Xinomorph

Ok, ok, I'm now officially sick of the whole fucking thing. Fron the wristbands made in third-world sweatshops to that jumped up Irish twat who looks like some kind of bum invading my house every day, it's now just a joke.

The whole Make Poverty History movement is, in itself, fair enough.
But here's the thing. It's like socialism/communism; in theory it's a relatively good idea, but in practice, it doesn't work for fuck.

So imagine you DO manage to change the minds of "those 8 men in that 1 room". What next? What can they do? Send more money the rest of the world hasn't got, into the hands of corrupt leaders and warlords, who'll do little else than buy a fleet of new Mercedes' for themselves? Drop sacks of seed, bottled water, clothes? Maybe for a few years (if you're lucky), but what good will it do? You can't do it continuously, can you? So you give them more seeds so they can grow-their-own, so to speak, and invest in their own future.

Again, a good idea in theory, but a load of shit in practice. They live in such God-forsaken places that they'll never be able to cultivate any amount of crops with any success. If the situation was different, they wouldn't be in poverty. They would have crops. But it's not. And I fail to see at present what else could be done, short of culling them all.

As for Live 8, the whole thing is a joke. Anyone who thinks that the majority of people going to these concerts gives a flying fuck about the third-world is off their rocker. They just want to see top artists for free. Or what they consider to be free, anyway. All most of them are interested in is the music. And that's a fact.

Finally, Geldof. Where the fuck to start? Here is a man who complained about the "evil" people trying to sell Live 8 tickets on eBay. A man who has, himself, created an entire career (and honourary knighthood)
out of world poverty.

He's just a jumped-up Irish twat. As with the whole Make Poverty History thing, what he's trying to do is, in its simplest form, highly commendable. But he's just taking it way too far. He looks like a tramp. He sounds like a tramp. And a drunken Irish one, at that. He's just so hilariously up himself it's not true. He sees himself as some kind of godly figure, but he's not. He's really not.

And his little chums aren't any better. Bono/U2 (quite possibly one of the most overrated bands of all time), Chris Martin/Coldplay (hypocrites if I've ever seen any), and so on. It's ridiculous.
Utterly ridiculous.