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He's too much hero for one country.
Fairly controversial I suppose, but
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Col. Paul Tibbets
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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Wilton_Young]Or Pvt. Roger Young[/url]
[QUOTE=Bllasae;26230803]Only Terry Fox and Banting deserve to be there. Pierre Trudeau fucked up the country by making everyone speak French, and David Suzuki isn't even a [b]good[/b] Canadian.[/QUOTE]
Spoken like a man with a republican avatar.
[QUOTE=sami-pso;26234546]I wish we had a Winston Churchil now.[/QUOTE]
I glad someone brought up Winston Churchill because now I have an excuse to post another anti-Winston fact I just remembered:
He said he wished Gandhi would be taken outside of Deli and trampled on by the Maharaja riding an elephant.
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Just look at his real political past instead of the superficial Second World War stuff.
A drunken, misogynist career politician [b]who sent thousands of soldiers to their deaths in the First World War[/b] and wrecked the British economy in the 1920s.[/QUOTE]
Churchill was only a cabinet member in the WWI. He wasn't involved in sending people to their deaths, he was involved in the way they used the money in the war effort (although he was criticised for that anyway).
[QUOTE=misterv;26246523]Churchill was only a cabinet member in the WWI. He wasn't involved in sending people to their deaths, he was involved in the way they used the money in the war effort (although he was criticised for that anyway).[/QUOTE]
Dude, he totally designed and pushed for the Gallipoli Campaign when everyone else disagreed. The whole thing was pretty much entirely his idea from the start.
60% of the fighting force was killed there. It was a mess.
Pierre Trudeau
:canada:
One of the effects of living in a nation that has a short and boring history is that patriotism and national heroes aren't really a big thing here.
In Australia, that is.
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Kidding.
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[QUOTE=Faren;26246746]One of the effects of living in a nation that has a short and boring history is that patriotism and national heroes aren't really a big thing here.
In Australia, that is.
[editline]24th November 2010[/editline]
Kidding.
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what about chopper?
[QUOTE=Anteep2;26223403]he should portray a modern scotsman, who is obese, smokes 100 a day, drinks alcohol every hour, addicted to heroine and has a life expectancy of 40[/QUOTE]
lol shit stereotype
[QUOTE=The Winner;26233739]I don't live in Russia, but I see Lenin as my hero. Not Stalin.[/QUOTE]
Ahh yes who had the support of the people... oh wait!
The bolshevist party was bullshit and the majority of people supported other parties.
George Bush is my one and only hero, he really stood up for the american values against those outlander motherfuckers. Fucking communists and islamics. Obama on the other hand is a fucking faggot, he has done nothing good and he is driving the country into destruction and socialism.
King mother fucking Richard!
Horatio Nelson
[QUOTE=rosthouse;26220344]Wilhelm Tell for my Country.
For a scientist I'd say Leonard Euler (Einstein is German but he did his most famous work in Bern).
If you want a more recent one, I'd say Roger Federer since our politicians aren't that popular :v:[/QUOTE]
oh gott ä schwitzer.
1 Jaque Fresco (not to many pople know about him)
2 carl sagan
3 nikola tesla
but those guys arnt gods to me, they are just a few people that I think are pretty cool.
oh and gabe
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[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;26219428]George Washington
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Just saying George Washington wasnt an Amazing guy, he was a good general, not to say he was bad or anything.
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nikola tesla
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what does a serb got to do with george washington?
[QUOTE=Chekko;26226326]Fascist ideologies like Communism and Nazism will never succeed in an open and free society.[/QUOTE]
You know that fascism was like the complete opposite of communism?
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[QUOTE=ComanduMambu;26250732]what does a serb got to do with george washington?[/QUOTE]
what I just think Tesla was an awesome scientist who did not give into greed
Kung Karl XII (Charles XII of Sweden)
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Alfred Nobel
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And of course:
Astrid Lindgren
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:sweden:
terry fox eh
I.K. Brunel is one of my heroes
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He was (IMO) the greatest engineer we had at the greatest time for British engineering. Basically everything he made was bigger or grander than anything that had been done before, or it just had never been done before.
Sure, he lost vast amounts of money in the process, but who cares about that in hindsight.
I'll just leave this here instead of posting a wall of text and pictures: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel[/URL]
He's a perfect idol for the Brits of today to look back at and think "God, we were great once. We used to build things."
[QUOTE=st0rmforce;26251548]I.K. Brunel is one of my heroes
He was (IMO) the greatest engineer we had at the greatest time for British engineering. Basically everything he made was bigger or grander than anything that had been done before, or it just had never been done before.
Sure, he lost vast amounts of money in the process, but who cares about that in hindsight.
I'll just leave this here instead of posting a wall of text and pictures: [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel[/URL]
He's a perfect idol for the Brits of today to look back at and think "God, we were great once. We used to build things."[/QUOTE]
he also had a amazing name.
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[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;26250734]what I just think Tesla was an awesome scientist who did not give into greed[/QUOTE]
he also didn't give into the poontang
[QUOTE=johnkane46;26220158]St. Patrick
Wolf Tone
Michael Collins
Brian o Driscoll
all the good people of this emerald isle.[/QUOTE]
St. Patrick. Wow. You know he was Welsh right?
Wolf[b]e[/b] Tone couldn't even kill [I]himself[/I] properly.
If Brian O'Driscoll is a hero with what he gets paid then I'm Ireland's greatest person [I]ever[/I].
Add John Hume for sure and also, I think Eamon DeValera is really underrated since that movie where he was portrayed as a cold hearted bastard (and the actor went on to play Snape). He was really as important as Micheal Collins.
Oh, Charles Stewart Parnell and Daniel O'Connell.
Here in Luxembourg, he's called [i]Superjemp[/i].
Look for yourself.
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This is just my opinion.
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. Martin Luther King
3. George Washington
4. Ronald Reagan
5. General Pershing
6. Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. Abraham Lincoln
[QUOTE=imasillypiggy;26250734]You know that communism was like the complete opposite of communism?[/QUOTE]
Does not compute.
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aka how to troll prussian authorities
there are a lot of even more famous polish [i]heroes[/i], but this one is one of the most interesting
or Walesa
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I hope you know why
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fucks bitches and looks drunk
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Doesn't look badass but is.
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