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Flying Mullet
05-07-2004, 07:54 PM
You hear people call a lot of things and people cool, but what exactly is "cool"?

What makes something or someone "cool" to you?

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The Captain
05-07-2004, 07:56 PM
Air conditioning.

Seriously though, cool is just a stereotype we use to show status. It's tough to really say what "cool" is. I'd say it's a metaphor for someone who is confident being themselves.

Take care all.

Breine
05-07-2004, 08:48 PM
If I describe a person as 'cool', then the person is laid back and confident... :cool:

Peegee
05-07-2004, 09:02 PM
My mom says I'm cool

Ichy
05-07-2004, 09:02 PM
Mud, from that old Star Trek episode where he makes robot clones of his wife, is cool.

Dragonflame
05-07-2004, 09:14 PM
My mom says I'm cool

Is that really a good thing?

Del Murder
05-08-2004, 05:39 AM
Being cool means not caring if you're cool.

Yamaneko
05-08-2004, 05:46 AM
Just watch that Simpsons episode where they go to Hullabalooza.

Peegee
05-08-2004, 05:56 AM
Yes, because "the Simpsons" can capture the essence of a social concept in a twenty minute animated segment.

Casey
05-08-2004, 05:57 AM
Whats cooler then cool? Ice cold! :cool:

Misfit
05-08-2004, 05:59 AM
Being cool means not caring if you're cool.
Del wins!

BatChao
05-08-2004, 06:59 AM
I actually don't say cool anymore.... I usually say like neat-o or awesome or something like that. Hmmm.. actually, I say sweet a lot for some reason now.

Rainecloud
05-08-2004, 07:09 AM
Do people still say "Cool?" I haven't heard that one for a long time.

As far as I'm concerned, if the temperature is slightly colder than normal, it's cool. I've never used that word to describe something that I might consider impressive or amazing. I certainly wouldn't use it to describe any of my human colleagues, either.

"Yowza" or "Phat" are appropriate substitutes for "Cool". ;)

Peegee
05-08-2004, 07:18 AM
I say it, but just as a synonym for 'great'.

Del Murder
05-08-2004, 07:26 AM
I say 'That's cool' or 'I'm cool' a lot to mean 'No, thank you'.

Meat Puppet
05-08-2004, 07:38 AM
When a cool person does a cool thing but if a dumb person does a cool thing that just what you call "trying too hard". And if a cool person is cool enough, he or she can do a dumb thing, making themselves super kool.

Peegee
05-08-2004, 07:47 AM
Plus they get to sit at the cool table at school.

Meat Puppet
05-08-2004, 08:02 AM
I OWN the cool table at school. Well, I do until the cool people come.

Loony BoB
05-08-2004, 09:41 AM
Cool is rad. And by rad, I mean groovy. And by groovy, I mean ace. And by ace, I mean awesome. And by awesome, I mea tubular. And by tubular, I mean sweet. And by sweet, I mean gnarly. And by gnarly, I mean rocking.

That's why rocking chairs are so cool.

Psychotic
05-08-2004, 02:55 PM
Maybe I'll begin to spell it as kewl, and see how annoyed other people get :D

Peegee
05-08-2004, 05:02 PM
Actually being cool is just being the alpha male or female, which means absolutely nothing on a relative scale. For example lots of girls go to anime conventions because the absence of 'really attractive' females lowers the relative scale, thus making them the alpha female. It's true, if you think about it.

There's this really silly picture somewhere of a girl with her legs bent in a 90* angle in front of a cosplayer in a Trigun (If you've forgotten, I call Vash Trigun. I still do) costume (maybe if she were more daring she wouldn't have to hold her leg up and could lean up against the guy, but then that would be too daring and her parents might find out and take away her online chatting privileges). I'm sure you might have seen it (if not I have no idea where it came from). I looked at it, scoffed, then realised that that girl was probably one of the 'hottest' girls there.

Shows how good being cool is, actually.

Logan
05-08-2004, 05:02 PM
Cool is rad. And by rad, I mean groovy. And by groovy, I mean ace. And by ace, I mean awesome. And by awesome, I mea tubular. And by tubular, I mean sweet. And by sweet, I mean gnarly. And by gnarly, I mean rocking.

That's why rocking chairs are so cool.

Awesome is the best word there.

Yamaneko
05-08-2004, 06:16 PM
BoB: Those words died with Super Mario World. :(

Loony BoB
05-08-2004, 06:39 PM
Awesome is the best word there.
I reckon!

TasteyPies
05-08-2004, 07:44 PM
I usualy say "cool" whenever someone whants my opinion on something that i think is incredibly stupid.

Little kid: Hey isn't this game neat?
Me: yeah its cool.

Lindy
05-08-2004, 08:00 PM
I'm cool, and by cool I mean cold.

And by cold, I mean I hate all cool people.

Erdrick Holmes
05-08-2004, 08:05 PM
If you can lift 1.5x your bodywright you're cool
If you can play a fighting game even half as good as me you're cool
If you can belch loud enough to echo for 5 minutes you're cool

Rase
05-08-2004, 08:10 PM
You wanna know what cool is?

http://www.retrocollection.com/lieb/lbr6895f.jpg

That's cool. Joe Cool.

Linus
05-08-2004, 10:26 PM
http://loonybob.homestead.com/files/llama.gif

MecaKane
05-08-2004, 11:48 PM
I agree with Linus 100%

War Angel
05-09-2004, 01:10 AM
<---- Cool

*ETERNAL FANTASY*
05-09-2004, 07:50 AM
everyone has differeing definitions of what "cool" is.....mine would simply be someone who is laid back and be themselves 100%....never influence by what other people do or say in a commercial society....that for me is cool....

Jack
05-10-2004, 12:59 PM
Whatever everyone else says and nothing I ever say

Flying Mullet
05-10-2004, 03:06 PM
BoB: Those words died with Super Mario World. :(
Those are still cool levels :strut: