[thegmanifesto]

(11-07-2013 11:06 AM)WestCoast Wrote:  

^ no brainer. Based on all the muscle threads more douchebag. Not even a debate, I don't see threads on "please rate my no lens glasses" or "best skinny jeans".

Great idea for a thread:

Poll: Is the Rooshvforum More Hipster? Or More Douchebag?

[soup]

Ali I say post in the game section because game is the alpha thing. Even an 8 year old girl can travel.

Because we're talking about pussy wrangling skills

[Therapsid]

How Hipsters Ruined Paris

Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of human excellence and beauty and, just as crucially, filth and squalor. The area around Pigalle in particular — which American G.I.’s aptly called “Pig Alley” — was always a mixture of both, its seediness informing the artistic production and spirit of numerous generations of inhabitants. You can see it in Edgar Degas’s brush strokes and hear it in Edith Piaf’s voice.

But it’s disappearing. Today, the neighborhood has been rechristened “South Pigalle” or, in a disheartening aping of New York, SoPi. Organic grocers, tasteful bistros and an influx of upscale American cocktail bars are quietly displacing the pharmacies, dry cleaners and scores of seedy bar à hôtesses that for decades have defined the neighborhood.

These “hostess bars,” marked by barely dressed women perched in the windows, are the direct descendants of the regulated brothels that thrived here from Napoleon’s time until the postwar purge of the 1940s. The French daily Libération reports that in 2005 there were 84 such establishments around Pigalle. Today there are fewer than 20. Their disappearance is a watermark of the quarter’s rapid loss of grit and character alike...

And so a vivid and storied layer of authentic Paris is being wiped out not by not-in-my-backyard activism, government edict or the rapaciousness of Starbucks or McDonald’s but by the banal globalization of hipster good taste, the same pleasant and invisible force that puts kale frittata, steel-cut oats and burrata salad on brunch tables from Stockholm to San Francisco.

Drifting through these streets, as they are scrubbed clean and homogenized before my eyes, my thoughts turn to Blaise Pascal, who once wrote “a man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.” The same, of course, could be said of neighborhoods. The nicer this one gets, the more it seems to feel like the one I left behind in Brooklyn.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinio...inion&_r=0

[soup]

Good post in Paris. There's definitely a glut of cocktail bars. It's really crazy how that's happened in just the last couple years.

Seriously, how many rustified old timey cocktail bars do you need in a five block radius? I've seen this thing going on in north bk as well as the LES. After sandy hit, a lot if the old businesses were wiped out and the new moneyed hipsters swooped the real estate and flooded downtown with dozens of cocktail bars.

Don't get me wrong, I'll take a lived in aesthetic over some cold sterile douchebag business man vibe, but the romance of the speakeasy bar gets lost when the are several sharing the same block.

[Cattle Rustler]

Don't worry Souphammed, eventually those bars will go down under. They can't lose money forever.

[soup]

(11-10-2013 12:17 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  

Don't worry Souphammed, eventually those bars will go down under. They can't lose money forever.

I like them, but if there are too many, it comes off as un-original like a McMansion.

[The Lizard of Oz]

The NYT article posted by Therapsid is a good example of a purely sentimental and therefore absolutely worthless payment of lip service to a past to which the writer has no organic connection whatsoever.

This kind of braindead whining about the evils of "gentrification" is, in an all too typical irony, in itself a well worn trope of the SWPL/hipster mindset (even though this writer happens to be black, but he's a black SWPL if ever there was one).

Quote:

When my wife and I first moved here in 2011, I wasn’t sure what to make of living in the middle of a functioning red-light district.

Quote:

I have never quite gotten used to the transsexual hookers who traipse the Boulevard de Clichy outside the area’s various sex shops and with whom I must share the carnivalesque sidewalk on my way in and out of the post office. Frankly, they make me uncomfortable.

But I’ve come to see that unease as a good thing the longer I stay in this corner of France

Quote:

We should be grateful to be jolted from our anesthetized routines, confronted when we can be with surroundings and neighbors that are not injection-molded to the contours of our own bobo predilections. Too much of modern urban life revolves around never feeling less than fully at ease; about having even the minutest of experiences tailored to a set of increasingly demanding and homogeneous tastes — from the properly sourced coffee grounds that make the morning’s flat white to the laboriously considered iPod soundtracks we rely on to cancel the world’s noise. The logical extension is to “curate” our urban spaces like style blogs or Pinterest boards representing a single, self-satisfied and extremely sheltered expression of middle- and upper-middle-class sensibility.

In other words: this writer has no relation whatsoever to what to him are the quaint remnants of a different era in the Paris red light district. His world, and he knows this full well, is the world of the cocktail bars, organic grocers and tasteful bistros. But instead of embracing his actual world, for better and for worse, he fraudulently whines about the disappearance of a past that is in fact completely meaningless to him.

The idea that there is something bad about "never feeling less than fully at ease", that you should actively seek some (carefully rationed out) discomfort is a lunatic idea that would be incomprehensible to the denizens of old Pigalle, and would outrage them if they could be made to understand it. They don't live where they live and do where they do to experience some SWPL "discomfort"; they just live in the way that's natural and native to them.

If this writer had any balls, or any honesty, he would say: gentrification has made Paris much better, and I can now feel as comfortable there as I do in Park Slope. I don't have to look at trannies, criminals and freaks that I have nothing in common with. Excellent, if only the whole world could look exactly like this!

But these people are so weak-minded and fearful of life that they don't even have the courage of their wretched convictions. Maybe that's why their neighborhoods don't have such a great feel to them.

[kenny_powers]

^ the irony is the author has been there 2 years tops. Does he fail to recognize that he is one of "the hipsters ruining Paris"?

You can read the exact same nonsense in The Washington Post about DC neighborhoods being altered and losing all character - article written by a Trust Fund baby from another part of the country who is paying 2500 for a 1 bedroom apartment in the neighborhood they are supposedly lamenting.

Biography

Thomas Chatterton Williams was educated in his father’s study. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Georgetown University and a master’s degree from the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University.

[soup]

By the RVF definition of not being able to pull, cold without social proof, in a douchebag hang, I am a hipster.

I don't farewell in Jersey Shore type places.

But, there are some places where the two mingle in NYC. I can do pretty well in those places because I don't really fit into either d-bag or hipster, so I stand out- the sigma guy.

[Mulatta]

I think hipster culture is entertainingly pretentious.

[el mechanico]

Hipsters ruin a historic house with art

You got to see this.

[el mechanico]

Quote:

I am selling my Vista Carrera 7 road bike. Perfect for the aspiring culture creator. I have recently become a Successful Entrepreneur and I no longer have the need for such trifling possessions. I drive a gigantic cargo van that literally pisses gas onto the road to mark its territory.
Do you want to be noticed? Do you want to stand out from the crowd? Sleeve tattoo didn’t do the trick? Dubstep bounce remix didn’t go viral? Look no further than this bike. Don’t even look past it in the pictures posted below. Import it into Photoshop and delete the background. I know you know how to do it, because you’re a graphic designer.

Orange body. Green accents. Pink handlebar wrap. Some silver. Black. Dirt. Are there even any more colors? There are awesome reflective stickers on the bike, too, which makes darting out in front of automobiles on dark evenings and asserting one’s absolute and total right of way even more self-righteously awesome. Dear motorist: Did you not see the stickers. Do you think I have time to just put stickers on things. I’m trying to save the world from people like you.

Just think of all the great places you could see and be seen on this bike:

1. An Obama rally
2. A Ron Paul rally
3. Rally’s
4. Miscellaneous

The possibilities are endless.

This bike will get you laid. If you ride this bike around Audobon Park at 1 in the morning without pants on, dudes will literally knock you off of your bike to try to blow you.

This bike is a freewheel fixed gear, because you’re a fucking monster and you have one speed, and that speed is +/- 15mph.

A seat comes with the bike, but is not pictured. If you want, you can ride the bike without the seat to simulate the stick you have up your ass about which Pavement album is best, which political cause that matters to you most intermittently, or about whatever it is that you “do.”

SAFETY FEATURES

This bike is Japanese and comes with four distinct safety features:

Safety Feature #1: front brakes only. Because you’re not about to conform to anyone’s preconceived notions of how a bike should stop.

Safety Feature #2: Quick release back wheel. I took this bike to Mike the Bike Guy on Magazine to get a tune up once, and he refused to work on it because of this Safety Feature. He said it was a “Frankenstein bike.” I asked him if he didn’t agree that Frankenstein was a literary masterpiece. I thought that after losing that argument he might be a gentleman and agree to tune up the bike for free, but he remained all pissy and still refused to work on it, even for money.

The next time I went in to Mike the Bike Guy on Magazine was to get air. I was all, hey MTBG, can I get some air? He was all yes. It was clear that we both believed that air is a free resource that should not be commodified. Common ground. He pointed me toward his air machine. Everything seemed cool. When I realized that the nozzle didn’t fit my bike’s tires, I was all, hey MTBG, how does this nozzle go on? He looked at me, turned around, took two steps toward the back of the room, and let out a loud SIGH. I couldn’t blame him. I work with people too, and sometimes they ask me questions because they don’t know things and I am the paid expert on the exact things they don’t know and I am standing right next to them, and I have to humiliate them in front of others before I answer them, too. It’s all just part of the job.

Safety Feature #3: Helmet. That’s my helmet. You can ride in a painter’s cap and pretend to be smart at the same time, but you’re not fooling anyone.

Safety Feature #4: Welding fix at seat joint. When this joint came loose, the bike was deemed horribly unsafe. When I welded it back together, it became safe again, therefore: safety feature. It’s supersturdy now; I welded it to fuck and back. I painted the welding joint green because I was feeling creative and I don’t have to explain my art to anyone.

Safety Feature #5: Apparently this bike has really nice rims. I am listing this under Safety Features because I feel that less-nice rims would probably make the bike marginally less safe.

Safety Feature $6: Earthquake proof.

$180 or best offer. Cash is fine. Your parents can PayPal me directly. Or see below:

I’m totally into creative trades (this part is actually serious). Musical instruments (serious – esp synths and pedals); original art (serious); US Currency (for srsly); leisure suits (I’m 6’1”, 180, with long arms and broad shoulders. Let’s stick with dark colors – I’m kind of pale and I don’t like to look washed out); real estate/underwater mortgages (4realz dogg); antique firearms (I promise I won’t trade you the bike and then shoot you with what was previously your firearm in order to steal my bike back and sell it again, although wouldn’t that be ironic, or would it, I don’t know, we use the word incorrectly so often that I’m not sure it matters); casual sex. Show me what you got.

[germanico]

(11-10-2013 03:04 PM)kenny_powers Wrote:  

Thomas Chatterton Williams was educated in his father’s study. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Georgetown University and a master’s degree from the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University.

How does he uses that for job interviews?

"- Ok, so we use the small filters for the small coffee pot. The big filters are in the...
- Of course, I know. I have a masters in cultural criticism, you know?"

[Sonsowey]

Hipster to Bros. Bro to Hipsters.

If you're a real Bro in NY, you better be in Murray Hill or Upper East/West only. My DB friends can't hang downtown for a second. I tried to take a douchebag friend to Wilfie & Nells. He was rocking an A-Rod jersey and tried to spit to girls... Strikeout.

[soup]

(11-15-2013 02:38 PM)el mechanico Wrote:  

Hipsters ruin a historic house with art

You got to see this.

I'd still bang those chicks.

New hipsters vs. old hipsters http://nypost.com/2013/12/02/new-hipster...wick-digs/

[thegmanifesto]

(12-03-2013 02:14 PM)soup Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:38 PM)el mechanico Wrote:  

Hipsters ruin a historic house with art

You got to see this.

I'd still bang those chicks.

New hipsters vs. old hipsters http://nypost.com/2013/12/02/new-hipster...wick-digs/

Jesus.

What are those?

[soup]

(12-03-2013 02:22 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

(12-03-2013 02:14 PM)soup Wrote:  

(11-15-2013 02:38 PM)el mechanico Wrote:  

Hipsters ruin a historic house with art

You got to see this.

I'd still bang those chicks.

New hipsters vs. old hipsters http://nypost.com/2013/12/02/new-hipster...wick-digs/

Jesus.

What are those?

Just looks like some white kids trying to have fun.

[Aliblahba]

(12-03-2013 02:22 PM)thegmanifesto Wrote:  

Jesus.

What are those?

That's as wrong as three naked men in a barn.

[germanico]

I assume the bearded one is male. Theres insuficient data to determine the others gender.

[OGNorCal707]

(12-03-2013 02:14 PM)soup Wrote:  

New hipsters vs. old hipsters http://nypost.com/2013/12/02/new-hipster...wick-digs/

Damn you really can't make this shit up can you? Soup which side do you identify with more, the new hipsters or the old ones?

Also that Castle Braid place sounds like a hipster summer camp, but I bet the gym there doesn't get used much.

[el mechanico]

Soup= old hipster.

He's not one of those buggy whip armed new guys moving in town driving his parental subsidized rent up.

[Aliblahba]

(12-03-2013 06:20 PM)OGNorCal707 Wrote:  

Also that Castle Braid place sounds like a hipster summer camp, but I bet the gym there doesn't get used much.

Hipsters were getting swole before it was cool.


   

[soup]

I'm the hipster wit da biggest D.

It's true, I recently cut my hair and now I officially look a bonafide hipster from Williamsburg.

And the pussy flows plentifully..

[Laurifer]

(11-10-2013 11:59 AM)Therapsid Wrote:  

How Hipsters Ruined Paris
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinio...inion&_r=0

Paris to me is overrated. Been to France twice and still haven't seen the Eiffel tower. There is Paris, and then there is the rest of France. Two different things.

A beautiful, historic world city? Yes. But get out if you want to see the real France, especially if its overrun by hipsters. Go to Lyon.

[kingjuice]

Oh hey there, Mipsterz.