Wtf is this twee stuff?

Yeah, I didn't read much of it either. My take away was that the Twees like microbrews, so at least that is an improvement over PBR, which wasn't cool even when it came in steel cans.

HappyAndy wrote:

bluej wrote: I think I got it. "Twee" is what happens when the everyone-gets-a-medal generation hits their early adult stage. The beautiful irony of that article is that it's crappy enough to fall into twee-dom itself.

Ladies and gentlemen, the riddle has been solved, and we have a winner!

Shhhh. Don't use the "W" word around them.

pres589 wrote: I like some Belle & Sebastian songs, as well as Wes Anderson movies, and who cares anyway?

I don't understand why quirky folks with a good creative sense suddenly get their own descriptive word.

You all are a bunch of grumpy old men complaining about "kids these days" and "back in my day, things were better". They are a bunch of whiny adolescents discovering the world and claiming "no understands us". This has been going on since the dawn of time.

10 years of working and taking care of yourself (whenever that ultimately starts) does a great job of educating and shaping people to live in the real world with grown up problems. Always has.

Now quit your bitching and get off my lawn!

Flynlow wrote: You all are a bunch of grumpy old men complaining about "kids these days" and "back in my day, things were better". They are a bunch of whiny adolescents discovering the world and claiming "no understands us". This has been going on since the dawn of time.

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PHeller wrote: I don't understand why quirky folks with a good creative sense suddenly get their own descriptive word.

Back in the day, we were just called weird, and that was that.

In reply to Appleseed:

Yeah, people call me wierd all the time, but I ain't remotely twee.

Appleseed wrote:

PHeller wrote: I don't understand why quirky folks with a good creative sense suddenly get their own descriptive word.

Back in the day, we were just called weird, and that was that.

Unless you know you were making bank and shaping popular culture, in which case you were probably called "cool."

Everyone wants to be an individual, so they make up words to describe these individual groups, in turn killing the individuality of the individual.

My six year old daughter planted two twees for mothers day. They are apple.

Weve been working on her pronunciation since.

Flynlow wrote: You all are a bunch of grumpy old men complaining about "kids these days" and "back in my day, things were better". They are a bunch of whiny adolescents discovering the world and claiming "no understands us". This has been going on since the dawn of time.

Umm, no... I didn't say things were better when I was young. Things were just different. Nor am I complaining about them. I like hipsters. They're funny.

I don't understand the love for PBR, though... that stuff is just crap.

In reply to Flynlow:

We're not complaining about "kids these days." The point is, many of us don't really care what this purportedly new side-show subculture does. They can do whatever they want to make a statement, just as we did. In fact, many of us didn't even have the interest to read the entire article. So there's a difference in that respect.

(But we're grumpy old men regardless).

This girl has the right idea.. Let's apply it to Hipsters and the twee lot.

I'm sorry about our generation. We're not all idiots, just mostly.

Sincerest apologies,

A millennial.

Can you really blame any youth movement that rejects the garbage that is our popular culture and embraces something, anything else?

Hating hipsters that seek out locally made or hand crafted items instead of swallowing up imported mass produced disposable crap? Sure they look silly but often times those are hand made "whites" boots finishing off that ridiculous "lumbersexual" look.

Hating twees, twee's, twix? (seriously, I don't know the plural of this) for looking for something else in this E36 M3ty world that seems hell bent of E36 M3ting on them? Just an aesthetic that makes them happy or a gentler approach to things?

Either of those approaches are infinitely more appealing to me than eating chain restaurant food, watching another reality TV show or Summer blockbuster, wearing another brightly colored overpriced pair of sweatshop sourced sneakers, driving another tan Toyota and listening to the detritus that is any popular music.

Guess I just outed myself as some sort of hipster. Oh well.

Jumper K. Balls wrote: "lumbersexual"

You win the internets today.

I just figured that since tweets and twitters were so much "TLDR," that the ADHD set would adopt something shorter and more inane by abbreviating "tweet" to "twee". Pretty soon kids will be communicating their deepest thoughts by uttering messages that consist of a single letter.

Fueled by Caffeine wrote: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/07/the-twee-revolution/372273/ Looks like hipsters are now transitioning into twee. I want a v8 powered s10 to mow down these dorks.

Yes. And regarding that article: I could not get through that twaddle. Who could truly care? And to think that I used to subscribe to "The Atlantic!" Thanks you for justifying my brilliant decision to allow the subscription to lapse!

The article was very confusing to read and not written well at all. People are always going to come up with labels for other people. I was called weird when I was in school. I am who I am shrugs. Hipsters are going to be hipsters. I'm not going to waste my energy worrying about it.

Btw, Pabst is pretty tasty. Cheap, tasty and in a can are my beer requirements and it meets all three. If you don't like it, no problem. More for me .

Ian F wrote: In reply to sachilles: "A new breed of hipster has come about that is even more ironic than the previous ones."

I'm waiting for someone to conform ironically. Then heads will explode.

Berk that. Bring back grunge.

If these twee have women in skinny jeans or yoga pants I'll still watch when they walk away.

Appleseed wrote: Berk that. Bring back grunge.

Grunge killed hair metal and, in turn, nu-metal killed grunge.

This has not been a good series of events.

What we need is a NNWOBHM.

Let's just stop naming fads. Seriously. We don't need to invent a new label just because some trendy young adults start wearing beards instead of mustaches or whatever.