Whats interesting/ unique about your life?

Claasman · 28-08-2010 08:54AM

phasers wrote: »

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

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

if thats true, its fairly spectacular...

Sofiztikated · 28-08-2010 10:02AM

johnmcdnl wrote: »

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

Don't forget humbleness. Sounds more like you can remember ****, rather than being clever. For example, I know that 1 Billion seconds is equal to 36 years, 3 months, 1 week and a day. Approx. Doesn't make me clever. (I am though :pac:)

cloneslad wrote: »

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

You're leaving what sounds like paradise to return to Clones? Something else unique about you. You make foolish decisions. :P

Let me see, whats unique about me?

I have a condition that affects 1 in 50,000 live births. A ratio of 2:1 Male to female.

I'm special. Reasonably special. Maths puts it at 120 cases in Ireland, but in reality, there's closer to 200. I was one of the first success operations in Ireland to correct the condition, I was 16, the operation is now done at about 2 years now.

mickos · 28-08-2010 10:20AM

phasers wrote: »

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

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

You've never come up against me in a table quiz though phasers;)

On topic

I put much more effort into any voluntary work I do than any paid job I've ever had. Which is probably why I'll never be rich.

napapa · 28-08-2010 10:40AM

Few years back I experienced the through power of chemistry...one could say 'the mind altering sort'! I was working late in the lab one night when suddenly white light engulfed the whole room and I found myself not where I was previously standing. I was awoken by a Korean bloke, he was speaking but I could not hear a damn thing only this 'ringing sound'. He kept pointing at my arm, took a while for me to realise that there was a shard of glass about 7 inches long protruding from my arm. Instinctively, I pulled it out and with it came the copious amounts of blood. Lights out again, woke up in hospital....etc

That was my enlightenment...lucky enough to have my two eyes...been working in laboratory research ever since with a true respect for the unknown.
My 2cents

Biggins · 28-08-2010 10:59AM

I've had the pleasure of walking in the footsteps of Alf Wright (look him up, you will know him by another name) and seen some of the beautiful land he loved daily and worked on.
A man by all accounts it would have been a pleasure and honour to meet.
(read two autobiographies of him, his sons and a friend of his version)

I've lived and visited the areas where they make "Last of the Summer Wine" (After 37 years, the last episode is on tomorrow night).

I've been on the set of Coronation Street as well as where they made the ITV series "Sherlock Holmes".

I've had chats, drinks and become with friends with cast from shows like Buffy, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Star Wars, Star Trek, the Terminator films, Leverage, to name a few. The wife and I have even swapped baby tips with some female stars.

Many, many years ago, I was scared schiteless by being at the top (with my father who brought me up) of a massive chimney stack in Platin cement factory in Co Louth. The height alone scared the crap out of me, never mind the swaying of the stack.

I've met the most brainiest sods in the country and some of the most stupid - and ironically, some of the most stupid ones were in higher places of authority.

I've jumped out of perfectly good working planes. Nuts!

I once caught a rare African variant of a bone infection (Osteomyelitis) that meant I spent a total of nine months between 2 hospitals and then after that ended up being packed off to Lourdes, France - where part of that trip was up the previous said mountains.

Been hit by a motorbike (and sent flying over a hedge), been in a car crash, plane crash, bus accident, blown off my feet by the outgoing air shock-blast of the Manchester bomb many years ago.

I've met people that have never seen in their long lives, a cow/sheep/goat, etc (living in huge cities) or never seen an ocean in real life or walked on a beach getting sand between their toes (middle America). That to me is mad but they just accept it.

Been married twice and now have four very good behaved children. Yes, I'm blessed, lucky and even if there is a "god" - I'm damn grateful to him/her/it.

Swampy · 28-08-2010 11:18AM

I've thrown a hand grenade.

storm2811 · 28-08-2010 12:11PM

Come on Biggins you already had your turn,you're making us all look bad now.:pac:

Biggins · 28-08-2010 12:14PM

storm2811 wrote: »

Come on Biggins you already had your turn,you're making us all look bad now.:pac:

Naa, just been around the block a bit more with age.
Ye all will get there - but don't rush it.

Dudess · 28-08-2010 12:16PM

Jaysus, no doubt about it: a noble spirit emBiggins the smallest man! :pac:

uwala · 28-08-2010 12:56PM

Showing off again Biggins, eh? Tell me did you go to Lourdes on a religious pilgrimage to "cure" yourself?

btw, whatever you've done, I've done it all, and more. There, beat that.

Biggins · 28-08-2010 01:12PM

Dudess wrote: »

Jaysus, no doubt about it: a noble spirit emBiggins the smallest man! :pac:

Spirit?
Not dead yet - I still have more annoying of the suffering wife to do!

uwala wrote: »

Showing off again Biggins, eh? Tell me did you go to Lourdes on a religious pilgrimage to "cure" yourself?

btw, whatever you've done, I've done it all, and more. There, beat that.

I hope you do or have, and I hope you have had a ball while doing it.

A pub that my father used to drink in most of his life, its customers joined together with the owner (the bar was known then as "Josie Flannigans" - oldies from the Louth region might recognise the name) and donated money to send the dad and myself to Lourdes.
Something must have worked - I'm still around to pester the wife and kids!

Devil08 · 28-08-2010 01:29PM

I like Lamp

johnmcdnl · 28-08-2010 01:51PM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Don't forget humbleness. Sounds more like you can remember ****, rather than being clever. For example, I know that 1 Billion seconds is equal to 36 years, 3 months, 1 week and a day. Approx. Doesn't make me clever. (I am though :pac:)

I amn't very humble no am I :P :P - but Back in primary school doing the drumcondra and sigma T tests and all those yoke I got in the 99 percentile every single time in every single one and we did them every year so :cool:

laziness is the bane of my life - but just having a middlen clever mind lets say and being damn good at remembering a hell of a lot is what makes me special in my own little way

Creamsoda · 28-08-2010 01:52PM

Sofiztikated wrote: »

Sounds more like you can remember ****, rather than being clever. For example, I know that 1 Billion seconds is equal to 36 years, 3 months, 1 week and a day. Approx. Doesn't make me clever. (I am though :pac:)

Actually its 31 years 251 days approx.

Smeggy · 28-08-2010 01:53PM

I live in a pineapple under the sea.

steddyeddy · 28-08-2010 01:58PM

johnmcdnl wrote: »

I amn't very humble no am I :P :P - but Back in primary school doing the drumcondra and sigma T tests and all those yoke I got in the 99 percentile every single time in every single one and we did them every year so :cool:

laziness is the bane of my life - but just having a middlen clever mind lets say and being damn good at remembering a hell of a lot is what makes me special in my own little way

then maybe its not laziness, it could be lack of challenge? There would be no point in getting motivated about something you already mastered.

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:01PM

Devil08 wrote: »

I like Lamp

Devil08 · 28-08-2010 02:06PM

you havnt seen the film I guess...

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:07PM

Devil08 wrote: »

you havnt seen the film I guess...

So its a film - no, to my shame I've not seen it.

phasers · 28-08-2010 02:08PM

No shame necessary Biggins, Anchorman is crap anyway

Devil08 · 28-08-2010 02:10PM

phasers wrote: »

No shame necessary Biggins, Anchorman is crap anyway

Its about as intellictual as this thread....

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:10PM

phasers wrote: »

...Anchorman is crap anyway

LoL Cheers.
With a name of a character like that, it sounds like an Oscar winner. :pac:

Aidric · 28-08-2010 02:14PM

Biggins wrote: »

I've had the pleasure of walking in the footsteps of Alf Wright (look him up, you will know him by another name) and seen some of the beautiful land he loved daily and worked on.
A man by all accounts it would have been a pleasure and honour to meet.
(read two autobiographies of him, his sons and a friend of his version)

I've lived and visited the areas where they make "Last of the Summer Wine" (After 37 years, the last episode is on tomorrow night).

I've been on the set of Coronation Street as well as where they made the ITV series "Sherlock Holmes".

I've had chats, drinks and become with friends with cast from shows like Buffy, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Star Wars, Star Trek, the Terminator films, Leverage, to name a few. The wife and I have even swapped baby tips with some female stars.

Many, many years ago, I was scared schiteless by being at the top (with my father who brought me up) of a massive chimney stack in Platin cement factory in Co Louth. The height alone scared the crap out of me, never mind the swaying of the stack.

I've met the most brainiest sods in the country and some of the most stupid - and ironically, some of the most stupid ones were in higher places of authority.

I've jumped out of perfectly good working planes. Nuts!

I once caught a rare African variant of a bone infection (Osteomyelitis) that meant I spent a total of nine months between 2 hospitals and then after that ended up being packed off to Lourdes, France - where part of that trip was up the previous said mountains.

Been hit by a motorbike (and sent flying over a hedge), been in a car crash, plane crash, bus accident, blown off my feet by the outgoing air shock-blast of the Manchester bomb many years ago.

I've met people that have never seen in their long lives, a cow/sheep/goat, etc (living in huge cities) or never seen an ocean in real life or walked on a beach getting sand between their toes (middle America). That to me is mad but they just accept it.

Been married twice and now have four very good behaved children. Yes, I'm blessed, lucky and even if there is a "god" - I'm damn grateful to him/her/it.

Did you say your name was Walter Mitty?

storm2811 · 28-08-2010 02:15PM

Biggins wrote: »

LoL Cheers.
With a name of a character like that, it sounds like an Oscar winner. :pac:

No no,no ones called lamp.:pac:
You have to see it I suppose,or just do a youtube search.

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:23PM

Aidric wrote: »

Did you say your name was Walter Mitty?

I've been 100% honest. You don't have to insinuate that I'm lying - I'm not.
If there is a problem with stuff that I've been lucky to do or been around - get off the boards and go do some of it too!

You will enjoy it too I hope.

mickydoomsux · 28-08-2010 02:26PM

I'm actually dead.

Gummy Panda · 28-08-2010 02:31PM

I CAN COUNT TO POTATO!

Cheap Thrills! · 28-08-2010 02:31PM

Oi !!!! Biggins is the RL Hannibal Smith you know !!!! :pac:

Biggins · 28-08-2010 02:33PM

Cheap Thrills! wrote: »

Oi !!!! Biggins is the RL Hannibal Smith you know !!!! :pac:

I love a good steak. :cool:
A nice piece of meat medium done, covered with chasure sauce.

Thuck_Fat · 28-08-2010 02:41PM

I guess I have a unique perspective on life. I live it just like everyone else, but with a daily realisation that I am a spectator in civilizations' final chapter. It makes me care less about what most people consider to be 'important'.

Whats interesting/ unique about your life?

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