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What makes you "cool"

Soviestan
27-09-2008, 04:39
We've had the uncool thread, so what makes you cool?
Sdaeriji
27-09-2008, 04:40
Air conditioning.
El Aces
27-09-2008, 04:46
Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-09-2008, 04:52
Air conditioning.
Ice cubes stuffed down the front of my underwear.
Oh, yeah, that's brisk. Oh, yeah, oh, oh, yeah . . .

Er, ahem. Sorry, I didn't mean to keep typing what I was thinking, it just sort of all came out.
RhynoD
27-09-2008, 04:57
Making fun of everyone else on this forum.
Anti-Social Darwinism
27-09-2008, 05:25
It's Fall, nights are chilly, days are cool. Snow's coming. I'm cool.
Cannot think of a name
27-09-2008, 05:26
Smoking, clearly.
JoJuJoJeJeJa
27-09-2008, 05:29
Hookahs
Soviestan
27-09-2008, 05:30
Hookahs

Very true, I love hookah
New Texoma Land
27-09-2008, 05:49
My body temperature averages a cool 97.1F rather than the 98.6F of the majority of people.
Alexandrian Ptolemais
27-09-2008, 06:47
My body temperature averages a cool 97.1F rather than the 98.6F of the majority of people.

My body temperature is measured in metric you ningcompoop.

In terms of cool; I just need an open window to make me cool. Being serious though, absobloodylutely nothing of mine makes me cool.
Ryadn
27-09-2008, 07:18
One of the great things about working with young children is that you are always cool to them, even when they claim to hate you. You're twice as tall as they are, you wield the ultimate authority over snack time, and you can read. And sometimes you have Batman stickers. Uber cool.
Cannot think of a name
27-09-2008, 07:25
One of the great things about working with young children is that you are always cool to them, even when they claim to hate you. You're twice as tall as they are, you wield the ultimate authority over snack time, and you can read. And sometimes you have Batman stickers. Uber cool.

Plus, you can smoke.
Ryadn
27-09-2008, 07:29
Plus, you can smoke.

I can! But I actually can't. :/ I had to stop when I started teaching. Not that I was ever a smoker, exactly, but... okay, no, working at a newspaper made me a smoker. But little kids, and more importantly their grown-up handlers, can smell smoke on you, and the latter do not find it cool. :(
Cannot think of a name
27-09-2008, 07:32
I can! But I actually can't. :/ I had to stop when I started teaching. Not that I was ever a smoker, exactly, but... okay, no, working at a newspaper made me a smoker. But little kids, and more importantly their grown-up handlers, can smell smoke on you, and the latter do not find it cool. :(
My job makes me smoke. It's the long periods of time doing fuck all waiting for an emergency. Eventually, you need a smoke.
Barringtonia
27-09-2008, 07:42
It simply seems to be my natural state of being, little I can do about it even if I wanted to.
Arcticity
27-09-2008, 09:23
Figure Skating is a very good way to keep cool.
Exilia and Colonies
27-09-2008, 09:25
Solid gold fridge
Vault 10
27-09-2008, 15:32
what makes you cool?
High speed with the top down on an early winter morning.
Hurdegaryp
27-09-2008, 15:34
My underground death metal fridge magnets, as well as my deejaying skills.
Lunatic Goofballs
27-09-2008, 15:39
A thin layer of mud. *nod*
New Genoa
27-09-2008, 16:17
Hookers and blow
Katganistan
27-09-2008, 16:35
Just being me, folks, just being me.
Hurdegaryp
27-09-2008, 16:37
Not everyone of us is as blessed by nature as you, Katganistan.
Ifreann
27-09-2008, 16:41
My massive penis.
Blouman Empire
28-09-2008, 16:36
Getting smashed every weekend mane!!!! :rolleyes:

(I must be getting old when I no longer find this cool)
Zombie PotatoHeads
28-09-2008, 16:41
storing my underpants in the fridge.
Fassitude
28-09-2008, 16:51
The esteem of others.
Dumb Ideologies
28-09-2008, 16:56
The fact that I am so epically an uberloser and social failure means that when people draw a cool/uncool diagram I go so far to the extreme on the uncool scale that to plot my position on the graph requires the line to come right round the world, meaning that I end up in the cool section from going right back round:p
Adunabar
28-09-2008, 16:58
The esteem of others.

Wow, you must be really cool then.
Nanatsu no Tsuki
28-09-2008, 17:46
The fact that I am, yup. That makes me cool. :tongue:
RhynoD
28-09-2008, 17:47
The fact that I am, yup. That makes me cool. :tongue:

Kat beat you to it.
Nanatsu no Tsuki
28-09-2008, 18:01
Kat beat you to it.

So? <.<
RhynoD
28-09-2008, 18:05
So? <.<

My answer was better.
Nanatsu no Tsuki
28-09-2008, 18:07
My answer was better.

I will not feed your ginormous ego, dear Rhyno.




But yes, your answers are awesome.:tongue:
RhynoD
28-09-2008, 18:15
I will not feed your ginormous ego, dear Rhyno.

But yes, your answers are awesome.:tongue:

That's because I'm awesome.
Nanatsu no Tsuki
28-09-2008, 18:22
That's because I'm awesome.

Right-o...
SaintB
28-09-2008, 23:49
The air condition is blowing in the studio 24/7. That keeps me pretty cool...



Ok ok, serious answer? I have no freaking idea why so many people consider me cool. I do all the things that are construed as NOT COOL. Maybe its the same reason as DI?
The Brevious
29-09-2008, 00:00
My massive penis.You misquoted me.
I said, "freakishly huge", not "massive".
New Ziedrich
29-09-2008, 00:36
I own two BMWs, obviously this makes me cool.
Dakini
29-09-2008, 02:05
The fact that I don't give a shit about being cool? Either that or this makes me uncool... meh.
Zombie PotatoHeads
29-09-2008, 11:59
The esteem of others.
That's not esteem you're getting off others, my dear Fass, it's contempt mixed with a dash of pity, a pinch of disgust and a good serving of ridicule.
It's easy to get the two confused.
Kagoulistan
29-09-2008, 12:43
My Hugo Boss trousers makes my ass really cool ;)
Rejistania
29-09-2008, 13:11
I know Linux and a number of programming languages, listen to strange music and am a conlanger. That makes me cool (or nerdy, I use these terms pretty synonymously).
Rambhutan
29-09-2008, 13:11
My flares, tank top and medallion.
Peepelonia
29-09-2008, 13:18
My searing wit and bad spieling!
Alfherinus Canonis
29-09-2008, 13:44
Smoking is definatly cool.

The way you walk down the street with a cigarette in your hand and everyone gives you dirty looks yet you know (Or want to think) they're telling themselves; "Wow, that guy is cool".

My job makes me smoke because I sit down at a computer all day working on web design. The tiredness just calls for caffeine and nicotine.
Dumb Ideologies
29-09-2008, 13:51
The flamethrower I carry around with me all day allows me to ensure that I am far cooler (as well as less on fire) than anyone who gives me any trouble.
Pirated Corsairs
29-09-2008, 13:58
My damned good looks, of course. ;)

Oh, and I second smoking. As I always tell my teenage siblings, smoking is a very cool thing to do.
RhynoD
29-09-2008, 15:12
Smoking is definatly cool.

The way you walk down the street with a cigarette in your hand and everyone gives you dirty looks yet you know (Or want to think) they're telling themselves; "Wow, that guy is cool".

My job makes me smoke because I sit down at a computer all day working on web design. The tiredness just calls for caffeine and nicotine.

I totally agree, and the only reason I don't smoke is because I have a history of high blood pressure going back several generations on both sides of my family.
Alfherinus Canonis
29-09-2008, 15:17
I totally agree, and the only reason I don't smoke is because I have a history of high blood pressure going back several generations on both sides of my family.

I have severe asthma but I still smoke, and so did all of my family. But I think smoking in itself is only cool because of how it used to be advertised and how people see it, it's not cool itself because well, it kills you. You also feel disgusted in yourself as you root through the ashtray forging yourself a throw me down cigarette when in desperate need.

As cool as smoking is, don't do it kids.
RhynoD
29-09-2008, 15:24
I have severe asthma but I still smoke, and so did all of my family. But I think smoking in itself is only cool because of how it used to be advertised and how people see it, it's not cool itself because well, it kills you. You also feel disgusted in yourself as you root through the ashtray forging yourself a throw me down cigarette when in desperate need.

As cool as smoking is, don't do it kids.

It's really not as bad as all that. I only ever smoked one a day, two a day like, once a month. But that's because I have good self-control, and more importantly I probably don't have the smoking gene (http://www.apa.org/releases/smoke99.html).

So if you have the smoking gene, don't smoke, because it's harder to quit.

I miss smoking, though. It did make me feel cool. And it's kind of a social thing because when you're all standing around smoking together you have fun conversations.
Alfherinus Canonis
29-09-2008, 15:47
It's really not as bad as all that. I only ever smoked one a day, two a day like, once a month. But that's because I have good self-control, and more importantly I probably don't have the smoking gene (http://www.apa.org/releases/smoke99.html).

So if you have the smoking gene, don't smoke, because it's harder to quit.

I miss smoking, though. It did make me feel cool. And it's kind of a social thing because when you're all standing around smoking together you have fun conversations.

I haven't actually heard of this smoking gene until now, it seems quite quixotic, but I'm on about 20 - 25 a day, unless I'm drinking, and then it's more like 40, but drinking is a rare privelage nowadays.

And yes, the social aspect of smoking is great, like here in England smoking has been illegalised in public places (Clubs, Pubs etc.) so everyone gathers outside to smoke and you meet loads of new people that way.

Two of my best mates i met when one of them asked me for a lighter, and the other asked for a cigarette, it's great.

Also, *snip* This is now a "how awesome smoking is" thread.
Roone bodimon
29-09-2008, 17:11
the fact that i dont give a fling fuck about what anyone says about me
Fassitude
29-09-2008, 19:11
It's easy to get the two confused.

Sort of like you get yourself confused with people.
Heinleinites
29-09-2008, 19:22
I have a pick-up truck with a gun rack in it(and a gun in the gun rack, that's important, otherwise, what's the point?)

I have a front porch where I can sit, prop my feet on the rail and drink beer and smoke cigars. Apropos of that...I can crush a beer can on my head

I can win a fight (most of the time...no-one wins all of them)
Nanatsu no Tsuki
29-09-2008, 21:22
I haven't actually heard of this smoking gene until now, it seems quite quixotic, but I'm on about 20 - 25 a day, unless I'm drinking, and then it's more like 40, but drinking is a rare privelage nowadays.

And yes, the social aspect of smoking is great, like here in England smoking has been illegalised in public places (Clubs, Pubs etc.) so everyone gathers outside to smoke and you meet loads of new people that way.

Two of my best mates i met when one of them asked me for a lighter, and the other asked for a cigarette, it's great.

Also, *snip* This is now a "how awesome smoking is" thread.

There´s a smoking gene?!:confused:
RhynoD
29-09-2008, 21:51
There´s a smoking gene?!:confused:

See my post.

Paraphrased: if you have this gene on one side you are like, 20% more likely to smoke and less likely to quit. If you have it both sides it's somewhere around 80% or summat like that (forgive me if the numbers are off, it's been a while since I've actually read the article).
Nanatsu no Tsuki
29-09-2008, 22:26
See my post.

Paraphrased: if you have this gene on one side you are like, 20% more likely to smoke and less likely to quit. If you have it both sides it's somewhere around 80% or summat like that (forgive me if the numbers are off, it's been a while since I've actually read the article).

Hmmmm... *slithers away to research*
Pirated Corsairs
29-09-2008, 23:16
I have a pick-up truck with a gun rack in it(and a gun in the gun rack, that's important, otherwise, what's the point?)

I have a front porch where I can sit, prop my feet on the rail and drink beer and smoke cigars. Apropos of that...I can crush a beer can on my head

I can win a fight (most of the time...no-one wins all of them)

Yeah, go go internet badass!
Zombie PotatoHeads
30-09-2008, 14:50
Sort of like you get yourself confused with people.
nope that's never happened. Sometimes I might get myself confused by people, by never with.
Oh wait, there was that one time when a group of us all got confused together. So I guess I have gotten myself confused with people.
my apologies. I stand corrected. Well, more of a slouch corrected really.
Ordo Drakul
30-09-2008, 14:55
My air conditioner
Brutland and Norden
30-09-2008, 15:05
The serial killer murdered me by locking me up in a walk-in freezer.
Liminus
30-09-2008, 15:18
My real name is Snake Pliskin, this makes me the coolest of the cool folk. *nod*
Katganistan
30-09-2008, 15:35
That's not esteem you're getting off others, my dear Fass, it's contempt mixed with a dash of pity, a pinch of disgust and a good serving of ridicule.
It's easy to get the two confused.
Ahem.
Knock off the personal attacks.
Heinleinites
30-09-2008, 20:38
Yeah, go go internet badass!

It's got nothing to do with being an 'internet badass', whatever that is. Which, now that I think of it, would probably involve having flames detailed on your laptop, or maybe a tattoo that says 'Born To Be Wired.'(unless you are Japanese, in which case you are back to 'Born To Be Wiled', by a sort of roundabout way)

All I was doing was listing the things I think make me cool, like the original question asked. If I inadvertently kicked your insecurities into gear, rest assured it was not my intention.
That Imperial Navy
30-09-2008, 20:39
Ice.