It's Uncool Thursday MKF 10/10/02

[Kieli]

Joey Potter? With those eyes? And in a slinky dress?? HELLOOOOOOO NURSE!!

[Dumbsaint]

I'm going to have to come down firmly on the side of Joey Potter for hottest chick on DC.

But then who knows if I'm coming or going. Down. Um. Downtown. With the downtowniness. Yanno, that cute college town they have themselves there.

Yeah.

[Jennifer]

See, I love Audrey, myself. I think she's beautiful. Um...I just realized I never admitted that I even liked Dawson's Creek. I just outed myself! It really is National Coming Out Day.

[Zippy]

OK so I'm a little late to this thread, but that's kinda cool isn't it?

I never really considered if I was cool or not but definition of this thread I must be, 'cause I'm english.

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'you have to further entice us with suggestions that English girls like to drink on Saturday nights and spend all day Sunday in bed?'

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I can confirm that it is common among us english girls to drink on saturday nights & stay in bed on sundays.In fact in the north east I think that it is a local by-law.

Well now to shatter my cool image, things that make me uncool, I own a Steps album, I own all of Kylie's album's, I've seen Kyile in concert, I've seen Steps in concert..... twice! Finally I went to a Spice Girls concert, but that's not the worst of it, I drove over 200miles from Newcastle to the NEC in Brum, to see them.

but all still like english girls don't you?

[Jennifer]

Okay, maybe I'm not as knowledgable in music as I thought, but...there's a band called Steps?

[Pipsqueak]

Okay, this is gonna sound weird, but one of the things that I absolutely would NOT admit to other people, unless they forced it out of me, is that I'm a Buffy vidder. Which is odd, 'cause I'm really proud of my videos and it's something that I LOVE to do, and it really makes me happy. But my friends & family have enough problems with me being a Buffy fanatic in the first place. If they found out that I spent a great majority of my time cutting up Buffy scenes and setting them to music, they'd ship me off to the looney bin. Sometimes I wish I knew other vidders in real life.

Also, I wouldn't want to tell people that I spend so much time talking/reading about Buffy on the web. (the Kitten board, Usenet, Slayage, etc.) Whenever people ask me what I do in my free time, I always lie and say "oh, I play volleyball" or something cool like that, cause who wants to admit that they sit in front of their computer all day reading message boards about a TV show?

[Zippy]

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'Okay, maybe I'm not as knowledgable in music as I thought, but...there's a band called Steps?'

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Technically not anymore as the band split up on boxing day last year.

[i:c38851edf1] wait what I am I saying.... no there was no such band as
Steps it was just a horrible nightmare, along with season 6[/i:c38851edf1]

[akira]

uncool
yeah thats me. totally and completely
i got a lion king pillow from my brother when i was around 10 its still in my bed every night and im 20 now. i take it with me on every vacation i just cant leave it behind. *sigh*
when i go to bed i listen to radio plays. The Three Investigators ( Die Drei ??? in german). i actually started to collect all the eps. Just love them.
i love cartoons. one of my favourites are the smurfs i just like the little blue guys...hmm me and my friends sing old cartoon songs when were together ( well sometimes) which is fun for us but the people around us think we are uncool and kinda weird
i used to listen to s club 7 and the backstreet boys and erm *cough* westlife *cough* aswell
well im just in general not cool but i dont mind. its nice to be uncool and weird

[kukalaka]

I guess getting an award for "Obscure Use of Obscurer W/T Humor" could count as being uncool. Or maybe it's just weird

[vix84]

Kukalaka, I think we got to share that award

[maudmac]

I was talking about the concept of "cool" a couple weeks ago with a friend at work. We decided it's like obscenity, pretty much indefinable but you know it when you see it. Also, what's cool/not cool depends on your community's standards.

When you're sitting around with your friends playing D&D, you all probably think you're cool. When you're talking to the pretty girl who smells like cinnamon because she's the president of FHA and she hangs out in that kitchen for [i:d22cfa9cd0] fun[/i:d22cfa9cd0]...uh...

And your D&D friends think she's the epitome of uncool. And her monogrammed apron-wearing friends think you're the biggest dork ever born. (But you think that's got to be because they just haven't seen your [i:d22cfa9cd0] Sandman[/i:d22cfa9cd0] collection yet. You'll never learn.)

Community standards. It's all about community standards.

Dear God, sometimes I just need to get down on my knees and thank whatever Higher Power there may be that I survived high school. Coolness is such a non-issue for me now.

I guess I think it's cool to be whatever you naturally are. It's not cool to [i:d22cfa9cd0] try[/i:d22cfa9cd0] to be cool, you know?

I can't imagine what community would think I'm cool, though.

I haven't missed an episode of [i:d22cfa9cd0] Passions[/i:d22cfa9cd0] in almost two years. (And I never will. The shock would KILL me!)

I'm listening to Leo Sayer right [i:d22cfa9cd0] now[/i:d22cfa9cd0]. He makes me feel like dancing.

And you know what else? I like Barry Manilow, too. I really do.

What is this thing, "cool"?

[BytrSuite]

Ooh, Holley! You're sooooooo cooooooool!

Me? I'm a bigger dork than Holley is.

Some people have it, and some don't.

[tommo]

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[b:f46b0bff08] Technically not anymore as the band split up on boxing day last year. [/b:f46b0bff08]

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And that's why I'm posting so much less than I used to. God, as if I'm not depressed enough, I come here and read this kind of thing that adds insult to injury.

I was just getting over the whole Steps split and there you go, reminding me of how much I miss their happy go lucky shit. Boo. Hoo.

I'm not cool. And yet, I can't bring myself to care a jot about that. I revel in my "uncoolness".

And I saw the Spice Girls at Wembley. Seven rows from the front. Sigh. Sad fuck.

[maudmac]

But...but...um...I [i:d4e88bb369] like[/i:d4e88bb369] the Spice Girls...

And, Kathy, please! Just because you love boiled peanuts and square dancing does [b:d4e88bb369] not[/b:d4e88bb369] mean you're a bigger dork than I am. I've got Leo Sayer on my side.

[BytrSuite]

Holley, you have me mixed up with you again. I don't like boiled peanuts or square dancing.

I do like Neil Diamond, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and S Club 7 though.

[tommo]

S Club (as they're now known) are hard not to like. I know, I tried. And I got sucked in by Rachel and Jo. Who should be a lesbian.

[BytrSuite]

Jo's not a lesbian? Huh.

Ah, just S Club now, that's cool. The TV program they show over here is still called S Club 7. I think they're in Spain now or something.

Faith Hill is hot. And Pink's new video is hot.

[tommo]

Faith Hill [b:25c0324294] is[/b:25c0324294] hot.

And it's [i:25c0324294] Viva S Club[/i:25c0324294]. I think exclamation marks are optional. But the title does rather cry out for it.

[linneth78]

I listen to Japanese pop music and own several Jpop videos; and used to play hockey (too many injuries...) and still watch it...
I still own a large pile of Dungeons and Dragons things...

[miss calendar]

Well one of advantage to coming late to this thread is discovering other kittens share some of my uncool habits and obsessions - I love show tunes and musicals (but not the Lloyd Webber ones), read/collect comics and, until 'Seeing Red' , was obsessed with BTVS. reyjawk, you're not the only one with a Jane Austen obsession, I regularly re-read all her books and kbk3022 I can totally relate to the collecting rocks thing.

I like Fred Astaire, classical music and have a passion for opera. Also like lots of sci-fi, love B5 and those old movies like 'Forbidden Planet' , 'Invasion of the body snatchers' , 'I married a martian' , 'Them!'. I also have to admit to enjoying Dr. Who, Blakes 7 ( love Servalan!) and 'V'...And I think my wardrobe is worse than Willow's and Tara's combined.

[starlitefaeriegrrrl]

My best friend (and in fact nearly all of my friends) are gay boys so although I love me some 70s punk, old rock music and chick stuff like Tori and Ani, I also love bands like S Club, Spice Girls, A Teens, Ace of Base, etc etc etc. But, you wanna know lame? I met S Club 7 and asked Paul for a hug. I phrased it as "Um...I feel like I'm seven years old but, can I have a hug?" So he chuckled and hugged me, then chuckled again and said, "I like you!" I almost passed out. Also, when I met them, Tina was really sweet and cute and made actual eye-contact and since metting her I've had a near-obsessive crush.

Other uncoolnesses? I cry at almost all movies. No, [i:2bfb707510]really. [/i:2bfb707510] Good movies, mind you, I don't cry at just any piece of crap, but still. I enjoy cleaning, very much so. I can't get off of a skateboard, never mind attempting to learn how to use it, and my girlf is totally ashamed at my ineptitude. Sometimes my girlfriend and I put on 'Get Down Tonight' by Kasie and the Sunshine Band, I think, and dance around our apartment like crazy fools- she does that finger pointing disco move (do you guys get which one? sorry if not.), which is so cute coming from this small, adorable twenty-one year old scruffily-dressed skateboarder chick. Good times.

[Mrs Vertigo]

Oh, man, uncoolnesses I have a-plenty!

First off, I cant sing for the life of me. Not a single note. But Im still always humming. And worse yet I pick up lyrics from a first listening and remember them until forever, and when anyone is singing the wrong ones I just go ahead and correct em. Aloud. Singing - they way weve already established is [i:51688b17cb] not[/i:51688b17cb] my calling.

Secondly, whenever anyone is high around me, stoned or drunk or otherwise, I freak. Of course, Im much too panicked to show it and eventually that leads me to act like a total uptight goof. A motherly, snappy uptight goof who appears to be high herself because she is so hyper. And Im a teenager, and I hang with teenagers. I get a [i:51688b17cb] lot[/i:51688b17cb] of practice. Ugh

Humm I could totally see Willow freaking out over pens left uncapped or notes being dog-eared. Or, of course, standing jumpily over the shoulder of someone whos asked to use her IMac for just a second scowling. As for Tara - who left their scented candles dripping all over my woman power shrine?! Hehe. No, not really. I actually cant think of much in the way of Tara being uncool. Maybe she sculpts little animal out of marzipan? No, wait, thats me at five years old. *cringes* Id have to go with the marble-collection theory.