HIPSTERS!

[Admiral Yi]

THATS REAL RETARDED SIR

  Line's a keeper.

[The Larch]

No mention of fixie bikes, low cut shirts or bushy beards in that checklist? Fails at superficiality. 

[Duque de Bragança]

No mention of fixie bikes, low cut shirts or bushy beards in that checklist? Fails at superficiality. 

huge retro glasses as well. 

[celedhring]

No mention of fixie bikes, low cut shirts or bushy beards in that checklist? Fails at superficiality. 

I tick one out of three of that, and two when I'm too much of a lazyarse to trim my beard :p. I'm too hairy to do low cut shirts.

[The Larch]

Relevant for the London variant of hipsters. :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVmmYMwFj1I

[Sheilbh]

I'm not a hipster. But having said that I was describing them as hipsters way before anyone else - due to my exposure to US people

I have some similar tastes. I love coffee, craft beer and the Tour de France. I've read books on football tactics and have a decent collection of often obscure music (in my case though, on CD and of soul). I had a beard for most of the last year and my current address is Peckham, my last one was around Shoreditch. I love a silent movie screening. And I do shop in charity shops and I've danced with a drag queen in Dalston Superstore (home of the hipster gays). So there's, I'd say, a bit of an overlap.

But I don't like the snobbishness that I associate with many hipsters and hipsterishness. There's an exclusivity I like to think I don't do. I like all of these things and I want and hope that other people like them too. I always find with people I consider to be 'hip' a sort of desire to exclude people. Often the coffee geekiness isn't just about it's own tastiness, but reminds me of wine snobs.

Also, tragically, I shop in charity shops unironically

Edit: Also no-one has ever or, I think, would ever call me a hipster. I just don't look the part. I don't know if I could even if I tried. I'd always look like a fake hipster

God I've just realised my niche DVD collections (Giallo, kitchen sink drama, Ealing comedies) might be hipster-y

Fuck I love synths too! Although when I put Pet Shop Boys on at a hipstery party noone's happy

[Ideologue]

Regarding music, is enjoying the brief career of Jobriath hipstery?

Actually, just knowing who Jobriath was is probably hipstery.

[Tonitrus]

Somebody here called me a proto-hipster once, I think it was Tonitrus.  I don't consider it hipsterism if I've been doing something for over 20 years.

I don't think that was me...

[Sheilbh]

As with most of my tastes I think it's in that grey area between hipsters and Morrissey

[Ideologue]

As with most of my tastes I think it's in that grey area between hipsters and Morrissey

Oh God, that's even worse.

[CountDeMoney]

Don't be knocking Morrissey.  HE UNDERSTANDS.

[HVC]

Don't be knocking Morrissey.  HE UNDERSTANDS.

figures you'd be a Morrissey fan

[Duque de Bragança]

Since when loving Le Tour de France is hipster? 

[mongers]

Since when loving Le Tour de France is hipster? 

Yeah, how? 

[Eddie Teach]

If you're American.