Are you cooler than the younger generation?

[JoeyB]

I'm so cool I kiss ice cubes

 

[morrisman]

"May"? I think if you had to select, out of all the infinite options available, the antithesis of 'cool', morris dancing would have to be the one to beat.

Have you never met a radio amateur, a pylon spotter, a trekkie and many other lower down the list the morris dancing hobbies.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Have you never met a radio amateur, a pylon spotter, a trekkie and many other lower down the list the morris dancing hobbies.

I like morris dancing and all that, not taking part just the watching bit - it's one of those loony British things that if it didn't exist you couldn't invent it. Marvellous!

 

[swee'pea99]

A guy I once worked with got transferred to Switzerland, where he joined the local morris dancing club. Yes, there was one (all expats, needless to say). He said they used to go out on weekends and perform in little villages deep in the Alps, and watch German weekenders cruise into the square in their large gleaming black Mercs, encounter a bunch of Morris dancers, and go into a sort of stunned trance, scattering pedestrians/ploughing through cafe tables/disappearing over the edge into the valley far below...

 

[ShipHill]

My eldest is 11 and has not even a passing interest in any kind of music whatsoever. Feel a bit sad about that sometimes but I guess no music interest is better than 1D or their ilk.

Liking 1D is the same as having no interest in music. ....

 

[Melonfish]

Have you never met a radio amateur, a pylon spotter, a trekkie and many other lower down the list the morris dancing hobbies.

That's Trekker, the term "trekkie" is a misnomer all true trekkers know this.

clearly my kids are kewler than me.

 

[Julia9054]

Have you never met a radio amateur, a pylon spotter, a trekkie and many other lower down the list the morris dancing hobbies.

I'm a brass bander. Got to have someone to look down on!

 

[Fnaar]

I'm cooler than James Dean standing in a mountain stream eating ice-cream.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I'm hep to the jive, I'm on the righteous side, ya dig daddy-o?

 

[palinurus]

It's not just younger people who haven't heard of legends.

About 10 years ago, my uncle (probably 50ish at the time) had fitted a CD player to his car and I let him look through my CD collection to see if there was anything he wanted a (ahem) copy. He was looking through a pile of CDs when he said something that stopped me dead in my tracks - "who the f*** is Eric Clapton?"

How can someone of his age group not have heard of Eric Clapton?

Your uncles cool