Ya know who really pisses me off?

[Snoogans]

Ok, to all you Bono haters out there. Ignoring U2's music, please explain what he has done to deserve your wrath.

A pompous dickhead with more money than God is not a good spokesman for the poor starving folks of the world. Many people think "Fuck that twat, he can afford to buy them all a new car each, why doesn't he stump up the readies". Then there's that whole tax-dodging affair. And the sunglasses indoors. And the schmoozing with Bush and Blair.
Wanker....

And I ignored the shit music.

[xsentrick]

As the late great Sam Kinison once said...."If you really want to help them, don't send the food or money. Send them U-hauls and luggage. Get their kids and their shit and move them to where the food is!! You live in a fucking desert!! Nothing grows there, nothing is gonna grow there...WE HAVE DESERTS IN AMERICA, WE JUST DON'T LIVE IN THEM ASSHOLE!!!!"

[hippietim]

Ok, to all you Bono haters out there. Ignoring U2's music, please explain what he has done to deserve your wrath.

[Cleveland Metal]

I'm thinking Africa is screwed because of their misc governments... Lotsa corruption and animosity amongst nations...

[Madness]

Welfare is a joke due to abuse.

I have been a landlord for the last 3 years and my mother did it for 30+. I can't tell you how true this statement is IMO. I can't remember the last time we showed an apartment to someone who wasn't trying to rape the system in some way or another. Here in VT, if you are a single mother the state will help pay a portion your rent,(among many other things) but, that's only if you and the child are the only ones living there. Well, I have only seen 1 "single mother" ...9 out of 10 times they show up with thier freeloader boyfriends which they want me to pretend don't exist. It's common for them to ask me to lie to the government about who will be living there. Sorry, not happenin'.

[Snoogans]

I hate Bono too. What a fucking twat he is.

I really couldn't have put it better myself. There just aren't enough hours in the day to hate the prick...

[ABSOLUT CHARVEL]

Corporate greed over human need.

Off shoreing, importing means less jobs here. Welfare is a joke due to abuse. Wal-Mart forces tax payers to shell out for the medical of its employees, ask Califorina who paid Millions of dollars for health care, as if Wal-Mart couldn't. You save big there, don't you.

[guitarsjb]

Bono isn't from here, so he has no obligation to HERE. He should worry about Ireland. I'm sure there are folks there that need help. Before I want one dime to go to Africa (or anywhere else) I want it in my country where there are homeless and hungry people every day..but if we would feed the homeless to the hungry we could take care of that issue..hmmm. (J/K) relax.
What pisses me off about here is MOST of them CAN work and WON'T. WTF? But, in reality, there are children and other poor folks that need help and get overlooked because no one pays any attention to them. Help your own first.

[ABSOLUT CHARVEL]

Some times we are all guilty of paying too much attention to the messenger, rather than the message.
Below are some Bono Quotes:


"Senators, I spend a lot of time in this country. Maybe too much for your liking. I spend a lot of time in buses. At truck stops. In town halls. In church halls. I do all this, and I'm not even running for office."



"It's patently clear to anyone living in New York or London that whole corners of their cities were about to be taken out, whether with chemicals or dirty nuclear devices. So I'm not full of criticism for the way the Americans have behaved. I'm with them."


"America is not just a country; it's an idea. You have to defend the idea as well as the country, and that idea is being attacked."

"Me, I'm in love with this country called America. I'm a huge fan of America."

"You see my country, Ireland, is a great country, but it's not an idea. America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America."

"When the potatoes ran out, millions of Irish men, women and children packed their bags got on a boat and showed up right here. And we're still doing it. We're not even starving anymore, loads of potatoes. In fact if there's any Irish out there, I've breaking news from Dublin, the potato famine is over you can come home now. But why are we still showing up? Because we love the idea of America."

"There are potentially another 10 Afghanistans in Africa, and it is cheaper by a factor of 100 to prevent the fires from happening than to put them out."

"Imagine if a third of the kids at your local primary school were AIDS orphans. That's a reality in Africa where the parents of 13 million children have been killed by AIDS."

"Look at what happened in Southeast Asia with the Tsunami. 150,000 lives lost to the greatest misnomer of all misnomers, "mother nature." Well, in Africa, 150,000 lives are lost every month. A tsunami every month. And it's a completely avoidable catastrophe."

[Extant]

If an outsider read this thread he'd come away with the impression that America is a third-world country.

Jesus. America has its problems, yes. But they pale in comparison to other places like Africa which are inevitably much more serious on a global scale. It's just egocentrism.

I can't say I like Bono much, but at least he tries to convey the message. Hell, he's doing more in making causes known than thousands of other people with rockstar fame out there, so kudos to him.

[Rsmacker]

charity begins at home...

Yeah, but not Bonio's home, the bulbuos-headed twat! U2's accounts are all based abroad so they can avoid paying tax (Amsterdam, I seem to recall).

That's tax that their Govt. would be helping poor people with, in their country and also via aid programmes to Africa.

Cunt.

[CharvelRocker]

I would love to see the "books" on all those "Aid" concerts. There is no question that Africa and just about all the rest of the world is a basket case. But, just how far from home does it go when it comes to real help by individuals? All I know is that I can't worry too much about the rest of the world when we have people here, in the US, sleeping on streets or living in abject poverty. I am not an isolationist. There are way too many people here that need help. We can't take care of the rest of the world when there are millions of people here that need help.

+2 America is so concerned with helping eveyrone else, but we dont do enough about out OWN issues

[Strat God]

Africa is very fucked up. Tootsies and Hootos machetying each other in the millions - extermination, really - while the rest od the world turns a cheek..... .Aids claiming every 3rd adult over there. Then you have that flesh-eating virus.....army ants cruising the jungle and can pick a cow clean to the bone in about 10 minutes.....those fucking elephants attacking cars driving by.......gorillas flinging shit at you .........

I say NUKE the whole frickin place.

[toejam]

I would love to see the "books" on all those "Aid" concerts. There is no question that Africa and just about all the rest of the world is a basket case. But, just how far from home does it go when it comes to real help by individuals? All I know is that I can't worry too much about the rest of the world when we have people here, in the US, sleeping on streets or living in abject poverty. I am not an isolationist. There are way too many people here that need help. We can't take care of the rest of the world when there are millions of people here that need help.

+1

[Guitardude86]

Geldof is the one who really pisses me off. Just how much money ever made it to the people that needed it? He is a scumbag. After all the costs of his "Events" and all the ways that everyone eats up the gross, what's the net?

But, but.. I like some of his songs:ROTF: