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Who are your Role Models?

  • 19-02-2013 07:35PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Rezident


    I'm filling out a serious questionnaire and I have to put down my "major role models" but I'm drawing a bit of a blank. So far I've put down Roy Keane but I'm not even sure about that after all the troubles.

    Have I just not had any role models for the last thirty years or so? Does everyone else have role models? If so, who are they?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    Warren Buffett


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Batman


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,379 ✭✭✭hefferboi


    *Jimmy Saville Joke*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    I haven't had any role models since I discovered that the Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles aren't real and I couldn't grow up and join them in fighting crime :( Decided after that major disappointment not to idolise other people/characters and get on with living my life on my own terms.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Mr.Tayto

    Sound guy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Pilotdude5


    Al Bundy


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 862 ✭✭✭Grand Moff Tarkin


    JR Ewing
    Darth Vader
    Kerr Avon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    I'd probably say George Orwell, not only because I think he was a great writer and because I agree with most of his views, but because those views came from genuine compassion for people.
    He was also quite brave in being an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union when it was very unpopular to do so.

    Wayne Rooney and Nani too, for similar reasons.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles




    This chap, Got me into this kinda thing a few years back, been doing it ever since


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    I'd probably say George Orwell, not only because I think he was a great writer and because I agree with most of his views, but because those views came from genuine compassion for people.
    He was also quite brave in being an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union when it was very unpopular to do so.

    Wayne Rooney and Nani too, for similar reasons.

    What did Wayne Rooney and Nani write, and what did they have to say about the Soviet Union?:confused:


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  • Posts: 5,334 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tyrion Lannister


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 901 ✭✭✭Vicar in a tutu


    Tupac


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    Kermit the frog, the stuff he had to suffer at the trotters of miss piggy was nothing less than heroic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    What did Wayne Rooney and Nani write, and what did they have to say about the Soviet Union?:confused:

    Rooney had some fascinating insights into the Bolshevik/Menshevik split in Inside United, issue 346 (free double-sided Nemanja Vidic/Anderson poster), and Nani's lifesize marble statue of himself, though often held up as a sign of the rampant egomania of the modern footballer, is actually a though-provoking meditation on the rise of Stalin's Cult of Personality as reflected in Soviet propaganda art.

    Just lolling: I thought the contrast between Eric and these two troglodytes was wide enough that I clearly couldn't begin to contemplate idolising them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    Rooney had some fascinating insights into the Bolshevik/Menshevik split in Inside United, issue 346 (free double-sided Nemanja Vidic/Anderson poster), and Nani's lifesize marble statue of himself, though often held up as a sign of the rampant egomania of the modern footballer, is actually a though-provoking meditation on the rise of Stalin's Cult of Personality as reflected in Soviet propaganda art.

    Just lolling: I thought the contrast between Eric and these two troglodytes was wide enough that I clearly couldn't begin to contemplate idolising them.

    Oh you scallywag!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Rezident




    This chap, Got me into this kinda thing a few years back, been doing it ever since

    That is deadly!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    When I was young mine were Charlie Sheen, Chevy Chase, and David Icke.

    It's quite surprising I've turned out as well as I have.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,605 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Rezident wrote: »
    That is deadly!


    I do that for fun haha it's great craic!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    I know this isn't in the spirit of the thread, but all the people I really admire and aspire to be like are people in my life: family, friends and even people I speak to online.

    That being said I have a lot of respect for JK Rowling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Rezident


    I do that for fun haha it's great craic!

    Looks class, do you need impact shorts?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    Jesus, Mohammed, Budha, Hindu god with all the arms and Enda Kenny.

    WINNING!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    Jerry


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Its people like Steve McDonald that keep me going


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Spartacus


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Cheese and ham.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭woof im a dog


    christopher walken


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,089 ✭✭✭keelanj69


    That guy who won xfactor this year. Such a brave little soldier!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Justin Bieber


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    When it comes to musical role models it would definitely have to be Hendrix , slash and tommy Emmanuel . I really look up to their style and feel inspired to play.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 248 ✭✭GoldenLight


    Glen Campbell this week, next week who knows, might even be a poster on boards.ie or someone who was encharge of sewerage (next week I'm thinking (tyrion Lanncester) in games of thrones, last week it was M Smith a friend of mine, who looks at life and no matter how hard it is, still gets excited) , I have no idea where my emotions come from that I think he/she is so cool. It's always a surprising development to me.

    God I love meeting new heros and heroines. (cause most people are when you meet them) yeah I love people :)


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