it is the most fun you can have with your clothes on
here's the recipe:
pile 20,000 extra people into the streets of a small town.
Arm farmers with large wooden barrels with the insides coated with tar and set alight.
feed everyone loads of booze, spliffs and burgers
enjoy

not good if you don't like crowds. The best thing is being there with people who haven't been before. They think they know what to expect, a sort of tame procession down the street. The crowds are thicker than most rock gigs I've been to and the barrellers run as fast as they can.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 13:56, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Can you nominate to put people in the barrels?

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 13:57, Reply)

unfortunately not
but you can goad them into annoying the barrellers, in which case they will get a beating
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 13:58, Reply)

Sold, can't be more than an hour away from me
I am going to give that serious consideration for next years halloween sounds brilliant.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 13:58, Reply)

it's on the 5th. Friday this year
probably saturday next year.

friday and saturday are extra busy
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 13:58, Reply)

November?
I thought it was halloween for some reason I didn't read the dates on the web. In that case I might do it this year. Honestly sounds right up my street.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:02, Reply)

it's a weird experience
a load of my friends have tired of it, but last year was one of the best I've been to. My bro and his mates are down from London this year for it too which is always fun. Means I don't have to drunkenly stagger to my parents' place on my own too, which is nice.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 13 Sep 2010, 14:08, Reply)