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  • #32
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    davyjose wrote: »
    You got p!ssed on, in a field, listening to an ever-declining standard of rock music (now so bad they're getting rappers in to headline) for three whole days, you are now hungover, possibly on a comedown, dirty, wet, and have probably been robbed.

    Lie to me ... tell me it wasn't sh!t?

    I'm in my thirties now, and have a family, but back in the day I was slim, good-looking, full of booze, drugs and optimism, and it still rained, and therefore it was sh!t* ... so I'll see right through your lies ;)

    *And we had The fcuking Cure headline, not Beyonce's other half!!!

    I refuse to tarnish the good name of rock by calling it a rock music. I label it Indie/Pop and yes i agree its absolute pants. 1 "good" album usually warrants a headline slot at Oxegen, then a year later they are non existent.


  • #33
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Id rather go to Download and Rock Am ring rather than oxegen with their crap line up (bar the few but still not worth it). And no stupid pikeys trying to rob you


  • #34
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Never been to Oxygen, too many horror stories. I head to Belgium for my festivals, Regae Geel being the big one. Now that's a festival. No trouble (that I witnessed), higher chance of good weather, good food and the toilets are cleaned.


  • #35
    Whynop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Whynop


    There are plenty of spa hotels and seafood restaurants on the west of Ireland that are about to go bust who'd love to take your €300 off you. Don't know why anyone would want to sleep in a field alongside violent knackers off their heads on drugs.


  • #36
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    Please see sig. In all my posts :mad: = a certain swear word. Unfortunately some people don't have sigs enabled. They miss out. :D

    Excuse me for not realising you were being rude and insulting, my bad. Listen, i tried to convince myself that things that weren't fun, were fun, turns out they weren't. Hangovers, freaky one night stands, comedowns, 300 bills to listen to mediocre music in the p!ssing rain - all sh!t.

    you are right in one way though - you can be a :mad: at any age.


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  • #37
    Pauleta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    R_H_C_P wrote: »
    Id rather go to Download and Rock Am ring rather than oxegen with their crap line up (bar the few but still not worth it). And no stupid pikeys trying to rob you

    I went to Download this year and it was freaking amazing. We had legendary bands playing instead of the fad bands that play Oxegen, that will be gone in a few years. Not a scumbag in sight either despite there being 30,000 more people there than there is at Oxegen :)


  • #38
    Jax Teller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,763 ✭✭✭Jax Teller


    Only home rain put a bit of a downer on it but still had a great time


  • #39
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Whynop wrote: »
    There are plenty of spa hotels and seafood restaurants on the west of Ireland that are about to go bust who'd love to take your €300 off you. Don't know why anyone would want to sleep in a field alongside violent knackers off their heads on drugs.

    Do they still burn peoples tents on them? i'd imagine the rain had one benefit in that regard. The tipping of portaloos though, that's be even funnier, I suppose.


  • #40
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    And I was just gonna invite you along to Electric Picnic in September.

    The Waterboys, Steve Earle, PIL, Massive Attack .. plenty to keep us thirty somethings happy.

    Come on, you know you want to ;)


  • #41
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    keysersoze_88 wrote: »
    Only home rain put a bit of a downer on it but still had a great time

    That's why you came home a night early?


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  • #42
    Whynop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Whynop


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    And I was just gonna invite you along to Electric Picnic in September.

    The Waterboys, Steve Earle, PIL .. plenty to keep us thirty somethings happy.

    Come on, you know you want to ;)

    Grow up.


  • #43
    Jax Teller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,763 ✭✭✭Jax Teller


    davyjose wrote: »
    That's why you came home a night early?

    It's over pal nomore music


  • #44
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    And I was just gonna invite you along to Electric Picnic in September.

    The Waterboys, Steve Earle, PIL .. plenty to keep us thirty somethings happy.

    Come on, you know you want to ;)

    A bit of PIL would go down a storm.

    Curses - now i resent my happy familial life for trapping me in a world without civilized, thirty-something geared festivals, with warm showers :(


  • #45
    l3LoWnA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭l3LoWnA


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    You do realise that rain or water in general doesn't make you sick, right?

    Of course I do!! But bein damp and slightly dehydrated and sleep deprived for 3 or 4 days certainly won't discourage illness. If there is any little viral or bacterial infection or flu lingering within a human body, waiting for it's moment of glory, a few nights at home, tucked up in a warm bed and eating and drinking correct amounts of food and water may just help the thing to f*ck off before a doctor is even needed. On the other hand, if your body is dealing with the early onset of any illness and you camp for 3 nights in the rain, sleep very little and dehydrate yourself with alcohol, chances are you could end up sick the following week. With so many thousands of people camping in close proximity to each other in warm wet conditions, and also a good percentage of them touching/fondling/kissing each other don't you think contagious illnesses may spread a bit? My friend came to oxegen last year and ended up in hospital on the Saturday night (having stayed up all night Friday night, drinking etc and gtting soaked on the Saturday to boot) with a kidney infection and throat infection and dehydration. Who's to know if they would have attacked or been so problematic and acute if she didn't put her body through the ordeal.

    It happens, and I guarantee there will be loads of sniffling little heads all week after Oxegen this year, colds, flus, UTIs, STIs even will be rife

    :)

    Just let me be happy in the knowledge that I'm feeling fit and fresh and dry and healthy right now because I didn't go to oxegen :D


  • #46
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Whynop wrote: »
    Grow up.

    Your point?

    Tell me it's not that you think thirty somethings shouldn't be attending music festivals.

    As if that was your point, it is you that needs to grow up.


  • #47
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    A friend of mine just posted this up on Facebook:
    ‎3 dead at oxegen and another chick raped apparently. appalling

    I really hope it's just a rumour :(


  • #48
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    keysersoze_88 wrote: »
    It's over pal nomore music

    Over shmover, any real cool, awesome, hip youth knows the last night is the best. When you can barely stand the sight of your mates, but still allow them take one or two of your few remaining cans, before hovering over a portaloo in which the **** rises higher than the toilet seat, before queueing for days to sit on a seat on the bus beside your now former best mate, who's feet you can smell and strangely remind you of the aroma of a toasted cheese sandwich, before rolling into a bleak, bar in town where you can't seem to get drunk, and the scorching threat of reality nears ever closer.

    Can't believe you missed that.


  • #49
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    davyjose wrote: »
    Excuse me for not realising you were being rude and insulting, my bad.

    Oh, don't worry about it dear. In fact, most people don't even find me "insulting" or "rude", but then, they probably pay attention so these confusions do not arise. Or offend.
    davyjose wrote: »
    Listen, i tried to convince myself that things that weren't fun, were fun, turns out they weren't.

    It's great that you know what works for you. But it would be even better if you could realise that just because things aren't fun for you don't mean they aren't fun for everyone else.
    davyjose wrote: »
    Hangovers,
    I don't get hangovers.
    davyjose wrote: »
    freaky one night stands,
    I've never had a one-night-stand.
    davyjose wrote: »
    comedowns,
    I've had my share of "rip your eyes out to make the pain stop comedowns" and I've had a suprising amount of "I'm coming down? I've had highs that didn't feel as good as this" comedowns
    davyjose wrote: »
    300 bills to listen to mediocre music in the p!ssing rain
    can't argue with that, but I've never actually been to Oxegen itself.
    davyjose wrote: »
    you are right in one way though - you can be a :mad: at any age.
    YEs you can. Although I'm sure no-one needed your permission for this.


  • #50
    l3LoWnA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭l3LoWnA


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    :mad: that. Festivals are the kinda thing that you're either into or you're not. If you're "into" them at 20, 22, 25, then you'll be into them at 40, 42, 45. If you can't be arsed at 22, you won't be arsed at 23, 24, 25 .... 35. You either like them or you don't.

    When I'm 39/40 I'm afraid I'll be hangin' up my wellies, as my oldest daughter will then be 17/18 and all going well, I'll be the embarrassing mum who still tries to be cool and she won't want me anywhere near any festivals she's going to (but I'm hoping festivals just might not be her thing) :D


  • #51
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    l3LoWnA wrote: »
    Of course I do!! But bein damp and slightly dehydrated and sleep deprived for 3 or 4 days certainly won't discourage illness. If there is any little viral or bacterial infection or flu lingering within a human body, waiting for it's moment of glory, a few nights at home, tucked up in a warm bed and eating and drinking correct amounts of food and water may just help the thing to f*ck off before a doctor is even needed. On the other hand, if your body is dealing with the early onset of any illness and you camp for 3 nights in the rain, sleep very little and dehydrate yourself with alcohol, chances are you could end up sick the following week. With so many thousands of people camping in close proximity to each other in warm wet conditions, and also a good percentage of them touching/fondling/kissing each other don't you think contagious illnesses may spread a bit?

    If I may? That was a pretty good comeback. Kudos!


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  • #52
    Whynop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 53 ✭✭Whynop


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    A friend of mine just posted this up on Facebook:



    I really hope it's just a rumour :(

    No doubt "bad batch" will be entering the lexicon of the Irish media for the next couple of days.


  • #53
    Knifey Spoony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭Knifey Spoony


    What I don't get about it is why some peole turn up at it that have no intention of taking in any music, like someone I know. What is the point of spending close to €300 to go to a music festival if you are not gonna listen to the music? Is it to walk around in piss tainted mud just so you can say to your other hipster friends that you have been there and can be all cool that you survived it??:confused:


  • #54
    MistyCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,006 ✭✭✭MistyCheese


    l3LoWnA wrote: »
    When I'm 39/40 I'm afraid I'll be hangin' up my wellies, as my oldest daughter will then be 17/18 and all going well, I'll be the embarrassing mum who still tries to be cool and she won't want me anywhere near any festivals she's going to (but I'm hoping festivals just might not be her thing) :D

    And that's absolutely fine honey, if you don't want to go to a festival that's completely up to you.

    I'm NOT saying "people should go to festivals." I'm saying "People should do whatever the :mad: they want to."


  • #55
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    Oh, don't worry about it dear. In fact, most people don't even find me "insulting" or "rude", but then, they probably pay attention so these confusions do not arise. Or offend.



    It's great that you know what works for you. But it would be even better if you could realise that just because things aren't fun for you don't mean they aren't fun for everyone else.

    I don't get hangovers. I've never had a one-night-stand. I've had my share of "rip your eyes out to make the pain stop comedowns" and I've had a suprising amount of "I'm coming down? I've had highs that didn't feel as good as this" comedowns can't argue with that, but I've never actually been to Oxegen itself.


    YEs you can. Although I'm sure no-one needed your permission for this.

    I bow to your wise wisdom, mistycheese. You are you, though, and i am me. I'm struggling to comprehend how anyone could have enjoyed themselves tonight, the same way, four years ago (just a year less than you now), i struggled to see how I wasn't going to have an awesome weekend at Oxegen. I figured it out pretty quick though.

    People change, and if you really believe people in their forties will enjoy what they did in their youth, you may be right about 1% of the time, but I doubt much more.


  • #56
    Tiny Explosions
    Closed Accounts Posts: 258 ✭✭Tiny Explosions


    Whynop wrote: »
    No doubt "bad batch" will be entering the lexicon of the Irish media for the next couple of days.


    I heard his death was caused by alcohol poisoning not from illegal drugs.

    Very sad news..:(


  • #57
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    I'm NOT saying "people should go to festivals." I'm saying "People should do whatever the :mad: they want to."

    You called me a "heck"?


  • #58
    l3LoWnA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 890 ✭✭✭l3LoWnA


    MistyCheese wrote: »
    And that's absolutely fine honey, if you don't want to go to a festival that's completely up to you.

    Why thank you :D


  • #59
    highgiant1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭highgiant1985


    Tiny Explosions wrote: »
    I heard his death was caused by alcohol poisoning not from illegal drugs.

    Very sad news..:(

    any links to back up these rumours?


  • #60
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Whynop wrote: »
    Sounds like a total knacker-fest...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055965510

    Someone on that thread said ecstasy is a gateway drug, I know it's off topic (on my own bloody thread), but never have i heard such copy and paste bollox in my life. /minirant


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  • #61
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,263 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    highgiant1985 wrote: »
    any links to back up these rumours?

    I reckon it'll be 6:01 tomorrow before anyone has any official news about the weekend.


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