Last summer a coworker (different department) looked at my sandals and said, "Nice dad sandals, dude. Do people get issued those when they become dads, or something?"
I didn't have a witty response, but I was (and am) confused. The guy making fun of my sandals that I bought cheap, and never really thought of as particularly styling, is a barrista. With a beard. In his twenties. Living in Portland.
Literally a bearded hipster.
The cutting edge of hipster-dom appears to be taking absolutely not trendy things and then rocking them because A. you are cool enough to pull them off, or B. you show you are no slave to fashion, or C. you are a bohemian living cheap and cast-offs from the Goodwill bins and thrift shops and cheap stores are what you budget for, or D. you are subverting the paradigm, or E. some combo of these.
So are the dad sandals that I wear in the summer just not cool? Or are they so cool that I look pretentious wearing them, since I am a dad in his forties, and no fashion-thlete ready to t-shirt battle down at the super cool old-man dive bar of the week?
Conclusion: fuck barristas. I don't drink coffee anyway
Also I thought I was mildly interesting as a person- mildly. But then I just watched a local documentary about the bicycle advocacy grass-roots activism in Portland and they interviewed a a person whose name is Megulon-5.
You forgot it's also 'hipster' to put down anything that's not hipster enough.
Had you been 20 and bearded those sandals would have been totally rad (or other slang from the 90s cause retro is like tubular er something).
In SF hipster has basically become someone who is a judgmental asshole and will pay out the nose to appear low brow. Yes sir, here's your $8 Pabst, and those preppies are disgusting with their $5 glass of wine.
The moment I realized that I just didn't give a fuck what anybody thought was when some way young idiot at some thing I was at totally derided my drink choice of a fuzzy navel wine cooler. I was like, who even remotely asked for your opinion?
I found Tim Brewer and Martin's Facebook profiles and am kind of surprised that they are exactly how they present themselves on as they appear to their friends and family. o.O
I always kind of thought they were kidding...
Not the case for Mark Dreher. He's even more of an asshole on Facebook.
Asshole!!
Oh come now.
The Lord Jesus
Sounds
Sooo much better.
Did you think, "I would be a pussy?"
Wo.
I don't think, that would work.
I would have to
1. Look like a God.
2. And I mean, "close up", even.
3. His penis?
Would naturally, "be remarkable".
And, he does, have the nickname, "the biggest slong, east of the Mississippi".
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In loyalty to our kind
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Hehehee. MD is the sole inhabitant of my ignore list here and at rationalia, and he will be at any other forum I participate in. Saves a lot of scrolling, especially while nobody is dumb enough to quote his word salad at length.
I highly recommend the use of this ignore feature in his case, although I don't advise its use on members who habitually say stuff you disagree with, like Jerry for instance.
I didn't have a witty response, but I was (and am) confused. The guy making fun of my sandals that I bought cheap, and never really thought of as particularly styling, is a barrista. With a beard. In his twenties. Living in Portland.
Literally a bearded hipster.
Psssh. That could be anything.
I saw this guy yesterday, I think. 20s-ish, wearing skinny jeans, a fitted wool shirt, a big I think jacquard scarf, horn rimmed glasses, and one of those neatly groomed schoolboy haircuts plus a long luxuriant beard. And he was standing next to a bike rack, where I can only assume he had his fixie.
Sooo cute! Soooo lost.
As for the witty response: Easy.
You're just going to have to own the staircase wit thing here. Go hunt him down one day, walk up to him and say, ""Nice hipster beard, dude. Do people get issued those when they move to Portland, or do they just come with the rest of your barista uniform?"
Then, the next day, you search on that exact phrasing, and viola, you've got his Tumblr or whatever.
Hehehee. MD is the sole inhabitant of my ignore list here and at rationalia, and he will be at any other forum I participate in. Saves a lot of scrolling, especially while nobody is dumb enough to quote his word salad at length.
I highly recommend the use of this ignore feature in his case, although I don't advise its use on members who habitually say stuff you disagree with, like Jerry for instance.
I moved your post quoting and responding to someone not at this forum to your Mine eyes have seen the glory thread. Maybe stick to answers to people actually here in this thread? I mean, if you feel the need to post in it at all, of course. You have such a rich dialogue going on in the other one. I wonder you can find the time to tear yourself away from it all.
You spit in the face of God. Right? Not me Sill E.
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I moved your post quoting and responding to someone not at this forum to your Mine eyes have seen the glory thread. Maybe stick to answers to people actually here in this thread? I mean, if you feel the need to post in it at all, of course. You have such a rich dialogue going on in the other one. I wonder you can find the time to tear yourself away from it all.
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as they appear to their friends and family. o.O
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