IWasBored said:
and the whole "oh my god bono siad 'fuck'" thing is hilarious. ooh look it's the big bad rock star comming along and corrupting the minds of our nation's youth. you know what? in elementary schol, i'm talking about 1st grade here, the big thing is to see how many people you can piss off by flipping them the bird through the school bus window...don't tell me that the scary rock singer on tv is the cause of this. and anyway, WHEN did he say this? what time was it? it had to be atleast 9 or 9:30 when it aired here, and don't kids that age usually go to bed before then? if you're really worried about your kids picking up bad language from television, what the hell are they doing watching some boring awards show (and if the parents REALLY go through with beleiving that swearing isn't appropriate for their kids, then exactly how many of those movies will their kids have seen?) at that time of night? and anyway, anyone older than 7 is going to hear that in school on a regular basis.
No kidding.
That parent group is pathetic. I can't stand groups like that who think they can sit there and dictate what is and isn't appropriate for people to view on television. We've got minds of our own, we can decide for ourselves whether we can handle a swear word or whatever else or not.
Kids have heard that word before, it's nothing new. And Bono wasn't even using it in an offensive context. He was just really happy U2 had won.
Plus, I think groups like that seem to forget there's a little invention called the
remote control...if they found the swearing so offensive, they could *gasp*
change the channel! Novel idea, huh?
In response to the other things discussed in here...Joan Rivers does not know what she's talking about. People like her bug me as well, thinking they're the fashion know-it-alls...what works for her won't work for other people.
I thought Bono looked just fine. So there.
to Joan Rivers.
And I've heard about Frank Sinatra being cut off...I agree that that was rather rude for these reasons:
1, consider the guy's age. When people get to that age, sometimes their minds tend to wander, and they start rambling on about various other things.
2, he was not gonna be around much longer, might as well have just let him have his night.
3, I could understand if they want to keep the acceptance speeches for the other awards at shows like these to a certain time limit-fine, whatever.
But for an award such as the Lifetime Achievement Award-I mean, that's a huge honor-the people running the show should allow those who win that award to have a little more time for their acceptance speech.
4, like these awards shows have never run over before anyway-they always do, what was the worry with Frank's speech? That awards show was probably gonna run overtime as it was, might as well have just let him yap.
And in response to Bono's introduction...Bono has a certain way of saying things, I thought his introduction was fine as well. It's just him being creative in his speech, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Angela
I 'got' it and I liked his 'muse' analogy comparing Scorsese and NY with James Joyce and Dublin. Bono is a creative lateral thinker and he has a brilliant mind- mine works the same way, so I understand
