What is cool? What does it mean to be cool? Can anyone be cool or is cool reserved for only a lucky few? Can you buy cool? If you own enough cool things will you become cool? How do we recognize cool?

Here normally the one who you think is cool is the one with the personalitly, it doesnt matter what you won but what your personality is like.
Its the layed back , always smiling ones with a sense of humour.

Hmm I have six children and the ones who are cool are the 2 who have personalities that stand out and seperate them from everone else, the others are stil popular but they arnt the ones who everyone follows and wants to be like..

The problem with "cool" is there is no one universal definition to satisfy everyone. It is like the qualities that attracts you to your mate, everyone is looking for something different.

There are some circles that you can buy into cool, but that is a temporary cool that is relaying on you spending money. But it is all a state of mind. Those who seem like they try too hard to please everyone will find it hard to be considered cool while those who seem to have life figured out (at least in their head) and do not worry about things are usually the cool people.

I think recognizing cool is subjective also, like age... I consider people older than me as old and younger than me is young. So those that act cooler than I do in a situation I would call cool while those who do not...well, they still have some work to do...lol

What we want in a mate has been programmed into us over the past 150,000 years by natural selection. For example, a man attracted women over 40 would likely only produce young with downs syndrome and they probably wouldn't survive long enough to produce young of their own, assuming they could attract a mate. Therefore, his genes wouldn't go very far into the future.

But about cool, I think we can all agree about what cool is. Sean Connery, for example, is cool and everyone knows it. So is George Clooney and Carry Grant.

LOL... When I was talking about the attractions of a mate I was thinking more like the guys who like a certain hair color or ethnic type over the others. No other reason like age or anything...lol

Yes those actors do play cool characters in the movies, they seem to never care about what others think... As for how they are in real life I would have no idea since I never met any of them...lol

Okay, so we can define cool based of fiction.

I am Cool.

she is cool

Shiki is so cool, he is now known as The Shiki. Even his manhood has the name of The One-Eyed Shiki. How cool is that.

Shiki.
He's not just cool.
He's Shiki Cool.

So there is Real cool, then fictional cool, then imaginary cool, and below all that and a few other lower levels of cool you find Shiki Cool?...lol

Steve McQueen, the definition of "real cool".

Cool is when other people think that you are cool.

You don't gotta tell em.

For me cool is the song "Screw you" (we're from Texas) by Ray Wylie Hubbard

when just standing in the heat, the sweat drips down your body and you find that little shop with knickknacks, open the door, the air rushes and you go ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. that's cool.

all else is just useless perception.

This is the smiley I use when I want to express being cool--->

Damn, I'm too cool for the room. Got my shades on, and I'm smokin my cools.

Dean Martin.

ditto !!!!