A Miracle!

[M Holmes]

Amazingly, for the fist time since 2001 we got Glastonbury tickets.
Looks like we'll be out of Hawkfest and into Glasters. Anyone else
going?

Of course this wasn't without hassle. Everyone had to submit photos this
year to support Eavis's perverse pogrom on ticket touts. Thus all Eavis
really had to do was run a lottery which allocated tickets to one in
three of those who registered their photographs.

But no, this was too simple for the people who have previously had a
substantial fraction of the nation waste multiple man-hours redialling
critically overtaxed phone lines. So we had to get up early on a Sunday
morning to travel to work to take advantage of fast comms and press
Reload a thousand times each to get tickets. No doubt some pressed ten
thousand times before giving up. A national RSI epidemic is now predicted...

I do hope I meet the man. Perhaps he can be persuaded that ticket touts
are simple people arbitraging a price mismatch in favour of those who
want tickets and that if he really wants them out of the loop then the
most sensible thing is for he himself to auction tickets on the web so
that they are sold at the market-clearing price. As an added bonus,
those hundreds of thouands of man-hours would be available for more
productive use, and the charities favoured by the festival would
probably have a multiple of the current money made available to them.

In short: Glastonbury Fayre needs Laissez Faire.

FoFP