sunday night

[crazypete86]

No.

Thanks for the tip - if only you would provide a link. That would make it so much easier.

Wow... you're really projecting insecurities. Here's a towel. *pats head*

[crazypete86]

Why do you insist on tapping away aimlessly at your keyboard in hopes that your barely comprehensible (and quite revealing) words will somehow heal your clearly damaged ego?

Get over yourself; you're irrelevant.

[lharris92]

Isn't that what you're attempting to do?

So many words and so little said.

[crazypete86]

Isn't that what you're attempting to do?

So many words and so little said.

[crazypete86]

shock #1

crazy #1000000000000000000000000000000000000000

kthx

[FiestaDave]

Calm down people. Lets put the handbags away.

Back on subject, it is a big risk to take the glass bottle in but you'll be the one losing out if your caught.

[Gre]

Thats a pretty poor way to waste about £25 worth of whiskey there.........

Be safe and take it in a different container.

[RichieParf]

Just to point out something nobody's mentioned, the measures they're taking might lower the amount of alcohol, but what drugs are still gonna be a problem aren't they?

[rexclark]

Just to point out something nobody's mentioned, the measures they're taking might lower the amount of alcohol, but what drugs are still gonna be a problem aren't they?

[RichieParf]

Yeah, but you see alot less fights when people are on pills than when they're pissed.

[Andy0808 V2.0]

I reckon drugs cause more problems in small groups of friends....

Whereas Alcohol causes it on the wider scale when it comes to festivals

[ar1]

Just to throw a spanner in the drugs or booze being the problem debate.

I think a significant part of the issue is how cheap "stuff" is now. By stuff I mean things like tents, camping chairs, sleeping bags etc which are essentially disposable now.

I started going to Reading in 1994 and there was always a bit of rumpus on the Sunday with the portaloos getting pushed over (memorably one year someone's car was covered in the contents of one ) but there wasn't the whole scale buring of stuff and theft for burning and destruction was almost unheard of.

When you used to pack up on the Monday morning everyone took their tents with them and didn't just abandon everything and leave. So I partly blame the feeling that the camping equipment is viewed as disposable so who cares if it gets wrecked. There is also the mob culture, in that everyone else is doing it so I'm going to join in.

Not been since the bridge appeared has this had any effect on the relative safety of the White campsite or has the nonsense spread "accross the river" now?

[Role Model]

last couple of years i've been in white and it's trouble free, lovely and calm, perfect really go and have fun then come back to there and have a good night sleep.

[ar1]

last couple of years i've been in white and it's trouble free, lovely and calm, perfect really go and have fun then come back to there and have a good night sleep.

[jammy2211]

I think the no campfires before 8pm could help if they really clamp down - the 'starting' of the riots sort of slowly builds momentum between 8pm and 11pm when everyone is back from the headliners. If they can put off the early ****s then it might stop it all kicking off - albeit rain is obviously the biggest deterant.

The real problem though is quite simply Reading now has a stigma. Alot of people who go just see the Sunday as the night you turn into animals and burn / smash shit. Like it's part of what they paid for on their ticket, and it's very hard for any organiser to take measures against that sort of thing.

[jordanuk90]

It's nice to see how fire still gets people acting like neanderthols when we have supposed to have evolved and become civilised