Sellouts

Pighead

Q: What have David Beckham, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and The Green Party all got in common?
A: They're all lowdown filthy sellouts. (in fairness that wasn't a great question, as the answer was in the thread title)

They've all compromised their integrity for personal gain. Almost everybody has done it at some stage or other. Even Pighead. Spent all of his teenage years banging on about how he loves to go out with girls who are intelligent and who have more to offer than just short skirts and large breasts. Ends up going out with Suzie the Slapper who barely knew how to spell her own name and who struggled to count past ten.

So do you think you'd be able to resist the lure of filthy money to stay true to your beliefs and morals? Pighead's guessing most of you would crumble like a lightly squeezed hob-nob. Especially in these recessionary times.

brummytom

Yeah I'd take the money and be quite happy as a sell-out

Sean Quagmire

In the words of Uncle Elroy from 'Next Friday'

"Now Craig, I know I was the one who always used to say I love the hood, I love the ghetto aint nothing gonna change me! but Craig as soon as I got that lottery check I was gone!!!"

In other words money changes folk, if i made it i'd be selling myself out like a cheap whore. Id be on MTV cribs everyday :pac:

Snakeblood

Pighead wrote: »

Q: What have David Beckham, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and The Green Party all got in common?
A: They're all lowdown filthy sellouts. (in fairness that wasn't a great question, as the answer was in the thread title)

They've all compromised their integrity for personal gain. Almost everybody has done it at some stage or other. Even Pighead. Spent all of his teenage years banging on about how he loves to go out with girls who are intelligent and who have more to offer than just short skirts and large breasts. Ends up going out with Suzie the Slapper who barely knew how to spell her own name and who struggled to count past ten.

So do you think you'd be able to resist the lure of filthy money to stay true to your beliefs and morals? Pighead's guessing most of you would crumble like a lightly squeezed hob-nob. Especially in these recessionary times.

It's perfectly possible that David Beckham didn't compromise his personal integrity because he doesn't actually see anything wrong with advertising tat. He does get paid to kick a football about while also looking good with no shirt. It's not like it's a strong political statement that he's going against.

Mr Benevolent

I'd sellout in a second. I'm known as The Mercenary in certain circles.

soups05

i just wish i had morals to sellout

Pighead

Snakeblood wrote: »

It's perfectly possible that David Beckham didn't compromise his personal integrity because he doesn't actually see anything wrong with advertising tat. He does get paid to kick a football about while also looking good with no shirt. It's not like it's a strong political statement that he's going against.

Ah c'mon Snakeblood, he totally sold out! He's 32 and playing for the biggest club in the world. He's banging on about how much it means to him to play for England. He constantly talks about how he wants to be remembered as a legend. What does he do? He signs a $250 million deal to play with a crappy American team called LA Galaxy basically ending his England career and putting an end to his time as a top class footballer (Ok he remedied this later on by signing with Milan but the point still stands, dirty sellout!)

Pighead

brummytom wrote: »

Yeah I'd take the money and be quite happy as a sell-out

Sean Quagmire wrote: »

In the words of Uncle Willy from 'Next Friday'

"Now Craig, I know I was the one who always used to say I love the hood, I love the ghetto aint nothing gonna change me! but Craig as soon as I got that lottery check I was gone!!!"

In other words money changes folk, if i made it i'd be selling myself out like a cheap whore. Id be on MTV cribs everyday :pac:

Confab wrote: »

I'd sellout in a second. I'm known as The Mercenary in certain circles.

You lot should be ashamed of yourselves. Pimping yourselves out for a few stinking quid. Where's the pride? The unbridled joy in telling some fcuker with a barrow full of cash to "Fcuk off"

Ok lets bring it up a notch here. See how low you lot really are.

Say your country was at war with Sweden. It's been a tough, hard fought war and teh result hangs in teh balance. You are in possession of some information that would tip the scales in favour of the Swedes. A blonde, leggy Swedish female model offers you money and extras in favour of the info. What would you do? Surely you wouldn't sell your country down the shitter? Would you?

AnonoBoy

I wanted to get a ticket for the Faith No More gig in the Olympia last week but the bastards had totally sold out.

What a bunch of bastards.

Mr Benevolent

Pighead wrote: »

Ok lets bring it up a notch here. See how low you lot really are.

Say your country was at war with Sweden. It's been a tough, hard fought war and teh result hangs in teh balance. You are in possession of some information that would tip the scales in favour of the Swedes. A blonde, leggy Swedish female model offers you money and extras in favour of the info. What would you do? Surely you wouldn't sell your country down the shitter? Would you?

Funnily enough, I wouldn't in that case. I've experienced Swedish women. Irish women are leggier, bustier AND blonder. At least my one is.

If it was any other situation I'd sell Ireland down the crapper in a millisecond. No, wait. A nanosecond. Possibly a picosecond if I acted fast enough.

toiletduck

Pighead wrote: »

So do you think you'd be able to resist the lure of filthy money to stay true to your beliefs and morals?

I believe in selling out. It's what separates us from the animals.

Pighead

toiletduck wrote: »

I believe in selling out. It's what separates us from the animals.

Balderdash. The fact that we don't shit on the carpet or lick our own testicles is what separates us from the animals. Selling out is a choice, it's not inbuilt!

bluto63

I'd like to believe I wouldn't sellout, but thinking about it is completely different than when we're sitting there with a chance to inherit millions of euro just to hold a razorblade on the tv

Long Onion

I would never sell out, from the earliest age, I developed a moral stance that holds "whatever is best for me at any given moment in time, is the right option to take"

This has allowed me to:

1) Justify getting off with hot stupid girls and then, getting drunk and pulling piggies (no offence intended to Mrs Pighead)

2) Bemoaning the greed of society whilst lining my own pockets

3) Complaining furiously about bloated welfare payments whilst refusing to give up my child benefit money

4) Complaining that greedy bankers have ruined the country whilst paying for goods with my credit card and driving a car financed with a bank loan

6) Damning the hippies in Rossport for retarding progress whilst secretly vowing that no-one will ever put a pipeline near my house.

7) Berating the government for being p1ss poor, whilst not adding any constructive solution myself.

8) Welcoming hot immigrant birds with open arms whilst wanting their boyfriends to go home and give us back our jobs.

None of the above are classed as selling out due to my unique (and now heavily patented but sold in license through grass root Fianna Fail groups) moral stance.

Life is easy if you know how.

toiletduck

Pighead wrote: »

Balderdash. The fact that we don't shit on the carpet or lick our own testicles is what separates us from the animals. Selling out is a choice, it's not inbuilt!

Yeah, you're right. I don't know what I was thinking.

Thankfully I've just gotten a fresh coffee from Starbucks™ and my mind is more alert, active and healthy. That first sip in the morning is the only way to start a day.

Mr Benevolent

toiletduck wrote: »

Yeah, you're right. I don't know what I was thinking.

Thankfully I've just gotten a fresh coffee from Starbucks™ and my mind is more alert, active and healthy. That first sip in the morning is the only way to start a day.

Indeed*

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Pighead

toiletduck wrote: »

Yeah, you're right. I don't know what I was thinking.

Thankfully I've just gotten a fresh coffee from Starbucks™ and my mind is more alert, active and healthy. That first sip in the morning is the only way to start a day.

Glad you've come to your senses toiletduck. Death to the sellouts!

By the way is your username named after the wonderful product that is extremely easy to use, needing only a gentle squeeze of the bottle for the formula to come out and designed with an angled neck which is perfectly formed to get right under the rim?

Long Onion

Pighead wrote: »

... is perfectly formed to get right under the rim?

I knew a girl in cork who was thrown from a horse and landed astride a wooden fence, she had to get constructive surgery on her lady garden and to this day she is still known by the nickname "Toilet Duck" for the above reason.

toiletduck

Pighead wrote: »

By the way is your username named after the wonderful product that is extremely easy to use, needing only a gentle squeeze of the bottle for the formula to come out and designed with an angled neck which is perfectly formed to get right under the rim?

It's a coincidence I assure you.

However it's no coincidence that ToiletDuck is cheaper in your local Tesco, like hundreds of other brand named products.

Neamhshuntasach

Nah i'd never sell out. Money isn't important to me. I'm too principled anyways.

And why do people drink starbucks? I stayed on a coffee plantation in Colombia and the girl said that that starbucks, nescafe, etc all buy the beans they'd usually throw out except that there is a market for it. And starbucks is run by a zionist. Even if it tasted great i'd never sell out and drink it. I actually stick to my guns that much.

bluto63

People sell out because it's the easier option. It's far easier to be spoon fed Starbucks and Tesco products than to go out of your way to find fairtrade products. Cheaper too*

*Might not apply to Starbucks, the rip off b*stards

Blisterman

Well, there's a reasonable arguement that Fair Trade actually damages these countries economies in the long run, by setting an artificially high price for goods, and encouraging more farmers to grow these crops, further increasing supply while demand stays the same, so that the non fair trade price drops even lower.