Austin hipsters vs. Portland hipsters

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http://www.movoto.com/blog/opinions/austin-vs-portland-hipster-showdown/

It’s time to pack up your Pabst Blue Ribbon and skinny jeans, hipsters—it looks like you’ve finally worn out your welcome. That is if a new poll is to be believed. According to a recent survey conducted by Public Policy Polling, a mere 16 percent of Americans still think hipsters are cool. The rest are so over them. But before you start sobbing softly into your thrift store scarf and burning your Bon Iver albums, you might want to consider relocating to Portland, OR or Austin, TX, two of the last bastions of hipster-kind. (You certainly don’t want to move anywhere on this list.)

By losing to Portland, Austin gained 100 points in the cool place to live dept.

Dive Bars

Hipsters love them some PBR (or Pabst Blue Ribbon for the uncool), and there’s no place more likely to have this vaguely beer-like liquid on tap than a dive bar. So, we check into how many of these favorite hipster hangouts there are in each city per capita. Austin has one for every 4,832 residents while Portland has one for every 1,768.

Advantage: Portland
 
People used to think hipsters were cool? I guess you do learn something every day!
 
Finally the bandwagon hoppers will jump off.
 
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/editors-picks/hipster-santa-is-back-because-of-course-he-is/362134230

"That’s right, hipster Santa is here again, in all his tattooed glory."
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russ_watters said:
People used to think hipsters were cool? I guess you do learn something every day!

Almost, hipsters thought they were cool. Us truly cool people know the difference.
 
nsaspook said:
"That’s right, hipster Santa is here again, in all his tattooed glory."
Why in the world would Santa have the decapitated head of a reindeer on his wall, especially one with a red nose?
Santa, explain what you did with Rudolf?
 
BillTre said:
There is a lot of fun stuff about hipsters and their evolution.
But not a lot of analysis about how it might be adaptive in our culture.

On the other hand, there is this.
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Perhaps the greatest "Hipster Doofus" of all time :biggrin:



And then again


And again :woot:
 
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Austin is too hot most of the year to be cool.