When did we stop saying "things are fire" to "things are cold"?

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  "What’s cooler than cool? Ice cold"

  • Hey Ya by Outkast, written CE 2000

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wasn’t aware fire or cold was measurements for how popular something was?

  When did this tempature based popularity start?

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When did this tempature based popularity start?

    It’s been cool for a long time

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You thought you were slick, didn’t you? Rad? Tubular? Mean?

  Fads come and go. Some are better than others, I am personally partial to “slick.” Fire will fade away but cool will return just like it always has.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s groovy or nothing.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Narly, dude.

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• NineMileTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, that shit’s weak. It ain’t tight or sweet at all.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He fell like a bum!

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• OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Those were both common stoner/skater/hip-hop terms when I was young in the 1990s. I imagine that they’re much older though.

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Cool” has been around for a lot longer than calling things “fire”. Things will continue to be called cool, until the next fad rolls around, and then it’ll go back to being called cool again.

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  • tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But that’s the thing, I’ve seen “cold” being used, not “cool”, and I find it weird as hell.

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  • burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah fire was a short lived trend, but how cool is being cool?

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    • BlueLou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ice cold

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• WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    youtu.be/UeS-Xb5u4-U

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    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I too am disturbed by the noted decline in Austin Powers references among high school students.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This gets more and more true with everyday. I understand less and less of the world around me.

    I wonder how Gen Z wojld react to something being reffered to as “all that and a bag of chips”.

    And none of this shrinkflation crap. The bag of chips used to be huge!

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    • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gen Z was born into a fully matured internet. They will just look up any old phrases and immediately learn anything they want.

      “Siri, the hell did i just hear?”

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I recently had someone explain to me what “And that’s where I came in” meant.

      I expect to explain to people why we say “roll down the window”, or what the save icon is, lol

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