[Sidders]

So what about the ones that were given away in the lottery?

[Walter Sobchak]

So what about the ones that were given away in the lottery?

Pass!

I'm not asking again, I'll get a headache

[DemonHorse]

only coz every motherf*ckers on my back 24/7. (no if you ain't smart enough to guess i'm not just talking about on here). Under all that I'm gonna react and not give a sh*t what people think.

Give me a f*cking break and maybe I wouldn't have the same reactions....

plus he started it, nitpicking one little thing I had slightly wrong, he couldn't keep his mouth shut, or even just word it differently and IM the one in the wrong? b*****ks

so I got one little fact about certain frog related music wrong, who really gives a s**t?

When you react like that, surely it's understandable why people wind you up.

obviously i need to repeat,

Give me a f*cking break and maybe I wouldn't have the same reactions....

[MK Chris]

I find it amusing that you react in the way that you do. Makes for good reading.

[stevotrash]

Geldof Rant


I'm disgusted by the way Geldof plays the guilt trip on the public for africa's debt. Bear in mind many of the people he direct's his confrontational scenarios too are unemployed, single mothers, minimum wage workers and people which are barely above the bread line. People which will never wield any significant power and people which have not benifited from profiteering in africa.

In the meantime he lets his daughters spend hundreds of pounds getting pissed in flash london drinking establishments and spending most of his year doing bugger all job wise whilst being financially stable.

Should the third world debt be abolished, of course. But I don't need Saint Bob dishing guilt on myself and the majority of people which arn't particulary loaded nor powerfull whilst he resides in the percentage of the population which is fairly well off. This percentage of people with ridiculous wealth are the people which should be carrying the guilt, not us.

[kendra k]

hear hear.

stevo, i agree with you 100%.

i'd say something else, but it would suck.

[stevotrash]

whilst i'm on this sure-fire brownie point winning rant against charities.


am i the only person who believes the big issue is way over-priced?

Its a nice a idea to get homeless people being a merchandiser for a publication and receiving a cut. Its a good idea.

however, i don't see why i should pay £2.40 for an un-imaginative, boring peice of tosh.

I'm willing to pay £2.40 for a good read, on the same note i'm willing to give a homeless person the full £2.40 for nowt.

but if i'm being charged for a product in a commercial enviornment, i will judge my potential purchase on whether the goods are worth it.

the Big Issue is not.

[Lucie]

£2.40?!

Blimey that's gone up! When I was a good Samaritan and bought a copy weekly (about a year a go), it only cost £1.20.

[DemonHorse]

maybe they should give the sellers FHM (or other magazines of the same ilk, that was just an example) to sell, think a lot more people would be buying from them then...

[stevotrash]

maybe they should give the sellers FHM (or other magazines of the same ilk, that was just an example) to sell, think a lot more people would be buying from them then...

this is my point, give them fhm, nuts magazine etc and they'll shift a shit load.

but then the wh smith of the world will kick up a stink. There's no turning away from the corporate machine.

[DemonHorse]

Nuts and Zoo are weekly and they are poor man's cut down versions of FHM, Maxim etc anyways (though sometimes more entertaining than the montly 1s, ironically), so why not have the poor man sell them to the poor man?

Stevo you hit the nail on the head in your post, corporate machine will stop it, yet they will claim to be helping poverty in some way themselves mere months down the line.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Geldof Rant


I'm disgusted by the way Geldof plays the guilt trip on the public for africa's debt. Bear in mind many of the people he direct's his confrontational scenarios too are unemployed, single mothers, minimum wage workers and people which are barely above the bread line. People which will never wield any significant power and people which have not benifited from profiteering in africa.

I just wish someone at some point would mention how the africans have largely f*cked their countries up with poor or corrupt government. I think its hard to disagree with helping people in poverty but its made out we are some kind of evil who made this mess.

[DemonHorse]

Yeah that's true, if America can send their armed forces to do something about saddam, they can sure as hell do something about corrupt African governments... I'm sure they can claim they'd find 'WMDs' (a.k.a OIL in George W Bush's mind) to give them a 'good and just reason', and of course lie as to why they didn't find them later.

[Sidders]

obviously i need to repeat,

Give me a f*cking break and maybe I wouldn't have the same reactions....

Obviously I need to repeat: People aren't going to give you a f*cking break when you keep f*cking reacting to it.

[Uglybob]

ive never bought a nuts or a zoo but every issue seems to have michelle marsh and lucy pinder on the front of them in various states of undress.

live8, a good free concert, but do i care about the third world, nope, itll just a few more album sales for coldplay and reissue of bittersweet symphony. bob geldof might have a good agenda, but do you get thanked.

btw sir bob geldof, i thought bob geldof was irish and hence cant be a sir.

[kendra k]

i remember reading sir bob's autobiography. it was almost as boring as eric burdon's.

the american coverage of live8 is crap. i can't stand the mtv vj's they chose, and asking random kids in the audience why ending poverty matters is emberassing.

[Uglybob]

him of the animals i take it

[kendra k]

the one.

the coverage here isn't even live! ugh.

[stevotrash]

Geldof Rant


I'm disgusted by the way Geldof plays the guilt trip on the public for africa's debt. Bear in mind many of the people he direct's his confrontational scenarios too are unemployed, single mothers, minimum wage workers and people which are barely above the bread line. People which will never wield any significant power and people which have not benifited from profiteering in africa.

I just wish someone at some point would mention how the africans have largely f*cked their countries up with poor or corrupt government. I think its hard to disagree with helping people in poverty but its made out we are some kind of evil who made this mess.

the african population can be attributed some of the blame for corrupt governments, altough are plundering of their resources to advance our own development which began many century's ago probably hasn't helped devolping contries, develop.

[stevotrash]

i think when bob finishes, every kid in africa will have an ipod. An ipod shuffle at the very least.

give me your f*cking mp3's.

[Uglybob]

i see they are putting up that sgt peppers song on mp3 in 12 hours at 99p. surely they should have picked a song someone would want

[kendra k]

that song made me want to beat sor paul up.