I ordered a free record player (called “turntable”) from Vine. I’m going to listen to records of Christmas songs (“Have Yourselves a Merry Little Christmas”, etc) on it.
I’m not sure whether that makes me a hipster or an old fart.
Hipster or Old?
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Clarissa's Blog 
I identify as a hipster fart: obnoxious and stinky!
(With very little sleep, I am all giddy and a little loopy, so potty humor seems hilarious.)
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I’m always up for potty humor! 😃
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Both! You’re an old hipster fart!
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Starchika
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Well now we are totally coming for the holidays!
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Finally, I found a way to lure you here. 😍
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So are you getting a 3-speed turntable, in case you find some old 78’s in your mother’s attic?
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I don’t understand half of the words you used. 😃
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Starting in the 1950s, standard “record players” (stand-alone turntables that had their own speakers and power) had three different playing speeds:
33-1/3 r.p.m. — to play 12″ diameter LPs (long-playing records that had multiple songs on each side)
45 r.p.m. — to play the smaller 7″ diameter records with the large hole in the middle that had one song on each side
78 r.p.m. — to play the by-then obsolete 10″ diameter records that had been around for decades until the 45 r.p.m. records replaced them
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Oh, I remember the ones with one song and a single single. 😃
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Join the club! I’m sure you’d love it. As an aside, I feel ‘Hipster’ has become a catch-all term to describe ‘someone who I find socially threatening, but I can’t articulate why’.
If your blog weren’t so popular I’d post a picture of our hipstastic turntable set up.
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Gosh, I am old because I still thought it was hip to be a hipster. 😊
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