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  1. What would you make sure to do at your last Glastonbury?

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    1 hour ago, Mike A said:

     

    I saw their show last year. The tent was rammed and there were many young children in attendance.
    Though after some point, every few minutes you'd see another parent dragging their brood out 🙂

     

     

    Thanks for the clarification. I had only seen the website, which indicated that it was for adults only - or at least that's what I seem to recall it saying. It's certainly a show that I'd go to see from the info I did get from the website. Make of that what you will.

  2. A little bit of what you fancy, does you good.

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    Taken in 1967 by Rocco Morabito, this photo called “The Kiss of Life” shows a utility worker named J.D. Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker Randall G. Champion after he went unconscious following contact with a low voltage line. They had been performing routine maintenance when Champion brushed one of the low voltage lines at the very top of the utility pole. His safety harness prevented a fall, and Thompson, who had been ascending below him, quickly reached him and performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. He was unable to perform CPR given the circumstances, but continued breathing into Champion’s lungs until he felt a slight pulse, then unbuckled his harness and descended with him on his shoulder. Thompson and another worker administered CPR on the ground, and Champion was moderately revived by the time paramedics arrived, eventually making a full recovery.
     
    What’s even more incredible is Champion not only survived this thanks to Thompson, but he lived an extra 35 years. He died in 2002 at 64 years old. Thompson is still alive today.
     
    Rocco Morabito was driving on West 26th Street in July 1967 on another assignment when he saw Champion dangling from the pole. He called an ambulance and grabbed his camera. “I passed these men working and went on to my assignment”, says Morabito. “I took eight pictures at the strike. I thought I’d go back and see if I could rind another picture”. But when Morabito gets back to the linemen, “I heard screaming. I looked up and I saw this man hanging down. Oh my God. I didn’t know what to do. I took a picture right quick. J.D. Thompson was running toward the pole. I went to my car and called an ambulance. I got back to the pole and J.D. was breathing into Champion. I backed off, way off until I hit a house and I couldn’t go any farther. I took another picture. Then I heard Thompson shouting down: He’s breathing!”.

  6. Ticket Competitions 2024

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    24 minutes ago, incident said:

    While you couldn't guarantee anything, there is a couple things that could be checked without opening the bar to try and identify winning bars.

     

    Firstly, just the feel - if you've got "hands on" a few different bars, then it's possible that one of them just feels slightly different with the extra piece of card inside. That's what I reckon happened with that video - they probably guessed that this felt different and so got the phone out to record in case it really was a winnner (if it's not that, then they were recording themselves on probably less than a 0.01% chance in which case I despair of the world).

     

    Secondly, weight. If someone (which obviously would have to be a shop worker) can put each bar on the scales, then they should all be within a couple grams of each other - so the extra bit of card will probably add enough overall to make a winning bar the heaviest in the batch. It won't be enough that's perceptible to a normal person picking it up, but I'd assume most branches have decent quality scales to hand that can be quite precise.

     

    But tbh even within all that - given the number of Oxfam shops out there, the chances that any one of them even has a winning bar to start with is slightly less than 1% so I doubt it'd be worth going to that trouble to start with.

     

    I am toying with buying one of these bars (I hope to limit it to that). I'm not too sure whether the Oxfam shop near me will allow me to bring in my sensitive drug scales and check all the bars out. Maybe I should 'get something' on the shop manager and blackmail them into letting me weigh the bars. Desperate times result in desperate measures! 

  7. NFR NFC 24

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    Hello lucy.

     

    Hope you are happy and well.

     

    I think I did some gorilla NFR NFC action on other completely non related threads back in the day. And even though I'm not going to Glastonbury, I'm game for joining in, for old times sake.

  9. Trolley Recommendations

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    Now this is a solid tyre that looks like it'd do the job;

     

     

     

    330mm Solid Rubber Tyre Wheel Barrow Replacement Wheel WBSW330P13

     

     

    I am in danger of getting into small tyre porn. You should see some of the tyres that I have just seen. The sexy little minxes!

  11. What would you make sure to do at your last Glastonbury?

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    I didn't know it at the time, but I have already had my last Glastonbury. As I didn't know it, I never got to have the mindset that 'this is my last Glastonbury'. If I had known (and if it was allowed - no idea if it is or not these days) I'd have one last camp fire on an evening when the light was beginning to fade. I'd look down the hill from my campsite (what used to be Top Webbs Ash (and still maybe called that) at the 'town' below. I'd carry on watching until I could now see the place all lit up in the surrounding dark, and I'd say to myself 'I'm f**king going down into there in a bit'. And I would go down there, into town. I'd immerse myself in the frolics and shenanigans like an Emperor of the night.

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  12. Ticket Competitions 2024

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    8 hours ago, incident said:

    It's a reference to the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory style competition.

     

    I don't believe that it's physically golden (or at least wasn't last year), but that aside the exact same concept.

     

    My apologies - I'd forgotten about the chocolate one. I haven't bought any of those - yet. 

  14. Ticket Competitions 2024

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    42 minutes ago, cb4747 said:

    It's not impossible! I've won tickets to Glastonbury twice now. With BBC Radio each time, no Golden Ticket - which is my DREAM win! What a rush that would be. 

     

    I just meant tickets when I mentioned 'Golden tickets'. Are there actually 'Golden tickets', and if so, what are they?

  15. Ticket Competitions 2024

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    5 hours ago, incident said:

    Feels like I'm stating the obvious here, but the the Chocolate / Cheese / Brothers competitions aren't really designed for the people who're prepared to spend silly money buying far more than they normally would. They exist to encourage the substantially larger majority of people who might buy enough for a small number of entries to change their habits - buy an ethical (and nicer) chocolate bar instead of something from Mondelez or Nestle. Buy it from Oxfam instead of Tesco, and hell while you're there take a look around and see if there's anything else of interest.

     

    Remember that on the recent prize draw, there was a total of 63,972 entries from 33,606 people - so on that one easily more than half of the people entering only did so once - no idea whether that translates to the other competitions but I think it does show that for the majority a competition to win Glastonbury tickets is treated as a punt, rather than something to approach tactically.

     

    I thoroughly get what you are saying. I also recognise the zeal (and hope) on this thread. This will sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet, but its not meant to sound that way - I have entered all the competitions (including paying £10 for one entry) so that I could gift the tickets to a couple of people on this thread. It would be ace if at least one person on here got a couple of Golden Tickets. 

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  19. A little bit of what you fancy, does you good.

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    10 hours ago, Crazyfool01 said:

    Can’t see a few of those photos above yog sadly but I’ve been to see this knife angel which is in my town this month and touring the uk which is pretty thought provoking 

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    I have wanted to see that statue 'in the flesh' for some time now. Although the background representation of knife crime is tawdry, it is a most excellent sculpture. For anybody reading and doesn't know - it' was created from knives handed in at an amnesty by the police. The statue as art, blows my mind. It is so amazingly conceived and also executed. It's base is in Shropshire (where I live). I must make the effort to see it when it's next back in the county.

  21. GOLD MEMBERSHIP

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    1 hour ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

    Once you’ve gone through the initiation ceremony and successfully completed the 10 Coldplay questions. Personally I found joining the Masons easier. 😊😉😊

     

    Yes, I found the initiation ceremony quite disturbing. Mind you, it helped smooth the path for my Opus Dei membership. 

  23. GOLD MEMBERSHIP

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    I hadn't noticed until reading this thread. I wonder how long it would have taken for the penny to drop with me? I think it would have taken some considerable time.

  24. A little bit of what you fancy, does you good.

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    So, it's kind of a 'discussion' - in that you can discuss what's posted (or go completely off on a tangent, if you so like). However, the idea of the thread is to post something you like. It could be art, the written word (same thing in some instances), statements of fact (eg. from the Guinness Book Of Records), something from the Urban Dictionary - anything. Anything at all. However, you must like it. 
     
    To kick it off, I am offering some photos.
     
    This, I believe, is called 'American Costumi'
     
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    Other types of photos, and other bits and bobs;
     
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    Holmes describes Moriarty's physical appearance to Watson, saying the professor is extremely tall and thin, clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking. He has a forehead that "domes out in a white curve", deeply sunken eyes, and shoulders that are "rounded from much study".
     
    There now - that's enough to be getting on with. Please note that I'll possibly keep this thread going, even if nobody else does. It's a perfect vehicle to 'purge'.
     

  25. Have you ever snuck into Glastonbury with no ticket (post 2000)?

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    I have never snuck into Glastonbury. My brother did once. He took a flight over from Dublin, hitchhiked a lift to the festival, and then saw that there was a massive fence (superfence) in place, when he knew nothing of the sort (it had been a few years since he had attended the festival). So, faced with this conundrum he walked around. Then he saw an ambulance entering the site. He hopped on the back of the ambulance, and jumped off it once he was 'in'. He's a miserable bastard at the best of times, but he was smiling from ear to ear when he walked up the hill to where were were camped. 

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