Do you know any famous people?

A Battered Mars Bar · 29-08-2017 07:26PM #1

and I don't mean the lad from fair city always hanging around everywhere in Dublin in tight t-shirts trying to act cool and thinking everyone is looking at him....

What I noticed is that no one I know, knows anyone famous and by famous I mean Conor McGregor, Bono, Imelda May, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel or Gay Byrne, Enya....I'm talking that level of famous. Properly Famous....or better yet Brad Pitt, Bill Gates, Solobodan Milosevic etc

Do famous people only hang with people of equal fame calibre? and the lad from fair city hang around the corner and queues waiting to be seen by someone....anyone....

Now. By "know" someone famous I don't mean did you go to school with them and they're now better than you but you've kids so you're much more happy and fulfilled than them obviously but they won't understand until they've kids too. I mean do you know someone famous and you can call them for a pint anytime you want and that would mean charting their private jet to fly you over to their gaff for a bottle of the ol peroni one n only jim jam baroni

Ok a little caveat is needed. Obviously this is AH so the odds of anyone knowing anyone important is slim. So does anyone know anyone who knows someone famous?

Biggest lickspittle on boardz · 29-08-2017 07:37PM

I wouldn't say famous, but I'd be quite good friends with an extremely wealthy guy whose surname would be well known in the oil industry. He dropped into Ireland on his private jet a few years ago, and asked me if I wanted to party in Italy for a week. I'm sure some of you would have jumped at the chance, but I'm not really the sort to use people.

Anyway, I have enough self awareness to know that the lifestyle is well beyond my means. I'm not sure why he calls me up though, I suppose he inhabits a level of society where everyone is trying to deceive him and make a buck from him. It's probably a very lonely lifestyle, as many celebrities will admit.
I just treat him as a regular Joe, no arse-kissing or agendas. Maybe he respects that.

The Backwards Man · 29-08-2017 07:45PM

I'm not one to brag, but I have a book full of famous bastards that owe me money.

Xaracatz · 29-08-2017 07:47PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm not one to brag, but I have a book full of famous bastards that owe me money.

Shouldn't you be in hiding?

The Backwards Man · 29-08-2017 07:48PM

Xaracatz wrote: »

Shouldn't you be in hiding?

I am hiding.

I'm in a pub in the Irish Riviera drinking Heineken.

DoozerT6 · 29-08-2017 07:56PM

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

I wouldn't say famous, but I'd be quite good friends with an extremely wealthy guy whose surname would be well known in the oil industry. He dropped into Ireland on his private jet a few years ago, and asked me if I wanted to party in Italy for a week. I'm sure some of you would have jumped at the chance, but I'm not really the sort to use people.

Anyway, I have enough self awareness to know that the lifestyle is well beyond my means. I'm not sure why he calls me up though, I suppose he inhabits a level of society where everyone is trying to deceive him and make a buck from him. It's probably a very lonely lifestyle, as many celebrities will admit.
I just treat him as a regular Joe, no arse-kissing or agendas. Maybe he respects that.

JR? I thought someone shot that fecker!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-08-2017 08:00PM

Several in the world of the Natural Sciences but I'm particularly friendly with David Attenborough and in touch with him regularly over the past 50+ years. We meet up once or twice a year. I would be on chatting terms with The Corrs too.

DoozerT6 · 29-08-2017 08:01PM

Case Bald Backbone wrote: »

Several in the world of the Natural Sciences but I'm particularly friendly with David Attenborough and in touch with him regularly over the past 50+ years. We meet up once or twice a year. I would be on chatting terms with The Corrs too.

Genuinely jealous

Would love to meet him. He seems like a really nice guy.

Poor Uncle Tom · 29-08-2017 08:03PM

I know Jack Daniels and Jim Beam both very intimately ...;)

me_irl · 29-08-2017 08:04PM

The "I don't know what a tracker mortgage" fella used to deliver me takeaway.

Still regret not asking him for an autograph.

Biggest lickspittle on boardz · 29-08-2017 08:06PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I am hiding.

I'm in a pub in the Irish Riviera drinking Heineken.

Aha, see they'll be looking for a Tennent's man :pac:

Pintman Paddy Losty · 29-08-2017 08:09PM

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

I wouldn't say famous, but I'd be quite good friends with an extremely wealthy guy whose surname would be well known in the oil industry. He dropped into Ireland on his private jet a few years ago, and asked me if I wanted to party in Italy for a week. I'm sure some of you would have jumped at the chance, but I'm not really the sort to use people.

Anyway, I have enough self awareness to know that the lifestyle is well beyond my means. I'm not sure why he calls me up though, I suppose he inhabits a level of society where everyone is trying to deceive him and make a buck from him. It's probably a very lonely lifestyle, as many celebrities will admit.
I just treat him as a regular Joe, no arse-kissing or agendas. Maybe he respects that.

:rolleyes:

I'm quite friendly with a multi billionaire in the tech industry. Regularly cruises in to Galway on his yacht and asks me if I want to head off to the Caribbean with him. I never take him up on the offer as I don't like jerk chicken.

I guess he likes me as I am able to level with him and say that the latest update to Facebook messenger is ****e. I'm a straight shooter like that :cool:

Outlaw Pete · 29-08-2017 08:10PM

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

I'm sure some of you would have jumped at the chance, but I'm not really the sort to use people.

Thanks very much.

29-08-2017 08:12PM

I know Biggins but it's not something I can talk about, for my own security.

Biggest lickspittle on boardz · 29-08-2017 08:20PM

Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »

:rolleyes:

I'm quite friendly with a multi billionaire in the tech industry. Regularly cruises in to Galway on his yacht and asks me if I want to head off to the Caribbean with him. I never take him up on the offer as I don't like jerk chicken.

I guess he likes me as I am able to level with him and say that the latest update to Facebook messenger is ****e. I'm a straight shooter like that :cool:

Believe whatever you want to believe fella, it makes no difference to me. A bullsh1tter would have lied and said they went to Italy and hung out with models and partied in A list clubs and hotels.

I have no problem admitting I'm not part of, can afford, or fit in with the jet set lifestyle.

gifted · 29-08-2017 08:37PM

I know a bloke who's on the run......comes up for air every now and then.....last I heard he's in the riviera...hitting the sauce bad as well....

The Backwards Man · 29-08-2017 08:44PM

I'll tell you one thing, customer service in these tourist hotspots leaves a lot to be desired, they're looking after me alright, but the amount of dough these amateurs are losing their businesses, I'll be famous for shooting the lot of them soon!

We might be ignorant in Donegal, but we make damn sure we get as many euros as we can out of yous and send yous home smiling.

AllGunsBlazing · 29-08-2017 08:49PM

I don't know how to put this, but I'm kind of a big deal.

Super-Rush · 29-08-2017 09:03PM

I know Richie Kavanagh quite well.

Solomon Pleasant · 29-08-2017 09:38PM

I don't really know any famous people, although it's not something that really irks me.

I would love to meet Pierre Andurand, it would certainly be interesting.

Agricola · 29-08-2017 09:55PM

I'm fairly tight with Marty Morrissey. Regularly hooks me up with gaa tickets which can't be got for love nor money. We've often shared a few magums of Moet in his jacuzzi while in the company of a bevy of exotic beauties that he's got on speed dial. Feckin' ledge.

Charmeleon · 29-08-2017 10:05PM

Regularly have pints with Leonardo DiCaprio, he's such an insufferable name-dropper though.

passremarkable · 29-08-2017 11:15PM

Probably Niall horan. Not overly friendly , but would know him well enough to chat too , we know a lot of the same people. Sound fella, and now minted in fairness to him.

McMurphy · 29-08-2017 11:19PM

Me an paddy irishman (he of numerous jokes fame) are besties.

Had a beer with him and paddy englishman, and paddy scotchman the other evenin in a bar we all randomly walked into.

Arghus · 29-08-2017 11:23PM

I once met a drunk Brendan Grace in the frozen aisle of a supermarket. That's as close as I've got.

Ipso · 30-08-2017 12:43AM

Agricola wrote: »

I'm fairly tight with Marty Morrissey. Regularly hooks me up with gaa tickets which can't be got for love nor money. We've often shared a few magums of Moet in his jacuzzi while in the company of a bevy of exotic beauties that he's got on speed dial. Feckin' ledge.

You mean the sheep dip?

branie2 · 30-08-2017 12:56AM

I know Anthony Daly; he's a great man.

darkdubh · 30-08-2017 07:22AM

A Battered Mars Bar wrote: »

and I don't mean the lad from fair city always hanging around everywhere in Dublin in tight t-shirts trying to act cool and thinking everyone is looking at him....

What I noticed is that no one I know, knows anyone famous and by famous I mean Conor McGregor, Bono, Imelda May, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel or Gay Byrne, Enya....I'm talking that level of famous. Properly Famous....or better yet Brad Pitt, Bill Gates, Solobodan Milosevic etc

Do famous people only hang with people of equal fame calibre? and the lad from fair city hang around the corner and queues waiting to be seen by someone....anyone....

Now. By "know" someone famous I don't mean did you go to school with them and they're now better than you but you've kids so you're much more happy and fulfilled than them obviously but they won't understand until they've kids too. I mean do you know someone famous and you can call them for a pint anytime you want and that would mean charting their private jet to fly you over to their gaff for a bottle of the ol peroni one n only jim jam baroni

Ok a little caveat is needed. Obviously this is AH so the odds of anyone knowing anyone important is slim. So does anyone know anyone who knows someone famous?

Unlikely too many ordinary punters are going to know Enya seeing as she's the Irish female Howard Hughes.

Imallrightjack · 30-08-2017 07:33AM

Case Bald Backbone wrote: »

Several in the world of the Natural Sciences but I'm particularly friendly with David Attenborough and in touch with him regularly over the past 50+ years. We meet up once or twice a year. I would be on chatting terms with The Corrs too.

How's jim keeping these days?ive stopped buying ufo monthly so i don't get to read about him as much.

KungPao · 30-08-2017 07:44AM

Imallrightjack wrote: »

How's jim keeping these days?ive stopped buying ufo monthly so i don't get to read about him as much.

He was recently abducted by aliens from zyclox b, got a good probing, poor guy.
They only returned him to Earth on the request he played the rocking riff from So Young.

tea and coffee · 30-08-2017 07:47AM

OP, if, as you suggest, famous people only hang out with other people of equal fame, then it's unlikely that anyone on Boards will know anyone - unless Bono (or possibly Enya) posts on here.

Do you know any famous people?

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