Live Earth

[groucho]

I really wouldn't mind going to this and having a good laugh with my mates, but I know I couldn't cope with all the bands banging on about how we are killing the planet.


It's a shame really.

[simpo two]

Pop star = tw@t

Funny how Bono's a tax exile - you'd think he'd give it all to the starving Africans... pious git.

[groucho]

See what I mean. I'd just play up if I went.

[syko]

Ditto. Self-righteous, self aggrandising gits, the lot of 'em.
But maybe they stir up the minds of the morally vacant majority, the bland middle Englanders, the semi-chavs with gold taps.

Personally, I am offended by their piety- they should remain as little minstrels in my CD player, entertaining me with their little outfits etc. How quaint. But I wouldn't want a moral lesson from a guy in 28 day old leather trousers.

[turbobloke]

The vote's still going well.

Will Live Earth make you think about climate change?
Yes 18.85%
No 81.15%

7930 Votes Cast

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainm

[groucho]

Maybe I can go, then.

[cazzer]

Twunts said:

The BBC has confirmed that it will be broadcasting the concerts on TV and radio in the UK.

Fcuk me...who'd have guessed that?

[Balmoral Green]

It's environmental consumersim gone mad!

Here's an idea, how about we organise an environmental protest and picket it as a big waste of resources? We could dress up as earth mother/swampy types, wear hemp clothing, paint our faces, and get placards made up with CND, anti Isreali/Pro Palestinain stuff on them, Stop the War etc etc. Oh the fun we could have! We could invite the usual rent a mob groups to join us, and they actually might do so too. Socialist worker, anti globalists etc.

[elster]

So I take it the bands wont all be flying in with their private planes, the supporters wont all be driving down to london, and all the power they use wil be from the wembley wind farm they built on top of it

[Parrot of Doom]

Sounds like the Live Earth organisers could do with holding onto a real live earth tbh.

[rich 36]

Dy'a know POD

I clicked on this thread thinking this acually was going to be concerning the same wacky
auto wiring concept, adopted in 60-70's

so you can imagine just how foolish I now feel

[shadowninja]

How many carbons will be used up:
1) flying these popstars in from around the world?
2) by 60 million viewers around the world switching on their TV for 12 hours?

[jesusbuiltmycar]

shadowninja said:

How many carbons will be used up:
1) flying these popstars in from around the world?
2) by 60 million viewers around the world switching on their TV for 12 hours?

Apparently it is going to be "carbon neutral"

Are they flying in on solar powered planes???

[shadowninja]

jesusbuiltmycar said:

shadowninja said:

How many carbons will be used up:
1) flying these popstars in from around the world?
2) by 60 million viewers around the world switching on their TV for 12 hours?

Apparently it is going to be "carbon neutral"

Are they flying in on solar powered planes???

You mean they'll tax UK tax payers?

[Tunku]

I'm going to go out and cut my lawn with my petrol 4 stroke lawnmower in honour of these gits. That should carbonise nicely. Then I will light my patio heaters to make sure I'm warm enough to use my gas powered barbeque upon which will be large Aberdeen Angus steaks, which have been grass fed just like my lawnmower.
I should then fire up my V8 , but I don't have one, so I'll content myself with firing up both my straight fours instead.
I may just do all this tomorrow when it's light, except I'm hungry, and a late night solo barbie appeals, especially when I have the next four days off.

[peterpeter]

simpo two said:

Pop star = tw@t

Funny how Bono's a tax exile - you'd think he'd give it all to the starving Africans... pious git.

except that they arent playing live earth.

[Dogwatch]

Per ITN Madonna, Black Eyed Peas and some bloke I've never heard of (so is probably famous) have been lined up.
Al Gore looking very very smug. Yuk.

[GKP]

I suppose all the 'artists' will be travelling in on their sail boats while their equipment and roadies will be using the canals for transport and the gazzillion treehuggers that watch this goddarn awful noisefest will be using solar powered televisions.
All the litter produced at the concert will be left to rot down naturally after the audience have left Wembley on their bicycles.

Load. Of. Tosh.

[Bounty Hunter]

turbobloke said:

The vote's still going well.

Will Live Earth make you think about climate change?
Yes 18.85%
No 81.15%

7930 Votes Cast

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainm

Twice the number of votes now - still the same result!

Yes 19.49%
No 80.51%
16157 Votes Cast

[jasandjules]

Now let me see.

A huge bunch of people with millions of pounds in the bank, many houses, and large cars, and possibly private planes/helicopters will pursuade me to stop driving my 1.9tdi car?

I think not.