The Briefing Room
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: roamer_1 on March 10, 2019, 01:23:52 am
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I seem to be running into a lot of stuff about 'hipsters' messin with country stuff...
There was another thing on the board describing 'hipster' as wearing beards, flannel, jeans and a toque. That drinking PBRs is a nod to hipster...
WTF, over?
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That's pretty funny @roamer_1 !
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Vegan Grits? What did I just see?
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Vegan Grits? What did I just see?
Are they Gluten Free and Non GMO?
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It's easy to distinguish between hipsters and country folk. It's called WORK, something hipsters don't do.
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That's pretty funny @roamer_1 !
Yeah, @Sanguine , it is funny, but what makes it funny is that it is obviously a thing - A thing I know absolutely nothing about... This 'hipster' thing, I mean... :shrug:
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Vegan Grits? What did I just see?
I honestly don't know...
No comprende... :shrug:
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It's easy to distinguish between hipsters and country folk. It's called WORK, something hipsters don't do.
Alright - Thank you. There's a marker...
:beer:
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Yeah, @Sanguine , it is funny, but what makes it funny is that it is obviously a thing - A thing I know absolutely nothing about... This 'hipster' thing, I mean... :shrug:
Yeah, it's funnier if you knew some of them.
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Yeah, it's funnier if you knew some of them.
Well yeah, I'd guess, @Sanguine - I literally don't know what this is... But I am more interested in the thing at a cultural level...
I mean, I know what a country diner is, or a honkytonk, just driving by... In the few times I have ventured forth from these mountains, I have nearly always been able to seek out my own kind, dang near anywhere... Not so true in the rust belt big cities, but otherwise, fairly true.
I think I have described before coming back from back east and finding the first country diner on my way, and knowing I was sorta 'home' again.
This thing kinda stinks like that time when cowboy went vogue and every bar everywhere had to have a mechanical bull... sorta the 'Rhinestone Cowboy' thing.
So these hipsters... I think @Free Vulcan said they don't work - The impression I get is that this cultural segment is absconding the 'look' of the 'working man' (at least blue collar, if not country or Southern), kinda like the grunge thing did (I swear, vibram soled shoes went up two hundred dollars over that), taking cultural cues without embracing the mores thereof?
It's weird to me. So is it just attire that they would affect?
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@roamer_1, the ones I know work, and work pretty hard. They have a certain lifestyle to uphold.
This is a place I've eaten at that is totally a hipster place: http://www.lucysfriedchicken.com/ (http://www.lucysfriedchicken.com/)
But, the chicken was pretty good. Being as how we're in Texas and not the deep south, there are no vegan options, but some gluten-free ones.
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@roamer_1, the ones I know work, and work pretty hard. They have a certain lifestyle to uphold.
This is a place I've eaten at that is totally a hipster place: http://www.lucysfriedchicken.com/ (http://www.lucysfriedchicken.com/)
But, the chicken was pretty good. Being as how we're in Texas and not the deep south, there are no vegan options, but some gluten-free ones.
Alright @Sanguine ... What makes that 'Hipster' and not just redneck?
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Alright @Sanguine ... What makes that 'Hipster' and not just redneck?
They use face creme and hair and beard products.
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*bouche*
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They use face creme and hair and beard products.
Alright. Now I am really confused.
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Alright. Now I am really confused.
I think you might have to experience it to really get it. And, I'm probably not the best explainer of this particular phenomenon.
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I seem to be running into a lot of stuff about 'hipsters' messin with country stuff...
There was another thing on the board describing 'hipster' as wearing beards, flannel, jeans and a toque. That drinking PBRs is a nod to hipster...
WTF, over?
Sounds like a seriously bad case of cultural appropriation to me....
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I think you might have to experience it to really get it. And, I'm probably not the best explainer of this particular phenomenon.
@Sanguine
It’s complicated. And weird.
It started a few years ago with the “lumbersexual†trend (remember metrosexuals?). Dana Loesch described being in NYC for a TV appearance, running into a shop for coffee, and getting in line behind a guy with the beard, jeans, flannel, work boots, and perfectly smooth white hands. This article from a few years ago nails it—-“trying to capture bygone testosterone.â€
https://www.google.com/amp/s/jordandetmers.com/2014/11/14/why-hipsters-dress-like-lumberjacks-the-story-of-the-lumbersexual/amp/ (https://www.google.com/amp/s/jordandetmers.com/2014/11/14/why-hipsters-dress-like-lumberjacks-the-story-of-the-lumbersexual/amp/)
I honestly haven’t seen anything IRL or on social media about hipsters doing the same with southern culture—and by that I mean adopting a certain style of dress. I’m not even sure what that would be, unless they think we all wear bib overalls or old-style housedresses. But there are plenty of cities in the South with large hipster populations, such as Nashville, or Richmond & Charlottesville here in my state.
Our downtown area (Lynchburg) is experiencing a kind of hipster explosion, with loft apartments and trendy new restaurants. We’re getting a craft beer company so the transformation will be complete.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=SouthernHipster&=true (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=SouthernHipster&=true)