To celebrate the 300th page of Off Topic.
Here's something for Vipros...

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8458692.stm
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:36, 31 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

But bono didn't fall off the roof and die?
Way to build me up and then knock me down
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:38, Reply)

I was about to have a 'power-wank' at the very thought of that, too.
*zips up, forlornly*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:40, Reply)

Are you talking about Bret Heart's brother?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:01, Reply)

I can't work out which is the song I hate most.
Despite having to sit through THREE DAYS AND MULTIPLE PLAYS of Vertigo when we were doing student conferences, I still have a special place in my colon for Beautiful Day.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:41, Reply)

oh ooooh oh, the sweetest thing.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:47, Reply)

with or with out yoooou
with or without yoooou
with or without yoooouuuuuuu

Repeat until will to live is totally dead

Also Elevation was a massive pile of wank
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:49, Reply)

Oh I forgot about Elevation
I don't mind their first two albums either.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:52, Reply)

Some of their stuff is ok
but bono whinning about having too much money or whatever it is he sings about pisses me off.

Roots have you read this?
www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=11worst
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 12:56, Reply)

Ha!
"I don't know why, but we always had this belief that there was something sacred about our music, that it was almost holy."
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:02, Reply)

I'd forgotten about that
Maddox is fucking awesome
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:06, Reply)

That's fucking marvellous.
I've never heard of that site before.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:23, Reply)

that site was basically written for you

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:27, Reply)

Oh yeah it was!
Monty check out the hate mail link at the top.

Me thinks you will enjoy!
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:41, Reply)

This makes me a very happy boy.
Thank you


EDIT: God, it's excellent. Highly entertaining.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:43, Reply)

I think Chompy is right
I think that's their worst one, although 'where the streets have no name' has some of the most excruciating teenage poetry style lyrics I think I've ever heard.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:09, Reply)

Pride (in the name of love)
...is truly vile and in my opinion the biggest turd in the steaming great repertoire of poo that is their back catalogue.

Fuckers.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 14:09, Reply)

Sorry, you are right.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 14:31, Reply)

And...
...The Pet Shop Boys did 'Where the Streets...' way better.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 15:00, Reply)

because of Vertigo
U2 should be sentenced to death for crimes against humanity
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:04, Reply)

I have to admit that my opinion of Bono has changed over the years.
When I first became aware of his existence, I thought he was just another pointless twat.
However, I am now certain that he has transcended the very limits of hypocrisy, greed and talentlessness to to the point that now, finally, I must be awarded the super-powers* I so richly deserve in order to wipe him from existence.

*Please note: super-powers may be used for evil as well as good.
( thealternativefact, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:19, Reply)

My mind starts to cave in
at the mere thought of two teenage paddies deciding to call each other 'Bono Vox' and 'The Edge'.

'Good voice' in fucking Latin? You pompous, deluded bog-trotting cunt. This is clear evidence that he has ALWAYS been a cunt, rather than having become one as a result of massive wholly unmerited success.

'Great riff dere, De Edge'

'Tanks. Goes brilliantly with your excellent lyrics, Bono Vox'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:35, Reply)

is that where his name comes from?
my hatred has risen to unprecedented levels

I wholeheartedly agree with your statement
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 13:37, Reply)

S'true...
...and 'The Edge' is Latin for 'over-rated cunt'.

Top 100 in the best guitarists ever list? Aaaaaaaaarrrghhh!

*Starts trashing office*
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 14:13, Reply)

unbelievable isn't it?
I personally know several better guitarists than that twat
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 14:23, Reply)

Best 'smoke and mirrors with effects pedals'
perhaps.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 14:32, Reply)

The story goes...
he took it from 'Bonavox', a hearing aid shop next to a key cutters shop called 'The Edge' in Fairview in North Dublin. The Edge sign is still there but the Bonavox shop is gone. There's a Centra there now and a bank. It's just down the road from the school they and I (some years later) attended.

There was still a rake of teachers there who taught them when I was there - they all had stories. Bono was always a knobend.

rafter
baz
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 14:20, Reply)

but that would make him 'Bona'.
Actually seeing as he is without doubt a colossal boner that would be more than apt...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 14:34, Reply)

On the other hand -
The Virgin Prunes (friends of U2 at the start) were a brilliant band and should have been massive instead of these....these....

....arrrrrggghhhhhhh......
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 14:57, Reply)

on the topic of rubbish Irish bands,
a mate of mine reckons he is personally responsible for the demise of The Golden Horde (not Genghis Khans army) cos he threw a bottle at Simon Carmody when they were a support act.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 16:09, Reply)

Shame your mate wasn't at an early U2 show.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 16:15, Reply)

funny you should say that
one of my mates uncles was a teacher there. He's a sound man. He stays in touch with a lot of past pupils including us and them boys who he would have seen play in their youth. Unfortunately, he's just not the bottle-chucking type.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 14 Jan 2010, 16:25, Reply)