to wonder where all the beach revellers are toileting?

[fiveforty]

I think I'd rather stay at home

I can be out 6 hours without using a toilet, I'm sure I'm not alone (well I know I'm not, dp is the same) we are 30 mins from a lovely beach so might go Monday.

Simple google search to find out whether Blackpool is currently open

From the article:

Council leader Simon Blackburn said Boris Johnson's message meant there was "nothing we can do" to stop visitors

The tourist industry does not have jurisdiction to "close Blackpool"!

@Aretheystillasleepbob just because you haven't seen it or are unable to relate doesn't mean it's not happening.

There was a similar thread the other day where a local was complaining of receiving abuse from Joe Public knocking on their door and asking if their pregnant partner could use their loo and being told no.

@Settle59 yeah great... just use the toilets in supermarkets so the actual shoppers can't use them because there are queues out the door from people who aren't even shopping there. Great idea.

How about no. How about stay in your own area and behave appropriately. It's really not that hard a concept to grasp.

As another poster said: these are wants not needs.

Yep. YADBVU to say 'toileting'. I toilet, you toilet, he toilets? Ugh.

Not caring for my dying mother in order to take time out for you and your need to shit somewhere in private would be a dereliction of duty

Wtf does that mean? Local authorities have a legal responsibility to provide public conveniences. They can’t just abdicate it when it suits them.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmcomloc/636/636.pdf

YADBVU to say 'toileting'.

I'd turned a blind eye to this, on the basis that the original poster is of the American persuasion. They do say over there that there's no such thing as a noun that can't be verbed

You shouldn't travel far, common sense even if not gov. advice, or stay overnight. UNLESS you are senior gov official and your name is Dominic Cummings and your friends make the rules and it was when the rest of us had to stay at home. BTW, in his own words "it doesn't matter what we thing" That's thinking he is ENTITLED big time. Plus the BBC is trying to brainwash us all with that awful Nagas comments either.

think and of course he said you...... "it doesn't matter what you think"

Oh, is toileting an American thing? I have a colleague who says it and she used to live on the US, so that explains it! I cringe every time she says it.

Why are people suggesting all the toilets were closed? There are 2 popular beaches near me and all toilets were open

@Alsohuman , I don't know if you've noticed but there is a global pandemic and this means that there is no obligation to provide with frivolous services when the focus is elsewhere. Facilitating your little trip to the seaside is frivolous . Some areas can do it. Some can't. Being arsey about those that can't is just ridiculous.

I love how 'toileting' still comes up on this thread

Even if they were open I wouldnt use them. No option but touching people and being inside and close to others.
Thats why I don't go too far from home or for too long.

OMG... Thank you for that reminder :)

... as my mum says; "I wish they'd give that poor ocean a break".

I live 10 minutes from the beach and 15 from the village

If I need a shit i need a shit,...I don’t consider toilets to be frivolous

Having said that, i understand that the issues with covid 19 and if the local toilets are closed I wouldn’t make a fuss (i might Have to have a look, it wouldn’t have occurred to me that public toilets may be closed...though it makes sense)

It’s a legal obligation @bellinisurge. Clearly the government doesn’t consider it frivolous.

Did you ever see, 'Kevin and Perry Go Large'? There's your answer.

God, the Poo Troll must be loving coronavirus!

You know what, @Alsohuman , fuck it. You and Cummings-types do what the hell you like.

You know what @bellinisurge, people who make assumptions make themselves look complete tits. I haven’t been to the beach, I haven’t been to a beauty spot.

But I have got enough sense to know that if the government relaxes lockdown to allow people to travel wherever they choose, councils should have the common sense to open the bloody toilets at the seaside. It’s a mystery to me that they weren’t instructed to do so.

Facilitating your little trip to the seaside is frivolous . Some areas can do it. Some can't

Regardless of who's been to a beach or hasn't, I'd be interested to know why some areas can sort out opening the loos and some can't?

After all the way they're used is pretty predictable and so is the method of cleaning them

It appears people are going wherever they feel like it...
metro.co.uk/2020/05/22/tourists-are-pooing-residential-areas-public-toilets-are-closed-12741659/?ito=cbshare

I would also like to know why these are shut? Most public loos have now reopened. It is a mindbogglingly inept decision to keep them closed in areas where visitors are bound to flock.

@Puzzledandpissedoff with staff who might be pulled away to something else; unavailable because of illness themselves.
If this was the 1920s you'd all be saying "You know, the servant problem" and nodding and braying in agreement with each other.
Some Councils have not been able to prioritise your need to take a dump over social care for the elderly. Maybe the question you need to ask is funding and resource for social care during a pandemic and not "why don't we have enough places to piss".

I don’t understand this. Social care is massively underfunded due to government cuts, agreed. That would be a separate thread.

But the op asked where people might be ‘toileting’ at the beach so we are discussing the decision by some places to continue the closure of public toilets at a time when they are much needed.

I find the reference to the 1920s class system bewildering. It’s a matter of sanitation, which benefits all of us.