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Post by brothersideways on Mar 19, 2015 15:24:20 GMT
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Mar 19, 2015 15:37:07 GMT
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 19, 2015 15:39:51 GMT
An absolute rule of the world is this: if a country starts with the letter 'I' then that country will have absurd and hilarious politics.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 19, 2015 16:48:22 GMT
Hipsters.
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 19, 2015 16:53:00 GMT
What would a hick hipster be? A hickster?
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 19, 2015 16:58:23 GMT
In Iceland, 95% of them.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 19, 2015 17:20:57 GMT
In all seriousness, the Icelanders have almost certainly invented a term for hipsters from a deeply rural background (I don't know what it is, the language is difficult enough without trying to pick up the slang too). This is because the long-established Reykjavik population also has a hipster infestation.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 19, 2015 17:22:51 GMT
When you get elected, we will use your oft stated views of Iceland to malign you with that demographic. I think I met most of them on Friday. They're better at maligning themselves than I am. |
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 19, 2015 22:44:48 GMT
Didn't the Progressives do very well in the last election? What explains their fall from grace? For the next twenty years or so (at least) all government parties in Iceland will be crushed. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Mar 19, 2015 23:08:56 GMT
In all seriousness, the Icelanders have almost certainly invented a term for hipsters from a deeply rural background (I don't know what it is, the language is difficult enough without trying to pick up the slang too). This is because the long-established Reykjavik population also has a hipster infestation. Other than Shoreditch*, Reykjavik is the single most hipster place I've ever been to. There was even a bar with a working launderette in it. Although as soon as you left the main drag, it got very...ahem...not hipster. I suspect that the hipster trend for knitting comes from Iceland. I was amazed at how people knit in the pub, whilst walking etc. Bizarre. *I was once laughed at in a Shoreditch pub when I asked if there was a bitter on draught, apparently only lager was for sale. Two years later, they're all drinking "craft beer". |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Mar 19, 2015 23:29:03 GMT
I spent a summer with a load of 'veganarchists' in Iceland about seven years ago. They were far too political to be hipsters, and mostly worked or hung around in a co-operative café on Laugavegur with its own anarchist library -- I think I first encountered Bookchin there. There was an awful lot of them for a country with a smaller population than Fife. You were wasting your time then old pal- the best thing on Laugavegur is the thermal swimming pool as you head out of town! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 23:44:04 GMT
You were wasting your time then old pal- the best thing on Laugavegur is the thermal swimming pool as you head out of town! Well, I did spend most of my time in Iceland staying on a protest camp near Hveragerði with a natural hot pool adjacent to it. I can't remember what possessed me to go there, but I think I was glad to be back to relative normality in Reykjavik.  |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 19, 2015 23:44:29 GMT
In all seriousness, the Icelanders have almost certainly invented a term for hipsters from a deeply rural background (I don't know what it is, the language is difficult enough without trying to pick up the slang too). This is because the long-established Reykjavik population also has a hipster infestation. Other than Shoreditch*, Reykjavik is the single most hipster place I've ever been to. There was even a bar with a working launderette in it. Although as soon as you left the main drag, it got very...ahem...not hipster. I suspect that the hipster trend for knitting comes from Iceland. I was amazed at how people knit in the pub, whilst walking etc. Bizarre. *I was once laughed at in a Shoreditch pub when I asked if there was a bitter on draught, apparently only lager was for sale. Two years later, they're all drinking "craft beer". I've never been in, but the cafe with the launderette in it is supposed to be pretty good as Reykjavik cafes go. My partner speaks highly of it. Similarly the painfully hipsterish craft beer place that popped up a couple of years ago is much nicer than any competitors in its price range. And I think hipsters may be responsible for the fact that you can now sometimes buy vegetables that aren't rotting from the shops. So I wouldn't want to complain too much. As for the knitting, there's a cultural element to it - for years wool was the Icelandic economy's major export, because foreign trawlers had cornered the fishing market, and the lopapeysa is central to Icelandic identity. But its popularity to hipsters and especially to foreigners is probably mostly that the wool is really cheap and the quality is good - anything knitted out of it is likely to be really warm and also fairly waterproof. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2015 23:51:55 GMT
Shetland is similar as far as knitting in public is concerned, and it's not really a hipster thing there. Along with Iceland, it's the only place where I've sat knitting in a bus station and felt relatively normal.
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 19, 2015 23:54:24 GMT
My Nan used to do that all the time as well.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Mar 20, 2015 0:01:12 GMT
Other than Shoreditch*, Reykjavik is the single most hipster place I've ever been to. There was even a bar with a working launderette in it. Although as soon as you left the main drag, it got very...ahem...not hipster. I suspect that the hipster trend for knitting comes from Iceland. I was amazed at how people knit in the pub, whilst walking etc. Bizarre. *I was once laughed at in a Shoreditch pub when I asked if there was a bitter on draught, apparently only lager was for sale. Two years later, they're all drinking "craft beer". I've never been in, but the cafe with the launderette in it is supposed to be pretty good as Reykjavik cafes go. My partner speaks highly of it. Similarly the painfully hipsterish craft beer place that popped up a couple of years ago is much nicer than any competitors in its price range. And I think hipsters may be responsible for the fact that you can now sometimes buy vegetables that aren't rotting from the shops. So I wouldn't want to complain too much. Laundromat (for that is its name) is definitely a good watering hole and does an excellent brunch. Some of the hipster beer bars are just peddlers of crap beer, but the Kaldi micro-brew bar is definitely worth a visit. The semi-rotting veg surprised me more than the entire sheeps' heads for sale. |
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Post by finsobruce on Mar 20, 2015 0:06:18 GMT
In all seriousness, the Icelanders have almost certainly invented a term for hipsters from a deeply rural background (I don't know what it is, the language is difficult enough without trying to pick up the slang too). This is because the long-established Reykjavik population also has a hipster infestation. Other than Shoreditch*, Reykjavik is the single most hipster place I've ever been to. There was even a bar with a working launderette in it. Although as soon as you left the main drag, it got very...ahem...not hipster. I suspect that the hipster trend for knitting comes from Iceland. I was amazed at how people knit in the pub, whilst walking etc. Bizarre. * I was once laughed at in a Shoreditch pub when I asked if there was a bitter on draught, apparently only lager was for sale. Two years later, they're all drinking "craft beer".I know the feeling. Take some consolation in the fact that they are all being royally ripped off now for following a meaningless trend... |
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Post by Arthur Figgis on Mar 20, 2015 0:08:19 GMT
It has helped bring more real ale into different pubs. Round here is hipster-wannabe and student country, and there's more beer range than there's ever been.
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Post by Sibboleth on Mar 20, 2015 0:15:44 GMT
On the subject of Iceland, I take it that you've all heard of... the database?
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 20, 2015 0:23:42 GMT
I've never been in, but the cafe with the launderette in it is supposed to be pretty good as Reykjavik cafes go. My partner speaks highly of it. Similarly the painfully hipsterish craft beer place that popped up a couple of years ago is much nicer than any competitors in its price range. And I think hipsters may be responsible for the fact that you can now sometimes buy vegetables that aren't rotting from the shops. So I wouldn't want to complain too much. Laundromat (for that is its name) is definitely a good watering hole and does an excellent brunch. Some of the hipster beer bars are just peddlers of crap beer, but the Kaldi micro-brew bar is definitely worth a visit. The semi-rotting veg surprised me more than the entire sheeps' heads for sale. Mikróbarinn? Definitely one of the town's better watering holes. The difference is that the sheep heads are likely to get eaten. You get the occasional case of mild scurvy amongst a certain subset of Icelandic males, because eating vegetables just isn't the done thing. On the subject of Iceland, I take it that you've all heard of... the database? Yeah, I'm kind of relieved about all the problems that's encountered. Journalists trying to understand historical studies of DNA are nearly as bad as the studies themselves. |
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