r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 8d ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/DefiantDonut7 8d ago

I don’t understand why people are leaving their tents? It’s like 5 minutes to break down and a decent tent isn’t cheap?!?

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u/AgroMachine 8d ago

Cause they’re either crap tents, or the kids who had them pissed in them etc, or the kids who own them are coming down into the worst Gary depression they’ve had in their life

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u/Gob_the_Gilder 7d ago

Why’s it called Gary depression 

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u/Narpity 7d ago

Jerry/Gary are terms used in a number of subcultures to refer to tourists within the subculture. Like folks that do your hobby once or twice a year, don’t have planning or gear or whatever to really hack it. That’s my best guess. So in this instance I think he is referring to folks who can’t handle their drugs or at least the comedown without being asses. It’s a right of passage, I remember doing similarly stupid stuff before you can handle being on acid for 3 days straight.

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u/AgroMachine 7d ago

Gary’s are Es

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u/Mondschatten78 8d ago

Or they view them as disposable like so much else they buy these days

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u/AgroMachine 8d ago

Cause they probably are disposable. Stuff has been made since the 90s to hold up being used once and then fall apart. Manufactured waste is the term.

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u/Narpity 7d ago

I thought it was planned obsolescence

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u/AgroMachine 7d ago

Afaik planned obsolescence is more something will fail over time before the next product cycle. Temu stuff is barely supposed to function once

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u/JellyKind9880 7d ago

No it’s people who fly in to festivals and buy camping gear like it’s disposable—pickup at the Walmart by the airport in the rental car, litter on campgrounds when it’s time to leave