Wishing your life away and living for 5 days a year

[Avalon_Fields]

6 minutes ago, Richi1988 said:

 

Just out of interest @Avalon_Fields what do you like to do with your spare time? You know, just so we can judge you... 

Please note no connection! Honest! I'll refer you to @FieldOfAvalon

[Alvarhanso]

23 minutes ago, Brave Sir Robin said:

As I see it, your £200+ gets you 5 days on the Farm, but if you want it you also get 8 1/2  months of excitement, planning, wondering, listening, learning, hoping and conversation, including via this fine forum.

I would say you should try it, FieldOfAvalon, but as is pointed out above...

... it seems you're already there.

 

[Richi1988]

7 minutes ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Please note no connection! Honest! I'll refer you to @FieldOfAvalon

S**t my bad! Pure laziness on my part there!!! My most sincere apologies 

EDIT: I have altered my mistake

Edited October 25, 2016 by Richi1988

[FestiZebra]

Moans about Glastonbury obsession

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[jparx]

I think you're completely and utterly wrong.

I'm going for 4 days, not 5!

[henry bear]

2 hours ago, FieldOfAvalon said:

I'm as excited as the next man about Glastonbury 

Presumably the next man isn't very excited about it?

[fatyeti24]

5 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

I nearly went there. Decided it was too obvious.

that's never stopped you before 

 

 

[Mr.Tease]

2 hours ago, FieldOfAvalon said:

I'm as excited as the next man about Glastonbury and intend to go every year I can, but it strikes me that too many people here are literally wishing their life away for a total of 5 days a year.

Obsessive chat in the lead up the festival, or after the festival - fine. But it's non-stop on here, all year round. People seem to literally LIVE for it.

Is there nothing else worth living for? Life is so short. Don't wish it away...

It's nice that you've decided that you know how excited other people should be allowed to get about something you're not as excited about- what exactly is the acceptable level of excitement that people are allowed to feel and what should happen to them if they exceed this? 

[billum]

The tagline for this forum is "Experience the spirit of Glastonbury all year round", which isn't anything like actually being there of course, but the goodwill and cheer generally present on here sure helps keep the memory of that heavenly week in the fields alive a bit stronger than if this place went silent for months

[Miesh]

2 hours ago, Funkyfairy! said:

On here all year round - tick

Obessessed about the festival - er maybe

Live my ife totally alongside enjoying Glastonbury - absolutely. Certainly not wishing my life away - loads and loads of other stuff to enjoy

Life and Glastonbury obsessing are living in perfect harmony together :-)

Absolutely. Although when less fun (i.e. shit) things happen in life Glastonbury thoughts help me through.

Also efests on the bus is more fun than Facebook.

[Avalon_Fields]

15 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

separated at birth?

Yup! (He's Danny!)

[eastynh]

1 hour ago, Hugh Jass said:

If you look at that very closely you can make out a lemon...

Thats a bit harsh on the OP.

[jparx]

I think most of us visit this site all year round and 'obsess' about the festival because this forum is a great place for discussion. Everyone is friendly, funny and passionate about their music. It's one of the few music based forums I visit that isn't completely toxic. I have disagreements with a few people here but they are all in good spirit and a result of passionate opinions, not ignorance or intolerance.

It's not so much about obsessing over the festival as it is interacting with all the great, like-minded people here. Most people have some sort of forum/chat room/social media platform that they frequent, this happens to be ours and it happens to be focussed on festivals! It's also ran very well by people that really know their stuff.

efests ftw basically.

[fatyeti24]

20 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

How do you know? Just because it hasn't always stopped me doesn't mean it never has.

oh, fair enough.  it must just feel that way.

[Madyaker]

Glastonbury is great and all but it's not like you'd find me swinging from the rafters if I couldn't go. I think you're overstating people's obsession with the festival 

[SteveTLizard]

8 minutes ago, Madyaker said:

Glastonbury is great and all but it's not like you'd find me swinging from the rafters if I couldn't go. I think you're overstating people's obsession with the festival 

I refer you to my previous post.  To save you the trouble I will re-iterate, you are on a forum dedicated solely to Glastonbury Festival.  You are reading a post telling people not to be so obsessed with it, and commenting likewise in October. 

Are we now living in an irony free world.

Edited October 25, 2016 by SteveTLizard

[LondonTom]

55 minutes ago, jparx said:

I think most of us visit this site all year round and 'obsess' about the festival because this forum is a great place for discussion. Everyone is friendly, funny and passionate about their music. It's one of the few music based forums I visit that isn't completely toxic. I have disagreements with a few people here but they are all in good spirit and a result of passionate opinions, not ignorance or intolerance.

 

Might be pushing it...

[H.M.V]

S'pose its never dawned on the OP that some people have made genuine friends here and have a liking for plenty of others in the community which makes it mostly a pleasure to have discussions and the odd argument. Glastonbury is just the thing that we all have in common. A mutual love in. Exchange of music etc. 

Nah, we're just all sad losers wishing our fecking life away. Gonna have a stern word with myself and go and find a life. I may be a while. 

[SteveTLizard]

17 minutes ago, Madyaker said:

Glastonbury is great and all but it's not like you'd find me swinging from the rafters if I couldn't go. I think you're overstating people's obsession with the festival 

I think I'm right in saying that planning what field you'll be pitching your tent in in 8 months time when you get in from Bristol officially counts as obsessing by the way.

P.s. I hope you get into Micheal's Mead, it's a fine home for 5 days.

P.p.s  It's called Glastobating not obsessing.

[justperfect]

I'm also quite obsessive about my bi annual holiday to Disney world with the kids , my trip to benidorm with the lads for the rugby league grand final , Christmas and any other public holiday where I don't have to work and the tv series game of thrones.

 

Glastonbury isn't everything but it is fairly important to me

 

 

[BlackHole2006]

FieldOfAvalon you are absolutely right. When I'm not obsessing over Glastonbury, I'm sat alone in my bedroom, trying to find the answers at the bottom of a bottle.

[Trout Mask Replica]

I think I enjoy the months of wondering re the lineup, planning and listening to new bands people talk about, almost as much as I enjoy the festival itself. 

 

Getting a ticket in October is like having a Christmas present early but you can't open it for months and genuinely don't know what's inside, only that it will be really great.

 

What's not to enjoy 

[Gnomicide]

3 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

Please note no connection! Honest! I'll refer you to @FieldOfAvalon

SPLITTER!

[waterfalls212434]

this is an internet forum on the subject of glastonbury........so shock horror people tend to talk about glastonbury on it! I check the forum in the course of my normal internet browsing as no doubt does everyone else......dont see what the issue is here, op seems to have a chip on his shoulder about something.

[stuartbert two hats]

2 hours ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

I nearly went there. Decided it was too obvious.

It should never be a surprise to see Pablo Honey at number nine.