Feb 24 2006Bono nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

I actually have nothing bad to say about Bono. U2 rocks the most! Not only that, Bono seems (from what I've seen) to be a genuinely nice person. You never hear any crap about him acting like an asshole/diva. To me, U2 is one of a select few bands who consistently come out with awesome music and haven't ever put out a shitty album.

Ah Bono. The same Bono who opened his fat mouth in anger towards certain countries for not aiding in his plight before doing his research and finding out these countries had in fact funded millions of dollars to the cause.
Ah Bono.

"I absolutely love rockstars who have opinions on everything" says me sarcastically!

His heart is in the right place, but the methods he proposes are all wrong, having failed for decades now. The ``we need to throw more money at it'' bit. Oh, and how long ago was U2's last good album?

I'm sick of this overrated douchebag.

shut up and sing bono! even your bandmates are getting sick of your bleeding heart. why don't you give all of YOUR money to 3rd world tyrants?

I'm sorry 190 people, how ?.

Seems like we have 189 people working very, very quietly and 1 who never shuts the fuck fuck up.

I've checked the records.
No Nobel Peace Prize has ever been won by a guy who wears sunglasses indoors.
Although Bono probably still has more rhythm than past nominees,like say, Gandi - I think he'll probably lose on style points.

Bono uses his campaigns to further his own personal agendas. His 'charity work' is oddly enough in sync with album releases. Enlighten yourself...

http://www.edthesock.com/News/article/sid=87.html

I say, "Go Bono!" Seriously I never hear or see this guy acting like a bitch.

Britney Spears should probably qualify too. Think about it--all those teen boys peacefully masturbating in their rooms, then being too tired afterward to cause trouble. Yes, she may be overweight and stretchmarked now, but in her day she's done as much for world peace as Bono (excuse me, I'm getting a little verklempt).

Bono is in Brazil right now. He's "enjoying" the Carnival. He even made a duet with a brazilian performer. He singed with all his might:

- Chupa toda! Chupa toda!

Then he asked "what am I saying?" The lady told him "it means suck it all!"

Nobel prize material.

Check the pics of him surrounded by ugly people and trying to...dance the samba or something:

http://noticias.uol.com.br/carnaval/2006/ultnot/ult2666u497.jhtm

Click on "Veja as fotos do camarote".

I remember when my parents thought they were doing something nice when I was in school and they paid off my debt....I'm betting Somalia and and Bolivia do the same thing all my friends and myself did.....Run up some more debt baby!!!!!!

I wish I was a rock star so I could know all. Oh, funny story though, Bono was on Capital Hill visiting Senators and all these 35 year old senior staffers were following him around, and two 18 year old interns walk buy and said "Whos the old dude with the sunglasses?" Classic.

This is no big deal, really. The rules for nominating a person for a Nobel Prize are very loose. Being just "nominated" doesn't really mean much. I think President Bush was nominated last year or the year before.

(Smiling sheepishly) Well, I guess I'm the only one who doesn't have something to say about Bono. Ah, well, I'll admit I don't really keep up that much with what he does in his everyday life and that as a general rule, celebrities who are very outspoken about their political views annoy me (think Ben Affleck), but I stand by the fact that U2 is an awesome band.

Spacedog
Maybe our tastes in music differ, but it's my opinion that their last good album was How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, which was released in November of 04. But, obviously, it's not required for everyone to agree with me on that. I do have to differentiate between their last good album, which I mentioned above and their last really great album, which I'd say was a tie between Achtung Baby and The Joshua Tree.

Hell, even "Tookie" Williams was nominated for the Peace Prize. That was before we executed him.

All it takes to get nominated is a cover of Time with your picture on it.

whatta bunch of tossers. if you knew what being Irish is all about, then you would understand Bono. charity work to sell records? as if. guess who does not have to promote anything and they are the biggest rock band performing today. I agree you can buy just about any 'award' out there, but don't slag on Bono for doing something decent.

HiTech, you stole my thunder about Tookie. Well played, Sir, well played.

As for Bono - last I heard, he still hasn't found what he's looking for.

Haven't followed him closely on his causes but he spoke at the President's Annual Breakfast and that was on CSPAN maybe a few weeks back.

I went from neutral to positive. The guy is genuine and spoke very movingly about doing what we can.

You could tell that his words were well received by the reaction of everyone there including the President.

I'm not impressed easily but call me impressed. And I did see U2 twice this year by good luck at Madison Square Garden. Good show.

#16 actually all it takes is to be anti-American.

Still kudos to Bono the world is now a better place since he successfully lobbied for bankruptcy for a few despot’s who can now get a new line of credit to renew their efforts to purchase more armaments, erect more propaganda, palaces and effigies. Oh yeah and take care of priority one...cleansing their turf of undesirables. But I’m sure they’ll get to that feeding and education thing once all the cleansing is done. Remember... 'Cleanliness is next Allahiness.'

I have never liked this guy. And, I still don't like this guy. He gives me the creeps.

Remember Ren & Stimpy "You have just won the Nobel Peace Pry." (God, I love Ren & Stimpy)..

Look, I LOVE Bono, the Edge and U2 and what they stand for but a Nobel Peace Prize? Thats like a million dollars, isn't it?

When did HE write the Theory of Relativity? No, he wrote "Under a Blood Red Sky." GOSH! Well, I want one too!!!!

I got so sick of spending $150 on a concert ticket to see the band I used to call my favorite and instead got what seemed to be some sort of ticket to a fucking UN meeting because there was a 10 minute speech in between every song about these people starving over here & this one dying over there. I pay good money to hear their music & stare at Larry Mullin's ass when I can... not to hear some hippie propaganda.

As The Onion so brilliantly put it "The Rest of U2 are Perfectly Fine with Africans Starving" and so should Bobo, I mean Bono.

Oh, ManU I've missed U. Thanks for the belly laugh. And Larry Mullins ass, yummm!

I've missed you too Laydee! I have had the crappiest week ever at work and now I'm ready to rock & roll.. what have I missed?

"whatta bunch of tossers. if you knew what being Irish is all about, then you would understand Bono."

You're absolutely right. Irish history is all about rich old famous rock star millionaires who never have to sweat or get their hands dirty and live lives of splendor with plenty of food on the table, and can't let go of their 80's heyday fashion statements.

In all seriousness, I get what you're saying. But Bono's still annoying.

And by the way, Bono seems to be about as in touch with his poor struggling Irish roots as Pam Anderson is with her modest Canadian upbringing.

#25, ManU, well just some psycho named susie (shhhh, she may hear me) was stalking mamacita and PAPA is M.I.A. I got a new awesome job and I start Monday, so you guys may hear from me "Sporadically" (there's me channeling Tai from Clueless)

It's been kinda dead and just started to liven up today.

ladybug - you think you can just make things up and that's the way it is?

Mamacita is a retard and when she insults me and others, I will respond to her insults. She is a retard, her posts are mind-boggling drivel, and if she insults me, I'll be damned if I'm not going to tell her what a retard she is.

It's so obvious it's almost pathetic. You might pity her, but I don't.

#28: Yeah I've noticed in the past couple 'o days there are some Kooks out there lately. Duckboy loving Britney, blackblackfart.
Susie just wants to have sex with you guys - that's her kinky way of showing affection. At least that's what she told my puppy yesterday after kicking his dick in.

Congrats on the new job. I have 2 beers at my desk *cheers*

#29: So are you saying mamacita is a retard or are you saying she is she a retard?

manunited

I think she's saying I'm a retard.

talk about kooks. one rich Irish rocker tries to spread some positive apolitical messages and is condemned with some manu wanker types talking about eating ass.

Aw, let me spell it out for ya: g-r-o-s-s

All the power to him. U2 never acts up like attention whores.

I may get my teeth kicked in for having the unmitigated gall to speak out of turn here; but what the hell! I have always been a fan of U2 and will always be one. They at least do not pretend to be anything other than who they are.... and they are well read and able to carry on a full conversation using words with more than one or two syllables. Yeah - they are keepers - not so sure about the Nobel Peace Prize thing, but frankly, I don't think Bono even gives a hoot about that.

Now, having said all that, I am out of here for the entire weekend.... everyone play nice and if you can't play nice...... oh well.

Sheva - are you a retard? In America we use the word "stare" (as in stare at someone's ass) to mean I "look" at said person's ass...not eat it. No go toss your own salad and stop using the word "wanker" - it makes you sound all sorts of gay.

yeah manunited - something like that

I'm not asking is she a retard ... that's obvious.

and I'd pity her if she didn't start with insulting me and asbo

no pity for the hypocrite

thanks manunited - I needed a good laugh

The Nobel Peace Prize is based on politics unfortunately. Not that Bono is a bad guy. I kind of like him and his music. But you have to be vociferously leftwing to win the award, which he sort of is.

#30 and dont lie to the girls. If you would think I would ever hurt a puppy, that's just wrong.

And I'm not going to let some immature, mentally-challenged flake hurl her unprovoked insults without responding.

This should have been renamed the Nobel Douche Prize after they gave it to Arafat. It's impossible to cheapen it any more.

Oh my lord in heaven susie cooz - you need to give it all up STAT! If you were here in front of me right now I would give you $25 to go out & get yourself a sense of humor and try to understand "sarcasm" & "satire".

Why do you feel the need to want to hurt puppies? That's just wrong & evil.

no reason to make me the butt of your satire and sarcasm when we both know who the flakes are

Hmmm. Insanely rich rockstar preaching how we should spend our money. Hmmm.
Most of his audience can barely afford the tickets to their shows. And, not to slight Africa, but Ireland isn't exactly the richest country in the world.
If he feels preachy, maybe his energy would best be spent elsewhere?
He is starting to remind me of a creepy Elvis with the sunglasses on all the time.

#44 suzy cooz: I happen to think mama & laydee are witty & funny. I only like people that can make me laugh. You have never said one funny thing as far as I can see because you are too busy flipping your shit out on everyone else.
Constructive criticism: lighten up & laugh a bit, you'll find you won't be so uptight and sex will feel that much better.

cooz: oh and don't kill puppies.

mamacita is not funny (unless you find her dim wit amusing) or witty and if you think so, maybe you should go re-read her posts. she is, at best, mentally challenged.

She just ought not to go around insulting other posters because, yes, she is a dim-wit and she just makes herself look worse when she stirs things up and someone responds to it. Yes - if she flips it first, I'll flip it right back.

And I don't claim to be a comedian.

If you're not a comedian then go to some other website where you share recipes & stories about killing puppies. Leave the funny to the funny and get. fuck. out.

Have a fantabulous weekend! I sure hope this doesn't make you too mad and you go on some coke bender causing a mass puppy-killing spree.

my my why sucn agression?

WOW, with all the shit flinging in here I guess this post about Bono isn't very exciting.

To all my hustlers that I have grown to love over the past month (or so) you know who you are

PEACE!

i'm not the one who kills defenseless puppies.

i honestly didn't mean anything unamicable toward you - geez

manunited

Trust me. You do not want to go down this road. If you do, you're gonna end up spending the next couple of days trying to obtain a restraining order like me and LaydeeBug. I've got one thing to say about that girl. Damn, but she's persistent. Check it out-she wrote you 4 posts without a response. Also, she was apparently unaware that you were making fun of her psycho ass the entire time. Anyhoo, manunited, let me know if you need some tips on getting that restraining order.

and to what do you compare killing a defenseless puppy? chill - I have no beef with you.

dim-wit - mamacita ... you are just such a dim-wit

how is it I'm unaware of him making fun of me when I addressed him making me the butt of his satire?

and what's with this posting without a response nonsense?

you are amazingly retarded

I know - I did find it funny that it took her a loong time to figure out I was making fun of her. I am tempted to quit my job and work full time just annoying her.
I don't need any restraining order - she can't win a verbal assault with me.
She has not seen anything yet but will if it keeps up.

Oprah and her Housewife Mafia must be so jealous since they unsuccessfuly tried to get her a nomination.

The Mad Dater,
"Becausethere's a bastard in all of us"

Hey ESQ

You're a lawyer, so maybe you can handle this one. Could you let "the one who shall not be named" know that my restraining order requires her to stay at least 15 posts away from me at all times?

Give him his goddamn Nobel so he'll stop telling our governments to tax us more to send more money to more corrupt african governments.

Screw you Bono give you own money!

manunited
LaydeeBug

Well, guys, fight the good fight. I'm leaving to go eat some seafood. I'll try not to associate the smell of the crab with "the one who shall not be named" and how her stank ass probably smells. Holla!

manunited - how is it that you perceive anything unamicable from me?

and how is it that when I let your making fun of me slide and politely address it, all of a sudden that is not realizing you are making fun of me? Especially when you say I have no sense of humor?

Like I said - I have no beef with you. Why the perception?

damn - you were giving me money a minute ago - now you are mad at me and MIA

oh well - no beef here

Seriously, bloody hell guys. Exchange emails and have ya fight like that. Cause this is gettign retarded, having to scroll through half a page of lameass comebacks... That is NOT a hint to get me involved.

Thanksplease.

Peace on Earth...yeah right...we can't even have peace in a bloody thread.

sorry coozy, unfortunately i do not sit in front of the superficial every minute of the day, but since you're missing me i just want to tell you i don't necessarily have a beef with you - I have a beef with your kind who come on this site & instigate arguments with your holier-than-thou BS comments instead of just screwing off and writing the first goofy thing that comes to mind when you read these moronic posts.
Your kind are the reason i started commenting instead of just reading all the time because I hate the self-righteous bullshit that makes its way on here and really enjoy getting those types incensed with superficial rage, as you have so kindly portrayed this evening, to make my point.

#61 You obviously don't know anything about Bono. Him and his band have donated alot of money to different charities. He's put his money where his mouth is. Have you?

you dropped off the radar screen so suddenly and seemed mad at me

I did not instigate any argument - mamacita insulted asbo and then me, continuously, for defending him. Rather than rolling over and playing dead, I point out she is appearing to be genuinely retarded.

Since her insults are not directed at you, I don't expect you to understand.

I have not had any rage at all toward you or anyone else. Stating facts, bringing to light the absurdity of mamacita's moronic insults, questioning your appearance of being mad at me, and explaining that I was not offended by your comment nor was I mad at you, is all I have communicated. No rage nor incense.

I thought your comment was genuinely funny, just didn't think it pertained to the sitation. Hence, the "thank you for making me laugh". I did not "not get it that it was directed at me". I thought it was quite witty. Just not applicable.

It's all good - just try to be a little more objective. And don't get mad at me. I wasn't mad at all.

susie-q

O.K. Here's how it went. Asbo was posting the same exact comment, which insulted the writer, on every story that came out a few days ago and was just filling in different names for each story. I made a comment to the effect that if he was going to insult the writer, he should be original and post a different insult to each story. I said absolutely nothing to you. As a matter of fact, I didn't even know that you existed at that point. However, you insulted me and said something implying that I wasn't smart enough to get that the annoying thing that asbo was doing was funny. I then responded to you and since then, you have refused to leave me alone. You have tracked me down in several posts where I said nothing about you, just so you could chime in about how retarded I am. Those are the facts and you'll see that if you choose to. Well, I, for one, am seriously over all of this. If you'll shut up about me, I'll shut up about you. How's that?

yes I was defending asbo. If you are going to insult me for defending him, I am not going to just say - oh well fine.

And I guess it's all how you perceive it. I am simply responding to all of your insults directed at me. You insult asbo, you insult me, and then it's all wrong for someone to insult you? After all, this is a website dedicated to insulting. But how is it you can dish out the insults, but no one can insult you in return?

Fine then - since you are appearing to be reasonable, consider the matter closed. No problem.

Just to clarify here. It's possible to defend one person without insulting another. If you had done that, I would've had no problem with you. You insulted my intelligence while you were defending asbo. That is what pissed me off. And I didn't care if you insulted me back. I cared about the level of the insulting and the fact that you wouldn't let up on it. If you'll notice, asbo let up after the 2nd comment and I never said anything else to him. That's why I had such a problem with you, because you wouldn't leave it alone. Well, now that we're both at a point where it's become ridiculous to us, hopefully this will be the end of it. Pax.

you insulted asbo and I stated you failed to see the humor in his posts - must I apologize if you took that as an insult? so be it.

then the insults between you and me went back and forth - it was neither of us that let up - be objective

it's not so much that it's ridiculous, it's that you are being reasonable. No need for the "hopefully" - I fine - no problem.

*I said fine

and yes I was being insulting when I responded to your insulting asbo - but again, if it offended you, I apologize. But if you insult others while not getting their humor, likely someone will point out that you just did not get the humor for whatever the reason may be. I don't want to insult you by pointing that out.

again, it does seem you are willing to let this all go for real - done then

Ok I was reading this to find out about Bono and yes have to read through a bunch of mindless boring crap about who is a "retard" and who is not. First of all who refers to anyone as a "retard"?? Come on!!!!!!Take it outside ladies and WHOEVER is the webmaster of this site can you not do something about this so we don't have to wade through the crap comments to find something funny. This is not funny.It's an annoying waste of time.

Bono! Oh my gosh guys this is all my fault. I must have added a B by accident when I filled out the nomination form. I meant to nominate Yoko.

Seriously people please take your ridiculous yammering and petty arguments somewhere else, you are spoiling everyone else's fun. Or whatever this is.

I'd do Bono. Over and over and over again.

call Bono back we need him to mediate this site, you know if he's not busy and shit.

Fuck Bono. If he was serious about African poverty he could pay off their debts with the change he spends on all those fucking sunglasses and still have change left for coffee.

NEWSFLASH

If all you want to do is find out about Bono, you can just read the story and leave it at that. If, thereafter, you choose to read the comments, you are wanting to see what other people had to say about said story. In that pursuit, you are going to come across some minor altercations. In just about every story, there's someone burning someone else and usually it's shortlived. This was a little more drawn out than usual, but it's over now. However, no one is forcing anyone else to read the comments. So, if it's really a problem for you, there's an easy solution!

Speaking of smacktards...what’s the saying...Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics. Even if you win you’re still retarded.

#82 That's actually pretty funny! Here's my favorite bit of irreverent humor. Before my husband and I got married, we had a lame pick-up line contest, and he won with this one "Let's go halves on a bastard". I have to admit, I do feel extremely sheepish about all of the mud I was flinging. However, it was mostly hormonally induced and I have a dr. appt. on Monday to switch birth control. After that, everyone should be safe from my wrath. You should visit www.tshirthell.com

he's a rock star, not a nobel peace prize winner. angelina jolie deserves it more than him, she stole brad from jennifer, ahahaha! if that doesn't inspire peace i dont know what will!

I'm honestly impressed that the Nobel Foundation didn't outright rehject hoim because he isn't a scientist or a suit.

U2 has been putting out consistently excellent music for over two decades and Bono was speaking out aboutthe idiocy of teh religious war in Ireland, while U2 was still wet behind the ears.
The man has a social conscience and I say more power to him. Anyone who thinks that forgiving teh debt owed by 3rd World countries is "nothing" needs to wipe off their belly window and read a few things about economic terrorism.

That being said, Bono was starting to strut the IT boy a few years ago, but to his credit, he seems to have caught himself and put a lid on it.

He a lot better nominee than these two who were on the 2004 list of Nobel Prize nominees:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/multimedia/bushblair_endlesslove.mov

http://www.rense.com/general48/vlai.htm

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http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/multimedia/bushblair_endlesslove.mov

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Debt relief is a failed solution: you wipe out the arrears these dysfunctional states have, but don't address the underlying corruption/inefficiency/structural defects that brought about the debts in the first place.
Agreed on the need for people to stop gumming up the thread with the ``I'm rubber, you're glue'' bits. Let's be adults.
Just my two cents.

~ working class Dubliner with a garage band that got a lucky break. halfway decent tunes. never worked a day in his life to speak of. is he qualified to dictate to me how my tax money is spent? are any of these(entertainment industry) morons qualified to judge or preach to me on my life or tax dollars? is it any wonder the Democratic party suffers from dis-connect? BRING ON THE BALDWINS!

Forgiving tthe debt IS one part of the solution -- obviously not the whole soultion -- there is no silver bullet. But it is an integral part.

Bono's glasses are blue -- not rose colored.

You're amusing kimoira. Democratic party disconnect?... yeah maybe but that's not teh only disconnect. Don't want to be told how your tax money is spent but you're apparently happy to have a phony cowboy coke fiend spend your tax money on bombing the hell out of iraq and handing your tax money to his good ol' buds in Haliburton.

That's a hoot.

On topic: I think that one reason Bono got nominated is that he's been trying a bi-partisan approach (including meeting with Bush), to get politicians to look past politics and do something together.

He probably won't get the Nobel anyway.... whatever.

If that powermonger John Boulton got nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, then I think Bono should definately not be left out.
Check it out at CNS News

Bonois themost influential figured of our time. Most americas don't listen to bono's word.Sure he's a rockstar from an island where one half wants to kill the other,not to mention child brainwashing.Check out north and south of the river (B side)it speaks of the Irish strif. Bono sings about hookers, bombs ripping open the sky (aint that america)Bono is an amazing man. I pelieve he got the ball rolling on releaving Africs debt,more and better med. plus by helping them relieve this illegal debt, what is bound to happen, woud have happend, an entire continent will be purged.. thatks to an AIDS pandemic. We already have starving orphans whos mothers litterly worked them selves to death on there back so that the children mighht have a chance. The peouple I speak of in Rural Africa wait for the garbage truck and riot for their next meal. iF GW3 is pressured enought he will give the 1! asked. People How can a president immidiatly relieve the debt of an oil rich nation such as Iraq and shuffle his feet at Afria? As it stands Arica is spenign all its money paying off these predatory loan. The are forced to sel their diamonds, coco and sugar at the least fine product, thereby getting less value. If it's dect was lifted, the coud become their own refineries. Then they woud have money for food and meds. Bono may be rock star but the man is a saint

number two. He wants more he knows we have it. ITs for the better good. Also lets not forget all the hundreds of millions going to this regime chage... he georgA how mnay Iraqis you kill today.. in the name of collateral damage

WOAH WOAH WOAH! Hold the f*cking phone!!

i love what Bono's doing but if he's going to get nominated for a Nobel Peace Award then shouldnt Oprah Winfrey be nominated? that woman should've won already.
que pura mielda de este mundo! dios mio!!

next thing you know...that Tom guy from MySpace will be nominated too!

---i just had to say that so if someone already posted something like that then too bad. *cough*

Oh, I thought Nobel Prizes were for people who actually do something, like rocket scientists or inventors. So, I guess it ends up all you have to do is have a lot of money and know how to use it.

you have never known one of the mpst powerfulhe,. He sits at heads of ststes leads prayer breakfastn but mostly he has monye, sure and he spends it in irder to th ebtter word ever have witnessed a man in power. Rather thta being agluttion he shares his weakth ansd persues othe ciuntrys to tak his lead. Bono is a genius (in case you did know he isn;t jtd schmuck ot theit.

oprah doesnt deserve jack shit.. expect an igo deflation

In related news, Ted Nugent runs for president.

somebody please tell him that those glasses SUCK!!!
i like him and stuff but when I see him whit those glasses?!?!?!?!