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Hipster type sitting next to me has a jam jar full of water. What's wrong with a bottle?
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If you can see anything other than that hat in the distance, of course.

When did all this silliness of drinking from jam jars start? Seen also in bars recently.

More importantly, when will it end?


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:38 pm
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When did all this silliness of drinking from jam jars start? Seen also in bars recently.

As I understand it it's a faintly embarrassing nod toward environmentalism and recycling. I saw someone doing it in the Tyneside the other day whilst working on his screenplay and playing with his pipe.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:41 pm
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Are you sure it is water and not good old Moonshine?


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:42 pm
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is that a boozer?

looks grim.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:43 pm
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Been in bars we knock about in for about a year.

Where you been drinkin? Local workin men's club ? 😆

It is all to do with the trend for environmental push back.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:43 pm
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surely it's his "beaker" and he's reliving last night's entertainment ?


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:43 pm
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Do their bit for the environment, whilst on the internet! -shakes head!


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:45 pm
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Ton, it's in a piddly little airport in Montana.

Recycling? OK, but I've got my Camelbak Podium bottle with me and am refilling as and when. Much more practical, surely?


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:46 pm
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Camelbak Podium

Goes with the cheap luggage I suppose.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:49 pm
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We sell them. 4 jam jars with screw on lids and a straw.
Won gift of the year 2014.
Stops people slipping drugs in your drink as well.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 10:58 pm
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Jam jars

PAH

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Posted : 27/02/2015 10:59 pm
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The Canadians have been doing this for years.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:01 pm
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LOL @ kimbers, series one was the bomb.

CFH did Montana run out of post it notes?


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:02 pm
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He's away ?

Piss in the jamjar 🙂


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:04 pm
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Clearly a marmalade/syrup jar


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:09 pm
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Do their bit for the environment, whilst on the internet! -shakes head!

Whilst waiting for a plane.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:17 pm
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He looks like a right self-facilitating media node in that hat 😀


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:18 pm
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aren't there restrictions on what size bottle you can take on a plane, even if it's not full? Maybe the jar can be a way to carry a drinks vessel (empty) and get around that. If you take the lid off you can claim it's a glass.

+ maybe he prefers drinking out of a glass than a bottle and this is free rather than buy a wide necked nasty chemical free plastic bottle.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:30 pm
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Its not a jam jar its a mason jar. And the hipsters love the mason jar.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:43 pm
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Where you been drinkin?

Paradise by way of Kensal Green. I am definately cooler than you and I have not witnessed this fad 😛


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:46 pm
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Just pop in to Apple before 'hitting' the Mason Jar store...

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Posted : 27/02/2015 11:46 pm
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Good lord

I was hoping the hipster thing was already fading away


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:50 pm
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Thing is I reckon CFH would love one of these
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http://www.metallica.com/products/whiskey-in-the-mason-jar.asp


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:54 pm
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I dunno. Normally I'd say live and let live. Some people have different tastes and ideas and ways of living their lives, it shouldn't really bother me. Hipsters, however, seem to be the exception.


 
Posted : 27/02/2015 11:57 pm
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Gin in a tea cup and vodka in a sweet jars FTW.

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Posted : 27/02/2015 11:58 pm
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I thought Thin Lizzy did whiskey in the jar?


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 1:20 am
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The Dubliners released it prior to Thin Lizzy


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 1:24 am
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Hipsters, however, seem to be the exception

This

It's just so false, forced, trying too hard to look like a top hat.

I don't know why it riles me, but I found myself annoyed by a guy in the gym because of his beard and rolled up sleeves on his t-shirt 😀


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 2:10 am
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Its simple, they are attention seeking pricks who are desperate for you to engage them in conversation so they can spout utter shite about how innovative and wonderful they are.


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 2:23 am
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Upcycling or some shite like that.


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 2:39 am
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Get with it. Glasses are far too mmainstream.


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 2:54 am
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Here in China, it is quite normal for them to use Jars for drinking tea of it.
Why pay for a bottle, when you can re-use a Jar for it.

(beer in this case)

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Posted : 28/02/2015 6:30 am
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The Dubliners released it prior to Thin Lizzy

Anyway, that ain't whiskey in a jar.


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 6:30 am
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Was in the slug and lettuce in Manchester last weekend and noticed that some of the cocktails came in jars, but with holes in the top for a straw.
Just wait until he drops it


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 6:49 am
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The jar doesn't bother me, the wearing of hats indoors however..


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 7:27 am
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There's a barbers down the road where the staff wear woolly hats. What sort of advert is that?


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 8:27 am
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Its simple, they are attention seeking pricks who are desperate for you to engage them in conversation so they can spout utter shite about how innovative and wonderful they are.

Reminds me of STW'ers and 29'ers


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 8:28 am
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I hate it when people aren't exactly the same as me. Properly winds me up.


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 8:34 am
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Kensal Green. I am definately cooler than you and I have not witnessed this fad

You clearly are waaaayyyy cooler than me, post pics, lets decide 😆

Its simple, they are attention seeking pricks who are desperate for you to engage them in conversation so they can spout utter shite about how innovative and wonderful they are.

Are they? Are they really or is it just a different image? An image you don't like, fine. Punks got a lot of stick too back in the late 70's.. Most Hipsters are normal, just like the rest of Human society.
Though had to laugh, my friends came over from Berlin last year and they came over just as the nekkid Boris Bike event was on and the first question they asked was... "show us some Hipsters and take us to the places they hang out" hilarious. 😆
They went back thinking London was proper Trendy 😆

Anyways up, whose not been in a Pub and asked for a "jar" of Beer?

It's about time we recycled all those Bonne Maman Jam Jars donchafink? 😆


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 8:52 am
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Using jars as drinking vessels is described in a few John Steinbeck novels (Cannery Row from memory) so maybe that is where this trend originates?

Fwiiw I was served beer in a jam jar in a diner in Downieville, CA about ten years ago.

I agree with CFH that a Camelback bottle is far more practical.


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 9:06 am
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I think carrying one round with a lid so he can use it as a water bottle is a bit nonsensical. But we sometimes use jam jars in the house for drinks.....mostly because they work pretty well and by recycling a few it meant one less trip to Ikea to spend a subsequent hundred quid on candles and rugs.


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 9:18 am
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Never without a gourd.


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 12:39 pm
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Drinking out of Mason jars is something quite normal in 'merica.
I would not be surprised that someone who oozes the British Empire as much as CFH would be unaware of foreign norms. I expect he travels with a bone china cup and saucer in case of emergencies.


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 12:53 pm
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Anyways up, whose not been in a Pub and asked for a "jar" of Beer?

Jarra, sure, jar? I don't think so


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 1:13 pm
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Anyways up, whose not been in a Pub and asked for a "jar" of Beer?

I bet you also ask for [i]a flagoon of ale my good man[/i] and hand over your personalised pewter jug 😉

Actually that's a good point, the battle re-enactment folk always have their own drinking vessels so are they the [i]original hipsters[/i]?


 
Posted : 28/02/2015 1:21 pm
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