r/Wellthatsucks 10h ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/DefiantDonut7 8h ago

I don’t understand why people are leaving their tents? It’s like 5 minutes to break down and a decent tent isn’t cheap?!?

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u/AgroMachine 7h ago

Cause they’re either crap tents, or the kids who had them pissed in them etc, or the kids who own them are coming down into the worst Gary depression they’ve had in their life

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u/Gob_the_Gilder 4h ago

Why’s it called Gary depression 

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u/Narpity 2h ago

Jerry/Gary are terms used in a number of subcultures to refer to tourists within the subculture. Like folks that do your hobby once or twice a year, don’t have planning or gear or whatever to really hack it. That’s my best guess. So in this instance I think he is referring to folks who can’t handle their drugs or at least the comedown without being asses. It’s a right of passage, I remember doing similarly stupid stuff before you can handle being on acid for 3 days straight.

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u/Mondschatten78 7h ago

Or they view them as disposable like so much else they buy these days

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u/AgroMachine 6h ago

Cause they probably are disposable. Stuff has been made since the 90s to hold up being used once and then fall apart. Manufactured waste is the term.

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u/Narpity 2h ago

I thought it was planned obsolescence

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u/JellyKind9880 3h ago

No it’s people who fly in to festivals and buy camping gear like it’s disposable—pickup at the Walmart by the airport in the rental car, litter on campgrounds when it’s time to leave