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Really? That's good of them! At my work I get friendly ACCESS DENIED messages if I try to look at anything vaguely interesting. Hence all my evening net time now. Btw, Keef, whereabouts do you camp at Glastonbury?
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Bailey, try the top tip that I think I got from Physic, in order to be able to see "Denied" sites. I can see eBay from work now
Go to Altavista, the URL is this,. Bottom left of the page is the box for "Translate a web page". Put the address of the Access Denied site in the box, then for the language select "Chinese simp to English". Click on "Translate" and Bob est ton oncle, no my uncle's name is Nelson.
Of course this won't work if access to Altavista is denied. Hmmm.
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quote:Originally posted by Bailey: Really? That's good of them! At my work I get friendly ACCESS DENIED messages if I try to look at anything vaguely interesting. Hence all my evening net time now. Btw, Keef, whereabouts do you camp at Glastonbury?
We went in caravans and motorhomes for a couple of years but last year we camped and I think we'll be in the same place again this year. Towards the top of Pennard's hill* is the place to be. We'll be getting there Wednesday evening, it's a little bit of a hike but lovely once you're set up. There'll be about 15-20 of us in our group I think (I don't know all of them, btw) and you're quite welcome to join us if you want. We normally get an area cordoned off, campfire and gazeebo in the middle, all the tents around it. Classy. Pass me some pear cider.
* If you're not sure which bit Pennard's hill is, look here, it's the bit on the left where the campsite just touches the edge of the photo. You can even make out our gazeebo on the large version of the map!
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As I faliled miserably to get a ticket, if I go to Pennards Hill now, bury myself - using a couple of straws to breathe through, will you dig me up when you get there?
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Thanks Hippy, I will bear that in mind next time I actually have some spare time in which to look at fun sites!
Keef - we camp in Park Home, so I know where you mean! That's a cool photo you linked to. There's a gang of us camping together already and we also have a ginormo-tent and gazebo, though a meet-up would be good. We should be there Wednesday afternoon I think.
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Friday 10th June 2005 Faithless Razorlight Supergrass Idlewild The Black Velvets The Mighty Roars
Saturday 11th June 2005 Morrissey Roxy Music Goldie Lookin Chain More T.B.C.
Sunday 12th June 2005 R.E.M. Snow Patrol Embrace The Magic Numbers The Subways Caravan
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That looks coll. I can't go to Glasto again this year because of wanky advertising industry stuff, but am thinking very hard about trying to manage another one.
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I was trying to persuade one of the Dicks to go to IOW with me as I like the indie rock flavour of the line up, however he's already going to Glastonbury (with me), plus V Chelmsford and is talking about Reading for the odd day as well. He therefore couldn't be persuaded into IOW :bah:
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This is the trouble Hippychick. Everyone with any sense is going to Glasto and therefore are reluctant to go to another fest. I reckon they'll be a lot of people at IOW on their own!
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quote:Originally posted by Physic: I'm currently highly tempted by Download 2005, but I doubt that's to most people round here's taste.
Oh my word, that looks so bloody good. I'm slightly confused as to the sunday line up though. Are SOAD really bigger than Slayer or Slipknot? That seems surprising to me.
Thorn and myself saw Slayer and Slipknot not long ago, and it really was probably the second best gig i've been to in the last 5 years.
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I think SOAD are pretty big right now aren't they? Got a pretty glowing review in this weeks Kerrang for some gig they did recently. I think most of that lineup sounds rather good, Lordi and Apocalyptica are both playing, and having seen both of them live in the last few months I can tell you they both rocked my socks off, if Mikee was about I imagine he'd concur. What do you say Thorn, fancy a weekend of moshing and camping? Posts: 2337
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How are the preparations going Glasto-goers?
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That reminds me I need to ask my mate Dick No. 2 where he got his exce army surplus rain poncho.
We are currently thinking of taking black tie stuff with us as then we could get into the Casino after the bands stop.
I'm also thinking shit I didn't do anything to my tent last year after I packed it away soggy on the Sunday afternoon prior to our departure after Muse. It's probably full of mildew and/or rotten through .
Arse.
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Black tie. Yes, I've thought about doing that in the past but never got round to it. You can hire penguin suits at the casino though, I think?
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Do you have your tickets yet H1ppy? They tried to deliver mine on Friday when I wasn't here. No card through the door, no email or phone message. The only reason I know this in fact is because the ticket tracker on SeeTickets.co.uk told me. This SMS company who are delivering them are certainly living up to their reputation for being one of the worst couriers out there...
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Apparently they've tried to deliver mine twice now: Friday and yesterday. I didn't get a card but have had two emails instead.
Unfortunately when you ring the "24 hour" number to rearrange delivery you either get put in a holding queue (10 minutes yesterday afternoon till I gave up) or into the automated system which requires that you dictate the courier reference - and since it's about 20 digits long it's a bit of a farce getting an automated voice recognition system to work out the right number. I may try again now but will otherwise give up and ring tomorrow, alongside the other 60,000 people who will no doubt be doing the same thing.
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SMS seemed okay to me when they delivered my bad religion tickets this week, didn't leave a card but sent me an email to tell me they'd tried to deliver, I arranged a re-delivery to my work 2 days later via their website and they turned up as promised mid-afternoon in reception, maybe I got lucky?
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I tried the SMS phone line again at about 10 last night and instead of trying to dictate the reference I got the automated system to look me up by postcode/name/address. I have hopefully arranged for them to deliver the tickets direct into my hot sweaty palm at my work address on "the next available delivery date" which may be today (but is probably tomorrow.)
Fingers crossed! but it's quite hard to type that way.
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