{"id":6755,"date":"2009-09-02T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T01:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2009-09-02T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T01:06:10","slug":"flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6755","title":{"rendered":"Flags?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found a new channel on cable last night... I forget the name; it begins with a P, I think. Whatever it's called, it seems like another MTV\/VH1 spin-off, showing only live (well, pre-recorded<\/i> live concerts) concerts, in hi-def. That's pretty cool. For now anyway. Since it's likely an MTV sibling, I give them 6 months before they're running repeats of shitty music-related movies, nostalgia clip shows and crappy celebrity reality shows, and have moved the actual concerts to two hours late Sunday night - the way all the MTV spin-offs have. Until that happens, though, hi-def concerts!<\/p>\n

Last night, they were showing some of the last Glastonbury Festival. I noticed something in the crowd that seemed especially strange to me, something that would never be allowed at shows in the US: people near the front of the stage were waving huge flags on really long poles (for example<\/a>). Unlike that link, there were dozens and dozens of them. Some were national flags from around the world, some looked like sports teams, some were homemade fan signs, one really long tall one said \"I ♥ Sausage\". And when they switched to one of the crowd-view cameras, you literally couldn't see the stage for all the flags.<\/p>\n

Why do concert venues in the UK allow \/ permit this? <\/p>\n

In America, anyone waving a flag like that for more than a couple of minutes would get his ass beat by some meathead whose girlfriend couldn't see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found a new channel on cable last night... I forget the name; it begins with a P, I think. Whatever it's called, it seems like another MTV\/VH1 spin-off, showing only live (well, pre-recorded live concerts) concerts, in hi-def. That's pretty cool. For now anyway. Since it's likely an MTV sibling, I give them 6 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}