The 'Your heroes thread', by Property

[Property]

Richard Branson.

For telling Virgin Atlantic workers threatening strike action to fuck off and work somewhere else, and I quote;

"For some of you, more pay than Virgin Atlantic can afford may be critical to your lifestyle and if that is the case you should consider working elsewhere"

Good on you, beardy. About time someone put their foot down and stopped bending over forwards for these striking twats who think nothing of fucking up other people's hard-earned holiday time because they want better benefits for themselves.

Now if you really don't like your employer, go work for someone else and stop holding the paying public to ransom.

[Wayne Kerr]

^ I liked his permed/coloured hair the best ... in fact my hero must be his hairdresser .

[English Noodles]

I would just like to say, before people start nominating me as a hero, please think of someone else, i am just happy getting all these PM's telling me about what a great job i'm doing here.


Noodles.

[Property]

Jesus Christ

A few days day off, lots of presents and a fucking massive piss up.

[The Gentleman Scamp]

Dudley Moore

[Property]

Just one more then before beddy-bye time.

The Pope

Somebody had to take a stand against Harry Potter and grown adults reading children's books.

Pope Benedict XVI has condemned the Harry Potter books as "subtle seductions," capable of corrupting young Christians.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1692541,00.html

[Marmite the Dog]

Prince Charles, David Attenborough, Glenn Murcutt, Edwin Lutyens and Martin Johnson.

[Driventowin]

All the mothers of TD posters..

[bkkmadness]

Dudley Moore

A dagenham boy!

Kudos to Marmite for David Attenborough!

[Hootad Binky]

Richard Attenborough is better than the "David" version, imho.

Way better.

[November Rain]

Apart from the obvious (my parents)...

Jeremy Clarkson, even if he can be a twat sometimes

[Cujo]

George Bush for having the guts to think he can be president of the USA despite being a certifiable idjit.

[Texpat]

I don't have a hero, but I'll try:

Probably not an athlete
Certainly not an actor
Maybe a politician
Likely a soldier
Certainly an author

Ike Eisenhower

[Property]

Bangkok Phil

Outspoken yet very clearly erudite, Bangkok Phil is one of the most well-known Bangkok based webmasters and perhaps the second most well-known English teacher in the entire Kingdom. (He’d need to shave his head and start speaking ‘Strine to be the most known.) Acknowledged as something of an expert on the English teaching industry in Thailand, he has an almost cult like following on the very popular Ajarn.com site which he runs. But Ajarn.com is not the only site that Phil has been responsible for. He was the creator of Bangkokmouth and he's a busy boy who always seems to have some irons in the fire.

http://www.stickmanbangkok.com/weekly/weekly226.htm

Nope, he's just another **** working in Thailand without a degree.

[The Ghost Of The Moog]

Geoff Boycott

[Norton]

My Uncle John a WWII, RCAF tail gunner on Lancaster Bombers.

Sir Winston Churchill.

Julius Caesar

Honorable Mention - Genghis Khan and Saladin.

Not making my list Al Gore.

[Butterfly]

"For some of you, more pay than Virgin Atlantic can afford may be critical to your lifestyle and if that is the case you should consider working elsewhere"

What a kunt, easy for him to say, what about taking a paycut from his large dividends and expensive lifestyle ? what an idiot, he got lucky, never forget that, you (the CEO) sad pathetic kunt.

[Driventowin]

^ I find myself in the strange position of agreeing entirely with Butter this time..

Branson, Gates, Jobs whom ever were all fortunate and blessed enough to have someone believe in them and that is why they are who they are today. Without that one person in thier lives in his case his aunt,(by his own admission) brother, friend, customer/s, whom ever, he is no better and probably even less than most every other person who has had a fantastic idea and dream that they have never been able to realize because no one has given them the opportunity..

With that I also have to say that there is not one single successful person in the world that is entirely self made in spite of what they might selfishly think. There has been someone or many people who have believed in every single one without question....

[Property]

^ So beardy should run his VA company at a loss then. Sounds like communism to me. Surely if they don't like the remuneration package on offer, then find another job. It's a free country.

[Driventowin]

Without those employees he doesn't have a company to run or make a profit and he is showing 0% loyalty, is he making money? Yes he is....So maybe if it's that urgent that his company won't be profitable anymore than he should take a major pay cut of his own? Think that will happen? Not in this life time...

[Butterfly]

Without those employees he doesn't have a company to run or make a profit and he is showing 0% loyalty, is he making money? Yes he is....So maybe if it's that urgent that his company won't be profitable anymore than he should take a major pay cut of his own? Think that will happen? Not in this life time...

You are a commie bastard Driven, and I like your line of thinking on that one, I agree entirely. Fuck those assholes, with their expensive lifestyle, they forget about those employees who basically pay for their luxuries through their low salaries and miserable lifestyle.

He should be shot for those comments.

[Whiteshiva]

A fellow Norwegian: Thor Heyerdahl of Kon Tiki fame - Acheologist, adventurer, sailer and writer.

"Boundaries? I have never seen one but I hear that they exist in the minds of most people."

[Driventowin]

You are a commie bastard Driven

Well I wouldn't go quite that far.... I am no where near a commie and even farther from a bastard.. But anyway more along a middle ground like the entire world is heading anyway..

[The Ghost Of The Moog]

"For some of you, more pay than Virgin Atlantic can afford may be critical to your lifestyle and if that is the case you should consider working elsewhere"

What a kunt, easy for him to say, what about taking a paycut from his large dividends and expensive lifestyle ? what an idiot, he got lucky, never forget that, you (the CEO) sad pathetic kunt.

I agree, Richard Branson is an extremely unsavory character (a convicted fraudster), who has screwed over his partners many times in his business career.

[Dalton]

Doc Holliday.