NFR NFC 2017 - The friendly thread for lovely people

[Quark]

13 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

 That's kind of what I aim for - except when I'm smashed and don't really know what my intentions are, other than the posts being some sort of personal catharsis.

Got a group of friends like this yog. Mates from school that meet up every few months for a beer. Friend of one of the guys asked if he could join one day, answer was sadly no. He was told that these days were 10% news 40% old jokes and 50% therapy sessions

Whatever helps Yog. Hope you're coming out the other side of this one

[dizzymoo]

1 hour ago, Quark said:

Got a group of friends like this yog. Mates from school that meet up every few months for a beer. Friend of one of the guys asked if he could join one day, answer was sadly no. He was told that these days were 10% news 40% old jokes and 50% therapy sessions

Whatever helps Yog. Hope you're coming out the other side of this one

What a lovely and rare thing Q.  Most of the males I know would rather talk about anything except emotions - though I suppose I could just be unlucky in knowing a lot of emotional fuckwits!

[sheffieldlady]

I'll also be on hand resale day to offer help for getting tickets @Yoghurt on a Stick would be lovely to meet you and Mrs Yog! I'm going to be brave and come to the meet. That offer obviously extends to anyone else requiring tickets! The more interesting, wonderful and kind hearted people that I can chat to at the farm - the better
 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

2 hours ago, Quark said:

Got a group of friends like this yog. Mates from school that meet up every few months for a beer. Friend of one of the guys asked if he could join one day, answer was sadly no. He was told that these days were 10% news 40% old jokes and 50% therapy sessions

Whatever helps Yog. Hope you're coming out the other side of this one

I know exactly what you are saying Quark. For about the first 15 years of going to Glastonbury I only ever went to spend a few days camping with my mates - the music, dance, theatre etc was superfluous. Still is to a major extent. A lot of them are almost life long friends and the others feel that way. We've had strangers enter the group and they've not blended. Then again we've had strangers enter the group (at high velocity in Waapsters case!) and just slip in fine. However, there are some nights in life when one shouldn't risk introducing new people because it really is meant to be an 'old times' night.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, sheffieldlady said:

I'll also be on hand resale day to offer help for getting tickets @Yoghurt on a Stick would be lovely to meet you and Mrs Yog! I'm going to be brave and come to the meet. That offer obviously extends to anyone else requiring tickets! The more interesting, wonderful and kind hearted people that I can chat to at the farm - the better
 

Hello sheffieldlady,

For some reason I already have you on my list of 'helpers'. Did you mention this before and I forgot to say thank you? I hope not. In anycase, thank you big time. It's really nice / re-assuring that people care.

Don't miss the meet up whatever you do. The last one that I went to was the highlight of that Glastonbury for me. The only downside was that I can't remember people's names (In my youth, I once went out with a girl, before she rather sensibly dumped me, for three weeks without knowing her real first name. All I knew was her nickname).

[stuartbert two hats]

2 hours ago, Quark said:

Got a group of friends like this yog. Mates from school that meet up every few months for a beer. Friend of one of the guys asked if he could join one day, answer was sadly no. He was told that these days were 10% news 40% old jokes and 50% therapy sessions

Whatever helps Yog. Hope you're coming out the other side of this one

We have something similar, except we always get a bit too smashed for effective therapy!

[lucyginger]

Morning! 

It's ridiculously foggy here today. A real pea souper, as they say! 

Hope we're all well, I've got a bit of a sniffle again but I'm sure I'll survive! 

[carlosj]

Morning all, clear skies in Leeds, sniffle city though with my extended man flu. 2 days off and the CV ticket sale makes me think it's the festival next week. Logging on to help about 4 people including me for tickets, then driving the youngest to her play rehearsals and MrsCJ's retail therapy in York. Today is sound tracked by John Grant. Another Park favourite.

[noplacelikehome]

Afternoon, all well done to those who got sorted with CV tickets - blimey they sold out quick this year!  Carlos- manflu here as well and good choice on the soundtrack, Mr Grant will be on my playlist on my drive up to York tonight.

[Funkyfairy!]

Thanks to @frostypaw I have a cv East ticket - phew :-). I was totally blase about van tickets and honestly thought it would be no hassle. 3 of us trying from here and not a sniff - until an efester came to the rescue - so pleased

Regroup time, and I have one ticket to get for our camping buddies who have their tickets and I had wrongly presumed would know about the cv tickets today - I messaged them after we had our tickets only to find out the lead bookers email about cv tickets had gone into his spam, he's having buiding works done and had no idea sale day was today. Gutted isn;t the word - so resale time it is. I managed to get a van ticket for a friend in May last year so have every hope that I will at some point get his for him too before the festival (with the help of these forums )

Truely love these boards and groups :-)

[dizzymoo]

4 hours ago, Funkyfairy! said:

Thanks to @frostypaw I have a cv East ticket - phew :-). I was totally blase about van tickets and honestly thought it would be no hassle. 3 of us trying from here and not a sniff - until an efester came to the rescue - so pleased

Regroup time, and I have one ticket to get for our camping buddies who have their tickets and I had wrongly presumed would know about the cv tickets today - I messaged them after we had our tickets only to find out the lead bookers email about cv tickets had gone into his spam, he's having buiding works done and had no idea sale day was today. Gutted isn;t the word - so resale time it is. I managed to get a van ticket for a friend in May last year so have every hope that I will at some point get his for him too before the festival (with the help of these forums )

Truely love these boards and groups :-)

So pleased for you FF.  We were lucky enough to nab east tickets shortly before they ran out. Went back to booking page to try to help someone else - it kept saying unavailable rather than sold out and occasionally giving options for ordering, but I had to go out so couldn't persevere for long.  Accommodation tickets seem to go back on sale almost randomly so maybe it's worth setting Neil's page monitor on it? Fair number of people posting on cv/worthy view ticket thread seem to have duplicate cv tickets again as See didn't stop registration numbers being used to buy more than one - maybe your friends could come to an arrangement?

[Quark]

19 hours ago, dizzymoo said:

What a lovely and rare thing Q.  Most of the males I know would rather talk about anything except emotions - though I suppose I could just be unlucky in knowing a lot of emotional fuckwits!

Advantage of 25+ years I guess dizzy! Between us we've had anxiety attacks, marriage breakdowns, redundancies, health scares and everything in between, so plenty to talk about

18 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

We have something similar, except we always get a bit too smashed for effective therapy!

That is the therapy!

Glad you got your ticket sorted FF, will try and catch up on everything when I'm back home but hope you're all well!

[carlosj]

2 hours ago, Quark said:

Advantage of 25+ years I guess dizzy! Between us we've had anxiety attacks, marriage breakdowns, redundancies, health scares and everything in between, so plenty to talk about

That is the therapy!

Glad you got your ticket sorted FF, will try and catch up on everything when I'm back home but hope you're all well!

I am lucky to have 'peer networking' which involves all this on a monthly basis, but includes geeking over the beer too, and adding details in the 'untappd' beer app. One of us is a beer snob and only drinks cask ale, but the rest of us will sup any nice beer.

So, with some building works in our room, we may be camping tonight, in the front room. Wonder how MrsCJ will react to me having the large Lenor bottle for a nighttime wake up, for the true Glastonbury camp experience.

[sheffieldlady]

22 hours ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

Hello sheffieldlady,

For some reason I already have you on my list of 'helpers'. Did you mention this before and I forgot to say thank you? I hope not. In anycase, thank you big time. It's really nice / re-assuring that people care.

Don't miss the meet up whatever you do. The last one that I went to was the highlight of that Glastonbury for me. The only downside was that I can't remember people's names (In my youth, I once went out with a girl, before she rather sensibly dumped me, for three weeks without knowing her real first name. All I knew was her nickname).

I must have already offered my help. I chickened out of the NFC meet this year, usually I'm quite open to meeting new people. I have no idea why I'm finding it such a scary idea. I'll be there though  

Was the reason for the her dumping you because you didn't know her name? I like that somewhere else, there's someone saying she once went out with someone and he only knew her nickname. 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

1 hour ago, sheffieldlady said:

Was the reason for the her dumping you because you didn't know her name? I like that somewhere else, there's someone saying she once went out with someone and he only knew her nickname. 

No, I think the reason that she dumped me was because I was so painfully shy back then that I could barely hold a conversation with her. I only have brothers in my family, I went to an all boys secondary school, and I was raised as a Roman Catholic ie. I was actually scared of the opposite sex and hadn't got a clue how to communicate with them. This wasn't a one off either - another girl ditched me for exactly the same reason in that I couldn't put a sentence together to talk to her. Both girls found other partners within about a week of us breaking up (not that we were exactly a firm item together in the first place).  I think I was about 21 before I had my first real long term relationship.

[lucyginger]

Helloo!! Happy Friday! 

Yog, girls are weird at the best of times, that doesn't help! 

[carlosj]

Just now, lucyginger said:

Helloo!! Happy Friday! 

Yog, girls are weird at the best of times, that doesn't help! 

Yep, they are. I'm heavily outnumbered in this house.

Happy Friday everyone. An unusual drum and bass track on the radio is getting me to refill the loft at 320 beats a minute. No wonder Ben's so quick if that's what he listens to.

[lucyginger]

36 minutes ago, carlosj said:

Yep, they are. I'm heavily outnumbered in this house.

Happy Friday everyone. An unusual drum and bass track on the radio is getting me to refill the loft at 320 beats a minute. No wonder Ben's so quick if that's what he listens to.

You have a lot in common with my Dad, as I'm one of 3 girls so he is outnumbered too! 

I think you're onto something there Carlos, maybe Ben needs to get a bit of Debussy on his ipod! 

[mr gumby]

2 hours ago, carlosj said:

 No wonder Ben's so quick 

Finbarr!  

[mr gumby]

1 hour ago, lucyginger said:

You have a lot in common with my Dad, as I'm one of 3 girls so he is outnumbered too! 

I think you're onto something there Carlos, maybe Ben needs to get a bit of Debussy on his ipod! 

D to the Bussy was the Dillinja of the late 19th century! He took chromaticism into the mainstream, fucking hardcore!

[lucyginger]

49 minutes ago, mr gumby said:

D to the Bussy was the Dillinja of the late 19th century! He took chromaticism into the mainstream, fucking hardcore!

Ooh I do love a good chromatic scale! 

[mr gumby]

27 minutes ago, lucyginger said:

Ooh I do love a good chromatic scale! 

I bet you do, you saucy minx!  

[lucyginger]

19 minutes ago, mr gumby said:

I bet you do, you saucy minx!  

I'm quite a fan of the incidental as well  

[mr gumby]

27 minutes ago, lucyginger said:

I'm quite a fan of the incidental as well  

Well, that's just disgusting! 

[lucyginger]

1 hour ago, mr gumby said:

Well, that's just disgusting! 

Thanks!! 

Well it's been a busier Friday than I would have liked, so I'm off home soon to do some high quality sitting down doing naff all. Have a good evening everyone!