I refuse to say cool now that it was bastardized...

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Karha of Honor
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I refuse to say cool now that it was bastardized...

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In the olden days it meant this:

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Now it can mean this:


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Anyone else in the process of erasing it from his/her speech?
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Nope! I will continue to, heh, be cool with using the word "cool". 8-)
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I need to consult with Henry Winkler before making this decision.
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Nothing is less cool than caring about what other people think is cool.
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It's good to be able to articulate instead of relying on more opaque terms too often.
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What do you have against dogs?
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My guess is that they're just simply uncool to him.
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: Tue Jan 29, 2019 12:59 am What do you have against dogs?
Did i say i have something against everything uncool in the old school sense.
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Re: I refuse to say cool now that it was bastardized...

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Given that you just posted "how people use cool today" with lots of pictures of dogs, you kinda left things pretty wide open for interpretation.
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