Whats interesting/ unique about your life?

Don Keypunch · 28-08-2010 01:51AM #1

mink_man · 28-08-2010 01:59AM

sweet fúck all

starbelgrade · 28-08-2010 01:59AM

I like cheese.

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:01AM

That's a big question and some aspects I can't say on a public forum.
I can mention that I have travelled a lot and seen many places that the average traveller might have not been able to gain access to or seen sights that they would have missed.
(Some I'm trying to forget, some horrors are not easily forgotten)

I've met extreme rich and extreme poor and it all helps to appreciate whats really important in life for me.

I know I've probably saved a few lives in my time and still hope to do so.

I know I should be well dead by now for the scythe man has come a visiting once or twice to say the least.
I've had my fair share of incidents that somehow I've managed to walk away from - don't ask me how sometimes. Not skill, just sheer ruddy luck.

In all, I consider myself very lucky and so far I continue to lead a very unique life.

C'est la vie.

starbelgrade · 28-08-2010 02:04AM

Biggins wrote: »

That's a big question and some aspects I can't say on a public forum.
I can mention that I have travelled a lot and seen many places that the average traveller might have not been able to gain access to or seen sights that they would have missed.
(Some I'm trying to forget, some horrors are not easily forgotten)

I've met extreme rich and extreme poor and it all helps to appreciate whats really important in life for me.

I know I've probably saved a few lives in my time and still hope to do so.

I know I should be well dead by now for the scythe man has come a visiting once or twice to say the least.
I've had my fair share of incidents that somehow I've managed to walk away from - don't ask me how sometimes. Not skill, just sheer ruddy luck.

In all, I consider myself very lucky and so far I continue to lead a very unique life.

C'est la vie.

And all that happened to Biggins in just 3 weeks in "I'm a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here".

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:06AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

And all that happened to Biggins in just 3 weeks in "I'm a Celebrity, Get me Out of Here".

Aye, being trapped under Jordan was nearly the ruddy death of me!
Nearly smothered to death when she tripped and her plastic parts landed in my face on the ground! :pac:

Agricola · 28-08-2010 02:07AM

I like to recite the Chinese national anthem, while wearing women's underwear and standing on my head at the same time.

Other than that nothing really.

Superbus · 28-08-2010 02:08AM

I dig love.

And I love dig.

Pique · 28-08-2010 02:09AM

I ate a sachet of cat food for a €200 bet.

Well who wouldn't ?!

steddyeddy · 28-08-2010 02:09AM

I have tried stand up comedy.

I saw the mountain gorilla, chimp and bonobo in the wild ( have a friend who says he saw bigfoot) hope to see the old man of the forest in the wild before their extinct.

Slept alone in the cascade mountains.

I consider my life a case of progressive resistance ( getting gradually more experienced by throwing myself into more difficult situations ).

I am going back to college to study psychology.

I dont see myself incapable of anything (its not arrogance but i figured out long ago you get no where by thinking youll get no where).

Had tough early experiences that gave me confidence to know that nothing i will face will match them experiences.

Degag · 28-08-2010 02:10AM

Biggins wrote: »

That's a big question and some aspects I can't say on a public forum.
I can mention that I have travelled a lot and seen many places that the average traveller might have not been able to gain access to or seen sights that they would have missed.
(Some I'm trying to forget, some horrors are not easily forgotten)

I've met extreme rich and extreme poor and it all helps to appreciate whats really important in life for me.

I know I've probably saved a few lives in my time and still hope to do so.

I know I should be well dead by now for the scythe man has come a visiting once or twice to say the least.
I've had my fair share of incidents that somehow I've managed to walk away from - don't ask me how sometimes. Not skill, just sheer ruddy luck.

In all, I consider myself very lucky and so far I continue to lead a very unique life.

C'est la vie.

So basically you've done alot but can't divulge any of it on here?

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:15AM

Degag wrote: »

So basically you've done alot but can't divulge any of it on here?

Some of it is work stuff and some is personal stuff that involves others so I must respect their fellow privacy.

I have had the deepest honour of standing with my father at the top of the mountains between Spain and France during a trip to Lourdes.
The awe inspiring sight of a snow mountain scene for miles and miles around is something that I will take to my grave as one of the most moving things I've ever witnessed and so to experience it with my father beside me, again, was truly an honour and a blessing.
I'm a very, very lucky person and not a day goes by that I don't consider myself so.

steddyeddy · 28-08-2010 02:20AM

Biggins wrote: »

Some of it is work stuff and some is personal stuff that involves others so I must respect their fellow privacy.

I have had the deepest honour of standing with my father at the top of the mountains between Spain and France during a trip to Lourdes.
The awe inspiring sight of snow mountain scene for miles around is something that I will take to my grave as one of the most moving things I've ever witnessed and so to experience it with my father beside me, again, was truly an honour and a blessing.
I'm a very, very lucky person and not a day goes by that I don't consider myself so.

fair play to you biggins sounds impressive, was it the Pyrenees you were in?

gingelion · 28-08-2010 02:23AM

I just saw jupiter along with 4 of its moons through my mates telescope with enough detail to actually be able to make out a couple of the bands that make up the planets surface.

I'm not the first or the last person to do this but it totally made my jaw drop. Awe inspiring.

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:24AM

steddyeddy wrote: »

fair play to you biggins sounds impressive, was it the Pyrenees you were in?

Yes.
Part way up one of the mountains was a shack that was inner lined with glass display cases.
In the glass cases was the heads of bodies (of people) that had died on the mountains over many, many years.
Eerie to see and you could have heard a pin drop as we looked around but it sort of, in its own way helped reinforce the notion that at the end of the day, we are all at the whim to the forces of mother nature.

tommyboy2222 · 28-08-2010 02:26AM

That's a big question and some aspects I can't say on a public forum.
I can mention that I have travelled a lot and seen many places that the average traveller might have not been able to gain access to or seen sights that they would have missed.
(Some I'm trying to forget, some horrors are not easily forgotten)

I've met extreme rich and extreme poor and it all helps to appreciate whats really important in life for me.

I know I've probably saved a few lives in my time and still hope to do so.

I know I should be well dead by now for the scythe man has come a visiting once or twice to say the least.
I've had my fair share of incidents that somehow I've managed to walk away from - don't ask me how sometimes. Not skill, just sheer ruddy luck.

In all, I consider myself very lucky and so far I continue to lead a very unique life.

C'est la vie.

And you've posted 13628 times in two and a half years

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:29AM

tommyboy2222 wrote: »

And you've posted 13628 times in two and a half years

Yes, I'm in a role now that after many years of work, is allowing me to take a step back from the outdoor stuff I used to do.
I'm an indoor person more so now, be it office and/or home. Age and time catches up with you.

steddyeddy · 28-08-2010 02:30AM

Biggins wrote: »

Yes.
Part way up one of the mountains was a shack that was inner lined with glass display cases.
In the glass cases was the heads of bodies (of people) that had died on the mountains over many, many years.
Eerie to see and you could have heard a pin drop as we looked around but it sort of, in its own way helped reinforce the notion that at the end of the day, we are all at the whim to the forces of mother nature.

You reminded me of the many explorers grave yards near the amazon, cascades, congo and all the rest. Most of them had no body to bury only hats and other relicts. One expidition involved twenty men who went into the amazon and four came out. Powerful stuff.

28-08-2010 03:15AM

Biggins wrote: »

That's a big question and some aspects I can't say on a public forum.
I can mention that I have travelled a lot and seen many places that the average traveller might have not been able to gain access to or seen sights that they would have missed.
(Some I'm trying to forget, some horrors are not easily forgotten)

I've met extreme rich and extreme poor and it all helps to appreciate whats really important in life for me.

I know I've probably saved a few lives in my time and still hope to do so.

I know I should be well dead by now for the scythe man has come a visiting once or twice to say the least.
I've had my fair share of incidents that somehow I've managed to walk away from - don't ask me how sometimes. Not skill, just sheer ruddy luck.

In all, I consider myself very lucky and so far I continue to lead a very unique life.

C'est la vie.

*sigh* And the suspense continues. What does Biggins do for a living?

You didn't happen to star in any Superman films by any chance, and got confused with the fiction/reality concept?

James T Kirk · 28-08-2010 03:26AM

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships off the Shoulder of Orion etc.

storm2811 · 28-08-2010 03:38AM

I don't know really but to think of some things I would say:

I've been through a lot more than anyone my age that I know has,some devastating,some happy.
I've made it through a lot of losses,which I think makes me who I am now.
I know things about my townland which only a handful of other people know and I worry that it may be forgotten.
I've been to many places and have some really vivid memories of them.
I had the best childhood I could wish for,travelling around the country and central Europe,I learned so much.
In my eyes and many others my father was a genius and I will always keep his little creations to pass down through the family.(I suppose I think this one makes me unique more than the others because I am one of the only people who has his creations and blueprints.)

Well,those mightn't seem like very good or significant points I suppose but they are to me.:)

hullaballoo · 28-08-2010 03:42AM

I think starbelgrade and Biggins are antitheses. That's what's interesting about my life.

starbelgrade · 28-08-2010 03:58AM

hullaballoo wrote: »

I think starbelgrade and Biggins are antitheses. That's what's interesting about my life.

I would tend to disagree on both points. I think that idealogically, Biggins & I would generally share a common ground - perhaps the antitheses comes about due to how we express / encompass these ideals.

And secondly, there is defintely more things interesting about your life than the comparison between me & Big Boy. Your posts on the relative merits on cooking methods of spuds pays testament to that. And I am sure that there is a lot more than meets the eye than that.

racso1975 · 28-08-2010 04:16AM

I have a photographic memory that caused me untold amounts of trouble as a child/teenager. It really is only recently that i have begun to appreciate it as a gift rather then a god awful curse. I also have 2 children who have really shown me and thought me what unconditional love is!

johnmcdnl · 28-08-2010 04:31AM

I'm a notorious clever ****er basically - too clever for my own good half the time but saying that I just got 460 in the leaving with sweet **** all work at all - has come in handy in one way I suppose but the biggest problem is then that I'm always right which pisses other people off constantly :pac::pac:

like who else knows what the capital of Kyrgyzstan is of the top of their heads

:o

cloneslad · 28-08-2010 05:00AM

I live on an island with 5 months of hot weather and about 4-5 of spring time weather.

I only work 21 hours a week.

My employers pay for my apartment and my flights to and from Ireland.

I get to go to the beach most days before work.

I'm going to give it up to come back home next March.

It's not very unique I suppose as there are a few Irish people here with me, though they tend to work quite a few more hours than me

Davidius · 28-08-2010 06:54AM

My life is very uninteresting. I should probably do something about that.

cuppa · 28-08-2010 07:02AM

bald fat 40.oh wrong forum.back to the brothers for me.

galwayrush · 28-08-2010 07:30AM

I am made from the dust of the stars......................

southsiderosie · 28-08-2010 08:23AM

My paternal grandfather couldn't read, but he was able to raise nine kids on a farm in rural Mississippi during the worst of the Jim Crow years.

My father started working when he was 9 years old, moved up north when he finished secondary school, and spent 30 years in a steel mill so my brothers and I could get the best possible education. When he retired, he had worked so much overtime that technically he had spent 36 years on the clock.

Today I have a degree from one of the world's best universities, and I basically get paid to travel the world and research what interests me. When I graduated, my father cried and said it was the proudest moment of his life.

I know my life is unique in that the statistical likelihood of someone from a working-class family on the south side of Chicago ending up where I am today is incredibly small, but it is a total testament to my parents, and especially my dad.

phasers · 28-08-2010 08:30AM

I have never lost a table quiz, and I've been in a lot of them.

... and that's all I've got.

Whats interesting/ unique about your life?

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