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[Taikonaut]

The worst thing doesn't happen every year but it is of course...rain. For me there is nothing worse than not being able to sit down on the floor or walking through mud so deep that it tries to suck your wellies off and saps your energy. You can still have a great time at a wet one but when the sun is baking down everything is great and all the little annoyances bounce off you.

[cammie81]

Poleski, on 15 April 2011 - 02:06 PM, said:

Having a hangover on the Saturday last year was the biggest mistake of my festival life. Spent half the day lying beside my tent, managed to muster up some strength for The Dead Weather, Shakira, Scissor Sisters and Muse though.

Hit the sauce straight away, something like a two litre bottle of wkd or any other alcopop can be good for when you don't feel like drinking.

[fred quimby]

Waking up in a tent with a Clown with Stilts on fumbling with my bits.

That and I donlt like the rain

[PabloCoke]

Suicide Tuesday.

[ukslim]

(Stolen from someone else, who said it last year)

Two worst things about Glastonbury:
1. The creeping middle-class invasion
2. The terrible quality of the the macchiato they sold me in West Holts.

[Helsbels]

General Lee, on 15 April 2011 - 06:15 AM, said:

The initial trip from the car to camping spot weighed down by a ton of stuff. Last year was the worst with the heat and the queue to get in.

I agree, although it's an amazing feeling once you get finally get to your camping spot and have your first drink of the festival

[cham08]

Leaving.

Simples

[Liam13th]

The worst thing about Glasto..... threads like this.

[pie_and_a_pint]

The backache from carrying my kit in, walking miles and dancing like a loon and sleeping in a tent for five nights.

[General Lee]

Helsbels, on 15 April 2011 - 03:29 PM, said:

I agree, although it's an amazing feeling once you get finally get to your camping spot and have your first drink of the festival

Yep. As soon as I get to a decent spot, the bag and sweat-soaked t-shirt are off, stuff is on the floor and a beer cracked open for a well deserved rest before putting up the tent. From that great moment on (and with a new top on as not to spoil everyone else's day!) it's all good.

[rexclark]

cammie81, on 15 April 2011 - 02:44 PM, said:

Hit the sauce straight away, something like a two litre bottle of wkd or any other alcopop can be good for when you don't feel like drinking.

Amen brother!

I was absolutely f**ked on the Sunday last year after a very late Saturday night. Woke up, lay with my head out the tent and started on the red wine again. Felt right as rain in no time.

[deanieo]

Liam13th, on 15 April 2011 - 04:24 PM, said:

The worst thing about Glasto..... threads like this.

100% agree

[iwalker]

Lack of showering opportunities.

People who make noise in the middle of the night for no good reason other than making noise (different to making noise because they are having a good time)

Waking up in a tent thinking you are in the Sahara then opening then door and you being in a damp morning

[Couchy]

Carrying cans/crates of beer.

Running out of loo roll after too many jerk chickens from Shangri La.

[tommmy]

fred quimby, on 15 April 2011 - 02:53 PM, said:

Waking up in a tent with a Clown with Stilts on fumbling with my bits.

Don't knock it until you've tried it. xx

[miss_jane]

just the overwhelming smell of poo is the only thing i hate. everything else i can deal with

[hashcity]

Mark E. Spliff, on 15 April 2011 - 07:49 AM, said:

There are loads of things I don't particularly like at Glastonbury.  This would appear to be a controversial or confrontational thing to write on this forum, but if you think about it, it's madness to try and pretend otherwise: people don't really spend an entire week walking round in a big field permanently smiling.  Over the course of the week, you will encounter some objectionable behaviour and a whole spectrum of other minor and not-so-minor irritations.

Consequently, in the aftermath of the festival, there will be a noticeable sea-change in the tone of some of the posts on here.  You'll get a load of people complaining about stuff and a few declaring they'll never go back again.  But gradually, between then and 2013, we'll all brain-wash ourselves that the festival was actually 6 days of uninterrupted bliss without any low-points.  And so the glastobating cycle continues.

So my answer to the question: the worst thing about Glastonbury is the escapist nonsense of setting it up as some impossible-to-achieve nirvana, and then feeling cheated when it inevitably fails to deliver.

This is so true! There are clearly lots of points about festivals which nobody enjoys. Being woken up by someone falling into your tent. Having your wallet robbed. Loosing your phone. Going for a shit (or, alternatively, being desperately in need of one).

Anyone who says they were smiling when those things happened is deluding themselves, or on drugs (or both).

But it's nice to think that even through all the downsides, virtually everyone takes the positive home with them. They reflect on their experiences with their rose-tinted spectacles on, and consider the festy to be a net positive. And more than that, the glastobating is about making next year's experience an even better one, trying to sort out the things which were problematic last year using copious amounts of planning and forethought.

redmosquito, on 15 April 2011 - 12:30 PM, said:

The sound of those gas canisters going off constantly in the stone circle

The monorail jokes

Is it just me that finds the whole gas thing a bit disturbing ? A lot of the kids camping around us spent an inordinate amount of time compulsively doing balloons (very noisey). What's the point though? There's so much to do, why spend half the festival in the tent trying to get high? I can get wrecked any time and much more effectively

[ICGenie]

For me it's the tiredness.  I don't do drugs and alcohol just makes me sleepy.  A late night driving down on Tuesday, an excited but fitful night of sleep, an early start to get in the queue, standing around for three hours in the blazing sun with a heavy backpack and realising I'd forgotton my inhaler meant I was already pretty drained last year before it started.  It meant I felt like I was doing a lot of sitting around feeling like I was doing nothing and should be doing something else.

So my aim next year is to have the mindset that I AM doing something at all times - I'm doing Glastonbury!!!

[Joanne]

Not having a ticket! No contest!

[LORD ALAIN DAMAGE]

Being unable to find a suitable place to press ones trousers