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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Is the word "cool" just good enough anymore? Shouts the Old Man at the sky.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Be grateful that "cool" is still in common use. One fine day, we may wake up and find people think of it the way we think of terms like "the bees knees," "keen," or "swell."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But those are so specifically old that they're used ironically or as a joke. And sometimes that happens enough that they get unironically re-injected into local slang.

This happened around here with "cool beans" lol.

Whatcha doing today? Workin' on the truck. Cool beans. We were gonna run into town for a box of beer, you in?

I think you'd be looking more for 80s ninja-turtles style slang like "radical", "gnarly", etc. Or overuse of stale slang like "yeet"

Amusingly even "radical" can still be relevant as an adjective to describe an 80s retro vibe now. Slang and the relative cringe levels of it are pretty bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would also submit "BITCHIN'" as one of those that can be taken out of long-term storage, for special occasions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I... I still use "the bee's knees."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Use it with pride, my friend, for you, yourself, are the bee's knees.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Wow! Aw! Thanks!

There's still kindness in this world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

"Cool" is from before the time of probably any of us on here-- the 1930s! It's possible its usage might have slightly shifted over time (?) but that one just doesn't go away.

Meanwhile expressions like "radical," "bad," "on fleek" (ugh) didn't last long.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Cool people still use cool. And I think that's cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I heard someone use 'cold' in place of 'cool.' That was the moment I instantly became a Shouting Old Woman.