Hipsters aren't weird, their avoidance of mainstream culture makes them predictable and just this generation's equivalent of beatniks and hippies. Every generation has kids struggling to find their identity and be different then ironically become part of a whole group that tries to do that and end up being the same again.
But....dont you guys over there, class 'hipsters' as anyone who's into a sub-culture? Coz anyone into a sub-culture, is deliberately avoiding mainstream culture - so hipsters are goths, skaters, punks, metallers, hiphoppers, artists, any fucker without 2.4 children and a mortgage, then?
Bit too much of a blanket term, that.
Also, love people naming stuff like goths, hip-hoppers before, I don't know.....crushing? (women trampling small animals to death), men dressed as giant babies? plushies?
Seriously, if a goth is weird, think about how weird the subcultures are that don't even venture into public.
EDIT - After mulling over the 'hipster' term some more, and looking at how these people you call Hipsters in the U.S dress.....I am still clueless.
Some of them resemble underground hip-hop fans - dress a bit preppy, listen to instrumental hiphop or Flying Lotus or something. Some resemble hardcore kids (punk hardcore, that is) - skinny jeans, white t-shirt, shitloads of sleeve tattoos and massive flesh tunnels.
Others just look like beatnik/arty types. But over here, I'd just refer to them as 'arty farty types'. Scarves indoors and all that jazz. Over here, these guys would never go to a dubstep or drum n bass night, coz drug-taking is for the 'riff-raff'. I guess things work a bit differently over there!