14-08-2018, 05:04 PM
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Re: Pub/Restaurant/Shop Etc. Says Loos Are For Customers Only. Is This Mean?
Originally Posted by Morticia
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Flippin heck ... did he think you looked like a homeless person Galty?
Are you taking the piss.
Ok the point of my post was to point out that some business in America put coded locks on their toilet doors to stop the Homeless from using them.
14-08-2018, 05:05 PM
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Re: Pub/Restaurant/Shop Etc. Says Loos Are For Customers Only. Is This Mean?
Cheeky sod!Pubs and other businesses such as cafes have a toilet because they serves food and drink. They are obliged by law to do so, but only for their customers (and staff). They can't let every Tom, Dick and Harry walking in off the street using their loos. Imagine if that was taken too far and you got drug pushers and lovebirds needing a quick shag in their toilets just because they are 'handy'.
No, Boozy, get yourself half a pint and a bags of nuts and by all means I'm sure these places will let you relieve yourself suitably.
14-08-2018, 05:07 PM
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Re: Pub/Restaurant/Shop Etc. Says Loos Are For Customers Only. Is This Mean?
Originally Posted by Realist
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I figured this thread must be a wind up when I read the title but I guess it's not.Pub/Restaurants are private establishments.
Toilets there are absolutely NOT for the general public, what a crazy idea !
It would be wholly discourteous and improper to stroll into a licensed pub/restaurant with no intention to buy anything or use their services and to just go to their toilet. It's literally taking the p*ss.
They are entirely right to put up a big sign if ignorant people have been routinely using their facilities gratis.
This thread is not meant to be a wind up, and it is NOT a crazy idea at all.
You obviously have not read everything either in my post, or the Tom Utley Daily Mail article link, or the Use Our Loos initiative link.
I think all that he says there is very valid indeed.
Particularly as councils are closing public toilets left right and centre.
TOM UTLEY on cafes and restaurants opening up their toilets for free
Anyway, my point this week is to hail as national heroes the 11,300 pioneering bosses of shops, cafes, pubs and other firms who have signed up to the new Use Our Loos initiative.
Launched by the British Toilet Association, with sponsorship from Domestos, this is the scheme under which participants display stickers outside their premises, advertising that passers-by are welcome to use their facilities, whether they buy anything or not.
But for most businesses, surely, it’s not just public-spirited to welcome passers-by who’ve been caught short.
It also makes sound commercial sense to lure them onto the premises, where they might be tempted to stop for a bite, a drink or a purchase while there.
Speaking for myself, whenever in the past I’ve dropped into licensed premises to relieve myself, I’ve almost always felt obliged to stay for a pint (a bit of a vicious circle, I grant you).
I can’t see that changing if the pub happens to display a Use Our Loos sticker. If anything, indeed, I’ll feel more inclined than ever to give my custom, as a gesture of gratitude for that selfless welcome.
So let me end with a plea to businesses all over the land.
Sign up to this imaginative scheme (details on the BTA website).
http://www.btaloos.co.uk/?p=1937
You won’t be sorry — and a great many like me will be hugely relieved.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/ar...lets-free.html
PS.
Wifey and I are off out soon to boogy on down dancing and boozing at our favourite Llandudno Hotel.
The loos there are very nice!
14-08-2018, 05:10 PM
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Re: Pub/Restaurant/Shop Etc. Says Loos Are For Customers Only. Is This Mean?
Originally Posted by galty
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What the American friend of my daughter thought I was with I was homelessAre you taking the piss
Ok the point of my post was to point out that some business in America put coded locks on their toilet door to stop the Homeless from using them.
So the proprietor of the business wants to confine the use of his loo to his customers .... sounds eminently reasonable to me. I just wondered why the chap would tell you? You'd already know it wouldn't you? Surely he could tell you were a customer.
14-08-2018, 05:48 PM
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Re: Pub/Restaurant/Shop Etc. Says Loos Are For Customers Only. Is This Mean?
Originally Posted by Morticia
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No .. we're talking about taking a 'pee' surely?So the proprietor of the business wants to confine the use of his loo to his customers .... sounds eminently reasonable to me. I just wondered why the chap would tell you? You'd already know it wouldn't you? Surely he could tell you were a customer.
IT was an American Friend of my Daughter who we were eating with and also me paying that went to the bog first and came back and told me that the Toilet door had a code to open the door.
Code to open the door.
Code to open the toilet door to the toilet to CUSTOMERS which I was and not as you sneered at me as being a homeless person.
Try to understand that if you can which I doubt
14-08-2018, 05:49 PM
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Re: Pub/Restaurant/Shop Etc. Says Loos Are For Customers Only. Is This Mean?
Originally Posted by melfort
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That's where McDonalds comes in handy. No need to buy anything.........................
I wonder how many of those piling in to ridicule and have a go this idea/subject ever use McDonalds/Wetherspoons/any pubs or similar businesses to pop into and do a wee or a dump or whatever.
And NOT buy anything in there?
None of us did I hear them say?
I mean.
Surely.
We don't have any mouthy hypocrites here now.
Do we?
14-08-2018, 05:54 PM
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Re: Pub/Restaurant/Shop Etc. Says Loos Are For Customers Only. Is This Mean?
Originally Posted by Boozercruiser
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You have a very good point there Melfort.I wonder how many of those piling in to ridicule and have a go this idea/subject ever use McDonalds/Wetherspoons/any pubs or similar businesses to pop into and do a wee or a dump or whatever.
None of us did I hear them say?
I mean.
Surely.
We don't have any mouthy hypocrites here now.
Do we?
14-08-2018, 06:17 PM
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Re: Pub/Restaurant/Shop Etc. Says Loos Are For Customers Only. Is This Mean?
Originally Posted by Morticia
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God no ... I know a lot of councils have closed public loos... and so it follows that museums or libraries have stepped into the breach and as pubic places funded by pubic people that's fine.But not a business.
Pubs and clubs have nightmares as it is trying to monitor and curtail what goes on in their loos. Often involving criminal activities.
And who foots the bill for cleaning?
Or do you think they should charge?
I was bored so put a deliberate typo in there for those with a keen eye.
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