Who is / was the biggest badass in the last 200 years?

[InkL0sed]

Erwin Rommel - Once took something like 4 french bunkers with his Bayonet

Who hasn't?

Great analysis, saxitoxin.

[saxitoxin]

Erwin Rommel - Once took something like 4 french bunkers with his Bayonet

Who hasn't?

Great analysis, saxitoxin.

SAX ATTAK!

[whitestazn88]

Babe Ruth maybe. Dude did every drug (not PEDs though) and fucked shit up with a baseball bat.

Gandhi.

Frank Sinatra (seconding thedotkillingdot44)

[ViperOverLord]

Dub-Ya!

Millions of haters hated on him. But at the end of the day they all sucked his nuts! They'll suck his nuts for years to come!

Dubya is almost the opposite of badass.

I'd go in for Bonnie and Clyde. I guess that would be dual badasses.

Tell that to this guy:

[the.killing.44]

Frank Sinatra.

[mpjh]

General Sherman

[ViperOverLord]

Babe Ruth maybe. Dude did every drug (not PEDs though) and fucked shit up with a baseball bat.

I'm going to have to agree. He was a dominant pitcher winning a World Series. And then he decided to be a hitter. After doing that, he out-homered entire teams.

[Woodruff]

Dub-Ya!

Millions of haters hated on him. But at the end of the day they all sucked his nuts! They'll suck his nuts for years to come!

Dubya is almost the opposite of badass.

I'd go in for Bonnie and Clyde. I guess that would be dual badasses.

Tell that to this guy:

Dubya hunted down Saddam Hussein himself? Yeah, that's what I thought. Get back with us when he actually does something badass himself, rather than relying on his army to do his dirty work for him.

[whitestazn88]

Dub-Ya!

Millions of haters hated on him. But at the end of the day they all sucked his nuts! They'll suck his nuts for years to come!

Dubya is almost the opposite of badass.

I'd go in for Bonnie and Clyde. I guess that would be dual badasses.

Tell that to this guy:

Dubya hunted down Saddam Hussein himself? Yeah, that's what I thought. Get back with us when he actually does something badass himself, rather than relying on his army to do his dirty work for him.

Was gonna say something similar to this. Saddam Hussein was hanged by like a group of crazy guys who got tortured by him or some shit, not Dubya. It wasn't even our army. It would be like watching Obama get hanged by the crips.

[mpjh]

General U.S. Grant

[The Bison King]

Dub-Ya!

Millions of haters hated on him. But at the end of the day they all sucked his nuts! They'll suck his nuts for years to come!

I didn't realize that bad-ass was measured in nut sucking. Well, then if that's the case my vote goes to this guy.


Hugh Hefner

[ViperOverLord]

Dubya hunted down Saddam Hussein himself? Yeah, that's what I thought. Get back with us when he actually does something badass himself, rather than relying on his army to do his dirty work for him.

Well if a guy has to go Rambo to be badass then I'll give you that. But he's badass all the same by my calculation. He put the guy that tried to kill his father at an end of a rope. That's badass. If someone tried to kill your dad and you went vigilante on the guy and put him on the end of a rope I wouldn't hold you to the Rambo standard.

Of course I wasn't even making my case on the SH example. He was going to do what he wanted to do and he did not care if it pissed off the political lemmings. I'm taking that to the bank.

[Mikey-T]

Fridtjof Nansen

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/nansen.html

[whitestazn88]

Dub-Ya!

Millions of haters hated on him. But at the end of the day they all sucked his nuts! They'll suck his nuts for years to come!

I didn't realize that bad-ass was measured in nut sucking. Well, then if that's the case my vote goes to this guy.


Hugh Hefner

Oh, Hugh Hefner? I thought it was Al Gore.

[ViperOverLord]

Dub-Ya!

Millions of haters hated on him. But at the end of the day they all sucked his nuts! They'll suck his nuts for years to come!

I didn't realize that bad-ass was measured in nut sucking. Well, then if that's the case my vote goes to this guy.


Hugh Hefner

He's bad-ass, but millions more have been nutted on by Duh-Ya.

[The Bison King]

He's bad-ass, but millions more have been nutted on by Duh-Ya.

For once I agree with you. I'm pretty sure I was one of them.

[Woodruff]

Dubya hunted down Saddam Hussein himself? Yeah, that's what I thought. Get back with us when he actually does something badass himself, rather than relying on his army to do his dirty work for him.

Well if a guy has to go Rambo to be badass then I'll give you that. But he's badass all the same by my calculation. He put the guy that tried to kill his father at an end of a rope. That's badass. If someone tried to kill your dad and you went vigilante on the guy and put him on the end of a rope I wouldn't hold you to the Rambo standard.

So paying someone else to do something makes a badass? That seems pretty weak in the realm of badassery.

Of course I wasn't even making my case on the SH example.

Really? So that's why you said "Tell that to this guy" or whatever with the picture posted? Because you didn't want to make the case with the picture?

He was going to do what he wanted to do and he did not care if it pissed off the political lemmings. I'm taking that to the bank.

Except he WAS a political lemming. And I say that in an attempt to give him credit for not being evil, because I don't think he is evil.

[demonfork]

Steve McQueen was a badass

The Headless Horseman is up there.

R. Lee Ermey

Bruce Lee

Mark Cuban

Dwight D. Eisenhour

Edgar Allen Poe

Trey Parker

Brigham Young

Abraham Lincoln

The Big Four

Sigmund Freud

Malcom X

Dalai Lama

Howard Hughes

Savador Dali

Degas

Van Gough

Kimo Ataturk

Napoleon Bonaparte

[jefjef]

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a racist piece of work but he was Bad Ass thru and thru.

In the battle of Fallen Timbers, he drove through the Union skirmish line. Not realizing that the rest of his men had halted their charge when reaching the full Union brigade, Forrest charged the brigade single-handedly, and soon found himself surrounded. He emptied his Colt Army revolvers into the swirling mass of Union soldiers and pulled out his saber, hacking and slashing. A Union infantryman fired a musket ball into Forrest's spine with a point-blank musket shot, nearly knocking him out of the saddle. Placing a Union infantryman behind him on the saddle as a shield, Forrest broke out and galloped back to his incredulous troopers. A surgeon removed the musket ball a week later, without anesthesia, which was unavailable.

[whitestazn88]

Speaking of Napoleon... the guy who decided to create Neapolitan ice cream should be on this list.

[ViperOverLord]

Dubya hunted down Saddam Hussein himself? Yeah, that's what I thought. Get back with us when he actually does something badass himself, rather than relying on his army to do his dirty work for him.

Well if a guy has to go Rambo to be badass then I'll give you that. But he's badass all the same by my calculation. He put the guy that tried to kill his father at an end of a rope. That's badass. If someone tried to kill your dad and you went vigilante on the guy and put him on the end of a rope I wouldn't hold you to the Rambo standard.

So paying someone else to do something makes a badass? That seems pretty weak in the realm of badassery.

Pablo Escobar paid people to kill all of the time. I didn't see that you too worried about that. Bush was so badass that your fellow Bush haters were fond of portraying him as a Texas Outlaw. I guess the haters only use that argument when it suits them though.

[demonfork]

I left out...

Charles Bukowski

Hunter S. Thompson

Anthony Burgess

William S. Burroughs

[ViperOverLord]

Of course I wasn't even making my case on the SH example.

Really? So that's why you said "Tell that to this guy" or whatever with the picture posted? Because you didn't want to make the case with the picture?

My original case/premise was not based on SH; That is correct. But it is further evidence of my orginal premise that GWB was a badass. And I don't care that he personally did not kill Saddam. I have no doubt that he would have if it came down to it. Clinton didn't have the stones to ground assault America's enemies. He packed up and ran. So if you're looking for the 'almost opposite of badass' then there you go.

[Army of GOD]

Gandhi.

Lock this thread right fucking now.

There is absolutely no fucking debate here.

Gandhi is and will always be the biggest badass ever.

[ViperOverLord]

Steve McQueen was a badass

The Headless Horseman is up there.

R. Lee Ermey

Bruce Lee

Mark Cuban

Dwight D. Eisenhour

Edgar Allen Poe

Trey Parker

Brigham Young

Abraham Lincoln

The Big Four

Sigmund Freud

Malcom X

Dalai Lama

Howard Hughes

Savador Dali

Howard Hughes

Degas

Van Gough

Kimo Ataturk

Napoleon Bonaparte

Some of these nominations are solid. Others are weak.

My top 4 from this list would be:

Bruce Lee
Napoleon Bonaparte
Dwight D Eisenhower
R. Lee Ermey