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Megan: if someone told you you were a hipster, would you be insulting? and if so, why?
Me: me personally?
Megan: like, what about being a hipster is objectionable? yeah. are they known to be pretentious? or big fakes maybe?
Me: i actually just wrote about this yesterday: http://blogs.nerve.com/61fps/2009/05/04/indie-dev-moment-pandaland/
Megan: oh man! HA, oh that's great! i'm having a deep thoughts type conversation with meghan about hipsters, i will share this.
Me: haha, awesome. i think the problem is that hipsters, by nature, try as hard as possible to defy labels and calling them a hipster is labeling them. but they (and by "they" i mean "we" because i sadly am one) bring it on themselves.
Megan: this far more involved than meghan and i got. i think we were like, if you live in manhattan you're not a hipster.
Me: then you get into the "yuppie" label. i've actually been thinking a lot about this very topic lately
Megan: also i think hipsters are not grumpy. that's a horrible way to put it. i was just trying to define why pete and john would never be hipsters, they're too crotchety.
Me: i think they can be hipsters, just not scenesters
Megan: oh god, my head
Me: sorry 'bout that. when labeling the label-resistant, we only come up with more labels, like how i'm not a "liberal" but a "progressive"
Megan: okay i can't play anymore
Me: aww, you're no fun
Megan: maybe later i can ask wtf a scenester is
Me: this is what urban dictionary is for, megan. but whatever you do, never search for your own name on there. yeah, i'm not even going to finish that train of thought.