Who would you most like to go for a pint with ?

[Eyefor]

Just myself - and the dog asleep across my feet after a long fell walk.

Pint of Theaksons Old Peculiar (straight glass, please), proper "doorstep" home made pub ham & english mustard sandwich with pickled onions on the side. Sitting outside a pub, with a long view through distant hills with the sun setting over the sea in an area with zero mobile phone coverage

I am hugely fortunate to spend lots of down time with the current Mrs Eyefor, our kids and their wonderful partners so the above would be my idea of a great pint.

 

[Legolas]

Colonel Herbert Jones. It would be a real honour to buy that man a pint. He was a real inspiration to me in my early years of my youth and the shining example of how men in authority/responsibility should actually lead from the front had a profound affect on me.

 

[Rasputin]

Mike Tyson - Something intriguing about him. If you watch his interviews he is frank, funny and repentant.
Arnold Swarzengegger - read his autobiography and its truly remarkable how he came from middle of nowhere to end up being the governor of California plus all his other achievements.
Cameron Haynes the USA based bow hunter
Tom Croft- England Rugby loves his stalking etc

Deceased : Jim Corbett, Selous, Churchill and my grandfather on my mothers side.

 

[Howzat]

Richard Prior

 

[Seanpaul]

Richard Prior

Which one, both have experience with firearms i believe

 

[Moray Outfitting]

1.Jack Hargreaves
2. Les Hiddins
3. Dont know his name - but a programme years ago covered a tanker crash in ( I think ) New Zealand. With a young girl trapped in her parents car and fire raging. The NZ firefighter concerned got into the vehicle to physically shield her and as he started to cook, refused orders to withdraw. As his colleagues struggled to douse / curb the heat and he says he became certain 'this was it' - he took off his helmet and put it on the girl; fully expecting them both to burn, but to protect her face for her parents sake. He could have withdrawen at any time, but had decided not to. They saved them both, but he took severe burns.
4. Keith Mills - 'token gesture? We're going to make their @ucking eyes water!' Bridge of the Endurance off South Georgia 1982

 

[1st Pattern Paul]

Jim Corbett

 

[Island]

Oaft! How far back in time do I go?

Living? Sir David Attenborough.

Historically? Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, Albert Camus, Oppenheimer, Einstein, Max Planck, Marie Curie, da Vinci, Dante Alighieri, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Titian, Ghengis Khan, Marcus Aurelius, Socrates...the list just goes on and on!

 

[unicorn71]

My father who passed nearly 20 years ago , would be great to catch up .

 

[Dakaras]

My Grandfather on my Dads side DCM WW1 dont remember him and wish I did and my Uncle Jack (Dads brother) Chief Petty Officer on HMS Dido the ship that fired the last shot of the war in europe. Would love to buy them a pint to thank them for the freedoms I have now

 

[Estudiente]

Mike Tyson - Something intriguing about him. If you watch his interviews he is frank, funny and repentant.
Arnold Swarzengegger - read his autobiography and its truly remarkable how he came from middle of nowhere to end up being the governor of California plus all his other achievements.
Cameron Haynes the USA based bow hunter
Tom Croft- England Rugby loves his stalking etc

Deceased : Jim Corbett, Selous, Churchill and my grandfather on my mothers side.

Tyson is a convicted rapist.

 

[Estudiente]

Duke of Wellington
Hitler in his twenties...I`d spike his pint with strychnine.
Duke of Edinburgh

 

[Estudiente]

ozzy osbourne would be a good laugh as would gino dicampo

Dont allow DeCampo in your house , he was done for burglary , ask Paul Young

 

[Wapinschaw]

John Lewis-Sword, my English Language teacher from school, (Hadrian County Secondary, Wallsend on Tyne 1968 or so). He served in the Black Watch and foot slogged from Normandy to Berlin, inspired me to a military start to life and gave me a way with words for which I am grateful.

My maternal grandfather, who worked in foundries and shipyards across Tyneside from 1913 to just before his passing away in 1967. I have a document releasing him from school to go to work in 1913, with the mark, i.e. an X placed by his mother and verified by a council official that is a haunting reminder of another age. He was partial to rum, but I never made it to the pub with him.

Squadron Leader Hillenden, Royal Air Force. He was my interviewing officer at RAF Stafford in 1968, and advised me which career path to take in the RAF. He was at the attestation ceremony at RAF Halton a few months later, and was startled that I recognised him and remembered his name. As I told him, "There was a plate on your office door, Sir." He was an older, fatherly sort, totally genuine and unlikely to be with us now.

My sister and my parents. Their ashes now mingle on Plenmeller Common in Northumberland, but how I would like to pay the (no doubt considerable) bar bill.

There are a lot of people from history I would like to meet, but the above are very personal to me.

 

[Rasputin]

Tyson is a convicted rapist.

And? Your point is? Either he is remorseful served his time and therefore it's been put to bed. Or you read about the case and don't believe that he is which is my personally held belief and that of a few others.

Still I'm not interested in that more so his psyche which includes the love of racing pigeons and other such off the wall things.

 

[Estudiente]

And? Your point is? Either he is remorseful served his time and therefore it's been put to bed. Or you read about the case and don't believe that he is which is my personally held belief and that of a few others.

Still I'm not interested in that more so his psyche which includes the love of racing pigeons and other such off the wall things.

My point is I dont think his victim would agree that serving time and allegedly being remorseful makes everything okay , with regards to his psyche I doubt you`d learn much , I`d be surprised if his IQ got into double figures ,Tyson is scum, thats all .End of.

 

[tackb]

My point is I dont think his victim would agree that serving time and allegedly being remorseful makes everything okay , with regards to his psyche I doubt you`d learn much , I`d be surprised if his IQ got into double figures ,Tyson is scum, thats all .End of.

your opinion , nothing more

 

[Monkey Spanker]

My point is I dont think his victim would agree that serving time and allegedly being remorseful makes everything okay , with regards to his psyche I doubt you`d learn much , I`d be surprised if his IQ got into double figures ,Tyson is scum, thats all .End of.

I just watched a documentary about Las Vegas with Trevor McDonald who interviewed Mike Tyson. To class him as 'scum' is very arguable. He was born of a prostitute mother and pimp father which is probably not a good start to life and certainly no fault of his. He understandably was involved in crime from a very early age - again, probably not really his fault considering his parental mentors?
He then did something quite amazing as he is not actually that big and became heavyweight champion of the world at just 20 years old! Before he realised he was worth 300 million, but somehow blew it all and ended up bankrupt for 15 years and served time. He is now on his third wife and appears to be a very doting father. As for his IQ, frankly who cares, but he came across as quite intelligent. Maybe some folk are just jealous? Many people say David Beckham is thick, but he has captained England, has a gorgeous wife and family and more money than most of us could ever dream of having. There's a lot of very well educated people that would swap their life with him for sure. Life is what you make of it and IQ is pretty irrelevant. The fact that Tyson is still actually alive considering his upbringing is a miracle in itself. To achieve what he has achieved is legendary. I doubt anyone would ever brand him as 'scum' to his face. His name will live on. Will yours?
MS

 

[tackb]

very well put MS , although you could have finished with that legendary intellectual trump card 'end of'


oh and Victoria beckham is not in my opinion 'gorgeous' far too thin and image obsessed for me !

 

[1st Pattern Paul]

Blaire Paddy Maine, but probably not a pint as he was well known for being a little volatile under the influence. Maybe a mug of tea.