Bono nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

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Next we'll hear that the Argos catalogue is up for the Pulitzer.

What is the world coming to when a dirty, interfering, cut of a shit musician is recognised like this?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe Joe Millionaire will be made puppet dictator of Iraq once the war's over.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, it's what he's always wanted, innit?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

sure beats a Grammy

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

FALSE ALARM. Anyone can be nominated, it's the winning that counts.

My neighbour at home in Mericky is an Englishman who basically invented medical ultrasound, he gets 'nominated' loads too for the Science bit.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, there are over 150 nominations right now.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, there are 100+ nominees for the Peace Prize this year. Which I understand to be par for the course. Still, it's an honor to be nominated.

― cprek (cprek), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I really want him to win, as the ensuing pomposity and self-importance might make his head pop and they'd catch it on camera.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

We must all adopt Dan's vision for it is the only way too cope with this travesty.

(I didn't know there were innumerable nominations - not that it makes it much easier to stomach)

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Nobel Peace Prize, huh?

Y'know, Yasser Arafat got one of those, kept it proudly on display in his office...before the IDF blew it to smithereens.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Who chooses nominations? Can we nominate one another for it?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

'cut of a shit musician' should read 'scut of a shit musician' but it doesn't.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I assumed it meant that nasty word for love pocket that girls don't like using.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

'Lady love pocket' - best descriptive term ever. Does it already exist or can I copyright it?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It's mine.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"I can't find my ID/pencil/glasses/wallet/Palm Pilot/etc."
"Did you check your pockets?"
"Yeah."
"How about your lady love pocket?"
"... Ah, there it is!"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

You said 'love pocket', I said 'lady love pocket'. The are quite distinct. Like 'time' and 'lady time'.

A love pocket could be anything... like that small pocket in jeans for condoms, for example.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I once explained to someone in the pub i used to work in how a girl I'd known at uni had her clit pierced, and I ended up doing a metal detector-user im[pression and yelling"my car keys!" really loud.

You're still an ethical thief, Lara Byrne.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

in Quebec, they have an insultory expression "poche" which literally translates to pocket.
in all my dealings with the French-Cdns (incl sev. llp's) I'm still not sure if poche refers to the lady part or the ball-sack.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you stick things in your ball-sack? If so, you might want to see a doctor.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Much more interesting is to stick your ball-sack in things. Custard, jelly, coffee cups, vacuum-wrapping machines, etcetera.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone's mouth...

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

You're still an ethical thief, Lara Byrne.

I stole no one's moral code. If you've strayed from the path it's no one's fault but your own.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I was gonna say mouth, but it's WAY too obvious, innit? C'mon girl, you're slacking.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I went for most pleasurable rather than obvious. Although mouth fulfils on both counts.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess so. Who's mouth have your balls been in then?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

My balls of boobular delight?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

good grief Charlie Brown!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Any balls as long as they're yours.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm quite discerning so not many.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Bono, but I can't see that he has made a special contribution this particular year.

Maybe Ken Livingstone should get it.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh, honest question, but has Bono actually accomplished anything with his efforts? Other than "increased awareness"?

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Extreme annoyance. Ali Hewson does so much more than he does.

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

he has made a special contribution this particular year.

Obviously the Nobel Committee will have to swayed by the "Electrical Storm" video w/Samantha Morton.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

So, the consensus answer to my question is "no," then?

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Hoorah, I killed the evil Bono thread!

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

ugh.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 19 February 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Appropriately enough, a thread about Bono winning a Nobel derails into putting balls in your mouth.

;)

― cprek (cprek), Thursday, 20 February 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

... and you guys doubted REVELATIONS!

― wutchootawkinboutwillis (wutchootawkinboutwillis), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick A., it's not about accomplishments. If Bono wins the Nobel voters think they'll make the prize seem "sexier."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

You are clearly insane.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Christ, we're both online already. That's tragic. Barely 8.30.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Morning, honey.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Right backatcha.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I would like to kick Bono in the shins.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 08:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Why not kick him in the nuts? I feel ashamed for liking the first three songs on The Joshua Tree, and while Bono's heart is (possibly) in the right place, I can't help but think that this is all groundwork for his application for the job of Pope.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

His heart is only in the right place in terms of the fact that it is connected to his aorta.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

He's not trying to kill people though is he? He thinks he's trying to help, I'm sure, much like Blair, rather than being aware enough to realise that all he's doing is massaging his ego and trying to make certain his place in heaven.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I will not debate this with you Southall! I will not reason. I hate him! I hate him! I hate him!

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Bono, obv. Not Nick.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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no other country really knows or cares about your wingnuts!

From what I understand most of the world's 'right wing' is more left wing than the US 'left wing'. They see US wingnuts as completely and utterly batshit insane - and hardly worth taking seriously - right?

― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 10 October 2009 02:34 (sixteen years ago)

xpost to self

...which is like my persistent quasi-strawman that I always try to beat the shit out of. It just annoys me when I see the argument crop up occasionally.

― The World's Biggest Christ (Z S), Saturday, 10 October 2009 02:36 (sixteen years ago)

Gandhi was nominated for the Nobel Prize 5x and never won, Richard Burton to Bam's Sally Field.

― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 October 2009 03:13 (sixteen years ago)

From what I gather, the Peace Prize has never been about foresight, and in fact nobody is quite sure why Alfred Nobel created it in the first place. It's been used as a political ratchet wrench more often than not. Which only makes it funnier that many people, commenting on Obama's win, are taking the tone of, "Doesn't the Nobel Prize mean anything anymore?! This is all just politics!" Uh... yeah. It is.

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 03:41 (sixteen years ago)

this is embarassing and awkward for everyone involved imo

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 October 2009 03:46 (sixteen years ago)

More embarrassing than giving it to Kissinger? I think not.

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 03:47 (sixteen years ago)

Nobel Prize Committee may have pulled a serious boner here

― The World's Biggest Christ (Z S), Saturday, 10 October 2009 03:49 (sixteen years ago)

A bad vision.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 October 2009 03:50 (sixteen years ago)

Let's see what Afghanistan looks like in a few months.

Time will tell. It always does.

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 03:50 (sixteen years ago)

fuckin snitch

― My Way or the KSHighway (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 October 2009 03:51 (sixteen years ago)

Which only makes it funnier that many people, commenting on Obama's win, are taking the tone of, "Doesn't the Nobel Prize mean anything anymore?! This is all just politics!" Uh... yeah. It is.

Next thing we know the Grammys are going to mean nothing.

― Cunga, Saturday, 10 October 2009 04:14 (sixteen years ago)

I was offering a counterpoint to people who try to argue that the nobel prize shouldn't have been given to Obama because of what the wingnuts would think.
― The World's Biggest Christ (Z S), Saturday, October 10, 2009 3:27 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I'll otm alla what Z S is layin down. It's an especially silly argument since it doesn't really matter what Obama does when it comes to the wingnuts. Crazies gonna craze.

― Big King Buggle Sprayer (╓abies), Saturday, 10 October 2009 04:44 (sixteen years ago)

For once, Greg Mankiw's snarkiness seems apropos:

http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-year-grad-student-wins-nobel.html

― o. nate, Friday, October 9, 2009 10:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

oh man I didn't realize this was the same guy who wrote my intro to microecon textbook

― dyao, Saturday, 10 October 2009 05:14 (sixteen years ago)

would rather a first year grad student win it than greg mankiw

― iatee, Saturday, 10 October 2009 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

http://imgur.com/eIdek.jpg

― kate78, Saturday, 10 October 2009 05:19 (sixteen years ago)

tbh I'm waiting for the Kanye acceptance speech & OMG Obama wins Peace Prize memes to converge

― dyao, Saturday, 10 October 2009 05:23 (sixteen years ago)

From what I understand most of the world's 'right wing' is more left wing than the US 'left wing'.

France's right wing is some crazy shit though.

― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 October 2009 05:26 (sixteen years ago)

But let's be fair. Who DOESN'T hate Arabs nowadays?

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 06:08 (sixteen years ago)

(I realize now that I hit 'submit' that my comment may not carry the irony I intended. So just to be clear, that was a joke.)

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 06:10 (sixteen years ago)

tbh I'm waiting for the Kanye acceptance speech & OMG Obama wins Peace Prize memes to converge

Someone already made this joke at a friend of mine's Facebook profile:

Imma let you finish Obama but Martti Ahtisaari is one of the best Nobelists of all time! One of the best Nobelists of all time!

― Tuomas, Saturday, 10 October 2009 08:28 (sixteen years ago)

I think about 17,000,000 people made that joke before noon, actually.

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 08:38 (sixteen years ago)

I think so, yeah. At the same time I seriously wonder whether they're admiring them in secret or something.

― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 10 October 2009 13:28 (sixteen years ago)

when you consider that we let an ayn rand devotee run the federal reserve for almost 20 years, the world kind of has to take our right-wing lunatics seriously.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 10 October 2009 13:35 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1219364/QUENTIN-LETTS-Why-politicians--including-sadly-Tories-week--fawn-Bono-smug-hypocritical-whining-tax-dodging-Irish-mountebank.html

― conrad, Saturday, 10 October 2009 13:45 (sixteen years ago)

Obv I'd happily watch Letts being eaten alive by soldier ants but kudos on getting "mountebank" in there.

― It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Hongro. (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:04 (sixteen years ago)

I liked the Taliban's reaction: "He should have won the Nobel prize for escalating violence." It sounds fantastically childish, like, "Yeah, he should have won the Nobel prize for SUCKING ASS!"

― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:05 (sixteen years ago)

Letts: "Had Bono not taken up his famine and African poverty agenda, would he have sold so many records and remained such a big name for so long? Quite possibly not. He might well have disappeared into non-entitydom."

Or quite possibly yes. I'll never understand this sales-boost logic: "I just saw a picture of Bono shaking hands with Kofi Annan and now I just have to buy a copy of the new U2 album!" Probably outweighed by: "I just saw a picture of Bono shaking hands with George Bush and now I'm going to stop buying U2 albums."

― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:12 (sixteen years ago)

A reason not to be angry at Nobel Prize committee - I still don't support the line of thought around here (and elsewhere) that we should all adjust our actions so as to avoid angering the wingnuts. First it applied to specific debates, then to national politics in general, and now the Nobel Prize committee should consider the needs and worries of the wingnuts before they award a prize. Fuck that ... But yeah, I agree with everyone here in wishing the Nobel Prize committee wouldn't have blown their collective wad.

― The World's Biggest Christ (Z S), Friday, 9 October 2009 15:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Er, yeah: the thing is, outside of the sciences (maybe IN the sciences, I don't know) the Nobel is notorious for being about the expediency of that moment and what message it can send (c.f. Pinter's terrible latter-days work prompting a Nobel Lit., when he was being very vocally anti-Iraq at the time). And this reads (to me, at least) as a fairly explicit lol-at-you-guys move aimed at the American right wing. It's not a helpful or well-timed intervention, I guess. Or er in other words kenan otm:

― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Saturday, 10 October 2009 03:41 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― thomp, Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:13 (sixteen years ago)

xpost

The original Live Aid gig did boost a bunch of careers tho I thought, saleswise.

― It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Hongro. (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:13 (sixteen years ago)

Everyone except Boomtown Rats I think.

― knick knack auf zack (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:19 (sixteen years ago)

I heard everybody except Adam Ant.

Sales going from 0 to 2 = a boost.

― It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Hongro. (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:21 (sixteen years ago)

Oh yeah, definitely. Likewise the 1988 Mandela show, which seems to have been a nightmare of competing egos and shallow opportunists despite presence of bona fide activists like Jerry Dammers. But that's one easy three-song set in front of a global TV audience. I think Bono's in a different category, seeing that he spends an enormous amount of his free time working on campaigns (the efficacy of which are, of course, an entirely different issue). In terms of time spent, and flak attracted, there must be easier ways of getting publicity. This trite publicity = sales equation ignores why most people buy pop records, ie they like the music.

― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:23 (sixteen years ago)

The relative commercial failure of No Line on the Horizon, at a time when Bono's profile as an activist is as high as it's ever been, proves my point.

― Dorian (Dorianlynskey), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:24 (sixteen years ago)

Oh Lett's, with his up-to-date and groovy pop references.

enough to make a reasonable man come over all Pete Townsendish

― knick knack auf zack (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:25 (sixteen years ago)

seeing that he spends an enormous amount of his free time working on campaigns

"You know that world poverty? It's a terrible thing, let me show you some my graphs"
http://slashgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/bono_bikini_chicks.gif

― knick knack auf zack (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:30 (sixteen years ago)

it occurs to me that basically what the nobel committee are doing is trolling

― thomp, Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:37 (sixteen years ago)

Someone already said that upthread.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:39 (sixteen years ago)

Nothing worse than people repeating messages on a thread.

― It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Hongro. (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:39 (sixteen years ago)

Someone already said that upthread.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

So did anyone think the Nobel committee was trolling?

― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:46 (sixteen years ago)

haah sorry :(

― thomp, Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:46 (sixteen years ago)

http://slashgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/bono_bikini_chicks.gif http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs204.snc1/7133_642880151230_36910239_41162122_650888_n.jpg

― StanM, Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:57 (sixteen years ago)

TOO SOON

― It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Hongro. (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 10 October 2009 14:59 (sixteen years ago)

sorry :-)

― StanM, Saturday, 10 October 2009 15:01 (sixteen years ago)

:-D

― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 10 October 2009 15:12 (sixteen years ago)

what did lj get 204'd for?

― Pedro Paramore (jim), Saturday, 10 October 2009 16:31 (sixteen years ago)

Obama vs. Bono: FITE!

― Aimless, Saturday, 10 October 2009 16:57 (sixteen years ago)

would rather have bono vs. quentin letts: fite but you're american so OK

― conrad, Saturday, 10 October 2009 17:03 (sixteen years ago)

but you're american so OK

board descrip for Britisher sub-board

― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Saturday, 10 October 2009 19:23 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.slowpokecomics.com/strips/terminatrix.gif

― Tuomas, Sunday, 18 October 2009 09:01 (fifteen years ago)

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