How to live without irony (or: why Hipsters are poisonous)

[Ed Anger]

Get off my lawn

[Syt]

That's a first, Generation X being useful.

Whatever.

[CountDeMoney]

That's a first, Generation X being useful.

My apathy is authentic, and not intentionally enthusiastic apathy.

[dps]

Irony is what intellect does when confronted with a situation it is unable to resolve.

If so, it certainly would explain hipsters--they're people whose intellect can't resolve anything.

[FunkMonk]

My generation, the Greatest Generation, the Lost Generation, the Generation Who Fought Off the Persians, Generation X, whatever is the last of the useful, contributory generations. 

[Valmy]

Everybody knows every generation has been degenerate and corrupt since Cincinnatus died.

[FunkMonk]

Everybody knows every generation has been degenerate and corrupt since Cincinnatus died.

[DontSayBanana]

I had a fixed gear bicycle as a child. The news that hipsters have appropriated them is devastating.

Fixed gear or single-speed?  There's a little bit of difference- a fixie can be pedaled backwards, while a single-speed like the one I had would just brake if you pedaled backwards.  Made learning to do a stoppie really easy for me.

[derspiess]

That's a first, Generation X being useful.

[mongers]

I had a fixed gear bicycle as a child. The news that hipsters have appropriated them is devastating.

Fixed gear or single-speed?  There's a little bit of difference- a fixie can be pedaled backwards, while a single-speed like the one I had would just brake if you pedaled backwards.  Made learning to do a stoppie really easy for me.

No, the key difference is whether it has a freewheel or not.

Fixed gear single speed bikes have no free wheel, so in motion you have to keep pedalling with the option of also using your legs to help any brakes you have fitted; this is the bike beloved of messengers before being appropriated by hipsters.

A single speed just has the one gear but with a freewheel, so you can coast without pedalling. A minority of bikes, like the one you described, have a coaster brake fitted so pushing backwards on the pedals engages the internal hub brake, most single-speeds don't use these but have other types of brakes.

[CountDeMoney]

That's a first, Generation X being useful.

No shit. 

Gen X:  PLJ, Ed Anger, CdM, OttoVB, you, Yi, etc.
Gen Assburgers:  Timmay and Ideologue.

Case: rested.

[Grey Fox]

Lawyer, Asshole, Ex-Cops, Crazy Republican, Crazy Republican #2, Yi, etc.

I'm not saying Gen Assburgers is better. I'm just saying Generation X sucks.

[Barrister]

Lawyer, Asshole, Ex-Cops, Crazy Republican, Crazy Republican #2, Yi, etc.

I'm not saying Gen Assburgers is better. I'm just saying Generation X sucks.

Generation X was a wonderful novel!

[The Brain]

I'm Gen X! I work with something nuclear. I'm useful.

[Syt]

Lawyer, Asshole, Ex-Cops, Crazy Republican, Crazy Republican #2, Yi, etc.

I'm not saying Gen Assburgers is better. I'm just saying Generation X sucks.

Them's fighting words.