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  1. Yeh, I've never seen them in 'plumbed together' mode myself, but then I've never seen one overflowing either, so it obviously wasn't necessary at the festivals where I've seen them used. (From memory I've seen them at Splendour and multiple little one day events like 90s fests.) It clearly would be necessary to plumb them together or into a larger tank at Glastonbury (or any other 100k+ festival.) Whatever the answer is, it's not the current solution... It just makes a mockery of the whole don't pee on the land thing when you walk into a urinal to see them all overflowing on to the land. The problem isn't the storage capacity, the problem is those tiny troughs they currently use. They either get full of crap and blocked up, or they get knocked and end up at the wrong angle and overflowing. Clearly that pee is supposed to go somewhere, a big holding tank I presume. With a better urinal design, be it these or another solution, that same holding tank could still be used.
  2. Their website says that they can be stand alone, plumbed together for easy emptying or plumbed into a bigger tank... So literally just a drag and drop replacement if plumbed onto whatever the piss from the big blue fencing goes (or is supposed to go) into.... The main difference is they won't all be broken and overflowing onto the floor by 7pm on Friday evening...
  3. Haha, they are good for a chat, but still very private (not even sure the green / blue screening is needed... Could just be dotted around like those pop up things in London.) The ones around in 2021 had sanni dispensers on that bit in the middle, but they'd been removed in 2022, shame as probably still sensible to clean your hands, covid or no covid... But even then, plenty of room on top for beers. Just have to be mindful of the angle... (For the record, I'm not some weirdo who goes around taking photos of urinals, I did just download these images, after remembering the names of the hire companies, from their websites!!!)
  4. Braver than me, I'm with @stuie on this. You "gotta know when to hold'em, know when to fold'em, know when to walk away and know when to run." Not about to ruin my festival and ruin it for others by confronting a big group of tanked up blokes for just pissing behind the toilets, especially if they had made the effort to get to the toilets in the first place, only to find them unusable and with unrealistic queues. The toilet situation was quite bad last year at times compared to 2022, female in our group had an 'accident' trying to get to a toilet Sunday evening (thankfully we were in fancy dress, so she had spare shorts in her bag...) We always take one of those urinal bottles for emergencies in the middle of the night at our tent. I might carry one around the main festival with me this year. To be honest, the whole 'don't pee on the land thing' works both ways. Whilst I'd never piss on the land, if you want everybody to follow that rule, then the toilet situation has to improve, particularly in places like the (above the) Park or SE corner. Another thing that makes a mockery of the whole thing is the men's urinals, most of that urine ends up on the floor for us to wade through anyway... plastic tubing around the edge of some tarped fencing is not very effective, especially once it gets blocked up. How about some of these all over the place... And their female counterpart (yes I know there is a small area of something similar to these, but there needs to be more, much more, and more spread out across site.) I came across these urinals at several festivals over the last couple of years, and they work really really well, and would be fairly easy to scale up.
  5. Probably a bit late with this but hey ho, that was a busy time of year for me.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67822639 O-rod headlining this year or next... Surely?
  6. Sooo Somersetians... Has it been as dry there the last few days as it has here? No Rain forecast for the next 2 weeks either... Hoping this helps groundwater levels go down a little before we get some more proper frosts.
  7. Well... First of all, this is not exactly a positive article. 😕 However, in terms of Glasto, it could be seen in two ways, a record hot year predicted... 🤩 But also, weather being affected by an El Nino event, just like it was in the run up to 2016... 😬 https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weather-and-climate/2023/2024-first-chance-of-year-above-1.5-c-say-climate-scientists#:~:text=The average global temperature for,C above pre-industrial levels.
  8. I swear we got to at least Feb last year without a lineup before this thread resorted to personal insults and arguments... That being said... Emily, we NEED an announcement soon, pleaseeeeeeee 🙈🤣
  9. Could argue that Coldplay are heritage at this point... It'll literally be 1/4 of a century since their first Glastonbury appearance.
  10. Where does O-rod fit now? She's a 'huge American' female talent with a massive GSH in her tour schedule, a well received new album and a good connection to the festival, who smashed her last set there.... This year's Billie? Billie was also playing arenas the year she headlined, and technically headlined on the next Glasto after her 2019 Other Stage debut. (Albeit with a pandemic thrown in there.)
  11. Yep, this is the paragraph in which Emily discusses it... I wonder if it's happened a lot, as she continues in the next paragraph, and seems annoyed like she has to prove that they've nothing to gain from leaking things early.
  12. Have just been reading the 50th book, and how in the past, leaked artists would pull out because they've been leaked. 😕 I hadn't considered that alone could lead to artists backing out.
  13. Alvoram

    Arise Sir Eavis

    Congratulations Michael, one of the more deserved awards I've seen in recent years... He deserves it for his contributions to music and culture alone. But with the charity work too, it's mind blowing that it's taken until now. On the honours system in general, meh, I have no strong opinions either way. We need a system for recognising great contributions to society, and that's exactly what it is. If the Royal family really are all that many people claim they are these days, a tourist attraction adding almost £2Bn to the UK economy each year, then might as well use them for this too, to add a bit of 'prestige' to the honour for those who've earned it. I dislike the current government way more than I could ever dislike a fairly meaningless figurehead monarchy system.
  14. Merry Christmas Everybody Don't need to with you lot, but still will... Can I just remind you all to be kind to those missing Christmas with their own families and working their asses off in the hospitality trade to make yours special. Same goes for everybody else working too for that matter, emergency and medical services, carers, critical services, retail staff everybody that has to work, you're appreciated xx.
  15. Brilliant, thanks for doing this Stanh.
  16. There's not a lot mods can do, on the off chance that the account turns out to be a real person. Stuck between a rock and a hard place. Could set the user account to always require mod approval for posts, but that's a LOT more work for mods then, and again, may be a bit draconian if we / you have called it wrong.
  17. Yep, they post a few posts, go silent, then in a few weeks or months, they flood every thread with an advert... Bloody nightmare they are, have been plaguing all the different forums I visit for a while now.
  18. I'd be super happy with a fully detailed map, like that festi food one could have been but never was... Detailing every single amenity, vendor, stage etc from the previous festival. Never going to happen though, somebody would have to give up their entire festival to map it out. (Festi food doesn't work at all any more.)
  19. Looks like a dead project to me, new areas not updated, old submissions and seemingly no new ones added, still using the 2019 map.
  20. What does she need extra staging and screening for? Hasn't she been singing to a backing track with no live band? Or did I read that wrong.
  21. Congrats Hugh Jass We took a one year old with us last year, our friend's baby. I thought she was brilliant, well behaved, barely a bother. But our friends, the parents, hated it. Completely changed their Glasto (they've been going for much longer than us.) They also spent a lot of time protecting the buggy from drunken idiots climbing over it or moving it out of the way in crowds, despite being near to the back. (Hence why parents feel the need to build a protective circle of chairs around babies.) They found the experience so scary that they're not taking her again until she's at least 9 or 10. 😕
  22. Alton Towers and Dove Dale... Win Win. Dovedale and Manifold area is nice, think we've spoken about it before? Have you visited the high peaks too? Winnats pass definitely reminds me of something I've seen in Scotland, but I can't remember where or what.
  23. Definitely, even around here, the Peak District, and other places in England I cover up, never walk in shorts and use plenty of good strong Deet. Horseflies are nasty little gits, we get more than our fair share of them here in Derbyshire, but thankfully the Deet keeps them away too. I forgot the Deet once last year on a walk around Three Shires head. Coming up the back of the hill from the head, before passing over Wolf Edge and down into Flash, the hill side was full of heather, looked beautiful, but it was also full of something nasty. No idea what they were but they bit the hell out of me, arms, neck, face, everywhere that was exposed, I looked like I'd done 12 rounds with <Insert Well Known Boxer Here>. I won't make that mistake again. Kendal Calling was bad for flying bugs too. We camped in Haye Parks North, near the tree line, as we thought we'd be clever and use it as shelter from the wind. That actually worked out well, lots of tents seemed to get flattened by the wind that weekend, but we barely got a breeze up there. However, we were also swarmed with all sort of flying bugs, including flying ants, the skin of the tent looked like it was alive at times.
  24. Do you know, I knew nothing about that and it's links to ticks until I heard Ren's story, and I think that's what terrifies me now.
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