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Pub told to change misleading bathroom signs
Topic Started: May 18 2007, 10:21 AM (580 Views)
musicasacra
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Pub Told to Change Tricky Bathroom Signs

May 17, 4:54 PM (ET)

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) - Confusing signs on the bathroom doors at McGuire's Irish Pub have played jokes on customers for years, sending women to the men's room and vice versa.

But the father of a girl who was interrupted by a man in the women's room and Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation don't find the signs funny.

The agency recently threatened the Panhandle tourist landmark with closure for "Lack of signage properly designating bathrooms."

The state took action after the father filed a complaint, which said his 15-year-old daughter was embarrassed and left the restaurant crying after the bathroom incident.

General Manager Billy Martin has removed the signs at his Destin pub, but left them at his original pub in Pensacola.

"We're not trying to be malicious," Martin told the Northwest Florida Daily News. "It's an Irish joke kind of thing."

More than 3,000 pub patrons have signed a petition to bring the signs back.

The men's room sign has large print that reads "Ladies" and smaller text clarifying women shouldn't go in there because it's the men's room. The women's room has a similar sign.

The signs have been up for 10 years in Destin and 30 years in Pensacola.
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The men's room sign has large print that reads "Ladies" and smaller text clarifying women shouldn't go in there because it's the men's room. The women's room has a similar sign.


Sounds like some ballot initiatives and insurance policies I have seen.
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Left the restaurant crying? Oh, WTF-ever.... :rolleyes2: :dead:
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musicasacra
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if i had a little girl, i wouldn't think it was funny if men often walked into the women's bathroom . . . there is a safety issue for children.

this is a pub, however, so i am surprised to hear of a 15-yr-old girl being there . . . i wonder if it's really a pub/family restaurant?
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musicasacra
May 18 2007, 02:44 PM
if i had a little girl, i wouldn't think it was funny if men often walked into the women's bathroom . . . there is a safety issue for children.

this is a pub, however, so i am surprised to hear of a 15-yr-old girl being there . . . i wonder if it's really a pub/family restaurant?

Actually, it sounds like the girl made the mistake, and was in the wrong room, and didn't read the sign carefully enough.
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Tell her to put on her big-girl panties and STFU. :blah: :rolleyes2:
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Really.
Same goes for the dad who's making all the fuss.

Much ado about nothing.
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Riley
May 18 2007, 01:56 PM
musicasacra
May 18 2007, 02:44 PM
if i had a little girl, i wouldn't think it was funny if men often walked into the women's bathroom . . . there is a safety issue for children.

this is a pub, however, so i am surprised to hear of a 15-yr-old girl being there . . . i wonder if it's really a pub/family restaurant?

Actually, it sounds like the girl made the mistake, and was in the wrong room, and didn't read the sign carefully enough.

no, i think it was the man who was mistaken:

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But the father of a girl who was interrupted by a man in the women's room
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They are a bar and grill, but if you check Yahoo they are deemed "family friendly".


If my name was Quirt Evans, and some dude shook his d*ck off in fron of my 15 year-old daughter, I'd own the place.

Funny it may be, but no laugh is worth getting your butt sued.
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Nobody said anything about d*cks, shaking or otherwise. And if she was in fact, in the women's, there wouldn't be any urinals, only cubicles, so the chances of her seeing said d*ck are pretty slim.


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Ducks? Shaking in the ladies room? How they get there? :blink:
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Maybe it was a Toilet Duck.

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AlbertaCrude
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Or the Aflac goose duck

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sue
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Maybe they were Irish ducks, after a bit of Guinness.
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I'm a native Floridian and I think Jolly has a point. People in Florida get real freaked out over this kind of thing.

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Oh god forbid, someone should see a naked human body, or actually see a natural human excretory function taking place, for whatever blip of a millisecond!!! A breast at the Superbowl!! OMG!!! A mother breastfeeding her infant at the mall, being modest about it??! OMG!!! Just.... Oh holy sh!t!!! We can't have THAT!! F'kin' people need to lighten up. Cripes... What's next? Burkhas and veils? Pfffft...
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
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Jolly
May 18 2007, 02:30 PM
They are a bar and grill, but if you check Yahoo they are deemed "family friendly".


If my name was Quirt Evans, and some dude shook his d*ck off in fron of my 15 year-old daughter, I'd own the place.

Funny it may be, but no laugh is worth getting your butt sued.

if they decide to advertise themselves as "family friendly" meaning children will be using the restrooms, i think they should fix the signs.
and there are sickos out there who might take advantage of restroom sign confusion.
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They could hire illegal immigrants or escaped Cubans very cheaply, to act as washroom concierges to ensure there are no shenanigans.

Toilet conceirges are very common in Europe.
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May 18 2007, 07:55 PM
They could hire illegal immigrants or escaped Cubans very cheaply, to act as washroom concierges to ensure there are no shenanigans.

Toilet conceirges are very common in Europe.

yeah, and pay toilets and Turkish toilets.
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No sh1t, Sherlock.
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May 18 2007, 09:17 PM
No sh1t, Sherlock.

:lol:

i saw a Turkish toilet in a McDonalds outside of Paris. yuckie-poo!
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We used to call them bomb sights.
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May 18 2007, 04:57 PM
Oh god forbid, someone should see a naked human body, or actually see a natural human excretory function taking place, for whatever blip of a millisecond!!! A breast at the Superbowl!! OMG!!! A mother breastfeeding her infant at the mall, being modest about it??! OMG!!! Just.... Oh holy sh!t!!! We can't have THAT!! F'kin' people need to lighten up. Cripes... What's next? Burkhas and veils? Pfffft...

That's why I don't live there.

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May 18 2007, 11:56 PM
Frank_W
May 18 2007, 04:57 PM
Oh god forbid, someone should see a naked human body, or actually see a natural human excretory function taking place, for whatever blip of a millisecond!!! A breast at the Superbowl!! OMG!!! A mother breastfeeding her infant at the mall, being modest about it??! OMG!!! Just.... Oh holy sh!t!!!  We can't have THAT!! F'kin' people need to lighten up. Cripes... What's next? Burkhas and veils? Pfffft...

That's why I don't live there.

And why I do.

For some, it can be a stifling environment.

For some, it may be the last bastion of American civility and chivalry.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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Frank_W
May 19 2007, 02:57 AM
Oh god forbid, someone should see a naked human body, or actually see a natural human excretory function taking place, for whatever blip of a millisecond!!! A breast at the Superbowl!! OMG!!! A mother breastfeeding her infant at the mall, being modest about it??! OMG!!! Just.... Oh holy sh!t!!! We can't have THAT!! F'kin' people need to lighten up. Cripes... What's next? Burkhas and veils? Pfffft...

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