BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Maybe they need to have the entrance gates manned for exit, On entry you get an exit ticket green no tent, red tent , red ticket, no tent, no exit

I suspect part of the rationale is that they want to clear sites of people as quickly as possible, so any 'friction' is avoided. Though I'd have thought having skips at the exit and asking people either to take stuff home or chuck it in the skips wouldn't be too troublesome. The teenagers in my jazz orchestra are better trained than people who leave festival sites in that state, not least as they are fully aware what the expectations are.

 

[Beebo]

I don’t want to justify their irresponsible behaviour.
But when you are young, massively hung over, cold, wet and tired it’s very easy to make a rational decision to just leave everything and get home asap.

 

[Dorset Boy]

I don’t want to justify their irresponsible behaviour.
But when you are young, massively hung over, cold, wet and tired it’s very easy to make a rational decision to just leave everything and get home asap, and then bitch about how the older generations have destroyed the planet.

FTFY

 

[Beebo]

Sadiq Khan falls foul of DVLA bureaucracy!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7708vn2yp7o

 

[C R]

Sadiq Khan falls foul of DVLA bureaucracy!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7708vn2yp7o

Sounds like the whole thing was a malicious set up.

 

[icowden]

FTFY

But you haven't. They know that they have already paid for it to be cleared up and recycled. They are paying £325 for a ticket. That includes the cost of clean up.

 

[secretsqirrel]

But you haven't. They know that they have already paid for it to be cleared up and recycled. They are paying £325 for a ticket. That includes the cost of clean up.

It is still a bad reflection on our culture, we have a reputation for being generally dirty with our culture of fly tipping and littering. Have you ever seen Japanese spectators cleaning up a stadium after the game?

 

[Psamathe]

Is it worth £12.57 to put the effort into bringing the tent back?

https://www.millets.co.uk/products/...MIi56l4LLOlgMVeJZQBh2dLhgCEAQYAyABEgILKPD_BwE

Amazon has loads of tents around the £20 mark. The problem is that tents are now effectively disposable and who wants to take a £500 tent to a festival?

Which I suppose also highlights a major issue with introducting "Right to Roam" and why some areas of Scotland are excluded from such rights.

 

[Beebo]

But you haven't. They know that they have already paid for it to be cleared up and recycled. They are paying £325 for a ticket. That includes the cost of clean up.

That’s just as bad an argument as people who don’t clear their table in McDonalds.
Claiming it’s the staff’s job.

 

[Ian H]

That’s just as bad an argument as people who don’t clear their table in McDonalds.
Claiming it’s the staff’s job.

So it bloody should be. Next thing you know, they'll be demanding you cook your own.

 

[First Aspect]

Ha ha this made me chuckle. The number of zombie employees this must have gone through at the DVLA and magistrates court is breathtaking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7708vn2yp7o

 

[Beebo]

Ha ha this made me chuckle. The number of zombie employees this must have gone through at the DVLA and magistrates court is breathtaking.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7708vn2yp7o

Look 6 posts above you

 

[briantrumpet]

This can't even remotely be true, can it?

 

[Dorset Boy]

There's tracking and there's tracking.
I imagine many parents can track the location of their kids, but will only use that occassionally.
I doubt many are using it daily.
That's what we did, and it's very useful at times.
Indeed, now we're all home together again, we can track the location of each other when we need to, again a handy thing to have, and used occassionally - eg when the son had to stay 2 hours extra at work and hadn't had time to let us know.

 

[icowden]

This can't even remotely be true, can it?

Probably. It makes my wife happy to know where the kids are and tech makes it easy to do. Apple will tell us where everyone is (apart from me) in the world. Or I can use the tile app which tracks the kids car keys and their ipods.

If my daughter is returning late at night I can see how far away she is and get a bath run. 2 days age she had a late appointment for emergency ear drops and had to go to an all night chemist in Streatham so we kept a digitial eye on them via the phone to check they were ok.

Kids are inseparable from their phones. That's the joke about antivaxxers thinking the govt is trying to track them via immunisations. Most of the population are voluntarily trackable.