Bono-The tightfisted bastard

Degsy

So Lillies is having a "charity" night in support of St Francis Hospice:

Lillie's Bordello hostess Hayley Rock is helping organise a charity event for the St Francis Hospice, which cares for people in the advanced stages of cancer and motor neuron disease.

She has revealed how one of her oldest pals, Emma Louise Walsh, passed away from cancer in May when she was just 27 years old. The fundraising night will be held on Sunday, which would have been her 28th birthday.

Very laudable i'm sure
So Bono is apparantly a friend of hers

Having worked at the club for the past five years, Hayley has built up an enviable collection of contacts and now counts the U2 frontman as a close colleague.

"I would know him from being in the club so much and we would have built up a very good relationship over the years," she said.

Good stuff..a man with 300 million quid in the bank onside for a good cause.
So he,in his charity:

"He was more than happy to help us out by giving him a pair of his sunglasses, which was so nice of him."

Yep,folks..a pair of sunglasses..what an absolute saint.

A fraction of his personal wealth could buy the centre several times over so he donates a pair of shades he doesnt wear any more.

And it really looks like a night you dont want to miss because

Loads of our usual regulars will be coming as well as a few of the girls from the agency, it looks like it will be a fantastic night," she added.

Better and better...is it just me or does the whole thing reek of a cynical attempt to revive a flagging business using a cast-off from a tax-dodger as the bait??

bronte

Red Hand

Anything to say about Gerry Ryan?:pac:

Multi millionaire begging regular folk for money while giving only the bare minimum.....what's new?

Lando Griffin

I wonder are they these twattie things.

Wear them to look a right tool.

mikemac

Sorry, what is the agency mentioned?

Is some modeling agency involved?

abouttobebanned

yawn

Degsy

feelingstressed wrote: »

Sorry, what is the agency mentioned?

Is some modeling agency involved?

No idea...it all sounds a bit wooly to me..full story is here

bronte

What colour were the sunglasses?

Creature

What a fiend, worse than Hitler so he is. In fact if you got Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mel Gibson and the devil and blended them together, the sludgy aftermath wouldn't contain even a quarter the of evil that radiates from Bono.

Ali Babba

And knowing Bono he'll probably decide he didn't actually give them away in the first place..........

dvpower

Degsy wrote: »

Yep,folks..a pair of sunglasses..what an absolute saint.

A fraction of his personal wealth could buy the centre several times over so he donates a pair of shades he doesnt wear any more.

http://www.juliensauctions.com/about-juliens.html

Bono's Sunglasses: $24,000

Creature

dvpower wrote: »

http://www.juliensauctions.com/about-juliens.html

But surely they'd be worth even more if he donated a matching pair of his eyes to go with them? Why didn't he donate his eyes too?!

Degsy

dvpower wrote: »

http://www.juliensauctions.com/about-juliens.html

Balls

duckysauce

:rolleyes: yawn any models in bikinis there with bonos shades on ?

who what when

Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »

Anything to say about Gerry Ryan?:pac:

Looks like bono is the new gerry ryan!

dvpower

Degsy wrote: »

Balls

Arse

Ebay wrote:

New with tags: A brand-new, unused, unworn and undamaged item in the original packaging (such as the original box

J.Ball

duckysauce wrote: »

:rolleyes: yawn any models in bikinis there with bonos shades on ?

If ya give me an hour i can get pictures wont exactly be the A squad though or even the B squad

Pherekydes

If he paid his tax in the first place then maybe the hospice wouldn't have to go looking for charity handouts.

Or maybe Anglo-Irish would've sucked it all into their black hole.

dvpower

Creature wrote: »

But surely they'd be worth even more if he donated a matching pair of his eyes to go with them? Why didn't he donate his eyes too?!

That would just devalue any future sunglasses he donates.

Wibbs

Yea of course it's daft Degs. Standard operational procedure though. You'll hear someone like the pope go on about the poor while he sleeps in silk sheets surrounded by Raphaels. How many lives would the cost of his daily vestments save? The Dalai Lama travels the world in 5 star hotels feted by the great and the good, yet seeks to reestablish a feudal theocracy with him at the head while doing so(I met him once and the I got one helluva bad vibe off the man). Like you say, Bono or any number of his rich rock/movie icon fellows witter on at the rest of us about feeding/saving the world and yet they pray at the feet of Mammon on a daily basis watching their interest returns go up. And this surprises you?

The Italian lad machiavelli spoke of the effective truth. The real actuality of what is going on when people talk. The BS that is spoken. Its all around us. The examples I gave above can be joined by many many more, yet we, or at least most believe the BS. Look behind the BS and see it for what it is. Bono is at least one of the more obvious examples. I suspect he really believes he makes a difference and he does. More than many, but his difference is in stark contrast to his gifts and wealth. I'm reminded of the lad from Galilee and the widow who gave all she had to give. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2012:41-12:44&version=ESV Muhammad, Krishna and Buddha said similar shít, as did Confucious and many other philosophers. Funny how we either don't do it ourselves or believe the BS of those who claim to do so. Who woulda thought that Jesus, Machiavelli and Degsy would be in agreement

Degsy

Pherekydes wrote: »

If he paid his tax in the first place then maybe the hospice wouldn't have to go looking for charity handouts.

Exactly..he saves millions in tax at the expense of the Health service..specialised cancer units are being closed becauise the govt's falling tax revenues so his conscience moves him to donate a pair of sunglasses...

There's a special place in hell for people like him.

dvpower

Degsy wrote: »

There's a special place in hell for people like him.

The VIP suite?

Pherekydes

Wibbs wrote: »

Who woulda thought that Jesus, Machiavelli and Degsy would be in agreement

Some think that Degsy is the second coming.

Red Hand

Wibbs wrote: »

The Italian lad machiavelli spoke of the effective truth. The real actuality of what is going on when people talk. The BS that is spoken. Its all around us. The examples I gave above can be joined by many many more, yet we, or at least most believe the BS. Look behind the BS and see it for what it is. Bono is at least one of the more obvious examples. I suspect he really believes he makes a difference and he does. More than many, but his difference is in stark contrast to his gifts and wealth. I'm reminded of the lad from Galilee and the widow who gave all she had to give. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2012:41-12:44&version=ESV Muhammad, Krishna and Buddha said similar shít, as did Confucious and many other philosophers. Funny how we either don't do it ourselves or believe the BS of those who claim to do so. Who woulda thought that Jesus, Machiavelli and Degsy would be in agreement

And how many lives could your computor and Degsy's computor, and my computor and the cost of our internet connections save?:pac: Not to mention all the useless sh*te that we own, such as TVs/gadgets/etc...:pac:

Wibbs

Yep, but none of us here are claiming to be better, claiming to be examples. We may be indolent sods looking on the sidelines, but we're not saying we're referees.

dvpower

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita


We're all Bonos compared to the most of the world.

gurramok

I dunno wtf is wrong with Bono.

If i was worth 300m, i couldnt give 2 flying Degsys if it suddenly went down to 200m as a result of my generous donations to helpful causes. Loike come on, who would notice a difference between 300m in wealth and 200m, you'd still be filthy rich!!

Oh would ya ever get the fúck over it Degsy you're funny on here but realistically he's done a million times more than you will ever do for this country

MrStuffins

Oh FFS!!!!

give it up on the Bono bashing, it was tiresome 2 years ago, it was even more so a year ago, and now??..................

Dudess

:pac:
"Degsy hates Bono" threads rule!