This Matthew Vaughn production is one of those cheerful Britcoms that celebrate the idea that we're a bit crap and uncool as a nation, but carry-on-regardless spirit will see us through.
But some people wonder why somebody who made his name and a fortune producing amazing devices that changed the way people listen to music and communicate with one another is now putting his energy into something as, er, uncool as a thermostat.Like many innovations, Nest was born out of a sense of frustration.
"Even though a tan is now associated with pathology, it has had such a profound impact on the American psyche that to be untan is to look as terribly uncool as an unplucked chicken," said Dr. Jablonski of Penn State.
So when I heard Philip Seymour Hoffman doing Lester Bangs, I knew what it meant to be uncool as only a formerly cool person can know.
Could wearing synthetic fabrics, made from polluting and non-renewable fossil fuels, become as uncool as slipping on a fur coat Consumers should expect a much wider choice of "green" fabrics.
But companies such as SOFTswitch and Eleksen have developed electro-conductive fabrics that behave in similar ways to conventional textiles.Could wearing synthetic fabrics, made from polluting and non-renewable fossil fuels, become as uncool as slipping on a fur coat Could electronic garments one day change colour or pattern?
I considered weighing in, but other students were around, and I already had a reputation for liking uncool things as a self-identifying Trekkie.
Today's defenders of Western culture sound their alarms just as clamorously, but they wouldn't be so uncool as to object when a dictionary draws its words from hip-hop or the Internet: now all is legitimated under the rubric of pop culture.
With services such as CWM, "the person with a hard-drive with 60,000 stolen files is all of a sudden deeply uncool, as other people have access to everything," says Rob Wells, a senior executive at Universal, the world's biggest record company and the label that is most keen on CWM.
The show is about as uncool as you can get: it's an introspective, 50-minute reflection on a childhood spent using Picard the captain and main protagonist of Star Trek: The Next Generation and his crew to cope with a tumultuous home life.
Given their current success with their song Say It Again, and their youth - Anya Lahiri is sitting her A-levels in six days - one might think that Precious are not too concerned about how they fare in a competition as uncool as Eurovision.
