The Starbucks Experience

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

There's a lot of differences. I was a hipster in my younger years and my friends and I weren't into anything near the hippie counterculture. Maybe shared an affinity for Volvo or Subaru station wagons but that's about it..

I had a Volvo, now drive a Subaru wagon, and I am so far from hipster I was probably a hipster before it was cool and didn't even know it.

I shared on GC my Portland hipster experience of when I took a wrong turn and ended up in the Hawthorne District and witnessed sushi with sugary breakfast cereal defiling it in Fred Meyer. I'm also a hipster hater because of what they've done to my home town and I can't forgive them for ruining the Mission District and specifically Dolores Park where I spent many happy hours as a child.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

I had a Volvo, now drive a Subaru wagon, and I am so far from hipster I was probably a hipster before it was cool and didn't even know it.

I shared on GC my Portland hipster experience of when I took a wrong turn and ended up in the Hawthorne District and witnessed sushi with sugary breakfast cereal defiling it in Fred Meyer. I'm also a hipster hater because of what they've done to my home town and I can't forgive them for ruining the Mission District and specifically Dolores Park where I spent many happy hours as a child.

Then I guess you're more hippy, or potentially a lesbian. Do you prefer Birks or Crocs? I'm sorry about your hometown but groups/people/disasters coming in and defiling San Fran seems to be a common theme in that city's history.

Don't get me started on Portland, OR. The people originally from there are pretty cool, normal people, it's all of the hipster transplants that suck. It's like they try too hard to be more hip than the average hipster. It's a good thing that Williamsburg, Echo Park, Austin, Seattle, etc just wasn't cool enough for them. They can keep PDX and that really shitty weather.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Then I guess you're more hippy, or potentially a lesbian. Do you prefer Birks or Crocs? I'm sorry about your hometown but groups/people/disasters coming in and defiling San Fran seems to be a common theme in that city's history.

Don't get me started on Portland, OR. The people originally from there are pretty cool, normal people, it's all of the hipster transplants that suck. It's like they try too hard to be more hip than the average hipster. It's a good thing that Williamsburg, Echo Park, Austin, Seattle, etc just wasn't cool enough for them. They can keep PDX and that really shitty weather.

I'm definitely not a hippy since I not only enjoy eating meat, I also like killing it myself. I'm not a lesbian, but I know I intimidate men with my butch realness paired with a softer fierce femme. I'd like to think that I have many facets and like certain things in life, I'm an acquired taste for a cultivated palate.

Today the look went as follows: hair and face done, pearls and heels, an apron worthy of Mad Men costume department; all worn while using power tools in my garage to put up rails for home organization I made two batches of homemade frozen yogurt and sorbet, hemmed my Roman shades, then went to work and was all kinds of executive realness.

How very dare you, Birkenstocks or Crocs, I don't even wear Tevas for rafting once I found Keen sandals. Socks with sandals make me want to throw up, and the the closest I come to hipster shoes is low top Converse or select Danskos.

ETA: I don't think we were hipsters, I think we're older and actually just Gen X inclined as hipsters are early to mid twenties and that isn't us.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by VandalSquirrel

I'm definitely not a hippy since I not only enjoy eating meat, I also like killing it myself. I'm not a lesbian, but I know I intimidate men with my butch realness paired with a softer fierce femme. I'd like to think that I have many facets and like certain things in life, I'm an acquired taste for a cultivated palate.

Today the look went as follows: hair and face done, pearls and heels, an apron worthy of Mad Men costume department; all worn while using power tools in my garage to put up rails for home organization I made two batches of homemade frozen yogurt and sorbet, hemmed my Roman shades, then went to work and was all kinds of executive realness.

How very dare you, Birkenstocks or Crocs, I don't even wear Tevas for rafting once I found Keen sandals. Socks with sandals make me want to throw up, and the the closest I come to hipster shoes is low top Converse or select Danskos.

ETA: I don't think we were hipsters, I think we're older and actually just Gen X inclined as hipsters are early to mid twenties and that isn't us.

Hence why I refer to myself as a former hipster, but the hipster scene has been around since the early 2000's.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Hence why I refer to myself as a former hipster, but the hipster scene has been around since the early 2000's.

I thought we were just "alternative" and hipsters was more mid 200os. We're from different areas, which probably influences our time based perception.


I had never seen nor been to a Starbucks until 10 or so years ago as I lived in places that are/were really anticorporations. I may have had Starbucks in the Seattle airport or in a Barnes and Noble, possibly in a Nordstroms, but it wasn't even something accessible.

I'm totally upfront with my enjoyment of the Tazo iced tea with lemonade. I made some at home yesterday and brought it to work to enjoy. Starbucks also will still make a misto, which is a cafe au lait elsewhere, but those are strangely hard to come by in many places.