Cycling isn't cool anymore

biondino

God, one bottle of Peroni and I get all bolshy. happy days

alecstilleyedye

with mudguards, rack and a rucksack attached thereto, pannier stylee, i doubt very much that my commuter bike is "cool", even if cycling is, or isn't.

_Brun_

biondino wrote:

Attica wrote:

Don't get me wrong I like their stuff, I just can't differentiate between albums.
It's all very unchallenging samey stuff. Kind of a modern day Status Quo with less denim and more, ahem, socks.

I don't, they're awful, whiny, tedious toss as far as I'm concerned. Not fit to lick Status Quo's groupies.

Turgid is my adjective of choice.

itboffin

I have a cross bike and a FGSS therefore I MUST be ultra cool 8)

_Brun_

itboffin wrote:

I have a cross bike and a FGSS therefore I MUST be ultra cool 8)

But for the fact that you drink beer in your slippers infront of the computer, I'd agree.

itboffin

_Brun_ wrote:

itboffin wrote:

I have a cross bike and a FGSS therefore I MUST be ultra cool 8)

But for the fact that you drink beer in your slippers infront of the computer, I'd agree.

But they're Guinness slippers

Furbes

DonDaddyD wrote:

gtvlusso wrote:

I believe it is called a "soul patch"......Feel free to punch me out, if we meet :-)

HAHAHA Touche. I've got a "soul patch" myself...

Your cool.

Does that mean everyone with a soul patch is cool ? Woo hoo , that's me on the cool list then

rolf_f

Anyone who thinks they are cool is uncool and anything that anyone thinks is cool is uncool. Anyone who wants to be cool is uncool and anyone who cares what anyone else thinks in terms of their coolness is uncool. Even talking or thinking about it isn't cool which is why I'm posting here...........

Furbes

Rolf F wrote:

Anyone who thinks they are cool is uncool and anything that anyone thinks is cool is uncool. Anyone who wants to be cool is uncool and anyone who cares what anyone else thinks in terms of their coolness is uncool. Even talking or thinking about it isn't cool which is why I'm posting here...........

Someone must have eaten Rolf's easter egg

sarajoy

Well done folks, I was indeed being a grammar pedant earlier

Agreed, if you think you're cool, you're probably not!

attica

biondino wrote:

Attica wrote:

Don't get me wrong I like their stuff, I just can't differentiate between albums.
It's all very unchallenging samey stuff. Kind of a modern day Status Quo with less denim and more, ahem, socks.

I don't, they're awful, whiny, tedious toss as far as I'm concerned. Not fit to lick Status Quo's groupies.

"Like" as in can put up with it far better than the turgid euro piddle that the new boy in my office has subjected me to for most of this week!

As for Status Quo's groupies - fantastic imagery Bionds, made I proper laugh out loud, as they say in these parts.

Jay dubbleU

So I'm not cool then ?

Top Gear is cool 8) 8)

rolf_f

Furbes wrote:

Someone must have eaten Rolf's easter egg

Easter egg? What Easter Egg

beegee

I think it's good that more people (however fabulously rich) are rdiing bikes. Perhaps if the chairman and a few directors of my company (as in the company I work for) rode bikes we might get a few benefits - changing rooms and clothes drying faclities. Or maybe not

cjcp

Attica wrote:

Don't get me wrong I like their stuff, I just can't differentiate between albums.
It's all very unchallenging samey stuff. Kind of a modern day Status Quo with less denim and more, ahem, socks.

+1.

Bassjunkieuk

Well that was an amusing 4 1/2 pages!
I still haven't managed to work out if I'm cool or not but by using DDD's orginal cool list suggestions I think I am as I fall under that (rather large) final umbrella of "faster then me on a bike" ;-)

Still having said that I couldn't really give a toss whether I'm cool or not as it's never really been a big deal for me. I think it might have made a difference back in college when my friend seemed to think I'd commited a cardinal sin by daring to wear the same top 2 days running...........

Regardless of whether cycling is seen as "cool" or not I'm still gonna carry on doing it for me the un-cool people are those un-enlightened ones who still insist that trains, tube and buses are still the best way around town ;-)

sarajoy

Cool.

roger_merriman

kewl

dirk_van_gently

itboffin wrote:

I have a cross bike and a FGSS therefore I MUST be ultra cool 8)

Cross bike? you are freakin Ice Cold.

So say's another cross bike rider.
I'll get mi coat.

cee

DonDaddyD wrote:

Attica wrote:

Nerds are of course more cool than geeks!

BTW, how do you come to the conclusion that the RHCP are cool? They've released the same album repackaged with different song titles goodness knows how many times in the last decade or two.

Oh my god, I just felt part of my soul die... :shock:

How could you!!! How can you speak so badly of Chilli Peppers. :shock: :shock: :shock:

is it cool if you put an extra L in Chili Peppers??

blu3cat

is it cool if you put an extra L in Chili Peppers??

Chili Pleppers?

Roastie

Deliberately doing something because you think it is cool is a fundamentally uncool thing to do.

Sirius631

The truth about cool is that it's truely cool not to talk about it. Oh bu@@er, that's torn it!

Don't strive for it, just be it.

sarajoy

"Don't dream it, be it"

Anyone getting the reference gets 1) cool points, and 2) to tell us what they wore if they went to see it

_Brun_

sarajoy wrote:

"Don't dream it, be it"

Anyone getting the reference gets 1) cool points, and 2) to tell us what they wore if they went to see it

2 was a big enough clue.

Google confirmed I was right.

I didn't

alfablue

sarajoy wrote:

"Don't dream it, be it"

Anyone getting the reference gets 1) cool points, and 2) to tell us what they wore if they went to see it

I am afraid I went to the stage show in London in the year it first opened! (that ages me!!! :oops: ). Had no idea what it was all about before I went, wore civies!

Had the most fabulous g/f with me...parted the following year, still miss her

Oh, to be young

bomberesque

Don't dream it, be it

20 years ago, Oxford, in a thong and a black basque with 20 other like minded souls. It was a riot.
Chased a mate down the road outside the theatre (he was in civvis on a date, probably seeing some motr period nonsense). Failed to get into any nightclubs afterwards, just got a series of "you lot MUST be f*&ing joking" from one set of boucers after another :P

Some joker posted a photo of the lot of us from that night on FB recently. I nearly spat out my false teeth (would have had, if I had any, that is). I elected not to show Mrs B the picture, but she found it anyway (damn you FB!)

Oh, and Cycling is still cool. The fact that fools like Sugar try and hijack some of the gleen just shows that they know it's cool. Bet he looked a right idiot on a pinarello, which just goes to show you really. Should have done it in a basque and nickers, then we'd have thought him cool. Honest.

rally200

DonDaddyD wrote:

I'm cool, I'm black and listen to both Kurt Cobain, Nas, Lupe Fiasco and Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

I was wearing Air Force 1's, Addidas Decades and a Nike Windbreaker (orginally seen in the 80's movie Breakdance) before they were popular and bought back into production several times over.

There I said it.

being a "Casual" wasn't even cool in 80's (I know, I was there), let alone on the retro thing

Jay dubbleU

Got the reference but never seen it.

My list of cool - Cycling, Slacklining, Clangers, The Permian, all things Italian, Alpkit

Uncool - Motoring, Bunjey jumping, Wallace and Gromet, The Jurassic, The French, RBS

brushed

Roastiecp wrote:

Deliberately doing something because you think it is cool is a fundamentally uncool thing to do.

+1

messenger becomes fakinger becomes mainstream becomes passé