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Old 24th August 2008   #201
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hehe cool eyebrows.. no you not her eyebrows.. ahh fuck it
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Old 4th September 2008   #202
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This obsession with “street-cred” reaches its apex of absurdity as hipsters have recently and wholeheartedly adopted the fixed-gear bike as the only acceptable form of transportation – only to have brakes installed on a piece of machinery that is defined by its lack thereof.
haha i had forgotten how awful adbusters is!
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Old 4th September 2008   #203
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Hipster bitch guitar girl optimises overyly american things that make me sick in my mouth.
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Old 5th September 2008   #204
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So the only way to make things interesting is by the total destruction of the internet to allowing regional music/fashion/art scenes to breath and develop, right?
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Old 5th September 2008   #205
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possibly, except people don't interact in the real world the same way they do on the internet.
How many of us would bother to start a conversation in a room full of people we'd never met, or in the street, or on a bus? The world is full of apathy, switching on a computer and logging onto the internet is easy, and society likes easy.
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Old 5th September 2008   #206
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This obsession with “street-cred” reaches its apex of absurdity as hipsters have recently and wholeheartedly adopted the fixed-gear bike as the only acceptable form of transportation – only to have brakes installed on a piece of machinery that is defined by its lack thereof.
It's actually defined by it's drivetrain, (the clue being the name) not the option of braking mechanisms. And in fact the hipsters are more likely to be brakeless.

Hey dudes, what colour should I powdercoat my new NoBrake bike?
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Old 5th September 2008   #207
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I don't get it, aren't you all hipsters? your very quick to distance yourselves...
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Old 5th September 2008   #208
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"you all" meaning everyone on this thread, or this forum? including you?

I very much doubt, if you knew me, that you'd think I was any kind of hipster.
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Old 5th September 2008   #209
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^give it up RPM - you're as hip as they come... ;)
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Old 5th September 2008   #210
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i dunno, you have tattoos and live in a dodgy part of london..

a rose by any other name
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Old 5th September 2008   #211
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possibly, except people don't interact in the real world the same way they do on the internet.
How many of us would bother to start a conversation in a room full of people we'd never met, or in the street, or on a bus? The world is full of apathy, switching on a computer and logging onto the internet is easy, and society likes easy.
Ahh, so the lack of mass interaction will get things good again? Right! I'm off the burn my BT wireless router!
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Old 5th September 2008   #212
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i dunno, you have tattoos and live in a dodgy part of london..

a rose by any other name
Tooting's not dodgy!
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Old 5th September 2008   #213
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it is compared to haslemere. or richmond, or barnes...
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Old 5th September 2008   #214
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Tooting's not dodgy!
Used to be, but I understand it's more gentrified these days!
Is Chicken Cottage still there, at Tooting Bec?
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Old 5th September 2008   #215
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but I don't want to live in haslemere (wft?) richmond or barnes, I want to live near to HH velodrome and Brixton BMX track and I am poor so don't have a lot of choice when it comes to where to rent a flat.

Richmond is nice, but it's not really London, is it...

you give me £2000 a month and I'll go live in richmond, how's that?
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Old 5th September 2008   #216
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Used to be, but I understand it's more gentrified these days!
Is Chicken Cottage still there, at Tooting Bec?
yeah.

dunno about gentrified, balham used to be a wasteland, but now it's all blown out and ponsified.
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Old 5th September 2008   #217
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you give me £2000 a month and I'll go live in richmond, how's that?
heh - you'll need more than that, i tell you
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Old 5th September 2008   #218
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fucking fucking shit
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Old 5th September 2008   #219
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I'm from a time when the Moon Under Water in Balham was the 'safest' (not saying much though) pub to go drinking in in Balham.

Went back not so long ago and it's all Wine Bars now! "In my day this all used to be fields" ;)
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Old 5th September 2008   #220
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but I don't want to live in haslemere (wft?) richmond or barnes, I want to live near to HH velodrome and Brixton BMX track and I am poor so don't have a lot of choice when it comes to where to rent a flat.
calm down mate! i'm not telling you where to live. haslemere is shit, anyway.
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Old 5th September 2008   #221
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hipster birds wear fucking high heels and leather boots while riding brakeless?!!! they deserve a big white rubbish truck to pull in on them
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Old 5th September 2008   #222
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Went back not so long ago and it's all Wine Bars now! "In my day this all used to be fields" ;)
where are all these 'wine bars' people talk about? didn't they die with the Dagmar in the 80s? i don't think i've ever seen a wine bar, tbh..
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Old 5th September 2008   #223
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there's a nice one off the embankment nimbus...
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Old 5th September 2008   #224
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the elephant on the water?
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Old 5th September 2008   #225
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Gordons: 47 Villiers Street
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Old 5th September 2008   #226
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calm down mate! i'm not telling you where to live. haslemere is shit, anyway.
clam down fella! I'm not suggesting you're telling me where to live

I was just musing making polite conversation you know..
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Old 5th September 2008   #227
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Gordons: 47 Villiers Street
I have been there!

a long, long time ago...

in a galaxy far, far away..

hipsters didn't exist in those days, hardly anything existed in those days..
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Old 5th September 2008   #228
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clam down fella!
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Old 5th September 2008   #229
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that reminded me of something else, for a moment.
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Old 5th September 2008   #230
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Gordons: 47 Villiers Street

Don't tell the hipsters about this. Nothing to see, stay in Hoxton
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Old 5th September 2008   #231
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hahaha... true.
I think its safe from Hipsters though directly after work you do get some suits..
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Old 5th September 2008   #232
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having said that -- i like it there and the staff really know their stuff.
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Old 5th September 2008   #233
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i was told that oscar Wilde used to drink there.
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Old 5th September 2008   #234
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having said that -- i like it there and the staff really know their stuff.
I love gordon's too, but it does get a bit busy at times. The last thing I want is to have a bunch of HHSB's (that have arrived by cab) parked outside there.
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