State forces McGuire’s to remove 'joke' restroom signs

NW Florida Daily News ^ | 5-16-2008 | PATRICK McDERMOTT

[Cagey]

[Cagey]

....and the signs have been removed by order of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.

Next to visit this Pub will be the Ministry of Silly Walks. I've seen a lot of unauthorized silly walking going on in Irish Pubs.

[BenLurkin]

Gay bar?

[Banjoguy]

There’s nothing as foolish and destructive as a dumb a$$ bureaucrat with too much time on his/her hands.

[Vigilanteman]

The complaint came from a father who said a college-age man walked in on his 15-year-old daughter.

What's the legal drinking age in Florida. What is a 15 year old girl doing in a bar bathroom?

[Stark_GOP]

It’s like going to a boxing match and being upset to see grown men fighting.

It’s a pub. If bawdy behavior bothers you, then don’t enter.

[stevio]

I can see this will cause a lot of confusion to our new spanish languaged citizens.

[Xenalyte]

The complaint came from a father who said a college-age man walked in on his 15-year-old daughter.

The man said in his complaint that his daughter was embarrassed and left the restaurant crying.

If it is a typical ladies' room, the daughter was in a stall, so the guy didn't see anything.

If it's a one-person ladies' room, the daughter didn't lock the door behind her, and deserved to be walked in on.

At any rate, crying from embarrassment? Grow a spine, girlie, or the sorority chicks at your college of choice are gonna eat you alive.

[Thrownatbirth]

The man lists his address as a condominium in Destin, but he was unable to be reached because the unit is rented out this week

[BigDaddyTX]

Not a gay bar. Great food and micro brewery. The best entertainment is getting a table in the room accross from the rest rooms (seperated by glass) and watch the reactions. Will the state now make them put it in spanishican?

[joeystoy]

I once walked into the ladies room in an office complex because I wasn’t wearing my glasses.

It’s completely different world in there.

No wonder they’re always leaving the table at the restaurant.

I caught myself, luckilly, before I took a leak on the wall.

The plush carpet and perfumed air freshener should have been dead giveaways.

[KarlInOhio]

The Florida Department For Killing Every Bit of Fun would have hated the signs from a bar near a local college. One sign was “Pointers” and the other was “Setters”. It’s a lot of fun when you’re sober, but try figuring it out after a few beers (for large values of “a few”).

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Maybe she was frustrated at her repeated failed attempts to use the urinal?

[elc]

The “pub” is also a restaurant, which is true of many Irish pubs in the US.

[Arrowhead1952]

I once walked into the ladies room in an office complex because I wasn’t wearing my glasses.

I walked into the Womens' restroom at an airport several years ago. I saw the janitor coming out and thought it was the Mens' restroom and just walked in after he had gone down the asile toward the actual Mens' room. I saw the "WET FLOOR" sign and noticed there were no urinals, just stalls. I did an about face and a very quick exit.

[skepsel]

Probably a friggin’ snowbird or timeshare turista...don’t like where they live so the SOBs come down here and try to make it as much like the liberal ruled hell holes they left.

[robertpaulsen]

Boy, that IS confusing! They should switch to these:

[Kegger]

Not only do the signs tell you which bathroom is which (if you read closely), my last visit the waitress even asked if we needed an explanation for the restrooms (which seemed foolish when ordering, but after a few beers, I understood why).

[andy58-in-nh]

Behind the pasty face of every bureaucrat is a petty little tyrant itching for the chance to control those who would otherwise contently ignore him.

[P-40]

It’s completely different world in there.

Ticks me off how they keep leaving the seat down.