Showing posts with label hipsters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hipsters. Show all posts
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
A quickie
Some dumb whore I work with just said:
"any time you cook a vegetable it loses it's vitamins"
I laughed my ass off internally until I saw the gaggle of faces around her widen their eyes and go "REALLY??"
Wow.
No you dumb cow, cooking a vegetable does not strip it of it's vitamin content. It does not become a vitaminless tasteless mash of goo with no nutritional value once you apply heat to it. It's ok to cook your vegetables. Since most people steam, boil, or microwave vegetables they retain most of their nutritional value so ALL IS WELL IN VEGETABLE LAND. It's ok. Constrict your pupils.
Also? Newsflash guys...unless you're buying your vegetables fresh - they're already slightly cooked, or blanched.
For the record, if you're looking to strip your vegetables of most of your vitamins, bake them to dryness since a lot of the content is water soluble, or just fry them because fried food is FUCKING DELICIOUS.
Btw, I fucking hate working with you and I hope you choke on a raw carrot.
"any time you cook a vegetable it loses it's vitamins"
I laughed my ass off internally until I saw the gaggle of faces around her widen their eyes and go "REALLY??"
Wow.
No you dumb cow, cooking a vegetable does not strip it of it's vitamin content. It does not become a vitaminless tasteless mash of goo with no nutritional value once you apply heat to it. It's ok to cook your vegetables. Since most people steam, boil, or microwave vegetables they retain most of their nutritional value so ALL IS WELL IN VEGETABLE LAND. It's ok. Constrict your pupils.
Also? Newsflash guys...unless you're buying your vegetables fresh - they're already slightly cooked, or blanched.
For the record, if you're looking to strip your vegetables of most of your vitamins, bake them to dryness since a lot of the content is water soluble, or just fry them because fried food is FUCKING DELICIOUS.
I love this stupid hipster vegan or whatever raw food OMG HEAT KILLS VITAMINS line of thought...no idiots it actually kills bacteria so cook your shit...you don't have Celiac disease you probably have a fucking parasite
Btw, I fucking hate working with you and I hope you choke on a raw carrot.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Hipster Hate 3: Return of the Hate
Bein' a Dickhead's Cool brought to my attention by the lovely Mrs Jones/KazJones,
CREDIT ROLL!!! (pretend it's rolling guys)
TWITTER: follow @thegrandspec
Lyrics:
Got on the train from Cambridgeshire
Moved down to an East London flat
Got a moustache and a low cut vest
Some purple leggings
and a sailor tat
Just one gear on my fixie bike
got a plus one here for my gig tonight
I play synth...
We all play synth
20-20 vision just a pair of empty frames
Dressing like a nerd although i never got the grades
I remember when the kids at school would call me names
Now were taking over their estates
woah ho
(chorus)
I love my life as a dickhead
All my friends are dickheads too
come with me lets be dickheads
(havent you heard?)
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool cool cooooool
Polaroid app on my iphone
taking pictures on London Fields
up on the blog so everyone knows
were having new age fun, with a vintage feel
coolest kids at a warehouse rave
exclusive list look theres my name
I got in...
You couldn't get in
never bought a pack of fags i only roll my own
plugging in my laptop at the starbucks down the road
say i work in media im really on the dole
im the coolest guy you'll ever know
woah ho
(chorus)
I love my life as a dickhead
All my friends are dickheads too
come with me lets be dickheads
(havent you heard?)
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool cool cooooool
Loafers with no socks
Electropop meets southern hip hop
Indeterminate sexual preference
Something retro on my necklace
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MORE COMEDY SOON FROM THE GRAND SPECTACULAR
(c) SPmusic 2010 all rights reserved
CREDIT ROLL!!! (pretend it's rolling guys)
TWITTER: follow @thegrandspec
Lyrics:
Got on the train from Cambridgeshire
Moved down to an East London flat
Got a moustache and a low cut vest
Some purple leggings
and a sailor tat
Just one gear on my fixie bike
got a plus one here for my gig tonight
I play synth...
We all play synth
20-20 vision just a pair of empty frames
Dressing like a nerd although i never got the grades
I remember when the kids at school would call me names
Now were taking over their estates
woah ho
(chorus)
I love my life as a dickhead
All my friends are dickheads too
come with me lets be dickheads
(havent you heard?)
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool cool cooooool
Polaroid app on my iphone
taking pictures on London Fields
up on the blog so everyone knows
were having new age fun, with a vintage feel
coolest kids at a warehouse rave
exclusive list look theres my name
I got in...
You couldn't get in
never bought a pack of fags i only roll my own
plugging in my laptop at the starbucks down the road
say i work in media im really on the dole
im the coolest guy you'll ever know
woah ho
(chorus)
I love my life as a dickhead
All my friends are dickheads too
come with me lets be dickheads
(havent you heard?)
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool
being a dickhead's cool cool cooooool
Loafers with no socks
Electropop meets southern hip hop
Indeterminate sexual preference
Something retro on my necklace
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MORE COMEDY SOON FROM THE GRAND SPECTACULAR
(c) SPmusic 2010 all rights reserved
Monday, September 6, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
In which I address hipster hate
I stumbled across the Twitter account of one @rabbitwhite. I assume it's ok to post that persons name here since their Twitter account is public. I do not know this person, I stumbled across this from one click to another and couldn't really tell you how it happened now. But this person did ask a question that I decided to answer. Rather than start an all out Twitter war I will just post it here. This person asks why hipster hate exists and makes several points about hipsters which I saw fit to address. I make no secret of my hipster hate, so why the hell not. I've considered inviting this person to read my answers in case he/she might actually be interested in an actual answer as opposed to just hipsters nodding at each other over Twitter, but I haven't decided one way or another yet. Anyway, here goes:
@rabbitwhite Okay, there is something I wanna address here. And that something is hipster-hate. Why the hate? Why is the hate okay?
Because you ask questions like this and nobody cares. Because you force people to address you and nobody cares. Because you force people to deal with you and nobody cares. They’re sick of you and your constant need for attention. You’re not seeking attention you say? Then why are you asking this stupid fucking question?
@rabbitwhite First, "Hipsters" are ideally creative producers. They are going after their passions & intererests which incites anger in those who arent.
What passions and interests? Why can’t you just be passionate and interested in something and let that be that? Unless it’s a cause or you’re an activist of some kind, why do you think it’s so special that it gets a label and we all have to acknowledge it? I like apples, does that make me an Applet? Do I have to write blogs about them, force apples on you, demean you for not liking apples also, and whine when you don’t accept that I like apples?
@rabbitwhite Iis this generation of "hipster" more entrepreneurial or active than say, punx in the 80s? Hipsters are DJs, bloggers, photogs. So, maybe.
And second: "Hipsters" it seems are (ideally) living their values. Something that will ALWAYS incite anger in those who aren't.
What values? You aren’t doing anything. Those aren't jobs. There's nothing entrepreneual about taking your digital camera on a bike ride and shortening words on your blog and calling it an editorial piece. You aren't even doing THAT much. You can't even be bothered to have a actual DEBATE about something. You're just agreeing with your friends on Twitter.
@rabbitwhite The only other reason I see to hate them is that they are middle class and white with a safety-net of parents $. Is that just a stereotype?
This is just another thing that makes you annoying. You’re like children getting under the feet of people who have stuff to do.
@rabbitwhite but subculture-hate is totally a thing. some faceless mob of people to project anger onto.
No, subculture hate is something that a subculture makes up when they feel like they aren’t getting enough attention.
@rabbitwhite i was just thinking about how in the 90s ppl of "hipster" ilk were making 'zines and yeah, what else? There is SO much more now.
There really isn’t’. Zine’s are dead. Zine’s used to be quality. They used to be sporadic, and when they came out they had substance. Now everybody has a blog with word vomit and poetic diarrhea and it’s meaningless. Mine included.
@rabbitwhite the creativity has sky-rocketed. I mean, in the 60s to be alt-y meant to take drugs and protest...maybe thats reductionist, but it seems as technology grows, as psychology grows, so do we. we get smarter, more creative.
You really don’t. In the 60’s people were trying to have an experience, they were trying to transcend beyond their physical and conscious confines and they knew what they were protesting. They fought for civil rights. They protested against a useless war. Technology grew and blogging became free and easy. Everybody got a Livejournal, a Blogspot, a Facebook and a Twitter and started whining about how everybody hates hipsters. Never mind the useless war we’re currently fighting or religious intolerance in our country, am I right? Use that voice to speak out about something important…like hipster hate!
@rabbitwhite i think the prob is two things: 1. we are constantly trying to label what a "hipster" is, it's something who dresses this way making it something that is just about a look, or an idea. something that can be "posed" easily, rather than a lifestyle the way i see it is progressively & culture minded, alternative people. which have always been around, this is 1 reincarnation
YOU are constantly trying to label what a hipster is. NOBODY ELSE CARES. There is no reincarnation or movement. YOU AREN’T DOING ANYTHING. If wearing a corduroy jacket with jeans, not flushing your toilet, and riding your bike is a movement…what does it mean when my socks don’t match, I take a bus, and I just flat out forget to flush?
So there you have it. That's why there's hipster hate. To sum it up: because you ask questions like that.
Like I said, I've considered inviting the person to read this response to answer their question but I have my doubts as to whether or not they wanted an actual answer as opposed to validation and attention amongst other hipsters.
My problem here is that there really wasn't hipster hate to start, it was simple indifference. You confused indifference with hatred, because if somebody isn't loving you they MUST hate you. I simply can't just not care about you one way or another. If you're not getting loads of attention for whatever it is you're doing then you're just not being accepted. Or god forbid, your'e actually being oppressed. No. You just want to be a martyr. My problem with hipsters today is the victim complex. If you're an artist or an activist, fine. Be an artist or an activist. Not everybody has to like your art or cause. If somebody doesn't like your art or cause, you're not being victimized somehow. You may just not be a very good artist or they may just disagree with you. Or god help you, somebody might just have their own taste and opinions. How dare they, right? It's not anger against you...it's just living their own bloody lives.
Do what you want, just leave me the hell alone. Why is that hard?
But since you asked, it's your bloated sense of self worth and entitlement. As if somebody owes you an explanation. If I don't like you, that's all you get to know. I don't owe you shit otherwise. Why don't I like you? Because I'm an adult and I get to form my own opinions about things and people OH AND I DON'T FUCKING HAVE TO. This isn't kindergarten, we don't all have to get along anymore. If somebody doesn't like you , grab your Pull Ups and your cookie and get the fuck over it. Grow up.
@rabbitwhite Okay, there is something I wanna address here. And that something is hipster-hate. Why the hate? Why is the hate okay?
Because you ask questions like this and nobody cares. Because you force people to address you and nobody cares. Because you force people to deal with you and nobody cares. They’re sick of you and your constant need for attention. You’re not seeking attention you say? Then why are you asking this stupid fucking question?
@rabbitwhite First, "Hipsters" are ideally creative producers. They are going after their passions & intererests which incites anger in those who arent.
What passions and interests? Why can’t you just be passionate and interested in something and let that be that? Unless it’s a cause or you’re an activist of some kind, why do you think it’s so special that it gets a label and we all have to acknowledge it? I like apples, does that make me an Applet? Do I have to write blogs about them, force apples on you, demean you for not liking apples also, and whine when you don’t accept that I like apples?
@rabbitwhite Iis this generation of "hipster" more entrepreneurial or active than say, punx in the 80s? Hipsters are DJs, bloggers, photogs. So, maybe.
And second: "Hipsters" it seems are (ideally) living their values. Something that will ALWAYS incite anger in those who aren't.
What values? You aren’t doing anything. Those aren't jobs. There's nothing entrepreneual about taking your digital camera on a bike ride and shortening words on your blog and calling it an editorial piece. You aren't even doing THAT much. You can't even be bothered to have a actual DEBATE about something. You're just agreeing with your friends on Twitter.
@rabbitwhite The only other reason I see to hate them is that they are middle class and white with a safety-net of parents $. Is that just a stereotype?
This is just another thing that makes you annoying. You’re like children getting under the feet of people who have stuff to do.
@rabbitwhite but subculture-hate is totally a thing. some faceless mob of people to project anger onto.
No, subculture hate is something that a subculture makes up when they feel like they aren’t getting enough attention.
@rabbitwhite i was just thinking about how in the 90s ppl of "hipster" ilk were making 'zines and yeah, what else? There is SO much more now.
There really isn’t’. Zine’s are dead. Zine’s used to be quality. They used to be sporadic, and when they came out they had substance. Now everybody has a blog with word vomit and poetic diarrhea and it’s meaningless. Mine included.
@rabbitwhite the creativity has sky-rocketed. I mean, in the 60s to be alt-y meant to take drugs and protest...maybe thats reductionist, but it seems as technology grows, as psychology grows, so do we. we get smarter, more creative.
You really don’t. In the 60’s people were trying to have an experience, they were trying to transcend beyond their physical and conscious confines and they knew what they were protesting. They fought for civil rights. They protested against a useless war. Technology grew and blogging became free and easy. Everybody got a Livejournal, a Blogspot, a Facebook and a Twitter and started whining about how everybody hates hipsters. Never mind the useless war we’re currently fighting or religious intolerance in our country, am I right? Use that voice to speak out about something important…like hipster hate!
@rabbitwhite i think the prob is two things: 1. we are constantly trying to label what a "hipster" is, it's something who dresses this way making it something that is just about a look, or an idea. something that can be "posed" easily, rather than a lifestyle the way i see it is progressively & culture minded, alternative people. which have always been around, this is 1 reincarnation
YOU are constantly trying to label what a hipster is. NOBODY ELSE CARES. There is no reincarnation or movement. YOU AREN’T DOING ANYTHING. If wearing a corduroy jacket with jeans, not flushing your toilet, and riding your bike is a movement…what does it mean when my socks don’t match, I take a bus, and I just flat out forget to flush?
So there you have it. That's why there's hipster hate. To sum it up: because you ask questions like that.
Like I said, I've considered inviting the person to read this response to answer their question but I have my doubts as to whether or not they wanted an actual answer as opposed to validation and attention amongst other hipsters.
My problem here is that there really wasn't hipster hate to start, it was simple indifference. You confused indifference with hatred, because if somebody isn't loving you they MUST hate you. I simply can't just not care about you one way or another. If you're not getting loads of attention for whatever it is you're doing then you're just not being accepted. Or god forbid, your'e actually being oppressed. No. You just want to be a martyr. My problem with hipsters today is the victim complex. If you're an artist or an activist, fine. Be an artist or an activist. Not everybody has to like your art or cause. If somebody doesn't like your art or cause, you're not being victimized somehow. You may just not be a very good artist or they may just disagree with you. Or god help you, somebody might just have their own taste and opinions. How dare they, right? It's not anger against you...it's just living their own bloody lives.
Do what you want, just leave me the hell alone. Why is that hard?
But since you asked, it's your bloated sense of self worth and entitlement. As if somebody owes you an explanation. If I don't like you, that's all you get to know. I don't owe you shit otherwise. Why don't I like you? Because I'm an adult and I get to form my own opinions about things and people OH AND I DON'T FUCKING HAVE TO. This isn't kindergarten, we don't all have to get along anymore. If somebody doesn't like you , grab your Pull Ups and your cookie and get the fuck over it. Grow up.
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