We went to bonnaroo in 24 when it got canceled from the flooding and we scooped up about 1k worth of rugs alone that just needed to be cleaned. 3 big ass area rugs and a couple smaller ones a hammock with stand, as well as just random camping gear chairs, canopies
The bit that did make me slightly sad for the original owner is he'd sharpied his name into the collar lol (we found the jacket after the punters had left)
Thats alright! UK slang can get a bit out of hand lol.
I'd say it's a word for customer, but mostly used in the context of a pub. I can't fully explain why but punter makes me think "customer who buys alcohol" lol so it works for the ticket holders at a festival. I think it's a bit of an old word, I wouldn't use it at a supermarket but at a local market I might?
I didn't Google for this I just over thought it and you've ended up with a right paragraph lol but I hope its useful!
Ah, thanks! I think I'd heard it in a detective show maybe referencing some older guys in a pub and I guess I assumed it meant retirees (pensioners for you?) so that was a terrible guess on my part.
It’s not cheap dude. I havent done it in years, but i volunteered a couple times back in 00s and you would find so much stuff. Jewelry, cash, unopened bottles of alcohol, cases of beers, drugs, cell phones, chargers, found a brand new in box iPad my last year volunteering cleanup. Coolers, camping stuff galore, shoes, clothes. Almost anything you can think of really. And as a poor 21 year old, it was awesome. Sell the clothes at second hand stores for credit, keep camping stuff I could use, stock my bar up for months, and usually went home with a couple hundred in cash found in tent.
I was working at Coachellafest one year. I slipped on someone's discarded fruit that they threw on the ground at night while leaving in full view of everyone. I landed on my knee hard. Not one person offered to help. I had people walking around me and that was it.
In all fairness, I have been the one to try to help someone only to embarrass that person and end up having them get mad at me because they were frustrated. So if I am not directly asked for help and the situation doesn't look dire, then I may not offer my help either on a whim.
It can but I was really surprised when I saw pictures from German festivals like Wacken or Summer Breeze. Both were so clean and people took everything back home. The second Festival even got mentioned in one of the biggest German news portals "tagesschau" as a positive example of clean festivals.
Both are big metal festivals, but I dont think the music genre is the biggest reason why they are so clean. I think it's because they listend to their fans when it was just as full of trash as in the video and they took action (like real collecting points for sleeping bags and mattresses for the homeless).
I went to a festival called Ziontific in 2018. It had a lot of reggae and a little bit of rap music. It was awesome. Everyone pretty much had the right idea. Clean up after yourselves or the place won't allow the festival back next year. Unfortunately then COVID happened and there wasn't another Ziontific anyway.
As I was leaving there still was a little debris left for the festival people to clean up. It was in two big piles by the stage. It probably would have filled just 2 or 3 regular sized dumpsters. It wasn't strewn all through the grounds. There wasn't any cigarette butts around either. We were told to be careful about them, because the place is where kids camp each year as well. I already always made sure to put my butts in a Tupperware until I could get to a trashcan, so it was business as usual for me.
The really sucky and ironic ones are when events like Earth Day festivals are over. 24 hours of push and agreement of saving our planet only to leave a completely littered field behind when it's over.
Overnight tenting festivals are awful. I prefer big city festivals (like OSHEAGA/Lollapalooza) where you can just stay at a hotel/AirBnB, go and watch acts and last show finishes at 11. And then you get to explore city, party like a normal person, not tenting and drinking like a hobo.
Like 1 flight from Taylor Swift's jet doesn't equal all that waste. As bad as it looks.
We don't do shit about the things that really matter. This LOOKS bad. But it's a fucking tiny drop of rain in a bucket. We have things that we change that make MAJOR change. And we do not do fucking shit. We don't fucking hold our government accountable for things they can change, and we fucking worship billionaires.
In my view only people who never actually cared about the human species in the first place could feel this way because why would some negative behavior from some people in a scenario that doesn't really matter compared to things like child hunger or access to education, influence my perspective of the entire species enough that just a singular act like that would make me switch allegiances from being faithful in people to no longer being faithful in people?
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u/Little-Wonder-5037 8h ago
Honestly, sometimes the sheer amount of unnecessary waste at festivals really does make you lose faith in people. ðŸ˜