Hey.
A week or so ago, I took a mental health day from work and hit an area North of Brisbane - one well known for a variety of breaks.

Also seems to hold an unnatural population of hipsters.

Anyway, I end up at a reasonably quiet break. Small crowd. Maybe a dozen, or a touch more, in the water. And there was a crew of 7 or 8 hipsters.

Yep, not a leg rope between then.
About half or more were on beat up old boards, with rails and repairs made from duct tape.
Of course, some bushy beards.
One in a wetsuit vest that's unzipped, and one in one of those beaver tail jobbies.
etc etc

All of those I've seen a thousand times between all the various hipsters on longboards.

Here's what got me: three of them were wearing mutilated and falling apart wetsuits.
"ze goggles, zey do nothing".
First one I noticed, I literally thought the poor bugger spent thousands on his beat up 1966 board, and that he was still on 2-minute noodle rations and thus no wet suit. Then I noticed the others. They couldn't all be too poor to buy a $50 wetsuit from Target. Or $10 from a thrift store.

Of course, there was the one that I would bet my left nut on (and it's still functional) that the owner had carefully taken a razor blade to it and selectively sliced it up.

Some of the hipster crap I can kinda get, almost see the point etc - but not this fad of torn up wet suits.
It really just angered me. Shows how uncool I'm becoming.

Cheers!