lol

Exactly Why should anyone who isn't from Cleveland hate him? He's a decent role model seeing how he doesn't get into any trouble whatsoever.

Who?

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that has been my thoughts exactly, but half of Americans seem to for not reason whatsoever absolutely hate his guts with enthusiasm. It is strange really.. he is the best role model in basketball since Magic Johnson. But people don't want role models in the NBA anymore, they want TMZ drama of arrests, drug scandals, bar fights, guns in the locker room/airport/courthouse, and of course, adultery and even rape. Heaven forbid we have some decent guys in the league, and if we do, we have to completely assassinate their character. I hope the Thunder don't also fall from grace, that is an entire TEAM of nice guys ;)

bono pops up everywhere and i fucking hate it. i saw a documentary about bukowski and there he is but the worst was a doc about old blues musicians and cedell davis is on it, he plays with a butter knife on the strings because he cant use his fingers that well due to polio, then up pop's bono talking about the blues. someone i was watching it with said how much they loved bono and we all laughed out loud until she left the room.

At a recent U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland, Bono asked the audience for total quiet.

Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds. Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone, “Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies.”

From the front of the crowd a voice with a broad Scottish accent pierced the quiet …

“Well, fuckin stop doin it then, ya evil bastard!”

Gosh, what a dick.

right, bono is a dick.

exactly.

Didja see where their bassist was robbed by his personal assistant for like USD 3 MM?

i did not, but that just made my day.

Bono net policing idea draws fire


Bono's call was to "rally America...the most creative economy in the world"
Bono, frontman of rock band U2, has warned the film industry not to make the same mistakes with file-sharing that have dogged the music industry.
Writing for the New York Times, Bono claimed internet service providers were "reverse Robin Hoods" benefiting from the music industry's lost profits.
He hinted that China's efforts prove that tracking net content is possible.
The editorial drew sharp criticism, both on its economic merits and for the suggestion of net content policing.
"The immutable laws of bandwidth tell us we're just a few years away from being able to download an entire season of '24' in 24 seconds," he wrote.
"A decade's worth of music file-sharing and swiping has made clear that the people it hurts are the creators...the people this reverse Robin Hooding benefits are rich service providers, whose swollen profits perfectly mirror the lost receipts of the music business."
In a move that drew significant criticism, Bono went on to suggest that the feasibility of tracking down file-sharers had already been proven.
"We know from America's noble effort to stop child pornography, not to mention China's ignoble effort to suppress online dissent, that it's perfectly possible to track content," he said.
Several commentators assailed both the logic of net monitoring and the economic arguments of the essay, pointing out that U2 topped 2009's list of top-grossing live acts.
"Bono has missed that even a totalitarian government...can't effectively control net-content," tweeted Cory Doctorow, a blogger and journalist noted for his study of file-sharing policy.
"If only greed and ignorance could sequester carbon, Bono could FINALLY save the planet," he added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8439200.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqh6x29bc64 in this video bono blesses rockers tinariwen. because in africa bono is the king, president,vice president, general and prime-minister nobody is allowed to play popular music without first being jumped in by bono in a ritual where the king comes on stage and performs his irish version of subtle pan african dance moves, bono yells slogans like "freedom" during the performance which indicates that the band is now free to play their music, having been initiated by the monarch