Why Does Glastonbury Hate Scousers?

[rexclark]

Scousers, the Scots and the Irish have always been butt of everybodies jokes. Sometimes you just have to laugh it off but sometimes people take it way too far and it becomes hurtful. Some people need to know where the line begins and ends.

[Mud Dweller]

There were a bunch of people near us who were total arseholes. They left everything, tent, rubbish.. .. horrible people

They weren't scousers. How do I 'process' this?

[Tomo18]

a scouser pissed behind me splashing it on my legs 3 times claiming the same excuse on all 3 occasions "who put a hole in my cup" Prick

there where loads though

Edited July 4, 2013 by Tomo18

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I've been to Glastonbury many times and have never previously heard so many scouse accents all over the site. I don't think this is because their accent is more distinctive, as some on here have said. I put it down to the fact that they were there in greater numbers, and also because they were loud. Every scouser I have met in life has been loud, and in my opinion, far too cocky. Are there any quiet scousers out there I wonder? Any who are shy humble people? I guess there must be in a city that size, but I have yet to come across them. I want to like scousers as I do people from any part of the country, but do find it hard. I can't help it if my sixth sense kicks in when in their presence and tells me to get out of there asap. To add to this rather groundless discrimination I am surrounded by people who feel the same way. Not sure what the solution is. Maybe a trip to Liverpool, but that does really seem to be going into the lions den.

[helen-8]

Hi Yoghurt!

You should definitely come to Liverpool for a trip, I promise you will meet lots of wonderful scousers (a couple of loud ones are always unavoidable but can be funny) and you will change your mind about us, we are mostly very warm & generous!

I would stay in the south of the city and do a Friday night in town & a Saturday night in Lark Lane, then you get to have the most fun (my opinion only!)

I would stay away on football days & Grand National weekend though or your pre-conceived ideas of scousers may come true! Haha

Good luck

[formed a band]

London Tom, where are you from?

[ninetyeightytwo]

You should definitely come to Liverpool for a trip, I promise you will meet lots of wonderful scousers (a couple of loud ones are always unavoidable but can be funny) and you will change your mind about us, we are mostly very warm & generous!

[LondonTom]

London Tom, where are you from?

Edited July 4, 2013 by LondonTom

[ninetyeightytwo]

I love you.

[chrislfc]

I think they travel to Glastonbury in bigger groups and have a louder time so you notice them more easily.

Coupled with the fact that one group will inevitably know somebody from the other group.

We get talking to each other easily. Like we would with other groups from other places by the way.

Or maybe a group of lads will crack on to a group of girls and then you've got a very loud lot of "banter" going on.

I still stick by the "make more effort to get tickets" theory though.

It's a pilgrimage.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Hi Yoghurt!

You should definitely come to Liverpool for a trip, I promise you will meet lots of wonderful scousers (a couple of loud ones are always unavoidable but can be funny) and you will change your mind about us, we are mostly very warm & generous!

I would stay in the south of the city and do a Friday night in town & a Saturday night in Lark Lane, then you get to have the most fun (my opinion only!)

I would stay away on football days & Grand National weekend though or your pre-conceived ideas of scousers may come true! Haha

Good luck

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

We once took an American woman for a night out in Liverpool.

We were sat in bar Ca Va having tequilas when this man stood up and announced - in the strongest scouse accent possible - "Everyone! I'm the king of the castle and you're all the dirty rascals."

Everyone sort of nodded and got on with things, but our American companion was utterly dumbfounded.

I think our Yoghurt friend would have bolted out the door the moment our king rose.

[ninetyeightytwo]

Hello ninetyeightytwo

That scenario is actually quite amusing. I like pub banter like that. As said in my last post, maybe it is time for me to make a visit. Time will tell.

[justperfect]

A group of about 8/10 scoucers literally slammed people out of the way as they barged through the JP tent to get to the front of miles kane. My mate got his own retribution by burning a fag hole in one of the chav groups superdry shorts.

[UEF]

I'm going to Liverpool this weekend and very much looking forward to that forced high pitched voice all the blokes put on for some reason.

[eddie_corrigan]

Its not forced we just were pants that are too tight

As a matter of interest to all these posters who've had bad things happen to them caused by people from liverpool. Would you feel the same if it was someone from say Newcastle or manchester that caused it?.

[ilovelanegan]

I'm going to Liverpool this weekend and very much looking forward to that forced high pitched voice all the blokes put on for some reason.[/quote

I'm from Liverpool, moved away a while ago and definitely notice this phenomenon whenever I go back. As a rule of thumb, the higher the voice the twattier the bloke. Odd.

As it happens, this year we had a big mixed group of Scousers, Londoners and one each of Somerset, Polish and Yorkshire. We were camped next to a gay couple from Kent and a big group from Manchester who seemed to spend most time partying at their tent (each to their own) and got on with them all just great. There's room for everyone isn't there?

[Mr. Cowbell]

I'm a scouser and I love being a scouser.

People can take the piss all they want, they're just jealous because our accent is well better than yours.

Also if given the opprtunity I'll fucking rob you blind and leave your tent on bricks.

[eddie_corrigan]

My mate's were offering to mind everyone's tents for 50p whilst the music was going on.

[All Mod Cons.]

Its not forced we just were pants that are too tight

As a matter of interest to all these posters who've had bad things happen to them caused by people from liverpool. Would you feel the same if it was someone from say Newcastle or manchester that caused it?.

[eddie_corrigan]

That's fair enough. I could go on and say that we're not all like that and come up to liverpool bla bla bla. But your view of us is obviously that myopic because of what happened you're not for turning.

Edited July 5, 2013 by eddie_corrigan

[LowerMead]

It's totally non-Scouse to easily take unnecessary umbrage at something, isn't it?

I think the OP needs to have a word with themselves. A Hives gig is a total laugh, Pelle is the biggest pantomime villain of them all, he revels in it. If there was any jeering of Liverpool (I didn't hear any) then surely it should be taken in the context of the great Scouse wit?

I did notice a lot of Liverpool accents this year but those camped by us were sound, to use the vernacular, once they'd go the first afternoon's worth of "fockin' this, fockin' that" out of their system ... I put it down to youthful exuberance. The only thing negative I did hear was one WAG'd-up-to-the-nines young Scouse girl give her mate the most vicious tongue lashing I've ever heard, it stopped me in my tracks to hear it, I honestly thought "blimey, one day some poor bloke is probably going to be married to her and on the receiving end of that temper on a regular basis". She could've been from London, Glasgow or Manchester though .... still a nasty piece of work, but the Scouse accent made it sound particularly vicious.

[Role Model]

I feel a bit bad that all my dealings with scousers over the weekend were only negative

[eoinca]

i stayed in Tangerine Fields. it's a different vibe in there. this gang of scousers were camped next to us and apparently on the first night they stayed up a bit late and made a bit of noise. if i was there i didn't hear them, but a woman close by reported them and had them moved!

this woman however had 3 young kids with her who got up at the crack of dawn to run around and make lots of noise. she was far, far worse than those she had moved. give me scousers over children any day.

[Posh Twat]

Is it just Glastonbury that hates Scousers?