How Yindie are you?, The term for our generation... Options

[empathy-with-bea...]

'Yindies' sounds frighteningly like the 'idiots' from Nathan Barley.

The idiots are self regarding consumer slaves, oblivious to the paradox of their uniform individuality. They sculpt their hair to casual perfection. They wear their wastebands below their balls. They babble into handheld twit machines about that cool email with the woman being bummed by a wolf. Their cool friend made it. He's an idiot too.

I've been thinking about this. "Idiots" have managed to get a job which they deem to be cool, probably in media or some sort of fashionable consdumer industry thus making them incredibly self satisfied twats as they get to be arbiters of taste. The yindie has the standard soul destroying job the rest of us has but desperately purchases the goods that the Idiots produce in an attempt to convince themselves they are still an urban warrior of some sort.

Idiots flog shit to Yindies becuase the idiots have convinced the yindies that they're who they want to be. Maybe?

[Jessopjessopjess...]

"Idiots" have managed to get a job which they deem to be cool, probably in media or some sort of fashionable consdumer industry thus making them incredibly self satisfied twats as they get to be arbiters of taste.

I'm currently looking for such a job.

[Zoe]

I am 24 years old and I work in the arts, I buy Miss Sixty, Levis and Paper Denim and Cloth jeans, I like vintage t-shirts and polo shirts, I have plastic glasses, I have white plastic sunglasses, I buy frapuccinos, my favourite cheese is Halloumi, my fridge is full of hummous, lemons and pesto, I have an eclectic taste in music, I jog while listening to my Mp3 player, I am a snob about all aspects of popular culture, I look down on people less educated than I am, I am a champagne socialist, I like to discuss the films of Woody Allen, I read the Guardian, I own five paris of converse shoes, I own a pair of green patent ballet pumps, I vote Labour, I drink pretentious lagers, I smoke Marlboro lights, I watch HBO original programming, I talk about documentaries, I have visted the Tate Modern more times than I can remember, I enjoy things because they are 'ironic'.

I am a twat.

[dabariocca]

I own five paris of converse shoes,

That is some sweet irony.

[Zoe]

That is some sweet irony.

How is that typo ironic?

[Crutch]

Yes, I'm independent, but by no means am I "indie," by the conventional media definition.
Why do we need these silly labels, anyway? Can't people just be people, regardless of their generation?

So you prefer a more individual definition on the term indie?!

We need those labels, to define and find ourselves and others in these changing and fragmented times.

So a Yindie is a combination of this


And this

In fact, the article I read, gave the Chris Martin/Gwynythy Payltroy-relationship the arche-typic Yindie-role-models.

I always thought a Yuppie was a "Young upwardly-mobile professional"

Than, the 80s were "Yumpy." *bounce*

I guess Yindies are people who are "fashinably" alternative. Not through freedom of thought or expression but because they want to appear intellectual. It all started with "Reallity bites" and brings us back to the subculture thread. Alternative is no longer an alternative. everyone is doing it.

You got my masterplan, this was in fact thought off as some kind of spin-off to the subculture-thread, but more a "subculture-threat"

[Jessopjessopjess...]

I am a twat.

You forgot "I sing Karaoke in stinky dive bars, watch trash TV and go to internet nerd-meets"

How is that typo ironic?

It was a cool one, though.

[Zoe]

You forgot "I sing Karaoke in stinky dive bars, watch trash TV and go to internet nerd-meets" 

I collect chocolate bar wrappers.

I would put a winky here if I wasn't such a snob.

[Jessopjessopjess...]

I collect chocolate bar wrappers.

That was a long time ago.

Anyway, now I have them framed and displayed in a cutting-edge Shoreditch gallery that used to be a knocking-shop as part of my visual essay on Warhol and his effect on the like, culture of today.

[Zoe]

That doesn't explain the whisks.

I should also like to add that I like to bully people to increase my own innate feelings of superiority.

[dabariocca]

How is that typo ironic?

I don't know. I guess converse and Paris. Converse became the orignal Yindie foot wear in the grunge era. Thanks to the typo the parody parodied the parody (assuming it was a parody).

[Crutch]

I can identifiy with Yindie. And to do as been done, I will count my Yindie-meter: I drink every kind of fancy life-style coffee. I am individual. I don't wear big labels. I use W-Lan and google constantly. I don't have any iPod or mp3-player. I am a pop-culture-fashist. I wear strange beards to stress my individuality (and the eyesight of others).

I somehow like to fit into this label. It suits me.

[dabariocca]

But do you have a tatoo of some indigeneos culture of "where ever" you've never encountered personally?

[Crutch]

But do you have a tatoo of some indigeneos culture of "where ever" you've never encountered personally?

In fact, I even invented a culture (nothing Tolkienesk, just way of life), including Tats, but haven't been brave enough to go through the ritual of manlyness...

[rabbit57i]

I always thought a Yuppie was a "Young upwardly-mobile professional"
So it seems there's some confusion on the matter   

As Crutch said, it would then be Yumppie.

According to Wikipedia

According to Websters Dictionary