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When did cool become uncool?

Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, November 20, 2010, 08:51:05 PM

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The Good Reverend Roger

#15
November 21, 2010, 02:34:37 AM
Quote from: Nigel on November 21, 2010, 02:33:05 AM
I don't KILL hipsters. I AM hipsters.

ALL OF IT.

Then you have to be filled with so much irony that nothing can ever, ever be cool again, because it's not authentic.

And then Lenny Bruce will come back from the dead and BECOME SHIVA, DESTROYER OF OREGON.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
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"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#16
November 21, 2010, 02:41:53 AM
"Irony" and "Authenticity" are projections of the observer.

I will wear my "PROUD TO BE AWESOME" T-shirt and my comfy ratty blue hoodie, and my $5 Mossimo jeans off eBay, and my black Doc Martens, and I will go help Mr. Language finish moving and then I will go get a cheap bourbon at Biddy McGraws because that is where my friend's gospel band is playing, (which is a cool band now so young people who like cool things go to see them), with my pink bangs, and observers will see a hipster. That is all that matters; the hipster is actually created by the act of observation; by projecting motivations onto strangers, the hipster is created, but only exists during the time it is being observed.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#17
November 21, 2010, 02:44:28 AM
Quote from: Nigel on November 21, 2010, 02:41:53 AM
"Irony" and "Authenticity" are projections of the observer.

I will wear my "PROUD TO BE AWESOME" T-shirt and my comfy ratty blue hoodie, and my $5 Mossimo jeans off eBay, and my black Doc Martens, and I will go help Mr. Language finish moving and then I will go get a cheap bourbon at Biddy McGraws because that is where my friend's gospel band is playing, (which is a cool band now so young people who like cool things go to see them), with my pink bangs, and observers will see a hipster. That is all that matters; the hipster is actually created by the act of observation; by projecting motivations onto strangers, the hipster is created, but only exists during the time it is being observed.

Quantum Hipsters?

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#18
November 21, 2010, 02:46:09 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 21, 2010, 02:44:28 AM
Quote from: Nigel on November 21, 2010, 02:41:53 AM
"Irony" and "Authenticity" are projections of the observer.

I will wear my "PROUD TO BE AWESOME" T-shirt and my comfy ratty blue hoodie, and my $5 Mossimo jeans off eBay, and my black Doc Martens, and I will go help Mr. Language finish moving and then I will go get a cheap bourbon at Biddy McGraws because that is where my friend's gospel band is playing, (which is a cool band now so young people who like cool things go to see them), with my pink bangs, and observers will see a hipster. That is all that matters; the hipster is actually created by the act of observation; by projecting motivations onto strangers, the hipster is created, but only exists during the time it is being observed.

Quantum Hipsters?



BINGO.

I am actually the God Hipster; the singular hipster which exists simultaneously at all points in time and space. I appear to be a different hipster to different observers, but I am brought into existence by the act of observation and cease to exist when I am not being observed.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#19
November 21, 2010, 02:47:04 AM
My face is disturbingly elastic.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Dysnomia

#20
November 21, 2010, 03:15:55 AM
I also say dude (well everyone here still says it cuz it's california and I'm dangerously close to surferland).  and also sick.
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Fredfredly ⊂(◉‿◉)つ

#21
November 21, 2010, 04:37:29 AM
i say groovy and swell :lol:

Epimetheus

#22
November 21, 2010, 07:31:57 AM
I use as much California slang as I can get my hands on. I do it ironically.  :wink:

In regards to OP, I dunno, I don't encounter that kind of intolerance for cool. Doesn't "cool" just mean "I like that"? Disgust for liking cool things makes not a shred of sense to me. I pity the fool who participates in it.
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Jasper

#23
November 21, 2010, 08:13:07 AM
Death to authenticity!

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#24
November 21, 2010, 08:23:01 AM
Quote from: Epimetheus on November 21, 2010, 07:31:57 AM
I use as much California slang as I can get my hands on. I do it ironically.  :wink:

In regards to OP, I dunno, I don't encounter that kind of intolerance for cool. Doesn't "cool" just mean "I like that"? Disgust for liking cool things makes not a shred of sense to me. I pity the fool who participates in it.

There is only one context where that anti-cool judgment comes up, actually.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Eater of Clowns

#25
November 21, 2010, 03:12:06 PM
Quote from: Doktor Vitriol on November 20, 2010, 09:50:39 PM
I was into cool before it was fashionable. My life has been dedicated to the pursuit of cool. I studied the greatest living icon of cool - Fonzie. Anyone wants to slag me off cos Fonzie isn't cool anymore? Witnesses will squeal something along the lines of, "COOL! That guy just tore that other dudes spine out through his asshole. 8)

This.  I watched Happy Days reruns on Nick at Night when I was 10 or so, and The Fonz has been my cool exemplar ever since.  I once Fonzie'd a car whose electrical system was failing.  One good knock to the dashboard flared it all back to life - and there were witnesses.

I should point out that I'm decidedly uncool though, and I'm completely alright with that.
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Dysnomia

#26
November 21, 2010, 05:27:25 PM
LIZZAY IS VERY COOLL



JUST LOOK AT THAT SHIRT
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BabylonHoruv

#27
November 21, 2010, 06:14:12 PM
As someone who was decidedly uncool as a kid and got beat p for it now and then I can't say i am too sad to see cool dying.
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#28
November 21, 2010, 06:16:27 PM
I want that shirt, Lizzie.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

Faust

#29
November 21, 2010, 06:25:32 PM
I don't think I've ever heard cool used here, its not really in the dialect, some of the local synonyms here I Like are:
Boss, Sound and Disco.
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