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Sep 11, 2016 9:17 AM
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Tenkay10k
Walk to northern France and back. Sounds like a soldier's song to me.
ItHasBeenAWhile
I'd say it was so that they could fall down at your door in northern italy.
BriBriTheShyGuy
can someone put this over the usa to show perspective?
ticktockbent
From the thumbnail I thought this was the estimated blast radius of some scary ass bomb
LievenDV
Isn't this graph incorrect due to the incorrectness of the Mercator projection?
Falanxzealot
I think it's incorrect mainly due to an awful cartographer. Projection method is neither here nor there on this one..
DuffMaaaann
TIL the proclaimers are the reincarnation of Jesus.
ratfaceddog
Makes a good case for devils' music.
cannotgetaxeout1
Walking in the ocean is a bad idea....m'kay...
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
... sort of. http://www1.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Tara+Vallente+Walking+Water+Launch+Keswick+lQExQLAah9Il.jpg
carpcarpcarp
VenomBlu
That's far... but is it really that far?
wraiththefourth
Does that include the altitude changes, to the seabed and the mountains?
aayhan
Who the fuck are the Proclaimers
stayawhilestayforever
Well, da de-DA duh
TheLastImgurrian
I don't trust Europeans wanting to walk to Poland...
slash0it0down
At least they would do the jesus thingy
iamonthetoiletrightnow
How I met your mother
Willybum84
The Fuero
iamonthetoiletrightnow
Ready to eat some sandwiches on the way to get pizza
JamesAwkboner
So they were prepared to walk like half of Texas for American context
Sheari
Was looking for this +1
BoatswainsMate
HEY-- they didn't fuckn say nothin about no swimmin
PetahOsiris
They're walking through the Chunnel, obviously
armeggedonCounselor
Boy, that feels very small to me. But then, I live in the US. 500 miles barely gets me out of my state.
AgentDBCooper42
Europe's relatively small all things considered. My parents were telling me that when my mom's cousins were visiting Toronto from Germany(1)
Zarkai
It's not exactly huge here (as in Europe) either. Just Glasgow to London is just over 400 miles by land routes (about 350 straight line).
AgentDBCooper42
They were shocked that they wouldn't be able to visit the Rockies, Niagara Falls and Disney World in one day. (2)
7snowmen
So the graph implies a possible 1000 miles including the return trip.
randomsausages
Snarknado
Haffa pee
LeCacty
Fuck yes Iceland!
harthram
DA LAT DA!!
LoopStricken
Bobby Davro!
Raidenn
Da-da-da dun-diddle un-diddle un-diddle uh da-da
TrustMeImABassist
Ok, Lisbon is safe for now
Bassaker
nah, OP took the UK's center for the radius but the proclaimers are from scotland
Zarkai
Assuming the center is exactly where the arrow starts, it's centered on Edinburgh (where The Proclaimers are from).
Hellstorm99
So, they are invading Poland?
rolanola
I think they cpuld walk reich into it.
rolanola
*could
Yanov
Delete it and try again, mate.
GingerLaird
This is assuming that they were specifically walking 1000 miles in a straight line :D
Falanxzealot
And that the miles they were using were in fact Yorkshire Miles, about 30% longer than a normal mile.
GingerLaird
Heck! The song could be about going to the store 500 miles away, and back to get something for her.
Falanxzealot
And the collapsing at her door is entirely through exhaustion from searching he shelves...
Pipetri
I would walk 500 miles and then I would walk 500 more ♫ ♪
TotesMagotesInSomeBoats
Oh. My. God. My Christian summer bible camp sang the "Christian" version of this song every day for morning worship. Shoot me plz
TinySatanicHamster
TELL US THE LYRICS PLEASE!
PooPooInSpaghettiEveryoneUpsetti
When I wake UP, yes I know I'm GÔNNABEEEE....
TurdlyShitkens
Dah duh duh duh.
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slightlyhotcontents
Dah duh duh duh.
MyFavoritesIsAllComics
Da lunda da lunda da lunda da da da da DA!
Alpinescote
Who says they would walk in a straight line?
IHaveAListOfCringyPeople
This is just how far they were prepared to go
Bassaker
i never saw a scotsman walk a straight line. maybe his lassie was his neighbour, anyhow It's the thought that counts.
fen4
Then they would have still traveled 1000 miles...?
7snowmen
How menacing would the UK be with Korean missile technology?
chadwich
They have actual missile technology right? Not whatever shoestring operation NK has.
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
Quite a bit less menacing... actually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_the_United_Kingdom
tomyironmane
Yeah, because the Ballistic Missile Submarines of the Royal Navy are tragically, NOT painted yellow.
tomyironmane
It's not the weapons. It's the will and desire to USE them that makes a threat. The UK isn't menacing at all with 3 Mt bombs and ICBMs...
DicksTakeDickpicsWithSelfieSticks
I don't trust ANYONE who even wants that, including the only country that has actually used them.
DicksTakeDickpicsWithSelfieSticks
"Mr president, the technology required is easily within the means of even the smallest nuclear powers, it requires only the will to do so."
tomyironmane
... North Korea, on the other hand, I don't trust with rusty fucking butter knives.
SilentScreamsX
Rusty butter knives would be far more threatening than what they have right now.
TongueTiedLabourerfromtheLandoftheLittlePeople
Prove it. Invade the Falklands.
tomyironmane
Don't plan on it. Why do I want a pissant couple of islands on the other side of the world from me? ... they ain't even got oil on 'em.
CharlesFuckingBronson
They're great for distracting from the fact that you ruined unions...
Wuz314159
but the reason they only had that one hit song was their failure to adapt to the EU Standard metric system. 805km didn't have the same ring.
wadatahmydamie
Common misconception. They actually had a door-to-door bris business. Their job was to walk Mohels. They were talking about making money.
wadatahmydamie
Bad joke or not, you won't hear the song the same way again
AnonOmis1000
Don't people in the UK sometimes use miles casually?
Mulder61
your math is wrong...
TheArrestingAbhorrentArrantAbominableAlliterator
Flula???
CitizenPrime
I for one appreciate your pun
SigPistols
I thought I was the only one!
Equidae
Freedom just sounds better.
Catnash13
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
ratfaceddog
Nothin ain't worth nothing, but it's free.
MrShpoople
And nuthin... that's all that Bobby left me
timesphere
But I would walk 804.7km And I would walk 804.7km more Just to be the man who walked 1,609.4km To fall down at your door. It's pretty catchy
Fhant
DA DA DAH!
dudeondudeaction
If space permitted this could have been a legendary comment.
dissapointinglysmallwhale
DA DA DAT DAHH
SuharuStormrage
Without the "km" the second time.
causality
I'm always quietly amused when European bands use miles in their lyrics because kilometers is too damn hard to rhyme.
Zarkai
Well, we use miles in the UK generally so this isn't a case of that.
causality
Yeah but they're not the only band to do that. Machinae Supremacy, for example.
ratfaceddog
I'm glad. "Moonlight Kilometer" wouldn't have been as good.
LuckyLuke193
"EU Standard metric system" ? Everyone in the world uses it except about 3 backwards countries like Burma.
BlueEyedOverlord
One hit song?!
DavidPemberton
Americans...
DC1888
The UK doesnt fully use metric though.
agermanguy
They had more than one hit.
thisiskissel
That whole album rocked! Loved it!
jammyjarman
Sunshine on Leith is a great song
monto207
Also a song played at every Hibernian football club home match, which is the team they support
WonderWomansHeroine
Theres a film called sunshine on leith with loads of their music in, look it up! :)
skipweasel
I've seen them do it live - they didn't even leave the stage.
MrShpoople
It would be absurd for them to try to walk 500 miles while playing the song. But at least they could make an effort it would seem
gamecockss
I don't why I enjoyed this comment so much but +1
TaylorLately
I mean they never said a straight line. They could have just walked around the block a bunch just to go next door.
acinonyxjubatus
I can confirm this!
skipweasel
Fairport Convention, Cropredy, 2015. You?
acinonyxjubatus
Cambridge Folk Festival, England, 2015!
skipweasel
Oooh, we used to go there - last time was when our son was 2, so 1999.
tiberiuswhythecrapcantweuseunderscoresxxvii
Must've been a big stage.
natepcog
Treadmill stage?
skipweasel
Revolving stage!
SovereignPhantasmia
By God, think of the infinite distances one can cover while having relatively similar displacements!!!
BuckBoost
The world is their stage.
PhoenixDefender
they didn't reach Warsaw....
HodorHoldTheDoor
I felt really bad for the guys. I saw them a couple weeks ago and no one knew any of their songs apart from that one and they just looked so
skipweasel
It got a rousing welcome at Cropredy, but then so did several other songs.
HodorHoldTheDoor
Done
DontcallmeLen
This post has me havering.
LonelinessAndDespair
To whom?
Hemoglobejoe
Everyone, it's their power
Hemoglobejoe
It's okay though because when they wake up, they'll be waking up next to you.
Rhadamanthus
As a non-Scot I still don't know what havering is.
profp
It's like hoovering but with a bit more Fonzy.
Rossage99
I'm a Scot and i don't know what havering is.
DontcallmeLen
I'm also a non-Scot, but I think its talking gibberish, like when you meet a beautiful woman and your brain stops working.
Zarkai
Aye, pretty much. Basically means babbling.