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People who have become cooler

  • 14-05-2014 11:24PM
    #1
    DainBramage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    Morrissey is quite cool these days.


  • #4
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    LL Cool J


  • #5
    Duff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,598 ✭✭✭Duff


    Ice Cube?


  • #6
    rwg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭rwg


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


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  • #7
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


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


  • #9
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭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


  • #10
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


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


  • #11
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,746 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


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


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  • #12
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Hipsters are cooler now.


  • #13
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #15
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    thx for the help guys appreciated


  • #16
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    Joe prim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭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...


  • #19
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭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


  • #20
    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,890 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    Gary Neville

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


  • #21
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Take That/Gary Barlow


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,780 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kim Jong-un


  • #23
    L'Enfer du Nord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 587 ✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    *waves*


  • #25
    NegativeCreep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭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?


  • #26
    mrsdewinter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭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..


  • #28
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


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


  • #29
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Leonardo Dicaprio.
    Niall Quinn.


  • #30
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    Anyone who's moved to Alaska ? ...


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  • #31
    DainBramage
    Closed Accounts Posts: 212 ✭✭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


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