Elton John Says Shut Down The Internet

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

The Sun Online - News: Why we must close the net (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html)

POP legend Sir Elton John wants the internet CLOSED DOWN.

Never one to keep his opinions to himself, the Rocket Man has waded into cyberspace with all guns blazing.
He claims it is destroying good music, saying: “The internet has stopped people from going out and being with each other, creating stuff.

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“I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span.

“There’s too much technology available.



Okay, if Paula Abdul is nuts, then Elton John has cornered the market on fruits and flakes, :smirky:

[Suzie]

It really has cut into the profits of a lot of these performers. Some won't allow places like Napster to sell their music because they can't sell Albums. (do they still call them Albums?) I have a hard time feeling sorry for Elton John though. :lol:

[garlicguy]

Elton tends to see things through his rose-colored (and shaped) glasses, but with a jaundiced eye.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Times change. Artists are going to have to learn how to as well. Life's tough all over. I'm sure the workers weren't too happy when factories went to machine assembly lines either, but they adapted, or got new jobs. I most DEFINITELY don't feel sorry for Elton John or any of the others.

[M.C.]

"Shutting down the internet" is actually kinda impossible.

[PrezLeefun]

Its a noble (in a silly sort of way) idea if you ask me..... but totally unrealistic. I mean come on... what would I do without youtube or freeconservatives?

[Beowulf]

What is Reginald, I mean Elton complaining about? He's made millions to live comfortably on.

Elton, I greatly enjoy the web but still make plenty of time to enjoy my wife, son and others in my life.

Now, go away before you piss me off!

[Wolfcounsel]

Elton, if you have an issue, here's a tissue.:whine:

[BabyBeastie]

CDs today are nothing more than marketing tools that are used to help focus attention on an artist's concert tour.

The only way artists can make money from a new album is to go on tour.

Illegal file sharing really has destroyed CD sales. I mean, "why buy the cow when the milk is free?" I know people who say they haven't bought a new CD in over 7 years.

[lowlander]

Perhaps someone can delete this Elton John character?

[The_Elucidator]

“I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span.

My head hurts, I need more coffee - it's too early for this crap!!!

[DoctorDoom]

I cannot find a single reason to take this flaming arsehole seriously.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/QPIX/elton100.jpg

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The faggot is using the image of Boy Scouts in his perverse "show". IMO, that makes the contemptible fudge-pumper lower than whale shit in the Marianis Trench.

[Rhino]

Homes, your link doesn't work.

[Rhino]

This one works:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350453,00.html

[Wyatt_Junker]

Not even a 6.5 hp wet/dry shop vac could suck off the runny gooch from Elton's sweaty doppleganger, and that's after the chunks of congealed fermunda are removed first by a spatchula. I wouldn't want this human stink zone of daink man chum in a 100 mile radius of my children.

The only thing to set this man right would be giving him a fierce Tony Danza with a prize winning summer squash. Only then would he know who the boss really was.

[The_Elucidator]

Not even a 6.5 hp wet/dry shop vac could suck off the runny gooch from Elton's sweaty doppleganger, and that's after the chunks of congealed fermunda are removed first by a spatchula. I wouldn't want this human stink zone of daink man chum in a 100 mile radius of my children.

The only thing to set this man right would be giving him a fierce Tony Danza with a prize winning summer squash. Only then would he know who the boss really was.

I'm gonna need some time to sort through this one Wyatt... :viking:

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Homes, your link doesn't work.

Fixed. I think. I hope. Lemme know. :smirky:

[Rhino]

Yep. Thanks.

[garlicguy]

Not even a 6.5 hp wet/dry shop vac could suck off the runny gooch from Elton's sweaty doppleganger, and that's after the chunks of congealed fermunda are removed first by a spatchula. I wouldn't want this human stink zone of daink man chum in a 100 mile radius of my children.

Ya know, Wyatt, your posts are a great source of mirth around here, even for us newbies. But when ARE you going to learn not to mince your words?:rolleyes:

[Rhino]

Never.

[BuckeyeMike]

Wyatt.....mince words..............funny

[Maggie_T]

No kidding. You cannot use 'mince words' and 'Wyatt' in a same sentence. It's an oxymoron. Our Wyatt's capacity for amusing - if sometimes disconcerting - verbiage is his trademark. Personally, I wouldn't have him post any other way. :thumb:

As for Sir John, by braying "there's too much technology in the world," this queer old fashion-victim vouched for my assertion that there is nothing self-described "progressives" loathe more than ... progress.

Hey, Sir John, which part of technology is the one you hate the most: central heating, cell phones (I bet you own one, you stupid fairy), the kind of technology that is used to fight pollution? Maybe you would prefer to go back to the days of heating homes with coal. Ot the days of spending $5 a minute to call half way across the country. Or maybe you'd like to go back to the days of outdoor plumbing ... never mind ... that's not technology. Besides, you Europeans don't make much use of indoor plumbing, anyway. I know. I've made the mistake of standing downwind from some of you.

Wait ... I know ... Sir John doesn't want to do without technology. He wants the hoi-polloi (that's you and me, dears) to do without it.

That's it. That's the ticket.

:rolleyes:

[DeclinetoState]

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Al Gore, father of Prius hot-rodder and purported founder of the Internet, and Elton John, neé Reginald Dwight, flaming homosexual, sunglasses model, and promoter of getting rid of the Internet.

[dajoga]

He claims it is destroying good music,

Oh,... I thought from the title he wanted it shut down b/c conservatives were using it to overly inflence people, you know, like talk-radio!

[DoctorDoom]

He claims it is destroying good music...And of what possible interest would good music be to Elton "Fudge-Pumper" John?

Aside: how desperate would a "gay" man have to be to do the naked nasties with the POS?

[Bluemoon_Rising]

Outlaw religion, shut down the Internet: dude's batting 500.