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[Bono addesses the European People’s Party Elections Congress in the Convention Centre this afternoon, top, and Bono with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Taoiseach Enda Kenny]

“I want to give an enormous, enormous shout out. The biggest shout out I have in my heart, to the Irish people for coming through. I’d love to say it was the Troika but I think it was despite the Troika. The Irish people bailed the Irish people out.”

“For all this progress, for all these achievements, nearly 60 years after the Treaty of Rome, Europe is an economic entity that still needs to become a social entity,” he said. “Europe is a thought that needs to become a feeling.”

“Right now, your ministers . . . and your members of the European Parliament are working on another law that could help transform the lives for the poor, and the rest of us, too.”

“It’s a law to inject daylight into the financial system to stop corrupt monies vanishing to ‘safe’ havens and combat money laundering,”

Ah fupping here.

 

http://soundcloud.com/gavanreillytodayfm/bono-speech-epp-dublin

Bono’s full speech courtesy of Gavan Reilly.

Watch here.

Irish people not troika bailed out State, claims Bono (Irish Times)

Pic via RTVE and Gente en Ideal.es

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You may recall yesterday’s movie insult competition?

The most enjoyable put downs nominated by YOU but selected by the judges at Wide Eye Media [formerly Carlton Screen Advertising] are…

“I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Nominated by Andyourpointiswhatexactly)

“If I medicined you, you’d think a brain tumour was a birthday present.”

Withnail and I (Nominated by Bertie Blenkinsop)

“You human paraquat”

The Big Lebowski.(Nominated by Odackatee)

“I mean, didn’t you notice on the plane when you started talking, eventually I started reading the vomit bag? Didn’t that give you some sort of clue like, ‘Hey, maybe this guy’s not enjoying it’? You know, everything is not an anecdote. You have to discriminate. You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting. You’re a miracle—your stories have none of that. They’re not even amusing accidentally! ‘Honey, I’d like you to meet Del Griffith, he’s got some amusing anecdotes for you. Oh, and here’s a gun so you can blow your brains out. You’ll thank me for it.’ I could tolerate any insurance seminar. For days I could sit there and listen to them go on and on with a big smile on my face. They’d say, ‘How can you stand it?’ I’d say, ‘Cause I’ve been with Del Griffith. I can take anything.” And you know what they’d say? They’d say, ‘I know what you mean. The shower curtain ring guy. Whoa.’ It’s like going on a date with a Chatty Cathy doll. I expect you to have a little string on your chest that I pull out and have to snap back. Except I wouldn’t pull it out and snap it back—you would. ‘Aah, aah, aah.’ And by the way, when you’re telling these little stories? Here’s a good idea—have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener!”

‘Planes Trains and Automobiles’ (@3.48) (Nominated by MrGavoB who writes: “1. because the build up is priceless 2. because its a hell of a put down 3.because John Candy’s reaction to it breaks your heart and you then feel bad for laughing at what Steve Martin was saying in the first place.”)

“Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

Billy Madison (Nominated  by Clare)

Thanks all

Previously: What Time Does The Film Start?

UPDATE: Some of the winners got mixed up in an earlier version of this post. Apologies. Fixed now.  Sorry all.

UPDATE 2: The judges are deciding whether to ban the Withnail and I line insult/threat or let it WIN. More as we get it.

 

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Lloyd Breetzke writes:

“I know you don’t often do this but I was wondering if you could please help? I have stupidly left my black Ted Baker men’s bag on a bench along the Grand Canal close to Percy Place, Dublin 4, just up from the school house yesterday afternoon at 3.45pm. It had a pair of gold and black quarts earrings which I made for my mom’s 60th birthday; and a grey apron with the name and emblem of the restaurant that I work in, Juniors on Bath Avenue. It’s my mother’s birthday on Saturday and I’m devastated. If there is any chance I can get them back I would be very grateful! There is a reward available.”

 

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