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Old 04-23-2009, 04:33 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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Beat kitchen in Roscoe Village.

Good call...my friend is a regular there. She swears by it. I'm not quite so enamored.
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Old 04-23-2009, 04:36 PM
 
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Isn't the term "hipster" completely, thoroughly dead now? Do people still say that word?
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Old 04-23-2009, 06:10 PM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Isn't the term "hipster" completely, thoroughly dead now? Do people still say that word?
Evidently, you just did.
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Old 04-23-2009, 10:26 PM
 
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Evidently, you just did.
Zinged me, Tom. Zinged me.

But seriously. Is this not a term we can toss in the rubbish bin?
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Old 04-23-2009, 10:32 PM
 
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Zinged me, Tom. Zinged me.

But seriously. Is this not a term we can toss in the rubbish bin?
Nope. I'm in my thirties, and will forever be stuck with the slang terms of ten years ago. I still think it's 1997, and that trip hop is cool new form of music from the UK.
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Old 04-24-2009, 12:15 AM
 
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hey i used to be one of the most stereotypical hipsters ever. when i was there, living in the ukrainian village, i always thought the rainbo club was the pinnacle of 'hipsterdom.' nowhere else in the city will you find that sort of pretension mixed with the fashion. it was ridiculous, yes, but man is that place hip. debonair is full of all those 'fake hipsters' but the rainbo is the real thing. the most 'legit' places to be were rainbo, the skylark, or anywhere in a really scary neighborhood that noone had heard of lol. anyway, i hate that scene now and i live in little rock, arkansas now. believe it or not, there are more hipsters per capita here than there. and my favorite bar in the world is the innertown pub. perfect mix of hipsters and normal people and everything in between.
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Old 04-24-2009, 06:26 AM
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Nope. I'm in my thirties, and will forever be stuck with the slang terms of ten years ago. I still think it's 1997, and that trip hop is cool new form of music from the UK.
Haha. I tried to rep you for that but could not. Now where are those Massive Attack cds, I know I have them around here somewhere.
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Old 04-24-2009, 06:41 AM
 
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hey i used to be one of the most stereotypical hipsters ever. when i was there, living in the ukrainian village, i always thought the rainbo club was the pinnacle of 'hipsterdom.' nowhere else in the city will you find that sort of pretension mixed with the fashion. it was ridiculous, yes, but man is that place hip. debonair is full of all those 'fake hipsters' but the rainbo is the real thing. the most 'legit' places to be were rainbo, the skylark, or anywhere in a really scary neighborhood that noone had heard of lol. anyway, i hate that scene now and i live in little rock, arkansas now. believe it or not, there are more hipsters per capita here than there. and my favorite bar in the world is the innertown pub. perfect mix of hipsters and normal people and everything in between.
haha Skylark, my friend keeps trying me to go there because it's her guy's favorite bar and i keep refusing because I just know it's swarming with hipsters. plus i'm too lazy ... i like to keep my bars north of Madison.
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Old 04-24-2009, 07:09 AM
 
Location: Andersonville, Chicago
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Isn't the term "hipster" completely, thoroughly dead now? Do people still say that word?
I'm at peace with my "hipster" status -- I don't think it's an antiquated term. But I'm also of the ilk that doesn't think it's passe to be postmodern.
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Old 04-24-2009, 07:14 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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this is great. it describes one of my friends perfectly - she has shows at her house in Logan Square, she rides a fixed gear bike, she has a boy that lives in Pilsen who worships PBR, and loves it when things turn into giant dance parties - but she would never admit that she's a hipster.
Is the dance party thing a trait of hipsterdom?
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