Originally by: F'nog

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"Rick's fans have obviously decided that he deserves recognition as a pop icon and no doubt they are determined to make sure he wins on the night," said the award show's producer Richard Godfrey.

Priceless. There needs to be a Mastercard commercial for this.

Oh, and:

"The star, who has never been nominated in the history of the event, is up against U2, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Green Day and Tokio Hotel."

Keep in mind this is for "best act ever".

I've heard of everyone but Tokio Hotel, who either misspelled their name or are too unknown for the BBC to bother to spell it properly. But, yeah, you've got two female performers best known for their boobies and other assorted naughty bits, a band I've never heard of, someone who's best known as a running Internet gag and from his Family Guy parody, a pretty good band whose last album rocked, and U-f'ing-2, headlined by the King of Ireland himself, Bono.

They might as well have made this a battle between a bunch of guys from your local high school marching bands and Mozart. Even if you don't like U2, you've got to admit they've got more talent in their collective pinkie than at least 4 of the rest combined.

If U2 doesn't win, I say we nuke Europe -- well that's going too far, they've got great architecture and historical sites, so N-bombs are probably a better choice -- and move on.

I mean, this is what I really hate about these types of awards: 95% of the nominees are based on their popularity now, rather than their lasting contributions and history. If this were "best act of the year", fine, whatever. But "ever"? U2 would have to work pretty damn hard even to make that cut.

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Originally by: X1994

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You can vote here.

And you can vote as often as you want.

Just did a Firefox Macro to vote 5000 times.

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Originally by: Meiyang Lee

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I think you two managed to DoS the poor voting system.

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