I'm Not Cool

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I was pretty sure about this before, but it has been officially confirmed today.

I'm not cool.

I didn't know what "emo" was, and turns out I think "emo" sucks now that I know what it is.

I drive a white minivan. Uncool.

I drink diet soda. Uncool.

I buy candles (and spend good money on them, too). Uncool.

I currently wear only one band t-shirt (as fate would have it, I'm wearing it today). It's from a Sugar Ray concert (which I though was cool, but since I don't know cool, it probably wasn't) and I cut the sleeves and neck off and gathered it at the shoulders so that it's nice and summery. Uncool.

I don't even know what kind of clothes are cool anymore. I generally go with Levis and a fitted t-shirt. I'm sure that's not cool.

I don't know what TV shows are cool. The only things I watch with any regularity are SNL, South Park, and the Simpsons. Probably not cool anymore.

I don't know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh cards (I probably even spelled it wrong!), and I don't think I'll ever figure that out. Uncool.

The list of concerts I have under my belt include: Bush, Goo Goo Dolls, No Doubt, Collective Soul, Brian White, Tracy Lawrence, Sugar Ray, Snoop Dogg, and RHCP. Are any of those still cool?

My cell phone doesn't close and I can't clip in onto my hip. I have to put it in my pocket or worse, my purse. My ringtone is Jingle Bells (changed from Coldplay's Clocks). Uncool.

My computer can't be put in a backpack and carried into Starbucks. It's big and black and it sits on a desk. Uncool.

Even my seven year old thinks I'm uncool.

When did I become so lame (do they even use that word anymore)?

Maybe I'm making too big a deal of it . . . maybe I'm just being "emo."
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh cards (I probably even spelled it wrong!), and I don't think I'll ever figure that out. Uncool.

Trust me, that actually makes you cooler.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nothing wrong with being uncool, in fact you should be uncool and proud of it
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
TheFazz:
Trust me, that actually makes you cooler.


Score one point for me!

Danny:
Nothing wrong with being uncool, in fact you should be uncool and proud of it


He he he . . . you think so?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
There's a lot of fun in being uncool! You don't have to pretend to like the new trends! Because all those latest fashions out of the style after the season (like pleated miniskirts?) Some of them are even fugly (peasant blouses, IMO) to begin with.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
You don't have to pretend to like the new trends!


Good point, Dusk! Half (or more) of that crap never looked good on anyone to begin with!
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I generally go with Levis and a fitted t-shirt. I'm sure that's not cool.


Hey, if those are fitted Levis then that look never ever goes out of fashion. There's nothing quite like a good looking girl wearing tight jeans and a tight T.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I have no idea what Yu-Gi-Oh cards even is

I dont know what emo is: ????????

I dont even have my own car, but maybe i need a driver licence first: hehe

I know what clothes are trendy but i dont wear them, cuz it's too slutty well depends, the ones i like are too pricey though

I hardly watch tv, the only stuff i watch is fear factor, monster garage, the simpsons, mythbusters, and well thats about it. Other than that we just rent movies.

I only like to go to reggae concerts, but they hardly happen in Vanuatu. I have to go to New Caledonia whenever there's a really cool one. Needless to say it has become very rare for me to go to concerts...

I dont have a computer like most of the JUs would know.

I dont have children, but i dont think not having chldren at 21 is uncool.

Anyhoo from my list which was inspired by yours, Texas Wahine, it seems i am very very uncool.

I think you are cool though, but since i'm uncool it might be that you indeed are NOT COOL.

Dont worry Texas, we all love ya *mwah*
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hey, Tex, the coolest people redefine cool. Maybe that is what you are doing! Everyone will see what a cool person you are and want to be like you. You will be the new cool!

Just act like you don't care...that always works with guys...the less they care...the cooler they are.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

texas, my love, you are cooler than cool. if you were any cooler, we'd all freeze !.


your kids will soon come of age and realise what a funky chickie they have for a mum .


mig XXX

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
ewwwwwwwww............emo.....
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
You sound pretty damn cool to me.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
Actually, Tex...I have been to a Goo Goo Dolls AND Sugar Ray concert myself...They may not be the "IT" bands of today, but I still thought their concerts were SO Cool lol...I've also seen matchbox 20, everclear, tonic, uncle kracker, and some spanish musicians...they are also probably not deemed cool anymore...lol. I still want to see red hot chili peppers, foo fighters , beastie boys,green day and aerosmith...are they still cool? who knows... I don't even watch MTV anymore...lol. ..my music taste goes from big band to classical to spanish to eighties and nineties music to whatever is popular today....it's just all over the place...

I am getting to that age when I don't know what's cool myself...Last year, I told my class I had no idea what "Fairly Odd Parents" was...they looked at me as if i was the lamest teacher on earth lol...Today, while doing writer's workshop, a student shared how she and her sis love playing "backyard baseball"...I thought she meant playing baseball outside..turns out she was talking about a video game she plays on her Playstation lol


I dont think that "cool" should be defined from what we know...I think if a person is laid back, open minded, humorous, and has a great personality...Heck, that is coolness to me lol....and aside from my lameness...some ppl have actually said i'm cool lol

So, from MY definition of cool...consider yourself "cool" tex lol
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top
Quote: "I'm so cool you can keep a side of meat on me for a month." "I'm so hip I can barely see over my pelvis"

Heh. Coolness just is not my goal in my life. It's just sad if all you can say is that life is good because of coolness.
Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think daring to just be yourself and not follow crowds is being cool.
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Like, I'm totally cool because I, like, wear all the things that are in the shops, and I, like, listen to music by pretty guys pretending to play guitars because, like, they look good on posters on my bedroom wall. And I, like, sleep around because that makes me popular and don't eat unless I have to so I can be skinny, which makes me cool as well, you know...

Yeah. Being cool rocks. Let's bow down to the altar of coolness... then over turn it.

Being cool takes a lot of effort for most people when the people who are truly cool do it effortlessly. And I'm too lazy for all that!

Rock on!

Suz xxx
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah, I'm not cool either.

Apparently, 'weed' is no longer a cool term. Found that one out the hard way (no, I don't use, I was referring to it when telling a student about drug tests)

I don't know the proper position of 'izz' in words - for example hizz-ouse. In fact, I don't even know if 'izz'ing words is even cool anymore.

More later. I gotta get to class and teach my much-cooler-than-me students...
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
I told my class I had no idea what "Fairly Odd Parents" was


I certainly hope you have rectified THAT massively unfortunate situation!! FOP is one of the best cartoons on TV right now....
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oooo... I'm "emo"

I've never worried about being cool. But, I do know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. It's actually not that difficult to learn.

Peace,

Beebes
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Tex~

I've been to two Garth Brooks concerts (how UNCOOL is that???), a ZZ Top Concert, numerous WE Fests in Detroit Lakes, MN, which featured just about every country artist under the sun. I've seen Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney, Lonestar (at the Mall of America, baby!), Michael W. Smith, Jars of Clay, and Go Fish...I'm sure there's some other ones in there that I'm just forgetting...tons of other Christian artists...

Have you ever heard that song by Scott Krippayne? "I'm Not Cool"?

"I'm not cool and that's okay
My God loves me anyway..."

That's all that matters, baby! YOu have an awesome husband and kids...who cares how cool you are? I'm thankful my parents were dorky...
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top

Relax, Texas...since you're a few years younger'n me, I'll give ya a little secret.

The music that I listened to in the 80's was uncool until a coupla years ago. Then I became cool again.

Your time will come.

Oh, and, remind me to tell you about a certain Church of Christ preacher's conversation with his granddaughter t'other day ragarding her "coolness". You oughtta get a kick out of it.

Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't believe it!Your from the land of ZZ Top and armadillos! Your cool in my book!
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't drive at all, I take the bus. Uncool.

I drink regular soda, not the faddish diet soda. Uncool.

I buy books, fiction, non-fiction, etc. Uncool.

I don't wear any band shirts, the last time I did was in seventh grade and that was an 'NSync shirt that was too small. Uncool.

I wear my work clothes most of the time. If I'm not wearing my work clothes I'm wearing a shin-length skirt and a non-form-fitting shirt. Uncool.

I watch Everybody Loves Raymond, Oprah, Dr. Phil, The Apprentice, and Joan of Arcadia. My parents usually record them and I watch them after I get off of work with them. Uncool.

I don't know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh! or any of those other card games. I play solitaire and rummy.....With My PARENTS. UNCOOL.

Been to two concerts in my whole life. Scott Krippayne/4Him/Point of Grace (in SD in 5th grade) and Lowell Lundstrom in Kindergarten. Uncool.

Don't have a cellphone. Uncool.

Just got a computer. With Windows 98 and no internet at home. Uncool.

Don't drink coffee. Uncool.


See, Tex, some people are more Uncool than you. But everyone is cool in their own way. Most of the people at work think I'm cool because I'm not afraid to get down and dirty and do the crappy stuff. Some think I'm cool because I don't care what people say or think about me.

Don't worry. All of those "cool" people are bound to become "uncool" when they become parents. My parents used to be cool when they were younger, but every kid thinks their parents are uncool and dorky.

Lovvens,
*grins wickedly*
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
I don't know what "emo" is.
I want a minivan.
I scrapbook. Definetely uncool.
I've never been to a concert.
I am the mom who wears her pajamas to take kids to school or the doctor. (Mostly because I have no clothes that fit....post-pregnancy sucks.)
I don't know how to configure my laptop....and i don't even have one. I don't have a cell phone either!

I think I have degenerated into a suburban housewife....sigh. very uncool.

Is yoga cool still?
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top

hehe...I got you all beat.


I knit.  In public.  Very, very uncoool. 


I have to wear a very very uncool smock and hat at work every day.  I mean, these things are butt ugly...and I'm on display ay the commissary for the whole base to see.  That's very uncool.


I do crosswords.  That's uncool.


I have no clue how to play Yu-Gi-Oh or whatever it's called, and I could also care less about Pokemon.


I don't have a band or concert T.


I'm still hooked on Dr Mario and Tetris.  Terribly, totally uncool.


I meditate, I worry about karma, and I'm Buddhist.  There are all things that I think are cool, but my kids assure me are very uncool.


Dana, as far as I know, yoga is still cool.  If it's not, well, that's one more thing to add to my list of uncoolness.


I still say that the knitting beats everything you all have got.....


 

Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
O.K. this is a biggie..
A year ago I won tickets to see Clay Aiken and Kelly Clarkson...and went!