Do you regret not going to Glastonbury now?

[yardbird]

I looked up the disabled thing for tp funnily enough, you do get well cared for. Good seats etc, plus some fucker has to push you through the mud whilst you sit there with a spliff in hand.

If it's hot I don't know if you'll spaz out, like.

Aye! I'll push you and tp through the fucking mud and if we get caught with weed, I'll just explain you're two cripplies init.

Everyone should do Glastonbury at least once fella

This is all worth thinking about.
Urban.crrippassist.com ?

My past history might help pull an Eaves (sp?) string or two.


I don't use a wheelchair yet, but I'm sure I can hire one
And I'm lucky 'cos I don't have the heat problem.

 

[Firky]

*Hell sends out for emergency snowploughs and thermals*

No, really I have!

 

[Firky]

This is all worth thinking about.
Urban.crrippassist.com ?

My past history might help pull an Eaves (sp?) string or two.


I don't use a wheelchair yet, but I'm sure I can hire one

Ask jefe about the wheelchair and the carer incident at a festival he went to

 

[yardbird]

We could tie ourselves to you with baby reins so we didn't get lost.

But I'm well lost .
I'm well long gone.
moi.

 

[isitme]

I regret not having 300 pounds to blow on a weekend, but I would have gone to festival in a country I've never been to before if i did

I know you can actually make money there, I tried that once, got a free ticket for stewarding and brought loads of baccy to sell. everytime i sold a packet of baccy i just bought booze and drugs, and i never made my last shift because of the baccy/drugs thing

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

nope

 

[paolo]

Naaa, been there loads of times before... had a great weekend in Londinium instead. It would have taken a full week out of my life at least, and childcare ain't cheap. I wouldn't take the nippers until they're older.

The weather was good for a change though, and I'm sure I'll be there again if I blag the old Access All Areas... might give it a go for next year, and if I can't show up then some lucky Urbanite can pretend to be me, grab a black/gold wristband and get the free food, and the clean loos, and the hot showers, chat drunkenly to the performers, watch Winehouse get wrecked... etc.

From where I was working I'm fairly sure I could have snuck in Backstage, and never once wanted to.

You really mean you'd only go if you could stay in the shit bit full of shit people?

 

[William of Walworth]

I have to go - job related - just find it crass. commercial. lowest common denominator shite these days. It is directly proportional - as a festival - to the slide of the NME. All very sad. I blame Thatcherism.

I don't know what you do there, would be quite interested to know.

But -- generally.

With that attitude to the festival, you have nothing positive or constructive to offer it. You clearly don't want to be there, and it's quite obvious that you have a thoroughly embittered and jaded attitude towards an awful lot of it.

I think you should be sacked fromn your Glastonbury responsibilities and replaced by someone who has a POSITIVE -- or at least half way objective -- outlook and contribution to offer.

Negative, positivity-devoid cynics who hate everything about Glastonbury are perfectly entitled to that view, and there are for sure a lot of legit criticisms to be made of the festival. I have a fair few myself, quite serious ones as it goes.

But the place can do without people working in some capacity there who have an attitude problem.There's plenty of others (workers) who want to be there, who do manage to enjoy it, who do have a contribution to make, but also whose criticisms of the place hold a lot more water and are a lot more balanced, because they don't start off with a predisposed (or long established) desire to hate the whole thing.

Hope you don't go next year. Both you and the festival will be a lot better off in consequence.

Are you a journalist?

 

[Firky]

William, ffs. Will you accept that some people don't like Glastonbury! You come across very bitter there. I have worked at events that I would otherwise have liked and hated it.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

glastonbury is for hippy wankers. fact.

with beards. and the bleeding guardian. and fucking patterned fucking wellies.

tossers

 

[the button]

and the bleeding guardian

Can you get a copy delivered to your tent? Never been, like.

 

[exosculate]

I don't know what you do there, would be quite interested to know.

But -- generally.

With that attitude to the festival, you have nothing positive or constructive to offer it. You clearly don't want to be there, and it's quite obvious that you have a thoroughly embittered and jaded attitude towards an awful lot of it.

I think you should be sacked fromn your Glastonbury responsibilities and replaced by someone who has a POSITIVE -- or at least half way objective -- outlook and contribution to offer.

Negative, positivity-devoid cynics who hate everything about Glastonbury are perfectly entitled to that view, and there are for sure a lot of legit criticisms to be made of the festival. I have a fair few myself, quite serious ones as it goes.

But the place can do without people working in some capacity there who have an attitude problem.There's plenty of others (workers) who want to be there, who do manage to enjoy it, who do have a contribution to make, but also whose criticisms of the place hold a lot more water and are a lot more balanced, because they don't start off with a predisposed (or long established) desire to hate the whole thing.

Hope you don't go next year. Both you and the festival will be a lot better off in consequence.

Are you a journalist?

I have alot of constructivity, unfortunately no one is interested in it, the system is often against the constructive criticism of the individual.

I find your post very rude, although as I am aware of you, I am not surprised.

 

[exosculate]

William, ffs. Will you accept that some people don't like Glastonbury! You come across very bitter there. I have worked at events that I would otherwise have liked and hated it.

Thanks firks. I feel a bit pissed off by WoW to be honest.

 

[Firky]

Can you get a copy delivered to your tent? Never been, like.

You can in the tipi village

 

[exosculate]

glastonbury is for hippy wankers. fact.

with beards. and the bleeding guardian. and fucking patterned fucking wellies.

tossers

Muddied Millwall Guardian brick jostlers, one and all!

 

[the button]

You can in the tipi village

Serious? Fucking .

 

[Firky]

 

[the button]

Jesus of "Glasto."

 

[Firky]

TBH button, you and cesare would love it, get ya self away. Even if you end up hating it at least you can say you have been

 

[the button]

I'd be up for the range of music, but I don't think I could deal with the squalor, tbh. I'm not hostile to festivals per se, like. I was at one a couple of weekends ago.

 

[Firky]

Just fucking go you soft shite.

 

[William of Walworth]

Firks (and exosculate too).

It really isn't (at all) to do with me not understanding (and indeed respecting) that some people have criticisms of the festival. I have plenty myself FFS, and said so in my post -- specifically. And in the past too. I'm no mindlessly uncritical worshipper, it's just that the criticisms I do have -- which include plenty of the commercialism, prices, etc. -- come over more balanced -- yes! -- by not being based on fixed hostility.

I'd just rather that people who work there feel more positive, or at least objective/balanced/accepting a mixture of plusses and minusses -- about it than exosculate's initial post came across as. Hating being there, dismissive, sneery, and indeed rude -- a lot ruder than my post really! -- and also very sweeping-judgemental and not at all balanced. Perhaps I'd understand exactly where he was coming from better if I knew what he did, I understand if there are privacy issues though.

I don't want brainwashed worshippers at Glastonbury, I'd rather the people who worked there didn't thoroughly hate it though. He'd be better off himself -- for his own benefit -- not going there is how I see it ....

Do you honestly not think exosculate hasn't got an attitude problem towards the festival (at least on the basis of those few lines anyway)? That post certainly looked like that to me. If I'm wrong, put me right! Needing more information here ....

 

[El Jefe]

I'd rather the people who worked there didn't thoroughly hate it though.

Why do you give a fuck? And why do you think it's your business?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'd just rather that people who work there feel more positive, or at least objective/balanced/accepting a mixture of plusses and minusses -- about it than exosculate's initial post came across as. Hating being there, dismissive, sneery, and indeed rude -- a lot ruder than my post really! -- and also very sweeping-judgemental and not at all balanced. Perhaps I'd understand exactly where he was coming from better if I knew what he did, I understand if there are privacy issues though..

But, that's how he felt?

I don't think even the Walt Disney Corporation tells its employees what to say about Disneyland when they're off duty.

 

[isitme]

Glastonbury is like a city tho, it's not just people having fun, lots of people go there to work as well

It would be better if all 100'000 people were having the time of their lives, but...

My mum always told me that 'If you haven't got anything nice to say, then keep your mouth shut'

daft cow

 

[the button]

Just fucking go you soft shite.

I might consider renting a nearby holiday cottage, but otherwise no chance.

 

[Firky]

Do you honestly not think exosculate hasn't got an attitude problem towards the festival (at least on the basis of those few lines anyway)? That post certainly looked like that to me. If I'm wrong, put me right! Needing more information here ....

TBH I just think he doesn't like the way it has turned and nor do you - so you two actually agree.

 

[William of Walworth]

I have alot of constructivity, unfortunately no one is interested in it, the system is often against the constructive criticism of the individual.

I find your post very rude, although as I am aware of you, I am not surprised.

I'm perfectly nice and firsndly most of the time to most people here, and have plenty positive/contructive to offer this community. But I'm only human, and one of my most human dislikes is of contemptuous sneering.

I've fallen out with you in the past here about other stuff admittedly. Perhaps for similarish reasons to your sneery dismissiveness here about something you clearly hate and would rather be nowhere near. You say I'm rude, but that, while true, is because you come across as a cynical embittered sneerer. You don't even bother to make any effort to explain why you dislike the festival so much. This forum's been well favoured with plenty of bitter sniping about the fest for months. Yours may very well be more accurate and informed, but in the post I was reacting to, I see no evidence of a balanced take from you on the thing at all.

You may say Ilm not balanced either, but you'd be wrong, my very real criticisms of aspects of the festival's commercialism, of its expense, of aspects of it losing its way, etc, might carry more weight because I don't dismiss EVERYTHING about the whole thing. Put me right if you're not doing that.

 

[El Jefe]

Jesus

 

[William of Walworth]

TBH I just think he doesn't like the way it has turned and nor do you - so you two actually agree.

We probably do agree more than he thinks or than I think as it goes. But see my post above.

I don't like aspects of how some of the festival has gone in recent times. But in other respects I genuinely think after this year that whole areas of it are better than ever.

It's equally blinkered to see nothing right, as to see nothing wrong. I'm certainly not guilty of the latter, but exosculate appears to have adopted the former way of thinking. Exactly why, I'd love to know!