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21 hilarious ways Twitter suggests you can experience #EPathome

Create the festival atmosphere at home.

Sep 4th 2015, 5:35 PM 6,578 Views 3 Comments

WITH ALL YOUR mates gone off to Laois for the weekend, it can be hard not to experience a mild sense of FOMO.

Comedian Chris Williams is currently manning the Ireland Twitter account and kicked off the excellent #EPathome hashtag for all those not going to the festival in Stradbally this year.

It’s all about offering people some tips as to enjoy festival life in the comfort of their own home.

Tips like…

Put a massive flag in your garden to know where you are staying this weekend #epathome
— Ireland / Christina (@ireland) September 4, 2015

Source: Ireland \ Chris/Twitter

After work, park your car 20 mins away from where you live. #epathome #EP2015
— Ireland / Christina (@ireland) September 4, 2015

Source: Ireland \ Chris/Twitter

Hide any toilet roll and leave 1 pack of wet wipes by the bucket under the stairs. #epathome ensure that any moisture is gone by Sat PM
— Ireland / Christina (@ireland) September 4, 2015

Source: Ireland \ Chris/Twitter

1172009-oxegen-music-festivals-4-630x381 Source: Rollingnews.ie

Hide any toilet roll and leave 1 pack of wet wipes by the bucket under the stairs. #epathome ensure that any moisture is gone by Sat PM
— Ireland / Christina (@ireland) September 4, 2015

Source: Ireland \ Chris/Twitter

We joined in with a few suggestions of our own

Take an electric whisk. Apply it to the back of your hair. Repeat for three days and then try to brush. #EpAtHome
— DailyEdge (@dailyedge) September 4, 2015

Source: DailyEdge.ie/Twitter

Climb into a shrub at 4am tomorrow morning. Organise for someone to fall over you every 2 minutes. YOU'RE AT THE RAVE IN THE WOODS #EpAtHome
— DailyEdge (@dailyedge) September 4, 2015

Source: DailyEdge.ie/Twitter

Put 48 cans in a toy buggy. Kick one of the wheels off and drag it up and down the stairs for an hour #EPAtHome @Ireland
— DailyEdge (@dailyedge) September 4, 2015

Source: DailyEdge.ie/Twitter

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Soon enough, it was trending in Ireland

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Switch your wifi off and wander round the garden waving your phone in the air searching for signal till your battery dies #epathome
— Theresa Whyte (@TheresaWood2) September 4, 2015

Source: Theresa Whyte/Twitter

Leave your shoes soaking in the sink overnight then wear them to the shops in the morning #epathome
— Simon Geraghty (@SimonRPG) September 4, 2015

Source: Simon Geraghty/Twitter

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muddy-shoes Source: Waverleyharriers

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#epathome Put Other Voices on the telly and tweet that you are 'soooo into' the artiste while wishing there was an Abba Tribute act on
— Anne Marie O'Connor (@Kitsgirl1) September 4, 2015

Source: Anne Marie O'Connor/Twitter

Not flushing the toilets in the house for the entire weekend to get the real portaloo experience. #epathome
— FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF (@sofarrsogud) September 4, 2015

Source: Sean O Farrell/Twitter

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Liberally apply all available shrubbery to your hair and lecture everyone on the superiority of "their first album" #epathome
— Sarah Curristan (@curristocrat) September 4, 2015

Source: Sarah/Twitter

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Buy Lidl water and sell it to your drunk self for €5 a bottle later that night #epathome
— Harry Dineen (@theharrydineen) September 4, 2015

Source: Jonas Black/Twitter

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When you really need to pee, wait 20 more mins. Eventually allow yourself into your toilet. Hover mistrustfully over loo. Air dry. #EPAtHome
— Sinéad Keogh (@sineadkeogh) September 4, 2015

Source: Sinéad Keogh/Twitter

11/7/2009 Oxegen Music Festivals Source: /Photocall Ireland

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21 hilarious ways Twitter suggests you can experience #EPathome