AIBU to want to ban some things at Glastonbury?

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Actually this applies to any big outdoor concert frankly.

Starting off with don't call it Glasto. So annoying.

But worse than that - let's just say you wanted to go to this big event and had the money to do so and won the ticket lottery so you actually were able to go. So you've spent what? £500 or something, likely more. Because there's a couple of really great acts you want to see. So you get to the are where that stage is and the concert's about to start and you're in a great spot to see everything and then the concert finally starts and YOU ARE JUST SO EXCITED!!!

And then someone starts waving a big flag, so you shift over a bit. And then there's lots of big balloon things waving about about so you shift back the other way. And then the big twonk in front of you hoists his girlfriend up on to his shoulders so you have absolutely no view of the stage what so ever!!!

So in short ...

1. no flags
2. no big balloon creatures
3. no flipping twonky women (or men or children) on shoulders!!! Especially if they're wearing weird bat wings that they wave about and further block everyone's view.

Easy solution to the balloon creatures is a sharp pin to deflate.

I know FWP. But this is why I can't abide watching Glasto as I get so mad at these selfish gits.

I was just watching it on TV and thought this about the women on the guys shoulders.

The poor people behind can't see anything and have an arse in their face too.

Some people are just selfish.

Crikey, this is a bit of an overreaction given you're not actually at Glasto. You can see just fine on the TV.

You are missing the point. You don't have to see anything to enjoy yourself. It is the music and atmosphere. I never see anything at the bigger bands.

That's true. It sucks for other viewers when you have people sitting on shoulders and wearing large wings with lights. I would be annoyed standing behind them. They should ban that but they won't.

I think it is all part of the festival experience and it will never be banned. I would never be able to see anything anyway as I am only 5ft. I had a great view at home, though!

Get rid of those fucking flags.

I was once at an event where a man hoisted his very small child up on to his shoulders so that his very smelly full of poo nappy was at face height for everyone. Lovely.

People now are so obsessed with making a spectacle of themselves to film it, or for likes, or to say they were seen in the crowd etc. flags, balloons, etc. plus every single person waving their phone above their head to film a stick figure in the far distance with a load of strangers heads in front. I used to go to gigs, get in the front, lose myself in the moment, dancing, moshing, hugging strangers, singing at the top of my lungs.
Not waving massive flipping flags and placards. It's not a bloody protest march!

Yes there's more every year!

Totally agree with the sitting on shoulders. Other than the obscuring of views, I think it's dangerous tbh. A bit of a crowd surge, people knocked off balance and someone through no fault of their own could have an adult fall on to them.
I moved at a festival a couple of weeks ago as a man had his approx 10 year old son standing on his shoulders just in front of me

We used to shout 'SHOULDER WANKER' at them repeatedly until they got the message and stopped being shoulder wankers.

Works a treat.

I want a like button for all these posts.

I'm 5 foot nothing the only way I'm seeing anything is on DH's shoulders. He's a well built man but can't keep me up there forever so you are still seeing more than me.

It's about the atmosphere as much as seeing anything but you always have the big screens

The becks of the men they are sitting on, OUCH!

If that's the case why then are they hosting their girlfriends on their shoulders to have a better view?

DD's boyfriend is 6ft 5 inches. At festivals he wears a hoodie that says 'No. You Can't Sit On My Shoulders'. He knows he's already hated enough!

Idles told someone to put their sign down because they were blocking the people behind. He was saying “I’ve read it! Put it down!” Loved that.

And stop with the political bollocks as well

Don't know about that one. If you're a political band, with political songs, it kind of goes with the territory. But I get what you mean.

It's there, the thanks button

You start off with “Don’t call it Glasto”. Then call it Glastp. Yup you’re so annoying. I’ve been to the festival 15 times and never been annoyed by any of these things. But people who’ve never been telling me how expensive or rubbish it is annoy me a lot. Hundreds of pounds spent on one evening of Taylor Swift or Beyoncé but five days of world class music, theatre and entertainment for £350 and you can bring your own booze and food if you want to save money. Good deal to me, just sorry I didn’t get tickets this year. The atmosphere is amazing, genuinely the nicest place on earth for those few days.

Have you ever been?

IOW banned flags this year and honestly it was sad not seeing them. Agree about people on shoulders though.

Since Glastonbury is always trumpeting its green credentials how does it justify all those helicopters converging on the site?

When I’ve been we’ve tended to stick to the smaller stages which are crowded but there seems to be less flag waving.

Totally agreed about “Glasto”.

Reminds me of someone I once met who referred to Mount Kilimanjaro as “Killy”.