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Word of the Day: Hipster
When you hear the word hipster, what comes to mind?
Some older men use the term as an insult, as in, “Just another damn hipster!”
However, thankfully, not all people think that way.
Hipster, coined in the 1940s and popularized in the 2000s, is a young adult subculture interested in indie music, fashion, film, and craft beer.
Hipsters are people who follow the latest trends and try to be fashionable.
They are outside the cultural mainstream.
They are people who follow the latest trends and try to be fashionable.
Hipster is a term that was coined in the 1940s, but it didn’t become popular until the 2000s, when it became a subculture of young adults who were interested in independent music, art, fashion, film, good food and, of course, craft beer.
If you let it, life will always lead you to craft beer.
Then again, maybe that’s just my life.
Oh well, I digress.
Anyways, when I was a university student in Vancouver, BC, Canada, the craft beer boom was building steam 25 years ago.
Before that, I had always drunk the mass-produced brands of Molson Canadian and Labatt’s Blue in Canada, VB and XXXX Gold in Australia, or Red Lion and Steinlager in New Zealand.
Yes, I know. I was young and had no idea how to drink.
Don’t worry. I’ve since reformed myself.
Now, I guess you could say I resemble a hipster.
I’m a bearded craft beer drinker who occasionally eats veggie burgers and enjoys shopping at Uniqlo.
The only problem is I’m 48 years old and perhaps a tad too long in the tooth to be mistaken for a hipster.
Then again, age has been redefined.
Isn’t 50 the new 30?
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12). On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 75. The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.