r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 10h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/crowhouse 10h ago

Why do so many people abandon tents?

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u/redunculuspanda 10h 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/Internal-Plantain-56 7h 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 7h ago

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

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u/robimtk 5h 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 7h ago

They'd have flown with it to get there.

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u/tosssaway131 6h 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 5h 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 3h ago

Aaaah yes the fames Reading, Ameirca music festival.

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u/tosssaway131 2h ago

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

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u/Internal-Plantain-56 3h ago

Or just bought it at the destination.