Who is your "hero"?

**Den Perry** · 05/08/2010, 11:01 AM

Mine are Joey Barton, Ashley Cole and John Terry

**Kingdom** · 05/08/2010, 2:33 PM

Originally Posted by bellavistaman

What a great thread lads

By god were you wrong

My footballing heroes were and are Cantona and Keane, music Francis Rossi and Freddie Mercury. Dont really have any life heroes to be fair just lot of people i respect greatly

I was wrong unfortunately. Very wrong. I suppose the whole idea of heroism would have been whooosssh! when I was growing up. I think I'm too cynical and unfortunately a bit dim in certain areas to acknowledge actual heroes.

**A face** · 05/08/2010, 8:49 PM

**jinxy lilywhite** · 05/08/2010, 10:00 PM

my 102 year old grandfather
Still has his wits

**Magicme** · 05/08/2010, 11:02 PM

Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite

my 102 year old grandfather
Still has his Twits

Does he call you that coz you're a dundalk fan? Bless him, he's my hero too now!

**Dunny** · 05/08/2010, 11:15 PM

Magicme, she told Adrian Kennedy how it is.

**Ciaran W** · 18/08/2010, 11:48 PM

It was Theirry Henry

but then i lost interest in Gaa.

**gustavo** · 19/08/2010, 9:14 AM

Enrique Iglesias

**Mr A** · 19/08/2010, 11:23 AM

Cool Dog

**Wolfie** · 20/08/2010, 1:32 PM

Cool Dog. As Tina Turner pointed out in her 80's hit:

"We don't need another hero,
we've got cool dog and we've beer-o"

**John83** · 20/08/2010, 2:55 PM

Originally Posted by Wolfie

Cool Dog. As Tina Turner pointed out in her 80's hit:

"We don't need another hero,
we've got cool dog and we've beer-o"

But it ended up infringing on one she'd recorded before.

My hero is a guy named Richard Feynman, the celebrated American Nobel-Prize-winning physicist, bongo player and science writer.

He was recruited into the Manhatten Project straight out of his PhD programme. While there, he parallelised calculations on a truely elderly calculating machine, always exited the base via a hole in the fence but returned through the main gate, pointed out that uranium was being stored in a ridiculously unsafe manner, took the **** with the censors, accidentally determined that one of the facilities he inspected would explode if a particular point failed, cracked safes for fun and during the first test of the bomb figured out that the windscreen of the bus would block anything harmful to his eyes at that distance meaning he alone actually watched the bomb go off.

He shared the Nobel Prize in physics with two other guys when they all solved the same problem at the same time. The other two had 20-page, dense mathematical proofs. Feynman invented a new kind of diagram.

While a professor at Caltech, he came up with the idea of nanotechnology, became an accomplished bongo player, led the way on quantum computing, drew strippers on napkins, vetted high school maths textbooks and wrote some of the best popular science books ever written.

He was on the panel which investigated the Challenger shuttle disaster. His minority report on that should be required reading for every engineer. He argued that the o-ring seals failed at low temperature, and offered experimental evidence.