One of the funniest things I've seen in awhile. Hipster Superheroes!

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

Did you ever see those pics of superheroes dressed up like hipsters? Well, they were funny. CollegeHumor.com found them funny enough to create a animated video about them. It had me rolling! Enjoy!

"Please. Hulk only smashing ironically."

Yes, Snake-Eyes approves.

Comments

[psychopathicus_rex]

'Poseur'?

[salinea]

It's French therefore per se charged with meanings of snobbishness and arrogance.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Oh. Right. Makes sense. What does it mean, though?

[salinea]

huh, hard to define. Someone who likes posturing about who they are and the things they like in order to appeal more cool and distinguished and look down on other people, kinda?

[psychopathicus_rex]

So basically, if 'posers' HAS any sort of French root, that's it.

[salinea]

No: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseur

The term coined from the French verb "poser" in the 1870s, to refer to people who "affect an attitude or pose"; earlier versions of the verb in Old French meant "to put or place". Etymonline, an online etymology dictionary, argues that since the "word is Eng.[English] poser in Fr.[French] garb", thus it "could itself be considered an affectation."[2]

Dictionary.com says the word refers to "a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not."[1] The Merriam-Webster dictionary notes that the term was also used to refer to a "person who pretends to be what he or she is not" or an "insincere person".[3] The Encarta dictionary states that the term is used to describe a "pretentious person" or "somebody who tries to impress others by behaving in an affected way".[4] The Cambridge Dictionary defines a "poseur" as "someone who pretends to be something they are not, or to have qualities that they do not have."[5]

Many individuals misspell the word as Poser, which by Merriam-Webster's definition is either "a puzzling or baffling question" or "a person who poses" as if for a portrait.

It's a common misspelling of poseur.

[psychopathicus_rex]

So 'poseurs' is, in fact, NOT an affectation; it's just being accurate, but everyone will think it is, because it sounds more French.
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Oy.