Which is more evil, leaving comments on or leaving comments off?

Bono isn't cool? I was sort of aware that my cool-radar isn't that great, but this news plunges me into black doubt...

Well, Jesus, thats a tough one ;-) Taking that seriously for a moment...

Going out on a limb here but I'd say that do-gooders cannot, in general, be equated with good small-scale behaviour. They go for a very certain kind of "goodness". Principles, saving the world, etc. I don't know too much about Bono, but the "good" thing he's famous for is along the same lines, I guess.

"good" behaviour on a small-scale, towards the people around you, well, I can think of some people who do that and are cool.

What about the Fonz... now he's COOL!







right?

Just a slight digression, from cool to idleness.
'Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? could psychology be -- a vice?' [Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols]

- which is more evil,gel or hairspray?
- gel!

Hmmm. If something is (bland enough to be?) widely admired, it is not cool (because it no longer interests the socially brave and adventurous people who find and appreciate things before the rest of us catch on and who, by liking something, make it cool) and it is not bad (because it does not offend many people). Or something like that.

But being bad does not make something cool and being cool does not make something bad. I don't follow trends much, but don't very silly, harmless things sometimes become cool? And aren't some very bad things very uncool?

Bono is good (his heart and money are in the right place) but he is not cool because he stopped being new and interesting about a hundred years ago.

comments fields are the evilest. Please keep them up (on? whatever)!

Cool means knowing "wtf", and being unfazed. Since we are generally a reactive worrying bunch, and we think we're "good" people, then yeah, naturally the cool folks are evil.

Bono was cool, but now he's cheese.

Is that evil?

leaving comments on- cool!

dealing with comment spam- evil!

"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil: but for good people to do evil -- that takes religion." -Steven Weinberg

What would Marshall McLuhan say?

Bono's not cool? To me, he's the paragon of it. Not only does he have the natural aura of it (and let's face it--cool really is all about the aura; it's what separates the legitimately cool people from those of us without it, who compensate in vain through our blogs), but he's a fucking rock star. I mean, if being the world's biggest rock star doesn't make one cool, what can? What's bigger than the biggest rock star? The Pope, maybe, but he's sure as hell not cool in my book (JPII, sure, but Razi is about as cool as a stale sandwich left in a warm kitchen for a week). Nor is George Bush or the Queen of England or Bill Gates cool. Darth Vader is cool, and he's certainly bigger than Bono, but he loses significant cool points when he punks out his boss at the end of Jedi. But I digress.

Going back to Bono, in addition to being a rock star, he's also dedicated his life to fighting Debt, AIDS, trade, and Africa (or at least a solid two out of those). And if fighting isn't cool, I don't know what is (in fact, after I get typing this comment, I'm gonna go pick a fight with the conjoined twins down the street).

Ms. Caterina, I think you're simply a Bonophobe. You don't like that Bono can help fight AIDS and have an ass that doesn't quit. And that's a shame. No one ever dismantled an atomic bomb by hating on Bono.

BTW, I'm cool.

Really, I am.

I swear!

I thought a thief just quietly takes your stuff, while a robber threatens to knock your teeth out unless you hand it over. As in "help, I'm being robbed!"

And Bono is evil for having flagrantly ripped off the Supremes for the breaks in Vertigo. Evil, evil, evil.

George asked me, "Um, is harping what you're doing now by asking me these questions incessantly even though you clearly see I'm more interested in scanning the headlines on the Dredge Report?" I answered, "Could be". To which he replied, "Then, yes, harping is more evil for sure."

(and I thought he didn't want to play)

Your game reminds me of that Laurie Anderson bit about, "Que es mas macho: pineapple or knife?"

And though a pineapple is more macho than a knife, leaving comments on is the machoest of all.

I think, as you did, many people pick the Nordic derived words as more evil, unconsciously... They sound nastier, like the word "nasty"... perhaps many of us Angles have a race memory of vikings...

Which are more evil, vikings or goths?

-K

Bono has never been cool. If you care to check, get a look at the old U2 concert video "live at red rocks", in which he parades about like a fucking retard singing Sunday Bloody Sunday, grandstanding his male-pattern-balding off, and marching with a fucking flag like his concert stage is some sort of Ireland-liberates-Colorado photo op.

Furthermore, a burglar is more evil than a thief. Don't even think about second guessing me on this. It's fucking axiomatic, Jack.

Bad is cool because its the bad people who actually allow good, boring people (most of the world) to have anything to be proud about. If its weren't for bad people, good people would just be boring people. And boring is BAD, BAD, BAD. oh no, now I'm in an infinite loop!

Bono is "a fucking retard singing Sunday Bloody Sunday" ?

I think if you were torn b/w factions of hate, and you reacted by singing your angst, you would win far more 'cool points' than taking a cherry bomb and throwing it at your neighbour.

Uncomfortably, 'violence' and 'cool' are often dangerously intermingled. I do believe when you react to hatred and violence with the opposite of hatred and violence, it goes beyond 'cool'.

But ultimately, to say that someone or anyone is 'cool' is, frankly, fleeting. Coolness, by it's nature, is a state of flux, of public whim, an easily tipped a flight of fancy...

I still say Bono is cool, but remember he did have some really bad hair days...

"I can't think of any cool do-gooders."
Methinks you need to read more comics (or at the very least more Michael Chabon).

Batman, baby, batman.

Real life? Bob Geldorf, Billy Connelly and yes, even Bono make my list.

-Idleness is the holiday of fools.
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-I feared the 'Which is more...' game was a diction game, like 'I like green but I don't like blue, I like pizza but I don't like pasta.'

u know something who do you think is cool darlin?even if i aint no u2 fan or anything you have to give the man some props for what he does for africa i mean how many lives has he saved?even if its one hes a legend for trying ,what have you done recently?you think youre cool?you look like a bit of an old boot you need to stop talkin sh** and get of youre computor get out into the real world where the notion of cool and uncool should not matter when theyre are kids dying in the world if cool exsist then bono i think is it bowie thinks so dr dre thinks so and who am i to argue with them im really cool by the way and im young and im sexy haha

just read joes retard thing i was too young mate for that sh**e but to be honest theyre new and last album was class im not a big fan but they got theyre sh** down,who cares anyway as long as the tunes r cool which they are so my man bono must be cool, i recon if u2 were not as popular theyd be more liked people hate winners and with what bout 150 million album sales i suppose they r winners, stop hating man lifes too short, peace

just read joes retard thing i was too young mate for that sh**e but to be honest theyre new and last album was class im not a big fan but they got theyre sh** down,who cares anyway as long as the tunes r cool which they are so my man bono must be cool, i recon if u2 were not as popular theyd be more liked people hate winners and with what bout 150 million album sales i suppose they r winners, stop hating man lifes too short, peace