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trof

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3. Hipsters:
Mon Aug 19, 2013, 07:48 PM
Aug 2013

"By 2003, when The Hipster Handbook was published by Williamsburg resident Robert Lanham, the term had come into widespread use in relation to Williamsburg and similar neighborhoods.

The Hipster Handbook described hipsters as young people with "mop-top haircuts, swinging retro pocketbooks, talking on cell phones, smoking European cigarettes... strutting in platform shoes with a biography of Che Guevara sticking out of their bags".[12]

Lanham further describes hipsters thus: "You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration" and "you have one Republican friend who you always describe as being your 'one Republican friend.'"[5] One author dates the initial phase of the revival of the term from 1999 to 2003.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%28contemporary_subculture%29#1990s_through_early_2010s

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You have a handlebar mustache. In_The_Wind Aug 2013 #1
well not anymore, I had to change NightWatcher Aug 2013 #5
At least, you still have a sense of humor. In_The_Wind Aug 2013 #6
I was 1990's grunge, I cant make fun of anyone's style NightWatcher Aug 2013 #7
I'll own to some of that Xyzse Aug 2013 #10
OMG! You mean to tell me that hipsters are now wearing v-neck t-shirts?! bluesbassman Aug 2013 #2
Hipsters: trof Aug 2013 #3
What is the definition of hipster? Kingofalldems Aug 2013 #4
evolution of the hipster NightWatcher Aug 2013 #8
The poster is comedy gold. Bunnahabhain Aug 2013 #12
As far as I have been able to determine... malthaussen Aug 2013 #9
Closer to under-40s... Chan790 Aug 2013 #13
hipsters just ARE olddots Aug 2013 #11
Cocksauce, damn it all quakerboy Aug 2013 #14
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