Teenage Lobotomy, the Aftermath

Queer: Who’s Joey Ramone?
Hipster girl: Oh my God, are you kidding me?
Queer: Uh, no. Who is he?
Hipster girl: He’s a singer! He was like, in some huge band in the ’80s!
Queer: What band?
Hipster girl: Um…
Queer: See? You don’t know who the hell he is either. You don’t even know what band he was in.
Hipster girl: It’s on the tip of my tongue…
Queer: Sure.
Hipster girl: Oh well, I can’t think of it. I think he’s dead now anyway. Who cares.

–Irving Plaza

Overheard by: i hope they were joking

Posted on March 26, 2015
Hipsters, Manhattan, Music, Pop Culture, Queers, Union Square and East Village

Have You Heard of This New Invention Called Korea?

Hipster guy: I had to live with some random guy that year in a room smaller than ours right now.
Hipster girl: Whoa.
Hipster guy: Yeah, he was weird. He was like some Chinese guy. But he wasn’t like really Chinese.

–L train

Posted on March 24, 2015
Girls, Global Geography, Guys, Hipsters, Home, Sweet Home, Idiots, On the Subway, Race

And Then Ejaculated the Second He Put It On?

Hipster girl: So afterwards he was like, “Hold up. Can I just stop in quickly and buy a vibrating cock ring?”
Hipster friend: He did that to me too!

–7th & Greenwich

Overheard by: sounds like a good time

Posted on March 20, 2015
Dildos and Vibrators, Friends, Girls, Hipsters, Offers and requests, The Village, Weirdness

If Not, It Didn’t Officially Happen

Hipster girl: When I was sixteen I dated this Jewish bisexual guy… He was so Jewish he wore a yarmulke.
Hipster guy: Did you blog about it?

–Central Park

Overheard by: Fixed Rider

Posted on March 20, 2015
Central Park, Clothing, Default, Girls, Guys, Hipsters, Internet, Judaism, Questions

There’s Nothing Manly About It if It’s Consensual

Hipster girl: Come on, grab my boobie. Come on. Be a man. Grab it.

–W 4th St

Overheard by: lucky bastard

Posted on March 20, 2015
Hipsters, One-liners, Rack, The Village

Whereas Pennsylvania Has Lost Its Books

Chick: So, New York, huh?
Pierced hipster: Yeah… I wanna move back to Pennsylvania, though.
Chick: Oh my god! Why?
Pierced hipster: It’s on the books here that everything you can do besides missionary position is illegal.

–4th St & Ave A

Posted on March 18, 2015
Hipsters, Sex, Union Square and East Village

Great, Now I Have to Pee

Hipster: I really have to pee.
Random passerby: Pssssss!

–Whitehall Station

Posted on March 17, 2015
Ahhh! Real New Yorkers, Hipsters, Lower Manhattan, Pee, Staten Island Ferry

The Same Reason I Love Snow and Urine

Southern hipster #1: Man, I don't loooove ice cream…
Southern hipster #2: You must, you been talkin' about it all day.
Southern hipster #1: Yeah, like ice cream cake that you can write dirty words on!

–Williamsburg

Overheard by: Giri

Posted on March 16, 2015
Food, Hipsters, Southerners, Weirdness, Williamsburg

Like They’re Afraid of a Crime Happening in a Primarily Black Neighborhood or Something

Black teen hipster #1: Why are there so many white people on the 2 train this late at night?
Black teen hipster #2: Please. All these white people are getting off at 96th Street.

Train stops at 96th. The white people leave the train.

Black Teen Hipster #2: Watch ’em all scamper away!

–2 train

Posted on March 15, 2015
Black People, Hipsters, History & Geography, Manhattan, NYC Geography, On the Subway, People, Places, Race, Teens, Topics, Upper West Side & Lincoln Center, White People

Mostly Because They Won't Be Watching It

Drunk muscular hipster, after walking into a glass door (shouting): Yeah, you can laugh at me now, but you won't be laughing when I take my story to Fox News, jerk-wads!

–L Train

Overheard by: Tom in Bushwick

Posted on March 10, 2015
Accidents, Drunks, Hipsters, Laughter, News, On the Subway, TV

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