What is a hipster and where are they in PDX? (Portland: house, school)

[Juxtaposition109]

Wow I started this thread last May and now it's December and people are still commenting on it. That's funny. A month ago I moved down here to St Petersburg, Florida and someone told me that I was going to see a ton of hipsters. I kind of laughed and said, Oh really huh? I think I've spotted one hipster. Nothing on Portland by any means. Have a good one up there in the Pac NW guys/gals and hit up one of the Portland Marathons for me.

[2bpurrfect]

some of this stuff is just soooo funny. actually the "hipster" types i have known, shop at thrift stores or get free clothes, and mix and match very creatively because they don't have enough money to buy "real" clothes. They remake stuff to their taste too. They use all kinds of super cheap old broken jewelry parts and make a cool looking necklace, etc, and it has to do with taste and their own brand of creativity a lot more than following a fashion. I don't know anyone who consciously tries to be "hip", in fact that's not their own word, it is someone else's. It sounds like some old people trying to evaluate young people thruogh some really old out of touch glasses from their own previous generation's prejudices, without knowing what they're really looking at. At least in Portland, that's how I see it. Young creative people trying to survive and recycle. (No, I am not one of them, because I am a cusper. but i have always tended toward the flower child lifestyles since the late '60's when i was a preteen. There's beauty, integrity, natural and creative, improvisational, diy things in it all, and it won't go away, thank goodness).

[2bpurrfect]

Originally Posted by Juxtaposition109

Wow I started this thread last May and now it's December and people are still commenting on it. That's funny. A month ago I moved down here to St Petersburg, Florida and someone told me that I was going to see a ton of hipsters. I kind of laughed and said, Oh really huh? I think I've spotted one hipster. Nothing on Portland by any means. Have a good one up there in the Pac NW guys/gals and hit up one of the Portland Marathons for me.

dude. that's funny, you've seen ONE "hipster" down in Florida....... well, who were they talking about? well heeled fashionable chic bohemians, emos or mods maybe? are there any?
anyway, since it's in the Portland board, i think you can expect to see this thread thriving for a while!

[DoctorRain]

Originally Posted by iliketrains

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[DoctorRain]

Originally Posted by 2bpurrfect

dude. that's funny, you've seen ONE "hipster" down in Florida....... well, who were they talking about? well heeled fashionable chic bohemians, emos or mods maybe? are there any?
anyway, since it's in the Portland board, i think you can expect to see this thread thriving for a while!

There are not many hipsters in FL at all. In the daylight you don't see any in St Pete really. Usually have to hit the coffee shops later in the day to see a few or whatever they have for hipsters there. It has nothing on Portland though.

[Juxtaposition109]

Still no sightings of hipsters here in Florida. I did see an old Volvo w/ a Heart in Oregon sticker and that gave me a good laugh. Also my landlord down here drives a Subaru Outback Wagon and I keep wanting to ask her if she knows that she's driving the official car of the Portlander. Portland people are very entertaining.

[philwithbeard]

Originally Posted by Juxtaposition109

.... Portland people are very entertaining.

You have no idea if you haven't been here since the last election....
Why the City of Portland had a very, VERY large voter turnout, and we very righteously (again) voted Democratic Party... and we Democrats of Portland claim we brought in the new (or re-new, or whatever) a Democratic Governor who was elected way back when and made him governor again, kind of like California Gov-elect Brown. Insufferably righteous! Smack-down proud to spit in the face of the Tea Party.

As you said, entertaining to be sure.

And we couldn't have done it without the hipster's vote. Well, some pollsters seemed like they were concerned about the way the hipsters would vote.... but I thought they were overreacting a bit, they needn't have been so...on "pins-&-needles" as it were about the hipster's vote (snicker, snicker)

{dang I know, I mean I just know, there is a pun about the vote being a sign just 'tattooed' for a democratic win, but the joke needs a bit more... I will work on it a while....)

Phil

[Juxtaposition109]

I left Portland a few months ago in October. I worked as a valet in downtown and every Friday we would buy the BUSTED magazine that comes out. We had an entire notebook full of all the homeless/crazy/hustler people that we saw walk by every day down the Broadway hotel strip. Marcus whom we called MR FURIOUS was my favorite. He walks around downtown PDX all day screaming at random things. That job working on the streets of downtown PDX everyday is why I thought Portland people were so entertaining. Also that jackass who lit himself on fire and then tried to run into the fur store but they had the door locked LOL. Very entertaining people.

[Dual Citizen CA-OR]

Originally Posted by philwithbeard

...but I thought they were overreacting a bit, they needn't have been so...on "pins-&-needles" as it were about the hipster's vote (snicker, snicker)

{dang I know, I mean I just know, there is a pun about the vote being a sign just 'tattooed' for a democratic win, but the joke needs a bit more... I will work on it a while....)

Phil

Yes, the results of the recent election illustrate that the Hipsters pierced the falsehoods of numerous Republican campaigns.

[philwithbeard]

Originally Posted by Dual Citizen CA-OR

Yes, the results of the recent election illustrate that the Hipsters pierced the falsehoods of numerous Republican campaigns.

Oh, well done!

Loved it.


Phil