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Burning Man - Bigger than ever - 68,000
andrewsw16
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That is one big group of folks. [:D] Take a look at the pictures to get a sense of the scale of things.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2406228/Burning-Man-Nevadas-experiment-desert-popular-Nearly-70-000-gather-weekend-debauchery.html?ICO=most_read_module
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2406228/Burning-Man-Nevadas-experiment-desert-popular-Nearly-70-000-gather-weekend-debauchery.html?ICO=most_read_module
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That is wild! Half-naked hippie girls! Looks like plenty of free love up for grabs at Burning Man.
My neighbor went to that festival 5 years ago. He is an actor who lives usually in New York City so he fit right in. He had a great time.
Thats a lot of cake at $380 a pop.
HUH? What's $380? Admission?
If it is anything like the Rainbow Family yearly gathering, these 'radically self-sufficient' dweebs have cleaned out every Food Pantry and Social Service organization for 200 miles in any direction.
So, what's the coherence? Some cockamamie religious gathering?
Rampant drugs there?
I'm too old to know. So, someone has to 'splain it to me. Best.
So, I guess, you go up to a half naked hippie chick at Burning Man and say, "Hey, baby, want to come back to my RV and pop a Vicodin and have a glass of wine" and you have got it made.
No doubt, booze, pills and pot in abundance.
It is not a religious gathering, I think you guessed right it is kind of a latter-day Woodstock. They sit out in the desert at midnight, smoke pot and bang on bongo drums and light the man-figure on fire.
Oh not safe for work or kids.
The smell of B.O. and patchouli oil must be overpowering....[xx(]
That's what I thought when I saw those pics, they must stink. nasty lazy obama voters
some people might call them freaks. some of them might think wearing a suit to work 60hrs a week is freakish, or paying so much in interest on a mortgage and so on. to each their own i suppose. they dont bother me, i dont bother them.
some people might call them freaks. some of them might think wearing a suit to work 60hrs a week is freakish, or paying so much in interest on a mortgage and so on. to each their own i suppose. they dont bother me, i dont bother them.
...I think you guessed right it is kind of a latter-day Woodstock.A signficant difference is that a ticket to Woodstock went for $8.
I've read that admission to Burning Man will run you $650.
68k weirdos, I know a fellow from California that attends, weird as hell, libtard tree hugger type. This would be a great place for some kind of disaster [:o)]
LOL!!!!!
If attendees are expected to bring everything they need, and haul off all their sewage and trash, where does the money go?
Who gets the money? What do they do with it?
If attendees are expected to bring everything they need, and haul off all their sewage and trash, where does the money go?
it goes into the various exenses associated with the event. take for example the trash fence.
sure, you're "expected" to haul your own garbage, but theres plenty left blowing around. they erect a fence around the camp to catch it all. then people, who i assume are being compensated, go around and collect it.
http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/about_burningman/ticketprices.html
Who gets the money? What do they do with it?
If attendees are expected to bring everything they need, and haul off all their sewage and trash, where does the money go?
it goes into the various exenses associated with the event. take for example the trash fence.
sure, you're "expected" to haul your own garbage, but theres plenty left blowing around. they erect a fence around the camp to catch it all. then people, who i assume are being compensated, go around and collect it.
Who gets the money? What do they do with it?
If attendees are expected to bring everything they need, and haul off all their sewage and trash, where does the money go?
That's BLM land out there and you can't set up a commercial operation on it without permits and fees. The event's promoters pay a couple of million in fees to the Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada county it's located in.
The ticket fee I stated is full price, but this can vary. For example, they offer group tickets, low income tickets ($190), etc. However, even after their local/federal usage fees, fence building (it's a plastic one), toilet facilities, ticket processing (which they claim runs almost $500,000), etc. you're still probably talking millions left over.
As I said, this ain't Woodstock.
That is not taking into account t-shirt sales. But maybe they "gift" the t-shirts since that is one of the cornerstones of Burningman.
Here is their expenses in 2011, they have a 7 million dollar payroll.
You can bet its about the money.
68k weirdos, I know a fellow from California that attends, weird as hell, libtard tree hugger type. This would be a great place for some kind of disaster [:o)]
Bingo! and...whatever floats their boat. Somebody is getting rich over the thing.
I must be growing up.
Somehow I doubt it.