Coolest nation of people?

tech77

Who do you think are the coolest nation of people on Earth?

The French maybe- all Gallic self-assurance, cigarette smoking (cinematically cool?) and indifferent shrugs.
Or the Australians maybe- with their laid-back, humourous nature?
Others?

And the uncoolest?
Where would Ireland rank?

tubey

Some Irish people are cool, some Irish people are silly. Some French people are cool, some French people are sily. Some Australians are cool, some Australians are silly.

Hope this answers your question.

Caoimhín

I really believe the Irish are the coolest.

Or the Jamaicans.

We should have a state sponsored Irish-Jamaican interbreeding programme. Imagine; Pissed up, red haired rastas!

Hagar

The Eskimos, game over, close thread.

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

no.1 = dutch , laid back, great nation of thinkers, great women, great laws, etc

ireland would rank in about no.5 i reckon.

uncoolest = france/germany and hmm turkey maybe

Sherifu

I'd go with the Dutch.

Karl Hungus

The Japanese.

/hungus

Supercell

Netherlands
Zimbabway or Nigeria
999999999th

Now close the thread, i've spoken the right answers.

Creamy Goodness

the chinese. a great bunch of lads.

tech77

tubey wrote: »

Some Irish people are cool, some Irish people are silly. Some French people are cool, some French people are sily. Some Australians are cool, some Australians are silly.

Hope this answers your question.

No.
Obviously there's variation within nations.
But obviously an "average" coolness for a given sample/nation can be arrived at.

The Gross National Cool so to speak.

Supercell

Cremo wrote: »

the chinese. a great bunch of lads.

Their submissive wimmins are surely cool, but the dictator leaders are a bit of a drag on the coolness factor have to say.

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Cork :P

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Definitely the Dutch for coolness.
French are cool too, until you meet them and you realise they're mostly boring as fcuk.
Aussie blokes macho carry on ain't too cool so they lose points there.

Duras

Coolest? Eskimos and no one can argue that!

OPENROAD

Cremo wrote: »

the chinese. a great bunch of lads.

Indeed they are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O364scEZwPM&feature=related

MissHoneyBun

Ahhhhh ze Frennnnch mon cherie! Zey are magnifique, no?
Who eees taking zee horse to Fwwwwannnnnce?!
Cool fukkers dem boyos

WindSock

Supercell wrote: »

Their submissive wimmins are surely cool, but the dictator leaders are a bit of a drag on the coolness factor have to say.

Hey, China still cool.


New Zealanders are, so I'm told.

crushproof

Supercell wrote: »

Netherlands
Zimbabway or Nigeria
999999999th

Now close the thread, i've spoken the right answers.

Zimbabwaeans are great!!! love their drink and music, just like us!! Great fun to be around!
I'd say Ireland would rank pretty highly, as would Brazil, Serbia, Scottish and Polish. I suppose it depends on your individual experiences with different nationalities!

WindSock

I like the Samoans. They are always so jolly and welcoming. Plus they like to party.

The Roach

caoibhin wrote: »

We should have a state sponsored Irish-Jamaican interbreeding programme. Imagine; Pissed up, red haired rastas!

I'm well ahead of you; my girlfiend is Jamaican and I keep telling her our kids are likely to end up with ginger afros!

WindSock

A lot of Irish people were shipped over to Jamaica as slaves back in the good ol' days.

Neamhshuntasach

Belizeans or possibly Colombians from what i've seen of them.

Rb

The French aren't cool, they're nice people, but when it comes down to it all they do is drink wine, eat cheese and surrender.

turgon

How about basques? Just so peaceful and content with life.

kraggy

Coolest? Irish are actually up there. We are very approachable compared to other nations. e.g. easy to get talking to in social environment.

Uncoolest? Israel. Their people are rude, unfriendly and selfish.

Can't count how many times I've said "ok, I'll give them a chance, they can't ALL be assholes"

But they are.

mumhaabu

The USA they are the coolest of cool. President Bush like what a name Bush! Plus Southern Californian Women FTW! and following morning!

tribulus

Do people really rate Dutch people as being that "cool" (I'm not even sure what the definition of it is anymore, sign of my age).

Having been there five or six times now outside of Amsterdam is quite a conservative place, it's a stark contrast to Amsterdam and has a distinct lack of cafes and hookers! I'm talking about Utrecht, Zwolle, Arnhem, Apeldoorn and smaller places like Kampen.

turgon

kraggy wrote: »

Can't count how many times I've said "ok, I'll give them a chance, they can't ALL be assholes"

Have you been there? Im not disputing your opinion, the only thing I say is that one is more inclined to notice the dìckheads in any crowd. If I saw two people in a pub, one sipping a drink quietly, the other screaming his head at a barman no guessing which one id remember.

kleefarr

Talking about people or places, countries or nationalities that may or may not be cool, is not cool IMO. :cool:

kraggy

Haven't been there, which is why I would be reluctant to generalise about any country, but have met plenty of them over a long period of time. And I don't mean 5 or 6.

I understand there are dickheads in every group, but I tried so many times in Ireland, but mostly travelling, and only met one half decent Israeli out of scores.

No exaggeration.

Never thought I'd ever see the day where I would blanketly group such a large amount of people into one category. But they're extremely hard work.

simu

America invented cool. Some nations like the French and the Japanese have tried to catch on but their approach is a bit geeky, too intellectual (although, that has a coolness of its own). The Irish are the anti-cool; we get embarassed too easily. Write it in your notebooks.

turgon

kleefarr wrote: »

Talking about people or places, countries or nationalities that may or may not be cool, is not cool IMO. :cool:

+1

I only seek to mess. Generalizing nations and peoples as this and that is why we have such things as "genocides" and "wars"

turgon

simu wrote: »

America invented cool.

And was that before or after they were the last country to ship slaves from Africa?

Marcus.Aurelius

Thailand, they are the most laid back cool people I've ever come accross. They just strut around nice and slow in the heat, nothing bothers them!

simu

turgon wrote: »

And was that before or after they were the last country to ship slaves from Africa?

After. Cool is a twentieth century thing.

We better close this thread before it leads to genocide, though. AH Mods, ahoy!!!

tech77

kleefarr wrote: »

Talking about people or places, countries or nationalities that may or may not be cool, is not cool IMO. :cool:

Would it then logically follow that making your comment about the coolness of "talking about nations' coolness" is also not cool.
(if you go by your principle of talking about coolness being uncool).

Pride Fighter

Those Upper Voltan's are pretty cool.

tech77

To avoid an imminent outbreak of genocide, maybe
declaring all nations as equally cool is the best thing.
Sorry.

I guess that also means having to think of all nations as equal in every other (potentially sensitive) respect as well.

Christ, never thought nationality and its accepted differences was such a sacred cow here.

What's wrong with acknowledging relatively innocuous accepted difference between nationalities (and "cool" vs "uncool" FFS- it's not exactly inflammatory language).

But even if a genuine difference was confirmed to be less than complimentary, surely it doesn't mean it shouldn't be acknowledged.

Finally even IF a genuinely unsavoury trait was confirmed (something that is not really going to happen in this thread tbh and something which was definitely never intended) that obviously doesn't automatically justify feelings of hate/intolerance/
genocide anyway toward said nationality.

Christ.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Depends on how you define the word "cool".

Chilled? Relaxed? Good (but at what?)? Friendly? Dependant on popular culture?

Neamhshuntasach

turgon wrote: »

Have you been there? Im not disputing your opinion, the only thing I say is that one is more inclined to notice the dìckheads in any crowd. If I saw two people in a pub, one sipping a drink quietly, the other screaming his head at a barman no guessing which one id remember.

I'd second how that other fellas opinion on Israelis. I'm still open to meeting some sound Israeli's but so far i have not. But i still won't generalize them all. I have met hundreds of them around the world as they all head off traveling when finished in the army.

One weird thing about them that i've experienced a lot is that i've been told to put my cross away because it offends them. But they say this to me while wearing a star of David????

gary the great

i agree, israelis tend the be **** from what ive seen.

The Swedes are dam cool, how have they not been mentioned. Your average Swede is deadly.

germany must be the uncoolest.

Russians (seriously great people), us irish, the Aussies would all be at the top of the league.

kwestfan08

Coolest - Has to be the Italians. What can be cooler than the mafia.

Uncoolest - Have you ever met a cool Canadian??

dr.bollocko

Neil Young is Canadian. Leonard Cohen is Canadian.
Dan Aykroyd?
Jim Carrey?
Michael J. Fox?
Leslie Nielsen?
William Shatner?
Donald Sutherland?
Chong?
Mike Myers?
Joni Mitchell?
Rush?
The Trailer park boys?
ME?

Canada is as cool as the other side of the pillow.

I nearly spat coffee on my laptop in sheer rage when the OP mentioned Australia.
Australia is about as cool as yore ma. What a ****ing hole. Should be nuked off the map.
I despise the place.
Despise it.
Oh the venom.

Catari Jaguar

caoibhin wrote: »

I really believe the Irish are the coolest.

Or the Jamaicans.

We should have a state sponsored Irish-Jamaican interbreeding programme. Imagine; Pissed up, red haired rastas!

Been there, done that...

By the third quarter of the seventeenth century, Montserrat had become the most Irish island in the West Indies. A 1678 census shows a vibrant community of almost 1,900 Irish men, women and children. Family names suggest that most came from County Cork, with smaller contingents from Clare, Donegal, Galway, Tipperary, Waterford, Westmeath and Wexford.
Numerically larger Irish colonies had already existed on other English islands. In 1669, for example, 8,000 Irish were reported in Barbados. Jamaica, captured from Spain in 1655, also attracted large numbers of Irish. But nowhere else did the Irish constitute a verifiable majority of the population.

Over in Montserrat they have red haired black people. And apparently the phrase "smashin" in Jamaica comes from the Gaeilge "Is maith sin"...

After seeing Knocked up and Juno, I would have to say that Canadia is the coolest country. And smartest and funniest. They're not boring, just cool.

Marcus.Aurelius

what's wrong with the aussies?

Catari Jaguar

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Depends on how you define the word "cool".

Chilled? Relaxed? Good (but at what?)? Friendly? Dependant on popular culture?

Homer: So I realized that being with my family is more important
than being cool.
Bart: Dad, what you just said was powerfully uncool.
Homer: You know what the song says: "It's hip to be square."
Lisa: That song is so lame.
Homer: So lame that it's... cool?
Bart and Lisa: No.
Marge: Am I cool, kids?
Bart and Lisa: No.
Marge: Good. I'm glad. And that's what makes me cool—not caring, right?
Bart and Lisa: No.
Marge: Well, how the hell do you be cool? I feel like we've tried
everything here.
Homer: Wait, Marge. Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to
be told you're cool.
Bart: Well, sure you do.
Lisa: How else would you know?

Cianos

tribulus wrote: »

Do people really rate Dutch people as being that "cool" (I'm not even sure what the definition of it is anymore, sign of my age).

Having been there five or six times now outside of Amsterdam is quite a conservative place, it's a stark contrast to Amsterdam and has a distinct lack of cafes and hookers! I'm talking about Utrecht, Zwolle, Arnhem, Apeldoorn and smaller places like Kampen.

I'd agree. Maybe people think the Dutch are cool because their laws are liberal. But Amsterdam has always been a port town, with most of the 'fun' being had by outsiders and not the Dutch themselves. The amount of money that city makes from tourism is ridiculous.

I have found the Dutch to be a closed-circle group, I think they are fairly protective of themselves and somewhat suspicious of outsiders... probably because there's such a high ratio of outsiders who make up what the country is.

Cianos

gary the great wrote: »

i agree, israelis tend the be **** from what ive seen.

The Swedes are dam cool, how have they not been mentioned. Your average Swede is deadly.

germany must be the uncoolest.

Russians (seriously great people), us irish, the Aussies would all be at the top of the league.

Swedes are far too try-hard!

A swede to my friend; "You don't smoke?"
my friend; "Nah"
The swede; "Why not? It's cool" :rolleyes:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Bit unfair on some of the Germans: most of them are great fun once you get them out. Difficult bit is getting some of them out.

They tend to be a bit on the 'divided' side. Either they're great on a night out or they're stereotypical German 'krauts'. There's no real middle ground with this lot.

Raekwon

kwestfan08 wrote: »

Coolest - Has to be the Italians.

People who really think that they are cool are the least coolest people.

Italian men go around wearing gold/silver runners, extremely tight jeans, multicoloured leather jackets and wear sun glasses 365 days of the year (including in nite clubs).

They scream of uncool IMO are actually extremely tacky, vein & totally arrogant!

Luckily their food, country and women are great

dlofnep

If the Fonz was a nationality, then he'd surely be it. He is the definition of everything that is, was or ever will be - cool.