Who is the World's Coolest Man?
Discussion
Breadvan72 said:
Canada gets the quiet cool Trudeau or maybe the quite cool Singh. France gets the quite cool Macron. Ireland has Leo Varadkar, an openly gay and brown man, as Taoiseach. We have a dead woman walking, and a Home Counties mediocrity of a dead woman to boot. Hey ho!
That we have a choice between her and a geriatric who wants us to emulate Venezuela is a terrible indictment of this country's politics.
Astronaut John Young.
He flew Gemini 3, then went to the moon twice on Apollo 10 and Apollo 16, walking on the moon during the latter mission. Only three people went to the moon twice, and only two of them walked on it.
He then commanded the first shuttle mission.
Cool? Oh hell yeah. He sat atop a Saturn V rocket with 7 million pounds of thrust on tap. At launch his heart rate peaked at 70bpm. An absolute ice man and still my personal hero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronau...
He flew Gemini 3, then went to the moon twice on Apollo 10 and Apollo 16, walking on the moon during the latter mission. Only three people went to the moon twice, and only two of them walked on it.
He then commanded the first shuttle mission.
Cool? Oh hell yeah. He sat atop a Saturn V rocket with 7 million pounds of thrust on tap. At launch his heart rate peaked at 70bpm. An absolute ice man and still my personal hero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronau...
Zod said:
Breadvan72 said:
Canada gets the quiet cool Trudeau or maybe the quite cool Singh. France gets the quite cool Macron. Ireland has Leo Varadkar, an openly gay and brown man, as Taoiseach. We have a dead woman walking, and a Home Counties mediocrity of a dead woman to boot. Hey ho!
That we have a choice between her and a geriatric who wants us to emulate Venezuela is a terrible indictment of this country's politics.
ked. I am quite seriously thinking of moving to Ireland (I am a citizen of that progressive and thriving European nation) and leaving the failing UK to sink into its isolationist mire. Freddie Spencer Chapman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Spencer_Chap...
Fought a guerilla war against the Japanese in Malaya, some of it alone while suffering from dysentry, malaria and god knows what else. Got captured, escaped and then went back to cause even more havoc.
Sadly committed suicide in 1971 because he did not want to be a burden upon anyone with his illnesses.
The book about him, "Jungle Soldier" is a great read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Spencer_Chap...
Fought a guerilla war against the Japanese in Malaya, some of it alone while suffering from dysentry, malaria and god knows what else. Got captured, escaped and then went back to cause even more havoc.
Sadly committed suicide in 1971 because he did not want to be a burden upon anyone with his illnesses.
The book about him, "Jungle Soldier" is a great read.
Slash very cool guy. When I used to work in the private jet world, I met him, if passengers that you did not know we're on aircraft the form was to say good morning etc, but not be in awe or act like they were a "celeb." I broke the "rules" and ended up smoking a cigarette with him 
Got to be the coolest man from Soke On Trent?
Ian Fleming?
Dale Earnhardt
Keith Richards
Blaine from Predator
Stringfellow Hawke
col. john hannibal smith (From the tv not movie)
Does Archer count? Is he cool or just an awful man? My granddad always used to say judge a man by how he treats his staff...
Got to be the coolest man from Soke On Trent?
Ian Fleming?
Dale Earnhardt
Keith Richards
Blaine from Predator
Stringfellow Hawke
col. john hannibal smith (From the tv not movie)
Does Archer count? Is he cool or just an awful man? My granddad always used to say judge a man by how he treats his staff...
SCEtoAUX said:
Astronaut John Young.
He flew Gemini 3, then went to the moon twice on Apollo 10 and Apollo 16, walking on the moon during the latter mission. Only three people went to the moon twice, and only two of them walked on it.
He then commanded the first shuttle mission.
Cool? Oh hell yeah. He sat atop a Saturn V rocket with 7 million pounds of thrust on tap. At launch his heart rate peaked at 70bpm. An absolute ice man and still my personal hero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronau...
Astronauts aren't normal.He flew Gemini 3, then went to the moon twice on Apollo 10 and Apollo 16, walking on the moon during the latter mission. Only three people went to the moon twice, and only two of them walked on it.
He then commanded the first shuttle mission.
Cool? Oh hell yeah. He sat atop a Saturn V rocket with 7 million pounds of thrust on tap. At launch his heart rate peaked at 70bpm. An absolute ice man and still my personal hero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Young_(astronau...
Leaving aside Marvel-type supermen, I'd probably go for The Bruce.
George Harrison
To expand on this a little: quite apart from his Beatles & solo careers, George started the whole benefit concert thing, a decade & a half before Band Aid/ Live Aid. He was a bit of a piston header, had some cool cars, was into F1, where he was well respected (see JYS' comments in the eulogy film "All Things Must Pass). He whistled up a few mates ( Dylan, Petty, Orbison & Lynne) to create the Travelling Wilburys. Was instrumental in Hand Made Films, without which, there would have been no Life of Brian etc, or other classics like Mona Lisa.
Watch any of his interviews - seems to be self deprecating, not taking himself seriously & bloody funny.
To expand on this a little: quite apart from his Beatles & solo careers, George started the whole benefit concert thing, a decade & a half before Band Aid/ Live Aid. He was a bit of a piston header, had some cool cars, was into F1, where he was well respected (see JYS' comments in the eulogy film "All Things Must Pass). He whistled up a few mates ( Dylan, Petty, Orbison & Lynne) to create the Travelling Wilburys. Was instrumental in Hand Made Films, without which, there would have been no Life of Brian etc, or other classics like Mona Lisa.
Watch any of his interviews - seems to be self deprecating, not taking himself seriously & bloody funny.
Edited by paua on Saturday 2nd September 06:39
Breadvan72 said:
https://youtu.be/kyAn3fSs8_A Breadvan72 said:
Nah. Tie-pins. Not cool.texaxile said:
Freddie Spencer Chapman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Spencer_Chap...
Fought a guerilla war against the Japanese in Malaya, some of it alone while suffering from dysentry, malaria and god knows what else. Got captured, escaped and then went back to cause even more havoc.
Sadly committed suicide in 1971 because he did not want to be a burden upon anyone with his illnesses.
The book about him, "Jungle Soldier" is a great read.
o7https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Spencer_Chap...
Fought a guerilla war against the Japanese in Malaya, some of it alone while suffering from dysentry, malaria and god knows what else. Got captured, escaped and then went back to cause even more havoc.
Sadly committed suicide in 1971 because he did not want to be a burden upon anyone with his illnesses.
The book about him, "Jungle Soldier" is a great read.
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