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Tim Peake

iainment
iainment Posts: 8,040
in Not Sports Related
In the papers again. Can't think of anyone more pleased with themselves but him.
Wish he'd been left in perpetual orbit.

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  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    I like him.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,969
    Got a lot to be pleased with himself about.

    I like him too - and the more he does the more it gets kids interested in science etc.
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Skyping school kids from the ISpaceStation?
    What's not to like?
    Top bloke
    Inspiration
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    I think he's a proper twat.
    But i understand there are many different takes on stuff.
  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,967
    Andy hit them, Tim rode them.....
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,260
    Think he's an absolute inspiration

    He's a spaceman. An astronaut. Give me a cooler job than astronaught
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    He's a smug git.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,969
    Carter said:

    Think he's an absolute inspiration

    He's a spaceman. An astronaut. Give me a cooler job than astronaught

    Penguin photographer.
    Glaciologist.
    Night's Watch actor.

    All a bit nippy.
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,887
    Carter said:

    Think he's an absolute inspiration

    He's a spaceman. An astronaut. Give me a cooler job than astronaught

    This, my young grandsons idolise him.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    I think everyone does. Except iainment that is.

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  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    Personally think he comes across as a top bloke, oh and he has a fair bit to back it up with.

    Not sure quite how anyone could dislike him tbh.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,688
    The thing is Peake has had the most extraordinary experience. One that for me is beautifully summed up by his hero Piers Sellers

    Sellers is a vastly experienced ‘British’ astronaut who currently works at Nasa in the field of climate change. Back in January he announced that he was suffering from stage 4 pancreatic cancer which means he has little more than a year to live.

    He said, “As for me, I’ve no complaints. I’m very grateful for the experiences I’ve had on this planet. As an astronaut I space walked 220 miles above the Earth. Floating alongside the International Space Station, I watched hurricanes cartwheel across oceans, the Amazon snake its way to the sea through a brilliant green carpet of forest, and gigantic night time thunderstorms flash and flare for hundreds of miles along the equator. From this God’s-eye-view, I saw how fragile and infinitely precious the Earth is. I’m hopeful for its future".

    “And that is why I’m going to work tomorrow.”
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I advise people to search Danny Baker and the spaceman on Campbell Davidson Media (something like that).
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,476
    When he first went up a friend of mine said he thought he was a 'prick'.
    The whole pub frowned.

    I have to say ,after seeing more and more footage of him, I'm leaning toward my mate.

    A harmless one though!
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Tim Peake has been a positive beacon in a time when there has been little to celebrate.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,765
    Tim has had an experienced that most men dream of and for that reason I can only admire him.
    Why someone would dislike him baffles me. He should be an inspiration to everyone .

  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,868
    It makes me well with pride that we live in a world where millions of kids are starving to death yet we spend billions sending grinning cretins into space.


    Only one Peakey rocket worth thinking about as far as I'm concerned.
  • erithalf
    erithalf Posts: 67
    Haven't you heard? He's been canonised, it's Saint Tim now.
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    erithalf said:

    Haven't you heard? He's been canonised, it's Saint Tim now.

    No he hasn't.
    I've just checked everywhereand what you've said isn't true.
    Why would you lie about this?

    Maybe you were confused with Saint Timothy from the 1st century who was the Bishop of Ephesus. Easily confused, I guess.
  • erithalf
    erithalf Posts: 67
    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    erithalf said:

    Haven't you heard? He's been canonised, it's Saint Tim now.

    No he hasn't.
    I've just checked everywhereand what you've said isn't true.
    Why would you lie about this?

    Maybe you were confused with Saint Timothy from the 1st century who was the Bishop of Ephesus. Easily confused, I guess.
    OK Then, he come across as a smug , nicey nicey, Kumbaya My Lord singing, holier than thou twat...better?

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  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    erithalf said:

    A-R-T-H-U-R said:

    erithalf said:

    Haven't you heard? He's been canonised, it's Saint Tim now.

    No he hasn't.
    I've just checked everywhereand what you've said isn't true.
    Why would you lie about this?

    Maybe you were confused with Saint Timothy from the 1st century who was the Bishop of Ephesus. Easily confused, I guess.
    OK Then, he come across as a smug , nicey nicey, Kumbaya My Lord singing, holier than thou twat...better?
    Not really, but if those are your feelings, about someone with a long Army service, dedication to space and a willingness to inspire kids, so be it.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,367
    He's reached his peake unfortunately...
  • Daddy_Pig
    Daddy_Pig Posts: 496
    Yeah proper twat that one. Realising a lifetime ambition and having the audacity to smile about it. Who does he think he is?
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,989
    He obviously doesn't have a cat
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,989
    buckshee said:

    It makes me well with pride that we live in a world where millions of kids are starving to death yet we spend billions sending grinning cretins into space.


    Only one Peakey rocket worth thinking about as far as I'm concerned.

    I'm really into cosmology but I tend to agree about the first part. How India have got a space programme is disgusting. But there have been a lot of advantages in technology and research because of space exploration.
  • fattmatt
    fattmatt Posts: 582
    He is my girlfriend's friend's nephew. He phoned her from space (on a withheld number) and she nearly didn't answer.

    There are plenty of smug people who have achieved a fraction of what Tim has. I think that he has the right to feel proud of his achievements.

    Legend!!
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,969
    buckshee said:

    It makes me well with pride that we live in a world where millions of kids are starving to death yet we spend billions sending grinning cretins into space.


    Only one Peakey rocket worth thinking about as far as I'm concerned.

    There are a ridiculous amount of things we waste money on. I don't see space programmes as one of them (apart from Star Trek, which is awful).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,342
    Carter said:

    Think he's an absolute inspiration

    He's a spaceman. An astronaut. Give me a cooler job than astronaught

    Proofreader
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,369
    ground control to Major Tim ..

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