What is hip?
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Chaos Mohr
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Join date: 28 Dec 2006
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10-11-2009 02:16
Help Island Public Anyone can be hip there when surrounded by noob's, bots, and massive lag burps  |
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Gummi Richthofen
Fetish's Frasier Crane!
Join date: 3 Oct 2006
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10-11-2009 05:12
From: Pserendipity Daniels If anybody agrees that you are hip then you are not, nor are they.
Pep (It's being individual.) It's definitely not that. Book yourself a perverse tour, from the backstreets of Munich via the market stalls of Camden and finish up on Venice Beach: all places where hip gear is sold, and consumed by the self-identified hip. They all think they are being individual... thing is, it's the same stuff. Somewhere in Ulan Bator or Sinkiang, there's a Hip Gear Mfg Co, churning out the raw material of rebellion. It's as conformant as being a Jehovah's witness. You can read "The Tipping Point" to immerse yourself in the econometrics of hip; "Freakonomics" circles much of the same territory and it's Levitt & Dubner who get closest to the truth, when they point out the cart-before-horse thing which strongly affects analysis of being hip. In looking at smoking and smokers, they concluded that there's a two-way relationship at work. It's not that smoking makes you hip - it is that hip people take on the challenge of smoking. That inversion is *probably* the truth of the matter - you can't buy being hip, and you especially can't buy it by following what someone else does. |
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Pserendipity Daniels
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Join date: 21 Dec 2006
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10-11-2009 05:19
From: Gummi Richthofen It's definitely not that. Book yourself a perverse tour, from the backstreets of Munich via the market stalls of Camden and finish up on Venice Beach: all places where hip gear is sold, and consumed by the self-identified hip. They all think they are being individual... thing is, it's the same stuff. Somewhere in Ulan Bator or Sinkiang, there's a Hip Gear Mfg Co, churning out the raw material of rebellion. It's as conformant as being a Jehovah's witness. So you are agreeing with me then? They are not "hip", they merely believe they are because someone else has told them that their stuff will make them "hip". From: Gummi Richthofen That inversion is *probably* the truth of the matter - you can't buy being hip, and you especially can't buy it by following what someone else does. Yep, that's what I said. Pep (Why did you appear to disagree with me then expand my point?)
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Jig Chippewa
Fine Young Cannibal
Join date: 30 Oct 2006
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10-12-2009 09:51
From: Pserendipity Daniels Wow! Does that mean you have the original recipes for such gourmet classics as prawn cocktail, lasagne and black forest gateau?
Pep (a Welsh rarebit.) Your just envious.
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Lear Cale
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Join date: 22 Aug 2007
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10-12-2009 12:45
Hip is joint thigh attach torso. English not you know?
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Lear Cale
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Join date: 22 Aug 2007
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10-12-2009 12:49
From: Argent Stonecutter Zaphod Beeblebrox. I have to admit, that frood really knows where his towel's at. |
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Novis Dyrssen
Girl Geek
Join date: 6 May 2007
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10-12-2009 12:56
From: Pserendipity Daniels How can something that old be hip? Darn! No chance for me again! *wanders off with thumb stuck firmly in mouth*
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Lear Cale
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Join date: 22 Aug 2007
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10-13-2009 06:46
From: Novis Dyrssen Darn! No chance for me again! *wanders off with thumb stuck firmly in mouth* Girl geeks are HIP! |
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Briana Dawson
Attach to Mouth
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,855
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10-13-2009 07:00
Portishead since 1996. I am SOOOOOO Hip.
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Lexxi Gynoid
#'s 86000, 97800
Join date: 6 Aug 2007
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10-13-2009 08:22
From: Sindy Tsure Tell me, tell me, if you think you know. monkeys |
