Can someone explain the current hipster beard thing

[BlueSkyJaunte]

For the record, I've been wearing heavy-duty RPGs since well before the word "hipster" came into common parlance.

Does that make me more hipster than the hipsters?

[WPOZZZ]

About once a year, I'll try to grow a beard and moustache. I shave if off when I see the abundance of white hair. ::sigh::

[URY914]

And they drink Pabst Blue Ribbon. Go figure.....

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Mass Individualism.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

Mass Individualism.

This... People as always following the crowd. BAAAAAH

It's harmless but Tattoos aren't and I expect one day soon tattoo's will be out of fashion.
I guess at some point the tattoo removal business will be a good place to invest your money.

[dafischer]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have had my beard since the late 1970s. I don't have any plans to shave. I am the opposite of a hipster.

Same here. My wife (together 31 years) has never seen me without a beard, except for a picture when I worked for a bank that disallowed beards. And it's never been a cheesy Smith Brothers type that now seems to be in favor amongst the hipster types.

[McLovin]

My lawn. Get off it, all of you!

[vash]

Originally Posted by McLovin

My lawn. Get off it, all of you!

This never gets old. Haha.

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by URY914

And they drink Pabst Blue Ribbon. Go figure.....

I do too and love it. Did it long before it became trendy. Thankfully, PBR hasn't changed their recipe or tried a bunch of stupid, gimmicky marketing tactics like the other major American brands have.

[porsche4life]

I started rocking my beard well before the current hipster trend! Just easier and makes me look a little less young!

[sand_man]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

I do too and love it. Did it long before it became trendy. Thankfully, PBR hasn't changed their recipe or tried a bunch of stupid, gimmicky marketing tactics like the other major Russian brands have.

I've always liked it too (guilty pleasure).
Pabst Blue Ribbon Sells for $700 Million: Long Life of an OK Beer - Businessweek
I guess the Russian Hipsterz like it a lot...

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

Thankfully, PBR hasn't changed their recipe or tried a bunch of stupid, gimmicky marketing tactics like the other major American brands have.

It doesn't come in a Limited Edition Cranberry Maple Nut Crunch flavor?

[bivenator]

I was in a hipster setting the other nite and all the kids were drinking Lone Star. Ughh, I thought these people had taste. Drinking nasty beer to show you have good taste is quite ironic.

[creaturecat]

Originally Posted by craigster59

The majority of the art dept guys I work with who look like that are gay. They call themselves "Bears".

+1

Art dept and set dec, yes. Gay, usually.
A side note: I have found the gay people to be quality people to work for, in comparison to most of the egotistical tyrants in the film business.
The scum does truly rise to the top, in film.

[yazhound]

Why care? What bugs me is guys who wear loafers, esp ones with tassels. WFT really? They are quite silly looking. AHH the whole country club, waspy, keep dressing like mommy taught you look... awful. And oh yeah, I wear a suit most days....

Tats aren't harmless? huh

Tats and beards been in fashion for centuries longer than not if you want to talk pre history.

Seems to me intolerence rears it head in this thread. No? Snarkiness and churlishness.

PBR. really? my brand of snarky. Why drink near beer. Unless you don't like the taste of beer. So much good stuff out there.....

[JavaBrewer]

Originally Posted by yazhound

And oh yeah, I wear a suit most days....

That sounds downright awful.

[Kraftwerk]

Originally Posted by widebody911

There is no explaining hipster trends.

Untrue. This is easily explained. Now that no one knows how to build anything or fix anything and anyway most stuff can be thrown away and replaced with new stuff, dude's want to at least look capable of doing/ repairing and looking useful, like times of old. Hence the beard thing, as in: "My Great-Grandfather had a beard and built his own house so I have a beard in order to look like I could do the same etc."
I don't have a beard. But I find it puzzling why these guys all want to look, kinda, the same...

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by 911SauCy

Worth a watch and a number of laughs!

Evolution of the Hipster - YouTube


(I need to learn how to embed vids)

That was fun.

[Jolly Amaranto]

I grew a goatee in 1999 to celebrate the coming new millennium. My wife hated it. Soooooo, it went away a few months into 2000.

[joe payne]

I started to call it the "Terrorist look"a few weeks ago.