# What are the most ultra-hipster things you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 14, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736 "2014-01-14T01:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/1 "2014-01-14T01:06:49Z")
Hey all, So my sister and I now have a new category, one that is added to on a daily basis: “Too Portland for Portlandia.” But we realized that what we’re REALLY talking about is the ultimate list of hipster things/people/events/concepts. So it’s a larger list than just what we find in the Pacific NW. And now, I must share. This is something I ACTUALLY, LITERALLY saw two weeks ago. I was at the Riverview Cemetery (the oldest cemetery in Portland, btw.) When you go into the main building, there’s a cheerful, bright office, with people drinking coffee, eating donuts, yelling things across the room at each other… and then… About twenty yards away, there’s the indoor mausoleum. So I started going through the three floors of it (doing research for a book… I don’t usually hang out there for fun… although it’s an interesting place, for sure.) On the bottom floor, I turned a dark corner. And there, RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME… was one of these. [I can’t say what this is; that would give it away. Just click on it.](http://www.sustainablecasket.com/#!about/c1se) O.o. Other examples?😛 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/2 "2014-01-14T01:11:17Z")
Pajama Boy is right up there. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/3 "2014-01-14T01:13:37Z")
You might be a hipster, but you’ll never be a [hipster spinning thread in a BMW Service waiting room](http://imgur.com/LcpRBZC). ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/4 "2014-01-14T02:27:00Z")
Good one! 😉 Three words: [ATHEIST KNITTING CIRCLE.](http://www.meetup.com/cfi-portland/events/160392282/?a=ea2_grp&rv=ea2&_af_eid=160392282&_af=event) ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/5 "2014-01-14T02:34:14Z")
I saw a young guy at the mall wearing a top hat, bow tie, and carrying a cane. Is that hipster? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/6 "2014-01-14T02:41:44Z")
I love this thread already. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/7 "2014-01-14T02:49:44Z")
In my 20’s, I used to go to a “Drum Gathering” at a local (hipster) bar. While I did enjoy all those percussion instruments playing in unison, 80% of the appeal was to witness the the “Hipsterness” (and the Hipster people) of it all. It was practically oozing out of the walls. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/8 "2014-01-14T03:02:45Z")
One of those 1900 big wheel bikes with a dude with a neck beard on it. Oh, did I mention the front wheel was easily seven feet in diameter? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/9 "2014-01-14T04:00:25Z")
My most “hipster” moment is probably crocheting the occasional poncho for my daughter. I do have a friend though, who lives on a small farm in Vermont. Her husband teaches physics at the local high school, and she teaches Italian and contra-dancing. (She learned Italian while volunteering in the poorest slums of Rome for a year after college.) They have four children, and she raises her own chickens. And since it’s Vermont we’re talking about, I recently sent her a pattern for knitting them sweaters. The chickens that is. . . her husband countered with a link for buying chicken diapers - for urban farmers who keep laying hens in their living rooms. They built a greenhouse onto the side of their house as much for the passive heat as for Winter vegetables. She has no idea that she is “cool.” ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/10 "2014-01-14T04:46:07Z")
Contra dancing? Yeah, she’s a huge nerd. HUGE. ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/11 "2014-01-14T05:11:28Z")
She sounds dreamy. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/12 "2014-01-14T05:17:15Z")
I could tell you about it, but I don’t think you’re near ready for it. ---
**Author:** ![Anise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anise/32/21721_2.png) [@Anise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anise)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/13 "2014-01-14T05:23:37Z")
I’ve taken pics of the bike valets under the skytram that soars over OHSU!! I can take it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/14 "2014-01-14T06:45:20Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > I saw a young guy at the mall wearing a top hat, bow tie, and carrying a cane. Is that hipster? I think that’s dapper. There is a guy who owns the coffee shop near my job who wears a fedora, has a handlebar mustache and smokes a pipe. Is _that_ hipster? ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/15 "2014-01-14T07:06:30Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > I think that’s dapper. There is a guy who owns the coffee shop near my job who wears a fedora, has a handlebar mustache and smokes a pipe. Is _that_ hipster? But I think he was wearing it _ironically_. I don’t know, sometimes I’m still confused about what qualifies as hipster. Sounds like your guy is though. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/16 "2014-01-14T07:30:48Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > In my 20’s, I used to go to a “Drum Gathering” at a local (hipster) bar. While I did enjoy all those percussion instruments playing in unison, 80% of the appeal was to witness the the “Hipsterness” (and the Hipster people) of it all. It was practically oozing out of the walls. So you’re saying you like hipsters ironically? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/17 "2014-01-14T08:13:29Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > So you’re saying you like hipsters ironically? 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/18 "2014-01-14T11:05:22Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > I saw a young guy at the mall wearing a top hat, bow tie, and carrying a cane. Is that hipster? If he was wearing them with jeans, t-shirt and Chuckie Ts - yep. [This guy](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-v4AWF3TBePY/Us9CDz2-NSI/AAAAAAAAG_Y/BQqva60lJTE/s2000/Screen%2520Shot%25202014-01-09%2520at%25207.39.46%2520PM.png) was at a coffee shop in the previous ep of Seinfeld’s CCINGC, and I think crowds the line towards “hipster doofus.” ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/19 "2014-01-14T11:22:22Z")
Christ, I’m old. There was a night where I went downstairs from my studio apartment above a bagel shop to buy a new record and got my shoes puked on by someone waiting to buy the new Soundgarden album. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736/20 "2014-01-14T12:13:45Z")
Attending a performance at the Village Vanguard, a tiny New York jazz club. In 1962, preferably. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-ultra-hipster-things-youve-ever-seen/678736.md?page=2)