Your hero's/idol's

[Rivelution]

Well I'm bored. So I thought I'd make a thread of people you admire.


Well here's mine.


Ayrton Senna



Adam Colton- insane longboarder





Steve McQueen- pure badass



Bruce Lee



Paul Newman



Laird Hamilton- best surfer that ever lived

[Amanda]

I'm struggling to think of any at all but I admire...

Marie Curie


Albert Einstein


Lois Lane (Modern Age) - I don't care if she's fictional


Gosh I'm sad Could my choices be any geekier.

[Rivelution]

Gosh I'm sad Could my choices be any geekier.

lol its ok, everyone is different and I dont see anything wrong with your choices.

[Denthúl]

Linus Torvalds.



Rubens Barrichello (obviously).

And, perhaps the person who I admire the most:



Sir Frank Williams.

[Amanda]

Oh I do love Sir Frank

[Gilles 27]

Laird Hamilton is badass!

Mine:
Gilles Villeneuve
Micheal Schumacher
Jimi Hendrix
Ronaldo Luis Nazzario de Lima (the old fat one, not Christiano)
Noam Chomsky
Bob Dylan
Le Corbusier
Ronnie O'Sullivan

tons of other musicians, architects, artists, politicians, actors, film makers, sportsmen and women too really.

[Gaz]

Sir Jackie.

Senna, and Mika too

[texasmr2]

Gonna throwout so old school photo's of the people who are my hero's and idol's in life.

I will start off with my big brother Brian who alway's has my back, gives me support and is alway's there for me:

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The next person would be my dear mom

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Far left frontrow:

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My dear old dad is next:

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Finally I present my uncle Maurice the sheriff:

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Lastly I cannot leave without mentioning the foundation who made me the person I am today, my grandmother Lillie May Mullins yet I cannot find her pic's .

[EwanM]

Ok here goes...

Let it be known that I don't really have idols or heros, these are only a few off the top of my head that I admire for what they gave us during their time on earth. Or simply because they are funny.

Vaclav havel:


Lech Walesa:


Imre Nagy:


Zordon:


Timon & Pumbaa


Squidward:


Bert Konterman:


Toby Moody & Julian Ryder:


Mikhail Gorbachev:


The Rock:


Alan Henry:


Muzza:


Alex Criville:


Jonathan Watson:


Rocky IV:


George Harrison:


Bruce Springsteen:


Spiderman and Stan Lee:


Aneurin Bevan:


Billy Joel:


Father Ted, Dougal, Jack and Mrs Doyle:


Red Rum:


Bernard Ecclestone:


Jim Clark:


John Cooper:


Colin Chapman (up until the DeLorean debacle):


Sir Frank Williams & Patrick Head:


Action Man:


Jackie Stewart:


Tom Petty:


Jeff Lynne:


Jeremy Beadle:


Sooty:


Max Mosley:


Noel Edmonds and Mr Blobby:


Philip Schofield:


Wolf:


David Hasselhoff:


Daft Punk:


The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:


Airwolf:


Ronald Reagan:


Mickey Mouse:


George Buchanan:


Nigel Roebuck:


The Robot From Lost In Space:


Andrew Carnegie:


Ulysses S. Grant:


sausage Van Dyke:


The Fonz:


John Logie Baird:


John Entwistle:


John Deacon:


Hulk Hogan:


Rupert Murdoch:


The Milk Tray Man:


Sonic the Hedgehog:


Safety car driver who ran over Taki Inoue:


Chris Cornell:


Charlie Sheen:


Free Willy:


AND LAST (For Now...) BUT NOT LEAST

The Cast of Cheers:

[Rivelution]

Wow this is so cool!! Thanks for sharing your family photos tex, I think all of our parents/guardians should be people we admire because they helped make us what we are today, like you said.

And I'm gonna try and wikipedia all the people I dont know about. I just think its so cool seeing who people admire, its like walking into a friends room for a first time.

And gilles, I'm surprised somebody else knows who Laird is!! A lot of people dont know who he is, or 'how badass he is' is what i should be saying.

[EwanM]

Ok I apologise for my outpour of heroes.

[EwanM]

We could be heroes, just for one day...

[Gilles 27]

Wow this is so cool!! Thanks for sharing your family photos tex, I think all of our parents/guardians should be people we admire because they helped make us what we are today, like you said.

And I'm gonna try and wikipedia all the people I dont know about. I just think its so cool seeing who people admire, its like walking into a friends room for a first time.

And gilles, I'm surprised somebody else knows who Laird is!! A lot of people dont know who he is, or 'how badass he is' is what i should be saying.

Oh yeh, and I know that first shot happens to be at Teahupo'o... Seriously, he's immense i guess he's a hero of mine too

[racechick]

I cant get the pictures on ive just tried, so i'll just have to do the names.

Mohammad Ali

Goldie Hawn

Clint Eastwood

Barac Obama

Lewis Hamilton

Ayrton Senna

Michael Jackson

Rudolph Nureyev

Margot Fontaine

Gaudi

Darcy Bussell

Johnny Depp

Must be loads more but I cant think now.

[Amanda]

:hehe: Ok I apologise for my outpour of heroes.

I can't wait to get to page 2, my computer dies when I step in here

Anyone dare quote EwmanM's epic post and I may have to get violent