Matt

[Matt @mattrum91]

@witty_genstein Friend’s 3yo: Did I pick this TV
-No darling, you werent born
-Because I was at home
-No you hadnt been born yet
-Because I was still in mummys tummy
-No, you weren't even in mummys tummy yet
-But did I have eyes
-You didn't, you didnt even exist yet
-Ah, because I was at the zoo

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@norrainz We have footage of those gigs because they were professionally recorded? Camcorders didn’t come out until the 80s, so people in crowds couldn’t physically record The Beatles

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@its_alright_luv @darweeniewaves Yeah, the clue is in the word “artist”. They’re curating an experience. You also don’t have a say in the set list or how they light the stage

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@ihuffclearcoat @notseriouslor They also hurt everyone else in the crowd. I’ve spent many gigs watching the set through someone else’s phone. Awful experience

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@PunishedHoots A lifetime ago I asked an American girl how she wanted her coffee and her slightly southern way of saying “lotsa cream, lotsa sugar” is one of the most charming things I’ve ever heard.

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@vermont_morgan During a summer working in the US in 2011, one of the Americans said they worked in a clothes store and would play “gay or hipster” based on the way certain men would dress. On meeting all of us, he added “European” to the range of options.

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@hloverry I paid an obnoxious amount of money and waited 3 years of Covid delay to see MCR, and it was largely ruined by people wanting to record the “A in a lifetime gig”.

A crowd of people living for their future nostalgia

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@testpatterns_ I just want to talk about how good Late of the Pier are (post mgmt band) and I’ve not had a good excuse

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@35yearoldfriend In all this discourse, no one has mentioned the best early-hipster synth-electro album.

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@veryADVANCED Yes I feel that bands looking for something different or authentic either reached for the banjo or the synthesiser, but it’s only the former that stuck in the public consciousness

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@canefilms @SamGreszes

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@offbeatorbit Considering how most people hear a term late in its use cycle, it’s maybe not surprising that the general populace associates “hipster” with its final incarnation.

I wonder what the changeover band was (from old to new), in the way MCR was for emo. Arcade Fire, probably.

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@cshermanrun @TheMovieMermaid A good and sensible rule… I just like when people get weird with it. I like when people call the dinosaur a dip-lod -acus, for instance.

There’s a pronunciation ibuprofen that is so weird on its stresses, I can’t replicate it but I still like it.

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@sweetseaslug After working a summer in the US, me and a friend (also British) flew to LA for a week. Somehow we ended up in the European street of Universal drinking pints in the faux courtyard.

I’m unsure why we thought this was a good use of the location. Fun, though.

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@AlexAndBooks_ At Christmas, I ask my mother in law to buy me vouchers for my favourite bookshop.

That way, I can enjoy walking around and buying some weird choices, without worrying about when I’ll get around to reading them.

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@tomjc09

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@kuraken20XX @MysterySolvents No, but many people may take it to imply that you have failed to find or search for a job.

Just because it seems neutral, doesn’t mean there’s implications. And many people think of mass homelessness as a deliberate part of our system.

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@quartzion55 @MysterySolvents Again, I think that’s a perfectly reasonable argument

…but if someone thinks that any sizeable number of homeless people is a systemic failure, then they may chose to highlight that feature. Others are welcome to use different language, of course.