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1 minute ago, rpfranks said:
We did an avg of around 18 miles a day. Over 150,000 steps since the Wednesday !
crazy.
18 miles a day!
Hell, I feel puny and insignificant now. -
I'm now 58 years old. My wife has one of those apps that tracks the distance you walk. It appears we did 42 miles over the 5 days through all the mud and slop. I woke up yesterday morning feeling like I'd run a marathon, which I suppose we sort of did.
Will we be back next year? Of course we will - tickets permitting. A little less mud would be nice though.
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12 hours ago, tevaburger said:
only thing I'll say about this thread is that the opening post was such a positively accurate commentary about the general lovely people that were on site this year, and yet because it is titled as such - "Knobs" - it has invited subsequent posters to change that picture by listing the idiots that were on site.
Yeah, sorry about that.
Perhaps I should have called it 'Lack of knobs'. 'Knobless' maybe? -
Maybe just me, but I thought there was a lack of ignorant, rude people this year?
Ran into one or two, but generally I was very pleased with the way everyone acted.
I realise that it is entirely dependant on good/bad luck as to the people you meet. Maybe I had all my good luck this year. -
So, so many, but the following excelled:
Ben Millar Band
St Paul and the Broken Bones
LDC Soundsystem
Of Monsters and Men
Muse
ZZ Top
Foals
Larkin Poeand many, many more.
Mud bloody awful, but the music more than made up for it. -
1 minute ago, Jamie D said:
Blue sky!
Well spotted that man. It's a sign I tells ya.
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16 minutes ago, Nobody Interesting said:
Using photos and video from last Friday to try and make us all worry on Monday.
I bet it looks nothing like that now.
Yeah, I'm going for the optimistic view, it's going to be fine!
The biggest thing I took from that page was a link at the bottom that says 'Driver fined for masturbating on the motorway'. I'm not sure whether he was actually in his car or not. I like to think he was merrily amusing himself by the side of the road and waving cheerily to the passing cars.
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14 minutes ago, The Nal said:
Exactly yeah. A fucking fun waste of time.
Just a small edit.
It helps pass the time until the gates open.
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2 minutes ago, scarletmist said:
I was there in 1985 and it was dire. What made it worse back in those days was that cars and tents were in the same fields, which meant that escape was impossible.
Yep, 1985 was my first and definitely the worst in terms of weather. It barely stopped raining for 3 days. Not a dry spot to be found anywhere on site.
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1 minute ago, big__phil said:
Who told you my girlfriends nickname for my genitals?
Your genitals are damp, green and smell faintly of fish? It's a wonder you've got a girlfriend!
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It means the seaweed is hanging slightly more to the left than the right. I think this is a good thing.
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Age has its way of slowing you down naturally! At 58 you have to realise that you have to do things a lot differently. I need to sleep for at least 6 hours a night, so watching the sunrise is not going to happen. I mooch around the naughty corner on the Wednesday or Thursday and leave it to the young 'uns after that. Note: anything less than 40 is young to me!
It does have the added benefit of allowing you to be up and about in the morning and able to watch bands all day long before retiring with a nice cup of cocoa after the headliners. I made the bit about the cocoa up. I am usually wandering back to the tent in a happily inebriated state. -
3 minutes ago, snorton82 said:
Cock rock at its finest....its a no from me
Really?
I've heard Pearl Jam called a lot of things ... but 'Cock Rock'?
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Yep, all semblance of good manners seems to go out of the window once the gates open. I was at Gate B in 2010 and people were ignoring the queue entirely. It took over 2 1/2 hours to get to the gate and it was scorching hot. The first beer has never tasted so good.
I turn up on Wednesday afternoon these days and walk straight in.
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1 hour ago, stuartbert two hats said:
It's very odd, given that some people clearly love the band and are going to have a great time, but they seem to do nothing for others.
Doesn't that sum up just about every band under the sun?
They're music isn't the most emotive of all time, although you'd have to have a hard heart not to be moved just a little by Telephone Line, but they do bring a joyous good time. Of course, you'll enjoy it more if you know and like their music.
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5 minutes ago, muddychick said:
I brought this up a couple of years ago and got shouted down! I recall watching a dirty handed man buttering toast on a food stall a few years ago with his wristband dangling in the butter. Right handed so likely a right handed wiper
Nasty.
If he prepared the full breakfast it gives a whole new meaning to streaky bacon.
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3 minutes ago, sloseph said:
out of interest those who are part of the Lenore gang, once you wake in the morning do you go for a nice walk to the longdrops with a full bottle of body processed cider and poor it away or are you just hoying it in the nearest bin?
the reason I ask is it seems a popular method but I did see anyone walking through site looking like they were about to put a wash on
Ah, that's where The Guardian bag comes in handy. For transporting the Lenor bottle to the loo, not for actually peeing in. It might get a tad soggy.
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Admittedly you need to have a camping stove to do this, but my wife takes a hot water bottle for the colder evenings. Actually she uses it on the warmer evenings too - the big wuss.
Whereas I sleep in the nude with just a newspaper to keep me warm. Broadsheet, of course, I'm not a fool. -
2 hours ago, Brave Sir Robin said:
Ben Miller Band playing Avalon Stage. With that name I thought they'd be a comedy troupe who do a cover of 'The Joker', but apparently they play "North Mississippi Hill Country blues, Appalachian mountain music, bluegrass, or pure country" and have toured with ZZ Top. Added to the playlist.
Yep, this one's right up my street too. Thanks Brave Sir Robin.
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My daughter saw them a couple of weeks ago and the sound engineer told her they would be there. That must make it 100% certain.
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I recently subscribed to Efestivals. I don't post that often, but I'm scanning the forums for information (and entertainment) many times a day.
I suggest that anyone using the site on a regular basis would be wise to do the same - if you can afford it, of course.
Click the 'Shop' tab at the top of the page and there is a box to buy the ad free subscription. -
1 hour ago, russycarps said:
mick hucknall is the obvious answer
Indeed it is - just not to the question 'Who should replace Brian Johnson'.
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8 minutes ago, ghostdancer1 said:
from the Emily interview with Noisey:
No dice. Okay. If you can’t tell us any names, there is one thing I think we can both get behind. Which is: please, people of Glastonbury, stop pissing on the land.
It’s a massive problem for us. It will unfortunately spell the end for the festival. There is no festival with people pissing in the streams and we’re going to have to be a bit more strict on it this year.A whole festival brought down by piss. Mad. How are you going to police it?
We’re going to have more Green Police and more people stewarding it and more urinals. There’s never going to be an excuse to not be able to find a urinal. We have to make it our number one mission for this year.That's good news. More urinals and the return of the Green Police.
Knobs
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I didn't really mean this to be a thread about bad experiences with people at the festival, rather the lack of them.
I should have chosen the title more wisely. Given the number of unhappy posts perhaps I should change it to 'Knobs and Knockers'.
Sometimes I amuse even myself.