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50 minutes ago, Chef said:
Maybe I'm showing my age here but what is 'The Discord' and what information has been shared there?
11 minutes ago, Neil said:yeah, i've heard about the fake panic, even you're being played by the nonces. 😛
One of the main reasons it was set up is due to the owner of this site calling patrons of his business things like cucks and nonces.
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Billy Ocean has the sing along bangers.
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11 hours ago, briddj said:
Didn't queue for food once all weekend.
Literally no queue once? You just walked up to food stalls 3 x per day for 5 days and they were just waiting to serve you?
Can I ask what times you ate and at which stalls?
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3 minutes ago, Mr. B said:
Surely more transactions = more fees, more internet traffic, more support = more cost. With demand continuing to far outstrip supply, I don't see the incentive for the festival to implement a payment scheme.
I do agree that the original deposit could at some point be upped.
The BOE base rate is now 1.25% though, so it is possible to earn interest again now.
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2 minutes ago, incident said:
The general theory is, having the bulk of the cash in the same VAT quarter as the festival (ie the outgoings) helps with reporting or cashflow.
They’ll have an accounting period though, like every business which will be 365 days. When they earn income in that period will be irrelevant, their tax and VAT liability will be the same. Otherwise why do the vast majority of businesses, and things like car tax and the tv licence cost more to pay monthly, rather than in one go at the front rather than delaying it and paying it later. There is simply no benefit to a business in receiving income later on in their reporting period compared to at the start or just earlier on.
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30 minutes ago, stuie said:
For tax and VAT reasons, the festival want the bulk of the money as close to the festival as possible.
I don’t see how this is a factor. I’m not an accountant but I am self employed, when I earn my income in a reporting period is irrelevant, the tax liability is the same, income is income regardless of when you receive it. It would be somewhat odd if the timing of income in a reporting period had an impact on how much tax you pay.
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15 minutes ago, SGS said:
May be a controversial opinion but the site is huge with a ton of bars and venues - let the crew have somewhere they can chill out and just relax - would you try to get into the interstage area or the area where all the food is stored?
Totally agree, I’m not crew or related to the festival in anyway, I’m sure these crew bars are great and all, but I really don’t know why as a general punter you’d give trying to access these places a second thought. I think there is more than enough to keep you occupied, you’d think most people would be satisfied with the whole of Glastonbury at their disposal.
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I kind of get the spoiler thing, but at the same time you just wouldn’t come near efests full stop if you were that bothered, this is a place that picks over every minute detail of the festival and any small morsel of info is posted all over the place. You’d also have to completely stay off twitter, instagram etc as well.
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I think Pangea was probably sold as scrap and the people dismantling it are the scrap merchants, I think that would explain the unceremonious way it was toppled. They still would’ve made a loss on it, but I don’t think it would make sense to pay people to dismantle it then have to sell it as scrap, may as well offer it out to someone who will take it down themselves.
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39 minutes ago, clarkete said:
Completely fresh on Thursday?
Ok not completely fresh, but I can always shake off one day of excess relatively well the next day, but I’m either completely fucked by the Sunday and can’t get going until close to headliner time, or I have a dip in the middle somewhere once I’m into 2+ day of drinking etc.
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50 minutes ago, Matt42 said:
It’s like when you talk to some old people about the cost of living crisis and they get a hard on for rations / times where they had no power to heat their home.
People always want to go back to the prime of their lives, not because things were better, but it’s whenever they felt best about themselves, which is generally when you’re young. They might think things were better but they’re just harking back to when they felt at their best. It’s why people often at some point get stuck listening to the same music from a certain era and wearing the same clothes.
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Another chuffed 40, it’s like being a millennial despite being born in the earliest possible year to be one.
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1 minute ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Speaking as someone who does this, for me it's gym gear.
One of them definitely never went to a gym.
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6 minutes ago, The Nal said:
I usually visit poo bay first thing in the morning. The first transport is away. Need for bog roll sorted.
Just need a bottle of booze and maybe a bottle of water in the pocket and Im good for the day.
Small bags are different. Some of the "day" bags in this thread would be too big for a weekend away in a foreign country. But you see thousands of people walking around with bags this size. What the hell is in them?
Also it makes your back all sweaty. Remember the Guardian bags with the rope straps though? They were cool.
On a similar note, I’ve worked with people before who schlepp into work every day with huge rucksacks seemingly filled with stuff. I always wondered what you could possibly need all that stuff for, spending 8 hours away from your home sat at a desk.
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2 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:
Could you get a bin painted for him and task him with finding it?
Dunno if Dan Glastonbury is taking donations again this year?
The donation thing opened and closed a while back, but no doubt if the OP reached out to him he might accommodate it.
When I say closed, it was only the first 100 donations of £40 that were guaranteed and there have been more since, but you can still donate and it might get done:
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I really used to hate the thought of carrying a bag around so we’d normally end up taking it in turns and trying to stuff everything in to one bag. Then I realised wearing a bag is actually fine and not the end of the world I thought it was.
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I know it sounds mad but if I had a gun to my head and had to choose of take Wed/Thur over Fri-Sun. Band/Music wise my best moments are never what I expect them to be, so I wouldn’t really know what I was missing anyway, plus I end up missing so much stuff I want to see as it is. Plus Wed/Thur you’re completely fresh as well.
Obviously in reality I probably wouldn’t, but it kind of feels liked I’d want to.
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I’ve always been a bit of a casual Kenny fan, didn’t really listen to much before Damn. Just been listening to his earlier albums, well he’s good isn’t he?
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It’s raised a bit, but hasn’t moved for a while, or just moves at a snails pace
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AccuWeather has the full festival in view now. Perhaps the temps are a bit cool, but doable. Bit of rain but none on Wednesday crucially, so not too bad.
Would take it personally. I know it’s all rubbish at this stage, but it ain’t that long before this thread becomes properly relevant and my excitement levels ratchet up a few levels:
Edit: mind you that rain on Thursday is fairly biblical isn’t it?
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I don’t believe the demographics of the festival are getting older. I think Glastonbury naturally skews older because it’s so good and people want to keep going. In the main people go to festivals like reading when they’re young and then eventually lose interest and grow out of it, so the demographics are younger as a result and broadly stay the same.
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In terms of Pyramid sound, weirdly one that sticks out to me was Alt-J after Lionel. I wanted to head over to Future Islands but was just too knackered, so I stayed there and chilled and remember thinking how rich and loud the sound was.
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5 minutes ago, Dave_c said:Have to say, I bloody loved that crane. We are part of a select group that got the opportunity to party underneath it. RIP crane.
I know this is old ground but I genuinely found it more interesting to look at. I also covered this in the Arcadia thread, but if you get away from the fact that they weren’t looking for a crane and didn’t buy it to be a crane, the fact that it can rotate 360 and the boom can move up and down, it had some incredible potential, it could’ve done what the spider does but with an extra dimension. Rip.
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Neil has been plenty quick to mug his paying gold members off before by saying he doesn’t need them, so I’m not sure why he would care?
At the end of the day this part of his business is apparently more hassle than it’s worth (his words not mine) so I’m not sure why sharing a site for Glastonbury info, rumours and discussion with other like mined people would be an issue for him, or indeed anyone?