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Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
22:42 / 30.05.03
Are you cool?

A simple yes or no will suffice, but if you want to expand on the why’s and wherefores, that’s a fine.
 
 
Mr Tricks
22:48 / 30.05.03
Hell YEAH!!!

I remember reading that in Kenya or Nirobi the word cool means a responsible adult...

Anyone know when/how the word made it's way into popular use in this context?
 
 
Mazarine
23:05 / 30.05.03
No. I am far too maternal to be cool. And my hair is an absolute disaster.
 
 
Aethelwine Jedi
23:09 / 30.05.03
I am so uncool that anything cool in my presence turns in to ash after 24 hours.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
23:18 / 30.05.03
No. I loved Babylon 5, I read children's books and yesterday I ate a McDonald's and felt mildly disgusted that they've made the take out bags white instead of brown. So not only do I take delight in fantasy and science fiction but I also support pig-dog-capitalist corporations and think about entirely pointless things. Totally not cool.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:24 / 30.05.03
My mom says I'm cool!

Everything's comming up Kegboy!
 
 
Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes
23:37 / 30.05.03
The family across my street wrote: “David is cool” in big letters on the lads window with that snow spray stuff, I couldn’t help but feel sorry for the guy.

About two years after school, I was told that I was "cool". What the fuck? Why didn’t they tell me this when I there, when it mattered?
 
 
sTe
00:02 / 31.05.03
Hell yeah - I am the coolest provisionadio known to man, I have to regularly bat away the non-coolsters who deem to invade my "cool space" whilst simultaneously maintaining the whole cool persona to ensure that all will bask in my shared coolster glory
hang on where did that bottle top just go?
did I mention that I'm very pissed, and that usually I'm just this regular run of the mill slightly cool guy (even though I am attempting to look from drunken reality into t'other I still maintain there must be some bit of cool that shines through) and you know I quite liked both X-men films especially the 2nd one – don’t tell any of the other “cool folk” will you now?
 
 
w1rebaby
00:44 / 31.05.03
I'm cool, apart from the "corporate whore living in the suburbs and doing nothing with his life" bit.
 
 
sTe
02:31 / 31.05.03
dang you got me down to a tee.

I think it's probably time for a bit of a wandering off into the night and starting again from scratch, mind you didn't seem to work previously. Perhaps I can just claim to like a load of obscure bands that nobody else has ever heard of. Any suggestions?
(not that I am insinuating in any way, ok I am, that you can be cool judged on your choice of listening)
 
 
Baz Auckland
03:57 / 31.05.03
Yes.

But only because of my hat.

I'm a big geek otherwise, who has way too much fun with computers...
 
 
Rage
05:27 / 31.05.03
No. I honestly believe I'm a time traveling superhero, as does any horribly ugly high school geek. Metaphysics as a hobby.

Yes. I honestly believe I'm a time traveling superhero, and I'm an attractive female. Metaphysics as a hobby.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
08:06 / 31.05.03
Someone I work with said I was cool. Therefore, I must be.

How uncool.
 
 
Spaniel
08:07 / 31.05.03
Cool vs trendy, anyone?

I was trendy once.

But now I'm in my late twenties and like v-neck jumpers.
 
 
—| x |—
10:49 / 31.05.03
I refuse to answer this question because I think that saying that you're cool detracts from being cool. However, simply because you don't say you're cool doesn't mean you are cool.

But yeah, it might be better to be cool in school...
 
 
Our Lady of The Two Towers
11:02 / 31.05.03
Not cool. And sensibly given up trying.
 
 
Bill Posters
11:09 / 31.05.03
yip, what ze said. Never was, never will be, couldn't care less. Come to think of it, i'm not sure i know what 'cool' means anyway.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:57 / 31.05.03
I'm not cool at all.

But I do rock.
 
 
—| x |—
15:02 / 31.05.03
Rocking is certainly a fair trade for coolness. Now to be cool and rock, well that's something else entirely!
 
 
unheimlich manoeuvre
16:46 / 31.05.03
no. i feel the quest for cool is the myth of the materialists.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:49 / 31.05.03
Bill: Well, by "cool", we mean "totally sweet".
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:55 / 31.05.03
Yeah, I'm definitely cool.
 
 
iconoplast
17:22 / 31.05.03
*pinches bridge of nose, squints.*

Like, how?
 
 
that
17:31 / 31.05.03
No, not cool. Never tried to be. Is it an innate thing? Like, Druss the Legend cool (now you see why I am not cool) - a quality? Or is it a function of knowing the right way to be?

I used to try to be *weird*, when I was at school, but it actually turned out I was reasonably weird without trying.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:46 / 31.05.03
How does thinking Druss is cool make you uncool? Druss is awesomely cool!
 
 
that
17:55 / 31.05.03
Druss *is* awesomely cool (though personally I prefer Waylander - the tortured soul bit works for me, and anyway, the crossbow thing just rocks...but that's beside the point). People have this tendency to disdain fantasy for reasons that are still unclear to me. Even those who happily open their lives and minds to comic book heroes in lycra pants and to SF seem to find fantasy novels...faintly embarrassing, lacking in some way. I might start a thread on it, actually.
 
 
Trijhaos
18:39 / 31.05.03
No, of course I'm not cool. Never have been, never will be. I tried to be cool once since in this godforsaken town, cool = popular, but it backfired on me. Nowadays, I'm happy just doing my own thing.
 
 
samthatguy
18:44 / 31.05.03
A girl at a nightclub once said to me 'You think you're SO cool!'

Therefore, I have concluded that I must be cool.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
20:59 / 31.05.03
Uh, when using "cool" in this sense, it's best to use the Czech-like "khuul."

I may or may not be cool--obviously, if you were cool, you wouldn't have to ask--but I have cool jeans and a cool jean jacket, a cool apartment, and lots of cool stuff, like a totally cool geological survey of the Isle of Mull from 1959 on a wooden plaque, and a gargoyle with a cool laptop, and a cool parallel rule, and houseplants that are also rather cool. And I have the same birthday as Lou Reed, who I'm listening to right now*. So that's all cool.

*Seriously, he's right here and he won't shut up. Goddam drug addicts.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
01:09 / 01.06.03
I'd prefer to know who among us is Zuul. So if they ask me if I'm a god, I can say that I am.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
03:15 / 01.06.03
I think it's probably best if we don't ask who among us is Zulu. Unless they choose to reveal it themselves, of course.
 
 
eye landed
07:02 / 01.06.03
I don't need to be "cool" as long as I'm not "gay."









...what?
 
 
pomegranate
14:32 / 01.06.03
some people think i'm cool.
i've done some cool things.
i have some cool things.
i have some cool tastes.
i have some cool outfits.
i'm into some cool things.
i feel i'm losing my edge, though, i think i used to be cooler. i think growing up can take away from yr coolness.
that's it, i got a new m.o....twenty-one 4 life!!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
16:13 / 01.06.03
God, do you even need to ask?

When I was a deeply insecure teenager, I used to use 'cool' in a pejorative sense all the time, because I thought it meant being into football and happy hardcore and hitting me. Then I grew up, moved to London, and realised that my own personal definition of 'cool' in the sense of 'good and righteous and beautiful' was the true definition all along.

So, yeah, I'm about the fifth coolest person on this message board. Impress me with your coolness and I might let you in on who the top four are. If you're lucky.
 
 
Sax
19:37 / 01.06.03
I'm not cool, but I am positively fucking trojan.
 
  

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