Last night my lady friend and I went across to the Darkside, to a certain Irish establishment for a few bevvies and a scoff. 2 couples came in with 2 little sproglets (female) for the same reason. After swilling a couple of pints, mother nature said it was time for a whizz, I headed for the Men’s Room and one of the fathers was in there with the 2 girls, one of which was on the toilet, door propped open so the father could control the other little girl and keep an eye on the toilet user. The Men’s Room is small, confined and a fucking MEN’S ROOM, why didn’t one of the Bints take the milk guzzlers to the LADIES’ SHITTER? —Baz Guinness Swiller
This article appears in May 17-23, 2012.
bevvies? scoffs? sproglets? Bints?
whertm ddimrumt hfwnkcm jegdbty layntsi ljnnbetus?
Nothing creepy, nothing odd. Sounds like the dad is sharing responsibilities.
Obviously, guv’nor, he should have taken them to the lady’s loo.
Geez OP who are you? Andy Capp
(*In my best Irish accent. Ahem*)
Roight! Now if dis were a REAL Irish pub, there’d be no bathroom atall. It’d either be a 5 gallon booket in the carner of sum windowless, foul smellin’ room, or da ho-well WC would be ’round back in dat old out buildin’ next to da empty kegs.
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Feckin’ lace-curtain gobshites wit der indoor plummin’!! Ee-jits, da lot of ’em!
ha ha, “booket”
I love it.
Andy Capp, now that brings me back. I re-read some recently. I’d like to see the papers carry that strip nowadays. ha!
“Oh Andy Capp, you wife-beating drunk” >: )
It is a nice place to go for a session, isn’t it Baz. Be glad Dads didn’t get all pissy with you for interrupting his “teaching moment”. Of course, if he had been a member of a certain “religion of peace” he’d have had to throw the kids into the harbour, for bringing shame upon him. Then again, he probably wouldn’t have been in a pub, in the first place.
Maybe in a family restaurant, but in an Irish pub? Really? There were probably coke crumbs left over from the night before on the TP dispenser (probably the same in the womans room). There should be places for adults to go where they are away from the prying eyes of little ones, regardless which gender uses which bathroom. I say no kids in bars, period!! Let us childless drunks have our space, dammit! Is that too much to ask?
I miss Andy Capp too.
This is cool. I want one!
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The way it stands I believe is no minors after a certain hour, 10 PM I think, Steve, and many bars don’t allow minors period, even if it’s during the day and they serve food. I agree with you.
1. A real Irish pub *is* a family restaurant.
2. Suck it up, OP. If you lined up all the little BOYS I’ve ever seen in the wimmens room end to end, the line would reach from Halifax to Massachusetts. I’m talkin’ parity, here. ‘Sides, little girls don’t wee on the seat.
THE DANGLING ROPE SHITTER
I’m nominating the Dangling Rope Shitter as it existed in France for the “Shitter of the Year Trophy” (awarded annually).
Travellers in France are, of course, used to “le pissoir,” that street urinal for men which consisted of a metal sheet extending from the shoulder to the knee and covered with an oval metal roof which enclosed two urinals (facing in opposite directions) for rush hour foot traffic. On cooler mornings clouds of steam swirled up around the roof and if so inclined the user could engage in friendly conversation with the passers-by. But it was the Dangling Rope Shitter which took care of more serious matters.
Usually found at the rear of the more ordinary restaurants, it consisted of a white shower-stall-like closet, two porcelain feet on which the shitter rested his own, a hole in the floor and a rope dangling from the ceiling which prevented a disastrous tumble onto the floor, often encrusted around the hole by unmistakeable evidence of off-target previous visits. Periodically, an automatic flush would wash the floor, but only periodically.
In time the rope was replaced by two hand-grips on either side of the stall to the regret, no doubt, of those who looked back with nostalgia to more adventurous encounters with… The Dangling Rope Shitter!
Vive La France!
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
P.S. I’m looking for three “Likes” for this comment.
I just read every comment with an Irish accent in my head hahaha. I may start doing that with everything I read.
I read MM’s ode to the Dangling Rope Shitter in Scooby Doo voice.
hahaha, you guys are on to something. i’ll try with an inspector callahan voice
Hey, the bathroom in that pub is a vast improvement over the old one. That one required you to lean to the side to piss in the urinal. That said, where else was he gonna take them?
Look out Itchy, he’s Irish!
Hah, I tried with Steve Carell.
I did it with an Old Mother Riley accent then slipped into Cosmo Smallpiece
Mrs. Brown
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Must agree with OP aka Baz. The little girls should have gone to the little girl’s room with one of the ladies. Otherwise, what’s the point of having gender-specific restrooms?
I tried it as Asian reporter, Trisha Takanawa….not so much funny as annoying.
Danny Devito….
but the crazy Danny… from it’s always sunny….
starts a little rough but comes ’round…
RSVP
: Ivan, Master & Commander (05/10, 5:20PM)
“I read MM’s ode to the Dangling Rope Shitter in Scooby Doo voice.”
Being weak on Scooby Doo, the difficulty for Montrealman is determining the nature of the connection between Scooby Doo and the Dangling Rope Shitter. Who is Scooby Doo and what is he doing in the Hanging Rope Shitter? Was he usually prone to mishaps while shitting or did he, being a coprophiliac, normally frequent such places? Write back soon.
Many thanks, by the way, for 8 “Likes” which exceeded by far my initial estimate. Since this is just an RSVP, I’m going to scale back and call for only 2 “Likes.” Let’s see if its close.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Who says the women were the mothers. You poor fucking bastard, you has to wait a bit while dad handled his duty and responsibility. So how long did YOU hang out in the bathroom, speaking of creepy.
There are so many parents that shouldn’t be allowed to breed in the first place.
I see the problem as CHILDREN SHOULDN’T BE IN BARS !
THat place is a bar, its not a resturant, it has a bar which dominates the main space & children shouldn’t be there.
My parents never brought me into a bar as a child & I never did it with my children. I never suffered from not being in bars & I know it never harmed my kids by keeping them out of drinking establishments.
IF you can walk in & order a drink or 2 & not have to order food…IT IS A FUCKING BAR & CHILDREN ! ! ! ! ! shouldn’t be allowed in there & the stund fucking parent(s) should have that pointed out to them.
BUt oh no, the race for the almighty dollar is more important than a child in our society today.
What’s next kiddies day at the Legion ?
here honey, have a smoke !
If his partner is female perhaps she could’ve taken the kiddies to the can.
But, if it was just two dads then there’s no issue, esp if one of the kiddies is too young to get their pants up by themselves. When I was too little to go to the bathroom by myself when I was out with my dad he’d take me to the men’s room to use the bathroom. Better than letting your kid go to the bathroom by themselves when they’re too little to do their own clothes up and/or at risk for kidnapping.
So chill, dude. At least he’s an attentive parent and gives a shit about his kid. There are a lot of parents out there who don’t and would’ve just let the kid wander around on their own.
not to stereotype pedophiles but i’m gonna. Because who gives a shit about being politically correct and pretending statistics don’t count for shit when the safety of little nippers is involved?
Kids should go to the ladies’ room.
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I would not send my girls to the men’s room, ever. It just seem so wrong to have your little girls pants down around adult strange men. No offense, guys. I’m sure there are lots of men who wouldn’t even glance.
But, just the same, there are lots of pervs out there, and they won’t get a look at my wee one’s hoo-hoo.
No one has mentioned how filthy those bathrooms are.
A men’s room in a bar , is no place for a child, for one simple reason.
its all got to do with just how accurate the average man is when he’s pissing, now add a couple beers, its a couple hours later, add 4 or 5 more beers ….how do think that aim’s getting ?
Let us not forget there are many men there, its a popular watering hole.
You wanna , bring your small child in there ?
if you do, IMO yer fucked up.
if i have my little grand daghter out, and there is a bathroom with a lock,, i usually use it. but if not, i stand in front of her, so no gawking eyes can see.
Hick, slurp – I was so incensed I had to go back last night because their snake and pygmy pie is spectacular.
hahaha, snake and pygmy pie, awesome
More, I guess you’ve never been if a woman’s washroom. They are bigger pigs then men. I have seen some shitty women’s rooms.
Bro Tim, you are correct. The woman’s washroom isn’t one of the places I go to. Although I worked as a cleaner in highschool, & there are vague memories of a Bank I cleaned, & that ladies room.
I believe pigs are penned in usually & don’t have much choice, so comparing them to pigs seems unfair. I remember this womans bathroom could be pretty gross. Nothing nicer than having to pick used feminine monthly products up off the floor !
“I see the problem as CHILDREN SHOULDN’T BE IN BARS !”
“IF you can walk in & order a drink or 2 & not have to order food…IT IS A FUCKING BAR & CHILDREN ! ! ! ! ! shouldn’t be allowed in there & the stund fucking parent(s) should have that pointed out to them.”
“You wanna , bring your small child in there ?
if you do, IMO yer fucked up.”
Interesting line of thinking. I wonder how the generations and generations of Irish, Scotish, British, Welsh, Italian, German, Dutch, Belgian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Scandanavian, Swiss, Austrian, etc, etc, families EVER managed to cope for all these many years. In most, if not, all of Europe, the local pub is a cherished and respected part of the community. In many cases, held almost in equal regard as the church. In fact, on Sundays in certain parts of Ireland and Germany I’ve visited, the pub is where families, young and old, all go AFTER church. It’s a sense of gathering, togetherness, community. A.K.A. pub culture. Yes, there are people having a casual drink, but there is also food, games, music, etc. and get this….all the children are PERFECTLY FINE!! *shock! Gasp!* It’s not like they are serving the kids alcohol and no one is in there to tie one on, either. Nor are kids permitted to just come in whenever they want, they must be escorted by their parent(s), but it’s a perfectly natural and accepted atmosphere and not at all detrimental to children. After a certain hour, then yes, the pub is open to adults only but this is usually in the evening after supper. (Which is similar to laws here). I’m not saying take Junior down to the local hug and slug and sit him on top of the bar while dad throws back a couple of tall, frosty ones. But I see nothing wrong with a family all going out for a meal in pub. And I think most of Europe would tend to agree with me.
“Look! I’m giving a cigarette to baby.
Do it!
Suck on this cigarette my darling life is shit.
Get to know this… “
Avasto, so enjoy your time in Europe.
There is nothing european about the so called ‘pubs’ in this province.
I not only visit that particular dark side pub, a good friend works there.
IT tends to get those who like to hoist more than 2 pints, & there’s no reason for small children to be in there. There’s no games, the music is usually much later, if at all.
And there you go making broad, sweeping, narrow minded conclusions again, More, based solely on your extreme experiences. Funny, I don’t remember the name of the pub being mentioned in either the original post or in any of the comments either. There IS more than one Irish pub in Darkside.
Regardless, if it has an “Eating Establishment License” or “Special Premise License”, as set out in the Liquor Control Act, and enforces the time period that minors must be out of the establishment, then parents can take their kids there with no issue, and they shouldn’t be judged because of it, either.
I wonder, More, since you seem to be so concerned for the welfare of minors; if you have a child in your truck with you, do you make them wear their seatbelt? (cuz we all know how you feel about THOSE contraptions)
“A woman can take her son into the ladies room until he’s 50 years old, but if a guy takes a one-month old baby girl into the mens’ room, all hell breaks loose!” – Bill Cosby.
Friday afternoons the Waverley Legion does “Fish & Chips”, children welcome. Kids were welcome on Mother’s Day too.
Children are allowed in licensed establishments that serve food, so Mum and Dad can go out to dinner without having to get/pay a babysitter. – Duh.