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Will Self - Is he right to hate hipsters?







Worthingite

Sexy Pete... :D
Sep 16, 2011
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Yes, but it's far more appropriate to hate Will Self. The most pompous, self loving bore on the planet.
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
69,884
Is he back on the gear? Certainly writes like it.

Hipsters are harmless. Utterly self-centred, all take their input from all the same sources, shallow 2D caricatures but essentially harmless. Let them get on with it.
 


Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,906
Living In a Box
Probably the biggest dick in the media these days and his books are shote as well.

Also a very vindictive person
 




lawros left foot

Glory hunting since 1969
Jun 11, 2011
13,673
Worthing
I've always thought the only people who read Will Self are hipsters, cos no discerning person would go anywhere near him
 


Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
59,204
The Fatherland
Probably the biggest dick in the media these days and his books are shote as well.

Also a very vindictive person

I'm in two minds about him. Part of me likes the idea that this entire diatribe stems from him getting the hump about the level of the music at the cafe where he took breakfast and the cafe's refusal to do anything about it. Part of me agrees with your sentiment. And in a media populated with Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson being the biggest dick takes some commitment.
 


Herr Tubthumper

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Jul 11, 2003
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Yes, but it's far more appropriate to hate Will Self. The most pompous, self loving bore on the planet.

Out of interest, have you ever come across Hove Born and Bred?
 




e77

Well-known member
May 23, 2004
7,267
Worthing
I don't think young adults being up themselves didn't begin with Hipsters. For all the warm fuzzy glow people now have about the Hippy counter culture in the 60s, it could be very inward looking and beyond the 'peace, man' facade wasn't that inclusive.
 


Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,906
Living In a Box
And in a media populated with Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson being the biggest dick takes some commitment.

I can agree with that on the Piers Morgan front
 


looney

Banned
Jul 7, 2003
15,652
Hipsters are modern art taken to its natural conclusion. Untalented, pretencious and attention seeking, lauded only by other idiots. imo he is close to nailing it
 




brakespear

Doctor Worm
Feb 24, 2009
12,326
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Maybe. Probably yes. And 'Nathan Barley' was shit too, nowhere as food as the source/inspirational material form 'TV Go Home'.
 


Machiavelli

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Oct 11, 2013
16,560
Fiveways
Maybe. Probably yes. And 'Nathan Barley' was shit too, nowhere as food as the source/inspirational material form 'TV Go Home'.

Why bring Nathan Barley in to a Will Self thread?
As to Will Self, he's a genius. Check out him on Orwell, which was one of the greatest assessments you'll come across.

Edit: The only other cultural figure in the UK that has more invention than Will Self is Chris Morris. With the possible exception of Danny Boyle.
 
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BN9 BHA

DOCKERS
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Jul 14, 2013
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He shouldn't hate hipsters he should laugh at them, we have a few in the WSU, I'm sure there's more than one as they have different tattoos, I always have a snigger to myself when I see a hipster (clone ):lolol:

As for Will Self, the bloke is a cock.
 


Guinness Boy

Tofu eating wokerati
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Jul 23, 2003
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This

As to Will Self, he's a genius. Check out him on Orwell, which was one of the greatest assessments you'll come across.

Edit: The only other cultural figure in the UK that has more invention than Will Self is Chris Morris. With the possible exception of Danny Boyle.

This too
 


Don Quixote

Well-known member
Nov 4, 2008
8,352
It would be nice if he wrote coherently, but he is far too clever for that I suppose. He moans about a lot of things unfortunately.
 











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