To still say 'cool'

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in my thirties? I use it from time to time to similarly aged friends, not in formal or professional situations or anything, but have noticed, twice, rather reactions. I suppose I mean amused or condescending or mildly sarcastic reactions.
Is it because they think I'm too old to say it? Is it because it's old-fashioned? I don't even feel like I'm using slang when I say it because it's very much used in the creative industries my family's in, (though not me); it means on trend or carrying a certain cache, or being a touch rebellious to me. I could use other words, but cool naturally comes out!
I'm not about to stop saying it but...WHY shouldn't I?

I think any such adjective used by anyone over 25 will inevitably sound wrong to others, especially to younger ears.

My 5yo uses cool though, which I quite like! Maybe it's the word to use for infants and the middle-aged - the inherently uncool.

I say cool and awesome, and also the occasional "dude" (with exasperation in my voice usually) but I'm not a native English speaker, have lived in several other English-speaking countries before and get mixed up what is acceptable in which country at times and I don't really care if people judge me because of these words.

I say 'cool' and I'm 114 and 3/4.

I notice it when adults say it. I do a fleeting mental double take.

Thinking about it, I guess if you've been saying it all your life then it is just habit - but it sounds a bit try hard to me.

Come to Wales and say "lush" instead

I still say cool (aged 35) and I've never noticed anyone minds. I also say wicked and sometimes even wicked cool

I still pop a "man" on the end of sentences like some hep cat from the 50s!

I sneak in a 'man' every so often, usually in mild exasperation, for instance dropping a biscuit might be followed by a sigh and an "Oh Man!"

I use it, and dude as well. I cringe every time but I can't help it.

I do it without thinking, and then laugh as it reminds me of how my mum used to say things were "trendy" and I would want to curl up and die I was so embarrassed

Ohh, parents saying 'trendy'... and people using 'wally' after the year in which it was fashionable (circa 1983/4)....

I think 'cool' is more classic.

The one I find odd these days is people in their 30s-40s using 'super'. To my ears that's antiquated or sarcastic but seems to have come back in sincere usage.

"Wally" is out of date?

Clearly I am very uncool

I use it. 53 years young and inherently uncool.

Tend to use as others above as in 'see you then' and reply 'ok cool'. Don't tend to say something is or looks cool I don't think.

What absout amazeballs? Much more with it. Try it. And watch your teens cringe! Disclaimer - I have NEVER uttered the word 'amazeballs'.

"Totes amazeballs"

Cool is cool. Wally is uncool.

Totes is annoying.

Dude is vile when used by very very uncool bores.

Man is beyond embarrassing even when it is ironic.

I'm 24 and haven't used cool in a decade at least.

Maybe it's an oldies thing?

I say cool and wicked! I'm 41.

I say

Coolio

And

No problemo

A freind of mine got a bit upset the other day when i signed off with alrighty she missed the coolio

And i say totes hilair and totes adorbs to wind my children up

Totes fun

Stopped using the word except as a guide to temperature in about 1976 as considered it outdated. Amazed at its continuing popularity.

I write cool quite a lot in texts thinking about it. Don't say it out loud though. Not sure why.

Honestly, what is the point of having children if you can't reduce them to a wobbly heap of jellified cringing with your totes in appropriate use of cool and dudey language? Erm, man?

Admittedly DS is not yet 2 so he is unembarrassable, but I like to consider myself as getting into training for about a decade hence. I didn't get all those bloody stretch marks and tears and stitchs for nothing. Vengeance shall be mine

Egads, the typos