Cool Factor, The: A Guide to Achieving Effortless Style, with Secrets from the Women Who Have It

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Having designed the previously unthinkable with 1972’s still-iconic Audemars Piguet Royal Oak, he effected the same revolutionary thinking at Patek Phillipe. Like the Royal Oak, the Nautilus had a rounded octagonal shape and ‘integrated’ bracelet, and like the Royal Oak it’s still virtually un-tweaked, with even more power to summon the heady extravagance of the disco era. Mazinger: Go Nagai explicitly said that this is the reason Mazinger Z (and as a result the Super Robot Genre) is what it is. He DID his research about science and technology, but ultimately he did what he thought seemed cooler. Since it's subjective, it doesn't have to be cool in the sense of "Grim reaper on a mountain playing an electric guitar". The protagonist might not use guns because it's cooler to have them fight vampires with knives and stakes. You might have Missing Parent Syndrome because it would be weird to have parents with you on a road trip across the country. Basically, Rule of Cool works differently for whichever genre you're writing for. Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear. In the show's various challenges (convert a vehicle to be amphibious and drive it across a body of water; buy a cheap two-wheel-drive car and cross Botswana), he inevitably goes for more flash, more speed, and more power. As a result, he always seems to achieve magnificent success or equally magnificent Epic Failure. Final Fantasy: Unlimited: In relation to Kaze and his extremely long Magun summoning sequences. In Real Life it would be impractical but in the show it looks so cool!

Soldato-J riding a torpedo through several walls, and hits one of the Primevals, who're about to finish off Guy. Not because he wants to save Guy, but because he wants to defeat the 31 Primevals and Guy himself. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra features a Powered Armor Car Chase through Paris, an underwater dog fight, and Snake Eyes. In the "making of" commentary on the DVD, one crew member attributes the mantra (loosely paraphrased) "overdo everything; then make it even bigger" to director Stephen Sommers, and says that they were reminded of this policy daily during the production of the film. It was both massively ahead of its time and very much of its time. Production models first started arriving in 1978 and they were awash with futuristic electronics, such as touch-sensitive buttons on the dashboard. Unfortunately, some of this technology was known to have reliability troubles – which is very much period correct for some British cars. Lelouch constantly uses Rule Of Cool to his advantage. He lampshades it saying that people don't give a damn about reason, but they can't resist miracles. However, this is more a case of Willing Suspension of Disbelief among characters than among the audience.Scott Pilgrim vs. The World : Why do all of Ramona's evil exes meet some requirement of video game boss style, explode into coins when defeated, and everyone naturally is just that good at martial arts? So that when Scott wins the girl, it's really cool. Gypsy Danger's pilots don't use their sword until halfway through the movie. If they had pulled it out right away, they couldn't have used the very cool tanker, and they couldn't have used the sword in midair! In one of the books of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine relaunch novels, an interstellar portal (which, mind you, could have led to anywhere in the galaxy) just happens to lead to a Malon garbage scow that had been taken over by a Hirogen hunter. Why? So that Taran'atar, their local Jem'Hadar character, could fight with him, of course!

There are certain times when motorcycles are not fun to ride, such as in inclement weather. Most riders will moan and complain about the weather when it makes for uncomfortable riding, but it will not be enough of a deterrent to make them give up riding.Even more painfully, the SEC used to cost buttons on the second-hand market, but a growing recognition of just how special these large coupes are has pushed prices up. The 560 AMG model, meanwhile, commands serious money – if you can find one. 3. Honda NSX Inside, it’s much the same desirable yet classy affair as the outside. The large, thin steering wheel, big round dials and subtle touches of chrome all work together to ooze sophistication. Countless famous faces have owned 280SLs, including the likes of John Lennon and Kate Moss. The Negi vs. Rakan fight. The ridiculous lengths that it goes to ( Negi reveals that he is not left handed five times in a single chapter) would just be overkill if it weren't so freaking awesome. funny examples how Rule Of Cool can mingle with something and get rabies. "...should be pretty cool. Right?"

Freeza impaled Krillin in the chest with one of his horns on his head and then started to shift his head up and down, further injuring Krillin and causing more blood to leak out of him, used a paintball style Beam Spam on Piccolo, threw a mountain at Goku using his mind and imprisoned Goku in an golden sphere of energy and then toyed around with like a soccer ball and made Krillin implode from the inside out without touching him. Not to mention his ability to turn Super Saiyan 3 with little effort, actually managing it better than the person who showed them the technique. The person in question, Goku in comparison finds the transformation exhausting and it takes everything to draw out its power in an all out battle.Motorcycle leathers are also designed to promote a certain image that appeals to the brotherhood of bikers. It is almost like a uniform that is worn with pride and associates you with a community of people worldwide; the clan of bikers!

One example, pointed out by Bob Gale on a DVD Commentary, occurs in the third film. Doc and Marty try to get the DeLorean up to eighty-eight miles per hour by pulling it with horses. Gale pointed out that the Doc would know horses don't run that fast and the Doc even points that out in the scene. However, the filmmakers had to do that shot with the DeLorean being ridden across Monument Valley like a covered wagon because it would look cool.

While riding a motorcycle, the rider has to make many decisions continuously, which keeps your brain activity high. It is a well-known fact that the link between brain activity and long-term cognitive function is linked and can be found in many medical journals.