That’s a relief. I haven’t heard of them, either, and I was beginning to think they were some sort of add-on to the hips. My hips don’t need the help, they get more than they need from the Butter Crunch ice cream.
Oh, yeah. Below the radar, even.
I thought GovernmentMan was creepy before he was pitted.
Who does that?!
If only.
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You did? Why?
He’s just the mainstream derivative of half a dozen creepier banned or retired posters who were all over the boards in the early and mid-2000s. If I want creepy posts, I’ll go back and read the real stuff.
I’d make a ‘whoosh’ gesture, but nobody does that any more; it’s too mainstream.
I was learning everything I knew about art or sex from some trendy underground fashion magazine years before it was cool.
saoirse was whooshing you before it got popular.
But you should have added “need answer fast” to it.
Who does this, and why haven’t I noticed before?
All of a sudden “whimsical” sounded like some frozen dessert used to lure kinds into a van.
Is she pretty underground?
Oh, no. I just started “whooshing,” but only ironically.
Like this.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure the point of all GovernmentMan’s threads is, “What’s it like?”
He’s slightly creepy, but it could be a lot worse.
You should have given him more time to blossom into full creepdom before starting this Pit.
Yep, I was also on the verge of starting this thread myself, and would have written basically the same OP as jjimm. Personally, I think the creepiest part is the fact that he looks at a few pictures and/or videos of girls who are (ostensibly) strangers, and projects an entire life onto them:
And actually, it’s not even a *life *he’s imagining for these girls, or even a personality, really - just a set of interests. And then, he judges whether or not he likes them based on those interests. It would be like me saying, “Hey everyone, do you like outdoorsy-type guys like this? http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AverageMan1.jpg” And then, when everyone rightly asks how in the hell I determined this guy is outdoorsy, I say, “Isn’t it obvious that he’s the type of guy who loves hiking in the forest and riding mountain bikes and fishing, and probably brews his own beer? Where can I find a guy like that?”
It’s just weird.
And it’s especially ridiculous in the case of the “small town girl”, since they are clearly staged photos. In fact - and I really hesitate to even say this, for fear of encouraging him - I searched for them on tineye and found them on the flickr page of the singer/guitarist for the very indie-looking band Eisley, which is apparently popular with… wait for it… hipsters.
I think Bob Ducca has it exactly right. He’s looking for some kind of quirky, charming fantasy girl who does not exist in nature, and clearly has very limited interaction with actual women. It’s no crime, and hopefully, he’s young and will grow out of it, but it’s defintely creepy.
Part of me thinks that GovernmentMan is part of some kind of viral marketing campaign for the guitarist girl he keeps posting pictures of.
Maybe it’s just that I’d rather believe that.
Am I a hipster?
If you have to ask, it’s too subtle for you.