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salwarpe commented on the post, ATM: Berlin 28 minutes ago
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salwarpe commented on the post, ATM: Berlin 29 minutes ago
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 5 hours, 37 minutes ago
Mid-30s? So, finally getting over the sixties My Generation mantra of never trusting anyone over 30. Maybe also reaching the point when ‘cool’ (as in the youth&beauty version) was no longer seen as essential?
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 8 hours, 48 minutes ago
1987 – in AW terms, that’s last week. We are spinning out AW straplines at the moment – can we not mutiny and demand a monthly poll for the next one?
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 8 hours, 51 minutes ago
A few others from the 80s/90s who seemed cool, then didn’t: Andrew Eldritch John Taylor & Nick Rhodes Alex James It’s probably a youth/cheekbones thing.
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 9 hours, 5 minutes ago
I regarded Hey Jude as my song, as it was Number 1 when I was born, and was written for my namesake – for a while I asked people to call me Jude, as I thought it was cooler than my actual name. Jude the Obscure, […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 9 hours, 37 minutes ago
I would have thought being thin and tall were prerequisites for being cool – unless you were/are exceptionally and unusually tall. I suppose Stephen Merchant is quite cool – until he opens his mouth.
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 9 hours, 40 minutes ago
That Young Cool Dude approach to attracting attention from girls is one I recognize as a tactic I in my socialphobic youth would hide behind (for years and years). I do pity the boy I was back then – better to […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 10 hours, 49 minutes ago
‘Hip’ originally meant something close to what ‘woke’ means (to those who generated it, not to those who denigrate it). Aware.
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 10 hours, 51 minutes ago
I think this distinction helps get to the heart of what cool is and is not. Fashion probably isn’t cool – because it gives the sense of a mad rush after an elusive property that an object gives to its wearer. […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 12 hours, 25 minutes ago
Permanently so – like the best of Python, with this list of writers ( Morris, Iannucci, Steven Wells, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, David Quantick), it is effortlessly, imperiously superior in its intelligence, […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 12 hours, 29 minutes ago
That whole early 90s officially ‘cool’ bands were when I really fell out of love with the NME – by then I had absorbed a lot of other influences from uni friends – and was no longer reliant on one source of […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 12 hours, 32 minutes ago
Flares were what got me laughed at in school in the early ’80s – that and those pork pie brown shoes and shirts/cardigans with metal rings over the nipples – why ever were they considered stylish? For a while, […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 12 hours, 38 minutes ago
Is that last one cockney rhyming slang?
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 13 hours, 25 minutes ago
What was cool for you then and now, Mike? There’s no shame in admitting these things. I used to think ‘Double Deckers’ – which I never saw, only the adverts for were so cool. Also the Bionic Man and Status Quo. […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, What was the last 7" vinyl single you bought? 13 hours, 27 minutes ago
It is, of course, blissfully wonderful with the melancholic wistful undertones characteristic of true beauty – reflecting the unhappy circumstances of its writing and his sad early demise. Unfortunately, it […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, What is cool? 13 hours, 40 minutes ago
Maggie is cool.
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salwarpe wrote a new post 13 hours, 40 minutes ago
What is cool?As this post dislodges dai’s delightful 80s top ten thread from the front page to the digital chip paper obscurity of the 2nd page and beyond, […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, The Online Safety Act – could kill this forum 1 day, 2 hours ago
It should be offered like Saga membership to all over-50s – “You’ve worked hard all your life – you deserve a seat in a virtual pub to text bs, exchange Wordle scores, and post old YT clips until the old grey […]
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salwarpe commented on the post, What was the first thing you did on the internet? 1 day, 2 hours ago
The Aliens unfilmed script I most enjoyed reading was the one on a wooden planet populated by monks.
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