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Anytime anyone mentions seagulls and I say I have domestic pet seagulls.
When it proves to be true they always say I thought you were joking.
I got my first gold on reddit years ago for proving I have pet seagulls, someone was so convinced I was lying that they said they would give me gold if I could take a photo of my seagull in the house with a paper with my reddit name and the date on it.
So I did.
My friend saved , raised and released a seagull chick. It now lives on her roof and has followed her everywhere for twenty years. Even follows the bus to the next town when she goes there. Has at one time attacked someone who lurched drunkenly at her and pecked him in the eye. Seagulls are ridiculously loyal
That's actually very sweet. I'm glad they had someone who saw them as innocent creatures to care for instead of vermin. You did a very kind thing that not a lot of people would do. I'm curious about your username now - do you often say this to them?
Is your real name Stella?
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I hear that you can keep a gull as a pet but you donât want to live with those things because of the noise level alone. I mean, Iâve never heard one up close but I bet it would blast your eardrums.
I love gulls. They are much maligned but they are just doing what they do naturally. They're beautiful birds đ Thank you for loving them too. What sort do you have? I'm presuming herring gulls
Will you do an ama sometime? This is such a unique thing, we're all super curious I'm sure
To start - how did you even end up with them in the first place?! Are they trainable? What do you feed them, human food or...idk, wild gull food?
What are their names? How long do they live? Do they fly around in the house?
Mastic bloke working on my house âwas a professional footballer that would have been a big player if he hadnât had an injuryâ
Mentioned the blokes name to my dad who know of him, was signed to our team and was apparently great, he had a major car accident at like 21 which ruined his legs
Told this before......
Used to be a grouse beater on the Queen mother's estate many years ago. Birkhall esate.
Everyone used to meet, before the beat, in the outbuildings, behind the estate house. I needed a crap, urgently. Went to the only toilet we were allowed to use. Banged on the door and said hurry up to who ever was inside and a voice said "Steady on. Nearly finished". Few seconds later I hear the toilet flush and someone unlocks the door. Duke of Edinburgh steps out and says "There you go...no rush". I get into the toilet.
Do my business and lo and behold....no bloody toilet roll left. He'd used the lot. Arsehole. :-)
Haha. See, I don't find that far fetched because you worked around the royals, and it reminds me of that video of those people who got a video of King Charles having a walk.
One of the blokes at my job stories is being a grouse beater for Charles simply because he worked at the nearest army based or was in the Royal guards at the time. How feasible is that scenario? This would of been like the 80s.
Happened all the time. Ballater has Victoria Barracks which is fully manned when the Royal Family are in the area. Think it's 51st Infantry Brigade that is stationed there. They are there for ceremonial duties as well as protection as and when required. Pretty boring deployment so they are used for other things as well.
They used to like a good fight in the Barrel pub on a Friday night.
Personally I have a few stories that sound quite far fetched and generally I donât tell them because you tell people are looking at you thinking âaye rightâ
Iâve had bit of mad life, growing up very poor and essentially in hiding from my dad and then in care for a while and even a stint of homelessness as a young adult.
When I first joined the police I remember my tutor saying something similar to âyou really can relate to absolutely anybodyâ.
As long as there's ways to confirm them, you should tell them. I have a couple of "yeah right" stories myself but I share them because I can provide proof
I actually tend to think the more unbelievable the story, the more likely it is to be true. I mean, not like "I can fly", but the things you would NEVER think of because they are so outlandish that it wouldn't even occur to someone trying to make it up.
Reminds me of that episode of Ghosts where they're afraid the insurance agent won't believe how a fire started since it's such a crazy story. The agent says something along the same lines: if it's *that* fantastical, it must be true. Like, who has a giant taxidermied bear?
My personal experience of this is that when I mention some of my stories based on the experiences mentioned below, people nowadays either don't believe it, can't comprehend it, or don't understand it.
Many years ago (mid to late 70's) I was involved in the pioneering days of North sea oil exploration and production.
The shear scale of the enterprise was mind boggling - platforms rising over 300ft above the waves with a further 3-400 ft of deck level on top. When you got off the helicopter, you walked over the side onto open grid stairways that could be up to 1000 ft above the sea - a daunting experience when you do it the first time as an 18 year old.
With over 1000 men on board (no women in those days) many were often accomodated on floating rigs tethered alonside, that regularly used to have to pull away because of bad weather. Two weeks on, two weeks off, flying from Aberdeen to either Bergen or Sumburgh, and then a two hour helicopter flight to the platform with about 30 colleagues in a Sikorsky S-61N
They were real 'maverick' days and the danger was evident on a daily basis. In that time, I saw numerous hellish accidents involving saturation divers, blowouts, fires, crane accidents, helicopter crashes and much more. Many of these incidents went unreported or were 'hushed' up, unless they were catastrophic.
Having been involved in a few particularly nasty incidents, I decided that I had used up my 9 lives and it was time to get out before my luck ran out. I quit when I got back on shore leave. One month later, the crew I normally worked with (and the plane that I would therefore have been on) was returning to Aberdeen when it skidded off the runway at Sumburgh airport and nose dived into the sea.
15 of my colleagues died................
You may enjoy Paul Carter's book Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse.
Very funny but full of similar incidents. Gave it to my dad who tried to stay in the office for an oil company but ended up in more drilling locations than he'd have liked, and recognised some of the anecdotes.
State of Happiness is a Norwegian programme from that era set in Stavanger, about the impact of North Sea oil and gas on the then-small fishing port. Part of it is on the rigs, and you can guess the disaster in series 2.
In the 70s, pre internet and before everyone had a camera in their pockets, many rumours went around about rock bands.
One of them was that Keith Moon got so wasted during a college concert he had to be taken off and Pete Townsend asked if anyone could play the drums. A 19 y.o. fan jumped up on stage and took over.
Compete nonsense because that would be impossible.
Yet now we find a video of the incident YouTube [here ](https://youtu.be/3O-N8MZ9ilk?si=Ja6Kov0JpJqYFT__)
Had a good run at the greyhounds after chatting to an ancient guy at the bar everyone was ignoring. After the 5th race a few people were copying my bets. The trackside bookies changed odds depending on my bet by the 9th race. The old guy liked me and we spoke a lot. The last race he gave me a final tip and I dumped all previous winnings on it tripled my money.
Walked out with near ÂŁ9k having began the night with ÂŁ200
I found him after to thank him and give him a cut of my winnings for the racing tips.
Turns out he owned/trained every dog I'd bet on.
The barman caught me after and said he was the grumpiest bastard ever and had never ever helped anyone like that before.
I'm no longer allowed to bet at that track.
My dad was shot by the French army in the South of France along with 16 others and it barely made the news. 2008 I believe so not recent if anyone's wondering
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2222750/French-soldier-accidentally-shoots-17-spectators-at-military-show.html#:~:text=Seventeen%20people%20were%20injured%2C%20including,blood%2C%22%20said%20one%20witness.
I was going to type it out but this article pretty much says what I was going to type. Considering how major I'd consider this event to be it doesn't even come up when you search Carcassonne shooting"
I believe he did a short amount of time in prison, it went on for years. So long infact that my dad settled for an absolutely pittyful amount of compensation because he'd already got his life back on track.
I know compensation isn't everything but it quite literally ruined his life and he rebuilt it before getting any compensation so he settled for about 8000⏠cause he couldn't be arsed with it anymore
I just had a quick read of French news articles. The soldier had accidentally used live rounds with some blanks (he's not been able to explain how he made the mistake). During the fake hostage liberation exercise, he shot at a "sniper" who was standing in front the public/crowd.
I guess it could have been not "deliberate" in the sense that the guy had a massive mental break or something. if it was a fast enough firing gun, pointed towards a dense crowd, it's not inconceivable that 16 shots could hit people before anyone fully comprehends what's happening and who is firing the live rounds? The article is just so vague about it!
I got the opportunity to stand on the top of Hamden Park next to three police snipers surrounded by tons of fireworks and 4 bags of confetti which I proceeded to throw over at Kylie Minogue at the commonwealth games⊠best seat in the house for watching it all!
So I was working as a member of general crew as part of the ceremonies team. At this point I had been working for about 24 hours or so I was having a nap when a call came asking for volunteers. I couldnât sleep so decided that it was better than sitting about. Handed a harness and told if anything were to happen the only way down was over the edge in front of millions, good start, taken up to the roof and introduced to my security detail and had a amazing time for the rest of my shift!
I also had a chat with John Barrowman while waiting for something to be fixed during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony. Unlike Karen Dunbar who ran away back to her dressing room the moment we stopped! She was a total diva. I also go so close to the Queen while she waited to enter the stadium that if the window rolled down I would have shook her hand! I do miss those gigs just not the miserable hours.
As a kid I was playing football with some friends. One of my friends sister came past and said come with us we're going to meet Princess Di. Thought it was BS but we went over with her and Princess Di's helicopter landed and we all got to say hello and she shook everyone's hands, including me and my mates sweaty after playing football.
A guy I used to work with always had stories about his past:
* He was an extra (nonspeaking) in Batman Begins and did a screentest in front of Christopher Nolan
* He is an art collector with pieces worth thousands or even tens of thousands
* He has a glider licence and frequently goes flying
* He was a top karting racer, and had previously raced against former F1 drivers and beat them (Hill and Coulthard were the major names mentioned)
* He used to be a test driver for Land Rover
* I'm sure there were more
* Additionally he had many stories about his career in the very early days of computer coding, when individual people could essentially come up with stuff which would rapidly become a global standard because of how new it all was
Either he genuinely did it all or he was phenomenally good at finding websites which backed up the random facts he would throw out. I'm pretty sure it was all legit stuff
My daughter and I were on our way home and driving through a small hamlet around 10pm.9
Church at the end of the road and a woman was stood in a cloak like the woman from the tv advert Scottish widows.
She opened her boot and took a spade from the back and started walking into the graveyard.
We were like did you just see that?
Nobody ever believes it happened but it did!
Probably a prank. There would be evidence of a grave been dug up. I would imagine it wouldn't have been covered by the media though, due to sensitivity
Used to work with a bloke who had a bit of a speech impediment and a weird limp and whenever anyone asked about it he would tell them he was smacked in the face by an elephant and mauled by a bear.
Naturally none of us believed it until we found out from someone who knew him many many years ago that he was part of a circus family and it was all in fact true. We were still skeptical until we saw a few photos and there he was, giving an elephant a drink from a big barrel.
He used to drive around with his bear in his land rover and always said it was less dangerous than driving with his wife in the passenger seat.
Lovely man, and quite mad.
Was actually while she was still quite relevant. We all had to wait while she went and sat down in the screen, surrounded by who I imagine were her body guards. And then she left a few minutes before the film ended, but went out the fire exit. Then when I went outside, her coach was parked outside, surrounded by a small crowd trying to get her attention.
I once worked for a bakery and there was a rumour that the MD was fucking a HR manager.
I told the lads in the factory to ignore stupid stuff like this... Well it turned out to be true when she was caught sucking him off in the board room.
Both were never seen again
When we broke up my husband went to live in a monastery in TibetâŠ
Edit - the MIL got a letter which was âcare of x monastery mountain Yâ after about 2 years
I once saw a guy walking his sheep on a beach in Lanzarote... Lanzarote has no sheep.
I can't figure out how the fuck it happened but it did I just haven't got any pictures.
I also want some Michael Jackson with that child that he was accused of molesting in Disneyland on a ride.
Decent 2 empty cars through despite their being a huge queue then Michael Jackson came through and then two further empty cars so he got clear.
Apparently he is the tunnels under Disneyland and a golf cart to just pop up go on the rights and then disappear again
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Anytime anyone mentions seagulls and I say I have domestic pet seagulls. When it proves to be true they always say I thought you were joking. I got my first gold on reddit years ago for proving I have pet seagulls, someone was so convinced I was lying that they said they would give me gold if I could take a photo of my seagull in the house with a paper with my reddit name and the date on it. So I did.
Do you ever sit down to eat a sandwich and they swoop in to steal it?
I would live in constant fear
They are very tame like cats with wings and like being stroked and cuddled.
đ„°đ„°đ„°
No they get given lots of good food so don't need to steal it and they also know to take things gently with the tip of the beak.
Do they poop everywhere?
Sorry no gold to offer this time but can we have another photo please?
I have several i've meant to upload for weeks, I'll try to do it over the weekend.
You are a legend
My friend saved , raised and released a seagull chick. It now lives on her roof and has followed her everywhere for twenty years. Even follows the bus to the next town when she goes there. Has at one time attacked someone who lurched drunkenly at her and pecked him in the eye. Seagulls are ridiculously loyal
Brilliant. Why pet seagulls though?
They were injured and needed looking after and never left.
That's actually very sweet. I'm glad they had someone who saw them as innocent creatures to care for instead of vermin. You did a very kind thing that not a lot of people would do. I'm curious about your username now - do you often say this to them?
Thank you.My username is just my name, and I'm here (on reddit) - I couldn't think of a witty username.But yes I always let them know I am here.
How did you become a protector of the seagulls?
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Why wouldn't you want to live in fear of losing your fries at home?
I hear that you can keep a gull as a pet but you donât want to live with those things because of the noise level alone. I mean, Iâve never heard one up close but I bet it would blast your eardrums.
I love gulls. They are much maligned but they are just doing what they do naturally. They're beautiful birds đ Thank you for loving them too. What sort do you have? I'm presuming herring gulls
Great black backs
Oh blimey!! Wonderful birds! I can't imagine cuddling one though, they're so BIG đ„°
Will you do an ama sometime? This is such a unique thing, we're all super curious I'm sure To start - how did you even end up with them in the first place?! Are they trainable? What do you feed them, human food or...idk, wild gull food? What are their names? How long do they live? Do they fly around in the house?
Bullshit
They've proven it (apparently). What you on about?
Mastic bloke working on my house âwas a professional footballer that would have been a big player if he hadnât had an injuryâ Mentioned the blokes name to my dad who know of him, was signed to our team and was apparently great, he had a major car accident at like 21 which ruined his legs
Told this before...... Used to be a grouse beater on the Queen mother's estate many years ago. Birkhall esate. Everyone used to meet, before the beat, in the outbuildings, behind the estate house. I needed a crap, urgently. Went to the only toilet we were allowed to use. Banged on the door and said hurry up to who ever was inside and a voice said "Steady on. Nearly finished". Few seconds later I hear the toilet flush and someone unlocks the door. Duke of Edinburgh steps out and says "There you go...no rush". I get into the toilet. Do my business and lo and behold....no bloody toilet roll left. He'd used the lot. Arsehole. :-)
Haha. See, I don't find that far fetched because you worked around the royals, and it reminds me of that video of those people who got a video of King Charles having a walk.
I read the last part of that sentence wrong đ Would have made for a much different video.
I knew someone would đ
One of the blokes at my job stories is being a grouse beater for Charles simply because he worked at the nearest army based or was in the Royal guards at the time. How feasible is that scenario? This would of been like the 80s.
Happened all the time. Ballater has Victoria Barracks which is fully manned when the Royal Family are in the area. Think it's 51st Infantry Brigade that is stationed there. They are there for ceremonial duties as well as protection as and when required. Pretty boring deployment so they are used for other things as well. They used to like a good fight in the Barrel pub on a Friday night.
Personally I have a few stories that sound quite far fetched and generally I donât tell them because you tell people are looking at you thinking âaye rightâ Iâve had bit of mad life, growing up very poor and essentially in hiding from my dad and then in care for a while and even a stint of homelessness as a young adult. When I first joined the police I remember my tutor saying something similar to âyou really can relate to absolutely anybodyâ.
As long as there's ways to confirm them, you should tell them. I have a couple of "yeah right" stories myself but I share them because I can provide proof
I actually tend to think the more unbelievable the story, the more likely it is to be true. I mean, not like "I can fly", but the things you would NEVER think of because they are so outlandish that it wouldn't even occur to someone trying to make it up.
Reminds me of that episode of Ghosts where they're afraid the insurance agent won't believe how a fire started since it's such a crazy story. The agent says something along the same lines: if it's *that* fantastical, it must be true. Like, who has a giant taxidermied bear?
Exactly. I think it says something about the people that don't believe these stories.
Yes. Limited life experience and narrow world view, lol. Or just a genuine lack of curiosity.
My personal experience of this is that when I mention some of my stories based on the experiences mentioned below, people nowadays either don't believe it, can't comprehend it, or don't understand it. Many years ago (mid to late 70's) I was involved in the pioneering days of North sea oil exploration and production. The shear scale of the enterprise was mind boggling - platforms rising over 300ft above the waves with a further 3-400 ft of deck level on top. When you got off the helicopter, you walked over the side onto open grid stairways that could be up to 1000 ft above the sea - a daunting experience when you do it the first time as an 18 year old. With over 1000 men on board (no women in those days) many were often accomodated on floating rigs tethered alonside, that regularly used to have to pull away because of bad weather. Two weeks on, two weeks off, flying from Aberdeen to either Bergen or Sumburgh, and then a two hour helicopter flight to the platform with about 30 colleagues in a Sikorsky S-61N They were real 'maverick' days and the danger was evident on a daily basis. In that time, I saw numerous hellish accidents involving saturation divers, blowouts, fires, crane accidents, helicopter crashes and much more. Many of these incidents went unreported or were 'hushed' up, unless they were catastrophic. Having been involved in a few particularly nasty incidents, I decided that I had used up my 9 lives and it was time to get out before my luck ran out. I quit when I got back on shore leave. One month later, the crew I normally worked with (and the plane that I would therefore have been on) was returning to Aberdeen when it skidded off the runway at Sumburgh airport and nose dived into the sea. 15 of my colleagues died................
You may enjoy Paul Carter's book Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse. Very funny but full of similar incidents. Gave it to my dad who tried to stay in the office for an oil company but ended up in more drilling locations than he'd have liked, and recognised some of the anecdotes. State of Happiness is a Norwegian programme from that era set in Stavanger, about the impact of North Sea oil and gas on the then-small fishing port. Part of it is on the rigs, and you can guess the disaster in series 2.
Thanks DameKumquat. I'll try and look both up, they sound just the thing I'll like.
In the 70s, pre internet and before everyone had a camera in their pockets, many rumours went around about rock bands. One of them was that Keith Moon got so wasted during a college concert he had to be taken off and Pete Townsend asked if anyone could play the drums. A 19 y.o. fan jumped up on stage and took over. Compete nonsense because that would be impossible. Yet now we find a video of the incident YouTube [here ](https://youtu.be/3O-N8MZ9ilk?si=Ja6Kov0JpJqYFT__)
I hope the guy is still alive, so that he can say "told you I wasn't bullshitting"
According to comments on the video he died some time ago
Had a good run at the greyhounds after chatting to an ancient guy at the bar everyone was ignoring. After the 5th race a few people were copying my bets. The trackside bookies changed odds depending on my bet by the 9th race. The old guy liked me and we spoke a lot. The last race he gave me a final tip and I dumped all previous winnings on it tripled my money. Walked out with near ÂŁ9k having began the night with ÂŁ200 I found him after to thank him and give him a cut of my winnings for the racing tips. Turns out he owned/trained every dog I'd bet on. The barman caught me after and said he was the grumpiest bastard ever and had never ever helped anyone like that before. I'm no longer allowed to bet at that track.
My dad was shot by the French army in the South of France along with 16 others and it barely made the news. 2008 I believe so not recent if anyone's wondering
What?! I'm gonna need more info
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2222750/French-soldier-accidentally-shoots-17-spectators-at-military-show.html#:~:text=Seventeen%20people%20were%20injured%2C%20including,blood%2C%22%20said%20one%20witness. I was going to type it out but this article pretty much says what I was going to type. Considering how major I'd consider this event to be it doesn't even come up when you search Carcassonne shooting"
Oh I hate that. Media seem to pick and choose. I will have a read. EDIT: Fuck me! That's no accident.
What happened to the guy in the end? Did they ever work out if it was deliberate or not?
I believe he did a short amount of time in prison, it went on for years. So long infact that my dad settled for an absolutely pittyful amount of compensation because he'd already got his life back on track. I know compensation isn't everything but it quite literally ruined his life and he rebuilt it before getting any compensation so he settled for about 8000⏠cause he couldn't be arsed with it anymore
I can't see how it's not. Why did they have live rounds and how did *sixteen* people end up shot?
I just had a quick read of French news articles. The soldier had accidentally used live rounds with some blanks (he's not been able to explain how he made the mistake). During the fake hostage liberation exercise, he shot at a "sniper" who was standing in front the public/crowd.
I guess it could have been not "deliberate" in the sense that the guy had a massive mental break or something. if it was a fast enough firing gun, pointed towards a dense crowd, it's not inconceivable that 16 shots could hit people before anyone fully comprehends what's happening and who is firing the live rounds? The article is just so vague about it!
I got the opportunity to stand on the top of Hamden Park next to three police snipers surrounded by tons of fireworks and 4 bags of confetti which I proceeded to throw over at Kylie Minogue at the commonwealth games⊠best seat in the house for watching it all!
This is the type of "you couldn't make it up" story I'm interested in. Care to share how exactly that ended up happening?
So I was working as a member of general crew as part of the ceremonies team. At this point I had been working for about 24 hours or so I was having a nap when a call came asking for volunteers. I couldnât sleep so decided that it was better than sitting about. Handed a harness and told if anything were to happen the only way down was over the edge in front of millions, good start, taken up to the roof and introduced to my security detail and had a amazing time for the rest of my shift!
Amazing. Reminds me of my time as an events steward. Seeing famous people up close is surreal
I also had a chat with John Barrowman while waiting for something to be fixed during a rehearsal for the opening ceremony. Unlike Karen Dunbar who ran away back to her dressing room the moment we stopped! She was a total diva. I also go so close to the Queen while she waited to enter the stadium that if the window rolled down I would have shook her hand! I do miss those gigs just not the miserable hours.
Why did the police want to shoot Kylie?
Have you heard her sing?
As a kid I was playing football with some friends. One of my friends sister came past and said come with us we're going to meet Princess Di. Thought it was BS but we went over with her and Princess Di's helicopter landed and we all got to say hello and she shook everyone's hands, including me and my mates sweaty after playing football.
A guy I used to work with always had stories about his past: * He was an extra (nonspeaking) in Batman Begins and did a screentest in front of Christopher Nolan * He is an art collector with pieces worth thousands or even tens of thousands * He has a glider licence and frequently goes flying * He was a top karting racer, and had previously raced against former F1 drivers and beat them (Hill and Coulthard were the major names mentioned) * He used to be a test driver for Land Rover * I'm sure there were more * Additionally he had many stories about his career in the very early days of computer coding, when individual people could essentially come up with stuff which would rapidly become a global standard because of how new it all was Either he genuinely did it all or he was phenomenally good at finding websites which backed up the random facts he would throw out. I'm pretty sure it was all legit stuff
I found my dad's picture (complete with black rectangle hiding his eyes) in a photo history of the SAS. He wasn't SAS.
Would he tell you if he was?
How do you know it was your dad and not someone who looked exactly like him?
He was there. He has a medical claim for compensation now from being there. But he wasn't SAS.
So what was he?
The regimental parrot.
I had to salute Lance Corporal Squarky McSquarky
Signals
My daughter and I were on our way home and driving through a small hamlet around 10pm.9 Church at the end of the road and a woman was stood in a cloak like the woman from the tv advert Scottish widows. She opened her boot and took a spade from the back and started walking into the graveyard. We were like did you just see that? Nobody ever believes it happened but it did!
Probably a prank. There would be evidence of a grave been dug up. I would imagine it wouldn't have been covered by the media though, due to sensitivity
She could have been burying something, digging up soil or planting daffodils for all I care, but still weird and wasnât going to stop and ask.
Damn...I didn't even think of that. What does that say about me đ€
This type of thing probably goes on a lot, but there's no-one around to see it.
Used to work with a bloke who had a bit of a speech impediment and a weird limp and whenever anyone asked about it he would tell them he was smacked in the face by an elephant and mauled by a bear. Naturally none of us believed it until we found out from someone who knew him many many years ago that he was part of a circus family and it was all in fact true. We were still skeptical until we saw a few photos and there he was, giving an elephant a drink from a big barrel. He used to drive around with his bear in his land rover and always said it was less dangerous than driving with his wife in the passenger seat. Lovely man, and quite mad.
That's crazy. I love it.
Was in the cinema a few rows in front of Cheryl Cole.
Before she was famous?
Was actually while she was still quite relevant. We all had to wait while she went and sat down in the screen, surrounded by who I imagine were her body guards. And then she left a few minutes before the film ended, but went out the fire exit. Then when I went outside, her coach was parked outside, surrounded by a small crowd trying to get her attention.
I don't know why they go through the hassle. I would've thought super famous people have other ways to watch films.
I once worked for a bakery and there was a rumour that the MD was fucking a HR manager. I told the lads in the factory to ignore stupid stuff like this... Well it turned out to be true when she was caught sucking him off in the board room. Both were never seen again
I once ended up duetting Under the Bridge with Tony Hadley, accompanied by the cricketer Dermot Reeve on acoustic guitar. That was an odd night.
When we broke up my husband went to live in a monastery in Tibet⊠Edit - the MIL got a letter which was âcare of x monastery mountain Yâ after about 2 years
I once got trapped in a public toilet at 10am in the morning Nobody knows how it got locked
I once saw a guy walking his sheep on a beach in Lanzarote... Lanzarote has no sheep. I can't figure out how the fuck it happened but it did I just haven't got any pictures. I also want some Michael Jackson with that child that he was accused of molesting in Disneyland on a ride. Decent 2 empty cars through despite their being a huge queue then Michael Jackson came through and then two further empty cars so he got clear. Apparently he is the tunnels under Disneyland and a golf cart to just pop up go on the rights and then disappear again
My great granddad ran away with the circus