I always liked Russell Brand's Bob Geldof joke:

"It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on 'I Don't Like Mondays' for 30 years."

Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays...

>> ^ulysses1904:

Arrrggghh, thanks for reminding me how much I hate this song. Bob Geldof always struck me as a smug little tard, back when this song came out. It’s the kind of song that I would have thought was edgy and clever when I was a schoolboy. During interviews when questioned about the poor taste of treating a tragedy with such smug flippancy Geldof replied that it was more like America didn’t like it when someone aired its “dirty laundry”. BTW I always read it was a schoolgirl that did the shooting, not someone who lived across the street.
Why didn’t Geldof write a song to air Scotland’s dirty laundry when some lunatic killed 18 children at a nursery school? And that line about “the silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload”, does that even mean anything? Things don’t get “switched to overload”, they get overloaded. But I’m sure the schoolboys thought it sounded cool. So Geldof always struck me as a loser who was desperate for some claim to fame. And then Live Aid comes along and this tard gets treated like a saint. Jeez.
Thanks for the memories.

Arrrggghh, thanks for reminding me how much I hate this song. Bob Geldof always struck me as a smug little tard, back when this song came out. It’s the kind of song that I would have thought was edgy and clever when I was a schoolboy. During interviews when questioned about the poor taste of treating a tragedy with such smug flippancy Geldof replied that it was more like America didn’t like it when someone aired its “dirty laundry”. BTW I always read it was a schoolgirl that did the shooting, not someone who lived across the street.

Why didn’t Geldof write a song to air Scotland’s dirty laundry when some lunatic killed 18 children at a nursery school? And that line about “the silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload”, does that even mean anything? Things don’t get “switched to overload”, they get overloaded. But I’m sure the schoolboys thought it sounded cool. So Geldof always struck me as a loser who was desperate for some claim to fame. And then Live Aid comes along and this tard gets treated like a saint. Jeez.

Thanks for the memories.

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Bob Geldof is such a tit

Time and time again I see the West take the same misguided steps in trying to alleviate poverty in the Africa. The only solution presented to people is send more money, buy this CD, go to this concert, wear this t-shirt, wear this bracelet.

Over the last 30 years the first world has transferred over a trillion dollars in aid, yet GDP levels are actually lower then levels at independence. Clearly this approach doesn't work.

Yet Bob Geldof and other world wide NGOs hold the same misguided idea that pumping more money would somehow solve everything. When in reality it's creating a larger problem, it's reaching a point where local entrepreneurship is dying out because people just expect NGOs to come solve everything. Of course eventually they do, give the population some complicated piece of machinery, that breaks 3 days later and no one knows how to fix, and the parts of course aren't available in Africa.

What about food aid? There is wasn't a more ironic name for it. Food Aid is usually dumped by donor nations to the country, of course it alleviates short term hunger problems. But the west dumps so much aid (because western agricultural industries are overproducing) that in the long term it destroys the local agricultural market. The local agricultural market goes into subsistence mode, producing only for itself, how do you compete with free dumped food? So what happens is that the nation is again set up for the same thing to happen, the market never recovers to provide for the population.

What the First world should do is open up borders between African nations so that food supply shocks are handled by the agricultural market within Africa. Aid packages even come with stipulations that WTO, IMF and other donors can set.

What Africa needs is directed foreign investment, skilled labor that can train the population, sustainable growth initiatives instead of hand outs. Once you raise the welfare of the people problems such as AIDs and other diseases would decreased as people get educated and increase their standard of living. You can't solve the problem if you don't attack it's roots.

Why not protest about the restrictive agricultural subsidies and tariff systems that the EU and US possess that destroy the import/export competitiveness of agricultural products from Africa? (Africa is mostly agriculturally based) Of course you won't your governments will warn you of dangerous lower food standards in the Third World, which is so ironic considering food borne diseases sprung up in the UK first with BSE.

Try this next time at Live 8 Aid, ask an NGO representative how they want to actually promote change, you will receive ambiguous answers that show no understanding of the situation on the ground... How I ever managed not to punch out my colleagues and their delusional views, I don't know... NGO people think they are just morally superior because they have a good humanitarian agenda, but don't realize that even good causes can be carried out poorly, like the Democrats.

to proceed sfjocko's Comfortably Numb post http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=10179 , here's bob geldof singing 'in the flesh' from the movie 'The Wall'. (run like hell is also in the video)

Wow, that's some video. I love the album but I've never seen the film - I really want to now. Bob Geldof looks straaaange!