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Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-05-17 04:30:40 +0000

Hilarity?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-05-17 11:05:12 +0000

Hilaritini?

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-05-17 14:40:10 +0000

Gay?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-05-17 14:54:49 +0000

Gaytini?

Posted by Miriam on 2008-05-19 17:21:09 +0000

"LOLTINI"

Posted by G lib on 2008-06-11 12:10:53 +0000

oh, another one. I don't know if anyone will find this funny besides me.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-06-11 12:22:13 +0000

Maybe I'm only amused by vaguely offensive sexual humor. It's not you, G, it's me. But I was intrigued (and startled) that the (presumably male) posters seem to equate skinny legs with girly-men. Weird.

Posted by G lib on 2008-06-11 12:28:59 +0000

As in, "DO SOME SQUATS!"

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-06-11 12:35:32 +0000

"You can do side-bends or sit-ups, but please don't bulk up those skinny legs..." Hm. I might have to rewrite the entire song in praise of skinny legs.

Posted by G lib on 2008-06-11 12:50:18 +0000

Ok, to take all of the fun out of it: This board is about half rockers and half hipsters. That bsullivan kid is (obviously) one of the hipsters, and is adored by all of the hipster girls, because he wears fancy clothes and fancy hair, and talks/cares about these things. He has no problem with telling anyone how much he pays for clothes, and where to find sales on expensive hipster things. He goes to law school. All of the Massachusetts dude-guy rockers think he's from outer space. I imagine all of them looking/acting like Roadsteamer when they come across his posts. Or a group in the pool room at Ralph's. As in, so completely foreign it's incredible. And yet both groups occupy the same online space, and probably some of the same space IRL. (The Model, the Swillhouette, the Middle East, etc.). However, IRL, most of these kids stick to their own kind and don't have the chance to have this kind of interaction. I love to watch it on this message board, a kind of jockying for online space. Lemme think about this more.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-06-11 17:25:33 +0000

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-06-11 17:52:44 +0000

We can do better than linking to and posting about other people's messageboards, right?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-06-11 17:57:09 +0000

Aw, do8. Play nice.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-06-11 18:00:48 +0000

A thread about two other threads on another messageboard is a little too lazy/creepy/pomo for me, sorry.

Posted by G lib on 2008-06-11 18:19:17 +0000

Pointing my friends towards something on the internet I find interesting is lazy/creepy/pomo? Present company excluded, rideside isn't exactly a hotbed of original analysis and thought nowadays. Most of it is re-posting and linking. What's the difference if the content comes messageboard rather than a blog?

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-06-11 18:22:56 +0000

Seriously now -- you have a lemmingtrail account. Why not actually contribute to the conversation, rather than snooping it?

Posted by G lib on 2008-06-11 18:29:57 +0000

I do. When it comes to biking, community gardening, finding swimming holes, shows we're playing, places to go camping, rock in boston threads, and I've even PM'd a lady who turns out to be a friend of MF DU's. Just because I don't get involved in some stupid rock vs. hipster boy fight about designer jeans doesn't make me a creep. It makes me smart. And cheap, I guess, because I can't imagine spending nearly $200 on jeans. I'm sorry you don't think this is as interesting as I do, sociologically, and you don't like my analysis of the situation, but I still can't see there's anything wrong with it.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-06-11 18:42:39 +0000

Look, messageboards can be a lot of fun. But on this thread, you kept talking about how it probably wasn't interesting to anyone but you -- maybe you could get more of the response you want by posting *on the thread* rather than fishing for responses here.

Posted by G lib on 2008-06-11 18:50:31 +0000

Because I would have gotten rational discussions of "the scene," and analysis of hipster vs. rockers with people I respect *on that thread*? Not a chance. And who doesn't fish for responses or discussions on rideside, even on topics that might not be of interest to too many others on rideside? *PAGING 10D FOR A RESPONSE TO THIS ONE*

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-06-11 18:54:41 +0000

Posted by jbcardinale on 2008-06-11 19:19:16 +0000

I've got a pair of mens Size 12 white leather sneakers with Polo logo on the side on my living room floor (almost new) free for the taking. My son would rather walk around in his nikes with big holes in them. I don't get it as he wears a Polo hat. And ultra-skinny hipsters who pay too much for clothes are just boring.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-06-11 19:31:47 +0000

I think Elton from C4RT has size-12 feet. Don't ask me how I know this.

Posted by G lib on 2008-06-11 20:00:05 +0000

Apparently dyedon8 is a little sensitive about his skinny APC jeans. Apologies.

Posted by Rory_Stark on 2008-06-12 01:07:55 +0000

Hey G, did you need a ladder to get on that thing?

Posted by jbcardinale on 2008-06-12 13:50:29 +0000

apparently their Faux-lo brand...How did MY kids get so brand conscious?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-06-12 13:58:34 +0000

That is truly hilarious. And, yes, a little frightening. Can I blame television for this too?

Posted by Miriam on 2008-06-12 16:51:03 +0000

Not being a major contributor lately, since the loss of the polling function, and being someone who has on occasion posted from other sites or linked to other sites about things that I find amusing, but the rest of you may find dull, I think that everyone should put their fingers away (I mean stop pointing rather than stop typing) and play nice. Maybe drink some kava-kava tea and chill out. We're all friends here.

Posted by jbcardinale on 2008-06-12 17:19:08 +0000

Peer pressure and the need to fit in with your friends, like when I see skater kids outside my office none of them is wearing a random t-shirt, but rather all wear a T-shirt from some "in" brand.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-06-12 21:26:18 +0000

This is pathetic, but I still vividly - so vividly that I can close my eyes and smell her Hubba Bubba gum - remember one afternoon in 7th grade when this preppy girl Marnie (you know the type: Izod collar turned up, Tretorn sneakers, several multicolored friendship bracelets and maybe one of those big beige ones with a shell woven into it) cornered me in the girls' ground floor bathroom and told me derisively that my white button-up short-sleeved top was "SO obviously a FAKE Outback Red" because the stitching was "wrong". Fortunately I had no idea what the hell she was talking about. That being said, I expressly avoid most brands with obvious logos. Which is related to the image I want to project and wanting to fit into my own peer group.

Posted by tgl on 2008-06-13 01:14:21 +0000

sniff

Posted by tgl on 2008-06-13 01:29:45 +0000

Thank you all for providing Original Content(tm) to this message board.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-06-13 08:07:01 +0000

Aw, man... don't tell me you were one of those snooty Ocean Pacific-wearing lacrosse boys! Were you, tgl? Say it ain't so!

Posted by tgl on 2008-06-13 13:48:09 +0000

I certainly didn't play lacrosse. I might have had a pair of OP shorts. I certainly had a Hobie Cat t-shirt (and an INXS t-shirt I got a JCPenney).

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-06-13 15:53:05 +0000

Calling All Nations!