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Who's your hero?

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#52 19-12-2007 12:32am

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seamie o mahoney, the hero's hero

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#53 19-12-2007 12:38am

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Ehm... for a long time I said Mick Foley, cause he ended up being at the top of something he always loved and respected, but other than that hard to say. Other than the parents, raising two of us through some rotten hard times, as well as the bro having learning difficulities and epilepsy. Nothing worth doing is easy they say sure.

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#54 19-12-2007 12:53am

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Noel Gallagher

Roy Keane

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#55 19-12-2007 1:03am

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I'm on boards just over a year but this thread has been done to death

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#56 19-12-2007 1:04am

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I can't BELIEVE I forgot Bertie Aherne. I ain't kidding either.

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#57 19-12-2007 1:07am

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Oh btw Roy Keane is a traitorous cúnt.

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#58 19-12-2007 1:19am

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Bas Rutten and Jacob in the Old Testament

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#59 19-12-2007 1:32am

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Pigman II wrote: »

Oh btw Roy Keane is a traitorous cúnt.

Sure is, who the hell does he think he is...hmmm, with his stable marriage, 5 kids, donations to charity and consistently having the balls to say what everyone is thinking when no one else will..

Get a fcukin grip man

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#60 19-12-2007 1:42am

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my idol, Cristiano Ronaldo

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#61 19-12-2007 1:44am

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obl obviously. He done deleted his there bebo.

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#62 19-12-2007 1:49am

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Buzz Killington.

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#63 19-12-2007 2:08am

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Dr. House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsK7Jt-xma4

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#64 19-12-2007 2:14am

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leninbenjamin wrote: »

Karl Hungus

Want to join the fan club? You can even get a badge!

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#65 19-12-2007 2:29am

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Karl Hungus wrote: »

Want to join the fan club? You can even get a badge!

oooh oooh! where do i sign? gimme gimme gimme! NAO!

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#66 19-12-2007 2:29am

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eddie moroney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nywe3GBM5Y

i think he passed away last year tho

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#67 19-12-2007 2:38am

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leninbenjamin wrote: »

oooh oooh! where do i sign? gimme gimme gimme! NAO!

Sure, click here.

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#68 19-12-2007 2:42am

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Karl Hungus wrote: »

Sure, click here.

i see no badges though

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#69 19-12-2007 4:57am

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So far, the posts about "yore ma" are the most interesting (to me), because they give a solid reason why the poster's mother is heroic - and the one about Meave.

There's a writer's exercise where you take your hero and work out why he or she is heroic, and then apply the hero's characteristics to your protagonist.

If you were choosing qualities from your heroes, which qualities do you think make them heroic?

(The post denouncing Roy Keane is interesting: he's seen as a villain because of his treachery. I didn't know he was ever considered traitorous...? Nice villain quality, that.)

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#70 19-12-2007 5:16am

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"If you were choosing qualities from your heroes, which qualities do you think make them heroic?"
Heroism?

For my hero, I pick Pighead

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#71 19-12-2007 5:20am

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On a serious note (if this thread still is!) my hero is my nan. Died Dec 10th 2001, RIP i love you and if i could be 10% the person you were i'll be doing fine.

Otherwise, it is Aung San Suu Kyi.

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#72 19-12-2007 5:24am

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tallaght01 wrote: »

Many of the real heros can't be named by the general public.

All the people working to try and free some of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world for example, or those trying to put the pieces back together after the genocide in Rwanda or the civil war in the Congo.

People delivering aid to war zones in Darfur.

yeah but what did they ever do for me.

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#73 19-12-2007 5:30am

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Fremen wrote: »

"If you were choosing qualities from your heroes, which qualities do you think make them heroic?"
Heroism?

Define?

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#74 19-12-2007 7:05am

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Louis Walsh

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#75 19-12-2007 8:47am

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Nikola Tesla for the win

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Tesla

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#76 19-12-2007 10:09am

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Well after the news this morning Casey Aldridge.

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#77 19-12-2007 10:20am

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The Latvian with the big tits down in Spar- replaced my rasher when I dropped it this morning.

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#78 19-12-2007 10:23am

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Chuck Norris / David Hasselhoff

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#79 19-12-2007 11:56am

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"Tank Man" of Tiananmen Square

and my parents, who did so much with so little resources.

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#80 19-12-2007 12:53pm

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Dermot Morgan

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#81 19-12-2007 12:57pm

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Leslie Nelson

''Like a migit in a urinal, I had to keep on my toes''

Brilliant!

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#82 19-12-2007 3:43pm

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Karl Hungus wrote: »

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Karl Hungus (hhhmmm...free badges:D) and Eric Cantona...legends.

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#83 19-12-2007 3:44pm

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Cecilia Ahern. How you can be so talentless and have films made of your tripe and be so popular is something to aspire to.

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