Comments on: The Met – About As Fun As Getting Trampled By A Horse http://www.shaunoakes.com/2010/02/the-met-about-as-fun-as-getting-trampled-by-a-horse/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:06:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: stevo http://www.shaunoakes.com/2010/02/the-met-about-as-fun-as-getting-trampled-by-a-horse/comment-page-1/#comment-53408 stevo Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:53:36 +0000 http://www.shaunoakes.com/?p=2307#comment-53408 not so sure you did it right. firstly it appears you actually remember going. if you don't have a VIP tent access, then rule #1 for the MET is to rock up slaughtered. if that requires 8am don pedros, then suck it up. #2 is to sneak into a tent, and drink as much as possible before you get kicked out. i think our best ever was sneaking into a tent and evetually starting a fight with crayfish carcasses. this was after the guy nicely asked us a to leave a few times once we'd finished our drinks, but his waitress kept on bringing new ones before we were done. it was a vicious cycle. i haven't been in a year or two, but they used to allow picnic baskets in. of course they said you couldn't smuggle booze in, but you gotta know when rules are made to be broken. you honestly could have one of those coolboxes with roller wheels, drag the thing along the tarmac like you're a one team husky on the iditarod and the security oke will just look at your top layer of sarmies and chip packet and smile before waving you on. the other trick was to get 10 mates together and organise a little gazebo thing through the official hospitality partners. worked out a good deal if you could drink quicker than your mates. anyway, you should get my point. the MET is a winner if done right. and i haven't even started to go on about the ppppppperv factor with all the laydees wearing almost nothing. i really think you should give it another chance. not so sure you did it right. firstly it appears you actually remember going. if you don’t have a VIP tent access, then rule #1 for the MET is to rock up slaughtered. if that requires 8am don pedros, then suck it up.

#2 is to sneak into a tent, and drink as much as possible before you get kicked out. i think our best ever was sneaking into a tent and evetually starting a fight with crayfish carcasses. this was after the guy nicely asked us a to leave a few times once we’d finished our drinks, but his waitress kept on bringing new ones before we were done. it was a vicious cycle.

i haven’t been in a year or two, but they used to allow picnic baskets in. of course they said you couldn’t smuggle booze in, but you gotta know when rules are made to be broken. you honestly could have one of those coolboxes with roller wheels, drag the thing along the tarmac like you’re a one team husky on the iditarod and the security oke will just look at your top layer of sarmies and chip packet and smile before waving you on.

the other trick was to get 10 mates together and organise a little gazebo thing through the official hospitality partners. worked out a good deal if you could drink quicker than your mates.

anyway, you should get my point. the MET is a winner if done right. and i haven’t even started to go on about the ppppppperv factor with all the laydees wearing almost nothing. i really think you should give it another chance.

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