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Congratulations hipsters!

As someone on twitter pointed out, the sole 'hipster' credentials of three of the clubs featured seems to be a history of opposing fascism. Which begs the question - should we all love Hitler for being the most authentic man ever?

Also, if you watch Nathan Barley with even the vaguest degree of depth, all the characters are pretty disgraceful in various ways. In fact, isn't Barry Glendenning occupying the Dan Ashcroft (Juliann Barrett) role?

Cross-platforming jokes for #numbers there Vorn.
 
Wtf is Nathan Barley? I've only ever seen it mentioned in this context.

(Although I think Dulwich Mishi has put it best of all and we should just post that response every time this comes up, it's also worth pointing out that he is the proto-hipster, as he's supported Dulwich forever, so "since before they were popular", which is the most arch-hipster sentiment I can think of ;) )
 
Scutta
"you have to be doing something right to get this publicity...

I'm sure clapton are crying they didn't get on the list with FCSP #bantz
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Yep our friends at Clapton will be the most pissed off about the article

Were just having a laugh..............
 
Does that mean Gavin's a hipster. I didn't even know hipsters could be black!

Norman Mailer's essay which defined hipsterness back in the 50s pretty much centred on the idea that a hipster was a white person who responded to a general sense of spiritual meaninglessness by imitating what they perceived to be 'black culture'.

It's a pretty, er, problematic piece of writing.

Sorry, just thought I'd up the ante on our own hipsterness by throwing a bit of lit-crit into the discussion.
 
Scutta
"you have to be doing something right to get this publicity...

I'm sure clapton are crying they didn't get on the list with FCSP #bantz
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Yep our friends at Clapton will be the most pissed off about the article

Were just having a laugh..............

haha i was joking i'm sure they are quite glad, we are taking the heat off them and FCUM!
 
fund terrorism and collect for Help for Heroes and have a reduced admission rate for police and army (as well as unwaged, students and health workers)
 
Surely true hipsters would support one of those teams that play walking football. Ordinary football being too mainstream.
 
There's a "Three is the Magic Number" trio of Sutton United away pukers: Shaun Dooley started the trend, I carried the flames of sick as was my birth right and Ben Miller was awarded a Certificate for his wonderful effort in continuing the mighty rabble tradition.
When we played them a few years ago (in the Trophy?) I started what I hope will become a new Rabble tradition of having about twenty home fans chant "PAEDOPHILE! PAEDOPHILE! PAEDOPHILE!" at me a few minutes from the ground.

Edit: why am I less offended by paedophile than hipster?
 
There's a "Three is the Magic Number" trio of Sutton United away pukers: Shaun Dooley started the trend, I carried the flames of sick as was my birth right and Ben Miller was awarded a Certificate for his wonderful effort in continuing the mighty rabble tradition.

Please draw a picture of the flames of sick; it could be a new badge for the Supporters' Team.
 
Who the hell is Nathan Barley? I keep seeing his name pop up and I've never heard of him, even though I'm a hipster myself.
He was a fucking genius comedy character that accurately predicting today's moronic clickbait media and bored, thrill-desperate clubbers

 
I'd say the main (and, presumably, unintended) impact of Nathan Barley, along with all those Onion type articles about American hipsters, has been to spasm a majority of men under 40 into an almost existential terror about doing anything even slightly creative or unusual or eccentric. It's the mirror opposite of early punk.
 
I'd say the main (and, presumably, unintended) impact of Nathan Barley, along with all those Onion type articles about American hipsters, has been to spasm a majority of men under 40 into an almost existential terror about doing anything even slightly creative or unusual or eccentric. It's the mirror opposite of early punk.

Completely, and concomitantly there's been a general cultural slackening into a completely unearned, Morris-lite cynicism, which eventually leads to the kind of world in which the likes of Ian Hislop are regarded as amazing geniuses simply for being smarmily 'satirical'. Comedy's ascension to the Nation's Favourite And Most Beloved Art Form has been a complete fucking disaster.
 
I touched on the above (less eloquently) in my 1998-99 music/pop fanzine Our Friend Eclectic. The 500 mph car crash into authenticity that is still resonating today.
The tagline was "Contradiction is nothing to be scared of".
 
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