Your heroes

[rayven]

Really enjoyed that post Caesar

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Manila Playa. That is all.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Besides from parents, got a family friend who is a corporate lawyer and is absolutely raking in the big bucks. Smooth operator. Also got a few friends that have joined the AFL and started off their careers nicely.

I wouldn't call them "heroes" as such, but they give me some motivation to keep chipping away at what I'm aspiring to.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Steve irwin

Bloody good call. I don't know if I have heroes as such, but I always find a great deal of admiration for people who have a really strong passion, and make it their life's work.

Irwin's energy, passion, optimism and dedication to animals was incredible. It literally flowed out of him every time he was in front of a camera or a crowd. Such a positive bloke. His death was genuinely sad.

 

[Jackfrost]

My Great Grandfather (Pop's father on Dad's side) was born in Glascow and was a 15 year old on a merchant ship in 1915. After suffering severe physical abuse on board he jumped ship and swam ashore to Coogee where a young girl found him living in the sand dunes tired and hungry and her family took him in.

Still as a 15 year old he made his way down to the enlistment centre and successfully had his age recorded as 18 and was shipped off to Gallipoli where he served before being sent to France to fight on the Western Front. He returning home not only a decorated soldier but one who spent plenty of time in the care of Military Police for 'drunken affray' and his war records make for good reading and his rap sheet is quite long. The funny part about looking up the records is that they recorded his name as Merten rather than Martin most likely due to his very strong Scottish accent.

Not to be outdone he once again enlisted himself to fight in France after the outbreak of WWII, this time by producing his birth certificate to prove his real age as his age provided in 1915 made him too old to serve. He left behind a Wife and four young children and fought in Europe and the Middle East. My Nanna claims that the only reason he went was for the French girls as he supposedly told her this once but it's a pretty extreme way to go chasing a root.

I never met the man but I can safely say that he is my hero and he is in my thoughts every ANZAC Day.

 

[courtjester]

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

No person has recovered from cancer like Lance.

Tim Costello is an Australian I really admire.

 

[rayven]

As far as heroes go, this guy is up there.


!

When this guy passes and he's getting on, there will be a massive vacuum effect.

 

[stralia]

Louis CK.
Larry David.
Karl Pilkington.
That guy that flopped his dick out at a 'SlutWalk' in Brazil.
Zyzz.