AIBU to wonder why in God's name anyone would want to be a hipster?

[aermingers]

I thought of this because of the cereal cafe thread (although I think those two seem like nice lads).

I mean, hipsters are a bit of a joke now right? People who are so achingly desperate to be different but they're slavishly following their own crowd like sheep.

I look at them and I just think it's such a pretentious pile of arse and it just shows an obsession with image and outward appearances above all else. And having the right sort of job in 'meeja' or 'creative industries' and hanging with the right crowd. It's sort of a modern type of snobbery which has a lot more in common with their Grandparents obsessions with class and outward appearances by stone cladding their drive and working for the right company and shopping in the right supermarket than they'd like to admit.

I mean, does anybody else look at hipsters and think 'Oh you're so cool' apart from other hipsters? They just seem like the punchline to a joke to me now.

But almost anything is labelled as "hipster" these days. Have a beard? Hipster. Opt for glasses over contacts? Hipster. Wear a hat? Hipster. Wear "sensible" shoes? Hipster.

We don't have hipsters in Cumbria. The only things with beards around here are the goats.

Make 5 different types of chocolate truffle when i asked you to make pasta and pesto for a buffet? Hipster.

I'm such a judgemental and ungrateful bitch.

I know some hipsters. They are all around 30, doing part time Phd and working in cafe/call centre.

I'm probably a hipster. My DH has a beard.

We listen to indie music and wear brogues.

I carry a satchel and my DD has an old lady name.

I like what I like.

I always find it funny when you get a poster who fails to see the irony in looking down on people who er, look down on other people.

I cant seem to watch this Portlandia thing on the internet but having looked at some pictures of 'hipsters' I can only assume I am surrounded by these people where I live so much so that I didn't even realise they were a separate group in society.

Youngish men with beards, tattoos, riding push bikes and going to artisan type cafes? is that what we are talking about? Seems to be the norm round these parts. Better than hoodies and noisy tracksuit bottoms no?

It's just another tribe.

I love a man with a beard though. It's a bit of a shame they're fashionable now as you can't tell if a bloke is truly a "beardy" type.

Well, there is the Grand Designs-esque habitation

(I may occasionally lose a few hours on there. )

The question really is 'Why would you not want to be a hipster?'

There's a man who I see in the area who I used to think was super trendy but from googling 'hipster' it appears he is one. Still they're doing no harm to no one. My google search showed lots of 30+ year old men with black rim glasses, cut off skinny jeans and quiffs in their hair

We have a Hipster dad on the playground. Past 50. Low-slung jeans and poorly fitting jackets over t-shirts, occasionally with a chain belt and often a prominently held cardboard coffee cup.

He looks an absolute prat and his kids adore him. He seems to adore them as well. Nice enough bloke.

Frankly I wouldn't notice except he has form for being 'hip' (member of one of britain's beloved bands) and he has form for never engaging with anyone else or sniggering behind the backs of other mums when they say something fairly sensible such as, "Don't roll around in that mud. You have to wear those trousers to Grandma's tonight."

Total hipster.

My DH is the very definition of a hipster - bearded, tattooed, a lover of tweed, brogues and fine rums, works in media. He's damned handsome, stylish and inspires much beard envy, but crucially doesn't take himself too seriously like some do, so I count myself a lucky woman

Oh god I think I'm old. I don't think I could pick a hipster out in a crowded room... sitting on my sofa eating lindor chocolate in my joules dress I'm guessing I'm not one!

I'm a hipster, 4 yr old DS seems as though he will also be (without me trying to influence him). My DO isn't a hipster, in fact I'm everything he hates in other people. We get on great

Polly, who's looking down on anyone? I'm not. I don't consider myself better, or worse, than anyone else.

I just find it odd that some men over 30 feel the need to fit somewhere, whilst being 'individuals'. It seems to be less of a thing with women of the same age.

Tbh I have never understood fashions anyway.

REFER HERE FOR HIPSTER GUIDANCE

Having clicked on Joyce Division's link to hipsters, I shall reclassify my example as Ageing Musician rather than Hipster.

Thank you, Joyce.

I dunno, why were people hippies in the 60's?

Stupid counter cultures are just part of life.

YABU. What harm are they doing anyone? Can't people just like what they like?

There are too many beards in the world right now

I fucking hate beards.

I can't stand facial beards and wondered why there are so many young guys with them these days. I guess no worse than 80's perms, or mullets. Every generation has something hideous.
Especially 1980's. I despise all the clothing of the 80's.

"Facial beards". Is there another type?!
I live near Greenwich. We're overrun by hipsters.
I don't mind them, they're harmless.
I keep trying to get DH to wax his 'tash. He's having none of it.

Sounds fun to me - interesting job, range of hobbies.