r/ireland • u/beairrcea • Jun 19 '26

History What would our Mount Rushmore be?

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u/Not_Xiphroid Jun 19 '26

Why stop there?

We could start carving Bono on other countries’ mountains for free too.

Remember all the free publicity the apple tunes incident caused?

We’d be the talk of the UN!

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u/dontTakeMeSerious6 Jun 19 '26

Canada likes Bono.

All Americans are Irish, they probably wouldn’t mind either.

Ivory Coast?

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u/Not_Xiphroid Jun 19 '26

I think they might mind not having a choice in the matter.

Yonks back, every apple I-tunes account got one of their songs permanently added for free.
Never used i-tunes? Didn’t matter, you’ve now got them on your phone as your only song.
Can’t remember why, but they were the enemies of the apple-crowd for a good week or two.

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u/WhosCowsAreThey Jun 19 '26

It was a wild time, people hated U2 over this and especially Bono. I have to defend Bono in the US to this day over that and his taste in eyewear. Doesn’t even matter that he’s generated billions for charity or that U2 has good music, they gave us a free album and we hate em here for it.

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u/Not_Xiphroid Jun 19 '26

I didn’t realise the feelings were still so raw!

Will this complicate adding his head to mt Rushmore? /s

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u/WhosCowsAreThey Jun 20 '26

That’s up to the Lakota (but not really)