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A recent survery carried out by MSN revealed that people probably spend more time at festivals drinking, taking drugs and having unwashed sex in tents than they do watching the bands. The world was not shocked at this news.
However, we don't believe the list ends with just those three activities. There must be countless things festival goers get up to (well, 15 to be precise), which don't involve music. We've rounded up the festival activities that so many people like to occupy their time with - and that probably didn't need to cost the £200-odd quid it cost to get in...
1. Sex
Urgh. There's nothing worse that waking up to the rhymic squeaking of someone else's airbed and occasional grunts in the next tent. Added to that, they probably haven't washed.
2. Stay by their tent and 'do' balloons
Who needs music when the campsite is filled with the frequent rush of balloons while teenagers gulp down as much laughing gas as their lungs can cope with.
3. Wear Kigus
Onesies? Pah. If you're not dressed as a flying red squirrel you're nothing at a festival, NOTHING.
4. Hog what few hammocks have been erected
Many festivals provide hammocks (usually about four). This number is not usually in proportion to the amount of people looking for somewhere shaded to nurse a hangover.
5. Drink everything
Oh dear
6. Mix smuggled spirits with ice-cream van soft drinks
The taste of a festival for many is not half-cooked burritos or late night pancakes - but instead is tent-warmed rum (smuggled in) badly mixed with overpriced soft drinks picked up from an ice-cream van.
7. Queue for showers
Being clean is nice - but is it worth six hours wait? (Plus, they are never as exciting as the image below suggests...)
8. Cover themselves in glitter
Ke$ha has a lot to answer for.
9. Carry overpriced crates of booze from one location to another
Where have they got them from? Where are they taking them? Some people seem to spend entire weekends stuck in an eternal loop of unloading their car
10. Pick up recyclable cups in exchange for beer tokens
It's not worth the £5 you make spending hours scooping up crap off the floor. Seriously.
11. Mud-slides
Yeah. Never worth it. Then it's off to the shower queue (see above)
12. Build human pyramids
Got to feel bad for the poor guy at the bottom when it all collapses
13. Queue for hours to have their phone charged so they can tweet about how much they're enjoying their festival experience
Just take an old Nokia
14. Fairground rides
After three days of drinking, jumping in mud and tweeting like your life depended on it, being spun around 20 feet off the ground is a great idea right? Right?
15. Work out how to pee when wearing a morph suit/onesie
You got to feel bad for females at a festival
16. Set fire to stuff
Not cool
