Common misconceptions about Glasto from people who haven't been?

[Spindles]

On 08/05/2017 at 7:04 AM, Mardy said:

That Friday in 2011, you could have been in North Sea sou'wester oilskins, still bloody miserable.

Please don't remind me.  I remember wandering up to the park to see Big Audio Dynamite and the miserable faces I passed were not what I want to see at Glastonbury and that was before the real rain came.

My night was saved when I was trudging along the railway line before Primal Scream, soaked to the skin and bumped into an old workmate, we sat and enjoyed a spinach curry in undleground, catching up before going our separate ways (he to go to bed before an early shift and me to see Bobby and the boys on one of their rare on days).

It was bloody miserable, you couldn't roll a spliff in it, hell you could barely light one.  If you drank a pint from the bars it refilled with rain faster than you could drink it.

[Flysheet]

12 minutes ago, verrymerry said:

Cos I felt left out of the map fun! 

Now THAT puts it in context!

[eFestivals]

4 minutes ago, Spindles said:

you couldn't roll a spliff in it,

you need more practice in all conditions. I reckon it's only frostbite that knobbles me.

 

[Smeble]

Glastonbury is almost bigger than the village I live in

[Hugh Jass]

4 hours ago, DJ Cull said:

So I did the map thing & put it on Canary Wharf (where I work) & the Isle of Dogs - it's pretty much the same size! Lots of amazed faces here as they can now understand it.

That's just proven my argument with a mate that you could hold a festival of Glastonbury's size in Sutton Park in Birmingham.

[Smeble]

1 minute ago, Hugh Jass said:

That's just proven my argument with a mate that you could hold a festival of Glastonbury's size in Sutton Park in Birmingham.

Don't forget you need to add cv fields, wv and car parks to size of the festival

[Hugh Jass]

Just now, Smeble said:

Don't forget you need to add cv fields, wv and car parks to size of the festival

It still fits, and my parents live in walking distance.

Make it happen Eavii!

[squirrelarmy]

Jumping on the comparison bandwagon here's the centre of Leeds fitting nicely within

[PretentiousThinkpiece]

matches perfectly with norwich city center too 

[OneLittleFish]

6 hours ago, Smeble said:

Glastonbury is almost bigger than the village I live in

You've got both a Lidl and Waitrose?

[Smeble]

7 minutes ago, OneLittleFish said:

You've got both a Lidl and Waitrose?

I thought someone would comment on that, definitely opposite ends of the spectrum, we used to have a budgens as well but that closed

[sweetsounding]

Easily dwarfs Belfast 

[Jennings74]

On 5/7/2017 at 11:56 PM, rivalschools.price said:

Yeah, Download (and Reading for that matter) has better bands for me personally.The Glastonbury line up has very little for me but I still love just wondering around and always have a good time.

Glastonbury isn't just about the line-up but it's impossible to explain that to someone who hasn't been.

Glastonbury is a festivals not a gig in a field!!

[bennyhana22]

On 5/9/2017 at 1:40 PM, Sasperella said:

Ha, turns out the map matches almost perfectly in size with my Mum's town (Brackley) but with 165,000 more people in it. Yikes. That's even made my head swirl a bit and I've been!!!

Brackley?

I grew up near (and went to school in) Buckingham, Sassy!

Ben

[Sasperella]

1 hour ago, bennyhana22 said:

Brackley?

I grew up near (and went to school in) Buckingham, Sassy!

Ben

No way! Where abouts?! 

I massively enjoy it when people know where Brackley is :-)

[Penrhos]

So all we need to do is drag the shape around roughly 100 miles north of where it is now to find possible sites for "Variety Bazaar".

Seriously - I've been comparing the number of steps I'm currently doing per day to what I did at the farm in the last few years and I better get some serious walking practice in.

I normally struggle to break 6 miles a day when at work. But apart from 2016 (where the mud nearly killed me) I average a marathon every day at Glasto.

Until I showed the guys at work the map overlay.- they couldn't work out how I'd managed to bimble 25 miles a day at a festival.

 

Edited May 11, 2017 by Penrhos

[SallyFaulknerStantonWarrio]

On 5/9/2017 at 4:40 PM, Sasperella said:

Ha, turns out the map matches almost perfectly in size with my Mum's town (Brackley) but with 165,000 more people in it. Yikes. That's even made my head swirl a bit and I've been!!!

i'm from brackley too! mental

[pie_and_a_pint]

On 2017-5-7 at 10:09 PM, ian the worm said:

- Are you doing Glastonbury again this year?

- Yep can't wait!

- Who's playing?

- Don't know!

 

'Did you see the Rolling Stones?'

'No'

'Oh... did you just go back to the campsite then?'

[Gnomicide]

On 2017-5-9 at 7:11 AM, rivalschools.price said:

Maybe there's a 'Common misconceptions about Benidorm from people who haven't been' thread somewhere. Ha ha.

"There's so much more to Benidorm than Sticky Vicky"

[Jugtanion]

My own misconception was that it'd be full of Fearne Cotton's shouting glastonburrrrry. When I eventually bothered to go I realised that's completely wrong!

[the beadle]

On 08/05/2017 at 10:48 AM, Junglist1981 said:

I used to enjoy baiting those people up. I have now matured (slightly).

As you say though, some seriously bitter folk. So glad I don't have to go to a festival with any of them.

Used to do exactly the same myself, I've had people CALL ME ALL SORTS OF C*NT etc

Edited May 17, 2017 by the beadle
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[the beadle]

On 08/05/2017 at 2:04 PM, Room to sway said:

I've also had a slightly patronising "It's great you've never grown up" from a relative with kids. I'm single with no kids and I'm 39 (I turn 40 a month after Glasto I CAN'T WAIT FOR THAT) but apparently wanting to let go and enoy yourself for five days means you've never grown up???

 

I get loads of that. Gonna be 63 by the time I get there, wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

 

Edited May 17, 2017 by the beadle
correction

[Room to sway]

9 hours ago, the beadle said:

I get loads of that. Gonna be 63 by the time I get there, wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

How dare you enjoy yourself!? At your age!!!

[Davet84]

I went on a date a few weeks ago and she sit was over priced an over hyped hippy cult with no real music

 

sad to say that I have not seen her since

[joeltg]

The most common one I get is, not interested in Glastonbury as it is too mainstream.....

If you watch it every year on the bbc, and see very little of what it's all about.