to feel a bit sad for the grumpy hipsters on holiday

[FatherHenderson]

We're in a very naice holiday town in the south west. Most holiday makers seem to be pretty happy to be here and are pleasant; the walkers say hello, the posh people off the massive boats seem quite cheery, the young harassed families all seem grateful for a smile, but my god, the London hipsters are so bloody miserable...

Everyone else manages a hello, or holds gates open, but the folk with asemetrical hair seem intent on scowling at everyone.

I'm not saying you should talk to people on holiday but AIBU to think that when you are on holiday, you should at least try not to be so bloody miserable?

Lizzie - love your name btw.

we are actually quite near Fowey...

I suppose it's no ones' business how you are on holiday, but I always feel a bit embarrassed when a fellow holidaymaker is rude.

squoosh I suspect you live near me as we too have a penny farthing riding hipster round these parts. He sits atop wearing a skateboarding helmet wobbling around in the middle of the road dodging potholes.

It's quite amusing watching him get on and off the thing.

Ooohh where are you. I've not ventured out for a few days.
I notice the scowling look on some peoples faces. I set my best smile on them!

Are you in Glasgow Doe?

No.

Which means there are two of them around

I have asymmetrical hair! I smile though.

YY the sea spray and sea mists must play havoc with their beards.

I don't think you can be too old for your own hair.

Especially not if you look like you are in the Human League.

To be fair, they're probably pissed off that they didn't realise it would be the school hols and are fed up of Other People's Kids.

How many hipsters are there atop their penny farthings?!

How did penny farthings even become cool again?? What's next, tuberculosis?

Why did the hipster burn his lips?

Because he drank his tea before it was cool!

Boom boom.

Having tuberculosis in an ironic way.

Maybe it's a new cult?

How about ironic syphilis to go with the TB?

The real mystery is how penny farthings ever stopped being cool.

One giant wheel. Nobody knows how you get on. You don't get to be "atop" a normal bicycle.

What's not to like?

[consumptive]

Is it wrong to feel sorry for the grumpy hipsters on holiday? I feel I do.

They went on holiday by mistake.

I have an asymmetrical undercut. I'm a smiley country bumpkin though.

Do you have a beard,Honey?

penny Farthings are easier to get on than off.

Are they wearing a special 'I'm from London' badge?

Not since I changed my brand of Contraceptiv pill, Usual

I know someone that contracted TB recently. He is not a hipster, though. Or perhaps it's that he's so hip...

He's a trend setter!

Before he knows it hipsters will be following him around trying to imitate his hacky cough.

I like it. You make them sound like a cross between adults with the souls of teens and transposed C19 neuraesthenic aesthetes:
"I write to you, dear friend, from Fowey. I find myself wandering through crowds of the blithe mediocre. I watch their child-like joy in trivialities and feel my own soul commensurately shrivel and harden. I am become an assassin, hidden in this carnival of the banal.
Come and join me: the fish and chips are excellent. I have absinthe."

Where do you even get a penny farthing? Or source one, hipsters source things don't they.

I'm a Londoner who chats politely to strangers on the tube.
I kind of wish I was an asymmetrically-haired grumpy hipster.