*Bob*

I hear Bestival has changed it's rule on Thursday camping this year, which is good. Still no problem in getting tix for Glastonbury this morning.

Even though we're not going this year (but were registered) I couldn't help clicking on the 'buy tickets' link, expecting the usual 'sold out' or hanging browser page. Straight through to 'buy tickets', no problem. Typical. I bet it's sunny as well this year as well.

Let's not forget about house prices, faith schools, fines, lost cats, Caffe Nero, aircraft noise and estate agents. You're right though, Macker.. Bugaboo owners definitely deserve the biggest arse-kicking.

As the Gervais showboat rumbles on, it becomes even more clear that he only ever really plays himself. Like Sean Connery, only with more cheap gags about the disabled.

Jokes about dwarves and/or midgets are also in fairly poor taste. Unless you're Ricky Gervais, in which case you'll get a Bafta.

What were your original suggestions? I was thinking more along the lines of misogyny, to be honest. Although that might be a tough one because I do so love the delicate little creatures.

I look forward to ticking some other socially inappropriate boxes in the near future. What do you suggest I go for next?

I know. It was Oxford's loss - not mine.

Now you mention is, I've spotted another error in my posting. I accidentally referred to straight people as 'normal people' as well!! Which was very wrong of me, because it implies that the gays aren't 'normal'. Sorry everyone.

Really?!?!!! Gosh - what a mistake!! Reading it back, you might think I'd done it on purpose!!!

It's true.. I'm not that old.. but (for my sins) I've been there fourteen or fifteen times. I can't quite remember. Most of the people who used to go never gave a monkeys about the line-up. The fun was in discovering things you never knew you liked, not sulking because ColdHead aren't headlining.. again.

It's a potential minefield, Attila. 'Gay' is always your best bet at the time of writing. 'Gays' is ok too, but not 'The Gays' - which isn't. 'Queer' is fine too (since 'Queer as Folk' has been aired - you can't really complain) - but it sounds better coming from the gays themselves, not normal people. 'Bummer' is (apparently) ok if you listen Chris Moyles and read FHM. So they say. 'Faggot' is still out though, I'm afraid - though still very popular in many parts of America. Personally I think it's time that 'fruit' made a comeback.

The fact that the lineup even makes a difference to ticket sales/interest (which it is this year) is another sign of changed times.

Indeed. A lot of the gatecrashers were all the people who used to go in the days before it got so big - perhaps people like yourself. When the fence went up, the festival was left with a more humdrum element - ie those who were prepared (and could afford) to pay, and had broadband at home in order to get a ticket. Of course, the fence had to go up. The last couple of years before it did were absolute madness. In a good way. But it just couldn't go on. I think it's lost it's 'party' element to a certain degree. Maybe it just needs a healthy dose of sunshine to bring it back.

But clearly the answer to question "when did Glastonbury get rubbish" is "whenever you decided not to go anymore" hee hee.

I'd have to disagree there, Mr Jah. I think it reached its peak in the couple of years before the fence went up. The 100,000-odd gatecrashers (in addition to the 130,000 paying guests) really made it. Every morning there used to be 50,000 people sitting on hill, refusing to go to sleep for three days. Nowadays most people scurry back to their beds so they can get-up bright and early, with little band timetables round their necks and their folding picnic chairs and thermos flasks at the ready.

Shithole is good. Who wants to go to a club with chrome in the bogs, a VIP area and people who don't know how to enjoy themselves? Not me.

Not for me. This year is Bestival year.

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Which method gives you the best breath for the > 3:30 team meeting in Room 4, where the windows > don't open and the A/C is recycling your > exhalations at 20?C? I would recommend a double Sminting at 3.27, then lodging two Wrigley's Extra behind your bottom lip (like you would with a Skol 'Bandit') for a slow-release minty failsafe. It makes you like a bit like Brando in Godfather, but he won an oscar for it - so it could give you much-needed presence in the board room too.

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh, *Bob*, so last year. > > East Dulwich Debt Counselling Service this year, > and next. But surely this could go where the current Foxtons is - after the downsizing to smaller premises and having to share minis?

What do you do if the whitener ('Coffee Mate', I presume?) clags and gets stuck to the teaspoon, Ted? We've all been there. Should one leave spoon in cup and hope for the best, or 'rinse in' with extra boiling from the kettle?

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bignumber5 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sunday breakfast opening at "Fire", although that > seems to be rather more GHB and ketamine than > drinks and light-hearted chat with perfect man... I'll let you know - we'll be there next weekend. Word has it that there are plans afoot for Fire to 'go straight', as it happens.. what is the world coming to?!

Vauxhall isn't far away. He can meet various men of his dreams - several times a week - if he moves down from Sheffield.

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