I’ve driven a Ford pickup with a manual transmission and a three-on-the-tree shifter. That’s old school.
Asking if X makes you cool automatically deducts any coolness points you happen to have, and puts you definitely in the “uncool” category. Worrying about being cool means that you are NOT. Cool people don’t worry about their coolness, or lack thereof, and they don’t do things, or avoid doing things, based on how cool those things are supposed to be.
A cool person can ride a rusty tricycle, and make it work. An uncool person will not become cool because of a vehicle.
Cool isn’t something you do, it’s something you are. Cool is an attitude, but it must be genuine. If you try to fake it, you’re a poser, which is the worst kind of uncool.
Coolness is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death’…[it] is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come ‘in a thousand years’ – it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere…”
(Apologies to Nietzsche)
Learning to drive a stick does not make you cool or give you a mancard, its a bloody basic skill which everyone needs to know, sort of like knowing that you take your clothes off before sex.
I’m so cool I wrapped it and my sportscar is automatic.
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I remember a conversation with two guys that took place maybe 20 years ago. I mentioned the three on a tree thing and they had no idea what I was talking about. One of them said he had never seen such a thing and the other one said he had never even heard of it. Kids today, I tell you.
And no movie more recent than 2000? Now that’s the very definition of cool.
Ha ha ha. This is me in an automatic. I’m tap dancing all over the place looking for the clutch pedal.
Man card? I’m not a man and 3 out of my last 4 cars have been stick shift by choice (and there was no choice or the 4th one would have been, too). What’s the female equivalent of the man card? 
The first time I drove a standard it took me a couple of tries to find reverse, by which time the truck rolled onto a washed-over bridge. Since the truck did not get swept away, and none of the shuttle monkeys fell in, not only was it not cool, it was not even cooling.
Good for you, but when you say truck I was thinking Truck you know something with 10 speeds, split rear. diesel etc
I spent 30 years diving those and I still ain’t cool:)
With me it was hitting the wide break pedal with my left foot, thinking it was the clutch, then having to get up to speed again, only to hit the break again thinking it was the clutch . . .
[ManCard]A credit card? Then there’s that business about a small standard car being a vibrator.[/ManCard]
I really didn’t say that.
Good for you. You’re doing something you want to do, which is what cool is. When do we see the Jurassic Park paint job?
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So, PSXer, is driving a standard helping your friend get laid by a Chinese girl with green eyes?
Once you feel you’ve mastered the clutch aspect of driving stick and are in need of another challenge, teach yourself how to drive stick without the clutch. (I don’t recommend doing this to a car you respect, especially if you intend to start and stop clutchless as well - it’s hell on your starter. :P)
You are evil. I bet you’re a demon in the quarter mile, though. 
The one where being able to drive anything ever made is cool.
Manuals are cool and if it was a three-on-the-tree it was even cooler.
Sewing. Now get in the kitchen and fry me some chicken, woman. And polish the silverware while you’re in there. You should be doing that anyway. 
I know how to start a manual car, but that’s about it. My family has given up on trying to teach me. Oh well.
My mom says I’m cool, though.