Stating the obvious: British festival-goers don't like disgusting bogs
Good news, capital city fest-fans: the powers that be behind the O2 Wireless Festival 2008 have identified that "dirty toilets" are the worst element of any festival experience.
Say those powers: "Seventy-eight per cent of Brits cite dirty toilets their most hated festival experience." And, helpfully enough for a day-long event, or series of them: "Forty-two per cent prefer a day-long music festival with no overnight stay." Because your own bed is the best bed.
To combat the toilet troubles, O2 is to introduce a new scheme at this year's Wireless events: the VIPee NFC Toilet. Take it away, press release...
"Using Oyster Card-like functionality, selected guests will be able to access luxury toilets on site simply by tapping an NFC wristband to a special reader, thus alleviating this festival frustration. Accessed only by those with one of O2’s exclusive NFC wristbands, the VIPee NFC Toilets will be available onsite to 100 existing O2 NFC trial participants and up to 200 O2 customers plus guest per day, all of whom will be randomly gifted an NFC wristband each day by an O2 Angel."
I'm on 3. Does that mean I'm pissing against a fence again?
Get more information on this year's O2 Wireless Festival - acts playing include Morrissey, Jay-Z, Jaguar Love, Saul Williams, Why?, Mark Ronson, Fatboy Slim, El Guincho, Cut Copy, Beck, Underworld and The National - head to their official website, here. The four one-day fests, July 3-6, are held in London's Hyde Park.
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Does this mean the other toilets will be really shitty?
What a joke this festival is.
Did the survey also say 58% of people do not prefer a day-long music festival with no overnight stay.
you said,
exactly what I was going to.
Good work!
FFS
They can't do that, can they? Priority toilets just for people who have the right phone? That's discrimination.
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Hmm, personally on hearing the results of this survey, I would've hatched a scheme to clean the existing toilets more often.
But then I guess I wouldn't be able to gouge the suckers, I mean punters for more money.
Love O2 Hate lungfuls of faeces
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Talk about obvious stats. Good grief.
Whatever next?... "Scientists have discovered that 93% of all music festivals have a line-up featuring the Afro Celt Sound System"
You could start a nice little enterprise with one of those
What's a VIP shit worth I wonder?
Would you rather go to the V Festival?
Their main selling point is the number of showers and bogs they have.
At least 85% of people say shit drugs ruins their festival experience...
Now fucking fix it organisers.
Sack the marketing exec who thought this up.
And then sack his manager for allowing it.
Two tier toilet trauma?
It's anal apartheid!


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