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Hold on, as the resident newbie... let me get a pen and take some notes.

Rules for the Dirty Forum

1. I am a fuckwit.

2. Goldfish rocks.

3. Ally is a troll.

4. Figure out what "straw men" means - it's obviously not good and shows that I have a lot of growing up to do.

Ok, got it all down now.

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4. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html

There you go. Full set.

Simon

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watching it - the whole "golden ticket" thing is fucking annoying - there's a huge pen of people who've paid to be in at the front - loads of room - and about half a mile further back, is the crowd, who are all crushed up! so there were tickets for sale. very expensive tickets. to put yourself in front of the cattle who got in for nothing. that's a shitty affair.

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I loved Ashcroft and Coldplay, the rest has been pretty awful though.

Simon

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pete docherty goes straight in at number one in "top of the cocks" - would anybody be upset to see him punched to a bloody pulp? why not give your fucking drug budget to africa, you prize twat!

agreeing with simon; apart from coldplay (purely because they're coldplay!) thought rem were ok...

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Poor thing!

Like a little microcosm of society, people on Dirty sometimes have "ishooooooz" :)

I thought Bono was not cock at all - and he brought a lump to my throat. Not as good as Live Aid, but maybe I am only saying that cos I'm old.

Coldplay were good, as was Mr Ashcroft with no shoes on.

I'm waiting for Annie Lennox and Sting, of course ;)

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I can create a thread if you want :)

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I know! Can you help me? I need help.

Sometimes I am Forgotten Sanity, and sometimes I have forgotten sanity.

...and so far, today seems like a wonderful day for me.

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maybe there should be a seperate "cock" forum just to keep things nice and steady...?:confused:

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madonna - at least she broke the mold by not playing her most dirge-y tunes - and having that ethiopian woman on-stage was pretty emotional...

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robbie - bless 'im - top performer, and looking genuinely excited by the whole thing - best act imo - a lot of emotion and so many good vibes that karl'd be shaking!:)

though i have to say; the who have been very impressive!


peter kaye introducing the who as "the spice girls" was pretty cool :D as well as asking a technician who was ushering him to the side of the stage "are you sober?" any americans watching who saw 150,000 people singing along to "show me the way to amarillo" might have been a bit confused...

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Pink Floyd were stunning.

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Yeah PF was ACE! 'this is for syd' fabulous
History in the making.
watching the rerun at dutch telly now... knowing it is already safe on my dvdrs HDD :)
With The Who and Angels by robbie. Think what you want about robbie, but that song is THE crowd song ever.

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I had a lump in my throat throughout PF's performance. Jeez it was good. Roger really seemed to be getting into it and enjoying the whole thing, lots of smiles. The solos for Comfortably Numb were as powerful as ever. God bless 'em.

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i was pissed off that the coverage interrupted peter kaye for a smarmy love-in with george micheals...




and you can trust fox to turn it into a pissing contest: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,161435,00.html :rolleyes:

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Typical.........

on a lighter note, besides Robbie PF and the Who i really enjoyed Madonna and Razorlight:D ......it was an 'in the pub' job though so i may have been pissed:eek:

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"PHILADELPHIA — With 10 concerts around the globe designed to push Africa to the top of the agenda of next week's Group of Eight (search) summit, it may be fitting that the largest turnout by far was in the United States."

it may be fitting...in what sense...that the biggest crowd saw the worst bands and that they have the least pro active leader attending the G8 summit?

typical bloody yanks, join the party late and then save the day?

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With a population of more than double the other members, then yes, it may be fitting. :rolleyes:

Simon

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and with the exception of Russia, the land mass is more than that of the other G8 nations as well...

lets see what they do with that amount of 'voice' this week in Edinburgh..and see if GWB is taking notice....

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They'll do fuck all as usual.............

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MAY have been?

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OK, OK i was a little squiffy:)