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- catalysis, on 10/11/2007, -9/+43Tailback = traffic jam
Rolling Stones = ancient band once popular with hippies, now popular with aging yuppies in mid-life crises. - Cozmcphish, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20...and that is why Keith Richards cannot be killed by conventional weapons.
- LoadStar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+17This occurred in Belgium, which is a country in Europe.
London is a city in England.
England and Belgium are not the same place.
Just thought I'd help with a geography lesson. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -21/+35We don't speak your language.
- HalFTW, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15@Monolith3 (#7054570)
There is no such thing as "british english", we created English. English is English, if you change it, it becomes American English, or Australian English or whatever. - ahawks, on 10/11/2007, -13/+23OK folks, quit whining about "tailback"
I'm American, and figured out what he meant almost immediately.
And if you can't connect the dots yourself, he says "a traffic jam which extended for 50km (30 miles)." in the description. - copperhead, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11Isn't that every day traffic in the D.C. area?
- CalgaryJohn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Wow.... all I can say is wow.
"We don't speak your language," "WTF is tailback?", and "gig? km?", and especially "British English should be banned from Digg". . . .Come on folks. I know that this fraction of uninformed people doesn't represent the majority of Americans, but still. . . wow. Its scary how completely oblivious and America-centric some people can be, especially in such global times. - negativefx, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11@catalysis: rolling stones weren't a hippie band you dumb *****.
- sublimer, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8picture a whole ***** of cars lined up!
- mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Wait a second, they got inspiration for a song, from an event in the future?
- Bahimiron, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Man.
50km.
That's a lot of Rascal scooters! - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@ Monolith
"I vote that british english be banned from digg."
British English is English in its true unadulterated, unbastardized form Muppet! - fmaxwell, on 10/11/2007, -7/+12@catalysis
> Rolling Stones = ancient band once popular with hippies, now popular with aging yuppies in mid-life crises.
I've watched bands come and go, but the Rolling Stones continue to sell out arenas while the boy bands that you probably like have come and gone. Or are you one of those white suburban kids who listens to gangsta rap at 110db in momma's Acura?
Doesn't matter. Rock and roll is just something that you'll never get. - zeptobyte, on 10/11/2007, -5/+8The only word of that I understood was 50.
- scabbers, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4LoadStar: It's just too bad that it won't be until 2012 that you're sat watching the TV news and the penny drops...
"oooh that's what the dude on the internets meant" - kartoen, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Being so close to Werchter I could hear the Stones in my bedroom, I have to add: what's the big deal? Any stupid accident on our Belgian highways will spark a 40 km traffic jam, at least. The Rolling Stones concert just added another 10 km, at best. Probably from all the old age pensioners driving up there at 30 km/hour.
- Vasant56, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2A stones concert at a park in new brunswick attracted 85,000 people from all over eastern canada back in 2005. I was there.
- StardaWitch, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Suck ass? As an aging hippie, I deem 'em the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Let's see your favorites on the road 40 years from now...
- RoastedLamb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I attended this concert, and can state it was an incredibly long tailback. It was possible to skip it though, but that was only thanks to the satnav. On a side note, the concert was also incredibly good, and the tailback leaving also incredibly long.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3If we're being pedantic here, London is a city in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is a country in Europe.
- Imagine3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Pic or it didn't happen!!!
- reynish, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3@ Gorlof75
But thats for people going to and from work, not to go and see the Stones.
Everyone else seems to have forgotten that the US was going crazy for UK bands like the Stones and the Beatles. That was a long time ago and if people are willing to pay $300 to see them play (Which, judging by the 30 mile queue they are) then hats off to them.
@ Monolith3
I really should be off at the apple & pears but I've got time to say that your mother is a brass flute and she gave birth to a real James Blunt - diggSJaustin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3My high school English teacher used to teach us that skillful combinations of diction (word choice) and syntax (word arrangement/order) could inspire powerful imagery. This headline's diction and syntax inspire powerful confusion. In fact, I believe that's the only reason this hit the front page at all: people trying to figure out what the frig it meant.
Be honest: would you have clicked through to a story with the headline, "Cars line up 50km to see Rolling Stones"? Didn't think so. - simplejoe79, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Tailback = traffic jam
Rolling Stones = ancient band once popular with hippies, now popular with aging yuppies in mid-life crises.
^^^^^^^^i like the second explaination....lolz...50 kms jam for this ? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm not impressed. Going to work every morning causes a 30 mile traffic jam where I live.
- bakdraft, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1moé
www.itBreaks.net - mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3I hope not. I'd hate to see my favorite artists turning into parodies of themselves. I'd hate spending $400 a ticket to see them one night.
The only "old" bands (those of which had their peaks in the late 70's and mid 80's) I'd like to see reunite and play, while still not looking like a bunch of aging has-beens would be Talking Heads, New Order, and The Cure (even Robert Smith has pushed it a little too far). - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I don't want to click on the link and see some goatse or tub girl. Can someone tell me whats on the page?
- john95127, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2WTF?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Being even more pedantic.
London is the capital city of England.
England is in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom consists of three other countries, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The United Kingdom IS NOT a country!
The United Kingdom is in Europe. - hasslinthehoff, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Dear Lord... I hope they weren't selling Boost Plus at the concert.
- chronopsis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0"we don't speak your language" - i thought johnnynapalm was just making a funny - and a pretty good one, too. i love these subtle differences in english across the pond.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4No wonder they had a traffic jam. All those geriatrics on one single highway going to see that geriatric rock band.
- Stano, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Hey, we're talking Mick Jagger here. If you can't appreciate Mick then you're probably pretty lame.
- mistic192, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0the funny thing was that the concert wasn't even sold out at all...
the werchter-field ( cause it really is nothing more then a huge field that normally has cows on it ) can easily host for up to 100 000 people, yet only 33 000 tickets were sold...
I work in Brussels and had to use the road of that trafficjam to get home, luckily I got there before all the ***** hit the fan but my girlfriend ( who works at the same place as me ) needed 2 hours to get home, while I did it in 20 minutes. A colleague of mine was stuck for 3 hours...
another colleague went there but made a 100km detour and still got there before everybody else :-D ( Even the stones started playing an hour late so they probably suffered from the jam as well... ) - th3B3n, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3If (or when) the planet suffers nuclear holocaust, only roaches will survive...and Keith Richards.
I did, however, almost bury this article for using the term "carbon footprint". - reynish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0@ neiltc13
Censorship sucks - mutroniii, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1While they certainly had a better, more virtuoso rhythm section, there's no way Pete could hold a candle to either Keef or Mick Taylor...
The 'greatest band in the world' tag really had some truth to it in the Mick Taylor years. And no bloated rock opera's either..
But since Jimmy Page and JP Jones both got paid to play on Stones and Who records, I'd say LZ FTW (as far as late 60smid 70's dinosaur rock goes) - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1I can honestly say that the US has NOTHING to do with this story. NO reference to the United States is valid here and I have buried every single one.
- hurtstobesoemo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2This is dumb. There is 25 miles of traffic outside of Marysvill, Ca. when the Warped tour comes to town. You don't see me making a big deal out of it.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Cool, I live in Elk Grove. I'll have some friends make some bombs so I can get rid of those morons.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -2/+133K at a concert? They could just replay an old concert on the big screens and most of the people there wouldn't know the difference.
- zyklon, on 10/11/2007, -9/+7I didn't know Belgium was even 50km across.
- stlcadet11, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Yeah I think those pirates might be coming after him sometime soon...
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1The Beatles kick their butts...dood.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1I am 66 and when I was a kid they were cool, now I wish they would just dry up and blow away. Black Metal took hold of me about when the Stones were getting old and now I am eclectic and just getting into NIN and Rap and it's all good. Forget the radio, read Rolling Stone for what is happening, Rolling Stones are gone man, really gone.
- mywhitenoise, on 10/11/2007, -7/+4Rolling Stones suck ass. ***** think they can charge $300 for lawn seats, what greedy sons of bitches.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1The stones have always sucked. The Who is a real band.
- Gorlof75, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0A 30 mile traffic jam? Come on Chicago gets like 50 mile traffic jams every day during rush hour. Dugg down for being lame.
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