Quote:Bobby. wrote on Oct 26
th, 2026 at 6:04pm:
I tried to tell you people that Rocky was a tough guy.
Yeah you're as much a Walter Mitty as he.
Bobby:
Quote:You're right - I do imagine myself as a brave Knight of the round table sometimes.
I don't see the insult Nonads is trying to convey. We have all had fantasies that we wanted to do in our lives. Some of the more wild fantasies I have had through my childhood, teens, and adulthood have been the skydiving, race car driver, astronaut, superhero, etc.
I won't be skydiving as I have vertigo. The plane ride back from Brisbane during the day was enough to convince me of my condition. The international flight was an aisle seat. And standing at the look out at Mount Archer had me off balance.
Race car driving: I could and have driven one of those $100,000 sports cars around a track under supervision doing up to 250kmh. But, no company will be thinking of letting me drive a $500,000+ V8 Australian supercar around Bathurst.
Astronaut: Not something I have thought of since I was a teenager. Movies like Apollo 13 and First Man had really switched me off the idea of thinking many people would even qualify to go to space. Even those youtube courses of "how to become an astronaut" were designed to make people appreciate the efforts actual astronauts train.
Superhero: What child would not want the abilities to have super powers. Even in adulthood, I would loved to have the ability to teleport. Would save on petrol.
And as for Paris, I wish it was a fantasy. But shooting someone in the leg is enough after they bounced a projectile near mine was too much of a reality. It becomes a big insult for other forum users to be dismissive of the efforts me and my crew made to quelling the violence.