Whadda ya mean, I'm not "in"?
Why I'm always "in".
"In" trouble.
"In" considerate.
"In" the way.
"In" deep doo-doo.
;)

By whose definition? I'm still phat with a capital PH!

As an undersized shy kid in a big school system I thought about being cool a lot.Luckily for me in the 70's I had a whole bunch of kids in my neighborhood.Enough of us to form some sort of clique.Most were good friends and we helped each other.
What interests me about this topic is this:Is coolness something you're born with?(my opinon-small minority)
Or... is coolness some sort of extreme self confidence? The kind of confidence that says to others that I really don't give a rats ass what you think?
I pose this question to the cellar because I believe that my upbringing (without a father figure and a mother who was too tired to know what was going on with my life) influenced me a lot.I built up all these defenses that have stayed with me all my life.And its kind of sad.I am remote and sarcastic.I swore that no matter what that my sons upbringing would be better.And yet I see history repeating itself almost exactly.I feel so powerless.Please don't shut people out Travis(my son).

I rambled a bit there.Sorry.The 20 year olds I'm hanging with out here in Portland,OR. think that I'm cool.For whatever thats worth.

There are a good many seriously cool comedians and RockGods who've made their mark being remote and sarcastic.

Obviously, being cool isn't a big deal for me or I'd make more of an effort at it. As it is, I think I'm at about a -3.6 on the 1-10 scale of cool on average.

But that's...cool.

Thanks for your comment Dana.For me that makes YOU cool.I don't need anybody to blow me.But when someone just reaches out and offers something nice to say...Hey,thats cool.

i don't care if people think i'm cool.
the people I think are cool think i am cool, and the people i don't think are cool don't seem to have any interest in me...does that make me cool? i think i'm cool and that's all that really matters to me. if someone doesn't think i'm cool, then i think they're shallow and stupid:) guys always think i'm cool.
have i broken the record for # of times "cool" has been used in one sentence?

then i think they're shallow and stupid guys always think i'm cool.

punctuation is cool.

does this statement say " then i think they're shallow and stupid. Guys always think i'm cool. "

OR

"then i think they're shallow, and stupid guys always think i'm cool"

do smart guys think you're un-cool?

Case rested. :p

I see lots of rich white kids wearing FUBU jeans with PHAT on them so it must be cool, right?

where do you see these white kids, jag?

LJ, there would have been a period where the smiley face is. i guess it just didn't look like there was any room for a period there with the colon and parentheses i used for the happy face, you know?

Okay Captain Semicolon.


:D

perth, to clarify....i was commenting that a simple change in punctuation makes a run on mean two entirely different things. i think by now, you are all desensitzed to my semicolon abuse.

; = ' unless ";" makes sense in context.

Stacy:

so....guys always think you're cool?

guys you meet in person, I assume?

that's an interesting dynamic. I can meet a guy and know right away that I hate him. Women, however....especially attractive ones like you......usually take me much longer to suss. They have to be pretty obnoxious for me to dislkie them right away.

Is this true for women? does it take you longer to figure out whether or not you like men than women?