Britains Annual Drugsfest Claims Its First Victim

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-28059652

[whirlyhurly]

Very sad news, however it's "par for the course" at these festivals.

[EcclesCake]

I have never eaten Tipsy Drizzle Cake at Glyndebourne....never........

[Mamyalynne]

Hmmmm

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// I've been lucky enough to miss the mud. ///

Then you can count yourself lucky, because there is enough mud slinging on here, most of it in my direction.

[Graham-W]

My son, his wife and my grandson (aged 17) are all there at the moment. Last time I went, in 2002, there was a slight haze of Mary-Jane in some areas but no blatant pushing at all. Approx 150,000 punters plus staff, there's bound to be a few idiots.
Keep on Rockin'.
Incidentally, Rolf Harris appeared o0n the Pyramid stage that year. How times change.

[jno]

look at these people taking their chocolate-covered drugs!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28055811

[SeaJayPea]

There are around 200,000 people there. A number that's equivalent to the population of Luton. In that town, far more police are needed than are needed at Glastonbury. And I'd bet there's no end of drugs sold round the clubs there as well.

There will be far less crime at Glastonbury this weekend than there will be in Luton. Far fewer fights, far fewer instances of drunkenness and, dare I say it, far fewer instances of drug use.

It's not for me, my days of lying around in muddy fields are far behind me. But so are my days of hanging around in Luton town centre.

[mikey4444]

Do you know many stupid people 237SJ or is it only one or two ? Ketamine is highly dangerous, and well known for being so. Surely stupid people would take something, knowing that it is this dangerous ?

I have a zero tolerance of drugs, as any regular on AB will testify.

[Tilly2]

Reading, 1974. Rain and drugs.

[mikey4444]

Graham...what on earth is "Mary Jane " ? Not being a drug addict, I don't know what it means ...sorry !

[jno]

I'm glad you survived, Tilly.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Are you saying that I am not allowed any opinions, unless they comply with yours ? ///

Pot and kettle springs to mind.

[jno]

mikey, Mary Juana

[mikey4444]

Oh...thanks...perhaps I should have seen that bit of slang coming !

I shall add it to my ever growing list of new words that I encounter on a daily basis on AB !

[EcclesCake]

Why are you so anti drugs Mikey?

Paracetemol has quite a scary death toll and is available form just about every corner shop........

[royfromaus]

It was a tongue-in-cheek post from me, thats all.



Will you people please chill?

It's a bit much when you can't have a bit of fun at the expense of a dead drug user, mikey.

[jno]

not really slang, mikey, it's just a straight translation.

[SeaJayPea]

Mary Jane is MariJuana, Mikey.

I know that without taking any recreational drug. And I'm certainly not addicted to anything. A drug user does not have to be a drug addict. Most recreational drugs are not habit-forming.

[Tilly2]

Mikey, you must have led a very sheltered life.

[Prudie]

Quite amusing piece in the Guardian earlier this week after him from Iron Maiden called the festival too bourgeois:

How middle class are you? Take the Glasto test, even if you have no intention of chugging across clogged motorways for Kaiser Chiefs and St Billy of Bragg in a field named after Tony Benn. Do you picture yourself a) arriving in an estate car with a Cath Kidston wine cooler and the family clad in this season's Boden? b) driven by a super-useful chap who helps carry the bespoke wine cooler and macrobiotic nibbles for after Rupert Soames's party? c) hitchhiking despite your mum's warnings, with a ragged tent, no change of underwear and a diet of crisps and Heineken