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[Le_Fromage_Grande]

The underlying story is why hasn't there been a black headliner.

But there has been (according to the article, personally I find the Glastonbury Festival a tedious load of bollocks)

I used to live right next to the site, as a teenager, but I have to agree!! LOL I have loads of friends (and one family member) that love it and go as often as possible. I've been once for work and visited on a couple of Sundays (it used to be free to locals on a Sunday afternoon I think), but I just can't bring myself to go and camp and deal with all that that brings!! LOL

The music I like is in some small stages on the outskirts - but I get to go see that music live for less money, walking through less mud whenever I feel like it!!

I'd like to have gone when it was a small festival with people like Hawkwind playing, so pre 1985ish, but I was too young and didn't know about it.

[Greenman]

The underlying story is why hasn't there been a black headliner.

But there has been (according to the article, personally I find the Glastonbury Festival a tedious load of bollocks)

I used to live right next to the site, as a teenager, but I have to agree!! LOL I have loads of friends (and one family member) that love it and go as often as possible. I've been once for work and visited on a couple of Sundays (it used to be free to locals on a Sunday afternoon I think), but I just can't bring myself to go and camp and deal with all that that brings!! LOL

The music I like is in some small stages on the outskirts - but I get to go see that music live for less money, walking through less mud whenever I feel like it!!

Glasto is my most local large festival but i have never attended.

I have been a big festival goer since the mid 90's but Glasto has never appealed.

I always thought it was too big. I have friends who say they could walk 2 hours just to get something they forgot back at their tent!

Also - it's the clientele the fez attracts. I find it's just people attending for the sake of it, just so they can say they went to Glasto. A majority are not there for the music, they are there just for a status on social media!

It's also fucking expensive, especially as i would probably spend 90% of the time in the dance village as a lot of the other more acuostic acts don't really do it for me!

[mangocrazy]

The last Glastos I attended were 1984-1986. In 1986 I went on my LC, which was brave or stupid... Thankfully the weather was good, unlike the previous year when the rain was Biblical. Have some good memories of it - saw the Waterboys before they got too far up their own arses, Echo and the Bunnymen (in a rare, rain-free headline slot on Sat eve 1985), Ian Dury, Paul Weller and many others I've forgotten.

I also made the acquaintance of a Mr. Swazi Redbeard, which caused me to temporarlly forget everything I ever knew.

[Noggin]

But there has been (according to the article, personally I find the Glastonbury Festival a tedious load of bollocks)

I used to live right next to the site, as a teenager, but I have to agree!! LOL I have loads of friends (and one family member) that love it and go as often as possible. I've been once for work and visited on a couple of Sundays (it used to be free to locals on a Sunday afternoon I think), but I just can't bring myself to go and camp and deal with all that that brings!! LOL

The music I like is in some small stages on the outskirts - but I get to go see that music live for less money, walking through less mud whenever I feel like it!!

I'd like to have gone when it was a small festival with people like Hawkwind playing, so pre 1985ish, but I was too young and didn't know about it.

We lived next door from 85, so I could have gone for the next three years. But, whilst my bro and sis went in with SDad, I really wasn't that interested. Big crowds don't appeal, and I could hear the headliners from home (pretty much! In fact, at the previous place we lived, on a clear evening with no wind (or at least, wind in the right direction!) we could almost guarantee that SDad was outside listening to the whisper of the headliners on the breeze!! LOL

Glasto is my most local large festival but i have never attended.

I have been a big festival goer since the mid 90's but Glasto has never appealed.

I always thought it was too big. I have friends who say they could walk 2 hours just to get something they forgot back at their tent!

Also - it's the clientele the fez attracts. I find it's just people attending for the sake of it, just so they can say they went to Glasto. A majority are not there for the music, they are there just for a status on social media!

It's also fucking expensive, especially as i would probably spend 90% of the time in the dance village as a lot of the other more acuostic acts don't really do it for me!

Yup. All of that. For a few years in a row a good mate went and would always text and say "you have to come next year, you'd love the music in the tent at . . . . " (which was always frikken miles from the main bit, and the camping was the same distance in the other direction!).

But, at the time, I was going to live gigs 3 times a week in various places around Somerset/Bristol and a 'record-hop' another couple of days in the week!! WTF would I want to pay a couple of hundred quid to camp (I sodding well hated camping then!) and probably get rained on and covered in mud. And if the weather is good all you can smell is the bogs!! I guess that's why most people drink or take other stuff - they don't notice the bad side then??



The main memory I have of friends going there is:

- call outs to drop off dry kit/replacement camping gear

- (most memorably) some family and friends were there for a week, arrived early and stayed on. Within a couple of days of being there I got a phone call. I was running a pub a few miles away that had a few guest rooms & bathrooms. The call said "Hi sis, can we bring a car full to the pub and use the rooms for showers and a good poo. And can you make us a decent breakfast"

Yeah - not encouraged to go!

[Felix]

I'd like to have gone when it was a small festival with people like Hawkwind playing, so pre 1985ish, but I was too young and didn't know about it.

Same reason but the Isle of Wight Festival always looked family fun but just got to large. Few small hippy ones still kicking about that we have an eye on to try and there is a group called Wild Festivals who one month may have a few band another it may be just individuals round a big camp fire singing Gin Gan Goolie. Only bit that would put the wife off is there can be no loos or shower at some meets so you need to be in a pretty much self contained van unless shitting in a bush is your thing.

[Mr. Dazzle]

60 year old man gets turned away from giving blood because he refused to say if he was pregnant

That's not the bit which made me laugh, it was his quote.

"It is nonsensical and it makes me angry because there are vulnerable people waiting for blood, including children, and in desperate need of help. But they've been denied my blood because of the obligation to answer a question that can't possibly be answered."

It definitely can be answered mate. I agree its a silly situation to turn him away, but the answer he was struggling to find was "no". Clearly making a pointless stand about answering the question was more important than donating the blood.

I've answered that q on the form a few times. The answer I give is "no", cause that's an accurate answer

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... rned-away/

[JackyJoll]

60 year old man gets turned away from giving blood because he refused to say if he was pregnant

That's not the bit which made me laugh, it was his quote.

"It is nonsensical and it makes me angry because there are vulnerable people waiting for blood, including children, and in desperate need of help. But they've been denied my blood because of the obligation to answer a question that can't possibly be answered."

It definitely can be answered mate. I agree its a silly situation to turn him away, but the answer he was struggling to find was "no". Clearly making a pointless stand about answering the question was more important than donating the blood.

I've answered that q on the form a few times. The answer I give is "no", cause that's an accurate answer

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... rned-away/

He’s being excessively cantankerous, actually refusing to donate.

The blood admin people must get hundred of eyerolls and sarcastic queries about their medical expertise every day, related to their asking men if they’re pregnant.

Very wearing.

[Horse]

60 year old man gets turned away from giving blood because he refused to say if he was pregnant



https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... rned-away/

He’s being excessively cantankerous, actually refusing to donate.

The blood admin people must get hundred of eyerolls and sarcastic queries about their medical expertise every day, related to their asking men if they’re pregnant.

Very wearing.

Quite agree that he's being an arse. I have the gold badge, so must have answered that Q a few times.

However, if the staff get hundreds of eye rolls, theycould edit the question on the sheet.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Thw whole sheet is set up so its a neat column of yes/no innit, so you can scan through at a glance and spot any "yes" boxes. A blank non answer just draws attention. That's the idea really AIUI. There's nothing more to it than that?

[Horse]

"If you are female, might you be pregnant?"

Same yes / no answer.

[JackyJoll]

"If you are female, might you be pregnant?"

Same yes / no answer.

“If you are female” doesn’t serve much purpose there.

[JackyJoll]

It’s nonsensical that the receptionist can’t assume that an old man isn’t pregnant.

But agencies and health services are full of nonsense.

[Horse]

"If you are female, might you be pregnant?"

Same yes / no answer.

“If you are female” doesn’t serve much purpose there.

But keep the old (but younger than me) duffer happy.

[JackyJoll]

Do they still ask if you get other blokes to bum you?

[slowsider]

"If you are female, might you be pregnant?"

Same yes / no answer.

What do you answer if you are Male?

If they want a line of boxes ticked...

Ask a Male if he might be pregnant, the answer is a simple 'no'. Or if they are trans, they are likely to take issue with 'if you are female'.

If the questioner starts filling in questions on behalf of the questionee just for convenience, there are potential issues with consent, imho.

[Mr. Dazzle]

If the questioner starts filling in questions on behalf of the questionee just for convenience, there are potential issues with consent, imho.

Which is ultimately why matey boy got sent home. Not because the blood people were taking a stand for trans activism, but because they can't fill in a form on his behalf.

Yes its fucking obvious he's not pregnant, but they are simply not allowed to tick the box for him and put words in his mouth, so to speak.

I take no offence at being asked if I'm pregnant by an inanimate bit of paper that asks the same universal set of Qs of everyone. Unlike this snowflake guy

[demographic]

If the questioner starts filling in questions on behalf of the questionee just for convenience, there are potential issues with consent, imho.

Which is ultimately why matey boy got sent home. Not because the blood people were taking a stand for trans activism, but because they can't fill in a form on his behalf.

Yes its fucking obvious he's not pregnant, but they are simply not allowed to tick the box for him and put words in his mouth, so to speak.

I take no offence at being asked if I'm pregnant by an inanimate bit of paper that asks the same universal set of Qs of everyone. Unlike this snowflake guy

Absolutely that^

We all have a relative like him though eh? He's sort of right on some minor technical point but everyone else in the family knows hes a doc*


*Daft Old Cu.

[Mussels]

I'm trying to find if there's a technical reason it can't be answered, like expecting a yes/no answer to 'is a wheel round?'.
So far the answer seems to be that he doesn't understand what pregnancy is

[Pirahna]

Perhaps he'd just taken a pregnancy test and the result was inconclusive.

[JackyJoll]

Perhaps he'd just taken a pregnancy test and the result was inconclusive.

Yeah he shit on it.