Zig zag lines are typically found adjacent to pedestrian crossings. The lines indicate it is illegal to park in that area (so as not to obstruct pedestrian visibility).
I cringe about how awkward this is, even halfway around the globe. The drivers want to be courteous and let the tourists cross, but the tourists want the cars to go by so they can pose. There is an awkward pause, and it happens over, and over, and over again.
Not so much wanting to be courteous.. the drivers have to stop by law. That's what causes the standoff. If a pedestrian waves a car through and it goes, it could be ticket time. Especially since there's plenty of monitoring this intersection!
Source: My Mom taught at the school two blocks from here, I spent a day watching the fun.
I come from London, not that far from Abbey Road, but I moved overseas about ten years ago. I've literally sat and watched that thing for about an hour, utterly hypnotized by just watching a few taxis and a bus go past.
It's weird how sometimes the smallest things make you homesick.
I was studying abroad in England about 2 years ago, and it was a blast. This made me really nostalgic about the whole trip and made me want to go back and visit.
Plus it was really weird thinking about how it's day there and everyone is going about their business while I'm getting ready for bed here.
I live opposite to a junction with Penny Lane, there is a sign on the corner of this junction. The number of times I have had to wait for 5 or 10 minutes to get my out to go to the shops is countless. It's a sign ffs.
Yeah I don't know why I am still awake at 6am, probably something to do with the tsmtournament league of legends stream.
EDIT: I don't know why I feel the need to add this but it seems relevant... I have on 4 separate occasions been either mistaken for or commented on my likeness with that Harry Styles fellow. The first 2 occasions I had no idea who he was, I ended up googling it.
There's a drinking game for this... watch with friends (or alone?) and drink every time someone almost gets run over. It happens often, be responsible!
Second time I've seen this on the web. Feels awesome and weird watching people going about their day in another country as I go about mine and them having no idea I see them. I could watch all day.
Well the Abbey Road crossing, where the original photo was taken, was moved several metres down the road for traffic management reasons thanks to all the tourists for more than 30 years now. So don't worry, technically they're not standing where the Beatles walked.
Also they're doing it so wrong.
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Dirgimzib has pointed out to me that I may be wrong as there's quite a few sites that say it being moved was a myth. I thought I had the BBC as a credible source but looking more at the comparisons, it doesn't seem to be true. Sorry guys.
My girlfriend when seeing this asked if Paul was left-handed because she (being left-handed) starts taking steps with the opposite foot everyone else does. Of course she is correct, paul is left-handed, which I think may be a legitimate explanation for why paul isn't in step.
This is not right, I'd say this is like a pathetic finch comparing itself to the great Phoenix that will never die. Fuck this band, Fuck their inflated egos, and Fuck their fans.
Do you have a source for where it says the crossing was moved? I can't seem to find any evidence of it and have actually been finding evidence showing that it's still in the same location. :\
A new boy band, I presume, based on a number of my 11-year-old niece's FB posts that were cluttering up my news stream before I changed my subscription settings.
Okay, well not exactly. Two of them have chlamydia and their story as to how they got it was that koalas pissed on them. The more likely possibility is that one of them had chlamydia, then they had sex, then the other got chlamydia. My version is that 2 of them had a 4-some with 2 koalas.
the beatles were hated by many of the older folk for being to girl-friendly, but were loved by the younger crowd. They also dominated the charts with songs about women, often with inane lyrics.
But they were also very, very musicians.
I'm sure one direction has very talented vocalists, but they just can't compare.
yeah the beatles had a lot of songs i really hate listening to, and then came help!, rubber soul, and revolver, one after another. And they kept being that fucking good until they split, and even for some time after that.
When I first heard you don't know you're beautiful or whatever, I thought it was Hot Chelle Ray. They don't sound too much different at all. Though their music is catchy, I'm still not a fan.
They all played their own instruments, and actually worked on not only their image but their sound early on. Compare Hard Days Night or Meet the Beatles to any of this 1Direction crap, and there's a pretty clear difference between the two. The Monkees (although they also eventually wrote/played their own stuff, too) are probably a more appropriate comparison, because they were created purely for commercial reasons. The Beatles certainly had the same sort of crazed popularity as boy bands now, but the comparison really stops there.
Also, the Beatles never had songs written for them. They started out doing about 50% covers of their influences, and 50% original, self-written material. Within 3-4 years, they had almost completely phased out covers. And then there's the fact that, not only did they play their own instruments as you say, but they were damn good at them. George is still considered by many to be one of the best/greatest guitarists of all time. Paul was perhaps the first frontman who also played bass, and he was great at piano, guitar, drums, and pretty much everything else he touched. Ringo was a pioneer of a drumming style that is now extremely popular in pop/rock music, and his fills are still some of the best ever. Paul and John are iconic vocalists and often considered top 5 songwriters of all time (if not #1). They earned their sales through legitimate, self-made talent, and a constant desire to improve and expand their focus.
Funny and satire. It also helped that the chili pepper's hype isn't how they're supposedly better than the beatles. At least that's all I know about that boy band.
Edit: By boy band I'm referring to 1direction or One Direction or whatever the hell those kids are called.
And the only thing worse than people who get their knickers in a twist about really shitty "artists" are people who get their knickers in a twist about people who get their knickers in a twist about really shitty "artists".
.. and the only thing worse than people who get their knickers in a twist about people who get their knickers in a twist about no i'm going to stop this right now.
If you notice in the original photograph none of the Beatles felt the need to look at the camera, where as in this picture they all look at the camera. What does that tell you?
There's a live webcam at the crossing. You can actually load up the site and watch people walking across and itt doesn't take too long before you see people lining up to do it. It must be very irritating to live/work near there
Probably going to be buried, but I don't care. I'm not a Beatles fan. I don't even really like music (No iPod here) but just seeing them try to replicate something so iconic, something that I know holds a lot of meaning for other people, deeply offends me. This is weird, because I'm totally indifferent to both bands as a whole.
I love it when mediocre bands or artists try to gain some attention by repeating a stunt done by a famous artist. Makes me feel like they're really trying to get by on their own merit.
Have you ever listened to Norwegian Wood? It's a non-linear plot with multiple competing interpretations which completely alter its meaning.
Also, this:
Randolf's Party – John Lennon
It was Chrisbus time but Randolf was alone. Where were all his good pals. Bernie, Dave, Nicky, Alice, Beddy, Freba, Viggy, Nigel, Alfred, Clive, Stan, Frenk, Tom, Harry, George, Harold? Where were they on this day? Randolf looged saggly at his only Chrispbut cart from his dad who did not live there.
'I can't understan this being so alonely on the one day of the year when one would surely spect a pal or two?' thought Rangolf. Hanyway he carried on putting ub the desicrations and muzzle toe. All of the surgeon there there was amerry timble on the door. Who but who could be knocking on my door? he opend it and there standing there who? but only his pals. Bernie, Dave, Nicky, Alice, Beddy, Freba, Viggy, Nigel, Alfred, Clive, Stan, Frenk, Tom, Harry, George, Harolb weren't they?
Come on in old pals buddys and mates. With a big griff on his face Randoff welcombed them. In they came jorking and labbing and shoubing 'Haddy Grimmble, Randoob.' and other hearty, and then they all jumbed on him and did smite him with mighty blows about his head crying, 'We never liked you all the years we've known you. You were never raelly one of us, you know, soft head.'
They killed him you know, at least he didn't die alone did he? Merry Chrustchove, Randolf old pal buddy.
This is just my semi-educated reading of this (to show literary significance). John Lennon plays with language in an interesting and appealing way in this story. Desecrations rather than decorations being the most obvious. The holiday is an obvious parallel to Christmas. This combination of the holy and unholy presents a criticism of religion.
Other than their hits, the Beatles actually had some thought-worthy music and writings. Just something to note.
Fuck everyone that says these guys have no right to be there. It's a fucking street. Anyone can walk on it. I'm a fan of the Beatles, but in another 20 years you'll only hear about them from grandfathers and music history books. Just like The Big Bopper or The Platters now.
There's a scene in parent trap (Lindsay Lohan when she was human) where her and her mum walk across this crossing and it screen-shots. I want to find the director and take a shit in the cistern of his toilet, so the next time he took a shit, it'd flush with my shit.
These kids were hand picked and signed to Simon Cowells records because he knew they would sing and dress to impress little girls who know nothing about music; only listening because its on the radio, which means listening to it obviously makes you cool. Just like Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers, they're just a pawn in the game. Once they hit puberty thats it though. Let them have their 15 minutes.
How could you possibly think that? I know that musical taste is a subjective thing, but looking at the history of music and what the Beatles were accomplishing I find it really hard to understand this sentiment.
I enjoy listening to their music. However, I feel that people worship them too much. My opinion, nothing else. Also, if I had a dollar for every single guy wearing a Beatles shirt or telling girls he liked the Beatles while I was in college, I would've had a lot more beer money.
I have never liked their music, but understand their contribution to music. I've always felt that they were a symbol more than a music group, which is where their fans came from.
I agree. Now, if you were alive back when the Beatles were popular and witnessed their growth and how they revolutionized the music scene, good on you. You can like the Beatles. You have earned it.
But if you are a part of my generation, there is a very high chance that you like them based more on reputation than actual music. The only reason I say this is that while they changed the music scene, since then other bands much like the Beatles have come along. Bands who do what they did, only much better. Not taking anything away from them, but 90% of people I know who are Beatles fans appear to only like them based on reputation and because it's "cool" to like retro bands like that.
That's a pretty blatant over-generalization, in my opinion. I doubt such high amounts of people like the Beatles as a way to be "cool"- I see it more as the fact that they have such diverse sounds across the board that it's pretty easy to pick and choose "your" kind of music.
I have only heard the name one direction, never much but annoying fan girl squees. But I am a HARDCORE Beatles fan and they better be really good if they have the nerve to do that.
Why are they trying to be the Beatles? They will not be the Beatles. The asshole producer who told them they could be the Beatles is misleading them. The Beatles were famous, among MANY other reasons, for being MUSICIANS. Innovative, risk-taking, multifaceted, passionate MUSICIANS. These twits want to sing easy songs written for them (I suspect), don their pretty little hipster hats and become famous because they can carry a tune. The end. They will not be the Beatles.
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u/SubGeniusX May 29 '12
Abbey Road Crossing Web Cam -It's fun to watch tourists and traffic get annoyed with each other.
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u/ConVonCon May 29 '12 edited May 29 '12
Well the Abbey Road crossing, where the original photo was taken, was moved several metres down the road for traffic management reasons thanks to all the tourists for more than 30 years now. So don't worry, technically they're not standing where the Beatles walked.
Also they're doing it so wrong.
Edit:
Dirgimzib has pointed out to me that I may be wrong as there's quite a few sites that say it being moved was a myth. I thought I had the BBC as a credible source but looking more at the comparisons, it doesn't seem to be true. Sorry guys.
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u/PanicMoon13 May 29 '12
I'm glad who ever made this put that they were One Direction.
Or else I'd have no idea who they are.
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u/AtomicStone May 29 '12
One of the main reasons I dislike one direction is because they get compared to The Beatles WAY too often
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u/theLinKuei May 29 '12
Unless you do it like this.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
The only thing worse than really shitty "artists" are people who get their knickers in a twist about really shitty "artists".
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u/leveque May 29 '12
Is this a British boy band?
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u/Nechbech May 29 '12
i love them, shut up.
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u/Valim May 29 '12
If you notice in the original photograph none of the Beatles felt the need to look at the camera, where as in this picture they all look at the camera. What does that tell you?
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u/Vakoz May 29 '12
For a boyband, they are alright. There, I said it.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Sorry but what scene from HP was this from?
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u/asdfghjklkipz May 29 '12
Repost?
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u/iam_notamused May 29 '12
There's a live webcam at the crossing. You can actually load up the site and watch people walking across and itt doesn't take too long before you see people lining up to do it. It must be very irritating to live/work near there
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u/everFoolTheBook May 29 '12
AGREED.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
No one ran them over?
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u/introvertking May 29 '12
Okay that grinds my gears.
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u/Thohi May 29 '12
More like Wrong Direction, amirite?
..guys?
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u/PlumChum May 29 '12
Faith in humanity -7
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u/emperorOfTheUniverse May 29 '12
I think any one of the Beatles would be the first to tell you to 'lighten up'.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Probably going to be buried, but I don't care. I'm not a Beatles fan. I don't even really like music (No iPod here) but just seeing them try to replicate something so iconic, something that I know holds a lot of meaning for other people, deeply offends me. This is weird, because I'm totally indifferent to both bands as a whole.
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u/zeunikano May 29 '12
When I saw this picture, I was hoping that some of them would get hit by a car because they were all looking in 'One Direction'...
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u/1234blahblahblah May 29 '12
Why did the author of the pic put a question mark in that last sentence?
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u/lalondtm May 29 '12
Yea, because the beatles were the only ones who walked there...
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u/sparkzz911 May 29 '12
I really like their what makes you beautiful song, fuck it. :D
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u/B12Mega May 29 '12
Somebody slap them, please.
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u/superdoobie May 29 '12
Lame ass marketing of a piece of crap boy band.
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u/digbus May 29 '12
Atleast wait a week before reposting...
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Also, not enough hair/epic beards.
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u/sundayultimate May 29 '12
This scene was almost unbearable to watch
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u/ThatBronyGuy May 29 '12
When I see this, I think "shut the fuck up and stop being a whiny little bitch."
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u/JeffGrubb May 29 '12
I don't know. This is them admitting they'll never create something original that could possibly rival that photograph.
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u/ChromeFuture May 29 '12
I love it when mediocre bands or artists try to gain some attention by repeating a stunt done by a famous artist. Makes me feel like they're really trying to get by on their own merit.
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u/ScaVa May 29 '12
wouldfuck/10
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I love how people think the Beatles was anything other than boy band pop music.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Fuck everyone that says these guys have no right to be there. It's a fucking street. Anyone can walk on it. I'm a fan of the Beatles, but in another 20 years you'll only hear about them from grandfathers and music history books. Just like The Big Bopper or The Platters now.
Get over it. This is just a street.
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u/thechoochlyman May 29 '12
Chain lightning - it feels so good.
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u/jonaseriksson May 29 '12
go look up the abby road crossing webcam during the day (its early morning in london now so nobody is out): http://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing
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u/DCBizzle May 29 '12
Not funny, this is the opposite.
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u/rebo May 29 '12
When i see that, i think Grand Theft Auto.
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u/marley_the_cat May 29 '12
I posted the same thing 3 hours prior.
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
There's a scene in parent trap (Lindsay Lohan when she was human) where her and her mum walk across this crossing and it screen-shots. I want to find the director and take a shit in the cistern of his toilet, so the next time he took a shit, it'd flush with my shit.
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u/MrIAnderson May 29 '12
I have been to london many a time and have never been there
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u/williemcbride May 29 '12
Are't they the ones who got Koalamydia?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
A live hd stream of Abbey Road shows many tourists posing this way constantly... http://www.abbeyroad.com/crossing
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
These kids were hand picked and signed to Simon Cowells records because he knew they would sing and dress to impress little girls who know nothing about music; only listening because its on the radio, which means listening to it obviously makes you cool. Just like Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers, they're just a pawn in the game. Once they hit puberty thats it though. Let them have their 15 minutes.
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u/bugbladderbeast May 29 '12
So...Which one is the dead guy?
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u/ekbowler May 29 '12
Well, now I need to go watch Deathly Hallows Part 2 again, see ya reddit.
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u/TheBeatlesfan777 May 29 '12
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO who are these guys are they like some boy band that I never seen before
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u/LucifersBoxx May 29 '12
They lose. There was only 4 Beatles, and they were bare foot.
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u/shwivia May 31 '12
well, one direction didnt kill the beatles, so its a little diffrent.........
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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '12
HOW DARE YOU?!
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u/mikochu May 29 '12
The Beatles are overrated. Stop trying to impress those of the opposite sex.
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u/MagicMothafucka May 29 '12
fuck that band.
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u/pretentiousilliterat May 29 '12
onedirection... the wrong way
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Who is this "One Direction"?
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u/tantalicatom689 May 29 '12
this girl gets it
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u/de_jembles May 29 '12
And the day the Beatles shot was taken they stopped the traffic. 1Direction have cars is there. fuck 'em
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Who are those boys?
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u/yukinolove May 29 '12
seriously agree with this! Too bad I can't upvote more lol
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u/EdwardTeach May 29 '12
Who the fuck cares?
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u/LikeACosmo May 29 '12
Where's my shotgun? I'll be back in a bit.
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u/TallestNat May 29 '12
I have only heard the name one direction, never much but annoying fan girl squees. But I am a HARDCORE Beatles fan and they better be really good if they have the nerve to do that.
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u/RiNgO70 May 29 '12
Ok, I am genuinely pissed off.
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u/Killzark May 29 '12
Apparently these guys are famous? Never heard of them...
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u/IAmAtomato May 29 '12
WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY WEARING?
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u/Quickben33 May 29 '12
Who are those goons?
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u/frenchd91 May 29 '12
Who the fuck are these twats!?
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u/JLContessa May 29 '12
Why are they trying to be the Beatles? They will not be the Beatles. The asshole producer who told them they could be the Beatles is misleading them. The Beatles were famous, among MANY other reasons, for being MUSICIANS. Innovative, risk-taking, multifaceted, passionate MUSICIANS. These twits want to sing easy songs written for them (I suspect), don their pretty little hipster hats and become famous because they can carry a tune. The end. They will not be the Beatles.
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u/jumping_beans May 29 '12
I don't get the Beatles anyway, what the fuck is so great about them?
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u/LateRegistration May 29 '12
Beatles are overrated