Participants put together fake beard on teammate's face during facial hairstyling competition (© THOMAS PETER/Reuters)
Participants put together fake beard on teammate's face during facial hairstyling competition (© THOMAS PETER/Reuters)

You might not be hip enough for these pics of the 'Hipster Olympics'

7/23/2012

Hipsters are always vying to out-cool one another, but over the weekend the competition among them soared to really obscure levels you've probably never heard of. Dozens of way-trendier-than-you young people turned out at the "Hipster Olympics," held in the world's hipster capital of Berlin, to compete in ironically cool events. These included "Horn-Rimmed Glasses Throw," "Skinny Jeans Tug-O-War," "Vinyl Record Spinning Contest" and "Cloth Tote Sack Race." Strangely, many of the winners looked genuinely cheerful — who knew those aloof hipsters were capable of showing genuine emotion?

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