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Are you "deck"?

 
 
pomegranate
17:01 / 25.03.03
So I got this book for my birthday, The Hipster's Handbook. It's pretty funny cos many many times it's dead on. But there's this one thing: the author insists that hipsters say "deck" to mean cool. Also "fin" to mean uncool. I know absolutely no one who says these things and so I was wondering if anyone here does.
I didn't think this should be in the Books section cos it's really only peripherally related. But I could be wrong.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
17:57 / 25.03.03
I'm so deck, I'm a dick.
 
 
Baz Auckland
18:40 / 25.03.03
Is it an American book? It could be some odd corner of the world where the author wrote it, or it could be some kids putting him on?

"So do you guys still say...'cool...?"
"Nah, we say 'deck'"
 
 
Cat Chant
19:15 / 25.03.03
Happy birthday!
 
 
pomegranate
19:24 / 25.03.03
Aww thanks Deva!
Yea, it's an American book. Very. I suppose some kids could be putting him on, but the rest of it is quite accurate, funnily so. It's satirical yet true. Mostly. Anyway. If anything, I think the author is putting the *readers* on, like people will read this book and think that's what hipsters say, so they'll say it, so then it really *will* be what hipsters say. You get the idea.
 
 
lolita nation
20:03 / 25.03.03
I'm dreck.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
09:08 / 26.03.03
Perhaps it's a reference to Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck, agreed by many discerning hipsters to be a gifted yet oddly underrated wordsmith?

 
 
rizla mission
09:58 / 26.03.03
I don't recall my Dictionary of Hipster Slang containing any reference to deck = cool. Sounds like some kinda lame-brained jive to me.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
11:28 / 26.03.03
Yeah, I'm deck.

Poop deck, motherfuckers!
 
 
Sax
14:14 / 26.03.03
I'm more of an Ant.
 
 
The Falcon
15:08 / 26.03.03
Perhaps it's a reference to Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck, agreed by many discerning hipsters to be a gifted yet oddly underrated wordsmith?

Perhaps, but I found 'Uncontrolled Substance' something of a disappointment.

Like Qalyn, people are always calling me a 'deck', so I guess I'm cool.
 
  
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