Your heroes

[thommo16]

My heroes are Jason Dunstall and Ted Whitten Snr.

Never saw Teddy play, just admired his courage in his final years

 

[Mooster7]

Originally posted by JUBJUB
Eddie The Eagle

Dude! There's two of us! Now we can have a fan club.

Aside from Eddie,

Thomas Jefferson
Ghengis Khan
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Alexander
Hannibal Barcca
Scipio Africanus
George S. Patton Jr.
Erwin Rommel
Len Dawson KC Chiefs Legend

Current Folks:

A. Kellaway
M. Richardson
Tony Gonzales KC Chiefs future legend

 

[SeinDude]

Originally posted by Pornstar
You remind me a bit of Ned Flanders.

Oakilly doakilly!!

Cheers!!
SeinDude

 

[Grimace]

Originally posted by Rocco Jones

Timmy (Passions)

 

[jefffff34]

Originally posted by Red & Black
i'm disappointed in your list, very disappointed. ever looked outside the square?

Well if you have a look at my bedroom wall i have posters of sports people, therefore heroes.

BUT...if you wanna delve further...........
*Kofi Annan
*Nelson Mandela
*Gough Whitlam
*Eddie McGuire
*Every single soldier that has fought for Australia in any war
*The Gilhooley family

HAPPY?????!!!!!

 

[Bloodstained Angel]

Ludvig van Beethoven
Vincent van Gogh
Henri Matisse
Johann Sebastian Bach
Giotto
Jackson Pollack
Bela Bartok
Mark Rothko
Vaughn Williams

 

[Hardball]

My Hero is Greg Norman.

 

[BomberGal]

James Hird all the way. To come back after what he has been through is definitely my inspiration!! And the way he lead us in 2000...well, yeah...couldn't go past him!

 

[lioness]

Carl Wilson.

Just the way he lived in the shadow of his brother so damn gracefully, that voice, just all the sophistication and charm he possessed, all that talent that he so humbly underrated. On stage and off, a true gentleman. Lost his battle with cancer, but fought hard, and without a single complaint.

Still sadly missed.

 

[gbear]

Humphrey.B.Bear, because he has remained the same age for the last thirty-five or so years!

 

[rayven]

Lance Amstrong. Pound for pound the greatest sportsman in the world.

No person has recovered from cancer like Lance.

James Hird all the way. To come back after what he has been through is definitely my inspiration!! And the way he lead us in 2000...well, yeah...couldn't go past him!

A wise Persian lady once said that the moon will never stay behind the clouds at all times.

I once looked up to Nelson Mandela. I still admire him and his leadership skills. However the ANC came over to Australia and stirred up the indigenous activists here to further their(ANC) plight against the British commonwealth who had so much to do with the flourishing apartheid. When the ANC got what they wanted they abandoned us. Mandela was the president when this all eventually played out,in effect they did what they so despised.Manipulating the unfortunate for their own political gain.

Something few will remember this hero for.

 

[Catfish Alley]

My uncle. Seemed like he was a great guy but he died when I was 2. He was on vacation and helped a couple of girls in a rip. They injured him a bit in the panic and he got taken out to sea. He managed to get the girls across a bit though and they survived.

Also, my grandparents who went through a lot in World War II and then risked it all to start a new life in Australia.

As for a celebrity, I recently learnt a lot more about the life of Jimmy Stewart. There was a lot to admire.

 

[Gough]

Kris Kristofferson, singer, songwriter, activist, Rhodes Scholar, Green Beret, actor, a true renaissance man.
Madiba, I'm not sure I'm ready to let him go, he means so much to me, but I'm being selfish.
Harvey Milk, he's one of the people who helped ensure I amongst many don't need to live a lie.
Rosa Parks, one small act of civil disobedience can have such great consequences.

Aung San Suu Kyi, a woman who held herself with such dignity for so long.
Jerry Garcia, for his music and his ideology
Cheeky Watson, for choosing his country as opposed to representing his country, a true sporting hero and an amazing tale.
Whitlam, he changed Australia for the better.

 

[rayven]

Kris Kristofferson, singer, songwriter, activist, Rhodes Scholar, Green Beret, actor, a true renaissance man.

I have had lustfull wants towards Bobby mcgee for years. Only this morning did I find another tangent to that remarkable piece of poetry.

 

[True__Believer]

A wise Persian lady once said that the moon will never stay behind the clouds at all times.

I once looked up to Nelson Mandela. I still admire him and his leadership skills. However the ANC came over to Australia and stirred up the indigenous activists here to further their(ANC) plight against the British commonwealth who had so much to do with the flourishing apartheid. When the ANC got what they wanted they abandoned us. Mandela was the president when this all eventually played out,in effect they did what they so despised.Manipulating the unfortunate for their own political gain.

Something few will remember this hero for.

Agreed. Nelson Mandela will die soon and will be looked at as a hero. However people might forget the things that he as a person of influence did whilst in the ANC during the early years. Have a look back at the atrocities committed against the 'lesser' African races, and you will see discrimination was not only exclusive to the white people in the southern parts of Africa.

 

[Gough]

Agreed. Nelson Mandela will die soon and will be looked at as a hero. However people might forget the things that he as a person of influence did whilst in the ANC during the early years. Have a look back at the atrocities committed against the 'lesser' African races, and you will see discrimination was not only exclusive to the white people in the southern parts of Africa.

Care to elaborate on this? Perhaps with a few examples.

 

[rayven]

Agreed. Nelson Mandela will die soon and will be looked at as a hero. However people might forget the things that he as a person of influence did whilst in the ANC during the early years. Have a look back at the atrocities committed against the 'lesser' African races, and you will see discrimination was not only exclusive to the white people in the southern parts of Africa.

Are you meaning Umkhonto we Sizwe (abbreviated as MK), translated "Spear of the Nation," the military wing of the ANC he set up and advocated for? They run drugs to finance military operations. Or are you talking about the tribal feuding/discipline designed to bring everyone into line to set up a unified front against the American and British backed white rule?

 

[Fuzzy Wuzzy Bear]

Hero is a big word but always looked up to Michael Crichton

 

[Fire Storm]

Carl Wilson.

Just the way he lived in the shadow of his brother so damn gracefully, that voice, just all the sophistication and charm he possessed, all that talent that he so humbly underrated. On stage and off, a true gentleman. Lost his battle with cancer, but fought hard, and without a single complaint.

Still sadly missed.

This by a million.


On his grave it reads : The Heart And Voice Of An Angel.

 

[Doggy doo doo]

Steve irwin

 

[Caesar]

MK didn't start running drugs and targeting civilians until well after Mandela was imprisoned and ceased to be operationally involved.

 

[Gough]

MK didn't start running drugs and targeting civilians until well after Mandela was imprisoned and ceased to be operationally involved.

MK originally attacked infrastructure rather than people.

 

[True__Believer]

Are you meaning Umkhonto we Sizwe (abbreviated as MK), translated "Spear of the Nation," the military wing of the ANC he set up and advocated for? They run drugs to finance military operations. Or are you talking about the tribal feuding/discipline designed to bring everyone into line to set up a unified front against the American and British backed white rule?

I was thinking more along the lines of the treatment of the bushmen. Firstly by white settlers, secondly by the ANC and most recently the government of Botswana. I am not going to go and dig out a whole lot of the history that related to this matter, I am sure you are all capable of doing that. As for an example, off the top of my head there is this article written in the Mail&Guardian - (i have just referenced a paragraph - please see full article if you want to read the whole thing)


A rainbow nation built on genocide

In South Africa, white supremacist apartheid ideology was replaced with African supremacist populism, tyranny of the majority, which finds expression in blind obedience and loyalty of the majority black people to a criminally corrupt and incompetent African National Congress government and its communist inspired trade union coalition partners Cosatu and the SACP. No amount of reason and rational debate can sway these “loyal cadres for life” from their genocidal tidal wave akin to a biblical plague of locusts swarming over and devouring all available resources in their path.

http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/read...rainbow-nation-was-built-on-bushmen-genocide/

 

[Caesar]

It is a bit of a stretch to blame Mandela for the ANC's treatment of the Bushmen in the early days. He has been quite a vocal supporter of them since he was released from prison and one of the early acts of his government was to pass legislation giving them access to land restitution.

Mandela's political development was fairly reasonable. Whilst the faction of the ANC he belonged to in his youth was hostile to non-black groups it was a little more complicated than that. Ideologies within the civil rights movement were often split along ethnic lines, with non-black groups often being closely associated with communism. At any rate, by the time he reached a position of real leadership in the movement his political beliefs had moderated significantly. By his early 30s he was helping lead broad-based multiracial pacifist resistance to apartheid.

He was instrumental in founding MK as an armed resistance group but as Gough says, during his time at the helm it was exclusively aimed at targeting and disrupting infrastructure without human casualties. They later went on to commit numerous atrocities against civilians and get involved in a lot of dodgy business re drugs and Angola, but that all happened after he was imprisoned and no longer involved in leadership.

On a personal level, he is certainly no saint. His treatment of his wife was fairly atrocious and his attitude towards many rather despotic regimes around the world has been somewhat hypocritical, to say the least. But you do not live a life as varied and influential as his without doing some things worthy of criticism. What he did for South Africa in terms of easing transition, building reconciliation and healing the divides of apartheid could have scarcely been thought possible prior to his release from prison. It seemed even less likely that someone who had suffered as he did at the hands of apartheid would have even bothered to try.

He will deservedly be remembered alongside people such as Washington, Ghandi and Ataturk as a great father of his country, and as close as a world full of imperfect people gets to a hero.

 

[Jmac2225]

Clinton Grybas was once someone I really looked up to prior to his untimely demise and wanted to be like in my younger years as sports fanatic who would never be talented enough to be a professional athlete/footballer and thought commentating could be the next best thing.

Had the perfect balance of professionalism and passion and is frankly unrivalled in the world (at least Australian) of sports commentary IMO.

Shame his life ended in such abrupt and tragic circumstances.