Festival clothes stalls
I was pretty drunk at ashton Court festival, many years ago when it still existed, so i thought I'd have a look at some of the stalls, maybe pick up a nice pair of jeans.

The clothes are arranged by style, so all the leather coats are on one rack, stright-legged jeans on another, flared on another. Everything is arranged in order of size.

I'm looking at the flared jeans, and a couple of feet to my left is a 13ish year old girl with her mum. Yes, I, as a 24 year old man was was apparently planning to dress in the style of a scaled up teenager. I am the king of all fashionables.

The kid picks out a pair of jeans and shows them to her ma. Her mum says "aren't they a bit big, they'll keep dragging on the floor". The child puts on her best teeth-clenched 'you are *so* embarrasing' voice and says "mmmmmmmmmmmmum, that's the *whole* *point*". The mother looks over at me and gives me a "kids eh" look.

I slur in her direction "ashly, she's kindov righut"

I don't know if I helped or hindered.
(teebie jeebie, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 14:48, 3 replies)

I've always quite liked
replying that I used to wear them like that back when I were a lad, before we had t'internet and so on. Good dependable jeans, those.

Or using terms like "groovy". Or just plain "it's a bit... nerdy, isn't it?"

Essentially, anything that can utterly destroy the kid's self image or their image of their peers.
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 15:16, closed)

A gothkid at my local
wears the same gothcoat I do. He's about 20, I'm in my 30s and spend my spare time of b3ta.

Not so cool now are you, gothkid.

Also: my coat fits me.
(teebie jeebie, Mon 8 Jun 2009, 15:55, closed)

Ashton Court!
Ashton Court was the first festival I ever went to. I was probably about 15. I'd never seen so many naked men wandering around before. I was not impressed! I'd hoped to see Steve Hillage play, but he wasn't playing that year. We walked all the way from Brislington to get there...and we walked all the way back again!I think that it was more of an Outward Bound Experience than a festival experience!
(Woofie, Wed 10 Jun 2009, 21:31, closed)