No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world Tiger Jerusalem @lemmy.world 4 wk. ago

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

And what the hell are all supposed to mean? Also, get off my lawn.

EDIT: I'm talking about "cold", not "cool". I'm seeing it being used along with snowflakes and freezing emoji, sometimes even saying "ice".

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- 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!
  
  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
  
  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?"
- https://youtu.be/UeS-Xb5u4-U
  
  I too am disturbed by the noted decline in Austin Powers references among high school students.
"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. It's been used since the 1930's.
- Yeah fire was a short lived trend, but how cool is being cool?
  
  Ice cold
- But that's the thing, I've seen "cold" being used, not "cool", and I find it weird as hell.
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.
- It's groovy or nothing.
  
  Like my belt onion.
  
  Narly, dude.
"What's cooler than cool? Ice cold"

- Hey Ya by Outkast, written CE 2000
Yeah, that shit's weak. It ain't tight or sweet at all.
- He fell like a bum!
Cold isn't new, pretty sure it predates fire. I remember hearing it used like that in college 20 years 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.
I wasn't aware fire or cold was measurements for how popular something was?

When did this tempature based popularity start?
- "This shit is fire" I definitely heard, but I'm not sure I ever heard literally "cold" instead of "cool".
  
  I've only heard it as a "hardcore" term
- When did this tempature based popularity start?
  
  It's been cool for a long time
Sick post, brah.

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