Video: Cardboard Tube War To Be Tweerrific Fun In McCarren Park

Does the NYPD know about this shenanigan!? I would personally telephone Kelly to bring a battalion of battle ready cops, with real batons ready to start cracking skulls! Let's see how the hipsters take on real wooden batons with their cardboard weapons! The Battle of Billburg starts Sunday SUNDAY!!

"Afterward, everybody will not get laid."

Ha! No truer words!

I hate hipsters because they make me feel old at 27.

As I've said before, the Gothamist commenter's definition of 'hipster' is: "anyone younger than me who enjoys doing anything I don't do."

The 1 in 6 with girlfriends will be in for corseted, candlelit and incensed cosplay lovin'.

File this under "Art and Events' that no one really give a fucking shit about. Sorry, I must have left my "positive social attitude" in Queens.

I still can't understand this "hipster" bashing thing. I would not be identified visually as a hipster. But I see "them". So what. This is NYC. People are more different from one another than anywhere in the world. And there are huge groups of people from all levels of the society that look the same as one another. They (the "hipsters") are mostly young people trying to live their lives in whatever way pleases them. They are not responsible for raised rents or whatever it is that disturbs you about your life. They are not all trustafarians. There are people from every social sphere that have or don't have money. They are no exception. What is the big deal. Ridiculing these kids just seems silly and stupid. What is the point?

^ thats exactly why people hipster bash

so called 'hipsters' believe that they have invented something.

that they are original, individuals and different from everyone else.

when in fact they wear a kind uniform just as lame as the suits on wall street and the culture they purportedly reject.

i guess people don't hate, say, (i cant think of a good example) sports freaks (the type who wear nothing but sports logo emblazoned clothing) in the same way because they don't base their culture on touting their own individuality, but rather acknowledge that their culture is about the group mentality and such

also, there's something about a culture of people, this generation's youth culture, who see themselves as trend setters in a way that rubs people the wrong way. the fashion/style aspect revolves around clothes that my grandma threw away 20 years ago when SHE thought they weren't cool anymore.

its a culture of regressive laziness and nostalgia for what was discarded the first time it got tired.

and what uniform do you wear?

nostalgia is dumb, but if it's what gets them through the day, who are you to bitch about it? being offended and hating hipsters for doing hipster shit is like pointing and laughing at the goth kids for dressing in black and at the nerds for laughing at calculus jokes. they're funny if you stopped to understand them.

Okay, dungeon master, get ready to be whacked this Sunday!

Some people just can't take seeing others having fun.

pissing off the squares for almost a hundred years now.

Some downpours would also serve to bathe the participants, who largely appear, from the video, to rank among the unwashed.

Let's hope for some serious downpours on Sunday.. nothing worse than a soggy tube to whip around.

This looks like lots of fun.

ahahahah.

that does sound like fun though.