Glastonbury Hypocrisy + Make Poverty History

[easy g]

Well, if you want quality, it's time to whip out the plastic if you're looking at the best part of a week's heavy duty quaffing, innit?

depends...nowadays I drink because I like the taste...not to get drunk, so I don't do heavy duty quaffing (also atm meds mean I get ill very easily because of alchohol). As it goes I've always much rather take my time over a nice pint of Sam Smiths extra stout than neck X number of cans of shitty lager...could never see the point

the thought of a nearly week long drinks binge fills me with horror...but each to their own int'it

hopefully some people can manage to remember some of the knowledge they've gained!

 

[editor]

depends...nowadays I drink because I like the taste...not to get drunk, so I don't do heavy duty quaffing (also atm meds mean I get ill very easily because of alchohol). As it goes I've always much rather take my time over a nice pint of Sam Smiths extra stout than neck X number of cans of shitty lager...could never see the point

I was drinking real ale almost all of the weekend - Woodfordes Wherry Ale.

Luvverly!

 

[easy g]

did you take yr tankard with you?

(I'm actually looking more and more like a stereotypical CAMRA type...beard, long hair. into archery )

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Interesting read.

 

[treelover]

oi, i've just done a thread based on that!

 

[William of Walworth]

I'll be at Shambala treelover. If we meeet up there, we can have a lovely little chat about the merits and demerits of Glasto ...

 

[Dubversion]

Make Coldplay History

 

[Rocket Romano]

Make Coldplay History

 

[DaveCinzano]

Make Coldplay History

welcome home

 

[Kid_Eternity]

oi, i've just done a thread based on that!

Aha! That must be where I read it from (although I could of sworn I picked it up on an American blog)...

 

[subversplat]

I personally found the litter leaving really upsetting, but I don't really see how its the fault of Greenpeace. In fact I'd assume that without their presence things might be worse. At least its a constant reminder that people should be looking after things (if you're brain thinks that way anyway).

At least the litter means that travelling types can get a weeks minimum wage slave-driving. What fucks me off is the 100s of tents left there that the litter pickers are told to break up and throw away - when there's hundreds of people in the UK sleeping rough. Urgh

 

[Ironside523]

I agree with you on this, and campaigns to raise awareness/end poverty have been around for a long time... I've become extremely cynical about this and these campaigns strike me as being more about self-promotion for celebrities rather than actually ending poverty (no matter how well-meaning the celebs involved may be)...

If ending the poverty was just a case of raising awareness then poverty would have ended a long time ago...

the festival is helping in some ways to end poverty. i made £320 profit selling my ticket on ebay some time ago. this has gone towards my gas bill and food shopping, ensuring that i am neither freezing or malnourished. i hope that nice mr geldof is happy that he has helped someone poorer than himself.

 

[William of Walworth]

At least the litter means that travelling types can get a weeks minimum wage slave-driving. What fucks me off is the 100s of tents left there that the litter pickers are told to break up and throw away - when there's hundreds of people in the UK sleeping rough. Urgh

This year, some of the afterpickers managed by a little subterfuge to get on site the weekend BEFORE the festie opened!! We met three of them ....

Yes, the waste is shocking, but in past years, when Stig and went tatting on the Monday, we got two tents (bioth slightly leaking) and one inflatable double mattress (slow punctured) and a few other things ....

 

[FridgeMagnet]

we got two tents (bioth slightly leaking) and one inflatable double mattress (slow punctured)

well, if that's the sort of thing on offer, it's settled - next Glasto I'm off to pick stuff up like a big womble

if I'm very lucky I might even get a warm can of Heineken and a plastic chair with a fag burn on it

 

[William of Walworth]

well, if that's the sort of thing on offer, it's settled - next Glasto I'm off to pick stuff up like a big womble

if I'm very lucky I might even get a warm can of Heineken and a plastic chair with a fag burn on it

It was a bit farcical how grateful we were to find flawed stuff, but with a few repairs (Stig's good at that kind of thing ) we had a bit of use out of them for a while.

We also found half a bottle of vodka (gievn away to other mates), and plenty of other bits and pieces.

Before taking the piss, remember that for the real afterpickers, finding things is a BIG incentive. Being more experienced, they're probably better at spotting lost stashes than I was ... we didn't find any drugs at all but plenty do get found ... mind you in 2002 (when Stig was a litterpoicker during the fest) she found £30= ... in her time off though ...