Seadide stupidly busy

[mummydoris2006]

I live in a seaside resort (Slegness) and today it is absolutely heaving with people. I understand new guidelines say you can drive and enjoy the beach etc for the day but people are really taking the Mickey!

The beach has human excrement on it, the queues for supermarkets are worse as people are queing hoping they can use the toilet and one person even knocked on a residents door and asked if his pregnant girlfriend could use the toilet. Upon being told no he told the homeowner they were out of order as she was pregnant and they'd drove from Essex.

I keep seeing threads where people that live by the sea etc are being slated for not welcoming visitors but the reality is due to the amount of people flocking to the coast we can't safely enjoy our own hometown, the streets are far to narrow to be able to stay 2m away from people with the influx of visitors.If any local dares to comment we are immediately hit with the "you wouldn't have jobs if it wasnt for us". Neither my own or any of my families jobs are tourist reliant and amazingly we manage to keep our economy going well enough during the winter months.

I understand people want a bit of normality and it's really hard on children but surely you should respect the place you visit and as people that live here all year round we should be able to safely enjoy our own hometown.

If you don't like the beaches being used as toilets tell the council to open up the loos.

Or you could just do what most people do and hold it until they get home.

Plenty of room on Skeggy beach. The sea is at least a mile away.

(And its brown, so you can do your ablutions there and no one would know.)

How bizarre.
Like PP I've stunned somebody would drive all the way from Essex, which has some lovely beaches, to Skegness. The only possible reason I can think of is they were visiting family.

Even more bizarre is the DNA testing of nappies Unless there's some other way people know if it's Local nappy on the Local beach or an Outsider.

My sympathies are with the fish. Hordes of humans crowding their sea.

Yep same here since last week when rules were relaxed.

Just because he says you can travel to be outside more doesn't friggin mean it's law to do it eh

Unfortunately people seem to have lost all common sense and do t really give a shit.

Let's see the figures go up for the southwest over the next week shall we.
We've had pissed up pears on pushbikes fighting and yelling and big groups gathering along the coast for a week now.
And now we've got the bank holiday weekend.

Makes the weeks and weeks of lockdown seem pointless to me really

@LemonPudding

No dear, they wouldnt, as you would know if you actually used public toilets

We went to Brighton beach on Monday and it was fairly busy. They had portaloos open which was good. 2 bars were open and fish and chip places. We had fish and chips and a pint on the beach.

We will probably be going to Hastings this weekend if I can find out if there are loos anywhere

I thought it was allowed within 60 miles of your house? Or is that someone’s made up rule?

That was the queue for the disabled loos. By the number of empty disabled spaces, not one of them is disabled.

Surely you've got to think the government expected this to happen and really, is anyone surprised it has?

Perhaps it's the governments way of ending lockdown without actually having to say it's ended and taking any shit for it.

Oh and GinDaddy You're about a month out of date. Perhaps you started on the gin early today...
London and the West Midlands aren't the 'more infected' places anymore. In fact London registered no new cases at all in the last 24 hours.

If the government tells people they drive any distance in England and can go to beaches then the toilets should be open. Otherwise desperate people will go alfresco.

This is national and local government failing to coordinate.

Personally I'm not planning trips to beaches any time soon, but if you're allowed to go you can't get annoyed at people going.

Who drives from Essex to go to Skegness?!

That's exactly what I was thinking. Surely they must've had another reason apart from the beach, as Essex has a beautiful coastline.

@LemonPudding I can't believe you're justifying people shitting on beaches!!! Is that what you'd do? Its absolutely disgusting!

I wsn't justifying it. How odd that you think I was. I said it's a natural consequence of the toilets being shut - what else will people do? It's gross but if there's nowhere to go then skanky people will shit on the beach.

The problem is with closing the toilets. They should be open.

We had two more portable bbq fires yesterday, no idea whether it was locals or tourists, either way one more bin fire and one damaged bench

The main problem is people bringing their kids down, them needing the loo "NOW!" and the only options currently being 40-60 minute queues outside a supermarket. The council just needs to re-open the public loos, at least people can have less disgusting days out then.

Of course it is busy. Some floppy haired idiot went on a TV and said take a drive to take a walk.

The choice is either (a) Johnson said it and had no idea this would be the result, therefore incompetence and stupidity or (b) he said knowing exactly what would happen - engineering a spike in cases and therefore increased death rate, for his 'herd immunity' scheme.

That was the queue for the disabled loos. By the number of empty disabled spaces, not one of them is disabled.

I suspect it was the only toilet open.

These people are following goverment guidelines - it’s not their fault the local council hasn’t set up appropriate facilities for them.

That. Don't get cross with people, get cross with the government and the messaging, and then next time campaign for ANYONE but the Tories.

I'm amazed no one's slated the chap who didn't let the randoms in to use the toilet. You usually get roasted for saying no. At the start of lockdown a lone parent in her home with two unwell children and only one loo which was upstairs got utterly pilloried for refusing to let in a delivery driver to use it, called all sorts, utterly vile.

I said it's a natural consequence of the toilets being shut - what else will people do?

Everyone knows public facilities are closed most places. If you need to be within reach of a loo, it's better to stay within a 20 minute radius drive from home, instead of demanding their right to have a miserable "shitting on a public beach and going home with a shitty arse" experience.

But the issue is the local councils don’t agree with the government guidance. They don’t want people travelling in from outside the area at the moment so aren’t going to open too much which will make them seem “open”

Not sure if the shitting in the rock pool or pissing in the sheep's water trough is worse. Both disgusting 🤢 I live on the coast there's no way I'm going to the beach this weekend

Coronavirus will be the last of people's worries with people pooing and peeing everywhere.

I might take my porta potti and charge £1 a poo! (Toilet roll extra -10p a sheet)

I call bullshit.

There are much nicer beaches in Essex than Skegness

These people are following goverment guidelines
Taking a dump on the beach? I must have missed that in the daily update.