Beware the *new* ROYALE

thalia wrote: [quote=apollonia666][quote=thalia]Apollonia666..I was not addressing you..so no need to get defensive

Sorry, but I couldn't tell who your "et al" was meant to include. Regardless, Alafairnadia and Emily may have similar reasons for not posting. So I think what I said about it not meaning diddlysquat when someone doesn't post stands.

if you're not sure..there's always asking right? That appears to be in really short supply around here you have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about and you're still rattling on and defending...too funny

I do defend others sometimes. So sue me. You're right that I have no idea what you're talking about: I don't get why you have to be so combative about this.

A cooler full of ham would be good right about now.^^^^

Wait, does that make me a specieist?

Subject: Re: I know it's hard to hear

Parkslope95 wrote: I'm the original poster. And first, I'm not from the midwest, I'm from NYC. And because it makes someone cringe doesn't mean my statement is inaccurate, it's just kind of a bummer. That is to say, blacks and latinos don't scare me, and I'm not a "sheltered sloper." But the truth is, and ask any cop willing to be honest instead of politically correct, that bars packed with young black men, disproportionately have more problems. More fights, more calls to 911 regarding guns, etc. You know why? Because they really do disproportionately have more fights, pull out more guns, etc. And that's the crowd that is in Royale now. Listen, I could talk all day about our racist society and how because of that we ended up with a whole slew of insecure black men who look for their self-esteem in guns, fights and pit bulls. But that doesn't change that what I said is accurate. We have just been taught to cringe at statements like mine because we don't want to believe it's pretty accurate.

you are ignorant.

quijibo wrote: wait. there's this written on gawker

momo says:
Haven't been there since August, and the mix was 45% African-American, 45% Ancient-Italians, and 10% fagtard (my friends and me). All were having fun. Granted this was around six to eight on a Sunday.

Unrelatedly, my lady-friend said it was very easy to score coke there.
02/01/07 03:06 PM

is this true?
is it really very easy to score coke in the slope?

will someone answer me?!

it's pretty easy to score coke in almost any bar. it's super duper easy if there are hipsters around.

erskelyne wrote: I think we're all missing the point, that a douchebag is a douchebag, whether they be a hipster quasi-racist or a wanna-be thug.

Yes, but a hipster or thug could be any skin-tone color, whereas a douchebag most often winds up brown, or possibly mucus-colored.

Subject: I really hated that movie Crash.

First of all, for the record, Royale ALWAYS sucked. Thank god for Great Lakes and Buttermilk. Though, to be fair, I did get bitch-smacked by an angry Puerto Rican dude once at Buttermilk, a few years ago. Nothing against Puerto Ricans, though. In fact, a Puerto Rican woman called the police for me once when three Black thugs jumped me around the corner from Lenny's Pizza about a year later (they stole my ipod...how'd they know I had one? Cuz I'm White. That's racist.) It shook me up, but I got over it with the help of my therapist who, for the record, is Black. You gotta love this city.

Not Bukowski wrote: In fact, the fixed it up a bit (finally put in some lighting instead of bare lightbulbs).

I never understood the bare light bulb thing. I once heard some other patrons ask the bartender (Chris, I believe) why, and he replied in order to not see his customers. Still, I like Royale. When Buttermilk gets filled up with too many unpretentious hipsters, I retreat to Royale.

doctorj wrote: [quote=erskelyne]I think we're all missing the point, that a douchebag is a douchebag, whether they be a hipster quasi-racist or a wanna-be thug.

Yes, but a hipster or thug could be any skin-tone color, whereas a douchebag most often winds up brown, or possibly mucus-colored.

Mmmm...I love the smell of subtle humor in the morning.

Thank you for restoring sanity.

Subject: ...

i admittedly did come from gawker, but i just have this to say:

i grew up in nyc and am probably very well educated by, trust me, even your standards. i don't think i'm any more prejudiced, eg racially, than the majority of my peers.

that said...

parkslope95, you're right: everyone knows it's true. i was disappointed to see how dense and selt-righteous ppls' replies were. if forced to wager their life savings on it, i think most posters probably would secretly concede that, all else equal, a bar full of young black men probably is statistically likelier to experience the kind of problems you mention. just like a bar full of young italian stockbrokers is probably likely to suffer from saturation by a different sort of douchebaggery. and we all traffic in these generalizations to some extent, which is why if i posted "hey guys, meet me for bottle service at marquee on fri night," it'd likely be met w/mucho eyerolling. i am reading over this post before clicking submit and it sounds superior and condescending, for which i apologize, but i think that's to a degree unavoidable when you are stating. the. obvious.

Thank you, Guest021 and all the rest of you for enlightening us; we the deluded, ultra-PC, hypocritical, skinny, white, hipsters--after all we're one big monolith--of Park Slope and beyond. Your valuable insight has shown us the error of our wicked ways and we shall now, more than ever before, make sure that we fear and despise one-dimensional people of color and their nasty, animal-like, violent behavior over which they have no control. We couldn't have done it without you.

Real hipsters don't live in Park Slope.

BrookFetish wrote: Real hipsters don't live in Park Slope.

THANK YOU! You guys are always confusing nerds, musicians, artists, intellectuals, and other types with hipsters.

I see maybe 5 or 6 real hipsters in the slope. Go to Darkroom. There lies the hipster den of iniquity.


For example: One of the guys that works at Gorilla--in the band Made Out of Babies--is not a hipster.

I just want it out there that I claim title to one of the five or six hipster designations. You snooze you lose.

Jamzer wrote: I just want it out there that I claim title to one of the five or six hipster designations. You snooze you lose.

Hmmmm...well I'll have to inspect your attire and general attitude. How many pairs of skinny (with a leg opening of 7in or less) jeans do you have? What's more important when out at a bar: a. looking good to attract women or b. having a hipper outfit than any other guy there?

And you do lose 5 points for posting on this board.

Is there an age limit for hipsters? Like, after a certain age, you just become "hip"?

Jesslope wrote: Is there an age limit for hipsters? Like, after a certain age, you just become "hip"?

I think after a certain age you no longer qualify for hipster status. An "old hipster" is an oxymoron.

caaahyoko wrote: [quote=Jesslope]Is there an age limit for hipsters? Like, after a certain age, you just become "hip"?

I think after a certain age you no longer qualify for hipster status. An "old hipster" is an oxymoron.

True, true. A hampster, then?

Jesslope wrote: [quote=caaahyoko][quote=Jesslope]Is there an age limit for hipsters? Like, after a certain age, you just become "hip"?

I think after a certain age you no longer qualify for hipster status. An "old hipster" is an oxymoron.

True, true. A hampster, then?
I thought the term was a "grandpa."

That's brilliant....and educational. A divine combination.

Great BINGO game, Carnivore......I didn't quite make BINGO...does that make me a yipster?

Jesslope wrote: Is there an age limit for hipsters? Like, after a certain age, you just become "hip"?

Nah after a certain age the hips just expand and you become "hippy"

that hipster game includes some 'emo' elements.

I almost made bingo...damn.

Yes, very funny, but when you look at it closer, you can tell most of it is not hipster status quo (which has changed since I first saw that bingo board, however).

Trucker hats are reserved for NYU freshmen
the chunky glasses are too dorky
nooooo cabbie hats!!!!
definitely no bloggers (typing creates too many muscles to fit into too tight sweaters)
Star tattoos are for people in emo bands

**The ski jacket only applies to hipster girls


Mind you, I haven't hung out in Manhattan hipster dens in a couple of months, so things may have totally changed.

I can't find it on youtube, but have you guys seen the hipster mastercard commercial? Its the one that ends with a guy in skinny jeans and a too small jacket getting out of his car into a line for a club comprised entirely of guys dressed exactly the same way. THAT is what I'm talking about. No women, just heterosexual men all trying to look more emaciated than everyone else. Hillarious!

Yet I'm still strangely attracted to them. Why, oh why?

stacey wrote: [quote=Jesslope]Is there an age limit for hipsters? Like, after a certain age, you just become "hip"?

Nah after a certain age the hips just expand and you become "hippy"

and after that, hip replacement.

caaahyoko wrote: I can't find it on youtube, but have you guys seen the hipster mastercard commercial? Its the one that ends with a guy in skinny jeans and a too small jacket getting out of his car into a line for a club comprised entirely of guys dressed exactly the same way. THAT is what I'm talking about. No women, just heterosexual men all trying to look more emaciated than everyone else. Hillarious!

Yet I'm still strangely attracted to them. Why, oh why?

Down, girl! You're spoken for.

PS: I have a soft spot for stars and if I had tattoos I'm sure that would've been high on the list. And there's nothing EMO 'bout me. Unless you are referring to the late, great SDRE. Now, THAT was emo, not the third-rate, watered-down poser-riddled crap you hear these days. You could say that emo went form being The Cure-on-steroids to Air Supply with distorted-guitars, spiky hairdos, and some of the whiniest, lamest lyrical content heard in recent times. Bleech!

MichaelKeys,

Unless you are referring to the late, great SDRE. Now, THAT was emo, not the third-rate, watered-down poser-riddled crap you hear these days. You could say that emo went form being The Cure-on-steroids to Air Supply with distorted-guitars, spiky hairdos, and some of the whiniest, lamest lyrical content heard in recent times. Bleech!

I'll see your SDRE and raise you a Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, and Antioch Arrow.

sdre? do you mean wdre?

quijibo wrote: sdre? do you mean wdre?

WDRE=radio station
SDRE=Sunny Day Real Estate (emo band)