When did cool become uncool?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I've never heard "sound" or "disco". "Boss" is funny... I think it was popular in the States in the 50's, so it's maybe a sort of retro thing?

[Payne]

"Sound" is also used in Scotland occasionally, I dunno if it's used here in the sarf of England. I have heard people using "Fair" as in in "Fair Enough" without the enough here, but that may not be in anyway related. I find some of the locals ritual practices to be quite impenetrable at times.

I use "sound" and "cool" regularly, as if I have any kind of authority on what qualifies. I am more likely to say "Indubitably", or to declare "Indeed!" when someone uses their own authority to judge something cool.

I like indubitably, it's a great word.

[Juana]

I've noticed this as well, in my sisters particularly. We were shopping yesterday, and the middle one shied away from buying a pair of neat rainboots because they were cool and she didn't want to be a hipster. I told her that them being cool was a reason to buy them and fuck anyone who said otherwise.


"Cool" and "fuck/hell yeah, that's awesome" are the usual way of expressing appreciation amongst my friends.

[Faust]

Overheard another one in the shop tonight:

That's savage.

[Telarus]

My gay, Irish, Jewish, Buddhist friend always used to tell me to "stay frosty".

That's an RWHN level pun, right there ("Nirvana/Nibahna" means 'a cooling process, a cool/tranquil state').