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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 21, 2016 15:35:14 GMT
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Post by bjd on Nov 21, 2016 15:47:49 GMT
That's wonderful, but it might get out of style fast.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 15:58:36 GMT
No hipster would be ever be caught on a Segway. The very definition of bourgeois.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 21, 2016 16:19:23 GMT
Too true, Bjd.
Cut the Wise Men some slack, Lizzy. It was a long journey from the East and they couldn't very well change Segways mid-trip just because of the vagaries of fashion.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 16:51:58 GMT
Anyway, the guy on the Segway is merely making an Amazon delivery, I doubt very much if he is a "king".
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 21, 2016 17:00:32 GMT
Open the link and you'll see three of them, a dead giveaway.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 17:17:10 GMT
Bah! If they were real hipsters, they'd be riding fixies.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 21, 2016 18:22:43 GMT
I'm so glad I don't know what that means!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 19:10:07 GMT
They are all over Seattle. However, I'm not. I'll be making my first trip since the election in a couple of weeks.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 21, 2016 21:02:35 GMT
They must be in Vancouver too, no? I mean, it is very intelligent to ride a bicycle that not only has no speeds, but more important NO BRAKES in hilly towns.
Fixies were actually invented to train in Velodromes, with the least possible added weight. I've seen a few here, but they are technically illegal due to the lack of brakes.
At least they no longer often have long Religious Fundamentalist beards along with their short hair on top. They really looked like pan-Abrahamic-monotheist fundies, whether Hassidic, weird born-again Christianists or the Islamist variety.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 21:31:12 GMT
Oh, I'm sure they are, but I don't hang out in that part of town any longer, lagatta. I no longer live on The Drive, or in Mount Pleasant. All I see downtown are commuters on their expensive mountain bikes, or the street people hauling their shopping carts full of bottles.
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Post by chexbres on Nov 23, 2016 9:04:33 GMT
Love the solar panel on the roof! Wonder what's in the boxes...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2016 11:34:12 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 23, 2016 16:34:52 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Nov 23, 2016 18:51:21 GMT
I'm very sad as Caffè Internazionale, a local Italian café-bar-trattoria, is closing in December (it has been open since the 1960s) and becoming an "ironic" kitsch tiki bar. There is just about NO Hawaiian or other South-Pacific-Islander community here in Mtl. Caffé Internazionale has many fond memories for me; for one thing I used to meet my (now deceased) thesis adviser from Sicily there for espressi and long chats.
The hipsters also open absurdly expensive "third-wave" coffee places hereabouts, though some of the old Italian cafés have at least equally good coffee for a third of the price...
Lizzy, alas, at least some of them hail from BC, and have come here to study or to slum, as we have far cheaper rents (though not cheap for people here). They can also creditably dress up as Northwoodsmen - or women. But students from France, rarely hipsters, also do the latter.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 25, 2016 15:29:57 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 8, 2016 18:14:21 GMT
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Post by lugg on Dec 8, 2016 19:07:18 GMT
I just came to post that here Bixa Too funny
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 8, 2016 19:59:04 GMT
Great minds, Lugg!
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Post by lagatta on Dec 8, 2016 23:32:44 GMT
I can actually think of worse, but don't want to channel Donald Trump.
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Post by rikita on Dec 9, 2016 22:57:15 GMT
must admit i don't fully get why the commercial is barfy (apart from the way commercials are annoying in general) and why the product is all that hipsterish. while i probably wouldn't mail it from travels, i would think it is a fun little souvenir or gift, especially for children, but not only ... and i must admit, even though it has been explained to me various times, i still don't fully get the distinction between hipster and non-hipster (which must be a clear one, since they are that much of a "they"?) and why hipsters are so horrible.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 9, 2016 23:10:38 GMT
Oh, probably the commercial is barfy to me because I am old, mean, & cynical. Its demographic is certainly the segment of the youthful population with disposable income and that sort of self-conscious, self-important clinging to childishness and to what's the done thing in their set. Anyway, that's how I see hipsters and allow myself to be annoyed by them -- undoubtedly totally unfair & judgmental.
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Post by rikita on Dec 9, 2016 23:35:42 GMT
i'd say i am kind of self-important and childish in a lot of ways (though i don't care much about what's done) ... i know a lot of people with some traits that would be considered "hipster-traits" but can't think of anyone that fits fully with the descriptions of hipsters. though i see plenty of people who annoy me, mainly because i don't know them and they are in my way and they don't realize i am so much cooler than them (and thus they should get out of my way, so i can hurry on)
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 10, 2016 22:23:07 GMT
Yes, exactly. I like the way you think!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2016 6:00:05 GMT
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