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Title: Who do you admire?
Post by: bodie on June 19, 2011, 03:48:35 AM
IRL i always looked up to my Dad.  (rip Dad)  as he was always
calm and patient and never jumped to conclusions.  My mom
is a bit like me -  a bit too reactive

My Dad had amazing patience.  I never once saw him lose his
rag.  Even if he struggled to do something,  he never threw it
down in temper.  Never heard him swear either and never
heard him shout at my mom.


I always thought Jackie Kennedy conducted herself very well
throughout her troublesome life.

Who do you look up to?
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Al Swearegen on June 19, 2011, 04:09:53 AM
Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird

Bill Parrish - Meet Joe Black

Sam - I am Sam

Hub - Secondhand Lions
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Semicolon on June 19, 2011, 06:35:29 AM
I admire CBC: she has convinced a lot of members that she is a pure, chaste Weeble, in spite of the evidence to the contrary. :flame:
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on June 19, 2011, 06:46:37 AM
I admire CBC: she has convinced a lot of members that she is a pure, chaste Weeble, in spite of the evidence to the contrary. :flame:

 You speak of evidence, punctuation mark, but you have none!  :police:
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Semicolon on June 19, 2011, 06:52:06 AM
I admire CBC: she has convinced a lot of members that she is a pure, chaste Weeble, in spite of the evidence to the contrary. :flame:

 You speak of evidence, punctuation mark, but you have none!  :police:

Several members have posted that you have the dirtiest mind on I2. >:D
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Al Swearegen on June 19, 2011, 06:54:29 AM
I love her anyway  :angel:
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Squidusa on June 20, 2011, 12:37:46 PM
I admire CBC: she has convinced a lot of members that she is a pure, chaste Weeble, in spite of the evidence to the contrary. :flame:

 You speak of evidence, punctuation mark, but you have none!  :police:

Several members have posted that you have the dirtiest mind on I2. >:D

You say that like it's a bad thing.  :zoinks:
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Adam on June 20, 2011, 12:48:49 PM
Humans aren't worth admiring
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Squidusa on June 20, 2011, 01:00:59 PM
Humans aren't worth admiring

Squids deserve our constant admiration ,and worship as gods however.  :autism:

Fixed.  :angel:
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Adam on June 20, 2011, 01:05:04 PM
It seems I have been touched by your squiddly appendage :M
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Squidusa on June 20, 2011, 01:08:10 PM
It seems I have been touched by your squiddly appendage :M

:LMAO:  :plus:

I need to think up an acronym like TFSM now... oh god.. epic.  :laugh:
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Parts on June 20, 2011, 01:46:30 PM
There are some more but these are the tops
My late Uncle Lester
My oldest brother
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Scrapheap on June 20, 2011, 01:54:59 PM
Christoper Hitchens

Eric Blair (George Orwell)

Thomas Jefferson

Scientists and inventors who have given us the knowledge that we have today.

The Kurds
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: bodie on June 20, 2011, 04:06:26 PM
firemen
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Osensitive1 on June 20, 2011, 04:15:15 PM
Humans aren't worth admiring
The emotions of admiration and idealization are sometimes too similar to discern as unique; envy might fall in there somewhere too.
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: eris on June 20, 2011, 04:30:35 PM
Kate Moss
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Icequeen on June 20, 2011, 04:57:31 PM
My grandfather. :thumbup:
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Yuri Bezmenov on February 06, 2015, 05:09:58 PM
Hugo Junkers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Junkers)

Burt Rutan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Rutan)

God (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hitchens)      :green:
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Arya Quinn on February 06, 2015, 08:17:57 PM
Stephen Fry.  :M
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: odeon on February 07, 2015, 03:50:06 AM
Stephen Fry.  :M

Me too. And Hugh Laurie.
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Jack on February 07, 2015, 03:52:50 PM
Admire people who create.
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Genesis on February 07, 2015, 04:42:34 PM
My grandfather= He thought outside of the box, and knew how to handle things with my Grandmother

Chris Marker= Creative Inspiration

Philip K. Dick= Makes me think on a level I can understand

Banksy= Residential Badass

Berthe Morisot= One of the female impressionists during the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Era.
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Al Swearegen on February 08, 2015, 08:03:42 AM
My daughter
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on February 08, 2015, 11:29:16 AM
  I admire the talent and dedication of these two fine actors. :heart:

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Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: odeon on February 26, 2015, 03:20:33 PM
Come back and admire them here, CBC!
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Queen Victoria on February 26, 2015, 10:01:26 PM
Me because I managed to throw away a hell of a lot of crap after the fire and have bought only essentials since then (for the overwhelming part.)
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: 'andersom' on February 27, 2015, 04:55:32 AM
Me because I managed to throw away a hell of a lot of crap after the fire and have bought only essentials since then (for the overwhelming part.)
:plus:
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Walkie on February 27, 2015, 08:13:54 AM
My mother because she coped with:
a seriously traumatic childhood (including death of both parents, and being exploited as cheap labour  and chased with a knife  by her nutso foster mother)
keeping a roof over our heads and food in our mouths whilst our Dad gambled away his income
looking after all her aging aunts and cousins by turns, for no financial recompense whatsoever
continually seeing the good in everybody

Probably the only bad thing she did in her life was traumatise me by employing  me as the family scapegoat , telling zillions of "white lies", and systematically destroying my self-esteem.   Ok that's a biggie  :LOL: but I consider the debt (as it were) well and truly cancelled.
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: odeon on February 27, 2015, 10:02:14 AM
Ian McEwan
Stephen King
Ian Rankin

They are all writing gods.
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 02, 2016, 02:01:46 PM
  I admire my (late) father and one of my work friends for a trait I couldn't imagine possessing:
  real humility, to the point of never seeking attention for anything they've accomplished.  I don't think
  I've ever heard either of them brag about anything they've done.  I cannot be that way, I've always
  been an attention-seeker.  It's the basis of most of my humor, so that's OK, but still.


  ^ See what I just did?  I made it all about me!  :laugh:  I don't know how humble people do it.
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: renaeden on March 03, 2016, 02:21:29 AM
Stephen Fry.  :M
I watched him deal with depression while he was making his documentary, The Secret Life of Manic Depression. And of course he is great on QI.

I also admire Kayleigh's dad. He is among the most personable people I have ever met.
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Al Swearegen on March 03, 2016, 02:27:39 AM
Erin Pizzey, Christopher Hitchens, Karen Straight, Milo Yiannapolous. Audie Murphy, Simo Hayha, "Atticus Finch" and my daughter. (and plenty others)
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: lutra on March 03, 2016, 04:50:45 AM
My father (who passed away 14 years ago), my two sisters but also chaps like Stephen Fry, Ray Mears, Jamie Oliver, Rick Stein, etc..

(have to have a longer think about it)
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: DirtDawg on March 03, 2016, 12:26:50 PM
My father (deceased twenty years ago), my mother (still raising farm animals at seventy eight), my three uncles who were war veterans, my wife who works harder than I do and still keeps going, my kids who struggle every day and still keep trying, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Khalil Gibran, PIXAR, Maya Angelou, John Irving, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash (so many  more artists, poets and philosophers - too many to name, but I have hit a few at the top) ...

Way too many seems the same as having no one to admire, but FUCKK!!  we are who we are and we are made up of those who have influenced us, now and forever.
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: Queen Victoria on March 03, 2016, 04:46:05 PM
The number one person I admire is Eleanor of Aquataine.  One BAD ASS woman.  I admire her so much I named the PR after her. 

(The PR got tired of the way we said "Eleanor" when we were exasperated with her.  So she picked the nickname Nellie when she went from homeschooling to regular school after Katarina.)
Title: Re: Who do you admire?
Post by: "couldbecousin" on March 05, 2016, 08:10:27 PM
Come back and admire them here, CBC!

  I did!  And here's the smiley! :heisenberg: