Media Upset With DNC Restroom Facilities (Oh No 60 per john ;)

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-CVN-Media-Toilets.html

uly 25, 2004
Media Upset With DNC Restroom Facilities
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 7:17 a.m. ET

BOSTON (AP) -- Media members, already perturbed by long security lines, may find themselves waiting in line for something nearly as important. As the majority of the print reporters arrived Saturday at the FleetCenter for the Democratic National Convention, tongues clucked when they saw the restroom facilities that they will be using for the next week.

Twenty portable restrooms, like those used on construction sites, are lined up in front of the media pavilion to service nearly 1,200 members of the print media who will be working around the clock. That's about 60 serious coffee-drinkers per toilet.

``That's absurd,'' said Jim Drinkard, a political reporter for USA Today, when he heard of the ratio of toilets per media member. ``This is not the type of planning you'd expect out of someone trying to be a good host.''



....more john info at AP :evilgrin:

[rocktivity]

1. And how many porta-johns will be in the free speech zone?

I haven't seen any stories about THAT!

:headbang:
rocknation

[luaneryder]

2. Good point

Can you imagine the lines?

[TahitiNut]

3. "Potty politics" rears its ugly head.

No puns intended, of course. :evilgrin:

[TahitiNut]

10. :-( Gee, maybe I should've tried ...

... "but the Democrats are getting two Johns." {rimshot}


I'll be here all week, folks. (Puns are the highest form of humor.)

[DancingBear]

4. They've obviously never been to Fenway Park

Troughs, anyone? :)

[riverwalker]

5. poetic justice

since the media has been burying us with excrement about the war.
Overflowing, stinking, overcrowded port-a-potty's are very appropriate.

[zbird]

6. Found this guide for # potties needed.

http://www.mrjohn.com


Seems to me they will have plenty of potties available. Plus, I'm sure they will be cleaning them daily if not more often, so I really don't see the problem.

[TahitiNut]

16. Also ...

[Eric J in MN]

7. This in an awful way to try to save money . They should order more toilets

nt

[Rose Siding]

8. There's 34 restrooms in the Fleet Center

according to the web site. Are the press not allowed to go inside?

[RobinA]

18. Well...

Inside there's probably far more than 60 people per potty. I've attended a sold out event at the Fleest Center, and there were far more than 60 women IN LINE at any given break in the action.

[TahitiNut]

25. Well. Women. Rest rooms. I mean. Well.

:shrug:



:evilgrin:

[Toucano]

9. Someone let me know which one Cokie Roberts is using.

I'd like to turn it upside down on her. :evilgrin:

[newyorican]

13. Ten pounds of Alka-Seltzer...

and a padlock on the door sounds just about right for Chloe...er, I mean Cokie...

[John_H]

11. They need to fix this ASAP!!!!

Don't think the whores are petty, craven, and, well, pissy enough to let their disapproval of the bathroom facilities to color their coverage of the convention? You've never watched them in action. If I were the DNC, I'd have a thousand plumbers working 24/7 building bathroom facilities starting now.

[newyorican]

12. Won't make a diff...

their coverage will be biased against the dems, no matter what happens. They can all get Cheney'd for what it's worth.

[TahitiNut]

14. Right. (Serve 'em those little chocolates with "ExLax" on 'em.)

Twenty porta-potties for the potty-mouthed presstitutes is about 4-6 more than the recommended number. Since the presstitutes have potties in their motorhomes, I don't understand why people tolerate the waste. Flush those turds!

[CookieD]

28. Bingo! n/t

[glitch]

15. this is bad - the way the members of the press herd themselves they

could all end up having to use the potties at the same time!

Baaaaah.

[RobinA]

17. All I Can Say Is...

welcome to the world the rest of us live in when we attend big events.

[T Bone]

19. headline: Mainstream Media Full of Shit. Needs More Crappers.

if only

[Demoiselle]

20. I love it, T Bone!

Trouble is... I'm sure Wolf and the other talking heads will be able to relieve themselves inside the Center itself. It's probably the camera operators and other non verbal members of the media crew who'll be most likely affected.
Then again, I would have thought that the Big Media corporations themselves would have a certain amount of responsibility for the comfort of their (certainly well unionized) crews on site.

[peekaloo]

21. tough shit.......they should be fed from troughs also.

:*

[MaineDem]

22. They should be glad it's the Fleet and not Fenway

Fenway has to have the world's fewest toilet facilities! Or so it seems.

I'm not shedding any tears for them.

[TahitiNut]

26. Hint: Use the men's ... the booths are open.

Women should just get used to walking into the men's room and using the booths while the guys are all lined up along the trough.

The women at Stanford U. football games have been doing this for about 2 decades. More power to 'em!

[KDLarsen]

23. Then they would hate to go to rock festivals..

.. I would want to see the toilet/people number there :D

[SemperEadem]

24. Why are they snivelling? It's just more of what they deal in every day

offal... crap... merde... same sh**, different day.

[wackywill]

27. Charmin

The Toilet Tissue folks have a porta john "float" that they use at events. After every use the john is cleaned by an attendent, very impressive. Suprised they aren't here. Maybe they don't need any Govt help in their business.

[flordehinojos]

29. Well now, isn't it a case of the media getting what they deserve?

Darn right it is!
:P

[Deb]

30. Clue #1- Don't drink the coffee

Perfect spokesperson, last name is Drinkard and since he's on the "Standing" Committee of Correspondents, I am sure he'll provide a great example of pottyline patience for his fellow correspondents to follow. Welcome to the real world of events. :7

[drscm]

31. Maybe the freepers could loan a few of theirs to the press. eom

eom

[ilovenicepeople]

32. I bet they wouldn't be complaining

if the potty #'s are the same at the Republican convention.Media+Democrats=Complain,Complain,Complain!

[Endangered Specie]

33. Reporters full of shit will be weeded out by Wed/Thurs...

seems like a good thing to me.

[Endangered Specie]

34. If there smart they'll segregate the facilities...

1 for fox etc... youll wanna concentrate the reaaallly bad stuff into one, course, the porta potty co will charge fox for having to destroy and replace it.

Talk about a biological weapon.