El Pibe Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 My mates and i had a session down the pub and vowed not to stop drinking until we came up with an idea that made us rich.Eventually we came up with the idea of patenting car tyres that had different coloured rubber at the level where the tread has worn down too much so its really obvious.Pleased with our work we drew up a patent and one of us went to the patent office.Someone had got there first a couple of years previously.20 years later I'm less annoyed as they clearly didn't get rich either!!!Still think it was a good idea though.I'm changing my mind about hipsters bit by bit. They may be a bit irritating in a 'Yes, we are all individuals' kind of fashion, but they are at worst boring, utterly harmless and at best entrepenuerial, even if we can laugh at some of the ideas, at least they're putting their money where their mouth is and living up to Napoleon's ideal.Better than sittin gon your arse complaining about how the government has disenfranchised you and then nicking some trainers and burning down your neighbour's business innit. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I have do not have an entrepreneurial bone in my body, so I always admire people who can take an original idea through to implementation and make a success of it - especially when it's as eccentric as this. Must have taken some serious determination to get this off the ground. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 El Pibe - nobody wants to advertise the fact that they're driving around on worn tyres.. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 That's rather the point. If they become mandatory then you've struck gold!!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Help-Ma-Boab Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 My Flood Lit Funerals business plan never left the boozer either. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806358 Share on other sites More sharing options...
clockworkorange Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Good on these guys. Not going to mug myself and pay those prices but they've started their own business and enough people have bought into the idea to make it a success. More than most the bores on this forum have achieved. Good tats too!Louisa and all those that jump on the same narrow minded grey bandwagon with the slogan "I hate change" I feel it's time you understood what london is. Since the dawn of time it's been a melting pot of people, cultures and ideas. The london you're thinking of didn't,doesn't and never will exist.That is all. Off to buy thick cut toast (granary of course) from an artisan cafe and then spend the morning picking crumbs from my beard and reading poetry. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:> My Flood Lit FuneralsSounds like a bad emo band... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I always wanted to open a pancake cafe in Guildford, but I'm not big on risks. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Help-Ma-Boab Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 The Whole Flood Lit Funeral thing then moved into planning funerals that were a bit different. You know, instead of a hearse an ice cream van etc. That sort of thing. Got as far as the strapline: We put the FUN in FUNeral.anyhow - straying off topic! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Otta Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I always wanted to open a pancake cafe in Guildford, but I'm not big on risks.Is that a joke? I don't get it... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 when hatchet jobs go bad http://usvsth3m.com/post/so-i-visited-the-cereal-killer-cafe-and-what-happened-next-surprised-me Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huggers Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I paid 3.50 for a slice of cake in a place that sold nothing but different varieties of cake, apparently these caked themed slaps in the face of impoverished Shoreditch are called 'Patisseries'. I hope they never take off! Hipster idiots! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Louisa's eyeing up places for her 'Just Cheese on Toast' gaff as I type Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 ???? Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Louisa's eyeing up places for her 'Just Cheese on Toast' gaff as I typeThe menu at Four Quarters consists only of cheese toasties! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Why use the cereal killers? ?2.19 for porridge with banana and honey or fruit compote and unlimited coffee in wetherspoon's......or 3 minutes in the microwave diy oats. Mind you after reading their background- manager of E-lite cigarettes, the other a manager for Superdry, seems like a natural progression.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Harvester : ?3 for unlimited cereal, pancakes and syrup, fruit, toast, crumpets, muffins.Great value. And a thoroughly joyless experience. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806473 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosieH Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Come on Jeremy, if it's a thoroughly joyless experience you're after, who needs Harvester when uncleglen's invited us round to his? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBen Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 My heart for new businesses and creativity is big. And I'm sure they're nice. All hipsters are nice.But they can still both be a couple of cockwombles for coming up with a concept like this. The idea of going out to eat Weetabix you cannot dispute is totally mad. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Jeremy Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Otta Wrote:> --------------------------------------------------> -----> > I always wanted to open a pancake cafe in> Guildford, but I'm not big on risks.> > Is that a joke? I don't get it...No joke. Back around 2001 I spent a lot of time around Guildford (a lot of it with a white cane and a blindfold) and decided that it was a town with shed load of young people, but young people with money. I decided a p[ancake cafe would do well. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miga Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 W. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 but all your examples are going out to a specialist who makes a better product. This is literally weetabix in a bowl isn't it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miga Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 . Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Pibe Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I'm not convinced. But if they want it they will comePeronally I wouldn't invest in a business that was quite so obviously faddish or based upon, essentially, one pun.But who knows, i genuinely wish them luck. And their mum and dad seem nice too!! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806524 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miga Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 . Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 I was under the impression that they specialised in imported American cereals (the ones which are basically sweets in a box). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/43612-hipsters/page/15/#findComment-806527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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