Just how toe-curlingly awful will the 'festival of Brexit' be?

[Artaxerxes]

It is to be called Unboxed and it has done wonders to unite the country already because MP's are pissed its not the festival of brexit, remoaners are convinced it'll be shit and both of them are angry at the few who are absolutely convinced the festival is a good thing and of course isn't brexit related

MPs' fury as 'Festival of Brexit' rebranded with no mention of leaving the EU

The event, dubbed the 'Festival of Brexit', has been officially named 'Unboxed: Creativity in the UK', in an apparent move to distance the celebrations from the UK's departure from the EU.

www.lbc.co.uk

 

[quiet guy]

Unboxed more like Unhinged.

Complete marketing bollocks. Wonder how much they were paid for this load of drivel

 

[bluescreen]

Unboxed, not like frogs or anything.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Unboxed more like Unhinged.

Complete marketing bollocks. Wonder how much they were paid for this load of drivel

120 million of your cash

 

[not-bono-ever]

flailing

 

[killer b]

Crikey this is a terrible name. I think FUK2022 was better

 

[Chilli.s]

Festi Mc Festivalface

 

[killer b]

More details about the ambitious but mostly quite vague events they've got planned here:

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unboxed2022.uk

 

[Shellee]

It keeps reminding me of that old film Boxing Helena

But we are to have an oil rig here in Weston-super-Mare as part of it, in the disused lido where Banksy built Dismaland

This is mostly a Brexit loving area so they would have liked it better as the Festival of Brexit and us Remainers aren’t about to be fooled by them changing the name hoping we won’t notice, so they are pleasing no one

On the other hand, with eyes on the cash tills, there’s hopes it will bring in the tourists, stop the council from pulling down the old lido for a couple more years and it will be somewhere close to take the kids. Plus it will be interesting watching them build it.

 

[ska invita]

It keeps reminding me of that old film Boxing Helena

But we are to have an oil rig here in Weston-super-Mare as part of it, in the disused lido where Banksy built Dismaland

This is mostly a Brexit loving area so they would have liked it better as the Festival of Brexit and us Remainers aren’t about to be fooled by them changing the name hoping we won’t notice, so they are pleasing no one

On the other hand, with eyes on the cash tills, there’s hopes it will bring in the tourists, stop the council from pulling down the old lido for a couple more years and it will be somewhere close to take the kids. Plus it will be interesting watching them build it.

bit confused: theyre building an oil rig in your lido to celebrate brexit as a tourist attraction?

 

[killer b]

bit confused: theyre building an oil rig in your lido to celebrate brexit as a tourist attraction?

nope - they are relocating a decomissioned oil rig to her lido to celebrate brexit as a tourist attraction.

SEE MONSTER | UNBOXED

An extraordinary act of collective creativity – a decommissioned North Sea offshore platform transformed into a major new art installation.

unboxed2022.uk

TBH having looked though the various things last night, I reckon some of them will be great. It's not very clear what a lot of them will really be though...

 

[ska invita]

"SEE MONSTER will harness energy from the natural elements of the Great British Weather. "
*tears well up with national pride at our Great British Weather - they'll never take that away from us - over my dead body.




(it sounds quite good tbh - oil rigs are pretty amazing - I would like to walk around one. I thought they were big though. This lido is pretty small from what i can tell ...

)


nice new sea view for people living next to it

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

What a lot of them will be is a chance for brown envelopes filled with cash to pass from one palm to another…

 

[killer b]

Dreamachine looks good - a psychedelic extravaganza inspired by the work of Brion Gysin is not something I was expecting for a brexit festival event, must say

 

[bimble]

why the hell is it called unboxed now. was eu membership the box? Egregious waste of money the wankers.

 

[Pickman's model]

why the hell is it called unboxed now. was eu membership the box? Egregious waste of money the wankers.

Johnson wanted to call it unhinged to emphasise the wild and uncontrolled swashbuckling Britain he's building but Carrie vetoed that and they settled on unboxed as a compromise. Johnson wanted to call it out of the box if unhinged wouldn't do, that's where unboxed came from

 

[MrCurry]

Just as long as they recruit the same crack broadcasting geniuses who turned the 2012 diamond jubilee into such a cheesy banalfest.

 

[brogdale]

I thought unboxing was when vacuous, materialistic shills filmed themselves opening (generally imported) stuff that no-one needs?

 

[Artaxerxes]

nope - they are relocating a decomissioned oil rig to her lido to celebrate brexit as a tourist attraction.

SEE MONSTER | UNBOXED

An extraordinary act of collective creativity – a decommissioned North Sea offshore platform transformed into a major new art installation.

unboxed2022.uk

TBH having looked though the various things last night, I reckon some of them will be great. It's not very clear what a lot of them will really be though...

The creation of on-board weather moments will provide joyous moments

 

[bimble]

I thought unboxing was when vacuous, materialistic shills filmed themselves opening (generally imported) stuff that no-one needs?

i didn't know this existed but apparently its a hugely popular youtube genre where adults make videos of themselves opening childrens toys for an audience of toddlers?

Why Are We Obsessed With 'Unboxing' Videos?

During the holidays a lot of people are unwrapping presents, but unboxing is phenomenon that is popular year-round.

www.mentalfloss.com

 

[existentialist]

i didn't know this existed but apparently its a hugely popular youtube genre where adults make videos of themselves opening childrens toys for an audience of toddlers?

Why Are We Obsessed With 'Unboxing' Videos?

During the holidays a lot of people are unwrapping presents, but unboxing is phenomenon that is popular year-round.

www.mentalfloss.com

Not just children's toys. It can be a bit annoying when you're looking for a YouTube video on the technical details of some bit of kit, and have to fast-forward through 15 minutes of padded narrative about how it's packed, followed by a rather anticlimactic "reveal" when they finally get the thing out of its box.

 

[bimble]

how strange.

 

[two sheds]

I hate all forms of 'atmosphere building' - vacuous nonsense as if we hadn't anything better to do with our time.

 

[existentialist]

how strange.

Have you been on the Internet long?

 

[killer b]

Just as long as they recruit the same crack broadcasting geniuses who turned the 2012 diamond jubilee into such a cheesy banalfest.

the diamond jubilee was terrible because it was the diamond jubilee, not because of any poor broadcasting decisions.

 

[bluescreen]

i didn't know this existed but apparently its a hugely popular youtube genre where adults make videos of themselves opening childrens toys for an audience of toddlers?

Why Are We Obsessed With 'Unboxing' Videos?

During the holidays a lot of people are unwrapping presents, but unboxing is phenomenon that is popular year-round.

www.mentalfloss.com

Because in-person book launches have been difficult or impossible, some writers are doing it too - in a wholly ironic way, you understand.

 

[skyscraper101]

Here's hoping Unboxed will be as shit as Winter Wonderland

 

[existentialist]

Here's hoping Unboxed will be as shit as Winter Wonderland

I don't think it will struggle.

 

[Shellee]

bit confused: theyre building an oil rig in your lido to celebrate brexit as a tourist attraction?

Yup, that’s it You’ve never been to Weston, have you? That’s pretty much the life here …..

 

[TopCat]

It will draw in creatives according to the blurb. Good to hear given they are all reportedly destitute after Brexit.