A Sour Note

[Oddone]

Best to ignore them, but the correct response would have been: "I remember the time I had my first beer..."

I actually find the photo pretty funny.

[hedgepeg]

Can we not invent some sort scanning device to sift out arseholes at the ticket buying stage? We've put a man on moon ffs

[Oddone]

Can we not invent some sort scanning device to sift out arseholes at the ticket buying stage? We've put a man on moon ffs

[amfy]

I still remember something similar happening to me in 2000 - that's 11 years ago now!

It's funny isn't it that the saying

"sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me"

....is so far from the truth.

Actually, broken bones tend to heal far quicker than the wounds of a few vindictive or even careless words.

[Oddone]

I still remember something similar happening to me in 2000 - that's 11 years ago now!

It's funny isn't it that the saying

"sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me"

....is so far from the truth.

Actually, broken bones tend to heal far quicker than the wounds of a few vindictive or even careless words.

[brain yolk!]

They sound like little pricks.

But personally, everyone I met was as friendly as always - didn't come across a single twat in the whole 5 days.

[alframsey]

Yep the festival has definitely changed this year.

[metallimuse]

Like a multi choice question

If someone falls over in the mud what would you do?

-Help them up?

-Laugh lots nad walk off?

-Offer them MDMA so they dont get cold and might jsut dance their way out of the mud?

[danvb]

its like the 2nd biggest city in the county when on,your always sadly going to get some nobheads,and unluckily you can bump into them when their acting like d8cks,but the majority are lovely quality people.

I had some moron shout "you f&ckin idiot" after i had accidentaly walked past and knocked over his drink without even realising,and looking back at him he didnt do or say any more,and he was front of the pryamid,sat down,with the drink not close to him when everyone was walking around as if he didnt expect that to happen to him,had someone said "mate,youve nocked my drink over" or sumit like that i would have appolgised and bought them a replacement. I hadnt even realised he was shouting at me for doing it till seconds later when i was far enough away.

I was very angry and up for cracking him one,but seen as it was glasto,i didnt have the want to make an ugly scene and break the feel of the place,i just walked away,calmed down and got over it.

[markeee]

Like a multi choice question

If someone falls over in the mud what would you do?

-Help them up?

-Laugh lots nad walk off?

-Offer them MDMA so they dont get cold and might jsut dance their way out of the mud?

Edited June 28, 2011 by markeee

[eoJ]

I know what you mean. I came last year, and it was much more chilled out, and a lot less twats. This year it seemed like most of the people who'd usually go to reading were there instead.

Last year didn't get any violence or anything like that at all, and a 50ish year old shared a spliff with me. This year however, the first day started with coming down from the stone circle on wednesday evening, some girl accusing me of pushing, then after I told her I wasn't (in a non-aggressive way) she kept on saying I was, shoving me in the face etc. "/

Second day saw some twat trying to sell "coke/ket".

Rest of the weekend saw people pissing next to the bins, against walls, anywhere. Rubbish left everywhere, and tent burning in the evening on Sunday (at least it was only peoples' own tents though)

Sad to say that a couple of the people I was with acted just like I'd expected on the Sunday, burning their chairs and tent, despite me telling them it was stupid the day before.

Really hope Reading has a decent lineup in 2013, so hopefully the twats will go back there.

[showmethestones]

[Oddone]

If I answer 'C' what's the verdict?

[Oddone]

Tent burning? Where? Never heard of that at Glasto before.

[Morse Code]

I'm afraid I agree with a lot of the posts here. This was only my third Glastonbury so I'm not in the 'it's not like the old days' camp, but it did feel different this year.

I witnessed lots of behaviour I haven't seen in the previous 2 years. I'm not saying there were no wrong'uns there before but there were definitely a lot more this year.

As for the OP's experience, I really hope the bad taste of your shitty experience doesn't linger too long. Your picture (which is a fine photo btw!) says it all about these dickheads. Do you really care what kids like that think?!?

[pinback]

Didn't encounter many twats this year but I remember in 2007 losing my orientation and asking a group of lads where the nearest urinals were and them just pointing to the nearest fence. When I said 'nah, I don't want to do that, it poisons the stream and the festival could lose it's licence'. They all started laughing at me and one said 'where the f**k did you hear that?'. I just sarcastically said 'have a nice festival' and turned a corner to find urinals about 100 feet away.

[123ginge]

A friend of my parents was stewarding in the dance tent and she said that the number of teenage girls completely freaking out on ketamine was huge. I think it shows that quite a lot of people do see Glastonbury as quite a 'rebellious' thing and that you end up with the same kind of people there who used to go to Newquay to f**k about after their exams.

The majority of people I saw were lovely though, and I do think that the BBC coverage needs to show a little more of what Glastonbury is really like and the diversity of the music there. They took a slight gamble in showing a lesser known act who wasn't on the Pyramid stage (Monae) this year and look how that payed off, her album sales have gone up 5000%. Having said that though, I like the fact that the Park stage doesn't have cameras and screens around it, it makes it far more intimate.

And OP, they look like twats anyway - I know this doesn't really make it better but don't worry about it

[123ginge]

haha on the upside I got some cracking photos of the festival. I might put the link on here. Here is a couple so far

[eFestivals]

If I answer 'C' what's the verdict?

that while you don't get cold, sometimes you don't dance yourself out of the mud, sometimes you fall into it.

Not that I'd know of course.

[tolywoly]

They look like Bams to me.

[geebus]

If you really believe there's no one laughing at you, you're fooling yourself .

Those ultra-cool well-toned people in the latest will still be laughed at by some fat 'unfashionable' people and vice versa, etc. While I have lost some weight I still have little fashion sense and provide plenty of other situations for people to laugh at me.

Sure you expect to hear less of it at Glastonbury, but with such a diverse range of people, many of which are on alcohol, there's going to be some arses still.

[Roonwilldo]

That is concentrated negativity and it's easy to say 'you are just griping, you didn't make the most of the good opportunities' but it stays with you.

And it is breeding

[Oddone]

Those ultra-cool well-toned people in the latest will still be laughed at by some fat 'unfashionable' people

[eoJ]

Tent burning? Where? Never heard of that at Glasto before.

[Gnomicide]

Everyone I met was great (apart from those at the Cider Bus meet) - better add a in case people think I'm being serious.

Camped by some young lads who were fine, clearly having a great time. I didn't see any trouble all weekend and generally had a great time.