"Natalie", from "The Facts of Life".
What's really weird, is that google returned 5.8 MILLION results for her name. Rock on, Natalie!
Posted on 07/16/2009 12:48:43 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
I fancy myself open-minded and easygoing, which is why I was disturbed at my behavior last week when a pair of cyclists, riding side-by-side, blocked a lane of traffic and slowed my car to a speed that fell between trotting and brisk skipping. I laid on the horn, something I normally wouldn’t do, while my passenger, a generally subdued gentlemen and an avid cyclist himself, yelled at them to get out of the way.
Discuss COMMENTS (41) It was only the next day that I realized the reason for my aggressive behavior. I was annoyed with these two because they were grown men wearing cut-off skinny jeans, espadrilles, fedoras (instead of bicycle helmets), and - I’m guessing - T-shirts that were dripping with irony, most likely sporting an iron-on transfer of Natalie from “The Facts of Life.’’
In other words, they were hipsters.
Even if you haven’t heard the term hipster (perhaps your last name is Van Winkle and you’ve been napping comfortably for a few years), it is a subculture that has been well-documented, but lately has faced an increasing amount of scorn. Mocking hipsters has become a national sport, and it looks like I’ve finally found a sport that I’m interested in following.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
So many self-righteous cyclists, so little time to be delayed by their arrogance.
Around here we just make sure to hit the cyclists hard enough to punt them into the hedgerow where they won’t be found for a while.
Hipster dufus alert.
77 Sunset Strip
You'll meet the highbrow and the hipster,
The starlet and the phony tipster;
You'll meet most ev'ry kind of gal and guy,
Including us private eyes!
Boy, if I could only remeber USEFUL stuff as well as old show themes...
They want to share the road? Fine, drive the same speed as the rest of traffic and follow the rules. I’d never harm a bicycle rider but some of them seem at times to be trying to agitate the motorists. Not smart.
Around here we just make sure to hit the cyclists hard enough to punt them into the hedgerow where they won’t be found for a while.
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Which is hilarious until it actually happens to a friend’s husband and the driver doesn’t stop.
That being said, it’s the groups of 4 or more all wearing those tight, brightly colored outfits that take up the whole lane that get my dander up.
Darn, I feel like Rip van W. I just thought they were spoiled brats and metrosexual airheads. I didn’t know they had a name for them.
parsy, who must need to get out more.
“Hipsters” make me upchuck. A couple of them on bikes swung out in front of us yesterday, went diagonally across a four lane road, and then gave the finger to the motorists who had screeched to a halt to avoid killing them.
BTT
“parsy, who must need to get out more.”
I’m with you, parsy. Mrs. Jubal tries to get me to keep up with the times, but I’d just as soon not. Nearly everything in my wardrobe came from either the farm store or Wallyworld. And, for the record, if anybody ever sees me in sandals with a man purse - then go ahead and shoot me. Please.-—JM
What gratitude. Reminds me of time I saw a bunch of kids waiting for the light to change AGAINST them in the crosswalk, so they could cross and hold up traffic. This was in downtown Redwood City, CA.
LOL.
I am so out of it, I don't even get the LOL! Is it television related?
useless w/o pix
They forgot to mention if you want to be a hipster, the bike you ride has to be a fixie. That means fixed gear / no freewheel. Yikes.
It was an 80’s show, not very good
I was just wondering yeserday where the “I hate bikes and want to run them off the road with the bumper of my truck” wing of demented FReepers was this year.
As a cyclist, I love reading the ignorant comments so many of you spew.
..and grinning that grin that makes you just wanna get out and beat them with a tire iron? Been there...
Colonel, USAFR
"Natalie", from "The Facts of Life".
What's really weird, is that google returned 5.8 MILLION results for her name. Rock on, Natalie!
If you’re a Freeper, you probably don’t do the things these jerks do. Therefore - no problem.
An hilarious expose’ on the modern hipster: http://hipsterhandbook.com/
You’re right, however, to many of our own seem to revel in the violence they would do to cyclists.
They were flipping off the drivers that honked at them, too...
Make sure you wash your windshield as you pass annoying cyclists.
That’ll learn ‘em.
I’m also a biker and have seen some pretty bad driving here in Boston. However, I have also seen these hipster types up close on the road.
A real bunch of smug idiots.
LOL! Can I claim to be disqualified if I lead a bible study?
If these idiots block traffic, then they should be ticketed or something, but my beef is when all of us real cyclists are lumped in with the Critical Mass crowd
We had an annoying bike activist in this area (Apex, NC). Always demanding more rights for bikers.
He took a left..
..in front of a car last weekend.
Now he’s in bike ‘afterlife’ where he owns the road.
(Yes, I do intimidate people. Part of it might be the hog, but then again it's just a Sportster. I'm looking at upgrading to an Electra Glide maybe.)
“to many of our own” what? To many of your own mistakes?
I think you mean “Cyclist”. “Biker” is what I am. And the cyclists know better than to disparage My hog. She’s a lady all the way down to her nuts!
In a nutshell a ‘hipster’ is the following:
People who embrace the pseudo-artistic image and have strong attitudes and opinions toward, design, music, and urban culture. They believe in “counter-culture” environments, artists and thinkers. They tend to be a little grungy, and spend 20% of their money on just “hanging out” at dive bars and going to music “shows.” Hipsters are always in pursuit of independent, DIY, non-commercial, and/or non profit choices in consumption in any and all aspects of lie. They highly value listening to indie rock or any form of non-mainstream music, thrift store shopping, eating organic, vegetarian, drinking local beer and/or PBR and listening to public radio.
Ps: I had to google this to learn what is what.
I have seen some in Seattle, but just thought they were bums.
R-B....Uh, I may have a problem here:
“People who embrace the pseudo-artistic image and have strong attitudes and opinions toward, design, music, and urban culture. They believe in “counter-culture” environments, artists and thinkers. They tend to be a little grungy, ...are always in pursuit of independent, DIY, non-commercial, and/or non profit choices in consumption in any and all aspects of lie. They highly value listening to indie rock or any form of non-mainstream music, thrift store shopping,.”
I took out what ain’t me, and there’s still way too much left. I’m not sure what the “and/or non profit choices in consumption”, but if it means the Dollar menu at McDonalds and shopping at the Family Dollar Store, I might be guilty. I figure gargage sales and thrift stores are interchangeable.
parsy, who hopes he isn’t a hipster.
Yeah, there are a whole slew of stories out there about FReepers actually running cyclists down.
< /sarcasm, because apparently you can’t tell a rant from an action, and needed me to do that >
Freepers
No, I was just hoping to get flamed more. Just that kind of day. Unfortunately, my fellow freepers let me down today.
My best flaming was some story about a fire department rescuing a couple stray dogs that fell through the ice and thrashed about for 45 minutes. I suggested that the rescue was a good training exercise, but a sniper at 200 yards would have been far more humane to the dogs.
my hair is still smoking over that one.
Sorry you failed....lol...
Everybody’s still a bit giddy over that idiot Olbermann screwing up Jim’s name because he ranted on-air about FR, based only on a post at KOS. Now, both of his viewers are here at FR.
Must be the mood I am in today, so do not take this as a personal attack. I am just beyond tired of people wo do not understand the difference between words such as “loose” and “lose”, or “to”, “too”, and “two”. Myself, I knew the bloody difference before I left the first grade. Annoying cyclists are another matter entirely. I have actually never run one down, but surprisingly one was in a hissy fit one day and decided to give Me some attitude. Yes, he learned very quickly it was a mistake. Glad you are not one of that sort, FReind.
"less" in place of "fewer." Grrrrr..........
LOL! The list could take up pages, no doubt.
I won’t say I’ve never had a heated conversation with a driver, but only and I do mean only after they cut me off or flipped me off when I was riding legally and fully according to state law.
parsy, who says like "WORK!"
I hear you. One of My friends was moving along between the lanes during rush hour stop-and-go traffic when one of the cagers opened up is door in front of him and almost caused him to run into it. So, us bikers have some problems with certain drivers as well, lol.
The GF’s brother just bought wooded piece of property with dirt road access along a popular cyclist route out in the country, I’m talking dozens and dozens per weekend. The road into the property makes a sharp curve through woods and the area is littered with turds and toilet paper, obviously being used as a bathroom by the cyclists. The new owner is drooling at the thought of driving in on one of these guys taking a dump in his soon to be driveway.
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