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I wish I'd gone to a couple of festivals when I was younger. I'm sure I'd still dig it now, but I'm slightly less comfortable sleeping in mud than I used to be.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:58, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I always ensure I have a blow up air bed and lots of blankets.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 14:59, Reply)

Yeah
Maybe I'll do it one day.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:01, Reply)

it wasn't too bad really,
we had a decent air bed and quilted double sleeping bag, and apart from a bit of mud on day one, wellies kept us pretty safe from it all.
It depends where you camp i reckon. In the campsites close to the action shit gets raucous, but we were down in one of the further back ones and it was pretty sedate. met some nice folks, smoked a metric fuck ton of weed with strangers, got a bit pissed.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:13, Reply)

I'm taking the kids to one down the road from you in August.
I'll be honest I'm dreading it.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:00, Reply)

Where's that?

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:01, Reply)

Camp Bestival - middle aged caners with kids :(

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:02, Reply)

Hey, that IS near me.
You need to cross water to get there, but still! That is the one on the island, right?
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:04, Reply)

Nearly - this is the little brother of the one over the sea.
It's in Dorset, but google maps said I had to go near your house to get there from here.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:06, Reply)

Aha
Yeah, Dorset's further away than IOW. Still, I'll keep an eye out for you. We notice when new people pass through the town, you see.
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:08, Reply)

I've just looked again and we don't really go anywhere near you.
Still, might be worth making a detour if there's any of that chilli sauce left.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:13, Reply)

It's gonna be shit
I will never take my kid to a festival. They can go on their own when they're old enough.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:01, Reply)

I agree.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:03, Reply)

Seriously, I know what I got up to at festivals, and I know what I saw other people doing
I don't want to be seeing my offspring doing that. What I don't know can't hurt me.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:05, Reply)

This is even worse - a 'family friendly' festival.
There's only realty two bands I want to see, I will probably spend the rest of the time arsing about with the kids.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:09, Reply)

there were a lot of children at Download,
the amount of breasts on the big screen was bad enough for the younger ones, let alone all the drugged up crazies and other goings on. There was a kid no older than about 12 down the front for Down that i thought was gonna get killed when the mosh pit kicked in
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:11, Reply)

I fucking hate the site layout at Download so much.
it really is shit.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:13, Reply)

Very much this
Even with the cracking lineup this year, I was never considering it, due to how shit the layout is.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:17, Reply)

It's also the getting parked and getting out again
they never even try and make the car parks accessible despite knowing it's going to get muddy.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:19, Reply)

took us 2 and a half hours to get out of the car park.
but that was mostly because it wasn't marshalled properly in any sort of fashion.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:21, Reply)

yeah, the walk from the campsites up to the venue was a fuck of a long way.
last time we were in the disabled site, which means we had a bus up, and year before we got a good spot in black camp, so it wasn't too far, but outside of black or top of Gold, it's a hell of a trek.
30 min walk this year from our tent to the venue.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:17, Reply)

It's fucking ridiculous, isn't it?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:18, Reply)

it's a bit daft,
but i guess if you've got a huge race track in the middle there is little you can do.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:21, Reply)

When I first went it was held within the racetrack
it was really good.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:27, Reply)

What's wrong with breasts?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:13, Reply)

Some of the breasts you see are quite revolting.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:15, Reply)

I happen to appreciate your mother's breasts, Al.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:17, Reply)

I'll be sure to let her know.

(Bazongaloid, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:19, Reply)

She knows.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:23, Reply)

nothing, but i'm not sure you should be exposing children to that sort of behaviour young.
We all know the tits out on the big screen is all a bit of a laugh, and i imagine most of the girls do too, but there are those who feel women HAVE to get their breasts out, and exposing children to it that young is adding to modern rape culture in young men, or something. My feminist friend got very angry about it. I just like to look at boobs, is that a crime?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:19, Reply)

As long as it goes no further than looking, no.
My youngest gets exposed to breasts several times a day.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:23, Reply)

really?
Edit: Breastfeeding or you really are on some sort of commune.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:24, Reply)

There's a weird dynamic in our culture where apparently it's ok for small children to wath
the power rangers or whatever knocking lumps off stuff, but boobs are verboten. Especially since kids spend the first few months of their lives sucking the damn things.
( Kroney, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:26, Reply)

Not only that, we like to see breasts just about everywhere, apart from being functional and feeding a child.
Then the hippy bitch should have the decency to go and hide in the bogs or summat.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:28, Reply)

Breastfeeding you big silly.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:26, Reply)

To be fair mate
you should be on solids by now
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 18 Jun 2013, 15:50, Reply)