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FruitKat:
I didn't get to watch any of it...
And I don't actually know what the point of it was. What cause was it supporting and why would someone not watch it?...

Drewbacca:
I caught a clip on the news tonight where they were interviewing the frontman from a-Ha. Wow .. that was some scary aging. Took a good few seconds to recognize him :|

Titan:
The politics of the whole thing is bullshit. Some ass-hole wrote to a talk show saying that anyone who didn't watch the damn thing has "no soul" (or something to that effect).

I didn't watch it, purely out of principle. It's just something for westerners to feel better about themselves, and in fact, any money raised will probably make the whole situation worse - most experts would agree with me here.

In short, I was insulted by the whole concept and refused to watch it.

-sam:
Which is, of course, why it wasn't a fund-raising event.  It was an attempt to lean on the people who control the means to effect real change in Africa and get them to change their collective policies towards the continent, ie grants instead of loans and revised trade policy.  How effective the Live 8 concerts will be is a matter for historians to decide.  In any event the organizers and performers deserve some kudos for staging this thing and bringing the continuingly pitable state of Africa to the forefront of the public consciousness.

-sam

KharBevNor:
Except that the whole thing is designed not to collect money but to put pressure on the G8 leaders through signatures and so forth...wasn't their slogan even "We don't want your money, we want your voice"?

What I love is, everytime someone thinks up some sort of charitable endeavour that would maybe make some peoples lives just that bit better, there's some cynical little cunt (no offence) who comes over acting all high and mighty because they have all the political sass and knowledge.

This might very well be one of the reasons why we, as a species, are totally fucking doomed.

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