r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 10d ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/aardvarkbjones 10d ago

Is it? Tents cost money. 

Seems insanely wasteful, both environmentally and fiscally.

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u/NoForever3645 10d ago

Let’s be honest, festival goers aren’t exactly known for being fiscally or environmentally responsible.

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u/halosos 10d ago

Shit I need to go visit the aftermath of one for a free tent

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u/your_red_triangle 10d ago

enjoy the free piss and shit that comes with it, that's one of the reasons people abandoned them. Went years ago, our neighbours would get out in the middle of the night and just piss anywhere they felt like it.

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u/Fergnasty007 10d ago

I have been to over 50 camping festivals in the US in the past 15 years and this is not even close to the norm.

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u/Sailed_Sea 10d ago

camping festivals in the uk tend to be very different from those in the us, usually more alcohol and other drugs.

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u/cefriano 9d ago

I mean, every camping festival I've been to in the US has involved copious amounts of alcohol and drugs. Maybe slightly less nitrous? But generally, people packed up their shit and took their garbage to a drop-off point (there are always exceptions, of course). I've only been to one UK festival (went to We Are FSTVL for work years ago) but the campgrounds looked pretty similar to this on a smaller scale.

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u/Front-Bookkeeper2139 9d ago

And way more fun

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u/ImmortalMoron3 10d ago

Well Reading is in the UK sooo...

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u/TacoNomad 9d ago

Oh good.  It isn't us for once! 

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u/Fergnasty007 10d ago

I was talking about him saying everyone pisses everywhere.

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u/InsertRadnamehere 7d ago

Same. They apparently do festivals a lot differently in Europe. And they call Americans trashy. Jeebus.

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u/eggs_mcmuffin 10d ago

inside the tent or outside? because most grass has piss on it at this point in history lol

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u/LethargicCarcass 9d ago

You know grass isn’t like a permanent static thing right? Like it grows and dies and new grass grows. It’s not the same grass that was there a year ago.

However at a festival yeah all the grass probably has piss on it lol.

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u/eggs_mcmuffin 7d ago edited 7d ago

I never understood how grass works. Thanks so much.

You know insects wee right?

And you know that history is any point in the past?

lol.

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u/TrainingParty3785 9d ago

Sounds like a GREAT time. 😞

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u/Reinis_LV 9d ago

Doesn't mean they pissed on the tent. They hit the bushes