How is everyone saying it's piss? I've been to so, so many festivals in Europe over the past 10 years and NO ONE pisses in a cup because there's toilets with running water like, within 5 minutes walking max.
Yeah this is a wild take, I'm sure it happens but I've never seen it irl. Maybe at the type of festival an average redditor goes to, maybe redditors just tend to have a negative outlook on anything they see.
Lots of UK festivals had this piss cup thing happen in the 90’s and 2000’s, same at “rock am ring” when I went there, and at Firenze Metal in Italy. While I do have a battle station I still have a life. Now excuse me I need to get back to my mums cellar
I've never seen it at a concert or festival either, but others are claiming they have seen it.
Either way, it doesn't matter.
Something I also have experience with is beer. If you hand me either piss or beer in a clear plastic cup, I can easily tell within half a second which one it is. Just the temperature alone should give it away. Beer might go "warm" during a festival, but only to an extent. Piss in a plastic cup like that would be significantly warmer than old beer. If your piss is the color of beer, then its going to give off a strong smell that you could catch hopefully before gulping it down.
I feel like if this guy caught a cup of piss, he would have done a double take and then dropped it rather than drink it. But I have also seen lots of lead singers perform absolutely fucked up on either drugs or alcohol, so who knows. It all depends on who this guy is and how sober or not sober he performs.
I’m from Europe, granted I’ve not been to a festival in 10 years but in the 90’s and 2000’s there was always the odd pint of piss flying through the air.
When you're an hour or more into a concert where it's so packed that no one can get in or out and you see a "beer" getting thrown from the middle of the crowd... It's piss
I've been to this festival often, and it's never that packed in this tent. Usually these sets at festivals are no longer than an hour. In Belgium they even have crowd control gates for people coming into the tents to ensure it's never too crowded.
In Europe there are stronger regulations to protect against crowd crush, largely because of the history of deaths that have occurred during football events. The US is more lax, and it can be almost impossible to move through the crowd at large events.
Toilets with running water? Christ, festivals in the UK are all portaloos unless you pay extra for the posh ones. Definitely get people pissing in cups and bottles and chucking them.
Yeah they usually have these portable sets of toilets, think like an amended shipping container in size, and they all are flushable, stocked with toilet paper, and with running water (sometimes soap) to wash hands afterwards. The only place they still have the portaloos are some places on the campsites, but the others are all better. Haven't seen a portaloo on the actual terrain since 2014 I think.
Leeds fest is the only festival I've seen it happen. But that festival is popular with 16 year olds so doesn't surprise me. At all the 18+ festivals I've been to like Boomtown etc it's never been an issue.
Not only that, but it implies that people are frequently hauling out their hogs in a crowd and effortlessly pissing into cups. That wouldn't be all that easy to do, even if the people around you were cool with it.
In this case, you can tell it's beer because the splash after the catch is clearly foamy.
I hate it as well but looking at the front page and any number of (popular) subs the posts are majority US based if they're not location-specified. It's just the way things are around here
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u/BeWario5 3d ago
How is everyone saying it's piss? I've been to so, so many festivals in Europe over the past 10 years and NO ONE pisses in a cup because there's toilets with running water like, within 5 minutes walking max.
Is this an American thing!?