Have you got a Hero and who is it?

phasers · 28-06-2011 09:59PM

Snyper

The ugly fcuker managed to get a really good looking burd

fedor.2. · 28-06-2011 10:02PM

My mam

starviewadams · 28-06-2011 10:05PM

My Mam,oh and Bryan Danielson.

AckwelFoley · 28-06-2011 10:37PM

phasers wrote: »

Snyper

The ugly fcuker managed to get a really good looking burd

Its not the face.

Its the pants

cesc77 · 28-06-2011 10:45PM

The guy who started a thread a coupla days ago entitled "Define a hero"

You have to love original thoughts.......you thievin,bandwagoninn git :rolleyes:

Son Of A Vidic · 28-06-2011 10:51PM

BlueBaron wrote: »

Larry Murphy

Oh look it's you.

eco2live · 28-06-2011 10:52PM

cesc77 wrote: »

Of course you can admire such people who do extreme things,leaving their family in limbo whilst they deal with their issues with the world.

Do you aspire to the life that he led in the wild?

Was the man in the film not slightly disturbed?Were his actions reasonable and rational?Did he think of his loved ones more than he thought of his alienation from civilisation?

Parts of what he decided to do were interesting but he was clearly an intelligent man with issues who had a meltdown of sorts.

I don't think it was a meltdown. His rejection of materialism and society and how unimportant all that stuff really is was wise beyond his years. Some people go through a whole lifetime thinking that career and money are the most important thing in life. Nobody writes Sales Manager or Accountant on their tombstone.

Yes he took things to an extreme from an isolation perspective but in the end he did realize that life is best shared and that was the sad part. His journey was as important in his story as how it ended. Some people just don't fit the mold of what modern society expect us to be.

I have a family that I love and their happiness is the most important thing to me but I do understand where he was coming from and admire his spirit.

MidnightQueen · 28-06-2011 10:53PM

Bosco.

The people i love.

AckwelFoley · 28-06-2011 10:58PM

cesc77 wrote: »

The guy who started a thread a coupla days ago entitled "Define a hero"

You have to love original thoughts.......you thievin,bandwagoninn git :rolleyes:

People dont read every thread that was published in AH.

Its not the first "hero" type thread, wont be the last.

cesc77 · 28-06-2011 11:06PM

eco2live wrote: »

I don't think it was a meltdown. His rejection of materialism and society and how unimportant all that stuff really is was wise beyond his years. Some people go through a whole lifetime thinking that career and money are the most important thing in life. Nobody writes Sales Manager or Accountant on their tombstone.

Yes he took things to an extreme from an isolation perspective but in the end he did realize that life is best shared and that was the sad part. His journey was as important in his story as how it ended. Some people just don't fit the mold of what modern society expect us to be.

I have a family that I love and their happiness is the most important thing to me but I do understand where he was coming from and admire his spirit.

I actually agree with 80ish% of what you say but when you see the kid unprepared and freezing in the wilderness,does it not cause you to be sad that he has chosen to isolate himself in such a manner?(even if he feels that he is released)

ballsymchugh · 28-06-2011 11:07PM

bret the hitman hart.

how anyone could come back in a fight against razor ramone, after the beating he'd been taking for the first 90% of the fight and win is beyond me.
the ref was lifting his hand and it kept falling from lack of energy. on the third and final go, he just managed to stop it hitting the canvas and got up and beat razor ramone.

met him at electric picnic a few years ago too. complete sound head.

cesc77 · 28-06-2011 11:14PM

snyper wrote: »

People dont read every thread that was published in AH.

Its not the first "hero" type thread, wont be the last.

The point was that my thread more than likely inspired this wonderful spinoff.Im discussing with the OP their point at the moment yet just thought I would throw in a light hearted thievery comment.

cesc77 · 28-06-2011 11:17PM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

bret the hitman hart.

how anyone could come back in a fight against razor ramone, after the beating he'd been taking for the first 90% of the fight and win is beyond me.
the ref was lifting his hand and it kept falling from lack of energy. on the third and final go, he just managed to stop it hitting the canvas and got up and beat razor ramone.

met him at electric picnic a few years ago too. complete sound head.

Brilliant.:)

I hope his make-up wasnt too smudged in this murderous smackdown.

KeithM89_old · 28-06-2011 11:20PM

Hiro from Heroes is my hero.

Phill Ewinn · 28-06-2011 11:21PM

Ron Jeremy. The man who found out the difference between marmalade and jam after years of vigorous experimentation

Wolfe Tone · 28-06-2011 11:29PM

Bobby Sands and Francis Hughes would be the two of the main ones for me

cesc77 · 28-06-2011 11:39PM

Wolfe Tone wrote: »

Bobby Sands and Francis Hughes would be the two of the main ones for me

Quite consistant arent you?

I would have thought that Mr Tayto would be your hero as he is the only person in Ireland who could accommodate you with the quite considerable chip on your shoulder.

Im from the North and can see the merits in Michael Collins being mentioned in this vein.Try thinking outside the box lad and dont let it eat you up so much.

Wolfe Tone · 28-06-2011 11:49PM

cesc77 wrote: »

Quite consistant arent you?

I would have thought that Mr Tayto would be your hero as he is the only person in Ireland who could accommodate you with the quite considerable chip on your shoulder.

Im from the North and can see the merits in Michael Collins being mentioned in this vein.Try thinking outside the box lad and dont let it eat you up so much.

The thread is about who your heroes are, they are two of mine, I doubt I'm the only person who would look up to them. I'm sure you can see why. I don't see why I should be attacked over my choice or have to defend it.

Cheers for the concern, but I don't have any chip on my shoulder, and I don't let anything eat me up.

Mr Taytos book was sh!te too, he came across as a right dick lol

cocoshovel · 29-06-2011 12:11AM

I don't like using the term "hero" but there are people I look up to greatly and admire.

Some of these people are

Wu'erkaixi and all the other student leaders, and students/protestors who took part in 1989 and to a small extent the first load of troops that left the square without conflict.

and

Bruce Dickinson. Iron Maiden and aviation. I can't think of a better combination :cool:

Wolfe Tone · 29-06-2011 12:21AM

Bruce Dickinson. Iron Maiden and aviation. I can't think of a better combination

Add in him being a very talented swordsman

AskMyChocolate · 29-06-2011 12:22AM

James Connolly (and family).

Author, father, humanist, socialist, feminist, trade unionist, republican, soldier and patriot.

When his wife Lillie was allowed in to see him, just before his execution, "Shur we had a good run,and a good life. Aah, please don't cry Lillie. You'll unman me."

"I'd go through hell for that man" - Michael Collins.

A brave selfless man. A true lover of the poor, and genuine trade unionist and defender of workers' rights.

When one sees the likes of Begg and O'Connor (don't even get me started on Quinn,Rabbitte,Gilmore and Aherne) trading under his name, and defiling his memory and his legacy, it is enough to make one physically sick.

As for Joe Duffy, a "public servant", earning twenty times the median wage, doing the programme on him being Ireland's greatest.

Makes me so angry. Shame on RTE.:mad:

I think it's a measure of the man, that even The Wolfe Tones' (rabid IRA rabble rousers) ballad about him, is written from the position of an underpaid British army private, disgusted with what he has to do.

It would be nice if someone knows how to link things, because the whole poem is worth reading.... but,

"They weighed so lightly what they gave, but let them be, they're dead and gone, they're with O'Leary in the grave"