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"What's cooler than cool? Ice cold"
- Hey Ya by Outkast, written CE 2000
This gets more and more true with everyday. I understand less and less of the world around me.
I wonder how Gen Z wojld react to something being reffered to as "all that and a bag of chips".
And none of this shrinkflation crap. The bag of chips used to be huge!
I recently had someone explain to me what "And that's where I came in" meant.
I expect to explain to people why we say "roll down the window", or what the save icon is, lol
What? Roll down your window is self explainitary. You put your hand on the window crank....and......huh. I guess I haven't seen one of those in years......
Ok, but the save icon, that's because of the floppy disc. You just put your floppy into.....the......huh. I guess no one uses floppys anymore.....
.........wait, am I old???
"To make it more modern, we could make the save icon a CD!"
What's a CD? Oh, wait, that looks like...do you mean a Blu-Ray? Nobody uses Blu-Rays anymore.
Make it a harddrive!
I too am disturbed by the noted decline in Austin Powers references among high school students.
"Cool" has been around for a lot longer than calling things "fire". Things will continue to be called cool, until the next fad rolls around, and then it'll go back to being called cool again. It's been used since the 1930's.
But that's the thing, I've seen "cold" being used, not "cool", and I find it weird as hell.
Yeah fire was a short lived trend, but how cool is being cool?
Ice cold
No, that’s cooler than being cool
Alright, alright, alright, alright...
Cold isn't new, pretty sure it predates fire. I remember hearing it used like that in college 20 years ago.
You thought you were slick, didn't you? Rad? Tubular? Mean?
Fads come and go. Some are better than others, I am personally partial to "slick." Fire will fade away but cool will return just like it always has.
It's groovy or nothing.
Narly, dude.
Like my belt onion.
Gnarly.
Bitchin.
Bossa Nova!
Yeah, that shit's weak. It ain't tight or sweet at all.
He fell like a bum!
Those were both common stoner/skater/hip-hop terms when I was young in the 1990s. I imagine that they're much older though.
I wasn't aware fire or cold was measurements for how popular something was?
When did this tempature based popularity start?
"This shit is fire" I definitely heard, but I'm not sure I ever heard literally "cold" instead of "cool".
I've only heard it as a "hardcore" term
When did this tempature based popularity start?
It's been cool for a long time
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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