Learner Dad: My kids have spoken — you're an old man if you use the word 'cool'

They pity me in the same way I pitied my mother in the 1970s when she would describe something as ‘the bee's knees’.

The fact I’m facing is that I’m not a cool Dad.

Homer Simpson: Maybe if you’re truly cool, you don’t need to be told you’re cool.

Lisa Simpson: Sure you do — how else would you know?