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Are any of your heroes still alive?

  • 26-12-2016 11:21PM
    #1
    Train Dragon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭


    Mine is in that Paul McCartney, although no spring chicken at 74, is still with us.

    Are any of your heroes still alive? Or did 2016 and previous years take them?


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  • #2
    jacksie66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭jacksie66


    This post has been deleted.


  • #3
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    I think Ronnie Beck is still alive, so yes.


  • #4
    Skommando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Skommando


    My hero's are the voluntary home carers that give up their own lives to care for those in their family unable to look after themselves, and the disabled people that struggle 24/7/365 for their entire life to live as best they can despite their disability. These people are the real hero's of this world.


  • #5
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Skommando wrote: »
    My hero's are the home carers that give up their lives to care for those unable to look after themselves, and the disabled people that struggle all their lives 24/7/365 to live as best they can despite their disability. These people are the real hero's of this world.

    Bet none of them could write The Frog Chorus.


  • #6
    Train Dragon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    Ozzy Osborne is still going. How, I don't know..

    Lizard blood.


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  • #7
    Skommando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Skommando


    RayM wrote: »
    Bet none of them could write The Frog Chorus.

    Bet most of them have more important things to worry about than making jokes about them.


  • #8
    HS3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭HS3


    Anyhooo. ...Dirk Benedict still alive and kicking. Thank feck!


  • #9
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Train Dragon wrote: »
    Mine is in that Paul McCartney, although no spring chicken at 74, is still with us.

    There's still a few days left, don't tempt faith.


  • #10
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    None of my heroes are celebrities.


  • #11
    HS3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 405 ✭✭HS3


    Jamison Zealous Alcohol wrote: »
    None of my heroes are celebrities.

    Who said they had to be celebrities?


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  • #12
    hannible the cannible
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 163 ✭✭hannible the cannible


    Putin is alive and well thankfully and now I have trump and farage as well , I'm spoiled for choice


  • #13
    Train Dragon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Jamison Zealous Alcohol wrote: »
    None of my heroes are celebrities.

    Not all of mine are either.


  • #14
    Burial.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭Burial.


    Skommando wrote: »
    My hero's are the voluntary home carers that give up their own lives to care for those in their family unable to look after themselves, and the disabled people that struggle 24/7/365 for their entire life to live as best they can despite their disability. These people are the real hero's of this world.

    Oh get in the bin


  • #15
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    None of my heroes are sociable.


  • #16
    Train Dragon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    RayM wrote: »
    Bet none of them could write The Frog Chorus.


    Now look what you've done

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0fuVoSa3dc


  • #17
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Skommando wrote: »
    Bet most of them have more important things to worry about than making jokes about them.

    Bet most of them have a better sense of humour than you...


  • #18
    Train Dragon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Skommando wrote: »
    My hero's are the voluntary home carers that give up their own lives to care for those in their family unable to look after themselves, and the disabled people that struggle 24/7/365 for their entire life to live as best they can despite their disability. These people are the real hero's of this world.

    You do have valid points but the way it comes across it's like David Brent has hacked into your account.


  • #19
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Nope , no heroes left alive.But I still have some Quality street and a tin of roses


  • #20
    Del.Monte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Quite a few of them actually but I'm almost afraid to tempt fate by naming them. Here's a few:

    Clint Eastwood
    Eric Clapton
    David Jason

    Ian Botham
    Bob Willis

    Gareth Edwards
    JPR Williams

    ROG
    Jonny Wilkinson
    Dan Carter
    Richie McCaw

    QE.II......................I'll get my coat. :D

    ****



  • #21
    Tin Foil Hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Tin Foil Hat


    I don't really do hero worship. But I'll be gutted when Dylan goes. He seems like a bit of an arsehole but, christ, the songs are legendary.


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  • #22
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


    Goddamn it, we still have Carrie Fisher.


  • #23
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Most (all) of the great waterford team I seen growing up are



    -my worldview is very small and limited though


  • #24
    Schwiiing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭Schwiiing


    Priscilla Proud Tracker wrote: »
    There's still a few days left, don't tempt faith.

    Fate*.


  • #25
    Train Dragon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 267 ✭✭Train Dragon


    Tin Foil Hat wrote: »
    I don't really do hero worship. But I'll be gutted when Dylan goes. He seems like a bit of an arsehole but, christ, the songs are legendary.

    I dont really get the Dylan worship at all. He's made a living by mumbling incoherently.

    Each to their own though.


  • #26
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    Schwiiing wrote: »
    Fate*.

    Gotta have fate...


  • #27
    RobertKK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,782 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    No famous person is my hero.

    My 90 year old father is a hero to me.


  • #28
    Mantis Toboggan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,813 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Buddy holly, Roy Keane, Alex Ferguson oh and of course Tyson Fury, all great men, true to their word, leaders, legends, heroic people of the world.

    Free Palestine 🇵🇸



  • #29
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Still-living people who have meant a lot to me at stages in my life...hmmm...

    In sport, Roberto Duran was a huge hero of mine growing up, and when I did amateur boxing, I ended up boxing like him.

    In film, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese are two directors I really admire and think write great films.

    In music, Springsteen and Tom Waits were the soundtrack to a large chunk of my life - they should have at least another decade left in them.

    In literature, J.M. Coetzee - made me think more than any other writer I've ever read.


  • #30
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Stephen Hawkins, Richard Dawkins, Brian Cox - I do worry about Richard Attenborough, though.


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  • #31
    Dirty Dingus McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,631 ✭✭✭Dirty Dingus McGee


    Clint Eastwood,Tom Hanks,Gene Hackman,Bruce Springsteen,Brian Whelahan,Johnny Dooley,John Troy,Vinny Claffey,Roy Malone,Robbie Keane,Gary Kelly,Cormac McCarthy,Kelsey Grammer,David Hyde-Pierce are all still alive and hopefully they'll be alive for a good while to come.


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