Bono

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,688]

Bono's had emergency surgery to remove a massively enlarged ego.

Edit: ooh look, a Bono thread. Must be good for something. Hurling invective springs to mind. But keep it clean, kiddies.

 

He's a lovely chap really.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

This could be it.

 

The fate of mankind hangs in the balance as Bono is stricken with a back ailment and has undergone emergency surgery. Frantic scientists are

calculating how long western civilization can survive without his leadership. There are rumors that the rich and powerful are flying to secret sites in South America where they will board starships in an attempt to assure the survival of our species.

[Gunjaman5000 30]

It's hardly surprising he has back problems considering he carries the weight of the world on his shoulders.

 

How did we manage without him?

[VSBfromH 74]

U2 pull out of Glastonbury 2010

 

Surely it will have to be cancelled now?

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

This truly is the day the music died.

[maryportfuncity 10,645]

This truly is the day the music died.

 

Spade man, I thought it died with your good self and your dicky ticker the day they sprung you from the joint to sing for the masses.

 

I have a hunch Glasto will survive as will Dublin's finest, doubtless to headline 2011 to ecstatic cheers from most of the same people who go every year.

[Star Crossed 33]

This truly is the day the music died.

Spade man, I thought it died with your good self and your dicky ticker the day they sprung you from the joint to sing for the masses.

Another classic case of postal diarrhoea from mpfc, burying S Cooley's genuinely amusing post (which, given some decent moderation, should have triggered the locking of this pointless thread) with more banal, pointless rubbish. You really are the scourge of this forum, mpfc. I'm surprised anyone bothers posting at all these days, knowing that you'll be along in an instant to drown out the programme with your perpetual static noise.

What makes your ubiquitous, narcissistic dross even more annoying is that you are, in real life, allegedly fairly intelligent and not the ignorant fucking moron you play "around these parts, like". A first-class cunt of the highest order, all you do is jealously hide the finer details of this forum in the snow of your tired mind. Which is a shame; I like snow.

 

I have a hunch Glasto will survive as will Dublin's finest, doubtless to headline 2011 to ecstatic cheers from most of the same people who go every year.

Really? You reckon Glasto will survive this? Next you'll be revealing your insight as to the Sun's potential rise in the east tomorrow morning*. The only thing I like about you is that you are older than me in real life and I have a very, very good chance of outliving you. Especially if, as I hope, you contract a painful and aggressive form of a rare and incurable disease as soon as possible.

 

*Although, if the Sun doesn't rise in the east tomorrow, it'll probably be a hit on the NDP for Vaagheid, who seems to have almost every base covered.

[Godot 149]

This truly is the day the music died.

Spade man, I thought it died with your good self and your dicky ticker the day they sprung you from the joint to sing for the masses.

Another classic case of postal diarrhoea from mpfc, burying S Cooley's genuinely amusing post (which, given some decent moderation, should have triggered the locking of this pointless thread) with more banal, pointless rubbish. You really are the scourge of this forum, mpfc. I'm surprised anyone bothers posting at all these days, knowing that you'll be along in an instant to drown out the programme with your perpetual static noise.

What makes your ubiquitous, narcissistic dross even more annoying is that you are, in real life, allegedly fairly intelligent and not the ignorant fucking moron you play "around these parts, like". A first-class cunt of the highest order, all you do is jealously hide the finer details of this forum in the snow of your tired mind. Which is a shame; I like snow.

 

I have a hunch Glasto will survive as will Dublin's finest, doubtless to headline 2011 to ecstatic cheers from most of the same people who go every year.

Really? You reckon Glasto will survive this? Next you'll be revealing your insight as to the Sun's potential rise in the east tomorrow morning*. The only thing I like about you is that you are older than me in real life and I have a very, very good chance of outliving you. Especially if, as I hope, you contract a painful and aggressive form of a rare and incurable disease as soon as possible.

 

*Although, if the Sun doesn't rise in the east tomorrow, it'll probably be a hit on the NDP for Vaagheid, who seems to have almost every base covered.

 

I have this hunch that SC is MPFC's mum. CHO first class with oak leaves - even I don't have that one. But there's time.

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

Ooo Mary you lucky bugger, you've joined us! The 'SC Done A Virtual Fart In Our Faces' Club! How exciting! I got a badge when I joined, and I wear it every day to remind myself how bloody lucky I am to be in his presence........

[maryportfuncity 10,645]

I suspect it's because SC's mother and I asked him to clean up the pizza crust from his bedroom floor, that request never goes down well.

 

Thanks G and LB, I've survived the virtual fart thus far and will retaliate by denying SC's request for a new bass guitar, even if he does pass his GCSEs this summer.

 

We face problems later on, mind. The VIth form college are insisting they will only admit him if he provides documentary evidence of having completed the anger management programme.

[Gunjaman5000 30]

This truly is the day the music died.

Spade man, I thought it died with your good self and your dicky ticker the day they sprung you from the joint to sing for the masses.

Another classic case of postal diarrhoea from mpfc, burying S Cooley's genuinely amusing post (which, given some decent moderation, should have triggered the locking of this pointless thread) with more banal, pointless rubbish. You really are the scourge of this forum, mpfc. I'm surprised anyone bothers posting at all these days, knowing that you'll be along in an instant to drown out the programme with your perpetual static noise.

What makes your ubiquitous, narcissistic dross even more annoying is that you are, in real life, allegedly fairly intelligent and not the ignorant fucking moron you play "around these parts, like". A first-class cunt of the highest order, all you do is jealously hide the finer details of this forum in the snow of your tired mind. Which is a shame; I like snow.

 

I have a hunch Glasto will survive as will Dublin's finest, doubtless to headline 2011 to ecstatic cheers from most of the same people who go every year.

Really? You reckon Glasto will survive this? Next you'll be revealing your insight as to the Sun's potential rise in the east tomorrow morning*. The only thing I like about you is that you are older than me in real life and I have a very, very good chance of outliving you. Especially if, as I hope, you contract a painful and aggressive form of a rare and incurable disease as soon as possible.

 

*Although, if the Sun doesn't rise in the east tomorrow, it'll probably be a hit on the NDP for Vaagheid, who seems to have almost every base covered.

When did the swear filter start allowing fuck*? That's the real issue here.

 

*Cunt, of course gets an honourable mention.

[Godot 149]

This truly is the day the music died.

Spade man, I thought it died with your good self and your dicky ticker the day they sprung you from the joint to sing for the masses.

Another classic case of postal diarrhoea from mpfc, burying S Cooley's genuinely amusing post (which, given some decent moderation, should have triggered the locking of this pointless thread) with more banal, pointless rubbish. You really are the scourge of this forum, mpfc. I'm surprised anyone bothers posting at all these days, knowing that you'll be along in an instant to drown out the programme with your perpetual static noise.

What makes your ubiquitous, narcissistic dross even more annoying is that you are, in real life, allegedly fairly intelligent and not the ignorant fucking moron you play "around these parts, like". A first-class cunt of the highest order, all you do is jealously hide the finer details of this forum in the snow of your tired mind. Which is a shame; I like snow.

 

I have a hunch Glasto will survive as will Dublin's finest, doubtless to headline 2011 to ecstatic cheers from most of the same people who go every year.

Really? You reckon Glasto will survive this? Next you'll be revealing your insight as to the Sun's potential rise in the east tomorrow morning*. The only thing I like about you is that you are older than me in real life and I have a very, very good chance of outliving you. Especially if, as I hope, you contract a painful and aggressive form of a rare and incurable disease as soon as possible.

 

*Although, if the Sun doesn't rise in the east tomorrow, it'll probably be a hit on the NDP for Vaagheid, who seems to have almost every base covered.

When did the swear filter start allowing fuck*? That's the real issue here.

 

*Cunt, of course gets an honourable mention.

A little while back. Some of us fought a protracted campaign to get rid of the damnable swear filter just so that honorable members could vent their spleen occasionally. The above is an entertaining example of just what can be achieved although I must say SC I was a little disappointed with your metaphor: "in the snow of your tired mind".

 

I didn't think it quite did it, unlike William Gibson's first line from his cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer that could be amended slightly: "The addled mind of Maryport was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." To compare a mind with a dead TV channel is not original but I would argue that the snow of TV static is a better representation of amorphous thinking than the stuff that falls in winter, not that I have any views, one way or the other about the workings of MPFC's mind or SC's mind except to say that they both strike me as two rather splendid chaps who would enjoy a beer together. I support SC's war on the banal but would humbly suggest that there are one or two more fitting targets hereabouts. Nonetheless there's nothing like an occasional venomous post to wake up these slumbering threads. Congratulations on a sterling effort. Any thoughts Honez?

[honez 79]

I didn't think it quite did it, unlike William Gibson's first line from his cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer that could be amended slightly: "The addled mind of Maryport was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." To compare a mind with a dead TV channel is not original but I would argue that the snow of TV static is a better representation of amorphous thinking than the stuff that falls in winter, not that I have any views, one way or the other about the workings of MPFC's mind or SC's mind except to say that they both strike me as two rather splendid chaps who would enjoy a beer together. I support SC's war on the banal but would humbly suggest that there are one or two more fitting targets hereabouts. Nonetheless there's nothing like an occasional venomous post to wake up these slumbering threads. Congratulations on a sterling effort. Any thoughts Honez?

I have no thoughts, Godot, except the murmur of cosmic microwave background radiation resounding within. And tumbleweeds.

[maryportfuncity 10,645]

Meanwhile, we'll drag this thread halfway back to the original topic with the news that Damon Albarn is replacing Bono at Glasto.

[time 8,596]

Meanwhile, we'll drag this thread halfway back to the original topic with the news that Damon Albarn is replacing Bono at Glasto.

 

Do we have to? The off-topic bits are far more entertaining.

[Gunjaman5000 30]

A little while back. Some of us fought a protracted campaign to get rid of the damnable swear filter just so that honorable members could vent their spleen occasionally. The above is an entertaining example of just what can be achieved although I must say SC I was a little disappointed with your metaphor: "in the snow of your tired mind".

 

I didn't think it quite did it, unlike William Gibson's first line from his cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer that could be amended slightly: "The addled mind of Maryport was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." To compare a mind with a dead TV channel is not original but I would argue that the snow of TV static is a better representation of amorphous thinking than the stuff that falls in winter, not that I have any views, one way or the other about the workings of MPFC's mind or SC's mind except to say that they both strike me as two rather splendid chaps who would enjoy a beer together. I support SC's war on the banal but would humbly suggest that there are one or two more fitting targets hereabouts. Nonetheless there's nothing like an occasional venomous post to wake up these slumbering threads. Congratulations on a sterling effort. Any thoughts Honez?

Godot me old china, I'll have to disagree with you here. The "damnable swear filter" I found to be a part of the sight's charm. The way I see it, the place is tactless rather than tasteless; small differences perhaps, but of the latter the interweb has many, and the former there are few. There's plenty of other places to vent one's spleen (and keep it relatively clean) occasionally, an off topic post in the Patrick Moore thread should give you the opportunity to clean out some cobwebs, should the need arise.

 

I must say too, that I'm a little disappointed with your analysis of Star Crossed's metaphor which you found a little disappointing. It's like being marked down for plagarism and marked down still further for not plagarising well enough.

 

That's a bit of a mixed message to be sending the poor boy isn't it?

[Windsor 2,233]

Are we back to the tiresome days of the witchfinder/postwhore general?

 

Bunch of chumps.

[Death Watch Beatle 41]

A very good example of a swear filter can be viewed here:

 

 

DWB

[Godot 149]

A little while back. Some of us fought a protracted campaign to get rid of the damnable swear filter just so that honorable members could vent their spleen occasionally. The above is an entertaining example of just what can be achieved although I must say SC I was a little disappointed with your metaphor: "in the snow of your tired mind".

 

I didn't think it quite did it, unlike William Gibson's first line from his cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer that could be amended slightly: "The addled mind of Maryport was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." To compare a mind with a dead TV channel is not original but I would argue that the snow of TV static is a better representation of amorphous thinking than the stuff that falls in winter, not that I have any views, one way or the other about the workings of MPFC's mind or SC's mind except to say that they both strike me as two rather splendid chaps who would enjoy a beer together. I support SC's war on the banal but would humbly suggest that there are one or two more fitting targets hereabouts. Nonetheless there's nothing like an occasional venomous post to wake up these slumbering threads. Congratulations on a sterling effort. Any thoughts Honez?

Godot me old china, I'll have to disagree with you here. The "damnable swear filter" I found to be a part of the sight's charm. The way I see it, the place is tactless rather than tasteless; small differences perhaps, but of the latter the interweb has many, and the former there are few. There's plenty of other places to vent one's spleen (and keep it relatively clean) occasionally, an off topic post in the Patrick Moore thread should give you the opportunity to clean out some cobwebs, should the need arise.

 

I must say too, that I'm a little disappointed with your analysis of Star Crossed's metaphor which you found a little disappointing. It's like being marked down for plagarism and marked down still further for not plagarising well enough.

 

That's a bit of a mixed message to be sending the poor boy isn't it?

 

 

I agree with the last point Gunji. I shouldn't have plagiarised but it comes naturally as an ex-hack. It's just that I thought Gibson's use of metaphor was instructive. I still think that "in the snow of your tired mind" doesn't quite do it if, as I understood it, SC was alluding to some mental confusion. Perhaps I read it wrong and he was pointing to the white matter in the brain that drives (as in driving snow) MPFC to post something that doesn't take the thread to another place. But threads are more like conversations than the plot lines of dramas and real conversation in real life is generally more banal than drama. It's a shame that more drama doesn't reflect life in this way. In real life James Bond would not be always ready with some handy quip or "shaken but not stirred" instruction but might complain to his beautiful assistant about the slow flush in the loo or remark on the pattern of the curtains that doesn't match the carpet or the price of sausages at Sainsbury's.

 

We must agree that we don't agree about the swear filter. I'm a little confused too about the point on taste. This place strikes me as pretty tasteless by most people's standards. As for tactless, I would argue that there was some tact in SC's post. He knew exactly what he was doing. Think of Kato leaping out of the wardrobe to attack Inspector Clouseau.

 

I don't think this is back to the old days. Anyone reading most of these threads today must know that SC's battle against the post whores was lost. Mind you, post whoring is not the real problem today but posting apathy. In competition against Facebook, Farmville, even the BBC, the DL is fairing poorly. I'm only here because I've finished my book and have nothing else to do. I couldn't give a stuff about most of the nonentity deaths posted here but there are still some good posts and posters about and I do learn things here and I enjoy SC's posts and his obsession with Patrick Moore. I also think the place wouldn't be the same without the sage of Maryport and his enduring image of the horse in the chip shop. No, you don't hear about the bus service in Fraserburgh in Casino Royale and that's Hollywood's loss.

[Guest internetpirate]

Meanwhile, we'll drag this thread halfway back to the original topic with the news that Damon Albarn is replacing Bono at Glasto.

 

Do we have to? The off-topic bits are far more entertaining.

sorry i fucked up my first attempt - so nice to see a forum with no swear filter - love the site by the way, but you're much too erudite for black country wankers like

me

 

ivan dobsky got bono right

[Spade_Cooley 9,515]

Casey Kasem got it righter:

 

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,324]

Bono may (or may not) have been a bit crook recently:

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-22/u2-h...n=entertainment

[gcreptile 10,966]

The father of U2's Larry Mullen has died at 92:

 

http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2015/0512/700570-larry-mullens-father-has-died-aged-92/

 

But their tour will commence as planned.

And now U2's tour manager Dennis Sheehan has died:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/28/u2-honour-tour-manager-dennis-sheehan-found-dead-in-hotel-room

 

He was 68 years old and had been their manager for 30 years. He also worked with other bands like Led Zeppelin.

 

Edit: Eh, sorry, too late, I saw nothing in the Dead Pop Stars thread or here.

[Sir Creep 7,070]

 

The father of U2's Larry Mullen has died at 92:

 

http://www.rte.ie/ten/news/2015/0512/700570-larry-mullens-father-has-died-aged-92/

 

But their tour will commence as planned.

 

And now U2's tour manager Dennis Sheehan has died:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/28/u2-honour-tour-manager-dennis-sheehan-found-dead-in-hotel-room

 

He was 68 years old and had been their manager for 30 years. He also worked with other bands like Led Zeppelin.

 

Edit: Eh, sorry, too late, I saw nothing in the Dead Pop Stars thread or here.

Probably cuz he's not a pop star or merely a fringe personality.

SC

[gcreptile 10,966]

Ah well, I wanted to make the connection to the previous U2 death, as you also did in that other thread.