Tipping over portaloos while people are inside them, classic or dud

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I witnessed this horror myself at the Shitnness festival on Saturday.

Fortunately not from the inside.

Amusing prank, or sign of the coming collapse of Irish civilisation?

― DV, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you guys are no fun new answers.

― DV, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it is BARBARIC behaviour, unfortunately there are always some wankers who think it's hilarious. ar Reading a couple of years ago there were a gang going round with baseballs bats and knocking over the loos with them... charming.

― katie, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

unfair to BARBARIANS (cf channel four tonight)

― mark s, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I blame it all on a combination of mud, skanky guinness/carlsberg and a militant uprising against the forces of evil who are still unsure of whether to do their thing in or on the toilet. Rotten.

― Rhiannon, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two stories about the origin of the (greek) word Barbarian:

i) it's because they don't talk properly (i.e. don't talk Greek) - instead they just go round saying "bar bar bar bar bar" to each other.

ii) it means hairy, because non-Greeks wore big wild beards and long unkempt hair.

tipping over portaloos is the act of scum. It was seeing this happening that convinced me that leaving Witnness before it got dark would be a good idea. fortunately I wasn't camping.

the guy inside the Portaloo was able to get out, phew. I was slightly worried that a bystander effect would leave him trapped forever in a horizontal portaloo.

― DV, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Interesting that Dave Q. hasn't yet made an appearance in this thread ...

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

was that 1999 Katie? I remember it well, especially when dying for a poo on the Monday morning and there was one portaloo left standing on the whole site. Bastards they are, uter bastards. I haven't been to a camping festival since.

― chris, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you can't tip over the greyhound trap toilets at glastonbury.

― DV, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The fact I learned today is that beer-drinking was considered a sign of barbarian status by your ancient Greeks.

― Tom, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

I wish I'd read this before going to T in the Park this year, I got pushed over while in a Portaloo, I thought I was gonna drown in shit, I haven't been able to go back work since and I'm suffering from Post Truamatic Stress. Anyone who has ever witnessed this please get in touch, I may need you when I sue the fuckers that wouldn't let me have a shower afterwards.

― Anonymous, Wednesday, 25 September 2002 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

that is a grotesquely unpleasant thing to happen. yuck.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Even more grotesquely unpleasant being left for hours without shower facilities afterwards. I'm suing.

― Anonymous (Anonymous), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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