r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/Infinite-Director-62 8h ago

My cheap ass thinking how much of this shit I would take after everyone leaves it behind…

Human beings are such a waste of life on this planet with how we treat it with our ignorance… we somehow believe we can change everything but yet are stupid enough to think someone else will take it of it for us.

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u/Vinegarinmyeye 8h ago

Been going to festivals for decades, stick around to the very end helping clean up.

Find SO MUCH good stuff.

Wallets with cash, drugs, jewellery, phones... Enough free booze to sink a frigate.

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u/CharthorneBerries 8h ago

Woah 😳 might have to try that out

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u/ImportantIron1492 8h ago

I tried it once, found nothing but soggy cardboard, empty Pringles tubes, tissues...

I did get a new torch though

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u/Ryvit 7h ago

Do you mean flashlight?

Or you literally found a wooden stick with a cloth on the end that’s meant to be burned for light?

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u/Howtothinkofaname 7h ago

A torch is what a flashlight is called in Britain.

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u/Ryvit 7h ago

What would this be called then?

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u/Howtothinkofaname 7h ago

A torch. Or a flaming torch if you needed to specify but I can’t say it’s something you come across often enough to have ever caused any confusion.

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u/Ryvit 7h ago

That’s weird

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u/Howtothinkofaname 7h ago

Flashlight sounds weird to us. Different people speak differently in different places.

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u/janbradybutacat 7h ago

I (American) remember reading Lion Witch and the Wardrobe for the first time and thinking “wow, the Brits must have been beyond desperate if the kids are using fire torches in this country estate house!” And then getting to the batteries burning out- realized it was a flashlight. I definitely thought it was odd, but it’s still understandable. It’s a stick that’s lit on one end, after all.

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u/no_talent_ass_clown 7h ago

Time to travel! 

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u/Ryvit 7h ago

I have been to a ton of different states

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u/tegoper977 6h ago

Ok so you've never left your country. Time to travel.

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u/TraumahawkS76C 6h ago

Time for Passport Mode.

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u/Speedy2662 6h ago

Hahahaha

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u/ZeAthenA714 8h ago

It is fun on paper, it's much less fun if you're exhausted after 3 days of working on the festival, and depending on the festival you might have to be careful about needles.

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u/ATN-Antronach 3h ago

Back home they had this event where people would get into intertubes and float down the river (and yes, they'd tear up the intertubes and let them float down the river to pollute it, leaving the local Indian res to clean it up), and the day after you could make some bank by walking the shore of the river and finding shit left behind, like jewelry, wallets and such.

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u/AceNova2217 8h ago

Similar vein, but when my sister was at uni she got a job emptying out the dorms of the first years. Anything valuable had to be turned in, but she found a massive pack of dishwasher tablets, and didn't have to buy any for herself for most of the following year!

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u/Gold_Lengthiness8742 8h ago

A good majority of these tents are likely trashed and have been used as toilets.

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u/Infinite-Condition41 3h ago

Problem is, most of the tents are cheap garbage. I didn't see a single tent in the video that I would pick up and take. Cheap Walmart stuff. Bought to be disposed of. 

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u/feline_riches 7h ago

This is why I prefer cockroaches to humans. They are nature's clean up crew. Humans are just a waste of space