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StarrisonSubmarine said
Just to throw my thoughts in: It’s total poppycock of course. 

I never trust the “audio clues”. It is so easy to trick the ear.

The easiest way to prove this is to search for a misheard lyric video of a song you know the lyrics to very well. The maker of the video will write the misheard lyrics. AKA tell you what to hear. You will hear it. For example I watched one on Lady GaGas Judas. I know the word is Judas and I know the lyrics very well but because on the screen it said Dulux I heard “I’m in love with Dulux.” 

So if you’re listening to something backwards it tends to sound like nothing intelligible, like Gnik Nus. But if someone says and X point you can here this, you will hear it.

And yes in the summer in the UK it is perfectly easy to wander around on asphalt without shoes. I always assumed he took them off because it was hot, feet would get sweaty, the bits between the toes would start hurting or blistering a bit. 

I’ve read all sorts, by people who clearly haven’t read that much into The Beatles. The Don’t Pass Me By clue gets me since Ringo wrote it before ’66 but it was constantly rejected for albums. The license plate on Abbey Road supposedly saying LMW Linda McCartney Widowed. How if he supposedly died in ’66 and they married in ’69? When that’s pointed out they change it to Weeps. But still they met in ’67. 

I know you probably all know these but they’re the ones in particular that make me giggle a bit. And I find it so morbid it freaks me out, like why are people obsessed with this? It’s horrible. Picking apart the “clues” makes me feel better.

I’m not sure when I saw the first mention of ‘Paul Is Dead’ but I suspect it was around about the time I smoked my first spliff as the two things go well together (indeed the two things started together for most people I reckon). The ‘web phase’ of PID which seemed to begin in the 21st century has been about people who are larely NOT smoking spliffs but on drugs prescribed by Big Pharma sales personnel (sometimes called ‘doctors’) and that’s what’s made it so hilarious for those still toking.

Except that now you have people who are avowedly anti-PID who can watch ‘Paul McCartney Is Really Dead’ and not recognise it as a ‘mockumentary’ taking the piss royally. (I mean it’s only a word or two different from The Rutles’ take on things which was that if you play the track ‘Sgt Rutter’ backwards, you’d hear ‘Stig has been dead for ages, honestly’)
Together with the infiltration of PID by LarouchePAC and some of the original lynchmob Beatle Burners from 66 (who’s have thought they’d ever learn to work a computer? BUT THEY HAVE), PID has become a bad joke. There’s little to laugh about now as I seriously believe that it has spawned some proto-Chapmans in the making who seriously believe ‘Faul’ is Satan. Not funny at all

trcanberra said

meanmistermustard said
I’ve walked barefoot on the road without sandals and it can be remarkably relaxing if its a hot day, and Paul only took them off for a short period – plus they had been out for a while in the heat. I’m always taking my sandals off in the summer when out and about.

[SNIP]

You can only get away with this in the UK unless you have been barefoot for life and have feet like leather. You would fry your skin off in second on a hot road here.

Again, as somebody who has spent whole days walking barefoot in the UK and abroad, I can say that you’re only half right.
The point is that the tarmac is initially hot because your feet are initially much cooler. Something then happens so that everything normalises and frankly you don’t notice a thing. But don’t take my word for it since this is very easy to check for yourself.

Since coming across ‘Paul is Not Only Dead but Satan Himself’ types across the PIDsmorgsabord, enraged by this question of physics I’ve always laughed a LOT more at that scene in Help ! where Paul inspects the ‘hot foot’ marks on the ground.