Why trends happen, we here at Old Bitter Balls study history and the effects it has on the present and pay attention to the regurgitation of trends. Bare naked ladies ... the pop group had a song called It's all been done and it has been. How many times do we hear,
'leggings and 80's leg warmers are making a comeback' or
'you may mock my grunge look but it's all the rage'? ... probably never unless you hang out with fag hags at ghey bars, in my defense the Strutting Cock looked like a straight bar.
I don't
'get' Hipsters and so I want to punch them, it's a natural reaction to strange things. I get the beard, it went from porn taches to clean shaven to stubble to goatee and now full beard, sure there were some who indulged their mid life crisis and played around with the likes of a soul patch. Some more edgy and slightly metal groups had beards forever but the more they became mainstream the more acceptable beards have become.
Like Gangsta rappers who
sell out by getting wealthy and now soccer moms listen to them.
Much to the upset of Old Knudsen's family he had often indulged his inner beardy, it was one more thing for them to belittle me about ... ha ha you look like a terrorist was what I got. To annoy them I started shouting
Allah Akbar knowing full well their small minded unworldly wise mindset meant an IRA terrorist.
Old Knudsen got the last laugh when he saw Jamie Dornan become a hit with the TV show The Fall (set in Belfast) as then beards became the thing to have, Northern Ireland finally caught up with the rest of the world.
Over the centuries beards and the clean shaven look have battled, the (real) Goths and Vandals with their facial hair being barbarians against the clean shaven and civilised Romans. The British military enforce a clean cut look for appearance as well as discipline since with the Brits appearances matter more than comfort. During the Korean war the British still shaved in the below freezing conditions while the Americans let that rule slide a little and went scruffy.
Now the British say stupid things like,
'you have to be clean shaven or yer gas mask won't seal right' of course the navy are allowed beards because .... I don't know cos they are cunts maybe? Sikhs in the British army get away with all sorts of shit in order to not hurt their feelings.
Back to Hipsters, they are usually well groomed, hairy faced with big spectacles and they dress sort of like an emo goth going golfing.
Though their fine beards hark back to a time when bearded men sailed the 7 seas hunting whales and shagging native weemen as a change to the cabin boy or when men went up to the mountains in search of beaver, twat and pussy killing any red skin who dared suggest that it was their land, the Hipster doesn't do manly, their manly is being comfortable with being who they are which is quite difficult for many of us.
The Hipster in their quest to be unique and
themselves have borrowed trends from the past and just thrown them together. The skater look, the grunge look, the yuppy look, the big beard (Edwardian?) look, the mammie's ear rings look, the metrosexual look, the vintage golfer look.
This look of disdain is my happy look .
It's more than just being themselves it's a uniform and if you don't get it right expect a harsh mocking though most Hipsters should expect that anyways. Remember when you laughed at spides who wore red trousers? ... well they made a comeback.
The
whatever attitude is important too. A serious Hipster always has to be first with the trends, they must tell everyone how they have been into singers or fads that suddenly hit mainstream popularity that they were into them seriously for years so yer discovery is invalid, if things become too mainstream they then refuse to like it anymore.
An off shoot to the Hipster attitude is when people say they have read the book when a movie comes out or they have every copy of the graphic novels ... this becomes annoying when they then compare the books to the movies and show real outrage that SOMETHING WAS NOT IN THE BOOK that was done on screen. It's like OCD gone berserk.
It will be fun to see these Hipsters remain hip as they get old. They could then actually claim to know things that you wouldn't have heard of ...
'I was into e-mail back when it was on paper and had a stamp, you probably haven't heard of those, it was more dedicated and edgy than e-mails.'
Shitty looking tattoos don't matter if yer pretty.
Hipsters can get away with just about any look if they are attractive ... that is the number one rule. A guy with a beard and rippling 6 pack abs makes being a Hipster sexy. Just being a Hipster implies intelligence, like when you say you are an atheist or a liberal, that implies intelligence ... or used to.
People have discovered that toys, cartoons and comics are cool at any age and no longer the domain of nerdy virgins who play World of Warcraft or Dungeons and Dragons. Old Knudsen is at home fondling a gun as much as he is an action figure of Ironman but putting a golfing tee through his ear and wearing Converse is a little too much.
Old Knudsen was into the alternative lifestyle when it was called being a weirdo that gurls feel uncomfortable being around.
Glasses imply intelligence too. Men don't make passes to gurls wearing glasses. That doesn't mean because glasses are unattractive, it means that because she has glasses on she obviously reads and is too intelligent to fall for chat up lines about angels falling from Heaven. The sexy librarian always removes her glasses which triggers her hair to fall down thus revealing her real sexy nature.
Kit Harrington insulted Belfast even though he still has to live there and squints a lot, I suspect he wears glasses to see with rather than to appear intelligent.
No longer does having glasses mean that you want to see shit, every pop star and boy band stick them on, they are a clear glass non-prescription fashion item.
We also use them in the porn industry to not get jizz in our eyes. When Old Knudsen sees a pair of Hipster glasses he either thinks of Christoper Reeve as Superman or bukkake, either way he gets a raging hard on, merely by memory association.
So trends like how men didn't shave because they didn't need to or to protect their face from the cold have been bastardized and turned soft mainstream fads, just as tattoos have become. If a real man (like meself) grows a beard he then must walk around with an axe or a dead elk or people will think he's a poser.
I was doing bukkake before the Japanese even had a word for it.
The great circle of trends have you wearing sky blue jackets and trousers when yer old anyway, as long as they cover yer arse you won't care if they are skinny or have yer mankles showing. Young people dress funny, old people shake their heads then eventually the young person becomes the old person and listens to music they would never have listened to as a young un because it wasn't cool enough but now they get it because they have life experience and they shake their heads at what the youngsters are wearing.
