Who is the World's Coolest Man?

[AshBurrows]

Cold said:

Yes, I'd probably look towards scarf waving, pie eating, song singing, fat middle aged men to be the arbiters of commentary about cool.

But apart from Beckham, no one has heard of these football players mentioned here, least of all those people who are being heralded on these pages as being cool.

Nice meltdown.

[knk]

Otherwise, Kenton Cool.
He led the Great Sir Ranaulf Finnes up Mount Everest and the Eiger, has summited Mount Everest 12 times, is an all round good chap and very grounded.
If you get the chance to hear him speak do.
And probably the best name in the business.

[patmahe]

PurpleAki said:

François Cevert was cool

Effortlessly so.

If it has to be someone alive then I think currently Ryan Reynolds has the right blend of everything going on, good looking, but able to laugh at himself, self assured but pleasant. Always comes across well in interviews seems, very genuine and is very funny on twitter.

[Ayahuasca]

PapaJohns said:

Paul Newman gets my vote

Only his hand is cool.

[hurstg01]

David Attenborough

[Mothersruin]

hurstg01 said:

David Attenborough

Way too preachy to be cool.

[Hosenbugler]

Tuvra said:

Cold said:

talksthetorque said:

Going to have a conservative guess that at least 200 million people have heard of each of the footballers mentioned here.

Yes, I'd probably look towards scarf waving, pie eating, song singing, fat middle aged men to be the arbiters of commentary about cool.

But apart from Beckham, no one has heard of these football players mentioned here, least of all those people who are being heralded on these pages as being cool.

How old are you? With all due respect, I should imagine someone who suggests an 87 year old former astronaut as "World's Coolest Man" is probably as uncool as they come.

He walked on the moon as part of its job?!? So what? He could be the most boring person on earth?

If you are trying to place footballers, *any* footballer in the same cachet as an astronaut , ANY astronaut , then you really do need to re-assess your perspectives.

[Digger]

Can someone please come up with a definitive, as it were, definition for the purposes of this thread.

[chrisb92]

Roger Federer

[Soov330e]

Sully.



Landed a f*****g airliner on the River Hudson. Got off last.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLFZTzR5u84

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaIdPb3d8A

"We're gonna be in the Hudson"




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Edited by Soov330e on Wednesday 19th April 17:04

Edited by Soov330e on Wednesday 19th April 17:06

[Digger]

Fed always looks a bit grumpy.

How about Freddy Couples?

[Mothersruin]

Soov330e said:

Sully.



Landed a f*****g airliner on the River Hudson. Got off last.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLFZTzR5u84



/thread

Yup - that is cool.

[anonymous-user]

Digger said:

Can someone please come up with a definitive, as it were, definition for the purposes of this thread.

Tut, if you have to ask ...

PS: Cool may be impossible to define, but you should know a cool dude when you see one. I mean a really cool dude, not some fake.

[anonymous-user]

I add that it is not all about looks, certainly not about money, and it is not all about the job that the person does. No one gets to be cool just by being an astronaut or a Formula One driver or an explorer or an Oscar nominated actor or a rock star, but it is perhaps no accident that such jobs tend to have more than their fair share of cool guys doing them, as well as some massive wazzocks. Except maybe astronauts. I am not sure that there are or ever have been any astronaut wazzocks, but I may be wrong about that and stand to be corrected.

[Ayahuasca]

Breadvan72 said:

Cool may be impossible to define, but you should know a cool dude when you see one. I mean a really cool dude, not some fake.

[anonymous-user]

Yep, that's the guy. And what a guy.

[anonymous-user]

Here he is: the World's Coolest Man. In action against Nazis-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXYfnWRp1Q0

[FiF]

Soov330e said:

Kimi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJohDZvIyQ

He's got to be in with a shout if only for the Malaysian GP in 2009, stopped for torrential rain and going rapidly dark, everyone could see it wasn't going to restart, no one in charge would make a decision, Kimi just took his overalls off and went to have a Magnum.

[kowalski655]

[mr shoddy]

Bob Dylan or the Dalai Lama