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Offline lefebvre_fan

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Cool and Nerdy Are Not Catholic Concepts
« on: April 14, 2012, 11:50:32 AM »
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  • True, "coolness" and "nerdiness" are not Catholic concepts, and were pretty much unheard of until the last 60 years or so. (OK, so you might have had people who were more "athletic" and others who were more "bookish," but the notions of "cool" and "nerdy" were really inventions of the rock 'n' roll era, in particular).

    Still, I'm a very detail-oriented person, and I choose to embrace it (most days; some days I wish I weren't so nit-picky), even though it would be considered "nerdy" by most people today.
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    Offline Graham

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    Cool and Nerdy Are Not Catholic Concepts
    « Reply #1 on: April 25, 2012, 12:47:34 PM »
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  • In fairness to the tastes of the modern world, I think only a minority are impressed by dat shyne grill. No, dat shine grill figures pretty low on the scales of contemporary coolness. For instance I have yet to see Goerge Clooney (is he still cool?) getting his shine grill on. In fact, from careful observations on the Montreal metro system, I would say that a carefully cultivated nerdy "look" - with the side-parted hair and the thickly framed spectacles - is popular among the so-called hipsters (currently the elite of coolness), though this one is gradually being replaced by an equally cultivated fisherman/lumberjack/crocodile dundee cross with, naturally, the ultra-skinny jeans that we all know manly men like Hemingway wore so often. But it's not impossible that dat shyne grill, in one form or another, will acquire coolness through a borg-like process of ironic absorption into hipster hive-mind.