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07 June 2005

I want to be cool. →[More:]
How? How can I be cool?? What is cool? And how can I be it?

post by: mudpuppie at: 22:23 | 29 comments

Is this forced irony?

posted by mlis 07 June | 22:29

Would that be cool?

posted by mudpuppie 07 June | 22:29

Have you tried shaving your ass?

posted by trharlan 07 June | 22:50

Think insouciant with style. Devil may care. Laid back, but not mellow.

It's zen, not caring about cool is cool. Caring about cool isn't cool.

My favorite name for a group: Victims of Cool.

posted by warbaby 07 June | 22:52

"not caring about cool is cool"

see i've been trying this for years and it doesn't work for fuck. i am not cool.

posted by puke & cry 07 June | 22:54

There was an AskMe on this very subject.

posted by kenko 07 June | 22:54

Here.

posted by kenko 07 June | 22:55

Ah, puke & cry, you continue trying, I see. Trying is not cool. Trying is the path of sorrow.

Snatch the hamburger from my palm, grasshopper.

I've spent my entire life being admonished to "be cool." This usually produces an outburst.

posted by warbaby 07 June | 23:00

Luckily for you, there's Froogle.

posted by Smart Dalek 07 June | 23:01

Get

A

Sombrero.

posted by nickdanger 07 June | 23:02

buy an ipod to fill the hollow void in your soul.

posted by Wedge 07 June | 23:45

Put ice in your underwear.

posted by loquacious 08 June | 00:07

Abandon the quest for cool. For that is the only path to cool.

(Also: no pleated pants.)

posted by scody 08 June | 00:51

Have you tried shaving your ass?

Scratching your ass when the hair starts to grow in - not so cool.

posted by deborah 08 June | 00:52

mudpuppie, dude are you trying to be ironic?

posted by arse_hat 08 June | 01:00

You ARE cool.

posted by puddinghead 08 June | 01:03

I only right this minute 'got' why Froogle is called that.

/proving how thick I can possibly be

posted by raedyn 08 June | 01:08

Even worse, juicy ingrown-hair butt-pimples.

posted by loquacious 08 June | 01:15

I wish I could play guitar so I could form a band called juicy ingrown-hair butt-pimples.

posted by arse_hat 08 June | 01:21

Grow your butthair long and cornrow it; you'll walk tall and exude coolness. Just knowing you've got a patterned ass will give you that inner confidence, a cool-osity like nothing else.

posted by reflecked 08 June | 07:14

I'd listen to the one they call "nickdanger."

Get

A

Sombrero.

posted by rainbaby 08 June | 08:29

Get the cool shoeshine.

posted by papercake 08 June | 09:50

Ok, so I was looking for a definition of spezzatura on Google, as it is pretty cool, and I thought you could maybe use it, when what should appear, but a link to a MetaFilter user of that name: Spezzaltura, who has a pretty good definition on his/her user page. It not only brought me a smile, it confirmed what I already suspect, mudpuppie-you are cool because you hang out with cool people.

posted by omiewise 08 June | 09:52

Turn 35 (or 40, as the case may be) and just stop giving a shit whether other people think you're cool or not.

posted by matildaben 08 June | 10:07

You could try and make pleated pants cool.
though that would take some effort.

posted by gaspode 08 June | 11:28

Turn 35 (or 40, as the case may be) and just stop giving a shit

Hallelujiah! The best thing about slouching towards middle age is no longer giving a shit about this kind of superficial nonsense. First you give yourself permission to no longer be cool. Then, a few years later, you realize that you never were actually cool anyway, not even for a moment. And you laugh.

posted by LarryC 08 June | 13:38

Aim for cold. When you inevitably fall short you will be cool.

posted by srboisvert 08 June | 15:55

We’re through being cool
Eliminate the ninnies and the twits
Going to bang some heads
Going to beat some butts
Time to show those evil spuds what’s what
If you live in a small town
You might meet a dozen or two
Young alien types who step out
And dare to declare
Spank the pank who try to drive you nuts
Time to clean some house
Be a man or a mouse
Waste those who make it tuff to get around
If you live in a big place
Many factions underground
Chase down mister hinky dink
So no trace can be found
Put the tape on erase
Rearrange a face
We always liked picasso anyway
Mash ’em
~DEVO~

posted by Schyler523 08 June | 16:33

Turn 35 (or 40, as the case may be) and just stop giving a shit whether other people think you're cool or not.

You don't need to turn any age to do this - when you get to 40, though, the effort of caring about your coolness quotient just gets to be too much bother.

buy an ipod to fill the hollow void in your soul.

Actually, this is the closest some of us can come to coolness - Now that I finally had the void in my soul filled via a Christmas present, I feel ever so slightly cool on the train. Either that, or it helps me to just turn the world off and be myself to myself, which is the only way to be truly cool, after all.

posted by dg 09 June | 01:22

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