Post #38592 by aquarj on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 2:24 PM

...I thought the whole point of someone or something being "cool" was all about trends of the time. A seriously superfluous, shallow label that is applied based on popularity, trends, and how the definer (the person who labels something as Cool) appears to others when they label it such.

Hmm, Hanford this is gonna sound silly, but I always thought that "HOT" is the word for what you just described. The hottest fashions out of Paris. Reality TV is hot. The hottest nightclub in the city.

Hot cars, hot girls, hot music - those are usually bsaed on trendy styles, and they're usually things I don't dig. Anything hot, except for weather and jacuzzis - I like them.

Is a cool car trendy? A cool girl? Cool music? Somehow I never associated cool with trends or popularity or specific consumer groups at all.

But I certainly agree it feels kinda silly talking about what's cool. If Kahukini just originally said "Shag is officially trendy now", then I bet a lot of people might not have thought it sounded so pretentious. It's easier to say what's trendy than what's cool, since the former is a little less subjective.

-Randy