to both geek and nerd. I am the Omni-dork and my hep styling is so dense ordinary coolness bends in my presence like space-time near a black hole.

I don't really care what other people think of my style that is the real secret be yourself.

Aside from certain styles of clothing that ID a person as a gang member I don't care what someone else wears.

Sorry but I really have no idea what hep styling means.

11-20-12, 12:35 PM	#2
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11-20-12, 10:16 AM	#1
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	We've got hipsters here on SubSim. I've seen their photos posted. I don't think there's anything wrong with them. Certainly not something I'd shoot myself in the head over.

11-20-12, 04:01 PM	#4
Egan Admiral Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,020 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Hipsters. Ah yes. Well, they're all over the place here, with their skinny jeans and 'Where's Waldo' hats. It's when they all started wearing Black Flag and Misfits t-shirts I got annoyed. I mean, some things are just sacred.