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I flipping can't stand Lemmy. I can understand McQueen, and Hendrix, et al. being named, although I am more inclined toward the MLK suggestion myself. But Lemmy? He can't hold a candle up to most of those put forward so far.
As for women, it's got to be Rosa Parks.
Gorbachev.
+1 for James Hunt. I mean, check out the patch on his racing overalls.
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Leslie Nielsen
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Coolest person?
Don't be daft.. it's a three way tie
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Yuri Gagarin?
What about the pilot that landed on the Hudson River...that was cool
Seriously? All this, and no one has mentioned.........[b][i]HIM![/i][/b]
The one and only Elbry.
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[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Henshaw ]Spitfire Test Pilot - Alex Henshaw[/url]
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._B._Fry ]Played Cricket for England, Football for England, World Record Long Jump and could jump backwards onto a mantelpiece at the age of 70...[/url]
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Villeneuve ]Gilles….[/url]
Still between James Hunt and Steve McQueen for me though...
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I reckon Michael Collins must be as cool as it gets. He floats around the moon when the other 2 are the 1st on it, & he doesn't even get mad.
Thats cool.
FFS, what could possibly be cooler than surfing on a stone tablet? 8)
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"Thou shalt be cool" 😆
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Gary Numan becuase he only did his day job to pay for aeroplanes. Or Jessie Owens for sticking it to Hitler in his own back yard.
seriously... has anyone mentioned... Lemmy?
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Can't decide.
And they helped change the World. Nothing's 'cooler' than that.
I disagree. They're admirable, wise, empathetic etc people but they're not cool.
Gorbachev is not at all cool: not personally charismatic, not a great thinker, not a great strategist, not nothing. Perestroika and glasnost were total disasters: he had intended to preserve the Soviet Union, not destroy it - and yet he precipitated a destruction of the union that was violent, crooked and resulted in the transfer of power to kleptocrats and and extremists.
But Yuri Gagarin was pretty cool.
Is Che Guevera not going to get a mention? Surely a zillion 6th formers can't be wrong?
No shouts for Samuel L Jackson? Absolute legend.
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I disagree. They're admirable, wise, empathetic etc people but they're not cool.
It totally depends on your own personal definition of 'cool', which isn't some fixed, immutable state, it's merely a quality which is bestowed upon you by others. I'd think that having the legacy of your work, philosophies and ideas continue long after your death is pretty bloody cool in my book!
In my mind, an abusive misogynist who pretended to be other people, is not at all 'cool'. I can see why the characters he played might appeal to the insecure and inadequate though.
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Edit - And his Mum
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/03/phil-lynott-mitt-romney-thin-lizzy
Continuing with the legacy aspect of 'cool', Dieter Rams is surely as cool as ****:
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And more recently, Jonathan Ives:
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And not forgetting:
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Couple of mine:
Rollins -
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Del -
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Johnny Cash of course, who else.
In my mind, an abusive misogynist who pretended to be other people, is not at all 'cool'. I can see why the characters he played might appeal to the insecure and inadequate though.
I think you have problems with defining cool because you are so painfully dull frankly.
Tee hee, I was thinking that. There are a lot of people sounding like their parents on this thread. They need to go home and eat some vegetables and tidy their rooms.
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Leonard Cohen. Or Steve McQueen. Or Lee Marvin. Or Marlon Brando ...
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I think you have problems with defining cool because you are so painfully dull frankly.
Amusing. Being able to see the reality behind the myth makes me 'dull'. How insightful of you. 😆
Back on topic:
Mad as ****, and doesn't give one:
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Tony Blair he's the coolest of the cool. Fact!
just has to be Steve McQueen, why is this post going on when it only needed one response.
http://speedtracktales.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/the-price-of-fame-steve-mcqueen-and-the-isdt/
just a regular guy really and that makes the difference
Eddy Merckx was pretty cool
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And only man ever to look good in flares?
Cool is subjective for sure, in terms of attitude and doing their own thing Zappa and Beefheart for me.
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[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Draper ]Sqdn Cmdr Christopher Draper[/url] aka the Mad Major - stunt pilot, spy, double agent, actor. Out a job, he advertised himself and his abilities by flying under the Thames bridges. He was 61 at the time
Bjork's a good shout.. one of the few actually cool people mentioned on this thread
Zappa
Oliver Reed
Tom Waits
I concur with passtherizla +3
Sell out? - no
Fleece their fans? - no
[url= http://www.spin.com/articles/dischord-records-out-step-world/ ]Refuse to sign million dollar contracts and turn down Ahmet Erteguns open offer which was basically oodles of cash to hang on to their principles?[/url]
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*runs off to put on "In on the Killtaker"
For a thread on a cycling website there seems to be a surprising lack of err..cyclists. Will attemmpt to remedy that with Jacqus Anquetil. As well as being the first man to win all three Grand Tours and the first to win the TdeF 5 times, he also did this:
In 1965, Anquetil won the eight-day Alpine Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré stage race at 3pm, sat through two hours of interviews and receptions, took a 6:30pm chartered flight to Bordeaux and won the world's longest single-day classic, Bordeaux–Paris the following day. The race started at night and continued, from soon after dawn, behind derny motorcycle pacers.
The fact that he was eating amphetamines like sweets is not the point. That was the way they rolled in them days.
He wasn't a "company" man either and seemed to spend most of his career in dispute with pretty much everybody (certainly the authorities, his fellow riders and much of the French public). No disrespect to our current crop of tour winning stars, but he would have eaten Brad and Chris for breakfast.
So him, closely followed by James Hunt, Ayrton Senna and Ian Wright Wright Wright.
And not forgetting the great Lembit Opik of course 😉
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Some fellas who haven't yet been metioned
Miles
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Sly
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Sly Stone gets my vote. Even Ali can't cope with his coolness.