To ask what you think ‘uncool’ means?

[GrilledSardeen]

Ok I admit I had the idea for thread from another thread but the subject matter of this is completely different.

In primary school I saw most of the girls in our class as ‘uncool’ realistically - apart from one girl I really liked.

What do you take ‘uncool’ to mean?

Presumably it's whatever doesn't fit the speaker's idea of 'cool', which could be anything depending on their age, outlook, preferences or assumptions.

As an adult people who are mean to others or won't help if something happens like someone in the street having a medical emergency or being attacked. However as a child it was people who didn't have nice clothes and had strict parents. Or where to scared to do anything fun (in my teenage brain)

Not popular and/or not fashionable.
(but how what's fashionable is decided I really don't know)
Edit : that's my "schoolgirl" definition. I wouldn't think the same way now as an adult.

‘Cool’ is 90s slang to me - there was a collective idea about what was fashionable and desirable driven by the media, magazines, Top of the Pops etc. So if you didn’t have the ‘right’ clothes, labels, or like the ‘right’ music etc you weren’t cool.

Also it was very based on appearance and things you couldn’t always help - braces, glasses, ginger hair etc were not cool. Wearing your school skirt a normal length wasn’t cool - it had to be very short or rolled up at the waistband to be cool. Etc. It was pretty stressful to grow up in actually!

Thanks for your responses !

At our school your tie also use to have to be really short to be cool

In a school situation I'd imagine uncool means not up to date with latest trends, doesn't wear fashionable clothes, is a bit of a geek

In the context of adults though, I'd view it as someone who is not a particularly nice person.

Probably me and my peers to anyone younger.

I guess as a kid it would be people who looked like they were dressed by their parents well into secondary school.

Maybe as kids, quite meanly, stuff like bad skin, being overweight, unfashionable hair?

But now I just think everything is really cool. Or really fucking confusing. There seems to be no middle ground. 🤣