Comments | jane_the_23rd: Hipster or Old Man?: A Game Show For People

jane_the_23rd

Hipster or Old Man?: A Game Show For People

Dec 08, 2006 09:03

Ever spot some square-framed glasses and baggy jeans from a distance and discover all too late that this was not a cute little indie hipster boy, but an old man, ready to cram his paranoid fantasies down your delicate little neck? Ever think, "If I had a euro for every time I crossed the road to avoid a potential old man with a not-very-sober face ( Read more... )

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yiskah December 8 2006, 10:34:13 UTC

This is brilliant. Can also apply to old ladies, too.

jane_the_23rd December 8 2006, 10:40:37 UTC

Yes, it could, it's true.

The game would have been more effective before those really tight, skinny jeans came into fashion for everyone, but there're still enough baggy pants around.

There could, in fact, be a spinoff game with boys in skinny jeans, given that there will be *no* next generation of hipster boys if this scrotum-throttling fashion nightmare keeps up. This game can be called Day of Reckoning: Indie Boy Sperm Enumerators, where indie boys in skinny girl jeans get a euro for every live sperm they have left. Shouldn't cost more than about a fiver to make. Ouch!

How are you? When are you going to visit? I will be over in the Spring to play with more maps.

yiskah December 8 2006, 10:59:38 UTC

I was thinking more of the Ugly Skirt: Are You Wearing That Ironically? side of things, which I admit I have been known to engage in, despite being far from hip.

I'm good! Well, today I'm exhausted and I forgot my glasses, but other than that, good. Dropping to part-time in my PhD, which is GENIUS. Seeing a Nice Boy. Vaguely thinking of coming to Dublin in January/February. And yay, come and visit!

jane_the_23rd December 8 2006, 16:27:00 UTC

I'm not hip either, but I imagine that my long camel coat and collection of vintage hats make me a prime candidate as well. Ditto the glasses.

YAY, nice boy? Hmmm...Me too, actually, but must discuss in non-public arena! Such as YOU coming HERE in the WINTERTIME YAY.

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leedy December 8 2006, 10:55:23 UTC

Hee, brilliant!

I have just acquired a pair of glasses that are teetering on the edge of Old Lady, now that I think of it....

leedy December 8 2006, 10:58:06 UTC

...and Brian's most recent glasses are a bit Sixties Dad.

That said, Brian has a general tendency come Winter to wander around looking like a refugee from the era of Michael Collins, what with the giant brown coat and the fedora.

jane_the_23rd December 8 2006, 16:29:33 UTC

Yes, yes, this is exactly the sort of thing. I have Square Glasses and Long Coat, and often admire the dress sense of the elderly.

They say boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses, especially if we dress like we're packing bus passes...

BUT THEY DO, RIGHT?

Whimper.

Hats rule. Hats on anyone rules, but dudes look SO GOOD in hats. If they knew how good they looked, they'd all wear them, for sure.