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Title: Glastonbury 2012 cancelled due to lack of bogs
Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 18, 2010, 07:09:11 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/18/glastonbury-portable-toilets-shortage-olympics (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/oct/18/glastonbury-portable-toilets-shortage-olympics)

News that the Glastonbury festival will not be held in 2012  owing to an insurmountable pre-Olympic shortage of police officers and (more crucially) portable lavatories has been met with incredulity by festival-goers. But at Portable Sanitation Europe, the UK trade association for all involved in the portable toilet business, they're not surprised at all.

"The Olympic organising committee is talking around 14,000 units," says Peter Lewis, a director of the 80-member body, who runs a hire company called Adeloo in Eltham, south London. "That's more than the biggest British company could supply. More than the actual units, though, we're worried about what'll be in them. The toilets will need emptying, and as far as I know the committee hasn't quite thought that one through."

June, July and August are already the busiest time of the year for Britain's estimated 350-400 portable toilet hire companies, Lewis says. "You've got your national sporting classics, your festivals – Glastonbury alone takes 650-700 units – and of course myriad little local events – fetes and gymkhanas and sports days and weddings. Add the Olympics into the mix and it's not what you might call, pardon the expression, a bog-standard summer."

So VP entrepreneurs you have a few months to come up with a cunning plan to save the day.

Designs for portable urine extraction units to be sent to Blue Peter urgently for approval

Snoops has already sent in his prototype  whistle:

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Title: Re: Glastonbury 2012 cancelled due to lack of bogs
Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 18, 2010, 07:21:35 PM
Tipsy is on the case  whistle:

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Barman has a solution

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JOM has made his own

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Title: Re: Glastonbury 2012 cancelled due to lack of bogs
Post by: Tipsy Gipsy on October 18, 2010, 07:56:06 PM
 ;D ;D ;D

I do have my own portable Thetford as it happens?   What hire rates should I be charging?
Title: Re: Glastonbury 2012 cancelled due to lack of bogs
Post by: Pirate on October 18, 2010, 09:05:48 PM
What's wrong with pissing down the back legs of the guy in front  Shrugs:
Title: Re: Glastonbury 2012 cancelled due to lack of bogs
Post by: Pirate on October 18, 2010, 09:06:42 PM
Oh Pirate   nonono:
Title: Re: Glastonbury 2012 cancelled due to lack of bogs
Post by: Miss Demeanour on October 18, 2010, 09:07:47 PM
  lol:
Title: Re: Glastonbury 2012 cancelled due to lack of bogs
Post by: Just One More on October 18, 2010, 09:43:33 PM
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on October 18, 2010, 07:21:35 PM
JOM has made his own

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That takes me back to primary school,
"In days of old,
When knights were bold,
And toilets were not invented
They dug a hole in't middle of t'road,
And sat there quite contented

Prolly never recited it for 40-odd years, but it was still at the back of my mind.... can I remember what I was doing ten minutes ago, can I hell  confused:
Title: Re: Glastonbury 2012 cancelled due to lack of bogs
Post by: Just One More on October 18, 2010, 09:46:38 PM
Give them all a  Bog In A Bag  (http://www.boginabag.co.uk/)
Title: Re: Glastonbury 2012 cancelled due to lack of bogs
Post by: Tipsy Gipsy on October 18, 2010, 09:55:55 PM
Quote from: Just One More on October 18, 2010, 09:46:38 PM
Give them all a  Bog In A Bag  (http://www.boginabag.co.uk/)



Yuk!