HIpster nonsense

My dad is an ex navvie, Irish worked offshore in the seventies and still now will have a dram in his morning tea, proper hard and full on pub goer. Came back from a visit to The Vine telling me about women fighting and getting groomed for cash by a guy who’d been released from Saughton that morning during a Wednesday afternoon visit. (“ I bought him a pint but told him to **** off when he asked for twenty quid because it was his kids birthday that day”)

He loved the place

Interesting point though re. being manipulated on social media into spreading bullshit faux-outrage (or whatever “they” want you to think/say) 🤔(especially just wanging stuff on without pausing to think/fact-check first ) Guess it can fool anyone no matter how immune they think they are to it.

I saw this in action regular away on an anti-brexit Facebook group. They’d copy some pro-brexit meme and there would be loads of comments about how easy it was to fact check claims like the EU banning [bent|straight] bananas. Then some utter nonsense would appear which would align with the group and suddenly fact-checking would go straight out the window.

People are predisposed to believing things which reinforce their existing opinions and only questioning those which don’t.

The proclaimers hit hard times and open a bar

Harry_the_SpiderFull Member
Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you’ll never get it right
‘Cause when you’re laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad he could stop it all, yeah

I always thought the real ire and spite came out brilliantly a bit later in the song.

“Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you
Look out, they’ll tear your insides out
‘Cause everybody hates a tourist
Especially one who thinks it’s all such a laugh
Yeah and the chip stain’s grease
Will come out in the bath
You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You are amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why”

also the pic looks totally photoshopped, no? Especially the “Leith” lettering & the window graphic.

Certainly looks like it, but the resolution isn’t good enough to be certain. That ‘window’ graphic looks wrong, if it’s a window, why is it opaque? And what they’re sitting on is just flat sheets of plywood.

Probably entirely AI generated.

Most things on social media seem to be these days.

Don’t think so, I think it’s photoshopped using original images – they’ve got the correct number of fingers, for starters.

they’ve got the correct number of fingers, for starters.

definitely not from Leith then!

Outrage marketing?

this was one of my favorite cafes in that there London.

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amusing name. Great coffee. Nice people.

when I saw the opening post I thought ‘joke’. Must read more of the thread.

There’s a bike shop in Edinburgh which is very cool inside and will serve you a very nice coffee, but when my dad called to ask them if they could order him in some parts (Campag at least), their response was ‘yeah… we’re not really that kind of bike shop’.

His first response was to accuse me (working in a different bike shop at the time) and all others of perpetrating ‘hipster nonsense’ or words to that effect 😂

Hmm there are or were two shops that fit the brief. I can’t believe the remaining one would come across like that the guy who runs Gamma Transport Division is really friendly.

I’m on a train with some students on their way to a festival. They have all the usual stuff – Tents, crate of beer, full rucksacks and a 2ft wide cast iron paella pan which, of course, they are pronouncing within an inch of its life when explaining to anyone that will listen what it is.

Made an almighty racket when it fell out of the luggage rack…