posted 09/23/08 09:09 AM | updated 01/26/09 09:11 AM
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How yuppie, hipster, gay are we?

By jseattle
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In the recent Slog coverage of Crave's lost lease, neighbor jrrrl makes a suggestion for the displaced eatery:


Move to 15th. Can we please put a looong piece of masking tape along the middle of 14th ave? Yuppies stay on that side, hipsters stay on this side. Gays get to use both sides due to a grandfather clause, but only if they're still flaming. We will trade you Boom Noodle for the Canterbury.

I'm curious -- which team are you on? I usually (mistakenly) assume everybody is just like me. That would make you all disgusting, money grubbing, sell-out yuppies. Let's do a quick show of hands.

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Mixed Nuts
I'm a bit of both but with more Yuppie than Hipster. My bike has gears.
Comment by SirLearnsalot
September 23, 2008
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Self-assessment
My bike also has gears, but I don't like Liberty and don't own a Prius (yet). I'm voting Hipster for a few more years.
Comment by final answer
September 23, 2008
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We get to keep the Canterhole!
I'm not really protective of "my" part of Capitol HIll. And 15th really has only become halfway non-suck in the last couple of years (Canterhole excepted), but Boom Noodle can stay where it is or move farther away. And the Canterhole does not get to be all hipstered out. It will remain semi-hipstered, old-manned, and strange.
Comment by Galen
September 23, 2008
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i love this!
all parts of this post, including comments so far, genius! lovez it! I am with Final Answer on this one. Too young to be a yuppie just yet. I do work for an eco-company, my bike has gears, but I still love joy division, value village, Sing Sing, and the redwood. hipsters on this side, yuppies on that.
Comment by Meg
September 23, 2008
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RE: i love this!
you seem surprised, Meg. And don't forget teh gays.
Comment by jseattle
September 23, 2008
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RE: i love this!
I won't ever forget them. They are better than yuppies AND hipsters in that they somehow have the power to be all of the above. They may roam wherever they please.
Comment by Meg
September 23, 2008
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I wish I were a hipster
but mostly I walk to work or ride my 15-speed . . . I do often have kexp on my headphones, and I just ate at Quinn's: does that mean anything? Probably not.
Comment by yancy
September 23, 2008
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I hate that word Yuppie!!
The 1980s called and they want their insult back! My brother used to call me a yuppie when I was like 12. We need something fresh and new.
Comment by dawggy
September 23, 2008
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RE: I hate that word Yuppie!!
i don't consider yuppie (or hipster, or gay) an insult. it's just a little self-aware self-deprecating term of endearment.
Comment by jrrrl
September 23, 2008
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I'm an Oldster!
I'm way too old to be either a yuppie or a hipster, although my lifestyle definitely leans far closer to the latter.
Comment by COMTE
September 23, 2008
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Ew!
Most people would probably finger me as a yuppie... ew!
Comment by Uncle Vinny
September 23, 2008
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don't think I fit any of the 3
Not that I'm so special or unique but I don't think I fall into any of those 3 categories. I love living in Cap Hill, can barely afford my rent, straight and married, no kids. I don't dislike gays, hipsters or yuppies but why can't I just be a resident of Cap Hill and one of the few who is friendly to my neighbors. I wish more people would be friendly here instead of spending time categorizing people -although this is an interesting topic, not to be down on the question.
Comment by hma
September 23, 2008
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RE: don't think I fit any of the 3
Why can't you just be a resident of Cap Hill? Cuz your kind has almost EVERY OTHER PLACE in the world. Of course if my straight and married neighbors were friendly to others, I might change my position.
Comment by Mr. Cranky Pants
September 23, 2008
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capitol hill pride!
cool!! i'm blog-famous!!

i was being facetious of course -- it's not polite to comment on slog without being at least a little rude. i voted hipster but i take the 545 to the eastside every day (but i feel ashamed about it), and i like being able to walk to 15th for a nicer meal once in a while. i've even shopped at red balloon!

the hipster/yuppie/gay rivalry is just something cute about capitol hill that makes it a unique place to live. if you look at other cities like san francisco, we all have our own separate neighborhoods (mission/castro/everywhere else). that's no fun for anyone!
Comment by jrrrl
September 23, 2008
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these aren't fair choices
only being able to pick one out of gay, hipster & yuppie is laaaame sniff.
Comment by groovinkim
September 23, 2008
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Ridiculous
What is a brawl on the horizon? That’ll be a leisurely one seeing as it will be a bunch of gangly, pasty and hung-over MFs slapping each other (unless you plan on fashioning a shank from a soy based material of your choice). Anyway, you might as well hand it all back to the gays because they certainly have an upper hand in the fitness department. Bright side: Best smelling fight ever.

So that’s it. You’re either A, B, or C? As far as I can remember, Capitol Hill has produced some brilliant individuals. So please, for the love of all that is holy, stop applying labels to your self-loathing asses. Go get an architecture degree and design a McDonalds to plop over your favorite club.

I hope you’re pummeled with a burlap sack full of Macbooks and broken Aerospokes.
Comment by Home Cookin'
September 23, 2008
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bah!
I HATE BOOM NOODLE! does anyone else thinks this place sucks as much as I do? the service is a joke, the hosts/hostesses are a-holes, and the food taste like cardboard. The only think i like about it, is that the bar looks great with all the openness.
Comment by jj
September 24, 2008
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Wash off the hipster dirt
You are right, it would be AWESOME if the hipster scum would stay BELOW 15th. I'm pretty happy those douches can't afford to live in my neighborhood (18th) because having lived off broadway and below broadway for the better part of decade, I'm starting to think we need stalinesque style pogroms against vapipd 20 something twits with bad hair, riding their fixie bikes like idiots while wearing overlarge sunglasses.
Comment by die hipster scum
January 25, 2009
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