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Whats your greatest distinction

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  • #32
    Pro Hoc Vice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 ✭✭✭Pro Hoc Vice


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    What is your greatest distinction ???

    Yesterday I had the distinction of being in trains in 2 different country's in the same day Manchester to Liverpool , flew home then train from Dublin to Waterford

    Good times

    I have had a shower on a plane a few times.


  • #33
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,130 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Pro Hoc Vice wrote: »
    I have had a shower on a plane a few times.

    U must own a private jet ???

    Always imagined if a private pilot of a jet owner grew sick of flying there passenger around and said **** it I'm crashing this plane.

    Private showfers must be on plenty of money


  • #34
    Pro Hoc Vice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,087 ✭✭✭Pro Hoc Vice


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    U must own a private jet ???

    Always imagined if a private pilot of a jet owner grew sick of flying there passenger around and said **** it I'm crashing this plane.

    Private showfers must be on plenty of money

    No I wish but I have flown on Etihad A380 first class and Emirates A380 first class.


  • #35
    greenflash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭greenflash


    I am not one of the best fans in the world


  • #36
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭Stigura


    I bred some newts.

    Yes. Ye read that right. And I'm as serious as cancer.

    I was breeding various amphibians at the time. Shop had these particular newts in. I bought some and said, " I'll breed these now. " And I did. Nothing to it.

    Then, I started getting flooded with letters from Doctors, in Russia! They were calling me " Doctor Stigura " and asking me how I did it.

    Turns out I was only the second or third person in the World Ever to have bred these fcuking newts!!!

    I just did it for a bit of craic! :o


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  • #37
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    I figured out how to use my rain jacket as:
    1. extra padding for the shoulder strap on my bag
    2. a bumper of sorts to avoid my laptop bag from hitting against things
    3. a booster to put between myself and the seat
    4. a means of avoiding my underlying clothes from getting wet


  • #38
    PLL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭PLL


    Saved the life of a girl I lived with in college. She tried to hang herself. I was the only person in the house and I only left my room because I remembered I'd taken clothes out of the washing machine hours ago and forgot about them. My scattyness saved her life. She was hanging outside my bedroom door from the attic. I was 19.

    She is very happy now, got the help she needed, and has a daughter. I don't speak to her and although I usually delete anyone off Facebook I don't speak to, I can never delete her. Seeing pictures of her happy is a wonderful feeling because ANYONE can be like she was at rock-bottom and suicidal, you just have to always remember there is always a way out, things can get better.


  • #39
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    PLL wrote: »
    Saved the life of a girl I lived with in college. She tried to hang herself. I was the only person in the house and I only left my room because I remembered I'd taken clothes out of the washing machine hours ago and forgot about them. My scattyness saved her life. She was hanging outside my bedroom door from the attic. I was 19.

    She is very happy now, got the help she needed, and has a daughter. I don't speak to her and although I usually delete anyone off Facebook I don't speak to, I can never delete her. Seeing pictures of her happy is a wonderful feeling because ANYONE can be like she was at rock-bottom and suicidal, you just have to always remember there is always a way out, things can get better.

    Hands down thats the best distinction here.


  • #40
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    I have dimples on my face and my back? Do I win a prize?


  • #41
    mynamejeff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭mynamejeff


    I ve been involved in fist fights, knife fights and had loaded guns pointed at me.

    I ve met good men great men and bad men

    Ive drank pints sang songs and kissed girls

    Ive seen a man die and saved a mans life

    Ive hurt men who have deserved it and some who haven't

    I ve seen one million Euros but it was not mine to take

    ive had more sex than any man who looks like me should have had


    I know better men than me and I know worse and so does everyone


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  • #42
    twowheelsonly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭twowheelsonly


    I trended on Twitter for two days about two years ago (thanks to a photo I took - not because I'm special :-( )

    I sang at the State funeral of one of those executed for their part in the 1916 rising (Thomas Kent) - even got to song a solo bit !! Not sure if it's a distinction but taking part in it was certainly one of the greatest honours I've ever had.

    Once did personal security at an event for Michael Madsen and also ................Vinnie Jones !!! You'd swear he needed minding !! :-D


  • #43
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    I've met the last 3 presidents and last 5 taoisigh


  • #44
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,954 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I've authored 15 peer reviewed academic papers and written a chapter in a book.


  • #45
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.


  • #46
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    I think we can safely say that I am the only person to have met both Enda Kenny and Bez over the past weekend.


  • #47
    duchalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 329 ✭✭duchalla


    Buddy of mine has the distinction of being the only person I know to get sick in 3 countries in the space of 7 hours.
    Back in the day, a gang of us went to Barcelona/Valencia for a week. flew Kerry-Stansted-Girona with Ryanair. Good week was had by all, plenty of high jinks, booze etc.
    Night before we flew home, we went for a few in a bar in Girona to keep the aul sweats/horrors at bay. Most of us headed back to the hotel round midnight, buddy was getting a lip for it at this stage, so he decided to stay on. Told him he should come away, we've flights early in the morning. no good, he told us we were a pack of lightweights!
    He fell into the hotel room round 4 am, absoutely hammered, was still p!ssed at 8 am when we were leaving the hotel, got out of the taxi at the Airport, one sight I'll never forget is seeing your man down on his hands and knees puking his ring up outside Girona Airport! He slept all the way to Stansted, ran to the jacks in Stansted Airport, puked there. Got off the plane in Kerry Airport, puked on the tarmac even before he got into the building. Even now 13 years later, I find it hilarous!


  • #48
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    I have been in the Artic circle, in the middle of winter, in minus 35C.


    In a t-shirt.


  • #49
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    mynamejeff wrote: »
    I ve been involved in fist fights, knife fights and had loaded guns pointed at me.

    I ve met good men great men and bad men

    Ive drank pints sang songs and kissed girls

    Ive seen a man die and saved a mans life

    Ive hurt men who have deserved it and some who haven't

    I ve seen one million Euros but it was not mine to take

    ive had more sex than any man who looks like me should have had


    I know better men than me and I know worse and so does everyone

    Your name isn't Jeff, it's Jack...Jack Reacher.


  • #50
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    What is your greatest distinction ???

    Yesterday I had the distinction of being in trains in 2 different country's in the same day Manchester to Liverpool , flew home then train from Dublin to Waterford

    Good times

    Got that beat. Last week took the train from Paris to Amsterdam which passed through Belgium so that's 3 different countries :P


  • #51
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,932 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    A few years ago, I was stuck in traffic on my way to work. The futility of the whole lifestyle was getting to me. I decided there that I would a achieve something just for it's bowb sake; I decided I would get into the Guinness Book of World Records. Within 3 weeks I'd done it.


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  • #52
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    Stigura wrote: »
    I bred some newts.

    Yes. Ye read that right. And I'm as serious as cancer.

    I was breeding various amphibians at the time. Shop had these particular newts in. I bought some and said, " I'll breed these now. " And I did. Nothing to it.

    Then, I started getting flooded with letters from Doctors, in Russia! They were calling me " Doctor Stigura " and asking me how I did it.

    Turns out I was only the second or third person in the World Ever to have bred these fcuking newts!!!

    I just did it for a bit of craic! :o

    How did they find out you did it?


  • #53
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    HensVassal wrote: »
    How did they find out you did it?

    It was in the newtpaper.


  • #54
    scdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭scdublin


    This literally brought back a memory that I hadn't thought about for so long. When I was about 16/17 I had a small group of friends that were mostly lads, and was particularly close with two of the guys. We all generally hung out as a group and rarely hung out one on one but for whatever reason one day myself and one of the guys met up - can't remember if I'd texted him or he'd texted me.

    He basically broke down and told me that he was very depressed and we had a big chat and I hugged him while he cried, told him I was always there to talk to.

    A while later he told me he'd been thinking about committing suicide that night and didn't because of me - he actually said the words "you saved me". Jesus....

    He's doing great now - great job, happy relationship, loads of friends. Like PLL said, things can get better.


  • #55
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    duchalla wrote: »
    Buddy of mine has the distinction of being the only person I know to get sick in 3 countries in the space of 7 hours.
    Back in the day, a gang of us went to Barcelona/Valencia for a week. flew Kerry-Stansted-Girona with Ryanair. Good week was had by all, plenty of high jinks, booze etc.
    Night before we flew home, we went for a few in a bar in Girona to keep the aul sweats/horrors at bay. Most of us headed back to the hotel round midnight, buddy was getting a lip for it at this stage, so he decided to stay on. Told him he should come away, we've flights early in the morning. no good, he told us we were a pack of lightweights!
    He fell into the hotel room round 4 am, absoutely hammered, was still p!ssed at 8 am when we were leaving the hotel, got out of the taxi at the Airport, one sight I'll never forget is seeing your man down on his hands and knees puking his ring up outside Girona Airport! He slept all the way to Stansted, ran to the jacks in Stansted Airport, puked there. Got off the plane in Kerry Airport, puked on the tarmac even before he got into the building. Even now 13 years later, I find it hilarous!

    At least he had the decency not to puke on the flights.


  • #56
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    Actually filming on an old railway bridge near Waterford City. :)


  • #57
    Subacio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭Subacio


    I appeared on Countdown a couple of years ago and got a 9 letter word in my first letters game.


  • #58
    Witchie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    gramar wrote: »
    It was in the newtpaper.

    Love it! :D

    I am the first (and possibly still only) female to do a live commentary on a football match (soccer) in Ireland.


  • #59
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    I spent all my money on a limousine but I don't have a licence so I've nothing to chauffeur it.


  • #60
    RianF2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭RianF2


    I have....nothing. I really have noting distinctive about me. Then again I'm youngish (22)


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  • #61
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Carol Vorderman once replied to me on Twitter. She even used my name and added an 'x' at the end.


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