Glasto standards are slipping

[TomfromStroud]

Tragedy of tragedies, but one of the handles broke on my 2013 cotton Glastobag on the way back from the supermarket this evening.

A message to Michael and Emily Eavis...You run the best festival in the world, please please please don't let standards slip in the manufacturing of your cotton bags or your festival may go the way of the other festivals, where commercialism, sponsorship and expensive headlining pop bands have already metaphorically broken the handle of my cotton Glastobag countless times, and the cotton Glastobags of thousands of others.

I still have many of my ones from other years but am particulayly mourning the loss of this year's bag, which was only just over a month old. It leaves behind a jar of chutney, a red pepper and some cartons of orange juice. RIP.

Edited to note, I may have just tried to carry too much really heavy stuff in it. In fact, that's definitely what happened, but my point still stands.

Edited August 4, 2013 by TomfromStroud

[frostypaw]

But was the chutney organic?

[willutalk]

You sound like a twelve year old.

Glastonbury is a bloody festival and not a factory.

I'd heard that Michael was planning to invest in a bag making factory but then decided to concentrate putting on a good festival instead.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Tragedy of tragedies, but one of the handles broke on my 2013 cotton Glastobag on the way back from the supermarket this evening.

A message to Michael and Emily Eavis...You run the best festival in the world, please please please don't let standards slip in the manufacturing of your cotton bags or your festival may go the way of the other festivals, where commercialism, sponsorship and expensive headlining pop bands have already metaphorically broken the handle of my cotton Glastobag countless times, and the cotton Glastobags of thousands of others.

I still have many of my ones from other years but am particulayly mourning the loss of this year's bag, which was only just over a month old. It leaves behind a jar of chutney, a red pepper and some cartons of orange juice. RIP.

Edited to note, I may have just tried to carry too much really heavy stuff in it. In fact, that's definitely what happened, but my point still stands.

[neilloggie]

I know what you mean, nothing is made like it used to be. I bought some boxer shorts about 5 years ago and they are starting to wear a bit thin.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Don't get me started on boxer shorts. For the love of all that is good, don't get me started on boxer shorts.

[Spindles]

Have you considered the application of a needle and cotton?

What's your beef with boxers monsigneur Yoghurt? Please don't tell me you are a briefs man, all smushed up like a packaged chicken. Swing free, swing proud, wear boxers.

[themuel]

You sound like a twelve year old.

Glastonbury is a bloody festival and not a factory.

I'd heard that Michael was planning to invest in a bag making factory but then decided to concentrate putting on a good festival instead.

[prue]

It's so easy to have a pop at someone/thing but I do think its reasonable to ask yourself if what you are saying is reasonable.

So - one overloaded handle on a bag breaks.

You and thousands of other have been given these bags for free.

Yours may be the only failure for all you know - one in many thousands, not bad!

The donor of the bag in question runs a festival not a bag shop.

Sew up the handle and remember the good times Tom!

Edited August 5, 2013 by prue

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

What's your beef with boxers monsigneur Yoghurt? Please don't tell me you are a briefs man, all smushed up like a packaged chicken. Swing free, swing proud, wear boxers.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

It's so easy to have a pop at someone/thing but I do think its reasonable to ask yourself if what you are saying is reasonable.

So - one overloaded handle on a bag breaks.

You and thousands of other have been given these bags for free.

Yours may be the only failure for all you know - one in many thousands, not bad!

The donor of the bag in question runs a festival not a bag shop.

Sew up the handle and remember the good times Tom!

[Funkyfairy!]

TomfromStroud I feel your pain - I understand the loss of the bag, chutney and OJ, but really was the pepper not retrievable or was it squashed beyond all recognition by the aforementioned chutney ?

If you PM me your address I will look through my belongings and send you my spare bag. I still have in use the last 4 years worth of Glastonbury bags and have made it no-where near this years one

If I can find it I will happily donate it to you

[frostypaw]

Have you considered the application of a needle and cotton?

[fred quimby]

This is indeed said news.

On the back of this thread I have vowed never to shop again.

[olive123]

Personally I don't think the bags have been the same since Glastonbury started trying to cater for a younger audience. I've also noticed a direct correlation between the ever decreasing weakness of the stitching and the increasing BBC coverage and presence at the festival. I think I might start going to a couple of smaller festivals that still appreciate the need for proper screening of the skills of the children working in the sweatshops that produce their merchandise.

[lucyginger]

I too am saddened by this news. I somehow managed to go home with three or four Glastobags this year, not quite sure how that happened.

I shall be careful when (on the rare occassion I remember to take them) shopping, that I do not put chutney, red peppers or orange juice in the bags as they clearly do not like to carry them.

Thank you for the warning, and I am sorry for your loss.

[lucyginger]

Personally I don't think the bags have been the same since Glastonbury started trying to cater for a younger audience. I've also noticed a direct correlation between the ever decreasing weakness of the stitching and the increasing BBC coverage and presence at the festival. I think I might start going to a couple of smaller festivals that still appreciate the need for proper screening of the skills of the children working in the sweatshops that produce their merchandise.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

that I do not put chutney, red peppers or orange juice in the bags as they clearly do not like to carry them.

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[Funkyfairy!]

Chutney is to these bags as kryptonite is to Superman. It's not that they don't like carrying chutney, it's that they simply can't do so. All the retention power that these bags have is rendered useless the minute a pot of chutney is thrown into them. A pot of jam on the other hand is a very different matter. They love jam these bags do. And who can blame them. The king of the fruit preserves jam is.

[frostypaw]

And marmalade - is marmalade the same genre as jam or ' out on it's own' ?

[Funkyfairy!]

This has plagued man for decades, truth is - noone knows.

[Guest]

Have you considered the application of a needle and cotton?

Edited August 5, 2013 by Ommadawn

[rischbrit]

And marmalade - is marmalade the same genre as jam or ' out on it's own' ? And redcurrant jelly - jam or chutney ?

[Bubblecup]

Why stop there??? What about other condiments such as mint sauce, mayonnaise don't discriminate!!!!!

[lucyginger]

Mayonnaise is definitely NOT jam