11 Reasons I'm Not Cool. Jump in and join the fun!

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. I listen to Alice in Chains a lot. I find I’m going through my “grunge” phase about 9 years too late.

  2. As a followup to #1, I often find myself humming or singing “Man in the Box,” “Brother,” and “Would?”.

  3. I have been known to stay up until the early morning hours watching English Premier League football. (I’m from Western KY, a soccer hotbed if their ever was one…NOT!)

  4. I still use “…NOT!”

  5. I thought “Wayne’s World” was a funny movie.

  6. The highlight of my weekends is going to midnight hockey games.

  7. I have musical tastes to boggle the mind. I have been known to frighten family members with CDs that transition from Charlie Daniels immediately to Linkin Park.

  8. I watch wrestling.

  9. My ultimate fantasy involves Jennifer Garner, Liv Tyler as Arwen, Reese Witherspoon, and chocolate sauce.

  10. I can’t believe I just typed #9.

  11. I don’t like to…

  12. conform to other people’s examples.

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Continuing briefly…

  1. Some people get spiffy colors like red or blue or green from their user names. Me? I get black
  2. I used my 750th post to discover this.
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I don’t know if anyone has said this already because i’m too tired to read the whole thread…but isn’t it considered cool to be uncool these days? I mean–geek rock? Right?
It’s not at all uncool to knit or like Aerosmith.

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  1. I’m a conservative Republican. I voted for George W. Bush in 2000 (and for his father in 1988 and 1992). I thought Ronald Reagan was a great president.

  2. I’m a Southern Baptist.

  3. I’m a virgin.

  4. I don’t drink or smoke.

  5. I don’t dye my hair.

  6. I don’t wear makeup.

  7. I don’ t go to the movies. There just isn’t anything in the cinemas that I want to go see.

  8. I’m in love wih Jack Lord of Hawaii Five-O.

  9. I like fruitcake.

  10. I like classical music, doo-wop, show tunes, novelty songs, and bubble-gum music, but I can’t stand rap or heavy metal.

  11. In high school, I actually enjoyed reading Beowulf, the Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Paradise Lost, the Divine Comedy, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities.

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  1. I don’t wear thong underwear.

  2. I wear contact lenses, but they’re not the kind that change your eye color. They’re ordinary gas-permeable non-tinted lenses.

  3. I don’t like swear words.

  4. I support President Bush’s actions in Iraq.

  5. I’m pro-life (anti-abortion).

  6. I support capital punishment.

  7. I don’t like either expresso or cappuccino.

  8. Not only do I like fruitcake, but I don’t mind citron in fruitcake.

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Hi there. My name is BillDozer74, and I’m here to pick up my thread. :smiley:

Where to begin…

  1. I’ve been here for over a year, and haven’t even posted 10 times. And all my posts are completely inane.

  2. I love 80’s music. I have all seven Debbie Gibson CDs, and just about everything Erasure has released.

  3. I’m attracted to short, chubby, balding guys. I’ve had a crush on Bob Hoskins since I was 14 and saw him in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Yes, really.

  4. I’ve seen every episode of “Survivor”.

  5. I have every episode of “King Of The Hill” on tape. My user name is from “King Of The Hill”–my name isn’t even Bill.

  6. I lost my virginity at age 23. To a 42-year-old. :eek:

  7. I’m 28 and I’ve never had my driver’s license.

  8. I’m 28 and I sleep with a Homer Simpson pillow.

  9. I compile a weekly chart of my current 100 favorite songs. And I spend New Year’s Eve listening to my top 100 songs of the year.

  10. I’ve met all of the friends I’ve made since I graduated from college over the Internet.

  11. I’m about 90 lbs. overweight and it doesn’t bother me one bit. I actually like how I look right now.

  12. It’s almost 1pm and I haven’t showered yet today.

  13. I don’t always follow instructions.

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I’m not cool because…

Wait a minute. What the hell am I talking about? I’m cool. Entire nations worship the ground I walk upon. By the way, I’ll be signing autographs up in the antarctic in a few hours. Any of you hurry there might be one or two last minute plane tickets left up there. :smiley:

Ok, I confess. I’m not really cool because…

  1. I’m a mathematician (in training)
  2. I’m not just doing it because it’s good for getting jobs - I actually like maths.
  3. 19, almost 20 and never kissed anyone.
  4. Only ever had one girlfriend, and that was online (and didn’t really work out).
  5. I don’t drink or smoke
  6. I don’t like parties with more than 5-7 people in them.
  7. I don’t like loud music.
  8. I’m vegetarian.
  9. I’m sure I’ve posted in this thread before, but can’t find the post.
  10. I have never watched a Soap in my life and am proud of this.
  11. Despite all the effort I put into it, the pumpkin soup I have cooking at the moment is pretty tasteless. :slight_smile: (To be fair this is unusual - my pumpkin soup is usually pretty good).
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Why it’s uncool to be fizzy…

  1. I had a whole list of reasons why I’m uncool made up in my head and I just now forgot them all so now I have to wing it.

  2. I adore the Backstreet Boys and I know their birthdays, favorite colors, middle names and other pointless trivia that I learned when I was fourteen and still haven’t forgotten.

  3. I’ve also been to two Backstreet Boys concerts and want to go to more.

  4. I develop crushes on book characters more often than real life people.

  5. Fun for punha and me is spending the night at home playing chess and surfing the boards.

  6. When a teacher says to do the reading I actually do the reading.

  7. I got mad when I made an 87 on a biology test after making a 96 on the previous test.

  8. I think The Incredible Machine is a really fun game.

  9. I’ve fallen in love with a certified computer geek.

  10. I’m a diablo 2 widow.

  11. I live 3 hours away from University of Tennessee and I loathe football.

  12. I’m 18 (almost 19) years old and still sleep with a teddy bear.

  13. I’m engaged and I sleep with my fiancé and I make him share the bed with my huge teddy bear.

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  1. I am an obsessive American Civil War buff. I have pictures of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas J. Jackson and R.E. Lee hanging on my wall.

  2. I am a baseball fan. Correction. I am THE baseball fan. I watch baseball, read about baseball, spend at least 30 hours a week online chatting about baseball, talk about baseball constantly to everyone, whether or not they like baseball, and spend hours calculating Park Factors, Equivalent Averages, DIPS ERAs, and playing text-based baseball simulations. It gives me great joy to disprove the common misconceptions that many people have about baseball: that player salaries cause ticket prices to go up, that Derek Jeter is a good defensive shortstop, that Shoeless Joe Jackson should be in the Hall of Fame. 75% of my wardrobe is Yankees paraphernalia.

  3. I stopped counting birthdays at 24. I will be celebrating my Third Annual 24th Birthday in April.

  4. I’m “24”, and visibly balding.

  5. I’m “24” and a virgin. Not by choice (and is that really that surprising having read #2?

  6. I do not smoke, use drugs, and rarely drink. I hate beer.

  7. I do not own a car, and further, I never got my drivers license.

  8. I rarely interact directly with other human beings outside of work or school.

  9. I prefer to wear my hair long, despite being “24”, balding, and it being 2003.

  10. At least half of my possessions are books. Mostly about the American Civil War and Baseball.

  11. I quote song lyrics, quotes from history, books, movies, and comic strips regularly.

I am more uncool than all of you. Combined.

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Hej! Enough of us uncool types hate smoking and drinking, that hating those things may be acquiring an inverse uncool cachet… :slight_smile:

Some ogf the posters on this tread mentioned SOs or even marriage. IMHO, if someone likes you enough to marry you, you haven’t plumbed the depths of uncoolness.

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Come on, Jess, you know band members are the pinnacle of all that is cool. (He says proudly glancing at the trombone mouthpiece on his desk.) :slight_smile:

  1. I just typed that in total honesty and am leaning toward joining a DCI corps.
  2. I got a haircut that took me from “Jesus” to “Sampson” in the eyes of my peers.
  3. There is a large stuffed penguin occupying my bed at all times.
  4. There are smaller stuffed penguins all about my room.
  5. I have a Tandy Color Computer II(older than me) lying open on my table sorrounded by makeshift logic probes and quickly jotted schematics.
  6. I saw the thread title and thought “Here’s a chance to boast.”
  7. My speakers are currently blasting the second movement to Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.
  8. I cannot find a way to appreciate most popular rap music.
  9. I can enjoy early rap, though I couldn’t name an artist if I tried.
  10. I like some of the music produced by the evil mega-corporate whatever empire.
  11. I have a foil sticker of Droopy as he appeared in the Droopy and Dripple Mysteries on the front of my computer case that has adorned the front of my computer cases ever since it was a 386SX hacked into an 8088 PC-clone case(I must have been eight at the time).
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  1. I’ve been sitting in front of the computer cruising the SDMB for going on five hours now, and I’m supposed to be up (as in, out of bed) and at work in three.

  2. I don’t know a single thing about cars, except that they take you from one place to another place and they make a “vroom” noise.

  3. The pictures on my walls are stock posters of famous photographs, like the stuff you’d see in a doctor’s waiting room, if the doctor were a particularly tasteless fellow.

  4. I still occasionally listen to Ice-T’s early recordings, sometimes rapping along. In front of people.

  5. I drink Pepsi Blue, sometimes affectionately referring to it as (I cannot believe I am about to confess to this) a “mana potion.”

…

Yeah, definitely time for bed now.

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  1. I don’t really like computers (I mean I like using them, I just find nothing about their make-up intresting at all)

  2. I don’t drink

  3. I have never touched a drug (other than caffine and nicotine)

  4. I eat meat

  5. I honestly beleive that there is a girl out there as dorky as me just waiting to find me.

  6. I don’t like sci-fi of any kind (yes that mean LOTR, Star-Trek, etc)

  7. I have never seen Star Wars (any of them)

  8. My bedroom wall is covered in ages from “A Catcher in the Rye” and “The Jungle” (see the pictures @ www.angelfire.com/film/straydog/thewall.html) sorry I don’t knowhow to ad links in here.

  9. I’m fat

  10. I do not like MTV or modern music at all

  11. I don’t like Aerosmith or Rush

  12. I have never seen a reality show (I did watch about 4 minutes of Fear Factory because an old high school friend was on it and lost her ass I might ad)

  13. I don’t understand the appeal to games like Everquest and the like.

  14. I don’t think I am special.

  15. I wear a pair of 8 year old Burkenstocks on a daily basis (even like today in the snow)

  16. I cannot spell worth a crap (I am pretty bad a grammar also)

  17. I smoke.

  18. I don’t like “underground” music that is only cool because they have not “sold-out” and I do not fight to prove that I am the only person that likes a band and/or I liked them way before anyone else did and way before it was cool to like them. I for hte most part begin to like a band when I hear their song for the 150th time on the radio and it grows on me. Other than that I am still just listening to the same bands I did ten years ago.

  19. I am 24 and I have a large bald spot on my head and I am begining to grow hair on my back.

  20. One of my favorite TV shows is the Antiques Roadshow.

I know there is more, but this is starting to get me all depressed.

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:eek:

Those pictures scare me.

::backs aways slowly::

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RAVs look like jellybeans. Not that that’s a bad thing per se but really, RAVs are not really “sexy” or “cool” cars.

My RAV is going to be traded in soon. Moving on to probably Station Wagon Land as we have a bebe on the way and two dogs. Need more room!

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I am not cool because:

  1. I still haven’t reconciled myself to the existence of cell phones. Some days I’m not sure I’ve reconciled myself to the existence of phones.
  2. I listen to a-ha and I know how many albums they released.
  3. I like biathlon and cross-country skiing. I find them exciting. Anybody got a problem with that?
  4. I have been known to speak favorably about the possibility of owning a Mitsubishi Space Wagon. And yes, I know it’s ugly.
  5. I rarely drink alcohol and always stop at two drinks.
  6. I’m a total wallflower at parties unless I know most people there.
  7. I almost never watch movies any more.
  8. I have no idea what half of those fancy coffee drinks are.
  9. I still want a lava lamp. (How many times have those things gone out of fashion?)
  10. I find most current sitcoms juvenile and boring. I mostly watch edumacashunal type stuff on TV, that and the news (which is often juvenile but rarely boring).
  11. I’m a pain in the butt who won’t tell anyone what flodnak means.
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  1. I’ve never seen an entire episode of The Simpsons.

  2. I’ve never seen any of the Star Trek shows or movies.

  3. I’ve seen Rocky Horror Picture Show exactly once, and I just didn’t get it. I thought it was stupid.

  4. I do the Jumble puzzle every day, and get a goofy little thrill out of it. Granted, I do it in pen, and it takes me all of 5 minutes, but I like doing it.

  5. I’ve read nearly all the Oprah’s Book Club books.

  6. I listen to country music. And I like it.

  7. I just don’t get Sci-Fi. I liked Lord of the Rings, but I don’t get the complete and utter fascination people have for it.

  8. I hate wine. I am a 30-something suburban mom, and I know I’m supposed to drink the stuff, but I prefer a good imported beer.

  9. I like the PT Cruiser. I like it with the wood trim, too.

  10. I collect old glass milk bottles. I have 65 of them, and can tell you something about almost every one.

  11. I’ve had the same hairstyle (straight, shoulder-length with bangs) since I was about 14 or 15.

  12. When I grow up, I want to be Officer Faith Yokas of the 55th precinct in NYC. But without the breast cancer and the alcoholic husband.

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Hmm, le’see here:

  1. The only reason I didn’t fill this list out last night at 4:00 in the morning is that I got disconnected from the internet.

  2. I’m twenty and still live with my mom and step-father.

  3. I’m still a virgin and have only kissed two girls. One was on my first (and so far, last) date and the other was during a game of Truth or Dare Jenga at a friends house.

  4. I have one person in real life that I consider a friend and I used to work with him at the local Wal Mart until I was fired. I consider him my best friend but rarely talk to him unless I happen to be shopping there and drop in on him. All my other ‘friends’, I know only as names on a computer monitor.

  5. I don’t have a car. I’m getting one right now but for all of my adult life until now, my parents have driven me wherever I need to go.

  6. I have a twenty hour a week job. That’s it. No college, no secondary job, no social life… nothin’. Just the twenty hour a week job.

  7. I spend the other 148 hours of my week either sleeping, reading message boards, playing a PS2 game, or reading.

  8. Speaking of reading, I own about 90% of the Star Trek books published by Pocket Books… that’s about 300 or more books.

  9. Of those 300 or more books, I have read almost all of them… the only ones I have not read are the ones that caused me to sleep by even thinking about them. The others, no matter how boring, I read.

  10. My favorite television shows are WWE RAW, Star Trek in most any incarnation, and reruns of Friends. The only one of theses shows I actually watch with any regularity is WWE RAW though.

  11. When I am online at night, the TV is almost always turned to the Disney Channel. Yes, I am twenty and watch Boy Meets World, Even Stevens, and even Lizzie McGuire.

  12. I could go on. Easily.

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  1. I’m middle-aged. (48.)

  2. I’m a homeowner.

  3. I’m a government bureaucrat. That should count double, so:

  4. I’m a government bureaucrat.

  5. Except for the CD player, my stereo system components are all between 15 and 25 years old.

  6. When I’m composing a sentence like “She’s not as gorgeous as (insert name of hot young actress here), but she’s still damned good-looking,” I usually can’t name a hot young actress off the top of my head. Shows you how many movies I’ve been to, lately.

  7. I hate loud bars.

  8. I think Billy Joel is one of the most underrated pop artists of the last 30 years.

  9. I like old (1972 and earlier) Neil Diamond songs.

  10. I still like the Macarena.

  11. I’d rather curl up with a book than go out dancing.

  12. I like wearing the same sorts of clothes I liked wearing 20 years ago.

  13. I have a doctorate in mathematics.

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To everyone who’s posted so far, you’re so uncool, you’re cool (and I think that’s the point :wink: )

  1. I memorize statistics and facts about politics, and get excited when election night comes (see also B]Sapphire Bullet** )

  2. I own the Monty Python’s Flying Circus DVD set (see also Crunchy Frog )

  3. I was voted “most bashful” by my high school graduating class

  4. I was the only kid in 6th grade who didn’t know the words to “Whip It” by DEVO

  5. I have very little understanding of, or interest in, sports

  6. Before politics, I memorized facts and music chart data about rock music going back to 1955. I sing along with oldies (particularly doo-wop and british invasion)

  7. I like maps, and ended up majoring in geography because of this

  8. I worked the night of my senior prom instead of going to it. I sat out my junior prom despite not having a job or something else to do that night

  9. My parents called me by my middle name (which in the south is not uncool, but is uncool everywhere else)

  10. I voted for Nader, not once, but twice!

  11. I have the entire “This is Spinal Tap” movie memorized (note how this list goes up to eleven!)