r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/crowhouse 8h ago

Why do so many people abandon tents?

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u/redunculuspanda 8h ago

Cheap tents, The insane rain and mud after a weekend of music, drink and drugs.

Lots of people just think fuck it and go home.

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u/AliJDB 3h ago

There's also a bit of a final-night tradition that you drink the rest of the alcohol you have and go feral, slashing, burning holes in, or otherwise destroying each other's tents.

But also, they're cheap tents that probably leaked all weekend, they probably have no real intention of camping again anytime soon.

It's shit, but it's been that way forever.

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u/drLoveF 3h ago

Is there anyway to opt out of getting your shit destroyed?

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u/AliJDB 52m ago

Go home on Sunday mostly! There is a calm/quiet campsite area which I think does avoid most of the destruction - but the teenagers never want to be in it, because it's mostly full of older people.

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u/tyen0 3h ago

drugs

there is the simpler answer

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u/Artchantress 34m ago

Thought it was a reading festival

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u/Internal-Plantain-56 6h ago

Also a lot of people travel for music festivals and it’s not like it’s easy to fly with a tent.

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u/Admirable-Map6769 5h ago

The percentage of people flying to reading/Leeds is so minute it barely registers.

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u/robimtk 4h ago

Me and my friends did for 3 years straight! Met heaps of people there who also were from other countries. R&l can have one of the best Festival lineups in the world on any given year, and at the time it was £140 a ticket + £20 return Ryanair flight. To go to a local shitty arts festival it cost €200 so it was a no brainer for us

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u/Embarrassed_Call_101 6h ago

They'd have flown with it to get there.

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u/tosssaway131 5h ago

you make the uber stop at walmart of what ever and pick up a cooler, ice food and everything else you need for the weekend. this stuff was bought to be disposable.

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u/Old_Ladies 3h ago

Incredibly wasteful and expensive. Things like this is why US credit card debt is at 1.26 trillion dollars.

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u/Internal-Plantain-56 2h ago

Aaaah yes the fames Reading, Ameirca music festival.

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u/tosssaway131 38m ago

it probably costs more to mail em back and forth. check luggage and all that.

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u/Internal-Plantain-56 2h ago

Or just bought it at the destination.