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Whats interesting/ unique about your life?

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  • #62
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    +1000000000000000000000000000 points to Biggins for even mentioning Alf Wight. I grew up on his books and the TV show, I adore them to this day and if I ever randomly decided to have kids, I'd read him to them. They taught me so much about.. just.. goodness, and beauty, and respect in general. Lovely author he is. Wish I could've met him.


  • #63
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    liah wrote: »
    +1000000000000000000000000000 points to Biggins for even mentioning Alf Wight. I grew up on his books and the TV show, I adore them to this day and if I ever randomly decided to have kids, I'd read him to them. They taught me so much about.. just.. goodness, and beauty, and respect in general. Lovely author he is. Wish I could've met him.
    I have read his books so many times - besides the seven original novels he wrote, his books that he put together for children which I found on ebay.
    Such a pleasure to read and keep.

    By all accounts of those that knew him, he was indeed a very humble person and much loved.
    His works will be read for generations to come and be a historic record in their own way of a lifestyle now in the past.
    I too would have loved to meet the man himself. One can keep their kings, queens and megastars, it would have been a higher honour for me, just to shake his hand and say "hello".

    Liah: I have videos and photographic scenery books about the man, where he lived, Thirsk etc, and his life.
    It makes one humble and appreciative of how our current lifestyles are oft times much easier and we not know it.


  • #64
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    I was in the original Woolpack(pub in Emmerdale).
    I've been in every county in Ireland.

    That's all I got.:pac:


  • #65
    Devil08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,659 ✭✭✭Devil08


    baz2009 wrote: »
    I was in the original Woolpack(pub in Emmerdale).
    I've been in every county in Ireland.

    That's all I got.:pac:

    Including Northern Ireland? Or is that even Ireland? Now theres another days debate...


  • #66
    Snowie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,048 ✭✭✭✭Snowie


    I'm Unique... thres only one of me :D

    Interesting how boardy people think there so complex :pac:


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  • #67
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭3hn2givr7mx1sc


    Devil08 wrote: »
    Including Northern Ireland? Or is that even Ireland? Now theres another days debate...

    Yes, including the North.


  • #68
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I'm a dote


  • #69
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    I refuse to drink alcohol just to be different :D


  • #70
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,496 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    liah wrote: »
    +1000000000000000000000000000 points to Biggins for even mentioning Alf Wight. I grew up on his books and the TV show, I adore them to this day and if I ever randomly decided to have kids, I'd read him to them. They taught me so much about.. just.. goodness, and beauty, and respect in general. Lovely author he is. Wish I could've met him.

    Why could biggins not just say 'James Herriot' instead of misspelling his name and telling us to look him up? :confused:


  • #71
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Why could biggins not just say 'James Herriot' instead of misspelling his name and telling us to look him up? :confused:
    'Cos the man deserves to be recognised with his real name and with his real life - credit which is due to him.
    Sorry about any misspelling though. :)


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  • #72
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,354 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Not unique but i have an eidetic memory. Photographic memory in other terms. I also have color synesthesia. I see words and numbers in colors. Everyone in my family has that for some reason. I thought everyone was like that until i was like 16 or something.


  • #73
    Dr. Greenthumb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 319 ✭✭Dr. Greenthumb


    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 :p

    Snap!!

    I live in the middle east where we get 12 months of hot weather 6 months very much so.

    I work 65 - 70 hours a week.

    My employers pay for flights to and from Ireland (don't be taking advantage though!).

    Beach!! Are you mad? I'd burn alive.

    I'm planning to do it for the next 3 - 4 years!! :D

    Plenty of irish and they keep on coming!


  • #74
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    El Horseboxo wrote: »
    I also have color synesthesia. I see words and numbers in colors. Everyone in my family has that for some reason. I thought everyone was like that until i was like 16 or something.

    I always thought everyone did to some extent, but I understand that it is far more extreme in some people.

    Do you see sounds as well?


  • #75
    demonspawn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭demonspawn


    I have two penises (peni?) and I'm quite popular with the ladies. Well, popular with certain types of ladies. ;)

    I also find Biggins wonderfully fascinating and incredibly boring at the same time. Is that even possible? It is for the man with two dicks!


  • #76
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    demonspawn wrote: »

    I also find Biggins wonderfully fascinating and incredibly boring at the same time. Is that even possible? It is for the man with two dicks!

    He's the kind of guy that only people who are like him would find interesting.

    The rest of us see him as the boring know-it-all guy down the pub that no one wants to talk to because he'll start off with his stories again.

    We get it. You went places. Whoop-dee-****.


  • #77
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Biggins wrote: »
    it would have been a higher honour for me, just to shake his hand and say "hello"..

    Rather you than me. It's probably just been up a cow's arse.


  • #78
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    Rather you than me. It's probably just been up a cow's arse.
    :pac:

    True.
    mickydoomsux wrote: »
    He's the kind of guy that only people who are like him would find interesting.

    The rest of us see him as the boring know-it-all guy down the pub that no one wants to talk to because he'll start off with his stories again.

    We get it. You went places. Whoop-dee-****.

    1, So your speaking for everyone are you? O' and you will have a hard time finding me in a pub!
    2, If an OP ponders a question - you might not have to like some replies but there's no call to be insulting!
    3, Start your own alternative subject thread or better still, get over yourself, get out there, live life and seek your own experiences!


  • #79
    demonspawn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭demonspawn


    Biggins wrote: »
    get over yourself

    You did not just say that. Oh wait, yes you did. :rolleyes:


  • #80
    storm2811
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭storm2811


    El Horseboxo wrote: »
    Not unique but i have an eidetic memory. Photographic memory in other terms. I also have color synesthesia. I see words and numbers in colors. Everyone in my family has that for some reason. I thought everyone was like that until i was like 16 or something.

    Wow,that's amazing,must be kind of annoying though or would you be used to it?


  • #81
    filthymcnasty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭filthymcnasty


    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.
    Also you are unique in that you have posted multiple times about your uniqueness.;)


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  • #82
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    filthymcnasty wrote: »
    Also you are unique in that you have posted multiple times about your uniqueness.;)
    No.
    I'm far from unique - just another person.
    I lucky to have had some interesting experiences however.
    We all will have our own experiences - they come with time and age.


  • #83
    pvt6zh395dqbrj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 183 ✭✭pvt6zh395dqbrj


    I have low latent inhibition,

    Basically - when a normal person sees a lamp, they just see the lamp. But I have a condition that means I see all the bits of the lamp and as such have a need to save everyone in my family.

    Its both a burden and a curse.


  • #84
    Robby91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭Robby91


    Is there anything you haven't done Biggins? A pretty cool life you must lead IMO - I feel like a boring eejit by comparison :pac:

    As regards what's interesting/unique about my life... I'll have to get back to ye on that one, it's gonna require a bit of thinking :o


  • #85
    GooseberryLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭GooseberryLady


    Is this a what makes us unique or what have I done compared to everyone else thread?

    Either way-

    I've been to more countries than my years of age, not bad at 20...

    I've watched the sun rise over the Himalayas, and watched them as the clouds parted on a beautiful day.


    I've stood one metre away from a human body being burned


    I've been invited into an indian guru's for tea, and danced and sung with him while speaking very little of his language and vice versa.


    I'm blessed to have friends all over the world and a desire to see as much of this world as possible.

    I've been to one of the seven wonders of the world, and aim to tick off the rest before I'm 30.

    I've jumped down a waterfall 18 metres high


    I'm 40% doctor.


    I'm quite good at sketches,


    And i have a dimple high up on my cheek when i smile too wide, which is quite often...


  • #86
    HeadPig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭HeadPig


    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:


    Are we supposed to be impressed?
    johnmcdnl wrote: »
    like who else knows what the capital of Kyrgyzstan is of the top of their heads :o:o

    Somebody who looked it up to seem clever? Memorizing 1 fact isn't clever.


  • #87
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,354 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    I always thought everyone did to some extent, but I understand that it is far more extreme in some people.

    Do you see sounds as well?

    With music i sometimes see it in colorful waves. But it's not all the time. I also associate certain words with various tastes. It's messed up as banana makes me taste liquorish and for some strange reason tuna gives me a strong sour orange taste. Obviously not when eating them. Just when i think of the words.

    storm2811 wrote: »
    Wow,that's amazing,must be kind of annoying though or would you be used to it?

    Well the color thing has been like that since i was a kid so i just grew up with it. I usually confuse e's with i's because of it though as one is a bright yellow and the other is a bright orange to me. It's strange because i usually recall spelling through images.


  • #88
    Seaneh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    I'm 26 and I have two massive blood clots in my brain...

    Not an everyday thing.


  • #89
    KevinVonSpiel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭KevinVonSpiel


    El Horseboxo wrote: »
    I see words and numbers in colors...I thought everyone was like that until i was like 16 or something.

    Don't you mean: I thought everyone was like that until I was like 16 or purple..?
    Biggins wrote: »
    Age and time catches up with you. :o

    Yeah, the picture of you looks fcked alright. Haw haw.


    My claim to fame is that I am fluent in Linear B.


  • #90
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Oaklynn Straight Candlestick wrote: »
    I have low latent inhibition,

    Basically - when a normal person sees a lamp, they just see the lamp. But I have a condition that means I see all the bits of the lamp and as such have a need to save everyone in my family.

    Its both a burden and a curse.
    That sounds pretty cool though, Weren't you in Prison Break??


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  • #91
    Cheeky monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭Cheeky monkey


    I seem to be slowly turning into a hippie and find a unicycle a viable for of transport


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