It’s a person younger than you that you don’t like. Any such person.
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You know why there are so many mice in the world? Hipsters breed them for the circus, but they forget to lock their cages at night, so they escape and infest our cities like a fuzzy, twitchy plague.
Top that.
And hipsters have been around since the 1940’s; the name just fell out of fashion for a while.
San Francisco columnist Herb Caen coined the word “hippie” to describe the wanna-be hipsters flocking to his city by the bay. Just as he’d invented “beatnik” for the Maynard Krebs bongo-playing types inspired by The Beats.
I think the Nuevo Hipsters are kinda cute. Better than the Douchebags!
Not really accurate. I don’t like a LOT of younger people who aren’t hipsters.
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My only guess is that this is the same demographic (young presumably apartment dwellers) who spend a lot of time at laundromats.
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Unless they’re robbing the laundromat, they’d be more likely to hoard quarters at home in anticipation of laundry day.
At least that’s what I did when I lived in an apartment building that had a coin-op washer and no change machine.
But then, I never wore skinny jeans and thick-rimmed glasses.
I found, to my delight, that Japanese 10yen coins (worth .10 at the time, perhaps .14 now) worked perfectly as substitutes for quarters in my apartment building laundry room. Heh heh heh.
My last girlfriend had a knack for arcade games, the types that gave out money if you won. She once paid for a DVD in ten pence pieces.
The cashier went in the back to get the DVD, and when he returned, we’d piled up sixteen neat columns of ten pence pieces to make it easier for him. He still insisted on counting them out one by one, maybe as revenge.
… maybe he counted each one out to make sure none of them were Japanese yen coins. 
It’s because, as with most things pertaining to hipsters, they’re broke. I think all the weird things that hipsters do can be understood if you just understand that they’re penniless and trying to spin poverty into a lifestyle.
Wearing ugly vintage clothes that’s more suited for your grandma? 10 pieces for $5 at the local vintage store. Mismatched furniture? Cheaper to scavenge furniture off the side of the street. Ride a bicycle to work? Can’t afford gas. Using quarters and other coins to pay for purchases? Two days till payday and they’re raiding their laundry money and couch for spare change.
Don’t most people today think of hipsters and hippies as entirely separate demographics?
Yep. Hippies are penniless douchebags, and hipsters are a entirely different kind of penniless douchebag.
$5.50 for a PBR and shot of Jameson at most hipster bars = quarters in the pocket.
you’ve obviously never been to one of the hipster “vintage” shops then, talk about sticker shock!
The hipsters I know must be lower rent.
I have had the unfortunate experience of stumbling into one of those overpriced vintage shops. $35 for a pair of ratty Converse? From a place that smells disturbingly like a convalescent home? No, thank you.
I’m considering paying my mortgage in dollar coins in order to take advantage of the credit card miles for no shipping us mint dollar coins technique.
I hope people don’t start accusing me of mouse related hijinx.
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Damn, there’s a lot of them on the loose. We don’t have any on the SDMB do we?
Why did the hipster burn his mouth on pizza?
He ate the pizza before it was cool.
No you haven’t. Googling “site:yelp.com ‘paying in quarters’” turns up 360 results, a quick perusal of which reveals quite a few people testing the wait staff’s patience by paying quarters.
Unless you’d like to link us to a small sample of these reviews you’re talking about. Which I doubt you’ll do.
Did you really bump a 19 month old thread (a Diamonds02 thread, at that) just to repeat a joke you’d heard? Let me guess, you did a search for “Hipster” to find a place to drop this in?