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By jingo: Radiohead’s green plans scuppered by ‘the French’
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FAO: France:
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The Sun are reporting that Radiohead’s plans to save the world have been ruined by fans in France who IGNORED the band’s attempts to ‘green-up’ a show in Paris because they are too LAZY to ride bicycles.
Thom Yorke’s gaggle made 50 front row tickets available for the already sold-out concert at The Bercy with one proviso – any takers would have to cycle to the Paris HQ of XL Recordings, Radiohead’s record label in Europe.
Polar bears: at risk because of 'the French'
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Available on a first-come, first-served basis, 35 of the 50 tickets went unclaimed. Over to the Sun for a source:
“Unfortunately the French didn’t appear to share their noble intentions and roundly ignored the free ticket tactic.”
Those ignoble bastards. Thanks, the Sun!
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Could it be that Johnny Frog is just familiar
with their post 97' output and decided to give it a miss?
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FAO: Kev:
LOL
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don't you ever get bored?
of being a really boring person?
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LOL at
assimilating the TABLOID tactic of making IMPORTANT parts really STAND OUT cos their readers are too STUPID to understand.
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yes
IMPORTANT parts, which are also SENSATIONALISTIC.
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It'd take a hell of a lot more
than a couple of Radiohead tickets to tempt me to cycle in Paris.
The place is a deathtrap in a car. -
Einstein here just swallowed a dictionary
As if such a big word would get the all-capitals treatment.
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but really,
why leave torquay?
lovely place. -
in Paris
they have a really good, virtually free, bike rental system that is really easy to use. My brother used to live there and cycled nearly EVERYWHERE, and so did I when I went to visit him. Not sure if this changes anyone's opinion about the matter.
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So your profile says you are from Torquay
The tickets were available from Paris, so this incident actually happened, eradicating the need for a "would".
Either you were one of the 15, or are a liar!
Yes, I went there.
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it's coool..
it's amazing to see everybody cycling around on theose things in paris. apparently ken livingstone wanted to introduce the same scheme in london, but alas..
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Oh, renowned cyclist Ken Livingston? LOLZ!
Oh no, silly me, that'd be the Ken Livingstone who spent about 20K per year on taxi fares. I think there's more chance of the scheme being introduced under Boris Johnson who actually like totally cycles and that, innit.
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