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Poll: Have you ever seen anyone be cringeworthy in a very cool and charismatic way?
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Yeah.
66.67%
2 66.67%
Yeah but only in an ironic way.
33.33%
1 33.33%
Nah it's like literally the exact opposite of coolness.
0%
0 0%
No fucking way.
0%
0 0%
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Cringeworthiness and Coolness
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Cringeworthiness and Coolness
Have you ever seen anyone be cringeworthy in a very cool Cool charismatic way?
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#2
RE: Cringeworthiness and Coolness
Sure, the socially clueless do that all the time.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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#3
RE: Cringeworthiness and Coolness
There are many sitcoms with characters that have those traits.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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#4
RE: Cringeworthiness and Coolness
Yeah, but the character is cool because it's funny -- but if the character they played was a real person, not so cool -- just funny. For everyone else.

I voted option 2 because some people might act cringeworthy in an ironic way to amuse; but otherwise be a very non-cringeworthy person, and I think that that's kind of cool.
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RE: Cringeworthiness and Coolness
(April 26, 2016 at 6:39 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Sure, the socially clueless do that all the time.

Boru

So are you saying that because coolness is a purely subjective thing, what's cringeworthy and socially clueless to some people might be considered cool and hip to others?

What about charisma? I think some people are objectively more charismatic -- in the sense that the effects of especially charismatic people can be studied. I am not so sure if genuinely large amounts of charisma and influence can be highly cringeworthy -- oh I see what you mean, Donald Trump: Some people are influenced by him and find him charismatic. Some others, on the other hand, such as myself: consider him to be an absolute bell-end.

I guess Donald Trump pretty much proves it. Massively cringeworthy but some people are influenced by him.

I wouldn't consider him cool though Tongue

Maybe it's possible to be both cringeworthy and either cool or charismatic but not both.

I think that Donald Trump's hoodwinking charisma is battery-charged by his toxic and sordid ratlike toupee. It is definitely possessed and cursed by the occult. A truly witchcraft hairdo.

To wear that toupee is one of his many legal crimes against humanity. It is a crime that is also his punishment.
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