drewbhoy
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Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 18:11
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Does that mean the pro Bono people don't like his music?
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keith a
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Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 18:12
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It would appear so. I'm a bit confused TBH.
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sanshee
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Edited Oct 11, 2010, 18:18
Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 18:18
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I don't know why, the initial point was fairly easy to understand.
Don't sweat it so much!
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drewbhoy
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Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 18:19
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Mind you at Hampden last year U2 Glasvegas3 (left to go to a Celtic match after Glasvegas)
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keith a
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Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 19:11
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sanshee wrote: I don't know why, the initial point was fairly easy to understand.
"All I'm saying is it's as if there's a *pro* Bono camp and an *anti*-Bono camp, with the *pros* invariably piping up that they don't like his music, but none the less he does good etc, and that's how they shape their opinions."
Really?
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sanshee
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Edited Oct 11, 2010, 19:17
Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 19:14
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That was not the 'initial point' Keith, or rather the initial post.
You're making yourself even more unnecessairly confused!
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keith a
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Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 19:59
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sanshee wrote: That was not the 'initial point' Keith, or rather the initial post.
It was, however, what I was referring to.
Still, it's better to mess about with smokescreens rather than try and explain what you meant. It made no sense before and it makes no sense now, but no worries. I won't lose sleep over it or anything.
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sanshee
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Edited Oct 11, 2010, 21:39
Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 21:20
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So you remain confused, never mind.
The Live Aid single, was awful. Concerts both here and in the US full of pampered pop stars with tons of money each. Also, UK stuff had Bono on it! But it achieved things. Saw the food parcels and stuff on the news. Result.
I believe U2's 'One' (also had Bono on it) and Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, two tunes I detest, were released for AIDS charities.
More results. Proper charities helping people.
I see Bono's 'One' organisation as no more than a 'talking shop', truth be known. Loads of money spent lobbying George W Bush to mention 'poverty' at UN conferences. As if that sort of 'tokenism' doesn't go on anyway. Bush (now of course Obama) et al will always mention everything and anything when the media spotlight's on them. We all know that.
That's what I meant by aligning 'One' to talking round a bottle of wine, or whatever it was.
That's where all the posturing happens.
Dunno about you, but I give my money to where I know it'll 'achieve things'.
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drewbhoy
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Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 21:47
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Thats the spirit give your money to me. I won't be confused then!
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keith a
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Re: More Bono bashing (never enough IMO)
Oct 11, 2010, 22:36
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I can only think you're taking the piss, Sanshees. I've said what I didn't understand. I copied and pasted it and put it in inverted comma's lest there be any misunderstanding. However...there clearly was!
It really doesn't matter. And what you do with your money is your concern. Differing sources say he has helped between two and four million people. They're huge numbers but that's not the point. If he's helped one person that he didn't have when he could have been getting off his tits like many other musicians we like, then I take my hat off to him.
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