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Old 05-14-2008, 10:02 AM
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bad paul mccartney, bad paul!!!

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lol.

hey, who cares .. it's free for him
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Old 05-14-2008, 10:14 AM
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A $158,000 given car to someone who doesn't even need a car???
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Old 05-14-2008, 10:16 AM
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Wow, you have to love the sanctimonious tone of the CO2 watchdog they quote in the article. Some people need to mind their own business!
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its impact on the environment being sent this way is reduced by every other item that is in transit on that cargo plane. If it was the sole item on the plane, then yeah, bad judgement...

Did Paul request it sent in this manner? If not, HOW is HE the bad guy?

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Old 05-14-2008, 10:21 AM
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I don't see what the problem is. Look at all the people on this forum with bass guitars made from exotic woods and nobody questions the ecological impact of that in terms of deforestation as well as the exploitation of indigenous people.
Few people bat an eye about all those gas guzzling hummers either.
There are much bigger issues to focus on than the automotive logistics of an ex-Beatle.
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Old 05-14-2008, 10:31 AM
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well, it's hypocritical of paul to act the way he acts.
hybrids are useless, there are cars that consume much less petrol. it's a marketing scam imo and the especially the rich and famous are buying into it.
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I still refuse to take McCartney seriously after I saw footage of him walking across a lawn. A living, breathing LAWN.

Do you have any idea how many micro organisms McCartney is DIRECTLY responsible for the death of? Just by the act of respiration- he is inspiring THOUSANDS of living microbes that are drown in the alveoli of his lungs.

Criminal. Criminal I tell you.

Pick on him if he deserves it- but this is nothing. Stumpy got a huge chunk of Paul, he doesn't need to be picked on for this...
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I'd say there are much larger and more imperative examples of hypocrisy that need to be taken care of before anyone sweats Paul McCartney's choice of shipping methods.
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The decision to fly the vehicle instead of shipping it was made without Paul's knowledge.
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We should hang him.

Seriously, this is worse than if we'd caught him slaughtering baby kittens for lawn mulch.
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Is this seriously what we're using international news for?

One more reason why I can't stand the mainstream media.
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Didn't Paul McCartney die in 1965?
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Trees were killed to make his basses.
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Didn't Paul McCartney die in 1965?
As far as I'm concerned. I might be alone in my thinking but I really don't care. I've never liked the Beatles, their music, understood their politics, solo careers, whacky wives, NOTHING about them what so ever And.............I never considered Paul to be a great bass player. OK, I'm putting my firesuit on now

I did like the yellow submarine movie though
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As far as I'm concerned. I might be alone in my thinking but I really don't care. I've never liked the Beatles, their music, understood their politics, solo careers, whacky wives, NOTHING about them what so ever And.............I never considered Paul to be a great bass player. OK, I'm putting my firesuit on now

I did like the yellow submarine movie though
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It was not clear if McCartney knew the vehicle would be sent to him via air freight rather than by ship. Rumbold said it seems likely the singer was an innocent victim of a mistake made by Lexus executives.
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