Festival Wrist Bands
So it has been almost ten months and people still have them on.
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they just like them I guess.
I like wristbands that I get when I go to gigs/clubs/whatever - although I usually take them off within a week because they're paper and get all messed up, I will probably keep my reading one on for some time |
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Why though?
It's like me buying an expensive shirt and keeping the price tag on, there is no need for it. It looks daft and is essentially showing off. |
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it is kind of showing off I guess, but I like wristbands, I usually keep the paper ones on for a while until they start to rip/get really messed up etc. Most people don't know what the paper ones are for anyway, I just like them because I do :/
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That's for enough, it's just the reading ones seem to be making a point. It just seems weird people are still wearing them ten months on.
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I've been wearing my wristband for about 10 months now. I'd feel naked without it now.
I started wearing it because I back when I was fat I never had any trouble taking them off, and this one I couldn't... so kinda turned it a badge of honour :) Oh, and it's from some random concert (johnossi!), but I do get a lot of flak from semi-random people who think I'm showing off though.. they usually do apologize when I say from where and why. |
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There is the minor incentive of free beer next time (at some festivals).
But generally I think it's drunken idiots agreeing to beer bets on the sunday night. So, whoever loses the wristband first, before the next year, has to buy everyone else a case of beer. It works out at about 50quid for me. :( |
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It's proof that you've been to a festival and have a social life I guess. Other people wear t-shirts with "New York City" written on them because they've been there (although others wear those t-shirts even though they haven't been there, but to make it look like it).
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its being a pretentious **** though, really.
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i've got all my wristbands from the festivals I went to 98' to 03, they are nice and safe in a draw somewhere. I never kept them on for more than a week, although one of the lad's I went with always kept his on for ****ing months afterwards.
I thought it was gay then, and I think it's gay now. |
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I take them off as soon as I can. I had to wear one for i30, and it annyoed the tits off of me, especially at night. I also had one for my End of Year Ball last night, that came off as soon as I got home
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You seriously need to grow up dude, seriously how old are you? At a certain age you don't care about wristbands and you certainly can't consider them show offs or pretentious anymore. Get a ****ing life. |
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yeah because trying to keep up a healthy lifestyle that besides health reasons also results in having better and more sex is really comparable to whining about teenage trends as an adult. you really got me there champ |
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I'm confused. What are they made of? Do you shower with them on or put them back on afterwards?
Editing in disbelief at the post above this one. |
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(and that was my first post in the thread, keep up muscleman) |
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Oh thank you for you deeper insights in my own life and expertise on delicate subjects like health and lifestyle. I knew I especially could learn from the ones over here with planetarion alliances written in their signatures. |
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Perhaps next time you feel like a posting spree you can move away from inane replies to threads and dropping in the fact that once in a while a female actually deigns to touch you, and instead actually contribute something useful. |
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hey furball, i think you're jealous because there might be an element of truth to ss' stories and you're jealous of that :(
ss 4eva |
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omg u r so banned |
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Well I was just pointing out that I find Deffeh's reply pathetic, like most of his posting lately. I still think it's retarded to be busy with stuff like 'wristbands on teenagers are pretentious'. Somehow you felt the need to jump in and act cool and brave because hey that's what i've seen you doing all the time since you post over here, trying to become one of the locals by asskissing the irc core. I retort and you start dumping the 'contribute or shut up' card.
You tire me. edit: Yeah I know you're a mod, you don't have to drop that every now and then. Same advice as I gave to Deffeh. Get. A. ****ing. Life. |
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Right, so do people wear them while showering or take them off and put them back on again?
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God SilverSmoke, we're all sitting in #forums and laughing at you coming along and making an ass of yourself. You're a joke. You might have been 'cool' back in the way (doubt it) but times have changed, the internet's moved on. Don't keep coming back to GD and expecting everyone to treat you the same because IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN, no-one gives a shit about a vain dutch geek who spends all of his waking hours feeling his biceps and posting pictures of himself on the internet. 'GD regulars' can tell you quite clearly how me being a mod makes absolutely no difference. I have no power here, it'd be stupid of me to pretend otherwise. GD remains what it always has been - one of the best forums of its type because no-one takes themselves too seriously. Perhaps you should post a thread asking for some tips since you clearly need some help on that front. You come here and tell us to "get a ****ing life". But you're the one who came back here. Where's yours gone? |
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wow.
you really care about the quality of the internet furball also Quote:
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Eh sorry did you attack me with a wall of text? You can use thousands of words saying that you hide between the term GD, but I was speaking to you. Your posting reeks of desperation. First you try to impress me by speaking for GD then you throw stuff out of your arse. GD did move on indeed, and you are so 2002 still. I know you can't do anything with your modship, you also seem to know that. Then stop posting about it every time, it doesnt make you look harder or anything. Now stop posting, stop thinking for me or GD. You are trying too hard. ps; As far know I have never been more cooler 'back in the days'. However, back in the days people used to get laughed at that when they wave with the 'lol we are laughing at you on irc' card. Stop throwing the we stuff at people, don't be a little cowardish asscretin and stop hiding behind a group. It's just the internet, your life will not be affected by your so loved GD. Also, I can only lol back to people that think it's an insult to get laughed over by a bunch of guys hanging on an irc network like if it's their most important socializing spot because let's be honest, last time I've been there, for most of these people it is. |
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I'm probably the only person in this thread who thinks that Furball has managed to make himself look like a total jackass. Get bent.
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I used to shower with a watch on until my arm turned green =( |
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someone wheel out the dramallama for this thread before its too late guys.
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Why are you and a lot of other people hating against the idea of showing off with a t-shirt? (assuming that you mean shirts with bandnames and such) Do they intimidate you? |
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At least, that's why I wear band tees/hibs tops. People who's rationalisations go along the lines of 'I wear this Joy Division T-shirt because i like that love has torn us away song and I hear they are popular' obviously win less approval. Is this a circuitous and flawed argument? Possibly. Oh well. |
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I wore my Reading band for many months. Partly because I like to have it as a reminder of a great weekend and partly because I didn't want to cut it to get it off.
I eventually did though and pinned it on my notice board. I'll pobably do the same thing this year. |
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I love it when people other than me show off their internet rage. Thanks furball and SS, you're both bastions of internet seriousness! <3
I can see why people wear bands for festivals. For anyone over the age of 20 (ie not a teenager) it's a little silly. You can't really judge someone on it though as it's really just another fashion item - albeit more expensive/harder to get hold of. Which in some ways validates it more as a fashion item than something like trainers or a t-shirt. Criticism for it should beon the same level as for any fashion item. |
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I'd take festival wristbands off after a day.
Maybe keep it somewhere to remind me of the event but that's about it. |
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It's the equivalent of a parking ticket worn around your wrist. The only possible reason why you would wear one of these things is to suggest to other people that "you were there", and that by implication you are somehow cooler than they are. This is bollocks. Fashion is bollocks too, but this is worse. |
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Sometimes inaction is the best course of action.
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Bracelets/sweatbands are mass produced and people wear those. What's the difference, except that festival ones are in short supply and "represent" something*? *I'm not defending them, I think they're ridiculous. But they really are just another fashion item. |
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PS I'm going to keep my Glastonbury one on up until the Summer Meet just to annoy pig there :salute:
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This sort of thing (whether it's wearing a wrist-band, or wearing a band/cult t-shirt / lapel badge) seems to be an easy way of advertising your interests to the world. It doesn't cost much (if anything) and is going to have a generally positive impact on social interaction. Especially if it's something like a festival wristband, it's not like people are going to come up to you in a pub and threaten to bottle you because you went to Reading instead of Leeds.
On the other hand, it does make social interaction slightly easier (if only for other people). Some people have some difficulty walking up to a stranger and saying "Hi, my name is..." completely out of the blue, whereas it's much easier to make a comment about a band the person is saying they like (or whatnot). 've lost count of the conversations that people have started with me because I was wearing a slightly obscure geek reference t-shirt, or some band. While some of the conversations I've had were not necessarily the greatest of my life, I'd have to say overall they've been positive. In another instance, I left my wallet on the bus and someone handed it in. I speculate that the person who handed it in was more likely to hand it in because he and I were both wearing punk t-shirts (you may dismiss this as absurd of course). Given the general level of alienation/atomisation in this world any low-cost measure which can make communication between like-minded people easier is appreciated. (Among those of us who haven't made the strides towards constantly socially-comfortable Ubermensch that is). |
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Because they're faggots. I'm now going to read this thread and see if anyone pre-empted my comment. |
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You're a faggot. |
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I'm pretty sure there is a correlation between the persons caring about other persons wearing wristbands and bandname t-shirts and such and their succes in life be it in their work environment relationshipwise or in their overal feeling of being happy maybe they need to get the message louding like focussing your energy on more important matters because guess who are the real faggots I could be wrong though I could (hello misserable ****s, you know it's about you).
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