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Tonight thank God it's them instead of you.
  • TheodoreSturgeon
    Posts: 286
    I've never liked that line. It's a bit like a boxer thanking God for his victory. Inappropriate.

    I do think it shows Bono's true colours.

    ps - Sorry, it's just that Christmas season is upon us so the old "classics" are being rolled out.
  • IdiAminDaDa
    Posts: 7,520
    Racist mate...
  • ToffeeCup
    Posts: 3,044

    It might not be in the spirit of Christmas. But lets be fair, it is something of a relief.

    Assuming that it has to be a case of either or...
  • TheodoreSturgeon
    Posts: 286
    IdiAminDaDa said:

    Racist mate...


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    I hadn't thought of it in that context.
  • escla
    Posts: 2,462
    TheodoreSturgeon said:

    I've never liked that line. It's a bit like a boxer thanking God for his victory. Inappropriate.

    I do think it shows Bono's true colours.

    ps - Sorry, it's just that Christmas season is upon us so the old "classics" are being rolled out.


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    Bono had f-ck all to do with those lyrics, Bob Geldorf and Midge Ure wrote that song yer ****-ead ! Mind you, Bono still a manipulative, self serving **** !
  • TheodoreSturgeon
    Posts: 286
    escla said:



    Bono had f-ck all to do with those lyrics, Bob Geldorf and Midge Ure wrote that song yer ****-ead ! Mind you, Bono still a manipulative, self serving **** !


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    I didn't wish to dig into the history of the song. Perhaps if I rephrased it such that it is appropriate that Bono sang that particular line?
  • IdiAminDaDa
    Posts: 7,520
    TheodoreSturgeon said:

    I hadn't thought of it in that context.


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    People on 'ere never do mate, that's why I'm the br guardian like...
  • TheodoreSturgeon
    Posts: 286
    IdiAminDaDa said:

    People on 'ere never do mate, that's why I'm the br guardian like...


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    A keen eye for the detail.
  • IdiAminDaDa
    Posts: 7,520
    TheodoreSturgeon said:

    A keen eye for the detail.


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    You know i' mate...
  • 1ceablue
    Posts: 3,253
    IdiAminDaDa said:

    You know i' mate...


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    Racist.....
  • IdiAminDaDa
    Posts: 7,520
    1ceablue said:




    Racist.....


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    Soz...
  • 1ceablue
    Posts: 3,253
    It's alright mate, us guardians have to stick together like or the rabble will take over this place.......
  • Beano
    Posts: 3,303
    Never saw anything wrong with the line - the song is supposed to stir you into shelling out dosh, not make you go dancing around the christmas tree, get you dreaming of a white Christmas or wish you to be smply having a wonderful Christmas time....like!
  • escla
    Posts: 2,462
    Reckon ol Theodore just has something against the Irish like !
  • TheodoreSturgeon
    Posts: 286
    It is indeed quite possible. I haven't tested that particular hypothesis but shall do so forthwith.
  • Beano
    Posts: 3,303
    TheodoreSturgeon said:

    It is indeed quite possible. I haven't tested that particular hypothesis but shall do so forthwith.


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    dya want your drive tarmaced?
  • IdiAminDaDa
    Posts: 7,520
    Beano said:

    dya want your drive tarmaced?


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    Racist mate...
  • sambo applecart
    Posts: 24,216
    Beano said:

    Never saw anything wrong with the line - the song is supposed to stir you into shelling out dosh, not make you go dancing around the christmas tree, get you dreaming of a white Christmas or wish you to be smply having a wonderful Christmas time....like!


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    I agree mate.

    I think the line is there to trick people's minds into thinking how lucky we are and to help out, rather that it is wishing any bad on to anyone.
  • TheodoreSturgeon
    Posts: 286
    The song certainly has its fair share of critics. One famous musician went as far as to say, "I'm not afraid to say that I think Band Aid was diabolical. Or to say that I think Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Many people find that very unsettling, but I'll say it as loud as anyone wants me to. In the first instance the record itself was absolutely tuneless. One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of Great Britain. It was an awful record considering the mass of talent involved. And it wasn't done shyly it was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music."
  • IdiAminDaDa
    Posts: 7,520
    TheodoreSturgeon said:

    The song certainly has its fair share of critics. One famous musician went as far as to say, "I'm not afraid to say that I think Band Aid was diabolical. Or to say that I think Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Many people find that very unsettling, but I'll say it as loud as anyone wants me to. In the first instance the record itself was absolutely tuneless. One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of Great Britain. It was an awful record considering the mass of talent involved. And it wasn't done shyly it was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music."


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    I know yer are, bu' wha' am I?
  • blue32years
    Posts: 16,384
    Its a crock of 5h ite that song

    ' And there wont be snow in africa this christmas time '

    No 5h 1t


    ' the greatest gift theyll get this year is life '


    My cousin lives in africa and shes getting a VW golf


    So more lies
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