What it is to be cool - Page 2

Strangler Lewis · 04-11-2007, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Personally, I enjoy the envy, resentment, and perceived elitism of coolness, or as I prefer to coin it, swank.

That's hot.™

3894 · 04-12-2007, 06:53 AM

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Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Personally, I enjoy the envy, resentment, and perceived elitism of coolness, or as I prefer to coin it, swank.

Swank is Jean Harlow in a bias-cut Madame Vionnet gown, trailing a velvet evening wrap behind her as she slinks towards you. Swank is light years beyond cool. That is the genius of swank and the LoT.

Capt Jack · 04-11-2007, 09:58 PM

so the only thing cool now is hip-hop?

that is deeply disappointing

mousepod · 04-11-2007, 10:02 PM

C'mon Yolanda, what's Fonzie like?

Ghoulish Delight · 04-12-2007, 08:15 AM

The timeline's been edited out (you can still see it by going into the history of the page). I like the format, but the data's pretty stupid. Not only is it rather one-dimensional to consider HipHop and electronica the only forms of cool music left (someone hasn't seen the Coachella lineup), it rather narrowly defines music as the only cool-indicator in modern times. Lame.

blueerica · 04-12-2007, 09:37 AM

Oh... the differences between hot and cool. Hot is more of an extreme, temperature-wise, so I always translated likewise. Once upon a time, I thought something being called "hot" was extremely out of the ordinary, something exciting... Thanks to Paris Hilton, and anyone else who overused the phrase, it now means... Lukewarm.

Cool is not having to worry about whether you're cool or not, and having the confidence to carry it off. That's cool.

MouseWife · 04-12-2007, 10:20 AM

Thank you, that explains the difference clearly.

LSPoorEeyorick · 04-12-2007, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by blueerica

Cool is not having to worry about whether you're cool or not, and having the confidence to carry it off. That's cool.

Cool means never having to say you're sorry.

Or wait. Is that love? Or is that bull****?

mousepod · 04-12-2007, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick

Cool means never having to say you're sorry.

Or wait. Is that love? Or is that bull****?

"Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes."
- John Lennon

...and he was cool.

ozron · 04-12-2007, 12:29 PM

I think each generation defines what is "cool" for them. I remember a time when Barry Manilow was cool. And Maynard Ferguson. And Abba.

Things are a little different for our kids. We were raised by parents who didn't get rock and roll. Our kids share that with us. Erin is big into Queen, Bowie, and Tull, and is going through a big Beatles phase right now.

Still, fashions change, and there will always be something to make parents say, "What is up with that?"

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Capt Jack check your head Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,174	so the only thing cool now is hip-hop? that is deeply disappointing __________________ a clear conscience is a sure sign of a fuzzy memory
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	The timeline's been edited out (you can still see it by going into the history of the page). I like the format, but the data's pretty stupid. Not only is it rather one-dimensional to consider HipHop and electronica the only forms of cool music left (someone hasn't seen the Coachella lineup), it rather narrowly defines music as the only cool-indicator in modern times. Lame. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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blueerica Nueve Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 6,497	Oh... the differences between hot and cool. Hot is more of an extreme, temperature-wise, so I always translated likewise. Once upon a time, I thought something being called "hot" was extremely out of the ordinary, something exciting... Thanks to Paris Hilton, and anyone else who overused the phrase, it now means... Lukewarm. Cool is not having to worry about whether you're cool or not, and having the confidence to carry it off. That's cool. __________________ Tomorrow is the day for you and me
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MouseWife Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Da' Beach Posts: 2,957	Thank you, that explains the difference clearly. __________________ Summa' time....when the livins' easy.........
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ozron The once and former... Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 421	I think each generation defines what is "cool" for them. I remember a time when Barry Manilow was cool. And Maynard Ferguson. And Abba. Things are a little different for our kids. We were raised by parents who didn't get rock and roll. Our kids share that with us. Erin is big into Queen, Bowie, and Tull, and is going through a big Beatles phase right now. Still, fashions change, and there will always be something to make parents say, "What is up with that?"
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