Dang annoying tourists

 Posted by on 24 February 2009  Music
Feb 242009
 

You know, I’m kind of glad that Brandon is a small city without any huge tourist attractions. Because if I had to have my daily commute buggered up like in the video above, I’d be bloody irritated.

That said, if I were in London, I’d probably try to copy the famous Abbey Road photo, too.

(The song is called Garble Arch by the band Blame Ringo. I like the poppy melodies and schizophrenic guitar riff. Good stuff coming out of Oz!)

Amy Breen

  • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

    Aww, that’s cute when you see it in pictures, but even after a three-minute video, you can begin to sense how frustrating it must be on a day-to-day basis.

    On a slightly related note, I didn’t realize those crosswalks were called zebra crossings until recently, and I read that they tested bunches of designs until they came up with one that worked best. Apparently, you should walk along the edge that faces oncoming traffic, so that your silhouette is, as much as possible, against the background of the white stripes.

    I just Googled for half an hour to re-find the link where I read that, but to no avail.

    In another near-unrelated note, since I didn’t realize they were called zebra crossings, when Douglas Adams makes a brief joke about them in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I thought he was talking about an actual zebra crossing, like deer and moose or even duck crossings, along roads.

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