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Post by weenie on Jun 9, 2011 8:19:42 GMT -8
The ones by the pit were pretty good but the ones up by the top of the hill were god-awful. Shudder. Our preggo friend (Poor kid got pregnant after buying the ticket and still came! Trooper!) had a very bad time with morning sickness in those things. For some reason it's not as easy to puke in a honey bucket if you're not totally assed?
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Post by Horned Gramma on Jun 9, 2011 8:22:53 GMT -8
Dude if I'm gonna hork at Sasquatch, I'm just gonna find a place where there aren't many people and do it in the open air. Trying to sick something up with my face stuck down a plastic shit pit would turn into an eternal cycle.
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Post by z3phyr13 on Jun 9, 2011 9:42:26 GMT -8
I walked through one campsite and over heard them talking about how one person in their crew consistently barfed IN the tent almost every night last year. So when he did it this year on the first night, they made him sleep outside the other nights.
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mrlahey
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Post by mrlahey on Jun 9, 2011 10:31:56 GMT -8
Was I just lucky or were the honey buckets a million times cleaner this year compared to 2010? The ones in the campground were amazing! Inside the venue not so much. There is nothing worse than trying to balance in a way that you wont drunkenly fall into a trough full of 80 gallons or urine. Honey Bucket has an album on their FB page from Sasquatch that I found pretty cool. www.facebook.com/?sk=lf#!/media/set/?set=a.10150190579334372.313396.109220919371
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Post by davers on Jun 9, 2011 10:35:54 GMT -8
This is from the Coachella 2011 campground rules... OK, just so I'm not confused by American/Canadian terminology again, a case is how many? 24? Man I would go through that before the end of day 1. Here's hoping they arent too strict about this. I guess as long as its not banned completly then there shouldnt be too much trouble getting it in. Just sprinkle it around different bags and areas of the car and unless they go through the car with a fine tooth comb it will seem like a reasonable amount.
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Post by Pea on Jun 9, 2011 10:38:27 GMT -8
I think everyone has a different definition of a case. I have no idea haha.
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Post by davers on Jun 9, 2011 10:44:58 GMT -8
Ususally if someone tells me to grab a case of beer I get 12, but 3 beer/ night doesnt even seem close to reasonable.
Maybe I can try to convince then that in Canada a case mean 48 beer, a box of wine, 3 (plastic) bottles of liquor and a bag of weed.
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Post by know ID yuh on Jun 9, 2011 10:49:10 GMT -8
I think everyone has a different definition of a case. I have no idea haha. Because you are half Canadian. A case is 24 beers. I got four cases in the campground last year because I am smarter than security.
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Post by Pea on Jun 9, 2011 10:50:34 GMT -8
I call both 24's and 30's racks. Sounds cooler.
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Post by chaco on Jun 9, 2011 10:51:55 GMT -8
The extent of my knowledge of Coachella is pretty much limited to this board. That being said, I definitely drunkenly convinced our neighbors at Sasquatch that I was a Coachella queen after explaining to them the 24-beer rule. They were mightily impressed.
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Post by wompwomp on Jun 9, 2011 11:09:22 GMT -8
I got in much more than 24 beer this year. I think the security search was mostly checking to make sure you weren't smuggling people in. It basically consisted of shining a flash light in my back seat and popping the trunk. It took about two minutes total.
Plus they also had a general store in the campground that sold cases of beer if you ran out. I don't remember how much they were, but I don't think it was that exorbitant.
In conclusion, yes you are allowed booze in. No you will not run out. Let's move on and talk about how awesome Daft Punk is going to be.
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Post by davers on Jun 9, 2011 11:17:36 GMT -8
A case is 24 beers. I got four cases in the campground last year because I am smarter than security. My hampster is smarter than security most of the time but that doesnt mean I might get unlucky and have my extra beers taken away. I'm pretty sure any sane person would call what my group brought to sasquatch excessive, but we still drank all of it. Losing the booze I snuck into the festival every day would be one thing, but losing an entire weekends worth would be a different thing completly. Just out of curiosity did you do anything special other than make sure they werent lying out in the open? I know for Pemberton (which didnt allow booze in the campground due to stupid Canadian liquor laws, plus the campground was all ages) we were stuffing booze in sleeping bags, filling gatorade bottles with half vodka, all kinds of stuff. Of course, none of this was necessary in the end as when 40000 people try to get into one place they dont check too hard.
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Post by wompwomp on Jun 9, 2011 11:17:58 GMT -8
I will say this though, one major downfall about cochella is that once inside the grounds, you're only allowed drinking in designated beer gardens. The beer gardens don't really have awesome views of the stage either.
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Post by davers on Jun 9, 2011 11:19:25 GMT -8
I got in much more than 24 beer this year. I think the security search was mostly checking to make sure you weren't smuggling people in. It basically consisted of shining a flash light in my back seat and popping the trunk. It took about two minutes total. Plus they also had a general store in the campground that sold cases of beer if you ran out. I don't remember how much they were, but I don't think it was that exorbitant. In conclusion, yes you are allowed booze in. No you will not run out. Let's move on and talk about how awesome Daft Punk is going to be. Fair enough, ignore my previous post, that pretty much answered everything.
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Post by Pea on Jun 9, 2011 11:37:04 GMT -8
Daft Punk is going to be freakin awesome.
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Post by know ID yuh on Jun 9, 2011 11:39:07 GMT -8
A case is 24 beers. I got four cases in the campground last year because I am smarter than security. My hampster is smarter than security most of the time but that doesnt mean I might get unlucky and have my extra beers taken away. I'm pretty sure any sane person would call what my group brought to sasquatch excessive, but we still drank all of it. Losing the booze I snuck into the festival every day would be one thing, but losing an entire weekends worth would be a different thing completly. Just out of curiosity did you do anything special other than make sure they werent lying out in the open? I know for Pemberton (which didnt allow booze in the campground due to stupid Canadian liquor laws, plus the campground was all ages) we were stuffing booze in sleeping bags, filling gatorade bottles with half vodka, all kinds of stuff. Of course, none of this was necessary in the end as when 40000 people try to get into one place they dont check too hard. From the Coachella review I partially wrote (it's not finished, having a life sometimes sucks): "I finally make it to the car search. I get out of the vehicle and get patted down. They ask me if I have any glass, and I answer no (horse pasture most of the year, broken glass and horses don’t mix well). Then a couple security guards start checking the truck. When they opened the back, there were a couple cases of beer visible. The security dude says, “How many cases of beer do you have?” Now I know a loaded question when I hear it. For some reason, I wasn’t expecting the security guard’s response to my four case admission to be, “Right on man, you’re going to get totally fucked up.” Knowing two cases were noticeably visible, and there was at least another case in the coolers, I admitted to having three. “You are only allowed one case per person,” he said. I replied, “I didn’t know that, so what are we going to do about this?” He said, “we’ll have to confiscate two cases.” As one security guard grabs a case of beer (she may or may not have been licking her lips), the security guard asks me, “are you by yourself?” I also know a door being left slightly ajar when I hear it, so I reply, “nah, I just had to work late, all my friends showed up a couple hours ago.” The security guard replies, “oh, you're meeting people inside, that’s fine then,” and they place my beer back in the truck. They didn’t check any of my bags, they were more concerned about the glass and excess beer. They didn’t find the gallon of liquor I also had with me, which I later heard was not permitted. I’m not sure how I missed the liquor and beer campground rules when reading the Coachella website. I would have done a much better job trying to hide the stash. Either way, it worked out, and I now have enough alcohol to get me good and wasted for a month."
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Post by Pea on Jun 9, 2011 11:45:09 GMT -8
If Coachella taught me one thing, it's that PBR can truly be easily consumed at any temperature.
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Post by davers on Jun 9, 2011 11:56:57 GMT -8
Thanks Gunther... I'll use that "meeting people inside" as a last resort should I be a bit lazy about hiding my booze. If Coachella taught me one thing, it's that PBR can truly be easily consumed at any temperature. This is possibly the most untrue statement on this board. Do people actually like PBR or is it just the go to beer for people because its cheap and slightly stronger? I'm usually a bit of a beer snob but at festivals I will drink anything (even the bud light our neighbours gave us on the last day), but it still has to be at least slightly cold. 2 years ago we had to try and drink a case of beer that we forgot in the car on the last night and the stuff was actually hot. Needless to say until we got it on ice the stuff went down very slowly.
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Post by Drew on Jun 9, 2011 11:58:59 GMT -8
Daft Punk will be awesome. But what do you do from a production standpoint after the pyramid show? I mean, they have to be dressed up like robots. My mind isn't capable of imagining what kind of show they'll bring. Before the pyramid show I would have said that that was impossible. There were rumors about a Tron set with a racetrack and everything, but that was before the shitty Disney-ified soundtrack actually came out. I don't think they'll do anything with that.
What I am excited for is to hear a new live show. The way they mixed their hits and paced that pyramid show made me reevaluate Human After All and Discovery. I'm sure they'll blow my mind again.
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Post by know ID yuh on Jun 9, 2011 12:26:37 GMT -8
If Coachella taught me one thing, it's that PBR can truly be easily consumed at any temperature. Yeah, so tasty. Davers, I never got around to buying ice the second and third day this year, so I invited Pea and bforeman back to my campsite for warm PBRs. They were going down quickly for me. And yes, PBR is my go to when it comes to cheap beer. I'm 25% hipster you know.
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