Bono Is Nominated For The Nobel Peace Prize

sharkman

He is among 166 nominees and has been nominated for his work in raising awareness on HIV and AIDS in Africa.

However, it is expected that the prize will go to one of the relief groups helping victims of the Asian Tsunami, reports Reuters.

The director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad said yesterday: "We have received 166 nominations so far, of which 29 are organisations. The geographical scope is wide."

It has been rumoured that Ravi Shankar, Pope John Paul and former US Secretary of State Colin Powell have also been nominated!

Dr. Loon

Queue people moaning about Bono being a twat...

kleefarr

HIv & AIDS? What's that got to do with PEACE?

Maximilian

*Ahem* Bono is a twat.

maxcherry

Jesus that Bono is a twat

case_sensitive

Nobel quality control is slipping somewhat.. The only thing that propped-up corpse of a pope has done in the last 15 years is stay alive long after he should have had the decency to die, Bono highlights important causes, but you get the impression he hasn't a clue what he's doing, and Colin Powell?? Condi Rice (his protegé, and make no mistake) is one of the most destructive forces in world politics at the moment.
Like knighthoods, if one of these twits get a Nobel Prize, we'll see folks denouncing theirs.
But I suspect no one will give back the money.

bounty

i broke up a drunken fight once... maybe i send in old Lundestad my nomination

AARRRGH

I think any kind of "awards" ceremony is always bollox.

For example, you know the golden spider? Guess how you get one of them?

Remeber the Q (quality) mark? Guess how you got one of them?

It's always about the $, just a way to market your product/service, or less commonly these days, it's political.

Awards are bull****.

Ardent

Bono is a twat

sharkman

Bono has done more singlehandedly to relieve Third-world debt than all the Armani-clad finance ministers that could be packed into a United Nations conference room .

magpie

The director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, Geir Lundestad said yesterday: "We have received 166 nominations so far, of which 29 are organisations. The geographical scope is wide."

It has been rumoured that Ravi Shankar, Pope John Paul and former US Secretary of State Colin Powell have also been nominated!

In other news large portions of Sweden are now generating power from the rotating corpse of Alfred Nobel.

Queue people moaning about Bono being a twat...

Nice job on spelling queue, but in this instance it should be 'cue'.

Dr. Loon

magpie wrote:

Nice job on spelling queue, but in this instance it should be 'cue'.

Well done on correcting someone's grammar over the internet. You must be proud of yourself, correcting all these little mistakes in the world. Good work and keep it up gimp master.

magpie

Cue people getting angry because they can't stand being corrected. Join the queue.

bounty

magpie wrote:

Nice job on spelling queue, but in this instance it should be 'cue'.

:rolleyes: muppet

AARRRGH

Dr. Loon wrote:

Well done on correcting someone's grammar over the internet. You must be proud of yourself, correcting all these little mistakes in the world. Good work and keep it up gimp master.

Indeed. There should be a set of rules as to how to act/not act on the internet.

magpie

Indeed. There should be a set of rules as to how to act/not act on the internet.

Like "don't use words you can't spell" for instance?

Dr. Loon

magpie wrote:

Like "don't use words you can't spell" for instance?

No like don't be a pedantic twat and correct people's genuine mistakes. If my entire sentence was txt spk or some bóllox fair enough, but seriously. Cop on. There's nothing more annoying than a gimp correcting small mistakes.

magpie

No like don't be a pedantic twat and correct people's genuine mistakes. If my entire sentence was txt spk or some bóllox fair enough, but seriously. Cop on. There's nothing more annoying than a gimp correcting small mistakes.

As it was a genuine mistake by someone with a good grasp of English I presumed you'd like to know that in this instance your usage was wrong, for future reference. If you were a l33t txt speaking peon I wouldn't have bothered correcting you as I'd expect the normal "u durnt half 2 be abel to spel on tha intrunet". Evidently I was wrong.

And I've distracted from what I thought was a pretty good gag about Nobel turning in his grave. You live and learn.

Dr. Loon

magpie wrote:

And I've distracted from what I thought was a pretty good gag about Nobel turning in his grave. You live and learn.

Indeed. I thought so too.

"Good grasp of English"? I like to think of myself as being fluent, you pretentious snak*. Even in backing away from an argument and attempting to be somewhat gracious your tone is mildly insulting.


*snak - my new insult

mayordenis

That bono is a twat face . .
in that he has the face of a twat.

Ardent

magpie wrote:

And I've distracted from what I thought was a pretty good gag about Nobel turning in his grave. You live and learn.

It makes you feel better, yes it was a good gag. I chuckled anyway.

AARRRGH

OK, Dr. Loon & Magpie. Enough arguing on the internet for one day please! Let's try to stop most topics turning into this kind of dribble...

Dr. Loon

dublindude wrote:

OK, Dr. Loon & Magpie. Enough arguing on the internet for one day please! Let's try to stop most topics turning into this kind of dribble...

Get up the yard ye snak!

magpie

Even in backing away from an argument and attempting to be somewhat gracious your tone is mildly insulting.

You're right. I just can't help myself.

Dr. Loon

magpie wrote:

You're right. I just can't help myself.

Oh I know I'm right. I think we've traded enough insults on this particular thread. I'll catch you on another thread soon enough. Next time gadget... next time.

magpie

WhiteWashMan

twats.

Blub2k4

2 words

Henry Kissinger.


ffs

Dr. Loon

WhiteWashMan wrote:

twats.

Fúck of ye snak.

Maximilian

Dr. Loon wrote:

No like don't be a pedantic twat and correct people's genuine mistakes. If my entire sentence was txt spk or some bóllox fair enough, but seriously. Cop on. There's nothing more annoying than a gimp correcting small mistakes.

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that both "alcohol" and "dilemma" are misspelled in you sig.

Ardent

Dr. Loon wrote:

Fúck of ye snak.

How do you spell snak?

Dr. Loon

Maximilian wrote:

I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that both "alcohol" and "dilemma" are misspelled in you sig.

Thanks, I'll sort that out now. 'Twas a copy and paste job.

How do you spell snak?

Snak.

OFDM

Dr. Loon wrote:

Well done on correcting someone's grammar over the internet. You must be proud of yourself, correcting all these little mistakes in the world. Good work and keep it up gimp master.

Well done on being yet another person to complain about someone else's correction of another person's grammer over the internet...

[edit]Bono's a twat and Edge is a cr4ckwh0r3[/edit]

sceptre

case_sensitive wrote:

Nobel quality control is slipping somewhat.. The only thing that propped-up corpse of a pope has done in the last 15 years is stay alive long after he should have had the decency to die, Bono highlights important causes, but you get the impression he hasn't a clue what he's doing, and Colin Powell?? Condi Rice (his protegé, and make no mistake) is one of the most destructive forces in world politics at the moment

Is this one of these times (once a year) when someone has to point out that almost any university professor and a bag of others get to nominate people for the prize and at the nomination stage there's no quality control whatever?



I'm almost waiting for another article to be written in the UCG student newspaper by some lazy hoore who couldn't bother their ass to check the nomination process (last years ran along the lines of "Oh Noe, who nominated Bush OMG not good")

Ardent

Ardent wrote:

How do you spell snak?

Way off topic, I prefer the slag "nuge" myself. Ya big nuge ya. (pronounced nu-jeh)

Dr. Loon

OFDM wrote:

Well done on being yet another person to complain about someone else's correction of another person's grammer over the internet...

Thanks. By the way you spelt "grammar" incorrectly.

Sarky

Bono who?

magpie

Hi Bounty, I got your withering put-down the fisrt time, there was no need to PM me the word 'muppet' to underline your point. Thanks all the same.

[nicK]

Dr. Loon wrote:

Fúck of ye snak.

..two f's.. two f's...

Blisterman

There should be a capital T on two.

Oriel

One step closer to world domination...