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Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster
Normally a headline like "The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same" would elicit much rolling of eyes here at Vulture Towers. However, it becomes more intriguing when one learns that the hypothesis described in the article was tested by a series of hilarious post-publication events that then …
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Thursday 7th March 2019 17:40 GMT cosmogoblin
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
Arg! The article gave me a huge laugh, then this shocked it all away.
Ah well, glad you're wrong. Pretty sure you could just press a combination of buttons on his chest plate to fix him if he died, anyway.
Speaking of, does anybody know if Christopher Lee has risen from the dead yet? He's taking his sweet time about it...
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 14:37 GMT Huw D
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
Yup. I remember at a large bike rally a small child was found wandering around early in the morning and was taken to rally control.
"Ok, lad? You've lost your parents?"
"Yes"
"What's your Dad's name?"
"John"
"Ok, and what does John look like?"
"He's got a bald head and a long beard and tattoos down his arms!"
"Let me take a guess. Is he wearing jeans and a black shirt and a leather jacket?"
"Yes, do you know him?"
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 16:48 GMT 45RPM
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
Similarly, I was at my nephews birthday party when he was three and there was a little girl in tears. The usual thing, she wanted her mother. Okay, said I, let’s find her. What is she called? “She’s called Mummy”, said the little girl.
Because ofcourse she is.
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Thursday 7th March 2019 12:46 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
And for similar reasons my phone ringtone is an abscure[1] prog song - on the basis that I *know* it's my phone[2] ringing since no-one else would use that song..
[1] Rumble Fish Twist by the Flower Kings. Seems almost expressly designed to be a ringtone.. It only gets confusing when the car playlist hits that song and I think it's my phone ringing.
[2] Or my wifes' phone - she's asked me to set her ringtone for similar reasons.
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Friday 8th March 2019 13:28 GMT Luiz Abdala
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
Little off-topic but...
I've set my ringtone to "Thunderstruck". The opening riff has that the all the right qualities for a ringtone: it is distinct, can be amplified to hell and back, uses 2 or 3 notes, and increases in volume regardless of the phone settings.
Pavlov makes me check my phone every time it actually plays on the radio, which isn't often.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 20:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
You must move in better circles than I do, around here its all chavvy "creative names" (i.e. made up gibberish and always with indecipherable spellings)
Not to mention the slurred pronounciation - Finlay becomes "Fuhnleh" (usually screamed along with various profane language and threats of violence)
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Thursday 7th March 2019 16:16 GMT deadlockvictim
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
To get something approximating the correct Irish spelling you need a lot of what look like superfluous vowels, gs and hs. Take 'Dunleary' as a good example, it's 'Dun Laoghaire' on the maps. 'Finlay' becomes 'Fionn Aighile' or something along those lines
If said Finlay is in Irish girls' primary school, it will become 'Siobhan' or possibly 'Sile'.
If it is to be written out by civil servants, it will become 'Finlay', as in 'Bothar Finlay'. The metropolis of Bray has a nice old name in Irish ['Briogh Chulainn' — Hostel of Culainn] and the lot in charge of the Irish railways turned it into 'Bre', so anyone, really, can write modern Irish. Just take the English word and bastardise it. It's what those who run Ireland do.
Apologies for the lack of fadas (accents), I wasn't arsed to look up the respective ASCII codes.
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Friday 8th March 2019 06:50 GMT Diogenes
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
I open my new class rolls with dread - J'Mia-Glory (have to use both parts),Jakson, Jaxson, Cleopatrah, Mikena(McKenna), Kalais,Dakoter - these are the reasonably sensible ones
After those then we have the boy 'J's - all spelt correctly buuuut inevitable PITAs, especially all the variants on Jack & Jai
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 15:30 GMT TRT
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
And of course trying to navigate ANYWHERE in East Central London at 6pm on a summer's Friday evening, dodging the grey suited wankers clogging up the pavements as they laugh loudly at the £x-gazillions they've traded today, shouting (couldn't be called talking) out of their arses and one-upping each other so far that they turn into some sort of meta-vocal human centipede...
isn't, as I point out elsewhere, relieved by breaking northwards out of tosserville to the non-conformist and rebel-base of Old Street... and you can't escape that by heading up to Camden Lock either. In fact... you have to get as far as Archway before any semblance of normally distributed variable-person-scatter begins to seep in through the cracks in your shattered sanity.
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Friday 8th March 2019 02:58 GMT JJKing
Re: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same
We are Hipsters "resistance is futile", your sameness will be assimilated and we will add your biological and technological sameness to our own.
I for one will not welcome our Hipster over / under err sameness Lords. How will we know who is in charge if they all look the same; will one be called Jeff Vader?
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Thursday 7th March 2019 11:34 GMT Teiwaz
I understand that it's a quirk of human nature that everyone believes they are fairly unique.
You assumed the the above statement doesn't apply to you.
So does that mean no one is within any demographic whatsoever, whereever and whatever?
'Coz I find absolutely the wrong size for me. TV is either too highbrow or too lowbrow, jeans don't fit and I don't 'identify as' anything.
If it's just I'm just a misfit (that, I can accept, having resigned myself to it), if it's everyone though what the hell is wrong with civilisation, and why are we all putting up with it?, demand a recount, a new referendum, a perscription and free alcohol, tea or coffee as we obv need it....
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 13:49 GMT Anonymous Coward
We have surely reached peak beard.
Getting very fed up of seeing them. So if you've got one: try being an individual and shave the damn thing off. It is very unlikely to actually suit you. You probably look like a pillock. And it must be like kissing a dog's arse.
Oh, and for the love of God, ditch the bloody North Face too, and watch your stupid backpack - there are other people on the train too, you muppet. And stop staring at your phone like a drooling imbecile.
Jesus, you make me puke.
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Thursday 7th March 2019 08:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
My boss is the very example of someone improved by having a beard. We've seen him clean shaven. Children cried, dogs vomited and work colleagues refused to talk to him face to face until he grew it back.
He's also got the body of a deity. Shame its the laughing budda...
I myself haven't seen my chin since I left my teenage years behind.
Anon though because my boss occasionally reads this.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 14:35 GMT jason 7
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
Add in -
No Socks!
Trousers 5 inches too short!
Ear Stretching hoops (FFS the most ugly piecing crap anyone can have)
Sell the Macbook pro and get a Chromebook cos it's all you need to sit on Facebook all day and then you might be able to afford more than one cup of coffee for the 6 hours mooching off the cafe's wi-fi!
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 15:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
Combined reply :)
Jesus, you make me puke.
A good thing you don't have a beard then. I shudder to think how long it would take to get that cleaned up, bleagh. That said, for me seeing it makes me itch. I've tried a bread twice, mainly to see what it was like. I usually make it to the stage where I have to be very precise with shaving, at which point the itch plus the effort to preserve the bush (as it were) just gets too much and I remove the lot.
Ear Stretching hoops (FFS the most ugly piecing crap anyone can have)
Actually, I like those, it makes them easy to restrain. All it takes is a padlock :).
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 20:22 GMT Chris G
Re: Combined reply :)
I beg to differ on the ear stretching hoops, the snot catcher nose rings through the philtrum are even uglier especially on a girl.
Not too sure if I have ever conformed, aside from my time in the army, I have never been a member of any group so I haven't conformed to nonconformism or conformism.
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Friday 8th March 2019 06:06 GMT Geoffrey W
Re: Combined reply :)
There are folk who dream of hairy women. For all the internet's sins, it makes it easier to find your ideal beloved. Finding the one when all you had to go on was the local personal ads in Wigan or Oswaldtwistle meant you would probably be lonely forever. Now we can reach out to the World.
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Friday 8th March 2019 06:17 GMT Geoffrey W
Re: Combined reply :)
I let the hair grow, all the hair, until someone mistakes me for the hillbilly across the gully, then I trim it. The wife doesn't seem to notice either way. Perhaps she thinks "If it's wearing underwear all day then it's him [i.e. me], if it's dressed then probably someone else."
Working from home is fabulous. Doesn't make me a hipster.
I think you can tell a real hipster because their beard edges are all neat and straight as a rule because they use a guide to trim them. My beard edges are all fuzzy, as are my thoughts, actions, and words.
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Friday 8th March 2019 15:22 GMT JulieM
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
They're showing off their mankles. (Or cankles .....) And they might not necessarily have gone commando-shod -- you'd be surprised just how low no-show socks can go! They aren't just for trainers anymore. You can get socks that can't be seen (much; and even then, only if you're really looking) in ballet flats or loafers, so they ought to be hard to see in an Oxford or similar shoe.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 21:24 GMT Tikimon
Re: Wow
I want to shave my beard because I can't friggin' stand all that hair on my face. I also have a decently manly chin on a not-unpleasant face, and don't need to use a beard to fake the chin or hide my frightening visage.
No, it "ain't natural" as the poster said. Neither is the haircut he and other bearded ones regularly get, so that Natural argument falls right apart.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 20:14 GMT CountCadaver
Re: Wow
Had mine now for 9 years, wife reckons I'd look odd without it.
Its actually kept to a sane length. Problem is now I'm starting to have more hair on my chin that on my head :/
I reckon you could easily fund medical research for centuries if you found a cure for baldness, "take this pill once a day and avoid going bald" "take 2 pills a day till hair regrows then one pill a day to maintain it"
Would make the sales of a certain blue pill look like small fry in comparison.....
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Thursday 7th March 2019 12:59 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
Re: Wow
Had mine now for 9 years, wife reckons I'd look odd without it
I think I've only had a clean-shaven look for about 6 months of my > 30 years of marriage. I suspect my wife wouldn't recognise me without a beard..
Maintenance is simple - hair clippers with a 5mm guard, do hair a beard at the same time. Simple, easy, effective and cheap.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 14:55 GMT hmv
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
Er ... some of us had beards before they were "cool" and aren't going to shave just because they are now "cool" (I haven't shaved since the 1980s).
And the last thing on my mind is how you'd feel kissing me; you need to start by buying me pints. Lots and lots of pints.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 17:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
Why would anyone care whether others have beards?
I don't, never have and probably never will. But I don't give a damn whether other people have them or not, or what sort of shoes they wear, whether they have tattoos or not etc. I don't understand why anyone would care about the appearance of others.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 21:08 GMT jelabarre59
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
Getting very fed up of seeing them. So if you've got one: try being an individual and shave the damn thing off. It is very unlikely to actually suit you. You probably look like a pillock. And it must be like kissing a dog's arse.
Doctor 5: "does he still have that rubbish beard?"
Doctor 10: "nope. Oh, there *was* the wife..."
(from back when the show was still *good*)
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Thursday 7th March 2019 09:51 GMT Charlie Clark
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
And it must be like kissing a dog's arse.
I wouldn't know because I've never kissed a dog's arse but I'll take your word for it. I've had a beard for over 20 years and the missus is happy with it. Once it gets past stubble it's much softer and smoother than scraped skin, which incidentally is an great invitation to infections. As the skin produces the relevant oils to protect itself there is no need for all those shitty beer care products. A trim every couple of weeks is all you need.
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Thursday 7th March 2019 11:39 GMT ICPurvis47
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
I have had a beard since the day I left school at 19. I had it when I met my wife, and she liked it, so it stayed. Many years later, I arrived at work one morning after having trimmed my beard, and my boss noticed and remarked on the fact. I told her that my wife had suggested that I gave it a trim because "kissing me was like kissing the Wild Man of Borneo". My boss replied "How does she know?"
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Thursday 7th March 2019 13:06 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
As the skin produces the relevant oils to protect itself
I wish I could upvote you more than once.
Of course, a similar arguement can be applied to the various lotions and potions that people slather on themselves to 'moisturise'[1] but t'wife and I have agreed not to discuss that any more..
[1] Normal skin produces sufficient oils to keep itself moisturised but people insist on washing it off at every available opportunity. And then slather on artificial oils[2] which leads to the oil producing less oils.. it's a vicous circle.
[2] Why the hell do they think plant oils benefit the skin? Most of them are pretty toxic..
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Thursday 7th March 2019 13:20 GMT Charlie Clark
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
Why the hell do they think plant oils benefit the skin? Most of them are pretty toxic
Probably because the vast majority have no idea of the chemistry and biochemistry and so trust what the adverts and magazine articles (basically longer adverts) tell them.
It's horses for courses, of course, olive oil is pretty good at removing dirt and it's slightly acidic. I have to use rubber gloves when doing the washing up because all the detergents dry my skin out so much that it breaks but I have found Eucerin (with lanolin and urea) pretty good for handwashing when water isn't sufficient. Normally I avoid lanolin for exactly the reasons you list, especially for lip balms (use bees wax or vaseline if you must), but I've found that to be okay for hands.
When it comes to hair care… well although SWMBO loves stroking my hair and knows that I only ever wash it with water, she won't do so herself. As you say, at some point, you have to know when to drop it.
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Thursday 7th March 2019 09:57 GMT ArrZarr
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
Getting very fed up of people thinking that how other people choose to present themselves is any of their business, so if you are: try being an individual and let them be as it has nothing to do with you*. You definitely sound like a pillock. And it sounds like all you ever taste is a dog's arse.
Oh, and for the love of God, ditch the bloody "Wiser than thou" attitude, and think about how somebody could take the piss out of your post - there are other assholes on the internet too, you muppet. And keep sitting there staring out the window like a drooling imbecile.
Jesus, you make me puke.
*outside of a professional environment
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Thursday 7th March 2019 14:24 GMT MonkeyCee
Re: We have surely reached peak beard.
First of all, it's OK dude, if you can't grow a beard there's nothing wrong with that.
"Getting very fed up of seeing them. So if you've got one: try being an individual and shave the damn thing off."
The norm for me was that men are expected to shave. So what you mean is please conform and shave.
"It is very unlikely to actually suit you."
Being 40 with the face of a teenager doesn't suit me. Having stubble* unless I've shaved in the last hour doesn't suit me. My options for looking professional at work are to trim my beard a couple of times a week or shave 3+ times a day.
"You probably look like a pillock. "
Sure, but that's got nothing to do with the beard :)
" And it must be like kissing a dog's arse."
In terms of partner and kid complaints about kissing me, it's only ever after shaving or trimming. Like the hair on the rest of your body, it's pretty soft, and gets softer the longer it's around. Assuming you brush it, the natural oils will make it nice and soft.
So unless you shave each time before you kiss someone, beard >>> stubble for comfort purposes.
My memories of my dad and uncles with beards is also that they were very soft. So not sure which beards you've been kissing, but obviously the wrong ones :)
"Oh, and for the love of God, ditch the bloody North Face too, and watch your stupid backpack - there are other people on the train too, you muppet. And stop staring at your phone like a drooling imbecile."
That's pretty specific.... bad commute in this morning? I'm gonna guess (since you're AC) that you were too scared of the response to actually call them on their shitty bag etiquette. Luckily I'm in the the Netherlands, so if people are being pricks with their bags etc on public transport I just call them out. Teenagers rather than hipsters, but I'm sure it works as well.
As for hating hipsters, it'd be easier if they didn't like many of the same things as me, for apparently the same reasons, I've got a fixed wheel bike** as one of my commuting bikes, I do woodwork, I like tasty beer, I wear chucks, I vape rather than smoke, I like practical clothing and I have facial hair. Mind you, I don't live anywhere cool, my beard is far too short for hipster cred (or joining ISIS) and my hair styling is about as basic as you can get.
* dark hair + pale skin = visible stubble pretty much immediately
** oma fietes - grandma bike
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Saturday 16th March 2019 00:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Plaid shirt?
Used to like AvE, however of late at times he's been slating products that he broke in disassembly and then calling it crap....despite others pointing out that the tool works perfectly fine, the issue was he broke something / left parts out.......
More a Project Farm fan, Mustie1 is decent also, albeit I find his videos a bit on the long side and often wouldn't mind a condensed version rather than an hour long odyssey...
David McLuckie is pretty good also
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 13:52 GMT Jason Bloomberg
The man in the mirror
I once had the shock of my life when I was flicking through a copy of the Radio Times and there I was! WTF?!?
Turns out it was Tom Cruise in a still from Born on the 4th of July, scraggly hair, thick moustache.
I still wonder what Tom Cruise thinks about looking like me.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 16:00 GMT Caver_Dave
Re: The man in the mirror
I've been stopped in London a few times and asked for my autograph by Yanks saying "Aren't you the guy from ... film?" I've even had two Yanks think that I was Tom Cruise, and I'm nearly a foot taller than him!
I think that our water must be stronger than the P155 they call beer at home, and it affects their eyesight!
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 20:19 GMT CountCadaver
Re: The man in the mirror
I've been told by a few people they know someone whose my spitting image, in a few cases even down to mannerisms (and most of those are from countries I've never visited or from people who are 2 decades older than I am) Enough to make you ponder if "The Matrix" was plausible deniability....
On a sadder note, I met up with someone I knew in Australia, her friend loudly yelled out "that looks like your brother" to her friend, cue an elbow to the ribs "thats who we're meeting". Never met the guy but a few weeks later she told me that this girl's brother was standing at bus stop when a car mounted the pavement and mowed him down. :/
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Thursday 7th March 2019 14:32 GMT MonkeyCee
Re: The man in the mirror
My doppelganger is a Russian ballet dancer, with the same first name.
I found this out when I was at a party and a lass he'd hooked up with the previous weekend was there, and she was pissed off with me ignoring her, then "faking" a british accent to claim I was someone else. Oh, and I'd grown six inches in a week :D
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 13:52 GMT disgruntled yank
Beanie?
In American usage, "beanie" is more or less the same thing as a skullcap. (Except that it can include extras such as little plastic propellor.) I'd say the man in the stock photo is wearing a "stocking cap" or a "ski hat".
I no longer have a beard. I do still wear flannel shirts and stocking caps, but if it is cold enough for the latter, there is a coat hiding the former. And when I was the hipster's age, "hipsters" were an artifact of the past, a breed that went extinct about 1960. Oh, well.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 13:58 GMT The Mole
Re: Beanie?
In British English that does appear to be a beanie, I thought a skull cap was one of those dressing up props that make you look bald? No idea what a stocking cap is either. Though that might just be an indication of my lack of fashion knowledge and not a real critique on the differences between US and UK english.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 18:45 GMT Duffy Moon
Re: Beanie?
"As a lad they were either bobble hats, if with bobble, or ski hats if without bobble"
When I were a lad (70s), they were either bobble hats or just woolie hats. I'd never heard of a beanie until I saw Bob Clampett's Beany & Cecil cartoon. Beany wore a beanie (obviously) and it had a propellor and no peak.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 14:53 GMT WolfFan
Re: Beanie?
Stocking cap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knit_cap
Beanie, complete with propeller: https://www.villagehatshop.com/product/beanies/451139-2938/propeller-beanie-hat.html
Stocking caps, a.k.a. toques to citizens of the Great White North, are headgear allegedly designed to keep your head warm in the kind of temperatures found in the GWN in all months of the year except August and maybe July. (There's a reason why it's the Great White North... pix from a typical town in the GWN in spring, a.k.a. "it's still bloody snowing out, and the damn bears are in a playful mood." http://peterblahut.ca/galleries/manitoba-2/churchill-manitoba/) Beanies, with or without propellers, are designed to make the wearer look Jewish or silly or both. Unless it's a red beanie and the wearer is also wearing red robes, which means that he's attempting to look like a Cardinal, which may or may not be a good thing but perhaps small children should stay away anyway. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/cardinal-law-central-figure-in-church-abuse-scandal-dies.html
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 16:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Beanie?
> In American usage, "beanie" is more or less the same thing as a skullcap.
Not quite.
US Navy sailors wear caps (a.k.a. skullcaps). I.e. watch cap when you're on watch duty.
A watch cap is a very well defined sailor accessory: it must wrap your noggin tight and keep you warm. It's usually made of wool, it's colored dark navy, and usually has your ship and/or "NAVY" embroidered on it.
A beanie is some kind of shapeless bag of knitted fabric that you put on your head.
Sailors don't do beanies. Only the Army wears those.
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Tuesday 12th March 2019 03:02 GMT Ghostman
Re: "Sailors don't do beanies. Only the Army wears those."
Sorry son, but mine fit just right. Didn't lose it when flying in a chopper, running across the ground, or rappelling down the ropes. I would stuff it in my blouse when doing a jump.
Mine was black in color, had the "subdued" butter bar, and the hard won Ranger tab.
This was back about 1972 before the black beret meant "I just got out of Basic."
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Thursday 7th March 2019 00:06 GMT veti
Re: So...
No. Statements of opinion are not slanderous, no matter how well or poorly founded or thought out they may be.
In addition, statements can only be slanderous (or libellous) if it is possible to identify who they are referring to, and the person/group in question is small enough and clearly enough defined that it can credibly be described as potentially affecting their reputation.
Examples:
"Steviebuk is a tit" - statement of opinion, fine.
"No commentard has an IQ above 85" - a large and vaguely defined group, fine.
"veti has an IQ below 85" - framed as a statement of fact, directed at a specific person - potentially actionable, except that even under UK law you can't libel yourself...
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 18:58 GMT Joe W
I found a beard to be more work than shaving all of the face. Ending up with a symmetrical result when either drunk or still half asleep (shaving before you go to bed or when you get up) is difficult. Shaving all of the strange figure's face peeping at you from the bathroom mirror in the morning is easier. YMMV, obviously.
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Thursday 7th March 2019 09:09 GMT Spamfast
Shaving all of the strange figure's face peeping at you from the bathroom mirror in the morning is easier.
He-he. YMMV indeed. But a waterproof beard trimmer & a heated (non-steaming-up) mirror in the shower makes it easier to get the face-fungus fairly uniform if you're happy to use a single, short trimmer setting.
However I can't help remembering what my grandma said to me when I first grew it out in my teens; "Why cultivate round your face what grows wild round your arse?"
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 20:04 GMT DMCADIEDIE
Bottom line if the topic of conversation is a corporation, it is not only allowed but strongly advised to slander and talk as ruthless and resentful as possible. But in the case it's an actual person, the best general practice is to pretend they're pointing a gun at your face. If you think what you're about to say might result in getting yourself shot in the face, probably you shouldn't say it.
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 21:19 GMT MasterofDisaster
King Missile - "Saturday" Lyrics
I want to be different, Like everybody else I want to be like
I want to be just like all the different people
I have no further interest in being the same
Because I have seen different all around
And now I know that that's what I want
I don't want to blend in and be indistinguishable
I want to be a part of the different crowd
And assert my individuality with others
Who are different like me
I don't want to be identical to anyone or anything
I don't even want to be identical to myself
I want to look in the mirror and wonder
"Who is that person? I've never seen that person before;
I've never seen anyone like that before"
I want to call into question the very idea that identity can be attached
I want a floating shifting ever changing persona:
Invisiblility and obscurity
Detachment from the ego and all of it's pursuits
Unity is useless
Conformity is competitive and divisive and leads only to stagnation and death
If what I'm saying doesn't make any sens
That's because sense can not be made
It's something that must be sensed
And I, for one, and incensed by by all this complacency
Why oppose only when there's a war?
Why defend the clinics only when they're attacked?
Why are we always reactive?
Lets activate something
Lets fuck shit up
Whatever happened to revolution for the hell of it?
Whatever happened to protesting nothing in particular, just
Protesting because its Saturday, and there's nothing else to do?
Songwriters: John S. Hall / Roger Murdock
It's Saturday lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc
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Wednesday 6th March 2019 23:37 GMT Trixr
Different (sub)cultures
Eh, I don't think it's a big surprise that we want to conform to different standards. I might be a woman, but there's no way in hell I'm going to perm my hair, paint my nails and wear skirts. So yeah, I "conform" to the "big old dyke" look (because that happens to be my natural style, because that's what I am).
Nothing to do with being rebellious at all, and I'd say for most people adopting a particular subculture look, they're doing it because the look happens to appeal to them. And perhaps the subcultural package as a whole - I look queer, and a) it's great advertising for those who might fancy me; b) I don't get many blokes trying to chat me up (bonus).
Mind you, Mr Precious "I'm Not A" Hipster in the story just got what was coming to him. And of course there are those insecure idiots who adopt the subculture package without *any* individuality at all - I have never worn a rainbow garment, and I never will. Some people like rainbows, and they're straight as a ruler.
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Thursday 7th March 2019 12:46 GMT Greg Regis
Hipster irony
A good one - https://curlsoat.com/comic/113/
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Thursday 7th March 2019 15:48 GMT Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse
Hipsters are hardly "counterculture", they are barely "anyculture"...
So walk into a Shoreditch coffee house and ask the occupants to put their hands in the air if they know or have ever seen a "hipster"; and to quote Brendan Frye... you'd get a crowd of full pockets.
Like almost all tribes throughout history, people identify themselves as part of that tribe by wearing similar clothes or markings etc. etc. so the research here itself is not surprising; what is hilarious though is that the somewhat overly-spotted common hipster (A) doesn't have the self-awareness to identify itself as a hipster in the first-place, and (B) they seem to take it as an insult (and start crying) if you try to point out to them that they are...
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Sunday 10th March 2019 09:52 GMT Anonymous Coward
All 20-something women
1. Long straight hair; brown.
2. Puffer jacket with fake fur around hood.
3. Bobble hat with large furry bobble if cold, else sunglasses perched on top of head.
4. Generic black leggings.
5. Tiny backpack.
6. Single use plastic water bottle.
7. Monochrome Nike trainers or black block heel ankle boots.
8. Phone in tatty case with cracked screen.
9. Crease in the front of the neck caused by staring at that phone for 23 hours day.
I don't know how people actually tell them apart, unless it's by smell. It can't be by looks or personality.
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Sunday 10th March 2019 12:41 GMT BoL
As a bearded eccentric rider of strange bicycles, old Moto Guzzis and driver of ancient Citroens I often get mistaken for a hipster.
The corduroy and cardigan, hand-tooled brogues, home-felted alpaca cap, WWII guardsmans braces, pipe and Russian steel specs are items I’ve owned for at least two decades.
Other than getting more portly and assuming a grey hue, I’ve looked like this since the 80s, so am I following a trend, or is it following me?
I wonder if my sarong-at-home will catch on. My wife hates it.
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Monday 11th March 2019 09:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
I tried growing a beard once - the 'itchy phase' was absolute hell, but once through that it wasn't actually too bad, and relatively low maintenance too.
Then I realised that having more hair on my chin than on top of my head was bloody embarrassing - being a slaphead and looking like you've swallowed a bear and left its arse hanging out are not a good combo. I've not had a 'close' shave for a while (sensitive skin, and all that) so a going over with the clippers every so often does the trick for me.
Much as the bearded, man-bun'd set make me want to reach for the Clue-by-Four[tm], I won't deny that their appetite for moustache wax, beard oil and other accoutrements does a very good job at keeping my employer in business and, by extension, paying my wages.
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Tuesday 12th March 2019 00:46 GMT bill.abbott
Re: Complaining hipster misidentifies stock image as himself
My late, first, wife published 26 issues of "Bitch, the Woman's Rock Mag with Bite" back in the 1980s. In one issue, a photos-with-captions piece tested Roth's Hypotheses, wherein David Lee Roth, singer with Van Halen, asserted that most rock critics preferred Elvis Costello to Van Halen because most rock critics *looked* like Elvis Costello... as in fact they did.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
