Who is the U.K equivilent of FAT City Cycles?

[highlandsflyer]

As a nation, we've never really done cool very well though have we? (obvious exception being popular music).

Ahem! Apologies for drifting off topic but I must protest! Whichever arena you consider, Britain has been at the forefront of coolness at some point, and still is in many.

You mention music, accurately, but we also punch well above our weight in many other areas.

Fashion for example. Theatre, film, art, games, technology, engineering, cuisine, medicine, armed forces. Just think of anything and there is Brit coolness evident.

You want to be cool? Think Britain. You want to live cool? Think Britain.

Hirst, Banksy, Emin, Freud, Bacon, Hockney, Albarn, Townshend, Strummer, Bowie, Lennon, Burton, MacGregor, Stamp, Connery, Westwood, Bailey, Lotus, Aston Martin, Triumph, Ramsay, Lawson, Marco Pierre White. The Mods, The Stones, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, The Clash. PINK BLOODY FLOYD!!!! Not just a little cool, the coolest of the cool! A forever coolness that will not wane. Hendrix had to come to London to learn how to be cool, as did Dylan, Paul Simon and a thousand others. The coolest decade ever was the 1960s, and London was the axis round which the 60s spun. California had Mexico, London had bloody Marrakech!

Steve McQueen, the coolest ever American actor, made his reputation as the king of cool jumping a BRITISH motorcycle.

Oh, and guess what his arse is sitting in here? The coolest cars ever made, guess where from?

 

[cherrybomb]

I knew that would be a provocative thing to say, but I think people are interoperating it as being a criticism - and its certainly not meant to be one.

Oh….and maybe I should have said 'the arts' rather than just music. I concede that point graciously

However. Still don't think I'd describe an E Type as cool. (sorry).

Now Steve McQueen in an E Type; that's a whole different story.

 

[cherrybomb]

and yes I know it's not an E Type in the photo :roll:

 

[highlandsflyer]

Whatever way you use the expression, Britain is the coolest collection of nations on earth. If we didn't make the coolest mountain bikes, it is because we couldn't be bothered. We were far too busy pumping out great tunes and getting out of our heads on scrumpy and wizz.

 

[cherrybomb]

pumping out great tunes and getting out of our heads on scrumpy and wizz.

See NOW your talkin' my kind of language- we agreed all along!

 

[M-Power]

As a nation, we've never really done cool very well though have we? (obvious exception being popular music).

Ahem! Apologies for drifting off topic but I must protest! Whichever arena you consider, Britain has been at the forefront of coolness at some point, and still is in many.

You mention music, accurately, but we also punch well above our weight in many other areas.

Fashion for example. Theatre, film, art, games, technology, engineering, cuisine, medicine, armed forces. Just think of anything and there is Brit coolness evident.

You want to be cool? Think Britain. You want to live cool? Think Britain.

Hirst, Banksy, Emin, Freud, Bacon, Hockney, Albarn, Townshend, Strummer, Bowie, Lennon, Burton, MacGregor, Stamp, Connery, Westwood, Bailey, Lotus, Aston Martin, Triumph, Ramsay, Lawson, Marco Pierre White. The Mods, The Stones, The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, The Clash. PINK BLOODY FLOYD!!!! Not just a little cool, the coolest of the cool! A forever coolness that will not wane. Hendrix had to come to London to learn how to be cool, as did Dylan, Paul Simon and a thousand others. The coolest decade ever was the 1960s, and London was the axis round which the 60s spun. California had Mexico, London had bloody Marrakech!

Steve McQueen, the coolest ever American actor, made his reputation as the king of cool jumping a BRITISH motorcycle.

Oh, and guess what his arse is sitting in here? The coolest cars ever made, guess where from?

Agree 100% was gonna post something similar. UK had / maybe still has ? the highest number of patients filed per head and most F1 cars are built here. Even Space Exploration hardware is built in Stevenage ! The E type is the coolest most beautiful car ever made. Enzo Ferrari said it !

The UK is regarded as cool and brand producers of the quintessence of quality by many emerging Nations. The English Butler and Public Schools are regarded as the best in the World by the movers and shakers. It's just a pity the National Footie team don't give a fkuc about winning the Internatinals :facepalm:

All we need is a Mediterranean climate and we have it all

 

[daugs]

Agree 100% was gonna post something similar. UK had / maybe still has ? the highest number of patients filed per head and most F1 cars are built here. Even Space Exploration hardware is built in Stevenage ! The E type is the coolest most beautiful car ever made. Enzo Ferrari said it !

The UK is regarded as cool and brand producers of the quintessence of quality by many emerging Nations. The English Butler and Public Schools are regarded as the best in the World by the movers and shakers. It's just a pity the National Footie team don't give a fkuc about winning the Internatinals :facepalm:

All we need is a Mediterranean climate and we have it all

my bold/italics - sadly a lot of them like it so much they all buy houses and flats in London and the locals all have to move to the burbs

 

[yeti-man]

did you mention the exquisite british cuisine?

 

[WD Pro]

WD

 

[Pyro Tim]

did you mention the exquisite british cuisine?

We have it in spades, and here's the proof

http://top5ofanything.com/index.php?h=48c7b608