>> "John" is a slang word for a toilet. "Carter" is an older word for a
>> person who transported things in a horse-drawn cart.
>
>
>
That video of portable toilets at Woodstock reminds me that the yearly
music festival at Glastonbury (in England) will not be held in 2012
because of a shortage of portable toilets.
....
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."
....
** Re: "Adeloo" - "loo" is a British English informal word for a toilet.
Members
Search
Help
Register
Login
Home
