Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:23 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

This could be a bloody long list! I exclude any historical figures. Just ones I cam across one way or another in my lifetime.

Neil Armstrong would certainly have to be on my personal heroes list, I take the point that all the Apollo crews were objectively pretty much equally heroic but if the point of the thread is who became - for whatever reason - heroes to me then Armstrong it is. What he achieved made a great impression on me, and started off a lifelong interest in astronomy. But I well remember Collins, I remember as a kid thinking what it must be like, so near and yet so far.

Woody Allen. I really get his humour and his take on life.

Jimmy Thompson, Keith Mumby and and Karl Fairbank. When I was a kid watching the Northern, I was just in awe of them. Trevor Foster.

Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. They redefined music completely for me, made me realise that they could write and sing about anything, and in a way that resonated.

David Attenborough. Just inspirational.

Coe, Ovett and Cram. Could never wait for the next instalment.

Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton and Pelé. The epitome of sportsmen. Probably throw in George Best too.

Freddie Trueman, Geoff Boycott and Brian Close. Bishan Bedi and Muralitharan, Merv Hughes and Dennis Lillee, Viv Richards, Clive LLoyd, Michael Holding. Cricket as she should be played.

Great thread this. I could go on for yonks.

Worthy, just for that top lip.

Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:24 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

:lol:
He'll soon get hung,drawn and quartered by many of our lot if he isn't doing the business this time next year.

not the hero or saviour you thought he would be then WZ ?

who are those people under the tree BTW FFS ?

it's not the London Broncos fan club holding their AGM is it ?

Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:33 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

not the hero or saviour you thought he would be then WZ ?

who are those people under the tree BTW FFS ?

it's not the London Broncos fan club holding their AGM is it ?

a) Patience and he could take us back to where we belong.

b) Agricultural labourers from Tolpuddle.

c) Too many in attendance for a Broncos AGM.

Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:47 pm  

Freddie Mercury.

Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:56 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

a) Patience and he could take us back to where we belong.

b) Agricultural labourers from Tolpuddle.

c) Too many in attendance for a Broncos AGM.

a) dream on

b) transported to Oz and sent back to play RL in the SL

c) agreed

wouldn't the lot from Peterloo be classed as 'heroes' for fighting for the rights of man ? just as much as that lot in Dorset did ?

and how about people like William Wilberforce and John Howard and others who did so much for social reform ? surely they would be classed as real 'heroes' ?

Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:12 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

a) dream on

b) transported to Oz and sent back to play RL in the SL

c) agreed

wouldn't the lot from Peterloo be classed as 'heroes' for fighting for the rights of man ? just as much as that lot in Dorset did ?

and how about people like William Wilberforce and John Howard and others who did so much for social reform ? surely they would be classed as real 'heroes' ?

We'll induct him seeing as he was born in Hull.

Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:37 pm  

This will probably earn me some flak, but my ultimate hero is Jesus Christ.

He came to Earth, lived a sinless life and taught us invaluable moral lessons.

But most importantly he was responsible for the most heroic gesture one could imagine – he laid down his own life so that we might live. He was lashed, beaten and humiliated. He was made to carry the instrument of his death through the streets of Jerusalem whilst men and women spat horrendous abuse at him. He was then nailed to a cross and taunted by his tormentors. He suffered in this fashion for several hours before eventually succumbing to death.

And what did he say whilst he was being murdered? “Father, forgive them”.

Jesus may not have played the guitar well, acted in a few good films or have flown into space. But he had more courage than the rest of this sorry list of suggestions put together.

Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:50 pm  

kirkstaller wrote:

This will probably earn me some flak, but my ultimate hero is Jesus Christ.

He came to Earth, lived a sinless life and taught us invaluable moral lessons.

But most importantly he was responsible for the most heroic gesture one could imagine – he laid down his own life so that we might live. He was lashed, beaten and humiliated. He was made to carry the instrument of his death through the streets of Jerusalem whilst men and women spat horrendous abuse at him. He was then nailed to a cross and taunted by his tormentors. He suffered in this fashion for several hours before eventually succumbing to death.

And what did he say whilst he was being murdered? “Father, forgive them”.

Jesus may not have played the guitar well, acted in a few good films or have flown into space. But he had more courage than the rest of this sorry list of suggestions put together.

Judas Iscariot wasn't a bad old stick, agree?

Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:08 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

blimey JC, that's an heroic story but what a choice to have to make ?

...and the thing is he was just "ordinary", he wasn't a big tough lad, quite the opposite really but what was important to him in those last few weeks was taking a trip into the dales to have dinner in a pub with his wife, having just two more nights out with us, going to Elland Rd one more time, and he couldn't have enjoyed any of that being filled full of chemicals in the hope that it would buy him one more week of being filled full of chemicals and feeling like crap.

As someone else has mentioned you can find that sort of heroism in many people with terminal diagnosis, I know my own mother wouldn't ever talk about the cancer that eventually killed her, didn't let it stop her doing anything until the very last week, you often wonder how you would cope but it would appear that its a common thread through many lives.

Re: We Can Be Heroes, Just For One Day : Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:14 pm  

kirkstaller wrote:

This will probably earn me some flak, but my ultimate hero is Jesus Christ.

He came to Earth, lived a sinless life and taught us invaluable moral lessons.

But most importantly he was responsible for the most heroic gesture one could imagine – he laid down his own life so that we might live. He was lashed, beaten and humiliated. He was made to carry the instrument of his death through the streets of Jerusalem whilst men and women spat horrendous abuse at him. He was then nailed to a cross and taunted by his tormentors. He suffered in this fashion for several hours before eventually succumbing to death.

And what did he say whilst he was being murdered? “Father, forgive them”.

Jesus may not have played the guitar well, acted in a few good films or have flown into space. But he had more courage than the rest of this sorry list of suggestions put together.

I like to be lashed, beaten and humiliated - but I pay for that.