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A fun fact about you….

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Still1nLove · 14/10/2021 22:36

Inspired by another thread, I was trying to think of a fun fact about me. I finally thought of one:

I used to work at the treasury and, apparently, my office used to be Winston Churchill’s bedroom. I’m not sure how true it is but I love to think it is.

Tell us a fun fact about you……

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PinkiOcelot · 15/10/2021 22:09

Can these be classed as fun though?! The majority are just facts.

GoWalkabout · 15/10/2021 22:26

I had sex with my gorgeous Spanish boyfriend on a beach in his Land rover and we fell asleep only to wake up at dawn with twenty mounted Spanish police officers exercising their horses in a circle around our vehicle rather deliberately. I didn't really have any clothes on so this was a little awkward.

youvegottenminuteslynn · 15/10/2021 23:13

A top 20 song was written about me by my ex. It had heavy radio play at the time which peeved me no end!

Ledition · 15/10/2021 23:35

wildasthewind you're lovely Grin

SuziLikeSuziQ · 15/10/2021 23:39

My photograph was on the front page of the Telegraph aged 7. I was at a day-camp in London and a reporter took some of us at different ages to sit some kind of aptitude tests, then published an article about our results, along with our photograph, names and ages. I think it was to do with the introduction of the National Curriculum in the 80s. My mum was never asked permission - first she knew was seeing my photo on the front page in the newsagents! 😆

Ledition · 15/10/2021 23:48

I've had a couple of psychic incidents - yes yes I know I know.... I'm the least superstitious, most hardcore atheist you'll meet yet I've had a couple of seriously coincidental episodes in my life. The earliest one was when I was about 12. I woke in the middle of the night and went into my mum telling her that my cousin was having a baby. I barely knew the cousin in question, she lived in another European country and I'd only met her a handful of times. Mum told me to go back to sleep I was being ridiculous. That morning my dad's sister rang to say my cousin had a baby girl! She was only 19, they'd kept it hush hush as they were embarrassed. 23+ years later It still gives me shivers but I just knew?!

I also knew the very second I met my husband that I would have his children. I didn't even like him, thought he was a bit of a rude dickhead to be honest but even so I just knew.

There's been a number of these incidences and they continues to freak me out! Now if only they involved the lotto numbers...

dodobookends · 16/10/2021 00:02

My DH gets songwriting royalties.

Not a lot, unfortunately!

Vanuatu · 16/10/2021 00:14

I farted while doing a forward roll in front of the whole class Blush

Etsylicious · 16/10/2021 00:20

Not me but my friend.

Walking along beach with her husband. Saw a body up ahead at the bottom of cliffs. Rang 999, crying in distress - only to realise it was a dummy being used in a training exercise…

🤭

pollyglot · 16/10/2021 00:32

Gt-grandfather shot (and killed) the butler. Not funny, I know, but still...
Gt aunt rode her horse into town, slapped it to send it home with a note attached, and ran off with the itinerant shearer.

WeasilyPleased · 16/10/2021 00:34

I once waited for Roger Moore to come out of one of the Three Little Pig's houses.

Graphista · 16/10/2021 00:36

My accents when speaking foreign languages are so good I have been mistake for a native speaker on a few occasions...

Unfortunately my ability to understand the other speaker doesn't always match at which point they learn I'm not as fluent as they thought! Grin

This has caused some confusion at times

However it has also proven interesting when I CAN understand what people speaking in other languages are saying when they are assuming those around them can't understand...and they're saying what they really think!

If I'm in a mischievous mood I'll then say something in "response" to what they've said, usually in their language.

I once told Des O'connor that he looked like Des O'connor.

I was present when someone did this to another celeb, celeb took it in good faith and said

"I know I get that all the time"

Celeb has a VERY well known voice and accent

Person then said

"Wow! You even sound like him, you could get work as a lookalike" Grin

and gave me one of Fergie's hairclips that had broken and wanted me to glue it together!

Was it a fergie bow? Grin

I've had sm "likes" from all 4 of the central charmed actresses, not on the same subject different stuff

Katiejanej · 16/10/2021 01:04

A few household names follow my Instagram.

TheUnexpectedPickle · 16/10/2021 01:31

Derren Brown's dad was my swimming instructor when I was in primary school.

Trumpton · 16/10/2021 02:01

When noodling around on Ancestry I found a census entry for 1891 in Wales where a man with my husbands surname and a woman with my maiden name were living in the same house.
Neither are common surnames…fate innit !

merrymelody · 16/10/2021 02:14

I used to chat with Phil Collins at the school gate.

merrymelody · 16/10/2021 02:17

It was fun.

elp30 · 16/10/2021 02:37

I have 70 first-cousins and I connect with them still on social media daily.

On a day in !980, Jack Nicholson, was filming a movie in my hometown. My cousin was an extra and boldly invited Jack to her house for a party. He accepted. There was no planned party! She called her mother and the entire family was called to my aunt's house to create a huge party on the fly. Jack was very gracious and he stayed for several hours with us. He brought tequila for the adults and candy for all the kids.

When I was nine, I had a school project where I had to write an elected official about a concern and hope to get a response. Most wrote to the mayor of our city, some wrote the congressman or the state governor but I wrote to the President about my irritation on the increased price of my weekly treat purchase of gum. In the course of a month, it went from $.25 to $.35. My allowance was only $.50 and my money was no longer going far. I was the only person who got a response. President Jimmy Carter explained to me that he was very aware of the rising costs of goods and how so many were facing difficulties in paying for their needs and wants but he was but he was doing all he could to reduce the rate. I still have the letter.

WorkingItOutAsIGo · 16/10/2021 07:59

I once asked a tall man who was standing blocking everyone’s access to a coffee urn if he could step aside so I could get some coffee. Then looked up (i’m quite short) and realised it was David Beckham!

He was so lovely and polite and apologised for being in the way.

RicherThanYew · 16/10/2021 09:55

@elp30 That is the coolest thing I have ever heard.

RicherThanYew · 16/10/2021 09:57

@WeasilyPleased Why didn't you blow the first two houses down and save time?

acceptance · 16/10/2021 10:26

@Ledition

I've had a couple of psychic incidents - yes yes I know I know.... I'm the least superstitious, most hardcore atheist you'll meet yet I've had a couple of seriously coincidental episodes in my life. The earliest one was when I was about 12. I woke in the middle of the night and went into my mum telling her that my cousin was having a baby. I barely knew the cousin in question, she lived in another European country and I'd only met her a handful of times. Mum told me to go back to sleep I was being ridiculous. That morning my dad's sister rang to say my cousin had a baby girl! She was only 19, they'd kept it hush hush as they were embarrassed. 23+ years later It still gives me shivers but I just knew?!

I also knew the very second I met my husband that I would have his children. I didn't even like him, thought he was a bit of a rude dickhead to be honest but even so I just knew.

There's been a number of these incidences and they continues to freak me out! Now if only they involved the lotto numbers...

I had a weird coincidence once on summer holiday, we were standing at a viewpoint on far north west coast of Scotland, I was about 17, pointed to the islands in the sea and said, those are the summer isles you know .

How did I know that? I’d never been there before, there were no signs, the only other tourists about were Chinese, we didn’t do Scottish islands in geography at school, we were from the opposite side of Scotland, no living relatives on the west either . Mum totally bewildered .

It was as if I heard a voice in my head telling me, very odd - when we got home and realised I was right it was quite a shock .

BlackAlys · 17/10/2021 00:07

I saved the life of a young joyrider who'd stolen and overturned a car, which subsequently burst into flames, by dragging him out by his head and ears. His mate died on impact. I was never even questioned by police (left ad the ambulance arrived) but I had a mention on local news as an anonymous passer-by who'd stopped to help. I was second on the scene. I will forever remember the feeling of singed hair and scorched flesh until the day I die.

I was also arrested as a hunt saboteur - detained then released without charged.

Both the above happened in the early 90's.

I was also chatted up by a married and very popular sports commentator, whilst on a weekend in Edinburgh. He was very persistent and only left me alone when my brother's mate pretended to be my boyfriend.

staceyflack · 17/10/2021 00:17

Bill Wyman's groundsman rescued me from the Norfolk broads, when I thought it was a good idea to go swimming in the dark pissed.

llamakoala · 17/10/2021 00:26

I was the first baby to be born to a patient at the Lane Fox Respiratory Unit at St Thomas’ Hospital. Thanks to a remarkable Doctor called Geoffrey Spencer - and his team. In fact, my parents and I had our photo taken when I was a toddler for a leaflet promoting the work he did on the unit, and fundraising for LFRUPA.
Not really a skill or anything remarkable that I’ve done, but not one of your everyday - odd fun fact. Grin