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Why can't you be cool like a Millenial?

#MillenialsSoCool

Posted - October 1, 2016

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  • 411
    Uncool millenial reporting in.
      October 1, 2016 9:49 PM MDT
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  • 2
    The 80's was a VERY cool decade with some very cool music.  Sadly, most Millennials are too young to remember that.  A lot of them don't even know what good music is (though some do).

    By the way, Millennials didn't coin the term "cool", so how can they claim to know what the word even means?  "Cool" was first used to mean what it means today back in the 1940's by jazz musicians, and it began to be used by teenagers of all races in 1952, when an article in the Michigan Herald-Press stated that "to be 'cool' is the desire of every teenager."

    So "coolness" has existed since long before Millennials were even born.  And what you consider "cool" now may have actually been considered very uncool by your parents when they were your age, and by Generation Xers (such as myself) when we were your age.

    Of course, you're entitled to your opinion, but that's my two cents on the subject. This post was edited by TeresaRudolph71 at October 2, 2016 1:15 AM MDT
      October 1, 2016 11:25 PM MDT
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  • 17261
    *cool*
      October 1, 2016 11:44 PM MDT
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  • 16
      October 2, 2016 12:37 AM MDT
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  • 2758
    Because I'm a Gen-X'er.  I wouldn't count, anyway. :-)
      October 2, 2016 1:15 AM MDT
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  • Yes. We were thrown to the curb before it even started.
      October 2, 2016 10:47 AM MDT
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  • 2758
    We're the meat in a demographic chit sandwich. On one side are the Boomers and on the other the Millennials.  (I think there's another one before the millennials, but they're just the lettuce. :-))
      October 2, 2016 4:07 PM MDT
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  • 2
    Yeah, we're cool like Xer's.  :)
      October 2, 2016 11:51 AM MDT
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  • 44583
    Because I am "cool" like a boomer...complete with sunglasses and leather jacket.
      October 2, 2016 4:56 AM MDT
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  • 6988
    I don't know. There is something about a generation that lives in their parents' basement that just isn't that cool.
      October 2, 2016 8:56 AM MDT
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  • I'm the coolest millennial here :)
      October 2, 2016 10:52 AM MDT
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