hipsters

"I've been making my kids uncool since before it was cool."

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The image above has been spreading on Tumblr showing that if you Google "that hipster song with the whistling," you get the most obvious result: "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn & John.

Yet when I search "why is a band from sweden singing in english" Google is of no help…

"ABBA" doesn't answer my question, Google!  Though the purple link does raise another question: Why have I previously visited the Wikipedia page for ABBA?

Whatever.  At least this post gives you a chance to listen to "Young Folks."  It's a good summer afternoon song.  Though of course I would say that… I have a beard and live in Brooklyn.

Another good summer afternoon song is "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Crofts.

Alright, I'm done here.

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No.

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Also: rapid climate change, oil prices, and the impending extinction of the African Elephant can all probably be traced back to guys in scarves and skinny jeans.

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Just think how annoyed New Yorkers will be when they find out that most of those delivery guys on bikes and panhandlers are also hipsters!

[via I Am Bored]

It's census time, but people don't seem to be taking it as seriously as in years past.  Census return rates are lower than had been hoped.

NPR reports that one of the largest groups to not return their census forms is Brooklyn hipsters.

Well, I'll have you know that I am a Brooklyn hipster and I can easily explain this phenomenon…

You see, hipsters are too busy doing ironic things instead of filling out their census forms.  See the picture above?  That is me riding an adult tricycle through a pumpkin patch instead of filling out my census.  You know how long it took me to come up with that?!  A long time!  I had to sit on my couch pondering what to do for almost 10 minutes!  The same amount of time they say it takes to fill out your census form!!

But let's get serious here for a moment: As NPR says at the end of their report, one of the biggest issues with hipsters not filling out their census is "susceptibility to peer pressure.  If you see your neighbors doing it, if it actually becomes cool to fill out the census, then maybe Williamsburg will be counted."

So I want to help break the chain.  I have filled out and returned our census.  And you should too.

The real problem is with this story's definition of the word "hipster."  If you're the kind of person who says things like "I mean people would do if they got like five bucks," you are not a hipster — you are a douchebag.

I can't tell if this is a genuine picture from the 80's or a bunch of hipsters being ironic a-holes.

I'm just saying- I wouldn't put it past American Apparel to run this as the theme of their next catalogue.

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