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?

I loved Thecatfromjapan's writing too. More would be very welcome.

But I am confused by the OP. How can they be hipsters with no beards? When did asymmetrical hair become a hipster thing? When my hair was asymmetrical it was because I was channeling my inner New Romantic.

I have an 'old man' hipster and a teenage hipster at home. dh because his beard of 30 years is suddenly in now it's gone bushy, and ds because he has somehow morphed that way (with no encouragement or role models as it is absolutely not a look seen where we live). He went on a summer camp that required a hat the other day, and the only thing we could find that he liked (in an ironic way) was this terrible flat cap. He so looked the hipster part with his normal jacket, smart trousers, shirt and scarf (all unironed and combined with bright blue treking trainers) and his tiny little bumfluff beard and 'tache. Everyone else was wearing jeans and t-shirts as it was 35C! Nutty child.

Oh, and I saw someone riding down the street on a unicycle a couple of days ago. No beard or bowler hat though. ds would so like a bowler hat!

It doesn't go over my head. I think naice has been done to death like did you mean to be so rude.

Can't believe l read this thread, found it amusing another Londoner a bit over hipsters and all i contribute is naice was so MN 2014

You've been nice since before it was naice.

Drinks-there are enclaves of Middlesbrough where flares never went out of fashion.
My ds1 has many attributes of hipsterdom yet disparages them loudly. Many hours of entertainment to be had at his expense.

Don't make tuberculosis or syphilis jokes. Very serious diseases. Spare a thought for those afflicted.

I'm surprised nobody called you all off on this. Good grief.
You infection diseasists.

My ds1 has many attributes of hipsterdom yet disparages them loudly.

That is the first sign of being a hipster.

This is a thread full of hipsters, led by chief hipster usual who was probably sitting atop her penny farthing and coughing consumptively while contributing to the thread.

Of course, we know from the thread that penny farthings are definitely no longer cool and far too normal.

So this morning she'll be out early bartering it for a player piano and a mangle.

Oh you have all made me laugh...

Nooka, your DS sounds adorable. At least he sticks to his guns.

And the pop up sanitoriums made me guffaw into my Ye Olde Smuggler's Tea.

But please Cat, can we have some more thoughts?

The sun is out today, so I suspect the hipsters may not venture out too far. We're off to do some hearty water sports later so I will keep my eyes peeled for hipsters in wetsuits.

I think their main problem is that they are vastly outnumbered by cheery folk in micro fleeces.

I think they're locals.

If you lived in a tourist area, you'd scowl at everyone in the holidays too.

It depends on what kind of haircut.

Some asymmetrical hair is hipster. Other is what has become the new Mummy haircut that replaces the naice sensible Bob (see picture). Were they grumpy mums with try to be hipster haircuts?

Will they be authentically sourced Victorian tweed wetsuits Father?
Sadly he has too great a love for nasty black heavy metal tee shirts Funkster.He has got a fucking grim beard and hideous undercut hair cut though.

Oh God I hate the funky mum cut. My area is plagued by funky mums all wearing animal prints.

It's hell being in an area that is half funky mum and half hipster.

By Jesus that is grim. I'd punch a hairdresser that did that to me.

Is unicycling a hipster thing to do?
Oh-oh. Better tell DD aged 12, she rides hers around the streets and has no asymmetric hair...

Cat! Cat! Cat!
More! More! More!

Oh, and send all your wannabe hipsters over here for penny farthing-riding lessons

Interestingly, after a 10 day holiday camping the Lakes, I can report that perhaps-slightly-hipsterish dh and I were steadfastly blanked and our greetings ignored by the micro fleece brigade. It was the most unfriendly campsite we've ever stayed on...so there you go.
It's not an exact science is it?

Yes Cat, please more!

Funky Mum hair is grim. Even a monk's tonsure would be preferable. In fact I'm putting it out there now that tonsures will be the next big thing in hipsterdom as they shake off the tweedy shackles of neo Edwardianism and embrace modish medievalism. Hair shirts will replace waistcoats, all the hipsters will manfully fight back the tears as they insist 'oh no my hair shirt is quite comfortable really, I hardly bleed at all anymore'.

I would love to see more penny farthings and (well-groomed) moustaches around. Just not in an ironic hipster way. I think they're actually quite fabulous.

I've just watched a youtube video on how to cycle a penny farthing.

What has my life become!

There's a homeless guy in my not nice SW town who rides a unicycle around. I feel confident that he isn't a hipster. But, you never know...

There are a few funky mum cuts here. But they tend to more the Shoreditch funky than the ClassyCuts funky. They are topped off with a scowl and kids in beautiful organic t shirts and leggings and nothing else. In the rain.

Funnily enough Squoosh, back in my cool and groovy days ahem, the 80s I once made the mistake of telling hairdresser to do what he wanted. I ended end up with a very similar cut to that (sans bald bit). When I walked into the pub everyone started singing the blackadder theme song.

You were unwittingly blazing a hipster trail! Very ummm, fetching you look too.