When festivals weren't ?300+ middle class w*nk

[aquarius moon]

Sounds like I was there the same years as KK.

Shame we never met. I could've taught him to be kind to animals.

[KidKruger]

Yeah and I probably could have taught you a thing or two.

Hold on, what's this animal kindness business ?

*involuntarily feels an automatic yawn coming on*

[aquarius moon]

Over the past 5 years of being on here you are one of the posters who I feel need educating about being kind to all animals, no matter how small they are.

I've come to this conclusion from reading some of your posts.

I'm sure you feel a yawn coming on because it's a bit late now.

So it would've been nice to have had a couple of beers and spliffs together back in the day & I would have made you see sense.

[DIX]

SORRY to disappoint, but there were no hippies (not outside the column of the pejorative press, that is); just freaks and flower children, as different from each other as mods and rockers - now they DID exist, albeit briefly - DIX

[KidKruger]

Aquarius why don't you start a thread so while educating me in how to be kind to animals other people can benefit from your advice - surely more efficient (and overall best outcome for said animals) ?

If we'd met at a Glasto back then you'd probably have wondered why I didn't drink, smoke, or take drugs - but was at a festival, where these pastimes are the mode.

Your conclusion may have been that it takes all sorts of people to make a festival and that maybe your way of going about things isn't the only way ?!

[ed_pete]

Is there something wrong with being middle class ?

[Robert Poste's Child]

Oh, ed_pete, ed_pete. You've expressed in a nutshell the underlying tension of East Dulwich.

[ed_pete]

The only tension is people that are middle class pretending not to be.

[Robert Poste's Child]

And your previous post explains the secret fear that makes them do that. It's also the cover for other people with a closet inferiority complex.

[ernesto]

you is all self hating bourgeooise

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or it's all self-refferential, ironic, EDF clique banter innit

[Robert Poste's Child]

ernesto Wrote:

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> you is all self hating bourgeooise

There have been moments today, ernesto, when I adored you.

[MrBen]

The original founders of Glastonbury were firmly upper class establishment.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Anyone going to Glastonbury this year?

[indiepanda]

Never been to Glastonbury - Isle of Wight is my favourite festival. Always feels like you are going on holiday getting on a boat to get there and can spend mornings on the beach too. Oh, and there is the option of staying in a B&B/hotel and getting the bus in rather than camping. And maybe it makes me rather middle class to like that...

I have done the camping thing, and I can live with the baby wipe showers, but I don't really want to be woken up by pissed teenagers stumbling into my tent at 3am, and sometimes the loos get really disgusting in the campsite overnight - blocked rather than just a bit smelly.

Am going this year and especially looking forward to seeing Fleetwood Mac. And returning to my hotel in Ryde each night...

[ernesto]

* warning provokative post*

you forgot the scousers rifling your tent

[indiepanda]

ernesto Wrote:

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> * warning provokative post*

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> you forgot the scousers rifling your tent

Oh, I know people who have had their bags / purses stolen from their tent - even when they were in them asleep. Since then, when I have camped I've chucked my valuables in the foot of my sleeping bag before getting in to go to sleep.

Do any festivals cost ?300+ per ticket? Or was that cost including all the other stuff like travel / food 7 drink / somewhere to stay if not on site? I know my trip to the IOW will add up to well over ?300 but the ticket was under ?200.

[Otta]

If a couple were going and taking a kid or two it would cost a bloody fortune. Would rather a week abroad.

[*Bob*]

The UK is heaving under the weight of festival possibilities, especially for parents who like going to festivals. Why does it have to be MahoosiveFest or nothing at all?

We go to one with a few hundred people; most bring kids. They have four or five bands on, followed by pumping bleep music to finish. The kids run feral during the day, with lots of organised activities; the adults get a good run at it later on.

?30 ticket. Car camping. Piece of piss. 'Fun for all'.