People who have become cooler

DainBramage

Just watching legend the Alex Higgins doc on bbc4.
It details amongst other things his rivalry vs Steve Davis in the 80's. Steve at that time seems really nerdish and a bit of a dry ****e.
But as a snooker fan these days Steve seems like a cool guy and likeable (imo). any others fit this bill?

Tail Docker

DainBramage wrote: »

Just watching legend the Alex Higgins doc on bbc4.
It details amongst other things his rivalry vs Steve Davis in the 80's. Steve at that time seems really nerdish and a bit of a dry ****e.
But as a snooker fan these days Steve seems like a cool guy and likeable (imo). any others fit this bill?

I believe Jimmy Saville is about 37 degrees cooler these days. Happily.

porsche959

Morrissey is quite cool these days.

wretcheddomain

LL Cool J

Duff

Ice Cube?

rwg

you know youre getting old when steve "interesting" davis has become cool

KungPao

DainBramage wrote: »

Just watching legend the Alex Higgins doc on bbc4.
It details amongst other things his rivalry vs Steve Davis in the 80's. Steve at that time seems really nerdish and a bit of a dry ****e.
But as a snooker fan these days Steve seems like a cool guy and likeable (imo). any others fit this bill?

I agree. Shame the same didn't happen to Hendry. Still a guy that's hard to like.

Hank Scorpio

this is off topic but is everyone being redirected to touch.boards.ie from the normal website? On my PC atm

Sky King

nuxxx wrote: »

this is off topic but is everyone being redirected to touch.boards.ie from the normal website? On my PC atm

You used to be cool, man

RikkFlair

Matthew MacConaughey used to be that actor who kept taking his top off in romcoms, but he's cool now.

Duckworth_Luas

Ryan Tubridy used to be a foppish nerd but he's now a Love/Hate inspired hardman.

Sir Arthur Daley

Hipsters are cooler now.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

My mom says I've never been cooler, we went jumper shopping today and she picked out one with a really cool red stripe across the front of it, said I will look extra cool for our Friday night bingo outing with her.

James Blunt was a guy who made shít, irritating music.
Now he's a guy who makes shít, irritating music but is very funny on Twitter.

Hank Scorpio

thx for the help guys appreciated

Tail Docker

Deleted User wrote: »

James Blunt was a guy who made shít, irritating music.
Now he's a guy who makes shít, irritating music but is very funny on Twitter.

James Blunt rides models and is rich. I'd say he feels pretty cool. He's also very good live.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Was a time when Dave McSavage was about as popular in Ireland as Rangers fan would be walking down the Falls Road, but not so much the case these days it would seem, as I often now hear people discussing The Savage Eye and being quite complementary about the guy in fact. Every dog has his day I guess.

Joe prim

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Hipsters are cooler now.

I thought they were cool back before it was cool to think they were cool...

umop.episdn

Tail Docker wrote: »

James Blunt rides models and is rich. I'd say he feels pretty cool. He's also very good live.

I'd rather he was dead to be truthful

SureYWouldntYa

Gary Neville

Never liked him as a footballer, turned into a decent pundit though

Rothko

Take That/Gary Barlow

Kim Jong-un

L'Enfer du Nord

I believe this phenomenon is relatively common in popular music. E.g Marc Bolan/T Rex regarded as a bit of a joke by serious mussos in the early seventies. ten years later he's cited as a major influence by loads of Acts.

The Backwards Man

*waves*

NegativeCreep

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

I believe this phenomenon is relatively common in popular music. E.g Marc Bolan/T Rex regarded as a bit of a joke by serious mussos in the early seventies. ten years later he's cited as a major influence by loads of Acts.

Is it the 80's again?

mrsdewinter

Kylie. Through much of the 90s she was a bit of a joke. Mebbe a guilty pleasure for teenage boys. Then she pulled on those gold hotpants for Spinning Around, and she was suddenly cool. If I sat down and thought about it, I could nearly work out the weekend in 2001 that she became naughty rather than naff.

padd b1975

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Kylie. Through much of the 90s she was a bit of a joke. Mebbe a guilty pleasure for teenage boys. Then she pulled on those gold hotpants for Spinning Around, and she was suddenly cool. If I sat down and thought about it, I could nearly work out the weekend in 2001 that she became naughty rather than naff.

Her coolness really started when she did that duet with Nick Cave, shagging Micheal Hutchence helped too..

The Backwards Man

What you smoking lads? Kylie was always cool. Dungarees and servicing yutes. *faints*

ardle1

Leonardo Dicaprio.
Niall Quinn.

dd972

Anyone who's moved to Alaska ? ...

DainBramage

RikkFlair wrote: »

Matthew MacConaughey used to be that actor who kept taking his top off in romcoms, but he's cool now.

yea he changed around, good agent or movie choices. but proved himself as dallas buyers club shows

RollieFingers

ardle1 wrote: »

Leonardo Dicaprio.
Niall Quinn.

Only Michael Owen is more painful to listen to on commentary than Niall Quinn!

orangesoda

Joseph Brolly, he was relatively unheard of outside ulster 10 years ago and now he's on documentaries and what not

porsche959

mrsdewinter wrote: »

Kylie. Through much of the 90s she was a bit of a joke. Mebbe a guilty pleasure for teenage boys. Then she pulled on those gold hotpants for Spinning Around, and she was suddenly cool. If I sat down and thought about it, I could nearly work out the weekend in 2001 that she became naughty rather than naff.

Must disagree on timings. Kylie was uncool in late 80s for sure but became officially cool in 1994 with the release of this excellent single:

That track was being played in too-cool-for-school nightclubs (and not just gay clubs) in mid 90s and was getting regular play on (the then) cool MTV.

There was also this duet with Nick Cave in 1996 or so:

2001's 'Spinning Around' merely sealed the deal, but Kylie was cool even in the nineties.

carraig2

How about me????

porsche959

L'Enfer du Nord wrote: »

E.g Marc Bolan/T Rex regarded as a bit of a joke by serious mussos in the early seventies.

Must admit, wouldn't have known that. Always assumed Bolan was epitome of cool.

The Backwards Man

I've just remembered doing a solo version of the locomotion for the school concert in fish fifth class of national school

porsche959

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I've just remembered doing a solo version of the locomotion for the school concert in fish fifth class of national school

That's interesting, 'cos I remember **** over a Smash Hits poster of Kylie in third year in secondary.

Memories! :cool:

AlwaysAnyTime

Gary busey

Crazy=cool

Orim

DainBramage wrote: »

yea he changed around, good agent or movie choices. but proved himself as dallas buyers club shows

I find the recent turnaround on MacConaughy funny. He began his career as David Wooderson, one of the coolest people in film and went on to deliver a fantastic performance in A Time to Kill.

He did some some dreck all right but checking his imdb shows that it's not as much as people make out.

porsche959

AlwaysAnyTime wrote: »

Gary busey

Crazy=cool

Yes yes yes

ardle1

Sporty Spice.

Ihatecuddles

Bryan Cranston.

Went from being that guy who played Hal in MITM to being Walter White. Uber cool.

ryan101

Johnny Cash

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

mauzo! wrote: »

Bryan Cranston.

Went from being that guy who played Hal in MITM to being Walter White. Uber cool.

Yeah, but then they miscast him in the new Godzilla film and now he's back to uncool again.

SterlingArcher

mauzo! wrote: »

Bryan Cranston.

Went from being that guy who played Hal in MITM to being Walter White. Uber cool.

What? Hal was one of the best tv characters ever. He was cool then cool now. No temperature change there what so ever. As for Godzilla? he is getting paid , stacking up. Gets a season pass.

Ihatecuddles

SterlingArcher wrote: »

What? Hal was one of the best tv characters ever. He was cool then cool now. No temperature change there what so ever. As for Godzilla? he is getting paid , stacking up. Gets a season pass.

Hey I loved him in MITM, but he was not cool as Hal, funny sure, but definitely not cool. Both as the character and actor.

Now he's cool, I won't be watching Godzilla though, so he gets a pass for that.

Sunglasses Ron

I've no idea, but funnily enough in a bit of an opposite to this thread I was only thinking of how in the last few years Will Smith has turned from fresh prince king of cool to insufferable cardboard cut out celebrity gobshi'te. Playing the archetypal pushy celebrity parent on the career of his awful troll doll daughter, he socialises with the Kardashians, and, most unforgivably, he has flirted with/ donated to Scientology. You wouldn't catch Samuel L or Clint Eastwood at that type of carry on.:p

snaphook

Golfer Nick Faldo.

Similar resurgence to Steve Davis from the Snooker.

Was one of the dominant players in the eighties/nineties but was never a favourite with the media. Regarded him as cold, aloof with an arrogant personality. The Steve Davis to Seve Ballesteros' Alex Higgins.

He began working in the US media as a commentator and had a personality transplant and has won plaudtis and fans for his humour, anecdotes and depth of knowledge.

AdolfHipster

I used to be Cool, but then they changed what Cool was. Now what I thought was Cool isn't Cool, and what's Cool seems weird and scary to me, and it'll happen to you, too!

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

Will Smith has turned from fresh prince king of cool to insufferable cardboard cut out celebrity gobshi'te.

Apparently he is not liked by many of his co-stars. The Black community are also not supposed to be happy with him for starring in The Legend of Bagger Vance when his career was on the up and could have afforded to turn it down. Playing a "Magical Negro" is supposed to very taboo for black stars that have successful careers.

Apparently, Ethan Hawke, who was good friends with Denzel Washington after having just made Training Day with him, made some remark about that in the toilets and if you take a quick look at this clip where Denzel is receiving his Oscar for TD, you'll first notice that Will Smith is not in his seat (and they have to use a picture of him instead) and then you'll see (at the 55sec mark) Ethan Hawke looking a little shook, with a big bruiser on his face, which wasn't there when he arrived at the Oscars that night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLKDfyFjQtc

Smith had just finished shooting Ali and so would have been well capable of a throwing a punch.

Course, may all just be a rumour and the story about Smith's kid having an ear infection and the bruise just mere lipstick from Thurman is the real truth, but I'm not buying that, as Hawke was as white as a sheet and can't see Will Smith missing his chance in the spotlight because of a child's ear infection.