do you think you are cool

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Does not caring if you are or aren't cool make you cool? Because I'm not, but I don't care at all, so maybe I am.

^^ impt question

Homer: So, I realized that being with my family is more important
than being cool.
Bart: Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool.
Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square".
Lisa: That song is so lame.
Homer: So lame that it's... cool?
Bart+Lisa: No.
Marge: Am I cool, kids?
Bart+Lisa: No.
Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool, not caring,
right?
Bart+Lisa: No.
Marge: Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried
everything here.
Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to
be told you're cool.
Bart: Well, sure you do.
Lisa: How else would you know?

w/e nerds im outta here * flips collar, over the shoulder bird*

sometimes i think i am kinda cool

lamp & ice cr?m & homoii i have it on p good confidence that you are all cool

i think everything brainwashing me as a kid telling me that trying to be cool is NOT cool & just to be myself: that's the coolest rly fucked w/ my head tbh. i know ultimately they were just trying to keep me from smoking cigarettes (which i am graateful for) but trying to be cool & dealing w/ your feelings about your own coolness is an important & complicated part of life in this world. feeling guilty abt wanting to be cool can suck more than just not being cool

I'm not cool, but I'm cool with that.

it's uncool to answer this question

caring abt being cool is integral to being cool but trying to be cool when youre not cool is the least cool

"caring abt being cool is integral to being cool"

sort of

there are only 21,368 ppl worldwide who are cool at any given time so odds are most ppl here are not cool

being cool takes real work, it is nvr effortless, most of the effort is making it seem like no work tho

everything can be done in a cool way, even discussing cool on a msg bord dedicated to discussing how best to ban ppl from msg bords

sunglasses, footwear, how you hold a cigarette, your hair after sex all impt topics

"being cool takes real work"
maybe kind of

Sometimes a bit, mostly not very.

*furiously takes notes*

trying to be cool when youre not cool is the least cool

think this is me tbh

Maybe it's all this pressure of living with a coolaholic.

aw

I think you really need to own a horse to have sprezzatura, or at least be involved in equestrian pastimes.

Pictured: Me

http://gsyoung.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/lgfp1206snoopy-is-joe-cool-charles-schulzs-peanuts-poster3.jpg

uncool people at least have the option to recognize that coolness is a burden and turn away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_HH_jher3c

^^^choreographed by the v cool Kenny Ortega

i mean what is it with cool people talking down being cool anyways, is it like someone eating a delicious cake who doesn't want to share it & so they tell you its not actually that tasty? i think thats it--is that it?

http://files.webmikey.com/images/arts/bello.jpg
is this guy cool
and its cool not to use punctuation right

i think you are cool, abbott

most ilxors are cool imo.

http://static.zoovy.com/img/designed2bsweet/-/4/48_6153.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3316/4581643857_1b7508efc7.jpg

http://grab.by/8Pvf

Nope -- I definitely never drank the cool-aid.

http://www.bboed.org/websites/MathActivities_files/coolmath.gif

I thought all americans were cool by default

if it turns out I'm not actually cool and I've been living a lie for the past decade-plus I'm gonna be pretty pissed

hopefully I won't... LOSE MY COOL

is rafa 'ooh the dole office is telling me i actually have to be a spanish waiter now' benny on that kids legends t shirt?

one's coolness varies depending on context, audience, status of hairdo on particular day, etc. i suspect if you're posting to ilx, in that moment you can only be considered cool by other ilxors.

only because no-one else knows you exist in that moment

ultimately no one is cool if you know them well enough

I wish just taping pictures of space cut out from magazines onto your wall is "cool" for adult decor. I think I am going to give up my ideas abt how an adult should decorate their house bcz I just don't know anything but one extreme.

I have met ice cram. He was pretty cool tbh. I'm not that cool I don't think but at least I'm aware of it.

no one is cool while pooping, you can be cool while peeing, though.

"Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise." — Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

ty 4 yr cool support erica

yw - btw I was just kidding back there - of course I'm fucking cool.

pwn

I'm cool with who I am, whatever that makes me!

honey if u have to ask......

someone just called me burt_stanton and search function tells me he's not cool. so, not cool.

my mom says i'm cool!

my best friends were all Milhouses growing up

L-R: Cares about looking cool, doesn't. Doesn't care about looking cool, does.

― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 8:06 AM Bookmark

Miles Davis cared a shitload about looking cool. You don't wear clothes like he did just by accident because your grandma sent it to you from Marshall's.

the only people who tell me I'm cool are dorky people who don't know cool from a hole in the ground. So, probably I am not very cool. I'm okay with being a nerd.

I'm pretty coal imo.

Not nearly as cool as I need to be

Cool comes from jazz, doh. In that context it is about a relaxed approach to critics or enemies or apathy, other hardships etc. not reacting too much to people who "don't get it". This is in the etymological sources.

Shorty Petterstein - Origin of Jazz Terms

I'm as cool as I need to be.

so basically if I'm uncool I blame society

tbh the cooler I am the more I get fucked with

post on the internet if you're cool

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg9y59EzhC1qfyncko1_400.jpg

tbh the cooler I am the more I get fucked with

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, February 10, 2011 9:15 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

heaters gonna heat

I can't think of anyone I know who's cooler than me. Or less cool, for that matter.

If you were cool in high school
you didn't ask too many questions.
You could tell who'd been to last night's
big metal concert by the new t-shirts in the hallway.
You didn't have to ask
and that's what cool was:
the ability to deduce
to know without asking.
And the pressure to simulate coolness
means not asking when you don't know,
which is why kids grow ever more stupid.

(from david berman, "self-portrait at 28")

― proso_Opopoeia (bernard snowy), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 2:50 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

this is kind of great.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

did some soul searching & decided to vote cool

today I feel cool, but I'm taking that as the exception that proves the rule

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ooooh

Yeah I love that berman poem, thats so perfect.

i'm cool in certain situations, very few of which actually occur with any frequency

it's uncool to answer this question

― homeless romantic (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 1:39 AM (6 days ago)

a lot of uncool people.
i'll look the other way for people who voted while intoxicated

fuck is wrong with 49 of you.
you are all totally the coolest!!!!

aww

cool poll

http://sarahandthegoonsquad.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/fonzie.jpg

^^me basically

if spending one's evenings on a bed filled with Dorito's bags, rap cds, and other various trash, listening to music and posting ILX makes one cool, then.........well.....ahh fuck it

what u do in the sanctity of your own privacy has little bearing on how cool u are imo

fuck is wrong with 49 of you.
you are all totally the coolest!!!!

<3 u tha best ian.

49 lurkers maybe

Aww...

Well, it is winter time, thus making the air cool thus cooling me off.
But no, as the above sentence proves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXZ7C_QxVI

are you cool?

yea

people were mean to me, but I always thought I was cool.

I and my mom think I'm cool.

haha no

i aspire to be a cool dad.
being a cool dad is something to be.

haha me too

i think i do care about being cool, though i am very much aware that being cool or not at my age and status as a dad can only be relative to other people my age or older. i think comparing myself to cool younger people w/o kids is a losing battle, and i'm okay with that.

let me ask you something, would an uncool person be able to do this:

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the sun isn't too cool

marcos i feel like being a cool dad is more about still having niche interests as an adult and being conversant in the music or tv shows that yr kids like and having some of that snarky eye rolling dad humor

definitely, i think being able to responsibly let loose too has been very important in feeling like cool dad, like we had a new years eve party this year and after we put the kids to bed there were a few other parents hanging out and we had a fair amount of booze + a little weed and we joked about parenting shit and music a little and i felt cool again but in a much more chill adult way

i care about being cool but it feels like being cool is an increasingly ridiculous goal as I move further away from my twenties. I have two pairs of slim/skinny black jeans but whenever I try them on I'm like 'meh, who am i kidding'.

You be the judge:

https://werenotfunny.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/hip-dad.jpg

xp being cool is a ridiculous goal at any age but it's p unforgivable after idk 14

pretty cool "vintage" phone there xp