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Florida bureaucrats force restaurant to remove 'joke' restroom signs

nwfdailynews.com — McGuire's Irish pub and restaurant has signs on its bathroom doors that say "Ladies" in big print and then "This is the men's room" in smaller print. A father complained to the state after someone walked in on his teenage daughter. The state then threatened to close the establishment, which has, Feasting, Imbibery & Debauchery written on its door.

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  • the6thReplicant, on 10/11/2007, -23/+272yeah seriously someone walking into the wrong toilet, wow, are americans that repressed that they can't even handle that. "someone saw my daughter wash her hands...he must be punished"

    i love how the PC brigade and the religious-right have turned america into precisely the sort of society that they can rule over

    repress sexuality -> get deviants, biggest porn industry in the world, abortion, teenage pregnancy
    repress free speech -> swear words are powerful, control what adults can see and do and make children want these things more than ever
  • mrmdc, on 10/11/2007, -9/+200"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."

    What was a 15 year old doing at a pub in the first place?
  • wild, on 10/11/2007, -3/+176Can I sue the man for takin his teenage daughter to a place that has "debauchery" on it? Thats not building a good moral fiber...
  • anaesthetica, on 10/11/2007, -6/+165Let no one say that bureaucrats don't have a sense of humor!

    OH WAIT
  • Alex76, on 10/11/2007, -5/+136I think the images were on digg sometime back...
  • walkingdogs, on 10/11/2007, -8/+109The new hot Transformer this summer.... Model of the US that turns into a crying vagina.
  • LarianLeQuella, on 10/11/2007, -8/+103Bloody "victims" are everywhere. I'm sure that the Whaaaaambulance will be taking complainers like this to their lawyers about every slight and joke in the world. Grow a ***** sense of humor FFS.
  • SurrealDream, on 10/11/2007, -3/+90@ bairy : Oh come on, the worst that he'd witness is her doing her hair, or something. I think most mens spider-senses would start tingling the moment they walk into a restroom without urinals anyway.
  • FyreGoddess, on 10/11/2007, -1/+72My understanding of the article is that she was in the men's room.

    But if you walk into a bathroom and there are urinals... isn't that kind of a clue that maybe, just maybe, you're in the men's room?
  • dragonexe, on 10/11/2007, -4/+71Yes, that's exactly what this country needs, government infringing upon humor. You seriously can't expect me to feel bad for some obviously incredibly uptight 15 year old girl if she was stupid enough to go to a place when she obviously can't handle a little harmless craziness.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -13/+76
    I wish all Americans were FORCED to live in another part of the world where everyone knows that you have a naked body under your clothes.

  • mutatron, on 10/11/2007, -0/+60Walked in on his daughter? What, was she at the urinal?

    I mean, you walk into a Ladies' Room, generally there are stalls with doors that have latches on them, and then there are sinks. Unless she was in a state of undress when he "walked in on her", I'm not seeing what the problem is here.
  • philippbock, on 10/11/2007, -1/+58So what's going to happen now they put the right signs on the doors? Everyone who was used to the old ones will go into the wrong bathroom now, won't they?
  • openaddy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+59Florida bureaucrats should ban the father from bringing his under-aged daughter to Irish bars. :D I wonder what the man walked in on in the lady's room that left the daughter crying. I assume there are doors on the stalls, even at an Irish bar...
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -10/+63IMO people should learn to read the entire sign instead of just the word with the largest size font.
  • godphase3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+49If we dig Victoria down, I bet it means we hate all women.

    I guess I'll just have to risk it.
  • compdude32, on 10/11/2007, -14/+61Um... The Urinals didn't tip her off?

    And how embarrassed could she have been, I mean what did this guy see? did he walk in on her in the stall? and if he did why didn't she lock the door? Also what is a 15 year old doing in a Bar?
  • DoodleMaster, on 10/11/2007, -2/+49http://www.uberg33k.com/albums/Funny/Wait_damn_it_I_have_to_pee.jpg

    here is the image
  • GirthAgain, on 10/11/2007, -9/+56At the Pensacola location I, exhausted from too much sun, surf and whatever, walked in the ladies room at McGuires. I was like WTF? This is the cleanest restroom ever! Was it slightly embarrassing? Sure. Did I get over it? Yes.

    btw: card carrying member of the "religious right." We're not behind this.

  • Smono, on 10/11/2007, -0/+46Haha, this is so funny. A year ago, I went to McGuire's for St. Patty's day, and in a drunken stupor, fell for the damn bathroom sign trickery. Everyone got a good chuckle, including the girls in the bathroom at the time... it's a shame that some people can't take a joke.
  • richbradshaw, on 10/11/2007, -1/+44At my University some of the toilets are unisex... We manage to cope...
  • TheSabre, on 10/11/2007, -1/+42That's true. My university had co-ed bathrooms too - including the shower stalls (not the individual stalls, but there were like 5 stalls and men or women just picked an open one).

    These people need to get over the whole embarassment issue with the human body and its perfectly normal human body functions. Everyone pisses. Everyone has ho-has and wee-wees (hell, some even have them both)... Sure, I'm not suggesting waving your junk around at people, but do your business and get out. Who cares if there is a girl in a stall next to you?
  • raynar, on 10/11/2007, -7/+44Oh for ***** sake. I live about 10 minutes from this place, and its not that big a deal. Some little bitch getting "offended", and forcing the entire world to revolve around them. I swear to god, we should lynch our legislation and start fresh with people UNDER 65.
  • headzoo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+38If you don't like the bar, then don't go back. It's that simple folks.
  • Konrad9, on 10/11/2007, -1/+38Dear diary,

    Jackpot.

    -Quagmire
  • diaverde238, on 10/11/2007, -1/+36This sucks. McGuire's is a great pub (both of them, there's one in Pensacola as well as Destin). If you've never been before and they find out they make you run around the restaurant and kiss a moose's nose, a leprechaun's bare butt, and a few other things, with everyone in the place singing at you. The draft beer taps come out of the breasts of wood statues of naked women. The front doors have "Feasting, Imbibery, & Debauchery" written in large letters across the top. It's a loud, rambunctious and fun place, and it is not a place to be offended by funny bathroom signs.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+37She was probably in the actual Ladies room, but the college guy didn't read the sign. Besides, with all the lame dumbasses around these days who won't use a urinal, I am surprised any one bothers to make urinals any more.

    Oh, and all you pansies who are too afraid to use a urinal, try not pissing on the seat, maybe even lifting it. Your dick is not a fire hose and is not that hard to control. And, if it is too short to not spray the entire stall, sit the ***** down.

    @FyreGoddess:

    Well, the article doesn't say which room she was in. The way it was worded, she could have been in either.
  • jun2san, on 10/11/2007, -2/+32I work for a commercial construction contractor in florida and I had to look this up in the 2004 Florida Building Code book.

    SECTION 426
    PUBLIC FOOD SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS

    426.4.1 Bathroom facilities.

    Each public food service establishment shall maintain a minimum of one public bathroom for each sex, properly designated.
  • dvddesign, on 10/11/2007, -4/+33RTFA. I missed the part about where she was half naked in a stall. Could you read that part to me?
    Don't play up this "potential victim" role. Women are plenty aware of the threats around them in their day to day lives, and I think most men are aware of this as well.

    Oh and guess what? A ***** door that says "Ladies" doesn't stop someone from assaulting a person, if they truly intend to. So your argument about being
    in the wrong bathroom as a lead in for potential sexual assualt falls apart.

    Any smart woman these days would be carrying an item of self defense in case of such an event, anyhow.
  • Crazychipmunk, on 10/11/2007, -8/+37This just makes me assume even more that Floridians can't read.


  • LogicBomB, on 10/11/2007, -0/+28This just in:

    People don't want to read signs, sue instead.
  • LostOnion, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29@mrmdc: It's really just a restaurant with a pub motif.
  • bking, on 10/11/2007, -5/+30***** yourself, victorla. You embody everything that's wrong with feminist ***** who are looking for something to get pissed off at.
  • betterth, on 10/11/2007, -7/+31Digg needs Fark style "Florida" tags/section.
  • TheTankengine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23Nope, that's pretty much exactly what they do.
  • Dycacian, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21This sucks. Nothing more funny than getting the table right in front of the bathrooms and watching all the people who make mistakes.
  • GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21They are bureaucrats after all. By definition they have nothing better to do.
  • oddmanout, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22hey torgos, i agree with davev... i hate when people piss all over the seat... I have no problem making it in the bowl, i can't understand how other guys piss all over the damn place. I hate ***** in public bathrooms (mostly for that reason) so if I'm about to sit on the can... its b/c i have to go BAD and i've exhausted any other attempt to 'hold it.' When i run in there and there's piss all over the seat, it really really sucks having to try to wipe it while my stomach is rumbling and cramping.
  • CourtesyFlush, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21NEWSFLASH: Fifteen year old girls are mortified and cry over just about anything.

    Film at eleven.
  • SteelChicken, on 10/11/2007, -4/+23I was distracted by shiny objects and voted for Buchanan!
  • byronne, on 10/11/2007, -2/+21Don't be stupid. These signs have been on the doors (according to TFA) for 30 years or more. PC is becoming crippling to the point where no one has any accountability for their own actions or illiteracy any more. Lighten the ***** up.
  • maxmccabe, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22@ patscru, you've seen fathers shoot people?
  • Chebyshev, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22@davev

    I applaud your strawman.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+24maybe the girl was in the wrong one.
  • Xarou, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18Heh, I was on a fraternity floor for 3 years of college and we'd have parties. During our parties the bathroom would be open to everyone. It was amusing when there were girls in the bathroom and a guy would go in to use it, the girls would freak out. You could definitely tell the freshmen or the people who had never been to our parties because all the ones who have been there before were used to sharing the bathroom with the opposite sex. And funny, it was always the ladies that were the ones that would care.
  • Netmindstorm, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19"A father complained to the state after someone walked in on his teenage daughter."

    So one "dick" ruined it for the rest of us
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Any legislative body getting involved over joke bathroom signs is a waste of taxpayer's money. I think the people asking what a teenage girl was doing in a bar are on point. Even more to the point - what was she doing in a bar with her father? Can anyone else hear "Dueling Banjos" in the background?
  • wordsthatendini, on 10/11/2007, -11/+26HEY HEY HEY... Why was this guys TEENAGE daughter doing at a bar in the first place?
  • markr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17I walked in to the ladies toilet in Brussels airport once - and they have ladies urinals for them to piss in - if you don't believe me, go to Brussels!
  • scottjw, on 10/11/2007, -14/+28Big deal the whole of Florida is a toilet.
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