What is cool? Is it desirable to be cool?

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I wish to know.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Friday, 20 June 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

If you don't know, we can't tell you!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Thierry Henry to thread - va-va voom.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:02 (twenty-two years ago)

If you have to ask....

http://www.thestudentzone.com/articles/images/fonz.jpg
AYYYYYY!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Thought so!
http://www.ananova.com/images/web/59225.jpg

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 20 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that nabisco?

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Cool is, like, 50-60 F. I certainly like it to be cool

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 20 June 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh that's so cool.
destroy - cool
"Hipster" as pejorative.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

according to google's img search function, this is what cool is:
http://alan.levien.com/alan-cool-fu.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

this is what cool looks like:

― hstencil, Friday, 20 June 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

This is what cool has for breakfast:
http://www.davelandweb.com/breakfast.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Call me thick but is that Adam Yauch there on the right?

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Friday, 20 June 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you think that whole bike messenger look would catch on, thicke?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 June 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Robots are cool.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 20 June 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. Burns: "I specificly said no geeks."
Milhouse: "But my mom says I'm cool."

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Looks like cool went out to eat at local eatery Le Peep for breakfast. (Really, it looks similar to that, right down to the plates.)

I think I'd rather be loved than be considered "cool". The "cool" label can be as much of a repellant to people in general Out There as the "respected" label can be. And right now, feeling the way I feel, even though everyone else around here can be considered "very cool" and Lord knows I could use some more "cool" points, I'm still yearning more for love.

― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 21 June 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris P is OTM w.r.t. being cool

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 21 June 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was about 14, cool was "crusing" in my cousin Andy's MG (top down) with Scritti Politti, Roxy Music and - somewhat incongruously - Robert Palmer tapes playing loudly. And wearing shades.

I now wear a grey Marks and Spencers fleece, an HM Supplies camouflage hat and plastic clip-on shades over my Specsaver glasses. I drive a K-reg Ford Mondeo and listen to Nick Lowe.

So, I don't suppose I'm qualified to discuss cool.

― Matthew Adam Thurgood (Matt T), Saturday, 21 June 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"Crusing"? Did we really crus? Disgusting.

― Matthew Adam Thurgood (Matt T), Saturday, 21 June 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

This is cool.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 21 June 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

cool

http://main.wgbh.org/imax/shackleton/images/image-antarctica-one-large.jpg

― di smith (lucylurex), Sunday, 22 June 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the movie "Tron" is cool, and so is Boddington's Pub Ale in pint cans with the widget. Another thing that's cool is being able to run really, really fast and kill people with your bare hands. Cool is totally desirable, even if you have to spend all your money to get it.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 22 June 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

http://members.aol.com/path2005/private/Da_Flame.jpg

― ss, Sunday, 22 June 2003 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

i am cool because: my mum is out of the house, i'm up past 12, i've got a bag of haribo sour mix & a bottle of cherry coke & vodka, i'm bumping joe budden and rasclaat, i've finished college for summer and i only have my pyjama bottoms on

― ssean, Sunday, 22 June 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

SS, your picture as caused mass hilarity at our house.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 22 June 2003 07:09 (twenty-two years ago)

So was Ferris Bueller's Day off cool? And what characters in the film were cool?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 23 June 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Being cool is wearing a leather jacket, and being a nerd is wearing a wool jacket. So the cool wears the skin, and the nerd wears the fur. That's because the cool dares to fight the animal, but the nerd respects the animal's life and the economic advantages of re-using the same resource. So if you want to be cool, be a fighter on the street, and if you want to be a nerd, keep a pet with long fur.

― maryann (maryann), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:06 (twenty-two years ago)

also you're cool if you know all the new hip music but you're a chump if you actually buy all the new hip music

― duane, Monday, 23 June 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Duane fights his cat on the street.

― maryann (maryann), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:34 (twenty-two years ago)

also rabbits

― duane, Monday, 23 June 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I've spent most of my life up to this point trying to be cool, and sometimes it's even worked, but I'm tired now.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 23 June 2003 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it cool to not worry about whether you're cool or not? Cos that sounds really daggy to me, and yet, and yet...

OK, let me rephrase that into a clearer question. Is it cool to be ultra self conscious, to the extent that you choreograph your every move; or is it cool to be ultra unselfconscious, to the extent that you never even think about your own actions?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

http://www.saasta.fi/saasta/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/awesome_takes_practice.jpeg

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:18 (sixteen years ago)

I took a vow seven years ago to always be awesome.

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago)

omg

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago)

I used to have If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open?.

― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago)

Being cool is doing what you want because you genuinely want to do it, without worrying whether or not other people think it's cool.

― snoball, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago)

laurel r u serious if so do you still have it somewhere why because it look intersting

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago)

$1, schef

http://cgi.ebay.com/If-God-Loves-Me-Why-Cant-I-Get-My-Locker-Open-Devoti_W0QQitemZ250330355985QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Childrens_Books?hash=item250330355985&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

― omar little, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago)

lol

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CJASVZTAL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago)

http://i.biblio.com/z/749/951/9780849951749.jpg

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GW9FMC8ML._SL500_.jpg

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/21H96BGZNVL._SL500_AA140_.jpg

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

is that brad pitt xpost

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

aw man cool4christ.com only has one t shirt and it sucks

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

"If God Loves Me Why Can't I Post An Image To ILX Properly?"

― snoball, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

Actually, getting toothpaste back into the tube isn't that hard. All you need is a big syringe.

― snoball, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

No, I don't know what happened to it, and anyway that wasn't the cover I don't think.

― One Community Service Mummy, hold the Straightedge Merman (Laurel), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago)

UPDATED & EXPANDED

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GXVK6G8WL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

I had jury duty in Florida about 12 years ago (1996?).

I wore wide-legged black dress pants with my shirt+tie. My hair was "all one length", to my shoulders.

Some girl befriended me, but quickly, began analyzing me (as a way to find common ground I guess -- i did get the sense she was into me, but apprehensive about our differences).

Her, smiling: "I bet you sleep in a coffin, don't you?"

Me: "Uh, that's kind of insulting, but if you're asking if I'm goth, the answer is a firm no."

Her: "You don't look like you dress up everyday. Not in a shirt and tie."

Me: "No, my job doesn't require it, so I only wear ties on occasion these days."

Her: "I bet you hate Rush Limbaugh, don't you?"

Me: "I find his show kinda fun sometimes solely for button pushing, but if you're saying I'm not in his demographic politically, you're right"

At this point, a 40-something used car salesmen looking dude interjected.

Him: "Oh, you don't like Rush? That's coo'."

Her: "I do! I love him. He speaks the truth!"

Him: "Oh, you like Rush, that's coo'."

Her (to me): "I bet you think he's full of shit, don't you?"

Me: "Whatever, I'm not really trying to get into a political debate today, just understand that I'm not in whatever demographic you have me pegged for."

Her: "Oh, you're one of those 'different' people who are just like every other person who says they're 'different', huh?"

Him: "Hey! Being different is coo'."

Her: "Not me. trying to be different like everyone else is not different. It's the same."

Him: "Oh, you don't like different? That's coo'."

They got into a conversation, and after about 9 more "that's coo'", I tuned them out completely, and ditched them when they called lunch.

I think they slept together afterward.

― i am truley sorry for your lots (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago)

WIKITRAGEDY

― venom boners are totally canon (nickalicious), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago)

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