Strange guys in Audi A4 in Moorgate this morning

artaxerxes
artaxerxes Posts: 612
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
About 8:50 am this morning, on City Road between Moorgate and Old St tube. A bunch of guys in an Audi A4 chanting something ( don't know what it was as I don't speak chav, but I did make out something about yellow ribbons - and it did sound similar to a football chant). They were throwing ketchup at people and stopped in the middle of the road, got out and started shouting at passers by.
Honestly this is one of the strangest things I have ever seen. Did anyone else see this?

I'm trying to figure out what these guys were on about. Its the sort of thing you might see in a suburban town centre on a Saturday night, not in rush hour on a week day in the City. I mean, surely they didn't just get up early and drive all the way from their estate just to do this???

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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Phew. Got past there just before that. Nearly got squidged by a bus while I was out-dragging a moped but that's a different story.
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  • Sewinman
    Sewinman Posts: 2,131
    Sounds like some football fans - the song is 'She wore a yellow ribbon'

    She wore a yellow ribbon

    She wore, she wore, she wore a yellow ribbon
    She wore a yellow ribbon
    In the merry month of May
    And when I asked her why she wore that ribbon
    She said it's for the XYZ
    And we're going to Wem ber lee
    Wem ber lee Wem ber lee
    We're the famous XYZ
    And we're going to Wem ber lee

    It is normally sung by Arsenal. My guess would be they are Chelsea supporters still on a bender after the FA Cup.
  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    Thanks, that sounds about right :D
  • AllTheGear
    AllTheGear Posts: 248
    XYZ only rhymes with Wemberley if you're American.

    Football supporters....
    ... and no idea ...

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  • bomberesque
    bomberesque Posts: 1,701
    there's a rude version sung by rugby fans. It has quite a few verses... and is quite rude.
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Enlighten us....
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  • moonio
    moonio Posts: 802
    Please don't stereotype people, its really not very nice.
    ie 'I don't speak chav' and 'drive all the way from their estate just to do this'
  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    Quite right, I apologise.

    They might well have been City boys (prematurely) celebrating the end of the credit crunch...
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I got stuck behind a rehearsal for the beating of the retreat on the way home from trafalgar square... very slow-moving. Plod on a motorbike said 'why don't you hop up on the pavement love' so I did!
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  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    Seems a bit daft (Audi guys), doing something like that in what is probably the most heavily surveilled part of the world
  • dirk_van_gently
    dirk_van_gently Posts: 826
    moonio wrote:
    Please don't stereotype people, its really not very nice.
    ie 'I don't speak chav' and 'drive all the way from their estate just to do this'

    I hate political correctness, however I merely feel sorry for the Chav culture
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I got stuck behind a rehearsal for the beating of the retreat on the way home from trafalgar square... very slow-moving. Plod on a motorbike said 'why don't you hop up on the pavement love' so I did!

    I had that once, I was passing through Bermondsey and there were some roadworks going on and the police were directing traffic at some lights and the traffic was backed up for miles. I could see the police and wanted to hop onto the pavement to get round but thought they would tell me off if I did, when one of them came down and actually told me to use the pavement to get past all the traffic!
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  • cedargreen
    cedargreen Posts: 189
    What is is it about Audi's? It really is the ******* car of choice
  • artaxerxes
    artaxerxes Posts: 612
    I used to 'aspire' to owning an Audi in my younger days, not any more!
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    That's because according to Clarkson all the c*cks who used to drive BMW 3 series now buy Audis - strange but true

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