More Bono Dickwaddery

omg his speech was dire. and he kept clapping himself after saying something "profound" to get others to clap with him. god it looked like he was just there to get people clapping for him, rather than delivering any particular point.

"Bono net policing idea draws fire"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8439200.stm

"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.

Bono, stick to what you're best at, music. Oh wait...

"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."

...

amongst my bros and homies "livin' like an ISP provider" has replaced "livin' like a rock star,"

Maybe stop running such expensive tours?

In 44 sold-out dates since June, the band played to 3.2m people, for a gross of about $320m. Running the numbers aloud, McGuinness calculates that with a similar number of dates planned for next year, the tour should gross about $750m including merchandise sales, smashing the $389m record set by U2’s Vertigo tour in 2005 and 2006.

It has done so in part by using a 360º stage to increase each venue’s capacity by a fifth. Partly because of the custom-built, claw-shaped set, the tour costs are about $750,000 a day, “whether we play or not”. The tour should still be “highly profitable ... but very often that gross figure is carelessly written about as having gone straight into Bono’s pocket”.

Ummm.... $750K a DAY? Whether you play or not?

Think Paul McGuinness is an even bigger dickwad that Bono these days.

Junior Soprano (talking about Livia): "She's like a woman with a Virginia ham under her arm, crying the blues 'cause she has no bread."

U2 raked in more money than any other music act in the US in 2009, according to Billboard magazine.

The music journal said U2 made $109m (£71m) from touring, record sales and other royalties - almost twice as much as the second best, Bruce Springsteen.

Springsteen took home $58m (£38m), followed by Madonna with $47m (£31m) and rockers AC/DC with $44m (£29m).

U2 are in the middle of a mammoth world tour and touring is the most lucrative activity for artists, Billboard said.

The 360 Degree tour is the most expensive ever staged, but is also playing to larger crowds because they are performing in the round.

A string of younger pop stars - Britney Spears, Pink and the Jonas Brothers - came next on the list.

Coldplay were the most successful British group, at number eight, with takings of $27m (£18m).

Michael Jackson was the top earner from CD and ringtone royalties in 2009, but only made it to number 20 on the overall list, highlighting the importance of touring to a star's pay packet.

ha hahhahaa oh - that last line.

'Bono, like Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago, has not let himself become isolated in an elite atmosphere.'

Just thought you should know that.

What a bunch of drooling groupie fangirl crap.

Now much punchable than ever before...

Elevation: Bono set to become the world’s richest musician at 4pm today
http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/18/elevation-bono-set-to-become-the-richest-musician-on-earth/

Later this afternoon, Facebook’s shares will begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange. U2 vocalist Bono has a 2.3% stake in Facebook through his Elevation Partners investment project. Having originally paid $90m for shares, your aunt’s favourite jet collector is set to reap a throat-tightening $1.5bn windfall.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0206/breaking22.html

i just don't know what to say.

boner

Fuck me, even his interviews need to be put through edge's infinite guitar before they're bearable. ugh.

Isn't that just unfunny fiction? You can't use it as evidence of dickwaddery.

Oh, it's actually written by Bono. Oh well.

yeah that's the weird part. it's incredibly hard to read all of it.

Winced my way through to the first laugh- 'cut out the bs and pay yr taxes' in the comments

can't he just jerk off in private like a normal person

the bit about Robbie Keane was a p good joke then he went and overegged it

i wish his future daughters were named brian and eno instead of sony and mercedes

Brian Vox and Eno Vox? That's silly

This...thing.

You're being generous.

I admit he is not THE Thing.

http://gawker.com/5987279/factivist-bono-sings-facts-says-poverty-rate-should-be-zero-by-2013

"For numbers crunchers like us [Ed. note: LOL], that's the erogenous zone," said the singer, "It's fair to say I'm sexually aroused by the collating of data."

farewell, cruel world

^ha, very misleading url

bono, dude, I just had breakfast

is this about the gates foundation stuff? gates is really bad at marketing what is a really great triumph for his foundation, so if bono wants to help him out, any publicity is good publicity. maybe.

it's about facts. sexy, sexy facts

i blame the edge for not keeping bono's libido under control.

one thing Bono does not need is a good Edging

Take a leaf out of Larry's playbook and stfu.

one thing Bono does not need is a good Edging

h8 u

jaysus

"Every time I deny myself orgasm a child dies in Africa."

For numbers crunchers like us [Ed. note: LOL], that's the erogenous zone,"

Hey, give him some credit -- he knows enough about numbers to avoid paying his taxes.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2013/09/24/just-for-fun-bono-mocks-bill-clinton-with-spoton-impression-n1708540

That might actually be the greatest thing he's done since 1983

U2's Bono Courageously Embraces Capitalism

Look, you have to be heartless–or oblivious–to be indifferent towards the wretched poverty in the world. Like Bono, I once thought government was the answer. As a 19-year-old studying in Bogota, Colombia, the grimness of poverty in developing countries hit me right between the eyes. Swarms of little children—usually a couple of dozen between the ages of 3 and 9—would swoop toward me, begging for a handout. Invariably, at least one child in the mass was missing a foot. At first, I couldn’t figure it out—there weren’t any trolleys in Bogota, nor was there any other apparent explanation for the unusually large number of one-footed children. When I asked one of my Colombian professors about it, he told me that the children’s own parents lopped off a foot before abandoning them, believing that more people would take pity on a maimed child than a whole one, thereby increasing their odds of survival. (I’m not sure that theory was valid, because I don’t ever recall seeing a one-footed adult the entire time I was in Colombia.)

I was stunned. My entire being rebelled against such a harsh reality. Impatient, as many of us are when we’re young, I quickly turned into a socialist, believing that government action would be the quickest way to bring an end to the awful suffering of acute poverty.

Cuntflap oozing shite

FLANGE SYRUP MIXED WITH POOS AND WEES FROM A FRESHLY VIRGINA GRAN?

-- GARU G (GARU...), September 11th, 2004.

Basically, but also a tax dodger with lots of *thoughts* on the economy he avoids

FLANGE SYRUP MIXED WITH POOS AND WEES FROM A FRESHLY VIRGINA GRAN?

-- GARU G (GARU...), September 11th, 2004.

he was our Shakespeare

http://www.thejournal.ie/bono-epp-congress-irish-people-bailout-1349658-Mar2014/

This thread gets a lot less play than "I always knew David Brooks was an asshole". But it's comforting to know it will always be here when we need it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkTc7ORCUAAq4KZ.jpg

Bono in Paradise, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/bono-malta-firm-buy-lithuania-shopping-centre-u2-paradise-papers

https://consequence.net/2022/01/bono-embarrassed-u2-songs-recently-learned-to-sing