Billionaire slags people off for wearing primark

Dyr · 22-07-2016 11:02PM

thebaz wrote: »

he is a Rock legend who transformed Irish music - compared to some of the supposed Superstar rubbish today who are the real salad sandwiches.

The boomtown rats were ****e. Bargain basement bruce springsteen songs masquerading as new wave.

His autobiography is great, he can't actually hide what a c**t he is even though he ghost wrote it

Elliott S · 22-07-2016 11:03PM

thebaz wrote: »

The Rats were a great Irish band that transformed Irish music and society

What?

vicwatson · 22-07-2016 11:03PM

I'm sure he'll be on explaining himself on tubridy's first show in sept

vicwatson · 22-07-2016 11:04PM

thebaz wrote: »

**** right off - the man is a legend - done more than anyone in Ireland - good riddance children

Yeh? Like?

Jim Bob Scratcher · 22-07-2016 11:04PM

thebaz wrote: »

**** right off - the man is a Bellend - done more than anyone in Ireland - good riddance children

FYP

22-07-2016 11:05PM

Is Geldof a billionaire?

thebaz · 22-07-2016 11:05PM

Elliott S wrote: »

What?

I remember them from a dreary Dublin in Morans - they helped transform the place we have today , unlike todays rubbish

MonkstownHoop · 22-07-2016 11:05PM

Great Dun Laoghaire man is Bob, can't wait for the inevitable Rats homecoming on the bandstand of the pier!

Allyall · 22-07-2016 11:06PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Is Geldof a billionaire?

No, but an equally surprising €150 millionaire.

vicwatson · 22-07-2016 11:06PM

Geldof thinks he's the new Dublin Phil Lynott since the real Phil passed away, if Phil was alive today he'd rightly loaf Geldof and tell him shut the **** up

Smondie · 22-07-2016 11:06PM

I don't care if the Third World fries
It's hotter there I'm not surprised
Baby I can watch whole nations die
And I don't care at all

Lyrics from his song. He's certainly had a change of heart about Africa frying. Money talks

thebaz · 22-07-2016 11:08PM

vicwatson wrote: »

Geldof thinks he's the new Dublin Phil Lynott since the real Phil passed away, if Phil was alive today he'd rightly loaf Geldof and tell him shut the **** up

nonsense

vicwatson · 22-07-2016 11:08PM

Smondie wrote: »

I don't care if the Third World fries
It's hotter there I'm not surprised
Baby I can watch whole nations die
And I don't care at all
And I still ****in hate Mondays

FYP

philstar · 22-07-2016 11:09PM

^^^^^^^^^^

that song is tongue in cheek

vicwatson · 22-07-2016 11:10PM

thebaz wrote: »

nonsense

Wtf? Phil would box the head off geldof any day of the week (if philo was still alive of course)

Allyall · 22-07-2016 11:10PM

Smondie wrote: »

I don't care if the Third World fries
It's hotter there I'm not surprised
Baby I can watch whole nations die
And I don't care at all

Lyrics from his song. He's certainly had a change of heart about Africa frying. Money talks

In fairness, I think they (the lyrics) were tongue in cheek.

Rackstar · 22-07-2016 11:10PM

Did he not spout this same old sh1te at electric picnic as well?

54and56 · 22-07-2016 11:11PM

Smondie wrote: »

A lot of people that know him seem to turn to heroin. I wonder why. He'd would have been better off looking after his family and forget about saving all the africans.

What an ill informed and crass thing to say. The two events were not mutually exclusive and BTW, were any of his kids even born when he was "saving all the Africans"?

thebaz · 22-07-2016 11:12PM

vicwatson wrote: »

Wtf? Phil would box the head off geldof any day of the week (if philo was still alive of course)

they got on for your information -

Jim Bob Scratcher · 22-07-2016 11:12PM

vicwatson wrote: »

Wtf? Phil would box the head off geldof any day of the week (if philo was still alive of course)

Phil would still kick his arse today, even though he's dead.

MonkstownHoop · 22-07-2016 11:13PM

Rackstar wrote: »

Did he not spout this same old sh1te at electric picnic as well?

Apparently it's a little stage act he does everywhere

thebaz · 22-07-2016 11:13PM

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

What an ill informed and crass thing to say. The two events were not mutually exclusive and BTW, were any of his kids even born when he was "saving all the Africans"?

some real twats on here - didn't realise boards had become such a horrible place

Smondie · 22-07-2016 11:16PM

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

Smondie wrote: »

A lot of people that know him seem to turn to heroin. I wonder why. He'd would have been better off looking after his family and forget about saving all the africans.

What an ill informed and crass thing to say. The two events were not mutually exclusive and BTW, were any of his kids even born when he was "saving all the Africans"?

He got with Paula Yates in 76 and Fifi was born in 83. Bandaid was 84 so yes is your answer

vicwatson · 22-07-2016 11:17PM

thebaz wrote: »

they got on for your information -

And? Don't think philo would approve of sir Bob and the wankery he goes on about nowadays

54and56 · 22-07-2016 11:19PM

Allyall wrote: »

No, but an equally surprising €150 millionaire.

Why is it surprising? You actually think he made his money from the Boomtown Rats? Live Aid gave him a massive profile. It was an ancilliary benefit which he maximised by making astute investments over the years. No one, not even the tin hat brigade, would seriously suggest his motivation for doing Live Aid was to make connections which 10, 20 and even 30 years later open commercial opportunity doors for him.

Educate yourself a little - http://www.cgdev.org/blog/bob-geldof-development-drums & http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150195/How-Saint-Bob-words-private-equity-whore-launching-125m-investment-fund.html

thebaz · 22-07-2016 11:21PM

vicwatson wrote: »

And? Don't think philo would approve of sir Bob and the wankery he goes on about nowadays

and would Bob have approved of ... Nevermind ....both are legends in my mind , and both got on and helped transform Ireland from the dark ages in the 1970s

Allyall · 22-07-2016 11:23PM

Je_suis_Jean wrote: »

Why is it surprising? You actually think he made his money from the Boomtown Rats? Live Aid gave him a massive profile. It was an ancilliary benefit which he maximised by making astute investments over the years. No one, not even the tin hat brigade, would seriously suggest his motivation for doing Live Aid was to make connections which 10, 20 and even 30 years later open commercial opportunity doors for him.

Educate yourself a little - http://www.cgdev.org/blog/bob-geldof-development-drums & http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150195/How-Saint-Bob-words-private-equity-whore-launching-125m-investment-fund.html

That's exactly where I was going with my point :rolleyes:.
But okay. I'll do that. Thanks.

If I do, will you promise to look at the bigger picture?

54and56 · 22-07-2016 11:24PM

Smondie wrote: »

He got with Paula Yates in 76 and Fifi was born in 83. Bandaid was 84 so yes is your answer

And you think the time he spent "saving the africans" led to both of them turing to heroin decades later? Seriously?

VincePP · 22-07-2016 11:25PM

vicwatson wrote: »

Think he got £40 mill from sale of the holiday website deckchair. All on the back of "give us your ****ing money" speech

Nope - only got 500k for that.

He did get big payoff for Planet 24 TV production company and is still involved in TV production (survivor is one of his)

Has several other companies, invested well and yes his charity work does not do his profile any harm - but I don't think one penny of charitable money ever went into his pocket. (he never needed it)

Allyall · 22-07-2016 11:29PM

VincePP wrote: »

Nope - only got 500k for that.

He did get big payoff for Planet 24 TV production company and is still involved in TV production (survivor is one of his)

Has several other companies, invested well and yes his charity work does not do his profile any harm - but I don't think one penny of charitable money ever went into his pocket. (he never needed it)

I'm not here for that argument, but yes it did.
He may have put it back into the Charity, but it did go to benefit him initially.

Billionaire slags people off for wearing primark

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