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Johnny_Ace posted...

but people vote "eh" because they don't like Bono's strives to try and win a Nobel Peace Prize.

To be fair, I've disliked them since the 80s.

Fun story - back in 5th grade (so around 1987-88), I had a weekly class that was basically improv class (it was called "Creative Arts"), where we'd get different prompts and then have to put on group sketches using random props and whatever dialogue we made up. It was supposed to encourage teamwork and creativity.

One of the prompts we got one week was "Standing on line to buy tickets for a U2 concert". Every member of our group complained that we would never wait on line for a U2 concert because U2 sucked, so we asked the teacher if we could substitute another band in instead.

We wound up going with Genesis (probably based on the fact that Land of Confusion had come out not that long before and was pretty popular/fun).

I also remember watching the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards, which was the year that Joshua Tree was out, and With or Without You had a ton of nominations (and lost nearly all of them). And I remember being happy that they kept losing because I didn't want them to win.

But I will say that Bono has pretty much always been a massive tool.