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2 hours ago, maelzoid said:
I hate to put a downer on things, but 2017 is set to be far worse.... Brexit actually starts and Trump actually gets into power.
And Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders win in France and The Netherlands
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I've completed it but if I were you I would not use this in final year degree level project as to me it shows you haven't done any investigation into qualitative research methods so I'm not sure it will add anything to your project.
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20 minutes ago, MrZigster said:
Edit: Oh, and sleep with an axe.
That's no way to talk about your wife
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Aside from what everyone else has said how would the device actually connect to a smart phone, presuming it would be via 4g but that would mean you'd need a sim and pay for the data costs and you may not get a signal where your tent is.
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I tried to raise the point earlier in the therad around just what the term middle class actually means. From experience here it seems almost everyone on this forum is reluctant to define themselves as middle class. So is middle class in reality just a term we're applying to anyone we perceive to be in a better economic situation than ourselves. (See cartoon below about hipsters but I feel relevant to the way we define class in this country). One of the reasons I say this is that reading up about Liam Fray, both his parents where in 'professions' (teachers) and he went to uni to study economics and creative writing so he himself is not exactly the exemplar of northern working class culture.
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13 hours ago, Quark said:
Never go to a gig in Cape Town!
I once went to a gig in Ushuaia, nobody moved for a decade.
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21 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:
I must confess that you've got the better of me now. Where's the DG connection with Diana Riggs?
I fight fire with fire and typos with more typos. Now if anyone wants me I'll be in the kotchin drinking wune.
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13 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:
I'm not so sure - don't them them 'avenger' adults weigh 7.5 times more than that of a normal human?
I believe the standard zoological unit of bovine mass Is DG (Dianna Riggs)
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12 hours ago, Quark said:
Went to a gig in Brighton last night, and I have to say that the crowd was pretty sterile. I mean, when I'm one of the only ones dancing you know it's bad.
Obviously fans and knew the songs, but lots of standing appreciating it. Not the danciest (word? maybe) of bands, but certainly enough to move your feet to.
Never really noticed it before.
That's the problem, Brighton is even further south than London so obviously the atmosphere at gigs is about 50 miles worse. You should only go to gigs in Berwick upon Tweed the atmosphere can never be beaten and even for a 'non dancer' band the crowd can't help but dance for at least a week ever either side of the gig.
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3 hours ago, Cooter said:
Yea, I know an amazing amount of stuff gets cleared up nowadays what with the all the different tools they have, especially the magnetic sweeping thingies, handy for the tent pegs, not so handy for the acid tabs, pills, whiz, hash.
Be interesting to know if ME's had any cow casualties on the farm over the years. Hope not.
The average cow weighs about 7.5 times an avenger adult so (assuming effect relative to body mass effect applies as expected) a cow would need to injest a lot acid to for it to have any effect.
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3 minutes ago, Woffy said:
I just headbut the keyboard, leave my head there for a moment and claim it's written in Dutch.
I mean, who the fuck would know (apart from the Dutch)?
The Flemish
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29 minutes ago, Woffy said:
now live in Berkshire married to a half Dutch wife.
Must be a bastard trying to fit that into the town box when filling out forms
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Going back and re reading the original post I also feel it's worth pointing out that the concept that there is some vast cabal of Londoners sneering at the working class people of this north is entirely manufactured, I won't deny that a few people might engage in this but actually I've experienced almost no negativity or hostility towards the north/northern people from Londoners whereas I do feel a lot of hostility in the north towards London. As somone else pointed out up thread I think much of this boils down to dive and rule tactics for political ends.
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8 hours ago, eastynh said:
You are entirely correct but you are talking about the minority rather than the majority.
Now I have lost track about what this topic is actually about. I thought it was about a bloke in the Courteeners saying the southerners sneer at northern fans having a good time at a gig. If thats the case then the generalisations do matter.[/b] Generally people up north have less money and generally try to make the most of it when they go out. [/b]Because of that gigs generally have a better atmosphere up north than down south. Now you can go into the political ramifications of why that should be and point out there is a small enclave of multi millionaires in Cheshire. But this is about music and what is, not why.
Have you only ever been to touristy areas of London?
I grew up in a former mining town in Yorkshire and having lived in south London for a long time i find there is just as much if not more poverty in London and excessive property prices make exasperates this far more.
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As someone who grew up in Yorkshire and has lived in London for 13 years I think both the original comments and a lot of what's been said in this thread is just perpetuating stereotype that aren't really helpful. I think deferentiating working class and middle class is problematic in itself but the 'north' and London are both have very heterogeneous populations London still has huge amounts of what you could define as working class people (the ) and I'd say parts of the north are can be very exclusively middle class (and I'm not just talking about the obvious places).
I'd say in terms of music some of the observation are in part down to cultural and ethnic differences between London and the north. My experience is that indie/rock/guitar muisic is popular amongst those of what we are referring to as the working classes whereas 'working class' Londoners tend to be more interested in other forms of music such as grime, garage, dancehall hip hop.
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5 hours ago, dreadwing said:
usually a Halloumi cone from Oli's right next to the pyramid,
Do they do a halloumi cone as well as their salad cone lightly garnished with halloumi?
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People will probably answer but there a hundreds of poor quality research/surveys posted here every year and it gets a bit much somtimens.
Is this a university project?
Have you done a much searching to see if any of the themes you're covering have already been written about with qualitative research findings?
I'm assuming loads of these type of surveys get posted here because universities have somthing around doing qualitative research as a standard part of project briefs these days. But, qualitative research design is a hugely complex subject in itself, have you done any training/research into this? Is this something your university offers via short courses etc?
Lastly there is more to qualitative research than online surveys, and everyone seems to rely on 'tick box' online surveys these days so maybe consider different approaches. You could start a thread here and in other Internet forums asking for opinions. This will let people answer in more depth, may raise issues that you had not thought about originally and you could ask follow-questions or even ask ushered with interesting or knowledge view points if they'd alow you to follow up with short telephone interviews. This approach adds/to creates some benefit for the forum community in terms of an interesting thread to read participate in and so you may get a more positive response from members. It often erodes good will here when people just pop up ask you to fill in a survey and never come back.
Another approch might be face to face interviews, gigs would be a good place to potentially do this, but do consider that you are expecting people to give up some time to help you, for example you budget a small amount to offer to buy a drink for a small number of people to answer your questions (although I appreciate this may not be financial possible for a student).
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1 minute ago, stuartbert two hats said:
But they wouldn't though, would they? Not all of them, there isn't space to introduce a load of corporate stalls without removing some of the others.
And if corporates are paying mega ££ to promote thier product at the festival they're not going to want any other stalls selling the same product.
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5 minutes ago, ___S_o_m_a__ said:
Well oil prices have been at historic lows until very recently.
Whilst that not untrue, the festival runs on a annual cycle and if you look at the inflation adjusted liner trend they have been rising by significant amount annually each year since the mid 90s
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one of the things that I think is often ignored about price/cost increases is oil. Consider that virtually everything that is on site for the festival has to brought into the site on lorries and almost everything on site requiring electricity is actually being powered (via generators) by diesel then fuel is obviously a major part of the cost of staging the event.
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20 minutes ago, russycarps said:
Yep, spot on.
well add the virgin tent and smirnoff ice bar from your post too then.
It's lovely having no sponsorship, but what purpose does it serve really? Apart from higher ticket prices/less charitable donation. How would our experience be altered by having a few logos dotted about?
Sponsorship is rarely about simply Simone just paying money to put a up a few logos there would be many other terms and conditions attached that would effect the festival.
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1, checked after the sale ended and it turns out that, for the first time ever, I no nobody who tried/was successful. Not sure if I'm going to end up paying the balance this year tbh.
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Every year we have threads where people list divece/os/browser/connection method that worked/didn't work, and every year form these threads it's impossible to draw any conclusion other than that it's all entirely random.
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Do the people wishing the deposi was non refundable not realise that people paying deposits and then cancelling makes no difference to overall amount of tickets sold. In fact loosing the whole £50 might motivate people who don't want to go to pay the balance and go anyway rather than cancel so would make it less likely that you would get a ticket.
Plus well done for having a level of disposable income where you can afford to loose £50 for nothing and/or not having any health/employment issues or caring responsibilities that may prevent you from commiting to something 9 month s in advance. You're very fortunate, but not everyone is.
F**k You 2016
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People said the same about Trump. If Hollande runs again and Sarkozy wins the republican nomination I think it's a very real possibility.