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Have you ever lost respect for a hero?

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  • #32
    Wang Kerr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 361 ✭✭Wang Kerr


    DanielODonnell wrote: »
    When Rory McIlroy held up the Ulster banner flag to alienate the entire Catholic fanbase of Northern Ireland even though he is Catholic.

    What has religion got to do with nationality


  • #33
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    Wang Kerr wrote: »
    What has religion got to do with nationality

    Catholics - aboriginals

    Protestants - scotsmen


  • #34
    useurowname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 396 ✭✭useurowname


    Asked a famous jockey had he a tip for a horse in the jacks of a pub in Galway, he told me to cop on, my heart sank .


  • #35
    BettePorter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭BettePorter


    useurowname wrote:
    Asked a famous jockey had he a tip for a horse in the jacks of a pub in Galway, he told me to cop on, my heart sank .

    Scarlet for you...... ' to cop on' won that race at 25/1!! ;);)


  • #36
    Cameo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 100 ✭✭Cameo


    twinytwo wrote: »
    Define hero though?
    Why do people keep saying this? Obviously they mean people you admire and are inspired by.


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  • #37
    wylo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭wylo


    I can't even watch Mark Wahlberg after hearing about it his racist violent antics.

    Watching him on graham norton being a dick to Michael fassbender sealed the deal.


  • #38
    wylo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭wylo


    Oh and Mel Gibson , that was harder cause I really liked him , both his acting and directing skills.


  • #39
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »
    Clint Eastwood could talk to all the chairs in the world and I'd still love him.

    I think Bruce Jenner said that coming out as a conservative in Hollywood was much more difficult than coming out as transgender.

    It's a strange world over there.


  • #40
    buried
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,980 ✭✭✭buried


    A good few years ago I met a fairly underground music artist I was a big fan of, a few mates of mine booked him to play a gig so they had to basically look after him while he was here. The most absolute belligerent, ignorant and altogether sad individual I have ever encountered, his work is still brilliant in my eyes and I still enjoy it to this day but it was hard seperate the music I enjoy from the persona who created it. It taught me a very good lesson though, not to put anybody up on a pedestal and eventually get dissapoint

    Bullet The Blue Shirts



  • #41
    Ferrari3600
    Closed Accounts Posts: 617 ✭✭✭Ferrari3600


    A part of my soul died when Alan Partridge left North Norfolk Digital Radio to take the big bucks in Hollywood.


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  • #42
    mansize
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    Floyd Mayweather.

    Great boxer. Wifebeater? No thanks.


  • #43
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    mansize wrote: »
    Floyd Mayweather.

    Great boxer. Wifebeater? No thanks.

    Seems like a genuinely nasty person in general.

    I bet he winds up bankrupt in 10 years.


  • #44
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Chris Benoit, pro wrestler who went mad and murdered his wife and son.

    Not hero's, but some of my favourite MMA fighters, Werdum and Nurmagomedov I found out they were friends with a dictator.


  • #45
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,687 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Reading Morrissey's autobiography and realizing that being an amazing artist unfortunately doesn't preclude being a bit of a wanker


  • #46
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Manny Pacquaoi's homophobic slurs/views


  • #47
    Cortina_MK_IV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,350 ✭✭✭Cortina_MK_IV


    wylo wrote: »
    I can't even watch Mark Wahlberg after hearing about it his racist violent antics.

    Watching him on graham norton being a dick to Michael fassbender sealed the deal.

    He sprang to mind, not a hero but I liked his movies. He attacked 2 Vietnamese men and was supposed to have blinded one but Johnny Trinh later forgave Wahlberg stating that his eye was gone anyway as he lost it in a grenade attack in Vietnam fighting with US forces.


  • #48
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    riffmongous wrote: »
    Chris Benoit, pro wrestler who went mad and murdered his wife and son.

    Not hero's, but some of my favourite MMA fighters, Werdum and Nurmagomedov I found out they were friends with a dictator.

    That was terrible alright.

    Benoit was probably the greatest technical pro wrestler of all time.

    I can separate his work to what he did though, I can still watch and enjoy Benoit matches on the Network.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
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    Cortina_MK_IV wrote: »
    He sprang to mind, not a hero but I liked his movies. He attacked 2 Vietnamese men and was supposed to have blinded one but Johnny Trinh later forgave Wahlberg stating that his eye was gone anyway as he lost it in a grenade attack in Vietnam fighting with US forces.

    He was quite young when he did that though right, is he still a racist today? I guess it would be hard to say but he's definitely turned his life around so maybe he doesn't have those views now either


  • #50
    MilesMorales1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    Not exactly a hero, but I was gutted when Rolf Harris turned out to be dodgy.


  • #51
    [Deleted User]
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    That was terrible alright.

    Benoit was probably the greatest technical pro wrestler of all time.

    I can separate his work to what he did though, I can still watch and enjoy Benoit matches on the Network.

    Yeah me too, his work is too good to lose, plus that's the 'character of Benoit' I suppose. Still, ever have a look at any youtube videos of his? Full of people who excuse him


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  • #52
    eviltwin
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    Michael Jackson and the allegations of child abuse


  • #53
    mikeoneilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 479 ✭✭mikeoneilly


    MilesMorales1 wrote: »
    Not exactly a hero, but I was gutted when Rolf Harris turned out to be dodgy.

    :pac:


  • #54
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,502 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    I idolized Axl Rose when I was a teenager. By my mid 20s I realised he was a bit of a knob.
    Great singer though.


  • #55
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    None of my heroes are famous people, but I'll add another for Rolf Harris.

    Michael Owen was another person I admired (always thought he was hard done by at Real Madrid) and I didn't mind the move to United as a LIverpool fan, but he's actually an egotistical muppet with a nasty streak as a commentator. He also made a mug of that kid in a sports video.

    On a different level, I'm always disgusted by the Munster players that stood by Eddie Halvey after his drink driving manslaughter.


  • #56
    VonLuck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,557 ✭✭✭VonLuck


    Wang Kerr wrote: »
    I suppose Lance Armstrong is an obvious one
    Pierce Brosnan not so much

    What did Pierce Brosnan do to lose your respect?


  • #57
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,502 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Isn't there doubt on Rolf Harris? Were a few of the convictions recently quashed?


  • #58
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    I lost all respect for Cuchulainn, when he couldn't beat Ferdia in a fair fight.


  • #59
    [Deleted User]
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Isn't there doubt on Rolf Harris? Were a few of the convictions recently quashed?

    I thought I saw that recently too


  • #60
    Phoenix Wright
    Closed Accounts Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Phoenix Wright


    razorblunt wrote: »
    He also made a mug of that kid in a sports video..

    Are you talking about this kid? :P It never gets old..



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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Isn't there doubt on Rolf Harris? Were a few of the convictions recently quashed?

    He's serving time for sixteen convictions of sexual assaults on four victims, the youngest eight. Further charges recently resulted in jurors not reaching a verdict on four, and his being acquitted of three.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Harris
    Since 2014, Harris has been serving a prison sentence of five years and nine months, at HMP Stafford. Harris was cleared of further charges in February 2017, when a jury acquitted him of three charges and was unable to reach a verdict on four others.


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