r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/JadeChipmunk 8h ago

...why would people leave their tents? They're not super expensive but they're not cheap either, id take mine with me..

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u/SkankySandwich 8h ago

People pay Ā£350 for a ticket and see their Ā£20 tent as being disposable. Especially when they shit themselves in it or ripped it being an arse.

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u/JadeChipmunk 7h ago

If i shit myself in my tent, id take it to dispose of the evidence šŸ˜…

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u/MrJollyLND_57 4h ago

Tents are too cheap

Time to borrow some of that tariff nonsense and count how many get left behind if each make and then do that entirely logical maths to create a huge tariff to once again make a tent something you look after and keep for years

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u/molehunterz 4h ago

I have flown with my brothers/friends across country to a camping style event. We have tried it both ways where we buy folding chairs, a cooler, sleeping bags, a few other things we know we are not bringing back on the plane...

We've also brought a cooler stuffed with sleeping bags, a bunch of folding chairs duct taped together, on the plane with us.

But the stuff we left behind, we found other people in the campgrounds to give them to who lived locally. We didn't just leave it behind in a pile

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u/Kooky-Train7417 44m ago

Iā€™m sorry for my ignorance, but why does everyone keep talking about pooping themselves here? What drug are people doing that results in pooping your pants?

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u/GottaUseEmAll 8h ago

Hangovers. Leaving a festival is rough at the best of times. I've never left a tent behind, but I've certainly been tempted to.

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u/JadeChipmunk 7h ago

Ive never left a festival without all of my belongings and a bag of trash so this is just, new to me šŸ˜… though ive avoided festivals of this size so must have been around more considerate people

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u/Raknaren 5h ago

I once folded my tent with my phone in it...

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u/IndependentLog6441 6h ago

All the festivals I go to in the UK are well behaved... there are a few messy ones like this though... and it definitely puts me off going to them.

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u/IndependentLog6441 6h ago

I really don't understand drinking at festivals.

A gig or day event... but multi day festivals? Just take drugs and wake up fresh... no queuing, way cheaper, no bloating...I like a drink but it's an awful fit for festivals.

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u/cheapdrinks 5h ago

Lmao wake up fresh as a daisy after a 4 day hard drug bender? Maybe if you're like 18 or something it's possible if you take it real easy with just a few bumps of coke and do one night on one night off but most people are not waking up feeling fresh after a big night on the molly, let alone going hard from thursday to sunday. Plenty of people would barely be sleeping at all. We're talking festival drugs like molly, coke, ket etc not smoking a few joints and having an early night.

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u/IndependentLog6441 5h ago

I just take a massive dose of mushrooms, lose my mind for a few hours, then I'm stoned, then I'm buzzing...

I'll maybe take a bit of mdma if it's offered, but it's not a primary thing.

I always wake up fresh and healed, it's actually like therapy doing big doses of shrooms over many days.

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u/fckspzfr 4h ago

"it's actually like therapy doing big doses of shrooms over many days" I just know your brain is completely fried lol

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u/IndependentLog6441 4h ago

Yeah, it's great hahaha

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u/cheapdrinks 5h ago

I've done psychedelics before, tried acid, shrooms, DMT etc but never again. Friend of mine who had done shrooms/acid several times before did a pretty normal amount one night and had a complete psychotic break. Couldn't sleep for 5 days in a row and got increasingly more insane as the days went on. Everyone else had the same mushroom tea and nothing bad happened to them, just him. Had to be hospitalized and medically sedated and ended up on antipsychotics for a couple years after that. Messed up his life quite badly and he still always seemed a bit different after that. The idea of something like that happening or getting hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD) has put me off doing them entirely. Never felt great the next day after taking them either, always needed like a solid 48hrs of just resting in bed to feel completely back to normal.

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u/IndependentLog6441 5h ago

I'm sorry to hear about your friend, that must have been difficult for you to experience and I can understand why it would make you apprehensive.

But I think such extreme reactions are in a minority and affect people with a preexisting vulnerability... admittedly we don't know who is vulnerable to them or not.

I was very careful with my intro to them and built up doses at home and processed a lot of the feelings in a safe way before I started to use them recreationally.

...Plus the safety profile is simply much better... just think how many people are harmed by other drugs. But of course I'm a huge advocate of moderation and care with all drugs.

I mean I remember my first time on MDMA and that left me seeing things for weeks, it put me off ALL drugs for years.

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u/GottaUseEmAll 5h ago

I was referring to drug hangovers.Ā 

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u/SteakGetter 6h ago

Was wondering the same. Some of those are in fact expensive.

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u/JadeChipmunk 6h ago

Yea definitely, we got a very large one and I would never leave that behind, unless it was like a life or death situation. Even if it got broken, id take it and trash it or fix it if possible.

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u/SinnaBuns666 6h ago

That's questionable thinking... just turn it to waste because you don't feel good.

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u/FabianGladwart 6h ago

Lots of people pack light and buy camping gear nearby or at the venue, and only leave with what they came with

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u/Talking_Head 5h ago

International travelers?

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u/MarsScully 4h ago

Too shitfaced and stupid to pick anything up