Originally Posted by Nefeli

i know exactly what you mean and i agree.
when i listen to non-english people using british-neo slang (i just made that up. i mean words like cheers, blimey etc) expressions, it feels unnatural and disturbing. at the same time, i have to give it to them for trying*to speak everyday english and trying to be part of it, the society, reality.

*it feels like they try too much! thats what bothers me.

cheers.
i used to hate it. not so much when it is about toasting, but when its used instead of thank you.
from my recent and frequent visits to london, i have come in terms with that.
still, if i use it, it feels like i discribed in the first paragraph.

another thing that irritates me and its off topic, is the usage of The wife etc, instead of my wife. it isnt used only from the english or americans, so im very off topic.
normally i should prefer the "the" over the "my", since "my" shows ownership and ownership of a person isnt my thing, but i dont. ok, i dont like "my wife" either, but the "the wife" feels to me formal in a puritan, old fashion, completely of a person who has swallowed a stick- way.

edit. "my girlfriend" isnt bother me. i guess its the ownership ^2, in the case of my wife, since wife alone indicates "ownership".
and yo to me, if i managed to get accross to you what i mean by all that.

Originally Posted by RdTv

Hipsters. I n the past I believed I had a bulletproof way of determining ones authenticity as a hipster. But, alas, as time old friend has passed and My days and nights of ''being on the scene'' or atleast just out have wained, its hard to tell who is a hipster or who just likes the clothes they wear. Really, who cares. I bump into the guys from Hair Police occasionally at the record store and I suppose if you were to grade them on dress/grooming they would qualify as ''hipsters''. Well, once you talk with them you realize they don't carry the hipster attitude and the generalized baggage(literally and figuratively) that comes from within the hipster milleu. Basically, I see it as people that are trying to look,act,be perceived a certain way, and in the example of the hair police dudes, theres just people that plain old like the ''weird'' clothes they wear and just happen to appear homeless.

I will say this at the Times New Viking/Psychadelic Horseshit show, there were many a hipster that were way too cool for anything and yawned at you because your shoes weren't dirty enough. Piss off I say, I like my chav Lacoste knock-offs to brighten up the room.

Originally Posted by uhler

people think i'm a hipster by the way i dress, but i've been dressing like this since i was seventeen. when i stopped wearing baggy jeans and hoodies.

Originally Posted by uhler

people think i'm a hipster by the way i dress, but i've been dressing like this since i was seventeen. when i stopped wearing baggy jeans and hoodies.

Originally Posted by Nefeli

the baggy i mean for women, arent the skaters very loose, classic version. its the old 80s version. exactly like the ones, idiot kate holmes is wearing.
sorry to call her idiot, but i dont like her aura. she dresses fine, but she doesnt have "it". in my opinion.

Originally Posted by RdTv

It was strange watching the baggy jeans fad transform into the tight jeans fad. I remember seeing skater kids with enormously baggy, overtly baggy,ridiculously baggy jeans walking the streets with their anime' hoodies and what not. Now its the exact opposite, kids skating around with basically denim dyed skin-tights. The anime' hoodie switched to some neo-obscure screen print of the word ''Brooklyn'' in a graffiti-esque font.

I don't like tight anything. Its uncomfortable, but I was and still am equally uncomfortable in anything super baggy. Hence my moderation and neutrality in this movement has given birth to a new trend...comfort. I wear what I like regardless of some random underground designer in a NYC basement or Lacoste. Hipster, Chav, Wanna-be...I seem to be exempt from all these ''labels'' because I don't fit into any of them, and with much fret and anxiety.

I suppose my style is confused.

Originally Posted by Nefeli

oh are they? i guess they could be (out).
somehow i was fed of them and i havent been wearing them a lot this year/winter season. its the 3rd winter for me. hmm pitty, but i wont stop entirely, because they are comfortable.
i have been mostly wearing skirts and dresses of different styles/decades. mainly 60s and 80s.

the baggy i mean for women, arent the skaters very loose, classic version. its the old 80s version. exactly like the ones, idiot kate holmes is wearing.
sorry to call her idiot, but i dont like her aura. she dresses fine, but she doesnt have "it". in my opinion.