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What is hipster?

Apr. 18th, 2012 at 10:09 AM

There is a company that sells printed magnetic sheets the size of your whole refrigerator*. This one depicts 35mm cameras, Converse basketball shoes, round glasses, something that looks like a cassette tape, and something else I can't parse. This particular magnet is called "hipsters set."

http://www.kudumagnets.com/hipsters-set

I thought I had an idea of what hipster is. But this makes me think that hipster is nostalgia for the 70s, and that's not what I thought it was.

*If you ask me, that takes all the fun out of refrigerator magnets.

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Apr. 18th, 2012 05:36 pm (UTC)

I hope this isn't unwelcome Geek Answer Syndrome?

Is the thing you can't parse printed in yellow, and is there one about halfway down the upper portion, about one-third of the way in from the left? Because I think that's maybe an espresso cup, with foam or whipped cream on top.

And the cassette tape with the cord may be an adapter to run a Sony Discman through your car tape player.

I don't know what a hipster is, either, except that it's apparently insulting to call someone one.

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Apr. 18th, 2012 06:11 pm (UTC)

Re: I hope this isn't unwelcome Geek Answer Syndrome?

I think so, too, but I think it's an *evil* espresso cup that's holding a throwing disk with a razor edge that it's going to throw at you if you dare slurp its whipped cream. Or maybe it's going to throw it *just because*. Because, you know, evil.

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Apr. 18th, 2012 06:22 pm (UTC)

Re: I hope this isn't unwelcome Geek Answer Syndrome?

It's definitely holding a throwing disk, but it looks more like a semi-microwaved marshmallow peep than like whipped cream. Maybe it's a giant semi-microwaved marshmallow peep in a car from a Teacup fairground ride.

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Apr. 18th, 2012 06:13 pm (UTC)

Re: I hope this isn't unwelcome Geek Answer Syndrome?

And the cassette tape with the cord may be an adapter to run a Sony Discman through your car tape player.

It's not a cord - it's a loop of tape that's escaped the cassette. Someone hand me a Bic pen, will you?

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Apr. 18th, 2012 06:23 pm (UTC)

Re: I hope this isn't unwelcome Geek Answer Syndrome?

Only it looks like it's not going back in the other end, so the Bic pen trick might not work.

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Apr. 18th, 2012 06:31 pm (UTC)

Re: I hope this isn't unwelcome Geek Answer Syndrome?

If the tape got creased, it could just be curling back in on itself (I certainly saw that happen a time or three), but it'll definitely be a weak point and at risk for breakage. Time to pick up a new copy. ;-)

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Apr. 18th, 2012 06:35 pm (UTC)

Re: I hope this isn't unwelcome Geek Answer Syndrome?

But try to play it one more time for kicks and giggles, because it might have weird backward or wah-wah effects.

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Apr. 18th, 2012 06:21 pm (UTC)

Re: I hope this isn't unwelcome Geek Answer Syndrome?

It's not Geek Answer Syndrome because you phrased it as a question. But even if it were, it would be fine. :)

I guessed froo froo coffee drink too. That sort of spoils the "nostalgia for 1970s" theme.

I had one of those cassette tape adapters...

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Apr. 19th, 2012 06:31 pm (UTC)

I think probably it can. Over on the DW version of this post we're talking hipster mullets. ;-)

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Apr. 19th, 2012 08:20 pm (UTC)

I don't know about Monkee lunchboxes, but there is a clothing company called Monkee Genes that makes clothing they're labeling hipster (although I suspect what they mean by that is "low-rise").

Female people can be hipster by wearing fake moustaches, can't they? There's even a whole blog devoted to it:
http://hipstergirlsinmustaches.blogspot.com/

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