Paing Christofire

Mud?

 

Not anymore - most of the stuff is clean again now, but I haven't
tackled the cage.

All in all I was not impressed. I knew it wouldn't be luxury but I
found the on site facilities appalling. The thing that really took the
biscuit for me was the stall advertising "Fair-Trade" coffee and
hot-chocolate but selling cadbury's hot chocolate, from the tin behind
the FT jar.

In short, the music was fantastic but the place stinks in more ways
than one.

 

The toilets were the best/cleanest festival toilets I've seen, the
range of food remarkable (and not that pricey in some places). The
availability of running water puts the likes of Reading to shame,
and that's on the edge of a city ffs, whereas Glastonbury's a
temporary site on a field in the arse end of Somerset. The nearest
town's Shepton Mallet - what more is there to say?!?

Other than the lack of a decent shower and the rather precarious
entrance to the bike parking lot, I reckon the on site facilities
were absolutely excellent.

Heh. It's all about the image, donchaknow - you should have been buying
it from one of the vegan tipis

I'll forgive anything, cos I got to see Tony Benn and Naomi Klein.
Apparently there were some bands on the site as well?

 

I don't think we'll agree on the food and toilets - while they were
abundant, and with a fair range, quality of both was severely lacking
IMO. Maybe it's just me but being able to "go" while not having an
attack of involuntary retching is nice, and for the price the food
really wasn't all that.

The FT thing was the capper, but other things like "keeping corporate
branding to a minimum" (Orange tent, Bud is the official Glasto beer,
etc) didn't help - there were just too many bad bits for the good bits
to make up for.

To cap it all off, I can't get that bleeding car park sticker off my
windscreen.

 

You do know that Fair Trade is a huge rip-off, anyway, don't you?

Sure, the farmer at the end gets an extra 4p for his entire crop, but the
whole scheme is designed to keep the 3rd world as far away from the first
world as possible.

FT means that it becomes uneconomic for farmers to sell their produce within
the third world, which means that, effectively, the third world is starved
of raw materials and can never make the shift into processing or
manufacturing of those raw materials.

So, some big corporation pays a few extra pennies for their raw materials,
sticks 20p on the price of their finished product and also ensures that they
don't have to worry about a bunch of wogs turning up with a cheaper
home-grown brand.

Nice, innit?


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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Oh, you're one of those people who keep the ferry branded GB sticker on
their car to show they've been on a foreign holiday.

 

<Watches keep net thrash> sweller that was a mighty fine catch.

 

Champ says...

Brake cleaner, seriously.

 

Well, if the 3rd world was hunky-dory all of a sudden then the 1st
world would have a load of extra competitors for goods/services, adding
uncertainty to their economies and the futures thereof. Everyone can't
win, and as long as there is the concept of money there'll be rich
people and poor people.

So, yes, I see it's a front for
it-looks-like-we're-doing-something-nice, but when you can't even keep
the pretence up to a boat load of hippies it's a poor show. Perhaps I
should've just got stoned off my face and therefore wouldn't have cared.

 

Oh *piss*.

Just so that I don't waste my time, have you tried:
soaking it with a wet sponge?
using an ice scraper?
window cleaner?
Oven cleaner?
wd40?

The only good thing so far has been turning up at a friend's place to
told "you could've taken the sticker out". I tried to say that I'd
given up as it was impossible without some industrial equipment, but
they didn't believe me.

What satisfaction as their smart-alec, confident grin turned to a frown
of frustration as each promising start removed about 1.5mm of sticker.

 

Alternatives? I don't have any to hand.

 

What you need is some isopropyl alcohol.

Or being realistic, lots of it.

 

I've just searched the net and the only things that came up were how a
car failed it's mot on the sticker, and the last one got removed when
the windscreen was replaced.

 

Sue.

 

No, Maureen. In the library with the candlestick.

 

Really? I thought as much, I could hear moaning.

 

bastard, that's my keyboard all sticky now.

 

Label remover from maplins has worked for me in the past.
http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/module.asp?CartID=040629062613799&modulen
o=4173

 

I didn't know you were a squirter.

 

Crickey. I'm impressed you managed to make it fit.