Did not realize people got so fired up about U2

"E. Julius" (soonerfrommi) 05/06/2015 at 12:51 • Filed to: None

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Really caught me off guard how vicious some of the reactions were in the comments. I’m not a huge fan, and sure Bono is (at least portrayed as) kind of a douche, but they’re just an inoffensive mainstream musical act. What is it about the internet that drives people so crazy?

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SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 12:53

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It’s bad enough having to take the subway with millions of other people without having to hear their bullshit.

For Sweden > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 12:53

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CalzoneGolem > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 12:53

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I think it was the whole Songs of Innocence dealio that has made the internet hate them. Before that most people wouldn’t even bother to comment.

E. Julius > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 05/06/2015 at 12:58

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It’s not like you can’t ignore them, like with every other obnoxious subway person. I don’t know, maybe that’s just the mild midwesterner in me talking. Regardless, I don’t really care enough about U2 to form a particularly strong opinion on this.

I’d just pull out my iPod and drown them out with my own tunes:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 12:59

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I think it’s the mild inoffensiveness to offensiveness that makes it possible for people to get that wound up. If there’s nothing *there*, it’s easier to make a bogeyman of whatever you project. I can (sadly) see people more worked up about U2 than anything from a Nirvana cover band to GWAR.
(For me, U2 run the gamut from very listenable to eh to nothx. They’ve done some interesting things artistically, some awful things artistically, and Bono is somebody who comes off as a douche but has done some very significant things. Nothing worth flipping one’s shit over.)

E. Julius > CalzoneGolem 05/06/2015 at 12:59

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Makes sense. Still doesn’t seem like something worth getting so worked up about.

E. Julius > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 05/06/2015 at 13:00

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I 100% agree with everything you just said.

lone_liberal > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 13:01

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It lets people feel a sense of superiority. U2 is a band that had some good songs and some bad songs and Bono is kind of a douche but it’s not like they are some god damned skinhead metal band.

CalzoneGolem > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 13:01

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Pfft. Are you new to the internet? A picture of a dress can get everyone worked up!

E. Julius > CalzoneGolem 05/06/2015 at 13:03

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Not new, but perhaps still naïve.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 13:10

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When South Park calls you a turd, you’re a bona fide douche.

E. Julius > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 05/06/2015 at 13:11

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That is a pretty good episode.

Wacko > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 13:25

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It’s more Ballaban’s wording, or Trolling.

Sadly he does have it days that the Troll Force is strong. I was once BallaBANNED myself.

P.S. just don’t call him a Master Baiter!

Svend > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 13:25

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Personally its because Bono rants (while often getting paid to do so on behalf of an organisation) on and on about people needing to give money (who are often scraping by from paycheck to paycheck) to save the world but moves his tax domain to mainland Europe from the Republic of Ireland so he doesn’t have to pay the higher tax in his own country.

Wacko > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) 05/06/2015 at 13:26

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You mean Bono Fide douche

Svend > CalzoneGolem 05/06/2015 at 13:35

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IT WAS BLUE! OKAY!

#LOL

CalzoneGolem > Svend 05/06/2015 at 13:36

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RABBLE RABBLE!!!

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Wacko 05/06/2015 at 13:40

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Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 13:48

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Songs of Innocence kind of offended me. I didn’t listen to them for a whole two weeks after that little fiasco, and then only listened to 80’s U2. Still I don’t hate them like I hate Hansen or Maria Carrey.

E. Julius > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/06/2015 at 13:52

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Still nursing the Hansen rage after 20 years?

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 14:15

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Well, chances are that Apple forced you to take the new U2 album as well, sooo.....

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > lone_liberal 05/06/2015 at 14:17

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Skinheads at least generally do what they say they’re going to do. Bono’s just a tax-dodging prick who tried to get governments to give more aid.

lone_liberal > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 05/06/2015 at 14:21

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He may be all of the things you say, at best he is a huge hypocrite, but that is still better than being a violent racist. I don’t think it’s even close.

E. Julius > SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie 05/06/2015 at 14:22

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Yeah but whatevs : /

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 15:07

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It’s an easy rage to maintain.

StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 > E. Julius 05/06/2015 at 15:52

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Yea, not sure I get it either. And I haven’t even deleted their album from iTunes when I got it free! I mean, i’ve had a few songs come up on random and they aren’t bad.