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i hate the dads that are cool with their kids drinking at their houses and they chill and smoke pot with them. creeps. fuck you cool dad.

― Marco Salvetti - world moustache champion (moustache), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you the Kids in the Hall?

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

HE'S HIP
HE'S COOL
HE'S 40

xpost dammit

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

He's 45!
I just logged on to Brucio.com in hopes of finding a pic! But instead I found great (well, funny) writing!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, yeah, NOW he's 45.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

See, I always hate when people tell me to ‘check out their websites.’ It’s become the modern-day equivalent of ‘read my poems,’ some part of me dies. And if I do ‘check one out’ - it’s like an ad for them. An actress I know took a stack of resume pictures to ‘burning man’ - it’s missing the point.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link

45 Year Old Guy: Sharing a Joint
Transcribed from: Comedy Network
Transcribed by: Tanya Doroslovac
Cast:
Bruce- Cool 45 year old
Dave- Son
[Screen Reads:
He's Hip
He's Cool
He's 45]
Bruce: [Dressed in a leather jacket, wearing red glasses. He has long gray hair.] Come on, worms. Save this planet. Gotta do the right thing. [He pours leftovers into a composter.]

Dave: [Walks in the door] Hi father.

Bruce: Hey guy. Listen, son, you were out all night, where were you?

Dave: Uh, out partying.

Bruce: That's cool. Listen, do you want to smoke a doobie with your old man?

Dave: No thanks, Dad. It's ten fifteen in the morning.

Bruce: Your loss. I'll split it with my lawyer.

[Screen Reads:
He's Hip
He's Cool
He's 45]

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

45 Year Old Guy: Vegetarian Chili
Transcribed from: Comedy Network
Transcribed by: Tanya Doroslovac
Cast:
Bruce- Cool 45 year old
Kevin: Vilan, his wife
Dave: Their son
[Screen Reads:
He's Hip
He's Cool
He's 45]
Bruce: Hey Vilan.

Kevin: [Holding dead flowers] Hey. They died beautiful.

Bruce: Nasty.

Kevin: They'll look good... in some room.

[Dave comes in and they all sit around a table.]

Bruce: Hey guy. I made your favorite. Vegetarian chili.

Dave: Great. I better pass the salt, then.

Bruce: Oh, Vilan, before you do, why don't we make the light a little more conducive to dining.

[He presses a button on a remote and strobe lights start flashing.]

Kevin: Far out. [Starts making crazy arm movements.]

[Dave looks at his parents in mystification.]

[Screen Reads:
He's Hip
He's Cool
He's 45]

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

There's another one but it's not transcribed on the kithfan.org page.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, there are a few others that aren't transcribed.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link

You should transcribe them, Nick.

This is dangerous now I could spend all afternoon here.

Oh, I want to show you something. You know what this is? Urine. Another man's urine. I ask for it, and they give it to me! I don't know what to do with it! I've got a fridge full of this stuff.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

My dad plays EA Sports games on his PS2 and is incredibly competitive.

― elmo (allocryptic), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

They're all on season 3 and season 4, which I don't have on DVD, so no transcribing for me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

in real life, cool dads are so uncool to their offspring. i think i have a 'cool dad', but really, he makes me so uncomfortable. my friends love him, though. probably more than me.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Such a sketch-com trope: see also "Doug," from the State! He could never quite pull of surly and misunderstood, because his dad was always him inviting him into the living room to smoke some weed and jam with Bob Dylan.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:10 (nineteen years ago) link

My parents smoked pot a few times, with me present. If I bring it up now - to tell'em they shouldn't be so anti-drugs - they brush it off as though they were forced to smoke pot. *sigh*

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I have been watching KitH season 3 on dvd! If it has any of the other sketches I will transcribe them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i've been watching kith, too! on season one.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

One of our office juniors here was complaining this morning about her dad listening to the new Snoop album in the car. According to her he's too old to be enjoying such things...He's 37 which makes him just over a year older than me.

Is it me or does the fact that their parents might never have grown up properly never occur to people? If I ever have kids I'll probably piss 'em off by listening to the Aphex Twin and Squarepusher...

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's just a matter of continuing to listen to the music you grew up with? My friends are all stuck in the 80's and 90's, and I find it quite hard to penetrate more recent developments. However, that's the only way to go for me (I'm 37), as the prospect of listening to my old records endlessly is much less appealing than trying to grasp, say, Dragonforce or Mink Engine.

This makes me one of these dads I think? I never subscribed to the alleged generation gap anyway. My friends have always been all ages. The generation gap seemed like a passing babyboomer fad to me, and still does.

― moley, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Hell, Snoop's going to be 34 this year. Guess he can't listen to his own records anymore either.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i hate the dads that are cool with their kids drinking at their houses and they chill and smoke pot with them. creeps. fuck you cool dad.

Oh yeah? Well, fuck you UNCOOL MARCO!

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2005-07-10%2016.41.19%20-0700/Image-A59DBCCEF19B11D9.jpg

― Cool Dad in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link

That's crazy awesome.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I see you got your Chucks back!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Whoa, Alex, how many newspapers does a man need?

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

He's so cool he makes his own ultragetto origami diapers outta them!

xpost cute pic mang, you look rugged when sippin

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Whoa, Alex, how many newspapers does a man need?

That looks a lot to me like a single Sunday New York Times. It takes only one paper to make that mess.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I see you got your Chucks back!

Yeah, upon reappraisal, I realized it was the shorts (not the ones I'm wearing in this pic) that were really the problem.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I KNEW IT!

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link

I can see Nigella tacitly approving, too. Besides, that's Corona isn't it? Doesn't count as beer, really.

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Doesn't count as beer, really.

Sez you.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Well I guess it could if you drank enough!

(What can I say? I'm a beer snob, haha.)

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link

awesome photo!
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Any beer that involves shoving a lemon into it just to get any taste at all is pretty dud.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link

But also I didn't want to harsh the general buzz of this thread, 'cos it is indeed an awesome picture, and Alex's boy is a wee gem. And anyway, I'm probably an uncool dad, too!

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 14 July 2005 04:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i think that boy is actually a girl isn't she? she must be the cutest baby in the world i think. and it is a supercool pic.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 14 July 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Something about that picture was really bothering me until I realized I have almost the same couch as Alex!

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 14 July 2005 04:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, you're right, she's a she (oops, a little projection from another proud dad, maybe?). That doesn't change the sentiment, though.

(xpost)

― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 14 July 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, when I give the baby his late-night feeding, I'm usually alternating his sips from his bottle with my sips from mine. He keeps reaching for the beer.

I have a cool dad, I guess. Listened to a lot of rock 'n' roll. Introduced me to the Sex Pistols. He did smoke pot sometimes with his friends, but never around the kids. I didn't smoke a joint with him til I was out of college, and only a couple times since. But it was kinda cool on his 60th birthday to pass around a bowl with him, his sister and cousin, and my little brother. Cool dads are OK.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 14 July 2005 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link

(the band I was in in high school, the guitarist's dad was a Cool Dad. he'd wander down to the basement sometimes while we were playing, bring us beers and pick up a guitar and play for a few songs. it was fun.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 14 July 2005 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Cool dads are alright so long as its respectful of the kids' ability to find their own way. Once they get into the "Well, in my day..." shite, its over, regardless of how benign the advice ends up being.
Teaching them the difference b/t good and bad music, however, is a necessity.

Alex, your daughter is the cutest...the darling of ILM.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 14 July 2005 14:21 (nineteen years ago) link

My father never stops rubbing in the idea of being a young man in the 60's. "Why I'll tell ya son, back in my day random girls would call you up just to ask if you'd like to fuck."

― fuck you cool dad, Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks, all. And yeah, it's a she (we usually hope the little fountainhead sprig of hair which you can just barely make out in the photo -- look under my ear -- sort've in a Pebbles Flintstone stylee -- would keep people from guessing boy).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

nineteen years pass...

This is actually a nice story

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/21/father-vinyl-records-instagram

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 30 December 2024 20:33 (four days ago) link

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