Do rock stars ever really donate themselves and their time to charity and not come across as pompous two faced idiots? Does Bono know what the real world is like?
― Ceezargh, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)
― Bonofan On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)
― :| (....), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)
― Ceezargh, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)
yes, in a socialist utopia a binman would have the same amount of cash as a rock iconoclast with silly sunglasses, but that's not the point here. i'm not a bono fan particularly, but for fuck's sake, if he can get people to listen to him then go bono.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)
― henry miller, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)
http://news2000.libero.it/spettacoli/foto/grammy14_bonoTime.jpg
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)
― henry miller, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)
(x-post)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)
anyone with me? let's start a movement.
― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)
Hmmm.
― Ceezah, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)
hey so does Britney
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)
-- fact checking cuz
you've no right to ask that
― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)
BEHOLD!
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)
his wife, however, seems like a delightful woman.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)
you've no right to tell me that. only bono can tell me that. or michael york.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)
but am i talking about calum or bono?
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)
oh, fuckit .. [delete]
jesus h. christ ...
He's a capitalist - he doesn't have to give up everything he makes and he's not asking other people to either.. Just asking that people give up something to help someone else. You're still entitled to a 60GB iPod and a hot meal if you worked for it. But remember the guy who has no food now and then. (And tonight thank god it's them instead of YOOOUUUUUU!)
fuxake.
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)
As for "the Omega Code", I saw that movie (my friend and i wanted to see "a bad movie" which is usually not as fun as it sounds even though MST3K MAKES IT LOOK SO EASY!) at a local $1.50 theater which closed down a few years later and was turned into a "World Redemption Outreach Center", which is basically a fundamentalist/evangelical church which lures kids with "funtime activities" and crap like that. South Carolina!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)
Wow. Can music snobs ever shout to the hills about their charitable donations and not come across as pompous two faced idiots?
Get over it already. Bono actually does give to charity and wants other people to as well. How is that different from what you're doing with this thread?
― mrjosh (mrjosh), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)
And I wouldn't do a GAP ad on personal moral reasons. But Bono did. and he's a moron. Clearly.
― Ceezart, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)
Traveling by private jet he's able to be more productive and able to spread his love-giving message faster. Sure, he may blow $100K in fuel, but if it convinces an extra hundred people to give a thousand each, he's breaking even!
if this were 2002 and u2 didn't have an album out bono would not be doing this shit.
Remember the Super Bowl half time show with the scrolling names and Bono pretending to be American? I think that was 2002.
― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)
― The Gap, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)
Remember right in the middle of that when a corporate logo popped on screen? Never underestimate a large corporation's aptitude for tasteless promotion.
― ezruh sellof, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)
I would hate to think that if I managed to become famous, people would hate me merely for wanting to improve the world.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)
― Aislinn, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)
― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)
― Blogging Blofeld, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)
― m1cc1o, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)
On Ice, On The Money.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)
Me neither. Fuck that corporate bullshit. I'm just gonna sit here at my Dell workstation with my Levi's and Nikes on using Internet Explorer to decide which barn jacket from J.Crew online best matches the leather case I bought for my iPod Photo.
And while I'm waiting for the page to load, I'll pop over ilx and complain about Bono's two-faced shenanigans.
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)
― m1cc1o, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)
― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)
this must have been between hair implants
― m1cc1o, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)
no, because the former makes possible the latter
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)
http://www.pgaf.org/newsletter/issue01/images/bono_onstage_l.jpghttp://www.unl.edu/scarlet/v13n16/bono.jpg(2002, Lincoln, Nebraska - Heart Of America tour)
to reaffirm how rare this is,
http://wiesenthal.speedera.net/www.wiesenthal.com/img/bono.jpg
The only place in the last four years Bono hasn't worn sunglasses is LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. WHY? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
I must watch the Omega Code again for clues.
― m1cc1o, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)
― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)
Judging by the evidence it is starting to look like my initial theory (Bono wears shades because he is slowly changing to a demonic form and his eyes are now red and glowing) doesn't fly. I like your They Live concept, Nicole.
― m1cc1o, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)
― m1cc1o, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)
where's my check Bono??
― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)
(btw all the above posts were me. I was just being lazy at work and not signing in)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)
"Doesn't fly", haha.
http://www.allthatu2leftbehind.fsnet.co.uk/pictures/bono/images/bono25.jpg
― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)
― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)
― Nicole, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)
― deej, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)
― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)
― deej, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)
― Nicole, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)
― accentmonkey, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)
― deej, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)
― deej, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)
― Nicole, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)
― Pye Poudre, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)
― deej, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)