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A quite distressing Friday night was had when, indulging in the ususal Friday night gin & tonics, we realised we were no longer cool - none of us. None of us have a myspace (Shepherd’s Bush Dave’s borther has two and tbh we’re not really sure what one is), none of us know what ‘grime’ is (apparently its a type of music, I had to ask Housemate D about it, he is still cool, probably), we were drinking gin and tonics (I couldn’t even tell you what we should have been drinking to be cool) and know people other than our parents who have mortgages (you can’t be cool and have a mortgage).

Shocked by this realisation we went into instant justification mode - who has time to be cool?? How can you fit being cool around a full time job? Being cool requires being ahead of the game, knowing the next band/fashion/bar/website before anyone else so that by the time it is the latest thing, you’ve moved onto something bigger and better. All of this requires time and effort and the only people who have that time are teenagers - you can only be cool between the ages of 15 and 17, university students aren’t cool they are mini adults. Mid-20s aren’t cool, we’re just in denial about our iminent grownupness.

I think realising you are no longer cool probably means that your much closer to being an adult than you’d like to admit, and everyone knows that being an adult isn’t cool.

Faced with this shocking truth we have two choices, embrace our uncoolness or fight it - go out everynight to gigs by upcoming bands, to the bar no one else has heard of, because its too cool, not because its rubbish, start dressing in an ecentric fashion that everyone will soon be copying, with clothes bought from the shop that no one else has heard of - but really, who has the time? I have a job to go to, bad television to watch and gin and tonics to drink in our usual, unhip pubs. Adulthood, here I come…

Off to: a tubestation party tonight
Intending to drink: a bottle of savigon blanc
Listening to: a band I’ve never heard of on Xfm

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