History's greatest badasses

[sdun]

wtf is wrong with yall, everyone knows Chuck Norris is the most badass mf of all time. He can kill two stones with one bird!

[kainzien]

John R. Fox*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Robert_Fox

Ruben Rivers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Rivers

Oscar P. Austin
last but not least, a hero born in Nacogdoches, TX

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Palmer_Austin

[Pokulski-Blatz]

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranulph_Fiennes

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Start at 20:55 or so.

[46Tbird]

I choose Yeager. If you don't know of the amazing things this man did, then turn in your man card. You can get it back after reading his autobiography. Bonus: his writing is funny as hell.

Here's a primer: http://www.badassoftheweek.com/yeager.html

[Gasser64]

Meet Jean Thurel.










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Holy sh1t. Puts a lot of our modern badasses to shame. His title could be "The man who would not die until he was damn good and ready". Even the "brief illness" just sounds like he was finally like "eh, I'm done"