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(AlanCross.ca) Amusing Bono busted for busking   (alancross.ca) divider line 46
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Because People in power are Stupid [TotalFark]
2012-01-02 01:48:05 PM
It's about time.
 
Pope Larry II [TotalFark]
2012-01-02 02:25:01 PM
So this is what Alan Cross is doing now, thanks Subby
 
Mark Ratner [TotalFark]
2012-01-02 02:46:21 PM
I watched the entire video just waiting for the part where they haul Bono's ass away in a paddywagon, or maybe even tasered him, but no. It's just him and some other dude singing.
 
babysealclubber [TotalFark]
2012-01-02 02:53:02 PM
I like how the author insinuates the cops should/would act differently if they recognized Bono. Bono should get to play by separate rules, he IS famous and all.
 
Crewmannumber6
2012-01-02 03:00:03 PM
Mark Ratner: I watched the entire video just waiting for the part where they haul Bono's ass away in a paddywagon, or maybe even tasered him, but no. It's just him and some other dude singing.

The one 'dude' is Glen Hansard from The Frames, also from the movie 'Once'. But to me he'll always be Outspan Foster from The Committments
i47.photobucket.com
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2012-01-02 03:00:28 PM
Police tell one of the richest people in Ireland to move along.
Maybe he should have acted more wealthy.
 
Crewmannumber6
2012-01-02 03:04:28 PM
Glen also recently did a 4 part piece for World Cafe about the Dublin music scene. Part one was about busking on Grafton Street. Pretty interesting
Link (new window)
 
mekkab
2012-01-02 03:14:55 PM
Mark Ratner: I watched the entire video just waiting for the part where they haul Bono's ass away in a paddywagon, or maybe even tasered him, but no. It's just him and some other dude singing.

this, This, a thousand times THIS!
 
Ed Finnerty [TotalFark]
2012-01-02 03:24:17 PM
Wots all this then?
 
Giltric
2012-01-02 03:30:50 PM
Elvis Costello is not impressed.
 
Jake Havechek
2012-01-02 03:36:36 PM
Billy Bragg is not impressed.
 
capitulating fromage masticating simian
2012-01-02 03:37:43 PM
mekkab: Mark Ratner: I watched the entire video just waiting for the part where they haul Bono's ass away in a paddywagon, or maybe even tasered him, but no. It's just him and some other dude singing.

this, This, a thousand times THIS!

I think it's a THIS from everybody that clicked the play button, at least everyone from fark.
 
Already Disturbed
2012-01-02 03:39:10 PM
Tito Jackson is not impressed
 
Gunderson
2012-01-02 03:45:28 PM
Glad to see he recovered from his skiing accident quite well....
 
Apos [TotalFark]
2012-01-02 03:47:11 PM
mekkab: Mark Ratner: I watched the entire video just waiting for the part where they haul Bono's ass away in a paddywagon, or maybe even tasered him, but no. It's just him and some other dude singing.

this, This, a thousand times THIS!

Not to mention the fact that Bono's about as unrecognizable as Will Smith in a bishop's miter.
 
mekkab
2012-01-02 03:47:51 PM
Apos: as Will Smith in a bishop's miter.

Don't move, Devious!


/...The Bishop!!!
 
puckrock2000
2012-01-02 03:49:18 PM
Fer crissake, when you're filming something with your cell phone, HOLD IT HORIZONTALLY, GODDAMMIT!
 
puddleonfire
2012-01-02 03:53:45 PM
FINALLY the rich and famous get treated the same as everyone else!
 
Arachnophobe
2012-01-02 03:56:50 PM
Alliteration is always awesome.
 
MrGuy
2012-01-02 04:09:35 PM
From the Daily Star link in the article: The Irish legend, 51, was moved along by the police this Chrimbo after they failed to recognise the star singing in the street

Chrimbo? Really, do we need another word for (what I'm assuming is) christmas?

/apologies if that's an actual common-place word that has escaped me in my sheltered existence.
 
puckrock2000
2012-01-02 04:43:31 PM
MrGuy: From the Daily Star link in the article: The Irish legend, 51, was moved along by the police this Chrimbo after they failed to recognise the star singing in the street

Chrimbo? Really, do we need another word for (what I'm assuming is) christmas?

/apologies if that's an actual common-place word that has escaped me in my sheltered existence.

"Gary Chrimbo, and Merry Rudolph!" (new window)
 
sethstorm
2012-01-02 04:51:42 PM
Busker don't.
 
inert
2012-01-02 05:02:30 PM
Bono dresses down to the point of being almost unrecognizable and hits the streets of Dublin with some friends to do a little entertaining and fundraising

-Hey, isn't that Bono singing there?

-No, although admittedly he does sound and look exactly like Bono right down to the ridiculous sunglasses, he's wearing a hat and Bono never wears a hat,

-Oh yeah.
 
wood_stones
2012-01-02 05:17:54 PM
it was moving - when he had them all humming silent night - I liked it.

/not a bono fan usually
 
shanteyman
2012-01-02 05:32:21 PM
"Allllllright, now ! let's just be moving along ! Dere's nuttin' ta see here folks, nuttin' ta see. Move along , boys !"
 
DrippinBalls [TotalFark]
2012-01-02 05:41:54 PM
Busking? What bullsh*t is that? Singing in public? Is that what the abject losers call it now? Christ, made it sound like he was pulling his pud in public.
 
Kali-Yuga
2012-01-02 06:05:50 PM
You got a Benz, Bono's got a busket!

/got nothin
 
kenryoku_one
2012-01-02 06:57:43 PM
Crewmannumber6:
The one 'dude' is Glen Hansard from The Frames, also from the movie 'Once'. But to me he'll always be Outspan Foster from The Committments

I'm blick and I'm prewd.
 
MSFT
2012-01-02 07:01:27 PM
Crewmannumber6: Glen also recently did a 4 part piece for World Cafe about the Dublin music scene. Part one was about busking on Grafton Street. Pretty interesting
Link (new window)

I've got a serious man-crush on Glen Hansard. That guy puts his heart and soul into his songs, no question about it.
 
Ed Finnerty [TotalFark]
2012-01-02 07:07:36 PM
sethstorm: Busker don't.

*golfclap*
 
Jim_Callahan
2012-01-02 07:42:16 PM
The cops didn't recognize Bono.

Alternate interpretation: the cops knew damned well who he was, but aren't in the business of giving out "get out of city ordinance free" cards to everyone that feels like coasting on the fact that they were cool in the 80s.

//It's nice when the good cops make the news for once instead of the bad ones, even indirectly.
 
vudukungfu
2012-01-02 08:12:35 PM
Arachnophobe: Alliteration

Literary consonance, to be precise.
 
Smackledorfer
2012-01-02 09:15:47 PM
Mark Ratner: I watched the entire video just waiting for the part where they haul Bono's ass away in a paddywagon, or maybe even tasered him, but no. It's just him and some other dude singing.

I would have arrested him for that.
 
Shenanigans!
2012-01-02 10:22:33 PM
DrippinBalls: Busking? What bullsh*t is that? Singing in public? Is that what the abject losers call it now? Christ, made it sound like he was pulling his pud in public.

If you consider the horseless carriage a fad that won't last long and the phonograph an infernal device popularized by young hooligans to make a racket, then yes, "busking" is hipster emo lingo.
 
mialynneb
2012-01-03 01:09:06 AM
I'm not getting the article where it says Bono is unrecognizable. If I were walking down the street and happened upon this scene I would say, "Oh hey, there's Bono."
 
Disgruntled Goat
2012-01-03 07:03:41 AM
MrGuy: From the Daily Star link in the article: The Irish legend, 51, was moved along by the police this Chrimbo after they failed to recognise the star singing in the street

Chrimbo? Really, do we need another word for (what I'm assuming is) christmas?

/apologies if that's an actual common-place word that has escaped me in my sheltered existence.

Your computer doesn't have access to Google, huh? That must suck.
 
Balchinian
2012-01-03 07:25:21 AM
Hint for Bono:

If the public can't tell you from one of the singing drunks on the street, that should tell you something about your singing ability. Which in turn should tell you something about what your celebrity is based on. Now please STFU and move along like the nice officer told you.
 
Cormee
2012-01-03 08:21:30 AM
Strange. I've been walking up and down Grafton St. almost daily for about twenty years now, and I've never seen the Gardai move any buskers on. Regardless of how crap they are.
 
Disposable Rob [TotalFark]
2012-01-03 08:47:53 AM
Mark Ratner: I watched the entire video just waiting for the part where they haul Bono's ass away in a paddywagon...

In Ireland, it's just called a "wagon".
 
rjakobi
2012-01-03 10:34:13 AM
Being a busker is dangerous. They're one of the first things I try to roll up into my Katamari Damacy ball.
 
mekkab
2012-01-03 10:46:28 AM
Shenanigans!: DrippinBalls: Busking? What bullsh*t is that? Singing in public? Is that what the abject losers call it now? Christ, made it sound like he was pulling his pud in public.

If you consider the horseless carriage a fad that won't last long and the phonograph an infernal device popularized by young hooligans to make a racket, then yes, "busking" is hipster emo lingo.

Even if the OP was troll baiting, your response transcends. OP gets no troll points. Kudos.
 
sleeper2995
2012-01-03 11:23:23 AM
sarcasticgamer.com
 
Disgruntled Goat
2012-01-03 12:21:14 PM
Balchinian: If the public can't tell you from one of the singing drunks on the street, that should tell you something about your singing ability. Which in turn should tell you something about what your celebrity is based on.

Ermm...okay. So tell us what his celebrity is based on, then.

I thought it was being the singer in one of the world's most popular bands for like 30 years.
 
LewDux
2012-01-03 12:23:40 PM
Disgruntled Goat: Balchinian: If the public can't tell you from one of the singing drunks on the street, that should tell you something about your singing ability. Which in turn should tell you something about what your celebrity is based on.

Ermm...okay. So tell us what his celebrity is based on, then.

I thought it was being the singer in one of the world's most popular bands for like 30 years.

Doesn't count because of his glasses
 
D135
2012-01-03 12:52:05 PM
"...Bono dresses down to the point of being almost unrecognizable..."

you say that as if he normally performs in his KISS Army armor and face paint
 
FLMountainMan [TotalFark]
2012-01-03 01:27:24 PM
Disposable Rob: Mark Ratner: I watched the entire video just waiting for the part where they haul Bono's ass away in a paddywagon...

In Ireland, it's just called a "wagon".

While true, this was still hilarious.
 
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