In this thread, were are hating bono

[Mick Mac]

AnotherPaul Wrote:

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> I hate him in the following ways:

> ? putting money in tax havens while telling

> everyone to help the poor

Yep Paul - I made this point early in the thread and I think its the height of hypocrisy. I have always liked U2 as a band and don't object to good tax planning at all but when you pay a lower rate of tax than the man in the street then don't tell normal people to contribute more money. I recognise he implores governments to change tactics, but hes just trying to be the next Bob Geldof but its been done before.

[ibilly99]

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[ibilly99]

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[ibilly99]

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[HonaloochieB]

That last one's good Billy. Hooray, McPhisto's back.

[giggirl]

Did anyone else read the Bono interview in the Sunday Times Magazine this week? Has it changed your opinion of him? Or do you feel that Chrissy Illey may need emergency surgery to get herself extracted from his bottom?

[Brendan]

Why on God's green earth would I read an interview with him?

[Jah Lush]

Or the Sunday Times come to think of it Brendan.

[giggirl]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Why on God's green earth would I read an interview

> with him?

I read it because, although I have a poor opinion of him, I genuinely want to believe the best of people, so I read it in the hope I might read something that would make me change my mind. Sadly, it's just 15 minutes of my life that I won't get back.

[Brendan]

Like the first three songs on The Joshua Tree.

[DaveR]

I just read the first page of the interview (couldn't face any more)

If you didn't hate Bono before, you would after reading that.

I already hated him because he is such a c*nt.

[Ted Max]

There was a stupendously long and portentous article back in Feb in the Observer by Sean O'Hagan. Here's a taster or two. I might adopt "Move it on down to Bamako" as my signature.

"Things are looking good," he says. "It's a beautiful, sunny, winter's day and Edna O'Brien has just been sent me her book on Lord Byron."

No Line on the Horizon is finally finished. "It began and ended in a flash," he says. "The last 24 hours were just extraordinary. It was like Chinese calligraphy, where the monks take ages to mix the ink and then - bam! - it all happens in seconds."

Eno, who has assumed the role of musical director, shouts out tempo changes, instructions, suggestions. "The chords sound a little too vanilla," he says of one laid-back, swampy groove. Bono, who has a couch all to himself, concurs. "We need to find that nightclub-in-Tripoli feel," he shouts back, swaying to the beat, "then move it on down to Bamako."

[giggirl]

I have a hunch U2 might play Glastonbury this weekend. You've been warned.

[Moos]

In this thread, we are hating Chrissy Iley.

[Mick Mac]

Bono - he asks us all to give to Africa - but he does all he can to avoid paying his home country taxes - there are poor people in Ireland too Bono - charity begins at home. Yep thats twice I have said that on this thread - hope he reads the EDF.

He says his children find him embarrassing - no Bono the whole of Ireland finds you embarrassing.

[bigbadwolf]

Don't you all find it a bit of a coincidence that two of the worlds most publicized fund raisers are both Bog men amd as are tight fisted as their Celtic cousins.

Bono

Bono has the ear of some of the worlds most influencial leaders and business moguls but still manages at every corner to come across as the developed worlds biggest ambassador of vainity. From the Sunday Times magazine:

'I am a loyal if unreliable friend. I am an earnest activist . I am reflective and a religious-ish person. I am a rock star'

I think the last sentence is testimony to an individual who's entire personallity has been carved from the tree of egomania.

He's also a short arse who if removed his shoes you'd more than certainly discover he has hooves instead of feet, in my opinion.

Bob Geldof

Apart from being a complete arse he looks like a dog thats been left out in the rain.