David Cameron wants your kids to die...

[Gittins Gal]

According to comedian Rufus Hound (who?)

Link

So the Bullingdon boys are taking all the money that should be spent on sick kids and lavishing it on themselves. And he's so incensed that he's going to stand as an MEP.

Love the bit at the bottom where the colomnist dredges up some tweet he made supporting Jimmy Carr over his tax evasion....

[vwdan]

Wanting the government to change things isn't the same as defending someone who is being attacked after doing something legal, though, surely? I supported Jimmy Carr, but I'd rather such schemes were better prevented.

[vetran]

Bit like Bono saying we should give more government aid whilst salting his cash away in a tax haven.

[ASB]

Bit like Bono saying we should give more government aid whilst salting his cash away in a tax haven.

Self-righteous U2 singer Bono is playing a concert in Glasgow when he asks the audience for total quiet.

Then in the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds.

Holding the audience in total silence, he says into the microphone,

"Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies."

A voice with a broad Scots accent, from near the front of the crowd, pierces the silence:

"Well, f888ing stop doin' it then!"

[Gittins Gal]

Self-righteous U2 singer Bono is playing a concert in Glasgow when he asks the audience for total quiet.

Then in the silence, he starts to slowly clap his hands, once every few seconds.

Holding the audience in total silence, he says into the microphone,

"Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies."

A voice with a broad Scots accent, from near the front of the crowd, pierces the silence:

"Well, f888ing stop doin' it then!"

Yes, I love that one.

I wonder if it actually happened though?

An ex-colleague of mine worked for a web design company and did some work on a website for Bob Geldof's management company.

He met Geldof at a couple of meetings and said that he acted with the petulence of somebody who is used to being the centre of his own little universe.

The worst example of this happened in the boardroom - there were about 20 of them in there and they were discussing look and feel. My ex colleague suggested a particular typeface for the site at which point Geldof cast him a withering look and just went "aww just feck off with that sh!te" and left him feeling totally humiliated.

[vetran]

Not according to Snopes

snopes.com: Clapping Bono Rumor

I have heard bad things about one or two other 80's superbands. I don't think its an isolated incident after 30 years of being sucked up to you become a chunt.

[DirtyDog]

Toby Young, author and Daily Telegraph columnist, thinks people are pretending to take the comments at face value in order to "get offended" as they see Jeremy Clarkson as a "political opponent" and "it's an excuse to bash him".

Linky

Paging me Young. Phone call from a Mr. Pot to discuss the colour of your kettle.

[darmstadt]

According to comedian Rufus Hound (who?)

Link

So the Bullingdon boys are taking all the money that should be spent on sick kids and lavishing it on themselves. And he's so incensed that he's going to stand as an MEP.

Love the bit at the bottom where the colomnist dredges up some tweet he made supporting Jimmy Carr over his tax evasion....

Are they privatising it (under the covers, and it started with Labour) or not? The race to privatise England's NHS | openDemocracy

[mudskipper]

Not according to Snopes

snopes.com: Clapping Bono Rumor

I have heard bad things about one or two other 80's superbands. I don't think its an isolated incident after 30 years of being sucked up to you become a chunt.

But the Madness Findsbury Park earthquake was true