I've always quite liked
replying that I used to wear them like that back when I were a lad, before we had t'internet and so on. Good dependable jeans, those.

Or using terms like "groovy". Or just plain "it's a bit... nerdy, isn't it?"

Essentially, anything that can utterly destroy the kid's self image or their image of their peers.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 15:16, 1 reply)

A gothkid at my local
wears the same gothcoat I do. He's about 20, I'm in my 30s and spend my spare time of b3ta.

Not so cool now are you, gothkid.

Also: my coat fits me.
(teebie jeebie, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 15:55, closed)