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duncancallum
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Sir Ranaulph FinnesPosted 4 hours ago
Comes across as a mahoosive narcissist so...
No.
Definitely not cool.
Janelle Monae
Josh Homme
Steve McQueen was cool. Possibly the definition of cool in his time
You're not going far out on the limb there when he's routinely described as The King of Cool!
Struggling to think of a woman who’s cool.
Really? For the coolest of them all I have one word for you:
Ling!
John McGuinness Isle of Man TT legend
Ugly as * cool as *
"So John what are your ambitions for the TT going forward"
"Not to get killed"
"Thats it"
"Yes thats it"
Samantha Fish.. very very cool
You do realise most folk are taking the piss (or is that not cool these days)?
Lets review some of the answers so far....
Clint Eastwood,
Jude Law,
Nick Cave,
Iggy Pop,
Sean Bean,
Tom Waites,
Debbie Harry,
etc etc....
Most no doubt cool in their day, but none of them have been relevant for at least 20 years.
John Cooper Clark
Piers Morgan
Jezza Clarkson
Andrew Neil
Matthew Parris
Nick Ferrari
Julie Burchill
thols2 Free Member
I consulted with a child and these are the correct answers.
I have no idea who the two people in your images are, which probably means they've got a better chance at being cool than a lot of the people suggested in this thread.
You don't have to be relevant or young to be cool.
And yes to McGuinness.
And we'll have Bruce Anstey too - cool as ****.
And Stoner whilst we're at it......
Kathy Burke
Truly cool as f*** by whatever yardstick is used
Kathy Burke... damn right
James May.
Cool for not being cool.
Blackflag, you forgot Katie Hopkins
P J Harvey
Chrissie Hynde
Jesus! this thread couldn’t display how old and out of touch with modern day culture STW`ers really are!
I didn't realise only modern day culture was cool.
How could i forget Chrisse
A friend of mine has a copy of that photo of the tennis player with no knickers on. he calls his appreciation of it "ironic" and told me a while back that he still thinks it's cool.
This thread reminds me of him a bit.
Paolo Nuttini. But only in this video.
Catherine Deneuve
Susan Sarandon
Mary Beard
Matt Johnson (The The)
David Byrne
Jean Reno
Keanu Reeves - He rides motorcycles and is the most non celeb celebrity ever.
Struggling to think of a woman who’s cool.
She's been mentioned a few times now but the first person I though of out any gender was Helen Mirren, Salma Hayek, Emma Thomson?
Actually just watching how people behave on Graham Norton is a pretty good guide for cool.
And on that note Graham Norton is pretty cool.
Loads of yound people are cool, Sporters, musicers etc. Anyone who doesn't take themselves seriously and treats others with respect.
Keanu Reeves – He rides motorcycles and is the most non celeb celebrity ever.
Gets my vote.
Starred in the coolest movie ever ( Matrix obviously) and managed to transcend being typecast as Bill despite playing the part so well everyone thought he was as daft as the character.
And most important he's apparently a really decent bloke according to pretty much everyone who meets him.
Actually just watching how people behave on Graham Norton is a pretty good guide for cool.
On this basis - Tom Cruise
Lindybeige
Define 'cool' some more.
I have a long list of women and more diversity if this was 'people who changed the world and are kick-ass'.
I didn’t realise only modern day culture was cool.
That is literally what cool is.
Like, in the 50s or whenever you were a teenager, Elvis was probably cool and you would have been all "Vera Lynn - urgh" - but your parents would probably have felt exactly the opposite
😉
Blackflag, you forgot Katie Hopkins
I couldn't even bring myself to name her as cool on my sarcastic list.
+1 for McGuiness and Anstey. Tom waits is still cool. Coolest ever? Steve McQueen and leonard Cohen. Oops, forgot Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
I saw John McGuiness' wedding party and I'm not sure I'd describe it as a 'cool' crowd 😛
Jeremy Clarkson
Helena Bonham Carter
James Murphy (LCD)
Oops, forgot Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.
Sadly inadmissible due to death.
I didn’t realise only modern day culture was cool.
That is literally what cool is
Like, in the 50s or whenever you were a teenager, Elvis was probably cool and you would have been all “Vera Lynn – urgh” – but your parents would probably have felt exactly the opposite.
Which simply demonstrates that cool is a matter of opinion, or taste. Except Audrey Hepburn, forever cool.
Lionel Messi.
Huge Hugh Grant
Simon Armitage
Kristin Scott Thomas
John Grant
Keanu
David Byrne
Nadine Shah
Brad Pitt
Shirley Manson
Bjork
Kenton Cool - Mountaineer
Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs fame.
Sam Hill
Greg Minnaar
Tom Pidcock
If non-alive people like Steve McQueen are allowed, I'm nominating Leonard Cheshire. Proper dude.
Mads Mikkelsen
Skin
Clarkson? FFs. I can't open this thread anymore. It's so utterly uncool, it's annoying me.
Josh Homme
I’m a big fan of Kyuss and QOTSA but Homme comes across as an arrogant, egotistical prick at the best of times.
Xavier Rudd
Rodney Mullen
What’s left of the Beastie Boys
Andy Cooper
Neil Fallon from Clutch
Black Pumas
Frazey Ford
Brant Bjork
Keanu Reeves
Drew Barrymore
Dope Lemon
Samara Weaving
Ben Howard
Sturgill Simpson
and most of all Jimmy Cliff.
In my mind you can’t be that cool if you’re a full on pop star or celebrity. Cool people are outsiders for the most part. At least in my opinion.
Shit, has no one mentioned Patti Smith yet? She practically invented the word.
Kim Gordon.
Penelope Cruz.
Gillian Welch.
A bit younger:
Chloe Bennet
Naomi Osaka
Laura Lee(zy)
AOC (hell, and the rest of the Squad)
Amanda Gorman
Greta Thunberg
And the Linda Linda’s (all four of them).
For men:
David Lynch.
+1 for Peej & Björk ❤️
I’m nominating Leonard Cheshire. Proper dude.
That is a very good call. A hero in two ways - his war service then his dedication to providing care for the elderly and disanbled
If you lot have heard of them they ain't cool.
Jeremy Corbyn
I don't think he has been mentioned yet, but I would nominate Alex Honnold. As well as his fantastic climbing feats, I have seen him in a couple of interviews and he just seams a quite unassuming quiet guy who loves climbing. Seams to be the type of guy who would help and advise less experienced climbers.
Even if he wasn't so sucsesful he would still be living the van life in Yosemite doing what he loves, which if he was just a bang average climber could be rather sad. Which leads to the question, is there a thin line between cool and tragic wannabe.
Me, 'cos I'm too cool for school, with school being this thread.
Samuel L has only had one mention?!
I’ll add Angelina Jolie to the list
Christopher Walken..... Cool as f@#k.
Geraint Thomas. So laid back he can’t stay on his bike.
kayak23
Joe Cocker
👍🏻
The prize for obscure thread reference
😂
Cool and still alive...at 77.. already mentioned but worth a pic...cut his own fingers off because the frost bite was 'annoying'...
Thom Yorke
Jarvis Cocker
Sonny Bill Williams. Outstandingly talented and accomplished athlete, seems a real bloke, coolest name in sport.
George the Poet
Until last week.... Dusty Hill
Robert Plant.
Billy Connolly
and most of all Jimmy Cliff
Hell yes!
I’ll add in Polly Harvey and Bjork (even though I don’t understand Bjork’s more recent work… but I’m putting that down to my own lack of coolness, not hers).
Ahh… cletus & fasthaggis got there before me.
Richard D James then.
Dolly Parton. One awesome lady indeed.
I can’t believe after 4 pages no one has mentioned Billy Gibbons. Like Duncan says, last week we’d have had Dusty too, but sadly no more.
Baaba Maal
Bill Nighy
Dave Grohl
Eddie Vedder
Brian Johnson
Billy Gibbons does seem like one of the coolest people alive to be fair.
The Dude.
Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia clothing boss who paid all his staff through lockdown.
Charlotte Worthington - https://www.eurosport.co.uk/bmx/tokyo-2020/2021/tokyo-2020-the-first-time-ever-charlotte-worthington-claims-gold-with-history-making-backflip-in-bmx-freestyle_vid1517082/video.shtml
Negan from The Walking Dead.
iohan gueorguiev
Pretty sure pidcock, Thomas, Worthington and thunberg ain't over 50 btw
Alex Turner currently doing a turn - at being the coolest person on Earth at this precise moment in time.
Sanna Marin
Aldo Kane
Steven Van Zandt
Some strange choices on this thread.
Sanna Marin probably my favorite of those listed above.