Erica | Friday, October 21, 2011 at 1:30PM I vote cool x a billion.
(this vid is dark and kinda shakey, but also hip-hop-tacular.
Cool or Not Cool Erica | Friday, October 14, 2011 at 12:00PM 
I'll remind you that Foreign Dude has some very strong feelings about dogs in bars (he votes cool), and based on the fact that I'm completely obsessed with my own dog Oliver, it's not really a surprise that I'm throwing another vote cool's way. However, the city of New York is comin' down hard on the side of "not cool."
"Health Department officials wrote 125 tickets for “live animal violations” at bars and restaurants in Brooklyn between July, 2010 and July, 2011...the number of monthly tickets the city wrote in Brooklyn nearly tripled from June 2010 to July 2011."
According to the Brooklyn Paper, 1/4 of these violations went down in Wiliamsburg and Greenpoint, but Park Slope still has it's fair share of dog lovin' bars...and some of them are basically like "fuck the police."
Here's the thing: I totally get the whole no dogs in restaurant thing, but the no dogs in bars rule is just plain stupid. And even if you're gonna let the no dogs in bar rule stand, the no dogs on patios outside of bars is REALLY stupid.
Cool or Not Cool, drunk, pets Chinae | Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 12:01PM 
Image via thesalmonfarm.orgGawker recently reported an incident at a Manhattan Starbucks in which a dude got kicked out of the joint for just sitting there and not buying anything. Here's the clincher though...they called the cops. I mean, that seems a little excessive, no? The tipster reported that the man was "well-dressed" i.e. not a homeless, crazy guy trying to eat his own elbow. Here's a snippet of the conversation that took place once the cops came:
Guy: "They told me to buy a cup of coffee or leave. That's pressure. I'm in Starbucks all the time. This isn't a Mom & Pop store."
Police: "It's a business and you have to buy something."
Guy: "Is this any way to run a business? I'm leaving, but I want your badge numbers."
So what's the deal Starbucks?
Kerri | Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 12:00AM
Now and then we here at FIPS present you, the reader, with some kind of questionable sitch -- babies in bars, cats in bodegas, dancing like a stripper on the subway -- and ask you to weigh in: Is this shit COOL or NOT COOL? Here's how you ladies and fellas responded in the comments section!
Cool or Not Cool, round-up Kerri | Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 3:00PM 
The other day I was working in a coffee shop when I noticed that the woman across from me had stopped typing on her own laptop. She was staring off into space. Her eyebrows were furrowed. Her lips were pursed sphincter-tight. This woman. Was. Pissed.
At first I thought it was me -- Was I typing too loud? Did I smell weird? I took off my headphones and was immediately hit with the source of her anger: The woman sitting BEHIND the woman across from me was videochatting with someone. Loudly. She was wearing iPhone headphones so we could only hear her half of the conversation, which was the boring, reactionary side of a juicy gossip tale.
"Get out!" the v-chatter shrieked. "That's the craziest thing I've heard. Like, ever."
The woman across from me took long, hard breaths. We made eye contact and she gestured to the chatty Kathy behind her.
Cool or Not Cool 
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