He can't help it... that's what the water made him...

Oh lord.......... :)

OMG. I am DYING. Hysterical. This from an admitted Jon lover. My bias doesn't make me oblivious to the other band members or quality of the music :)

Please stop with the entertaining posts. I'm supposed to be working, lol.

I hope when you say "had a friend" that you no longer associate with her?

I work in a school and had 5 people come up to me (not fans) and ask what's going on with Richie and the band too.

I think people care in the way they care that Rhianna and Chris Brown just broke up. It's tabloid fodder that people like to chit-chat about. As a society, we're very interested in pop culture. I don't think any of these people would bat an eyelash if Richie never came back to the band.

Absolutely... they just want to know if he is tucked away somewhere in pain. Pure shadenfreude...

It's not interesting and not impressive at any level. I left them the following comment:

"This is the first time i listen to you guys. I am sorry to say I won't be leaving a 4 star review on Itunes because it is clear that you are not well prepared for your show, some of the dates your mentioned are off, some of the examples you used are irrelevant and most of your show is based on assumptions, stereotypes and rumors."

A friend has been trying to convince me that Richie left the band for sure, and then sent me a link to a tabloid article as a proof. Later he admitted that maybe I know more to the story than what was written in that article. It was basically a summary of what TMZ had published.

Some have asked me how I felt about it, but they didn't really care about the story itself. People in my circle who know what's going on only know it because I can't stop whining since last week.

I think there are plenty of people in Europe that wouldn't notice Richie's absence and those who don't care. It wasn't once that people approached me, said they were fans and started talking about Bon Jovi, and then they referred to them as "he". :rolleyes: Never talked to them again. :lol: And my friends know that one of the easiest ways to tick me off is to refer to band's work as Jon's.

The situation is getting a little bit out of hand, if Richie wants to keep things private, fine, but let us know WHEN he is coming back, not just that he will be back... Preferably not through Matt's tweets...

It was totally ridiculous. The presenter just likes the sound of his own voice, and kept trying to put words in the others guys mouth as well. Totally off with dates, numbers, statistics (8 new songs played in a row? What?) and he kept talking about balls. And he also seemed to believe that Richie was intending to solo tour in february this year and big evil Jon wouldn't let him, as well as several other false facts and/or rumours.
It felt more like one of our threads on Jovitalk actually. Ah well, it's not like it was on national radio or anything, so I needn't be too fussed.

Andi