Hipster activities

[amish rob]

Being me, I had to do a history lesson when they called it a beardstache. My kids just rolled their eyes and walked away, because they knew a lecture was coming.

After I told the gym rats about General Burnside, they all whipped out their phones to read the Wikipedia entry. Hahaha.

Kids these days are weird and awesome. I don’t get them, and they don’t get me, but we can hang out and vibe as often as not. Of course, having grey hair and being able to climb adds to your panache, as does being able to do one-armed pull-ups. At least there.

Baseball needs a whole other skill set to be cool. Those kids are animals, but there aren’t a lot of hip baseball kids. They tend to be “normal” and a little boring.

[WI-Tom]

lots on the web out there

https://vtdigger.org/2014/01/27/uvm-...0trees%20yield.

you can grow from a seedling for three years, cut the top off and suck the sap out, then replant

6000 saplings per acre compared to mature maple forest with 80 trees per acre

the crop grown saplings far outproduce the mature trees

This is just deeply sad in every way. What an embodiment of our way of life that is. Just, sad.

Tom

[heimlaga]

I must be some sort of anti-hipster by birth. I just don't understand what it is all about. Surface attributes and nothing inside. Knowing nothing and pretending to know it all. A blown up self importance. No I just don't get it.........

Amish Rob comes across as the sort of odd personality that the hipsters try to pretend to be.

[Paul Pless]

odd personality

yes that shall leave a mark

[amish rob]

Dude, I cannot deny that I am indeed an odd personality. Hahahaha.

[Jfitzger]

I haven't heard anyone use hipster in years. It makes me think of the late aughts when I lived in Wicker Park in Chicago and everyone wore skinny jeans and bought their first fixed gear bicycle. I saw a lot of those 20 somethings get disillusioned by the 2008 crash and decide to become things like butchers or furniture makers. My brothers friend quit her corporate job, moved to Milwaukee and apprenticed to be a licensed cheese maker.

The majority of my time I run my own business as a woodworker but in my twenties I was an advertising photographer and I still work in the business from time to time. When I graduated college the business was dominated by Boomer men. It was also incredibly sexist and often abusive. The Gen Xer's started to transition away from that but it really took off with Millennials and become canon with Gen Z. It's a young business and now that most of the boomers have been forced out it's also a much more healthy, inclusive and productive one.

As a a Gen Xer, if I had to generalize, . I would rather work what you would call a hipster Gen Z or Millennial than a Boomer any day.
At the moment I have a 24 year old assistant at the shop. He's tattoed and bearded and has weird sense of humor and slang I do not understand. He's also a really hard worker and passionate about learning new things.

You may look at "hipsters" and see affectation and emptiness but as someone who actually spends time with them I see hope and a chance to leave all the toxic attitudes about what it means to be a man behind.

[Canoez]

[Ralphie Boy]

I actually have no problems with Hipsters. I don’t understand the black fingernails, but those who wear them are younger than actual Hipsters, more like Gen X or Y?

What people wear doesn’t bother me, we had long hair as kids and lots of people hated it, used to call us girls to try and insult us.

I also realize that being a Boomer, my generation is the one who is justifiably getting blamed for screwing up everything.

[Dave Wright]

Is it just age that makes those responses so consistent across categories???

[Jfitzger]

Is it just age that makes those responses so consistent across categories???

Might have more to do with the fact that young people today are incredibly self critical and some Boomers have a tendency to be a touch narcissistic. Self reporting is notoriously unreliable.

How people behave, not how they report, is what matters.

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[Dave Wright]

The young are self critical? Yeah, could be. Here those bars are flipped: