Glasto 09 Honesty Thread

[Messy]

We found two unopened 3L bottles of cider that'd been abandoned on our way off the site on Monday, and gave them to some random scouser around John Peel because I couldn't be arsed carrying them, and he said he'd give me some spliff and alcohol next year if I camped with him.

That's not technically a bad thing, or something I should feel guilty about, though, is it?

[ShadyBlueBell]

Lots of people ranting about things that annoyed them at glasto this year,

But everyone does stuff that other people hate, so I thought we could just get it all out in the open.

So, I'll go first, (only small excuses)

My name is LostRiot and at Glastonbury 2009...

• I pissed in a bush at the side of the stone circe (I was really desperate and I think if I'd run to the toilets it would have probably ended up on the ground anyway)

• I cordoned off our camp to try to stop people setting up a tent in the middle, but it was a bit antisocial.

• I dropped a can of beer in the crowd at the other stage and a cup at neil young.

Ok, who's next (I feel much better btw)

[go-baby-go-baby-go!]

I left a bag of rubbish and a half deflated lilo as i didnt have enough hands to pick it up and dispose of it properly on monday morning as I was being harrassed by the grumpy designated driver to get a move on.

i also think I trod on a random metal rogue tent peg (not mine) but ignored it and didn't pick it up (due to having no free hands) I'm sorry cows!

[scaryclaireyfairy]

i put several cigarette ends on the ground - why oh why aren't there sand buckets around for them outside tented venues?!

i sometimes sat in a chair while bands were on but only in the afternoon and never closer to the stage than halfway back whichever particular field i was in and allowed it to be used as a cloakroom for people around me. iwas hoping that would cancel out my annoyance factor.

i did offer my discarded sleeping mat and mates sleeping bag to stewards for recycling but they didn't want it. hopefully it got wombled.

i think that's about it.

[bazakin12]

now that just not funny! imagine waking up to find someones pooed next to your tent, and in someones pot!

It was in response to your original post

[Keziah]

I apologise for/to:

Only once dropping a cigarette on the floor whilst green police were trying to sell me a portable ashtray, (they tried charging me 4 buck for a bit of cardboard, doubt it!) To be fair though, I smoke rollies with no filter so they are biodegradable, especially after a little bit of rain.

Emptying the carrot from my falafel wrap onto the floor in front of the stall, because I don’t believe it should be a main salad ingredient!

Sorry to the man I cue jumped at brothers bar, and then accidentally soaked with the very same cider whilst a bit too excited dancing in the crowd!

I'm sorry to my friends who I apparently lashed out and went psycho on whilst tripping in trash city. I have absolutely no recollection of the night but was told I ran away from them after going mental. One of them tried to find me and ended up upset because she had to hunt out my sister and tell her what happened, once again I’m sorry for ruining your night.

Also to the girl I winded when I elbowed her full pelt trying to get out of a crowd at the other stage, but to be fair you deserved it as I said excuse me and you were trying to stop me going past you! It was clear I was about to pass out so you should have just moved rather than being a bitch! Its not like I was pushing to get into the crowd either.

[cartilage]

Lots of people ranting about things that annoyed them at glasto this year,

But everyone does stuff that other people hate, so I thought we could just get it all out in the open.

So, I'll go first, (only small excuses)

My name is LostRiot and at Glastonbury 2009...

• I pissed in a bush at the side of the stone circe (I was really desperate and I think if I'd run to the toilets it would have probably ended up on the ground anyway)

• I cordoned off our camp to try to stop people setting up a tent in the middle, but it was a bit antisocial.

• I dropped a can of beer in the crowd at the other stage and a cup at neil young.

Ok, who's next (I feel much better btw)

[riotradio]

this isn't about me, but my boyfriend didn't pay for a giant yorkshire with chips, sausages, and beans next to the pyramid stage.

the guy serving just gave him the plate and didnt ask for the money so we just walked off lol. he wasn't going to say no to free food.

[mattchu]

Are you saying you stole all of those things? If so, then yeah you should feel guilty. What on earth would make you think it was ok to do that?

[LostRiot]

this isn't about me, but my boyfriend didn't pay for a giant yorkshire with chips, sausages, and beans next to the pyramid stage.

the guy serving just gave him the plate and didnt ask for the money so we just walked off lol. he wasn't going to say no to free food.

[Alcatraz]

instinct/peer pressure/survival

*delete as appropiate.

ehh you're the scouser

[mattchu]

"Nelson Mandela's Ecstacy tablets,

Let Us get munted"

Love your avatar

[Spuddy]

instinct/peer pressure/survival

*delete as appropiate.

[FunkyDenz]

My list of shame:

1) I peed in the bush near the Stone Circle on Thursday night / Friday morning (thinking that the only nearby toilets were at the far end of Dragon's Field, rather than down the hill from the stone circle)

2) I dropped a number of fag-ends around, but only when I couldn't readily see a bin.

3) I left a gazebo I had taken down and packed up, along with 2 blankets and half a crate of beer, as couldn't carry it all in one go, and mates refused to do 2 trips to the car.

[lolbeck]

I dropped an empty bottle of coke by the Other stage, and a half-eaten box of noodles by the Dance tent. Both on Sunday.

[crimsonking]

I told someone they should watch Prodigy not Blur, feel really bad about it now

[RodimusPrime]

I'm going to confess on behalf of my mate Jon. (All I did was pour piss out of a cup outside my tent once - boring).

Jon was stood in a crowd and saw two children running past, and thought it would be funny to shout, "Wahey! Midgets!". Then he realised that one of them actually was... well, you get the picture.

[Michael W]

Some drunk kid crawled into my tent to pass out on Wednesday night about 4am... I couldn't wake him up to tell him to eff off so I unzipped the tent and let him freeze (it was a cold night)! Then I started to feel guilty about potentially having someone die of exposure in my tent so I zipped it closed again and left him to it. Although I did piss on him.

[TheNewUnion]

I put a can down during the Boss and couldn't find it when I left (I was right at the back). By way of recompense I made sure I picked up 3 cans and put them in the bin the following morning

[Laura303]

a guy slipped in the mud and fell right at my feet shouted "man down" himself b4 anyone else could , didn't help him up feel really bad now apart from that done nothing wrong don't think . Got kicked in face during Prodigy thou so that must have been my Karma haha - all part of the fun I spose!! No real damage done!!

Edited July 5, 2009 by Laura303

[I_am_Heather]

Ok...

The biggest bugbear for a lot of people on these boards seem to be people having chairs.

Welll...I had a chair BUT I never opened it when the crowds were heavy, and, if I was sat on it as crowds got bigger (as in I was surrounded closely by standing people and more and more were edging in) I got up and closed it. My reason for having a chair is that I have very dodgy knees that, even at 22, can become excruciatingly painful so I hope you can all appreciate that being at Glastonbury, walking around so much (and dancing!) I needed the chair to rest them up. I know, it's a bit wussy, I'm sorry.

Hmm. My group had a small gazebo but we did not rope off our tents and we were also at the very top of Lime Kiln where having a gazebo isn't as much of an issue (or at least it doesn't seem it.)

One thing to all those pissing wherever they fancy (cups/bushes/I even saw one old man with his thing out weeing as people were leaving the Pyramid after Neil Young, just walking and weeing without a care for anybody around him)...most excuses seem to be that you were desperate...

I would like to ask why you can't just wait like everybody else until you can reach a urinal or toilet. Just because it is easy for you to wap it out and piss wherever you like (unlike ladies, who have to drop and squat and the fuss involved is just ridiculous) does not mean that you should feel entitled to wee any where you like. It is really disrespectful. Even in the heaviest of crowds I have kept it in until I can physically make a toilet. There are no excuses! My friend (who is male) has the weakest bladder I have ever known, but every time he needed a wee he would go to a urinal or long drop, no matter WHERE he was.

[Hofmiester]

I fully accept the criticism made by people about peeing in bushes and the harm that it can do to the environment. All I would ask for is some sympathy if you are genuinely caught short. I have no sympathy for drunks who are so out of their mind that they don't give a hoot. Me and my partner have been caught short at festivals where we either got caught up in a crowd moving from one band to another or in one case trying to get out of the car park at Knebworth. Neither me or my partner are the types to pee anywhere for the sake of it. In my case, being caught up in the crowd meant that I over-estimated the length of time it took to get to the loos. When I got there I was literally doubled up in pain . I could hardly move and was I was in severe danger of doing it in my trousers. I hobbled to the nearest bush and let loose. I WAS ashamed but what could I do? My partner had a similar experience when we were caught up for about three hours in a traffic jam getting out of a Robbie Williams gig at Knebworth. She actually was in tears from the pain and the embarrassing situation she was in. Eventually she had to crouch down beside the car, to get relief. She was in such a desperate state that it was either drop her pants os go in her jeans. Like me she took the pragmatic option. Whowants to go around in wet pants for God's sake!

Ok...

The biggest bugbear for a lot of people on these boards seem to be people having chairs.

Welll...I had a chair BUT I never opened it when the crowds were heavy, and, if I was sat on it as crowds got bigger (as in I was surrounded closely by standing people and more and more were edging in) I got up and closed it. My reason for having a chair is that I have very dodgy knees that, even at 22, can become excruciatingly painful so I hope you can all appreciate that being at Glastonbury, walking around so much (and dancing!) I needed the chair to rest them up. I know, it's a bit wussy, I'm sorry.

Hmm. My group had a small gazebo but we did not rope off our tents and we were also at the very top of Lime Kiln where having a gazebo isn't as much of an issue (or at least it doesn't seem it.)

One thing to all those pissing wherever they fancy (cups/bushes/I even saw one old man with his thing out weeing as people were leaving the Pyramid after Neil Young, just walking and weeing without a care for anybody around him)...most excuses seem to be that you were desperate...

I would like to ask why you can't just wait like everybody else until you can reach a urinal or toilet. Just because it is easy for you to wap it out and piss wherever you like (unlike ladies, who have to drop and squat and the fuss involved is just ridiculous) does not mean that you should feel entitled to wee any where you like. It is really disrespectful. Even in the heaviest of crowds I have kept it in until I can physically make a toilet. There are no excuses! My friend (who is male) has the weakest bladder I have ever known, but every time he needed a wee he would go to a urinal or long drop, no matter WHERE he was.

[Rabbit Exorcist]

I have signed up to apologise to the girl in the King Blues set who I kept rubbing up against with my sweaty arms when I started bouncing up and down, I may have been very close to her head with one or two elbows too. I do sweat alot but it doesn't smell if she was worried.

She was pretty attractive too.

Oh yes, and I stole 2 chairs from the campers next door. I tried to give them back when they came back but they were incredibly rude when i was walking up to them. So actually no, I'm not sorry. I'm glad I stole them.

Edited July 7, 2009 by Rabbit Exorcist

[Kowalski]

I watched Bjorn Again.

[fluffypinkdaisy]

During this festival I only did two things which I felt guilty about:

1) Dropping a empty bottle of coke and two of the water cups at Blur, I had no where to put them!! I did then pick up the equivalent and put them in a bin at the end

2) To the poor guy me and my GF turfed out into the pouring rain on Sunday eve in Pennards Hill. I'm sorry you were so trashed you had no idea where you were and obv was trying to get out the rain somewhere but unfortantly it wasn't a three man tent and my GF isn't into things like that

hope you managed to find your tent and had some dry clothes

and thats it

edit: stupid bloody HTML tags. And reading through the previous posts I remember that I ordered two badges and forgot to get them, is there anyway of getting them to me?

Edited July 7, 2009 by fluffypinkdaisy