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<Merged> Bono isn't the Worst/Bono is the worst

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    #122
    Orange69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Orange69


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    his work to have the superpowers reduce/ remove Africa's debt repayments

    = Population = Starvation = Migration = Chaos

    Africa and her leaders need to be held accountable for their inability to function, not bailed out and mollycoddled.


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    #123
    gurramok
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    rubberdiddies wrote: »
    A little research wouldnt go amiss.......
    First off Bono didnt move any tax abroad. the company 'u2' did.
    Secondly, what Bono, and U2 as a group still pay in taxes in Ireland each year would pay for dozens of ministers salaries! Yes we are talking many millions

    Show us the figures, genuinely interested.


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    #124
    Degsy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    gurramok wrote: »
    Show us the figures, genuinely interested.


    I would also like to see those firgures and the figures relating to Paul Hewson's charitable donations.

    I can provide figures on my own..i gave a homeless guy 5 quid this morning coz i used to know him years ago..i'd sooner have given him all my money than give one cent to africa,especially as a result of Bono's bullshiiting.


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    #125
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    walshb wrote: »
    Yeah, a lot more ****ing harm he has done, hence my point....

    Care to stop speculating and start providing evidence?
    walshb wrote: »
    What is charitable about lecturing and begging off governments around the world to continue to throw money at Africa. What is so charitable about promoting population increase in Africa, a continent that for many years could not feed its population, yet we have him and others promoting family and increase? I fail to see anything charitable about this. It's downright ludicrous and insulting to the continent.

    Africa's biggest problem is the big white chief in the West wanting to dictate and lecture the continent non stop.

    Yes... yes you do.


    Try look at both sides of the story before you jump in... :rolleyes:


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    #126
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    walshb wrote: »
    What is charitable about lecturing and begging off governments around the world to continue to throw money at Africa. What is so charitable about promoting population increase in Africa, a continent that for many years could not feed its population, yet we have him and others promoting family and increase? I fail to see anything charitable about this. It's downright ludicrous and insulting to the continent.

    Africa's biggest problem is the big white chief in the West wanting to dictate and lecture the continent non stop.

    He's done a lot more than you or I, but I'm not getting upset, I'm trying to help more. What have/are you doing, besides mouthing off?

    You should try sunglasses, might help to see better?


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    #127
    Mr Benevolent
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    Big Mouth Bono hasn't posted in a while, he must be writing the speech that will once and for all end poverty in Africa :rolleyes:


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    #128
    Einstein
    Registered Users Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Einstein


    I remember the time at a gig when he shushed everyone and started clapping his hands really slowly...then he says

    "Every time i clap my hands...a child, somewhere in the world dies..."

    Till some bloke in the front row shouted "Stop fcukin' clappin then..."


    hehe...ah gets me every time :P


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    #129
    walshb
    Registered Users Posts: 55,699 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    He's done a lot more than you or I, but I'm not getting upset, I'm trying to help more. What have/are you doing, besides mouthing off?

    You should try sunglasses, might help to see better?
    See, maybe you should stop and think first; had you done this you would realise that I am doing too ****ing much. About 700 million Euro per year too much to be precise. And it was more a few years ago.
    And that little runt is partly to blame.


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    #130
    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,696 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    I heard that someone climbed onstage at a U2 concert and punched Bono.

    It was the first case of the fan hitting the ****.


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    #131
    JerryHandbag
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    Degsy wrote: »
    Or he could give them a few quid himself..the annoying little bollocks

    Can you prove beyond all reasonable doubt that he hasn't??


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    #132
    4pointplay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭4pointplay


    Be handy if the old dirty Dublin **** would pay a bit of tax.


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    #133
    Torqueamada
    Registered Users Posts: 18 ✭Torqueamada


    Bono's a decent old chap.

    He's got a job to do. Sure he could sit on his arse and just make a **** album every four years, but would we be happy with that? I think not.

    He gets to save the world and eff off to Nice for a €70 G&T.

    Fair play to him.


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    #134
    m@cc@
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Degsy wrote: »
    Or he could give them a few quid himself..the annoying little bollocks

    What do you know about Bono's charitable contributions? How do you know what he's donated?


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    #135
    vodafoneproblem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭vodafoneproblem


    sponsoredwalk wrote: »
    A mole
    Digging in a hole
    Digging up my soul now
    Going down, excavation

    Ha Ha, I admit that makes me squirm a bit as a U2 fan but Elevation was a really awesome track over all and I would like to offer you some pure poetry from U2 as a counter argument. One Tree Hill song and lyrics:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQfetXCTFbI

    We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill
    As the day begs the night for mercy love
    The sun so bright it leaves no shadows
    Only scars carved into stone
    On the face of earth
    The moon is up and over One Tree Hill
    We see the sun go down in your eyes


    You run like river, on like a sea
    You run like a river runs to the sea


    And in the world a heart of darkness
    A fire zone
    Where poets speak their heart
    Then bleed for it
    Jara sang, his song a weapon
    In the hands of love
    You know his blood still cries
    From the ground


    It runs like a river runs to the sea
    It runs like a river to the sea


    I don't believe in painted roses
    Or bleeding hearts
    While bullets rape the night of the merciful
    I'll see you again
    When the stars fall from the sky
    And the moon has turned red
    Over One Tree Hill


    We run like a river
    Run to the sea
    We run like a river to the sea
    And when it's raining
    Raining hard
    That's when the rain will
    Break my heart


    Raining...raining in the heart
    Raining in your heart
    Raining...raining to your heart
    Raining, raining...raining
    Raining to your heart
    Raining...raining in your heart
    Raining in your heart..
    To the sea


    Oh great ocean
    Oh great sea
    Run to the ocean
    Run to the sea


    Still, I think U2 should pay their taxes in Ireland as a company as well as individuals. And should give up their artists' exemptions as individuals, too...

    And, yes, the prices they charged in Croker were extremely greedy.


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    #136
    m@cc@
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    vodafoneproblem wrote: »
    And, yes, the prices they charged in Croker were extremely greedy.

    Supply and demand. They're not a charity.


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    #137
    vodafoneproblem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭vodafoneproblem


    m@cc@ wrote: »
    Supply and demand. They're not a charity.

    Yes they are. U2 are more than a band.


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    #138
    vodafoneproblem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭vodafoneproblem


    Oops, that video cut out before the song ended. Here's one that has all the song but with no video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqKugPDXliM&feature=related

    It deserves a video over flat plains and rainy Ireland, imo.


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    #139
    walshb
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    m@cc@ wrote: »
    What do you know about Bono's charitable contributions? How do you know what he's donated?

    Nobody but Bono knows; but the point is that if he wants to be so ****ing arrogant and dogmatic in KNOWING what I and other taxpayers give, then he himself should be public in disclosing what he gives. Now, until he does, I will assume he is giving nothing.


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    #140
    MarkN
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    Must'a been standing too close to the edge......

    http://www.u2.com/news/title/paul-mcguinness-on-todays-news/


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    #141
    scudzilla
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    MarkN wrote: »
    Must'a been standing too close to the edge......

    http://www.u2.com/news/title/paul-mcguinness-on-todays-news/

    Something serious i hope


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    #142
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Must have listened to one of his own cd's


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    #143
    2ygb4cmqetsjhx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 564 ✭✭✭2ygb4cmqetsjhx


    onob


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    #144
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    Ah here ffs. He's one of our own, regardless of what you may think of him a person, he's done a lot of good for our country and doesn't deserve that kind of ill will.


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    #145
    mattman_iflaf
    Registered Users Posts: 95 ✭✭mattman_iflaf


    Back Surgey... does he need a new spine...


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    #146
    amacachi
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    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    Ah here ffs. He's one of our own, regardless of what you may think of him a person, he's done a lot of good for our country and doesn't deserve that kind of ill will.

    I have more in common with Robert Mugabe.


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    #147
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    Is it to have the stick removed from his ass?


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    #148
    Mac daddy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,942 ✭✭✭Mac daddy


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    he's done a lot of good for our country and doesn't deserve that kind of ill will.

    It's called a backache, get over it.


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    #149
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    Is it to have the stick removed from his ass?
    No, Cowen hasn't returned it yet to him!


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    #150
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    Mac daddy wrote: »
    It's called a backache, get over it.

    I was replying to the idiotic comment "something serious I hope".

    I dont remember at which point it became funny to wish serious illness on another Irish person.

    As for the Mugabe comment, well that says more about you amacachi than anybody else.


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    #151
    scudzilla
    Registered Users Posts: 11,932 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    Ah here ffs. He's one of our own, regardless of what you may think of him a person, he's done a lot of good for our country and doesn't deserve that kind of ill will.

    Come on Ali, you should be in hospital by his side, not messin about in AH ;)


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