Who is the World's Coolest Man?
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768 said:
Musk.
No matter how uncool he might seem public speaking or getting eco grant money the guy has a space rocket company. That's a big level up from retired actors flying their own planes.
Undoubtedly a massive talent.No matter how uncool he might seem public speaking or getting eco grant money the guy has a space rocket company. That's a big level up from retired actors flying their own planes.
But to be the 'Worlds' coolest man, doesn't the individual have to be universally known? Outside of male dominated tech/business news. Where you can go to some village in some remote area of Africa and they are all fans.
P-Jay said:
I've had a proper think about this...
First I "did a Google" and it threw up a load of try too hard rockers (although Dave Grohl is very, very cool) and a bunch of rich twunt primrose hill kids, nah achieved nothing, done nothing.
So I thought some more...
my answer is:
Sir Christopher Lee.
Film Acting - he IS Dracula, plus Scaramanga - a cool Bond Baddie and Saruman - he was in the Star Wars Prequels, but he was at least very good in them - as a movie Actor, playing in pivotal role in 3 HUGE franchises is an achievement.
Military Career, - he joined WW2, ordinally volunteering to fight for Finland against the USSR and later joined the RAF and almost qualified as a pilot before a failed optic nerve grounded him for life, he bummed around various bases before he decided to "do something constructive for my keep" and joined RAF Intelligence and somehow managed to contract Malaria 6 times in a year without dying and climbed Mount Vesuvius, which promptly erupted 3 days later. He finished his service hunting Nazi War Criminals, he tours concentration camps and was handing folders containing reports of what these people had done and was told to hunt them. At times he was attached to the Gurkhas, the SEO, the Long Range Desert Group and the SAS.
He was in Death Metal bands in his 90s. Dated Countesses and had to seek permission from the King of Sweden to marry, and won Best Dressed Awarded long into old age.
The list of anecdotes goes on and on, he was supposedly at the last public execution in France, instructed a director the ‘correct’ way to being stabbed to death (something he’s either witness or took part in).
He had a really laid back charm and I can never imagine being anything less than completely enthralled in his company.
I had dinner once with a guy who had directed him and said he was one of the strangest but most interesting people he'd ever met. First I "did a Google" and it threw up a load of try too hard rockers (although Dave Grohl is very, very cool) and a bunch of rich twunt primrose hill kids, nah achieved nothing, done nothing.
So I thought some more...
my answer is:
Sir Christopher Lee.
Film Acting - he IS Dracula, plus Scaramanga - a cool Bond Baddie and Saruman - he was in the Star Wars Prequels, but he was at least very good in them - as a movie Actor, playing in pivotal role in 3 HUGE franchises is an achievement.
Military Career, - he joined WW2, ordinally volunteering to fight for Finland against the USSR and later joined the RAF and almost qualified as a pilot before a failed optic nerve grounded him for life, he bummed around various bases before he decided to "do something constructive for my keep" and joined RAF Intelligence and somehow managed to contract Malaria 6 times in a year without dying and climbed Mount Vesuvius, which promptly erupted 3 days later. He finished his service hunting Nazi War Criminals, he tours concentration camps and was handing folders containing reports of what these people had done and was told to hunt them. At times he was attached to the Gurkhas, the SEO, the Long Range Desert Group and the SAS.
He was in Death Metal bands in his 90s. Dated Countesses and had to seek permission from the King of Sweden to marry, and won Best Dressed Awarded long into old age.
The list of anecdotes goes on and on, he was supposedly at the last public execution in France, instructed a director the ‘correct’ way to being stabbed to death (something he’s either witness or took part in).
He had a really laid back charm and I can never imagine being anything less than completely enthralled in his company.
kING PICKERING! Coolest man I ever met? Jackie Oliver.
I was chatting to him as he got ready to get into a GT40 (THE GT40) in front of Goodwood House at the FoS. I asked nicely if he minded me taking some pictures, and that was OK ("but just don't get in the way, please").
Anyway, as he got ready, the barriers were moved back, and I was caught close to the cars. A few minutes later I was tapped on the shoulder by security who asked "are you press?" to which Mr Oliver said "it's OK - he's with us". Which for a lifelong GT40 fan was about as cool as it got save for being passengered up the hill in one. The pictures I took have been misplaced (they weren't that good anyway if I'm honest) but the memory of being invited into that moment when a Le Mans veteran GT40 is fired up by a legendary racing driver? That will be a memory I treasure...
Coolest man alive right now? Probably Morgan Freeman, IMHO. Just effortlessly cool, or so it would appear.
Jensen Button gets an honourable mention too. We always stay right to the end at Goodwood. So we'd be walking up through the paddocks to the car park while the party guests were walking down to the house. Now a lot of them arrive in chauffeur driven bling-mobiles, taking advantage of the stewards and security dudes to make a showy entrance. Jensen Button walked down casually. Granted it was the year before he won the drivers' championship, but there he was, large as life, strolling down in his dinner suit. We'd not long walked past him (I'm FAR to cool to bother a celebrity when he's 'off duty') when my wife asked "who are all of these people anyway? They can't all be racing drivers." To which I replied "well, that one WAS a racing driver. In fact it was Jensen Button". After he won the following season, I took any opportunity I could to remind her that she'd walked past a world champion racing driver without giving him a second glance...
I was chatting to him as he got ready to get into a GT40 (THE GT40) in front of Goodwood House at the FoS. I asked nicely if he minded me taking some pictures, and that was OK ("but just don't get in the way, please").
Anyway, as he got ready, the barriers were moved back, and I was caught close to the cars. A few minutes later I was tapped on the shoulder by security who asked "are you press?" to which Mr Oliver said "it's OK - he's with us". Which for a lifelong GT40 fan was about as cool as it got save for being passengered up the hill in one. The pictures I took have been misplaced (they weren't that good anyway if I'm honest) but the memory of being invited into that moment when a Le Mans veteran GT40 is fired up by a legendary racing driver? That will be a memory I treasure...
Coolest man alive right now? Probably Morgan Freeman, IMHO. Just effortlessly cool, or so it would appear.
Jensen Button gets an honourable mention too. We always stay right to the end at Goodwood. So we'd be walking up through the paddocks to the car park while the party guests were walking down to the house. Now a lot of them arrive in chauffeur driven bling-mobiles, taking advantage of the stewards and security dudes to make a showy entrance. Jensen Button walked down casually. Granted it was the year before he won the drivers' championship, but there he was, large as life, strolling down in his dinner suit. We'd not long walked past him (I'm FAR to cool to bother a celebrity when he's 'off duty') when my wife asked "who are all of these people anyway? They can't all be racing drivers." To which I replied "well, that one WAS a racing driver. In fact it was Jensen Button". After he won the following season, I took any opportunity I could to remind her that she'd walked past a world champion racing driver without giving him a second glance...
menguin said:
Bendystraw Numberwang
He's British
He appears to be "in vogue"
He has a town named after him
He has the best name
For a while, either he, or Eddie Redmayne, seemed to be in absolutely everything on TV. My son found both to be equally annoying, and, partly because they were barely distinguishable from one another, and entirely interchangeable in roles, they were jointly re-christened as "Eddiedict Cumbermayne" in our house.He's British
He appears to be "in vogue"
He has a town named after him
He has the best name
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