Daily Mail readers work themselves into a self righteous froth over Reading Festival litter

[editor]

In a classic 'set 'em up' article, the Mail posted up photos of the aftermath of Reading Festival and its 'a massive sea of beer cans, cigarette butts, half-eaten food, discarded packaging, lost or unwanted belongings, grubby clothes, wellies, sleeping bags and abandoned tents'.

Predictably their knee-jerk cunty readers went into overdrive:

And the same people will vote green and tell you they are anti-fracking. Shouldn't be allowed to vote really.

Makes a mockery of the so called 'Greens' or 'eco-friendly' young generation & of these festival attendees.... maybe Greenpeace, Hunt Saboteurs & Badger Anti-Cullists can hang their heads in shame when this is done to the English Countryside on their own doorsteps.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...fetch-dustpan-brush.html?ICO=most_read_module

 

[Dan U]

To be fair that is totally disgusting. People who don't clear up after themselves at festivals are pricks

It's not newsworthy though massively

 

[editor]

I've never left a tent behind at a festival and I never will - and I always clear up around me - but this is the annual boozy cash-in that is Reading, where teens go to get trashed in their £15 tents and the organisers aren't bothered about basic facilities like litter collection points.

More Mail froth here:

We humans have the nerve to call rats and the like vermin. We are the pinnacle of it. No amount of rats could create as much garbage as that. On the day these festival ends there should be some sort of police cordon set up around the area. Nobody allowed to leave until they've cleaned up their mess.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Reading has never portrayed itself as being particularly "green" anyway.

It is shameful that people leave tents behind. I think some of the festivals collect them up and donate them to charity for disaster relief...

 

[RedDragon]

I'd imagine there was a premium in their ticket price to cover a cleanup, plus (probably) a tent recycling contract awarded.

 

[editor]

Argos sell a two man tent for £12.99. It's the throwaway society.

 

[butchersapron]

Reading has never portrayed itself as being particularly "green" anyway.

It is shameful that people leave tents behind. I think some of the festivals collect them up and donate them to charity for disaster relief...

Yes, there's normally designated places you can leave them.

 

[editor]

I'd imagine there was a premium in their ticket price to cover a cleanup, plus (probably) a tent recycling contract awarded.

If only Reading offered the 'eco-bond' scheme like Boomtown did, but then they're run by those cunts from the Mean Fiddler/Festival Republic.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Doesn't surprise me. The demographic of Reading is very young and many kids these days are litter bugs, saw it at Outlook festival.

 

[Sprocket.]

I cannot see any of the house owners on the first photograph reading the Mail.
Financial times, Torygraph and Morning Star readers I think.
Boat owners gazette too.

 

[Ax^]

irresponsible young people



*shakes fist at sky*

 

[Thora]

Wasn't there a righteous frothing thread on here not long ago about festival littering?

 

[RedDragon]

was that the one about the canal party?

 

[editor]

It's not a proper righteous frothing thread unless it links in anti-fracking with littering.

 

[Thora]

was that the one about the canal party?

Glastonbury I think.

 

[wiskey]

If only Reading offered the 'eco-bond' scheme like Boomtown did, but then they're run by those cunts from the Mean Fiddler/Festival Republic.

Isn't it the case the Reading doesn't allow tatting??? The security actively discourage it... or so I've heard

 

[bmd]

Reading and Leeds both link to charities that clear the site of anything useful. The Leeds one got enough food to stock their food bank for a month last year. And then they sold the unused tents and other stuff. Yeah, fucking festivals eh.

 

[wiskey]

Reading and Leeds both link to charities that clear the site of anything useful. The Leeds one got enough food to stock their food bank for a month last year. And then they sold the unused tents and other stuff. Yeah, fucking festivals eh.

Yes that links in with what I've read - people aren't allowed to tat as it is for charity.

 

[silverfish]

Wasn't there a righteous frothing thread on here not long ago about festival littering?

It was a righteous froth over hipster having fun in a london canal and leaving shit everywhere

 

[silverfish]

Glastonbury I think.

Was the canal and led into glastonbury

Basically you're a twat if Urban thinks your a twat, that's that all societal combinations catered for, no one "can do no wrong" we are all guilty of something

 

[Thora]

Unless the Daily Mail thinks you're a twat, and then Urban thinks you're ok.

 

[JTG]

The idea that the crowd at Reading is pro-Green, anti-fracking etc etc is actually hilarious

Tatting is good and necessary for the survival of the festival scene. There's plenty of us who give our labour for free to festivals who rely on it to keep doing so. Stop tatting and suddenly MF and co have to start getting paid staff in and... oops.

 

[xenon]

Well it gives them something to do, - the DM commenters. Now we're commenting on the commenters... This is all too meta.

 

[JTG]

Yeah, I'll shut up. Driving traffic to the DM website is not what I want to participate in and these threads are what they want

 

[yardbird]

From day one when the main part of the site was farm cattle grazing, the deal was that every ring-pull, every condom, every rubber band had to be picked.
The shit pickers would be on site on their hands and knees cleansing until it was done.
They got paid and fed and found all kinds of stuff - ounce lumps of hash, cash but no tents.

Helping the employment figures for a couple of weeks.

 

[JTG]

Actually, before I shut up, I'll expand:
Tatting allows some people who live hand to mouth on the scene to be fed, make a bit of cash etc. It allows others to upgrade equipment and pass the old stuff onto others or to charities.
What the direct tatting of the site by charities allows is for Mean Fiddler and (in Download's case) Live Nation to give themselves a figleaf of social responsibility whilst also letting their chums in the big security firms appease their staff by letting them have the pick of the site first. People like me and other volunteers (stewards, litter pickers, bar staff etc) lose out.

 

[silverfish]

Yeah, I'll shut up. Driving traffic to the DM website is not what I want to participate in and these threads are what they want

THIS x A million

 

[bmd]

Actually, before I shut up, I'll expand:
Tatting allows some people who live hand to mouth on the scene to be fed, make a bit of cash etc. It allows others to upgrade equipment and pass the old stuff onto others or to charities.
What the direct tatting of the site by charities allows is for Mean Fiddler and (in Download's case) Live Nation to give themselves a figleaf of social responsibility whilst also letting their chums in the big security firms appease their staff by letting them have the pick of the site first. People like me and other volunteers (stewards, litter pickers, bar staff etc) lose out.

I thought volunteers swapped their labour for a free festival place? 3 x 8 hour shifts for a £200 ticket seems ok to me. I don't think it says anywhere in the volunteer contract that you'll be paid in tat. Who cares what MF etc get out of it? The Leeds charity that is allowed on site to tat is pretty grateful tbh. And just because MF allow this doesn't mean they don't do anything else for charity, does it?

 

[JTG]

It does however mean that a hardcore of festival workers are able to make a 'living' out of doing some fairly specialised jobs for 'free'. Not hard to understand really. It even means some of us can do it, support festival culture AND enable charities to make some money out of cunts like MF.

Better than basically allowing Showsec, Stuarts etc to take whatever they want whilst MF pretend to look like benefactors

 

[bmd]

It does however mean that a hardcore of festival workers are able to make a 'living' out of doing some fairly specialised jobs for 'free'. Not hard to understand really. It even means some of us can do it, support festival culture AND enable charities to make some money out of cunts like MF.

Better than basically allowing Showsec, Stuarts etc to take whatever they want whilst MF pretend to look like benefactors

Oh come on! Those people aren't meticulously clearing the site inch by inch, they're raking through tents etc looking for juicy tat. How does that support festival culture and enable charities to make some money out of MF better than MF allowing charities on site in an official capacity?