Went to burning man 15 years ago.

This is not hyperbole : the most fun I ever had

And I’ve lived a life of fun

Nowhere near as exciting as Burning Man. But I was at Reading '05 in the UK. The year of the Reading camping riots. It was insane. All out debauched celebration alongside morons being in charge of camping equipment whilst inebriated. This amounted to gas canisters and fireworks placed casually on the tops of campfires, leading to one guy having his balls shredded by shrapnel as he walked too close to one of the pires.

I witnessed a few walking wounded, stumbling to make their way to medical help, dripping with blood, being hindered by the utter chaos that filled the 'roads' between campsites. People were clinging to the sides of fire engines as they tried to wade through the drunken zombies, a group pushed an ice cream truck over with the operator still inside and the marshals all got trapped in their crows nests and pelted with all sorts of projectiles (including flaming) whilst people set their tents and remaining equipment on fire below instead of having to clean them up and cart them home.

I've never been in a situation like it. Utterly surreal, super scary but also kinda dumb fun at the time when you're 17... I can remember the festival being quite good before all hell broke loose on the last night!

Uses to go to Mountain Jam at Hunter Mountain in NY almost every year. It’s still a smaller event than the big ones and I think it makes a huge difference. It’s amazing but I haven’t been since before the pandemic. Camping with a couple thousand of your closest friends that you’ve never met while live music plays all day and night is incredible. Just migrating between campsites and sitting down for beers with everyone while they do the same with your campsite is a lesson to humanity.

Last year I went to "Rock to the park", a free Colombian rock/metal festival. I went inside the "pogos" (mosh pits), some sort of way of violent dancing common in metal concerts, where everybody pushes everybody. I stayed there basically all night, despite being a very thin and physically weak person.

I think it was the most fun I've ever had in a social event.

Sample video of a pogo

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If it's the Canadian version of Burning Man, the craziest thing you'll probably see is people littering.

Never been to burning man but I would have loved to have tried it. I did go to Bonnaroo for 4 years straight and 6 years total. Almost a 7th but the fest was legit cancelled an hour before we were going to start driving. And yeah so many amazing stories to count. The first year going holds a special place in my heart since it opened me up to a whole new world. I went with friends who knew other friends. Campsite was about a dozen of us and made new friends for life after that. It's overload being able to not only have some of the best moments ever, but also see some of your favorite bands where some will do something you may never see elsewhere. Wish I could do this again someday, but I do think we are all done at this point sadly. I did say when we get really old like late 50's we should go back in style. We ran into several older groups of people that had hilarious stories to tell and I kind of want to be them haha.

I’ve been to a few festivals but never burning man. Mostly when I was in my late teens and early twenties. The combination of camping with best friends, being young and carefree, smoking weed and using hallucinogens, and listening to fun live bands was fucking amazing. So many hilarious and awesome stories, it’s hard to choose just one to share. Would love to experience it all again some day.

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