Who's your hero?

luckat

What the subject line says.

MagicMarker

Yore ma?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn2HIBcirqM

Karoma

MagicMarker wrote: »

Yore ma?

Knock it off.

OP: Want to start the ball rolling?

(Awaits so many Heroes comments)

Feelgood

Hmmm thats a tricky one....

Eddie Vedder I'd say top of the list, he the man....

SRFC90

footballing terms : Gabriel Heinzé

general life: has ta be the father!:)

oleras

Karoma wrote: »

Knock it off.

OP: Want to start the ball rolling?

(Awaits so many Heroes comments)

Karoma is my hero.... for tonight anyway.

Black Swan

B!ue runs to the mirror and poses. Naaaaaa, only a close second.

The Sparrow

Roy Keane

luckat

Yore ma? Yes. Both parents dead by the time she was 26 months old, she was brought up in the household of vicious, violent child-abusers, yet became courteous, courageous and gracious. She'll certainly do.

RobbieTheRobber

Charlie Haughey

luckat

Ok, who's your hero *and why*?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

me, because I refuse to answer stupid questions.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Mordeth wrote: »

me, because I refuse to answer stupid questions.

damn

luckat

Mordeth wrote: »

me, because I refuse to answer stupid questions.

Ahem.

Yet by implication you are stating the original question as stupid...

...yet you are answering it...?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

*points at post #13*

Dudess

Jesus.

luckat

Yup, our posts crashed.

Anyway. Aside from those hecklers, true heroes, and why?

Pj!

Nobody really.

Ninja_scrotum

Jackie Chan

admiralofthefleet

oliver reed

lezizi

My hero is one of my friends, she was born with cystic fibrosis, she was sick all her life, she was waiting a lung transplant but she was the most optimistic strong most beautiful person i ever met. She cared about everyone else even when she was in a wheelchair she still done marathons to raise money for CF. No matter how sick she got she always had a smile on her face, everyone loved her.
She lost her battle in May this year aged 23, but she has inspired so many people and will continue to do, no one will ever forget her, she was my hero.
R.I.P Meave:)

ziggy

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Rb

Mordeth wrote: »

*points at post #13*

You did it again, for shame.

KingOfFairview

Joseph Stalin. But for his moustache, not his other exploits

marcsignal

Rommell

Driver 8

Paul Newman *nods sagely* :cool:

supertramp

Lance Armstrong, the ordinary German and Russian soldiers on the Eastern Front during WWII, Chris McCandless

Doctor DooM

My childhood hero was Optimus Prime.


Didn't we do this before?

Terry

Bono and Scott Hall.

RonMexico

This lunatic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyeYY_agx5o

Pigman II

John Peel, George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick. Basically anyone old/dead with a beard is in the running.

Lil' Smiler

I would like to think of my parents as heroes, especially my Mum, she's been through alot in the last 10 years and no matter how crappy she feels she' always gets on with things etc.


I also think my boyfriends pretty amazing, he's just a person everyone seems to love and.. i dunno he's amazing to me! even before we were going out!


I can't think of anyone else really

MrJoeSoap

Dan Shanahan, Sidney Crosby, Scott Parker, Matt Le Tissier, Jeff Buckley, Matt Bellamy, Tommy McLaughlin, Alexander Supertramp, Old Man Marley, Derren Brown, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Henry Shefflin, Ken McGrath, Michel Houellebecq, Douglas Coupland, Gareth Bale, Cormac McAnallen, Jimmy Bullard, Michael Jordan, Marco van Basten, Moritz Volz, Michael O'Muircheartaigh, Bill Hicks, Mark Thomas, Derek Jeter, Chris Carraba, Wes Hoolahan, Brian McBride, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Donnie Darko, Joel Barish, Stewie Byrne, Shero, Adam West, Ollie Cahill, Chris Wolstenholme, Dom Howard, Hugh Law, Eugene McGinty, Edward Norton, Hannibal Lecter, Stephon Marbury, Kirk Gibson, Steven Lynch, Kevin Doyle, Lucas Brunelle, Jimmy Glass, Wayne Gretzky, Kennedy Bakircioglu, Enya, Chris Marsden, Dwayne Wade, Becky Hammon, Morten Gamst Pedersen, Mr. Bean, Joe Pesci, Hamish and Andy, Terry Phelan, The V, Tommy Coyne, AC Slater, Paul Parker, Ali Dia, Gary Breen, Kennedy Bakircioglu, Karel van der Velden, Steven Taylor, Andy McLaren, Marek Malik, Eric Moussambani, John "The Kiwi" Burridge, Clive "Get back here ya pup" Geraghty, Rusty Gates.

Jamey

See sig

eroo

Michael Collins
Jerry McCabe

arybvtcw0eolkf

My hero's, well I'd include one of my Judo coaches in that 'John Douglas' from the Daigokan Judo club in Dublin.

Other than that, probably Moshe Dayan.

Senna

See username

tallaght01

Many of the real heros can't be named by the general public.

All the people working to try and free some of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world for example, or those trying to put the pieces back together after the genocide in Rwanda or the civil war in the Congo.

People delivering aid to war zones in Darfur.

Lots of heroes in this world.

I think to be a proper hero by definition, you have to have faced physical risk to achieve your goal? Or is that my imagination?

MrJoeSoap

1. In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
2. A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life: soldiers and nurses who were heroes in an unpopular war.
3. A person noted for special achievement in a particular field: the heroes of medicine. See Synonyms at celebrity.
4. The principal male character in a novel, poem, or dramatic presentation.
5. Chiefly New York City See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.

Not too sure about Number 5...

The Queen

My mam. Since my grandad died 10 years ago, she visited my gran every single day. She readily gave up her job to take full time care of my her, who suffered from Alzheimer's and lung cancer for the last 2years. She cared for her for nearly 2 years up until the point she couldn't provide the level of care gran needed, and was moved to a nursing home. Even after Gran went into the nursing home, and although Gran had no idea who she was anymore, mam visited everyday up until Gran died 2 weeks ago in the Galway Hospice.
My mam is just such a kind and caring person. If I take after her in just some ways I'm very very lucky.

Pigman II

MrJoeSoap wrote: »

1. In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods.
2. A person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life: soldiers and nurses who were heroes in an unpopular war.
3. A person noted for special achievement in a particular field: the heroes of medicine. See Synonyms at celebrity.
4. The principal male character in a novel, poem, or dramatic presentation.
5. Chiefly New York City See submarine. See Regional Note at submarine.

You forgot 6. 'a tasty sandwich'.

arybvtcw0eolkf

The Queen wrote: »

My mam. Since my grandad died 10 years ago, she visited my gran every single day. She readily gave up her job to take full time care of my her, who suffered from Alzheimer's and lung cancer for the last 2years. She cared for her for nearly 2 years up until the point she couldn't provide the level of care gran needed, and was moved to a nursing home. Even after Gran went into the nursing home, and although Gran had no idea who she was anymore, mam visited everyday up until Gran died 2 weeks ago in the Galway Hospice.
My mam is just such a kind and caring person. If I take after her in just some ways I'm very very lucky.

Mother's are the best. I hold my own mother in the same light if truth be told.

arybvtcw0eolkf

tallaght01 wrote: »

Many of the real heros can't be named by the general public.

All the people working to try and free some of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world for example, or those trying to put the pieces back together after the genocide in Rwanda or the civil war in the Congo.

People delivering aid to war zones in Darfur.

Lots of heroes in this world.

I think to be a proper hero by definition, you have to have faced physical risk to achieve your goal? Or is that my imagination?

I'm not sure I'd consider those people hero's, but if their your's then thats good. I also don't think you should have had to face physical danger to be a hero.

tallaght01

Mairt wrote: »

I'm not sure I'd consider those people hero's, but if their your's then thats good. I also don't think you should have had to face physical danger to be a hero.

why are they not heroes?

arybvtcw0eolkf

tallaght01 wrote: »

why are they not heroes?

Just my opinion thats all. I just seen them as people who do a different job than the 9-5'er.

An admirable job, but not hero's.

tallaght01

Mairt wrote: »

Just my opinion thats all. I just seen them as people who do a different job than the 9-5'er.

An admirable job, but not hero's.

Well, it's your opinion I guess.

I think you could say the same about a guy who teaches judo, though.

I think guys who work in the developing world take big personal risks, and make huge personal sacrifices in order to do good, and usually for very little reward.

Tar.Aldarion

Nobody, I guess.

leninbenjamin

Karl Hungus

arybvtcw0eolkf

tallaght01 wrote: »

Well, it's your opinion I guess.

I think you could say the same about a guy who teaches judo, though.

I think guys who work in the developing world take big personal risks, and make huge personal sacrifices in order to do good, and usually for very little reward.

I think included in the people you are talking about are individual hero's, but as a whole I don't think the organisation makes hero's out of all the people.

tallaght01

Mairt wrote: »

I think included in the people you are talking about are individual hero's, but as a whole I don't think the organisation makes hero's out of all the people.

I think people who face the danger they do, for the reasons they do, and for the rewards they get are heroes.

But everyone does, of course, have the right, to disagree.

It also very much depends on how you define heroe. It's obvious that most of us have differing criteria, hence the wide variety of answers.

Super Sidious

Hulk Hogan, what an entertainer...what a man...what a hero!

Rocky/Rambo beasts!