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failing to report to census?
not voting?
They are SO OVER money.
$2B and his whole posse have had beef with hipsters for years. It shouldn’t be that surprising by now.
…on Government Education by trying to fill in the Population on what s Hipster really is.”
“Trying” is the key word here people.
Can someone tell me what a hipster is? Thanks.
It was a typo; they meant “shipsters,” as in, people who work on ships. Those shipsters just aren’t coming in as often as they used to and the docks are losing revenue.
@ Joneser, can’t wait to play battleshipster
A hipster might best be described as someone with lots of mom and dad’s money who moves to Portland from New York because someone told them that Portland is the only place their shitty little band will ever be recognized.
@sasquatchman: By using your definition, I don’t understand how these people moving to Portland from NYC are costing NYC 2 billion dollars.
@Graham: it’s simple, by moving to Portland they’re no longer blowing their families’ hard earned cash on skinny jeans and used vinyl in NYC, in turn costing the city $2B in potential revenue.
@sasquatchman: So then hipsters are good for Portland… Why does everyone here treat them with such derision?
@Graham: Good question, my guess is that people think they’ll become the new Californians, driving up housing/living costs and then bailing when the next “hip” new city comes along. But that’s enough back and forth for me, time to go back to being the elusive king of the forest.
Hmm… looks like the article is using an incendiary headline which is then disputed by the facts in the article: http://www.metro.us/newyork/local/article/…
Hipsters aren’t to blame, illegal immigrants and rich people living in buildings with doormen are to be blamed.
It’s a federal grant that depends on listening to BTO unironically.
Graham, it’s like your dick, you know it when you see it. (Well, except for that one time when you were mixing Ecstasy with *way* too much Buckfast Tonic Wine.)
Speaking about dicks, do dicks change values if they change city? Like that woman who sings and has a big ass who “secured” it witha company, if she went to Appalachia would her ass cost less? Dicks man, they must have SOME value.
Battleshipster is awesome!
The victory cry of “I totally just biked straight through a four-way stop, paused Blonde Redhead, took out my ear buds and sank your battleship not cuz I really wanted to but as a meta-commentary on how I despise violence, retro-scenesterism and the pitfalls of childhood marketplace identity rape!” is a bit unusual.
Well really it goes without saying.
Because of…oh, nevermind, you’ve probably never heard of it.
Leaky, sometimes you make so little sense it circles back around and becomes TOTALLY LOGICAL.
The 2b dollars is a citywide challenge to use the word “irony” correctly in a sentence.
…in library funding. Real hipsters only read blogs.
Thank you cat & beard. It was time that some one else got the hang of it 😛
Leaky … I’ve been following your work for some time. If you take the second and third letters of every other word and read it backwards, it predicts the future. But then, you already know this.
Your comment would be perfect only if you had a glass ball which I figure you don´t have Ron.
You cropped it funny the headline was “Blame the hipsters if the city misses out on $2BJs.”
as a part-time hipster, i feel qualified to explain what a hipster is, and why we are costing the city money.
– a hipster is someone with an expensive liberal arts degree and a fancy computer with a shitty job. hobbies include riding bikes, drinking beer, and listening to records.
– they are costing the city money because they get paid shit, and the little money they make goes to student loans, records, beer, and food carts. the only people who work at those places are hipsters, so the money only recycles itself
– this city has no sales tax, so most taxes come from homeowners. hipsters rent, so they pay no property taxes. buses suck, and the train only runs to gresham or beaverton, so the hipsters ride their bikes everywhere. they also don’t drive, so no gas tax either.
– in short, hipsters are living a teenage fantasy without really paying to maintain the city. their lifestyle is about satisfying immediate desire and enjoying every day, but without a true sense of meaning. while most people dismiss this lifestyle as shallow and vacant, they also secretly resent themselves for participating in this cultural phenomenon. and while very few people embody any stereotype to the extreme, most educated white people in their twenties and thirties fall into this category while scoffing at the people they label as “hipsters”.
– also, they wear tight pants
There’s a mega-rad underground definition of hipster but you guys probably haven’t heard about it.
@ebaq That’s surprisingly accurate. Also, your point about most educated white twentysomethings being at least part hipster is pretty accurate too. I know I have some hipster in me.