Funny signs in toilets "Please don't flush...."

[duncanp]

I travelled to Nuneaton on the 18:10 from Euston last night, and when I went to use the toilet, there was the following message on the seat:-

"Please do not flush nappies, sanitary towels, paper towels, gum, old phones, unpaid bills, junk mail, your ex's sweater, hopes, dreams or goldfish down this toilet"

I thought it was one of those prank stickers, like those that have appeared on the London Underground, but there was actually a recorded message repeating what was on the toilet seat.

Now I don't know what people have been flushing down the toilet on Voyagers, but at least someone at Virgin Trains has a sense of humour.

 

[1E05]

It's actually on all Virgin toilet seats.

 

[duncanp]

Fair enough, it's just that this was the first time I had seen the message.

 

[1E05]

Oh... I thought it was quite funny at first.

 

[WCMLaddict]

I'm pretty sure I've seen it on trains other than Virgin's

 

[Erniescooper]

I've seen golf balls , pile cream , whiskey miniatures , t-shirts and dozens of pairs of underpants dredged from the bottom of CET tanks , it's the most unpleasant job you can imagine as you have to remove the inspection cover and vacuum out the contents and then reach in with a litter picker and remove the offending article . Why so many passengers are that traumatised by train travel that they soil themselves i've no idea .

 

[Johnny Lewis]

I saw it on a Pendolino toilet last weekend and it made me chuckle. AND the toilet smelled lovely!

 

[455driver]

I saw it on a Pendolino toilet last weekend and it made me chuckle. AND the toilet smelled lovely!

Before and after you had used it?

 

[Parallel]

I heard this announcement and saw the sticker when I was travelling on a Virgin Trains Voyager up towards Preston, it did make me laugh quite a bit to be fair! I didn't see it in the Pendolino service when coming back down though.

 

[Hellfire]

I saw it on a Pendolino toilet last weekend and it made me chuckle. AND the toilet smelled lovely!

Normally you don't need to go into the toilet on a Pendolino to smell it. The aroma normally wafts the length of the carriage.

 

[causton]

EMT had a similar sticker on their Meridians last time I used one as well

 

[Firesprite]

I've seen golf balls , pile cream , whiskey miniatures , t-shirts and dozens of pairs of underpants dredged from the bottom of CET tanks , it's the most unpleasant job you can imagine as you have to remove the inspection cover and vacuum out the contents and then reach in with a litter picker and remove the offending article . Why so many passengers are that traumatised by train travel that they soil themselves i've no idea .

It's from the shock, on being told the walk-on peak-time fare at the booking office.

 

[Blindtraveler]

I've seen golf balls , pile cream , whiskey miniatures , t-shirts and dozens of pairs of underpants dredged from the bottom of CET tanks , it's the most unpleasant job you can imagine as you have to remove the inspection cover and vacuum out the contents and then reach in with a litter picker and remove the offending article . Why so many passengers are that traumatised by train travel that they soil themselves i've no idea .

they ate the remaining leftover complimentary item on the FC menue and learned the hard way why nobody wanted it! ↲↲

 

[sprinterguy]

It seems like I'm stating the obvious, but if anybody doesn't know, the customised announcement (on Virgin trains only) is the voice of the character Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell) as a plug for the recently released film "Anchorman 2". I have been told that there is also a train-wide Ron Burgundy announcement made on the approach to Euston, but I haven't heard it myself.

 

[Carlisle]

I suppose it's marginally better listening to daft recordings whilst on the toilet than facing a 'Toilet out of use ' sign which used to be fairly common on virgin and XC voyagers

 

[bengolding]

Why do only certain Voyager toilets make this announcement when one presses the button?

 

[johnnychips]

Been on a Voyager twice today, only Donny-Sheff and back, but the carriages do smell of something. Not unpleasant, but not pleasant either. Or perhaps I'm psychologically expecting them to smell by reading too many of these threads.

 

[L&Y Robert]

Normally you don't need to go into the toilet on a Pendolino to smell it. The aroma normally wafts the length of the carriage.

My wife and I think that the atmoshere inside Voyager's carriages ALWAYS smell of boiled cabbage! Can't be healthy. In the past I've complained to the management about it. .

 

[Squaddie]

I travelled to Nuneaton on the 18:10 from Euston last night, and when I went to use the toilet, there was the following message on the seat:-

"Please do not flush nappies, sanitary towels, paper towels, gum, old phones, unpaid bills, junk mail, your ex's sweater, hopes, dreams or goldfish down this toilet"

I thought it was one of those prank stickers, like those that have appeared on the London Underground, but there was actually a recorded message repeating what was on the toilet seat.

It seems like I'm stating the obvious, but if anybody doesn't know, the customised announcement (on Virgin trains only) is the voice of the character Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell) as a plug for the recently released film "Anchorman 2". I have been told that there is also a train-wide Ron Burgundy announcement made on the approach to Euston, but I haven't heard it myself.

I find the continued (and seemingly unstoppable) infantilisation of everyday notices and signs in this country quite depressing.

 

[185143]

It seems like I'm stating the obvious, but if anybody doesn't know, the customised announcement (on Virgin trains only) is the voice of the character Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell) as a plug for the recently released film "Anchorman 2". I have been told that there is also a train-wide Ron Burgundy announcement made on the approach to Euston, but I haven't heard it myself.

I've not heard the Euston one, but I'm SURE there's also a Manchester Piccadilly one.

 

[iguana]

They forgot to mention "baby alligators". You know what happens when those get into the drains...

 

[Smudger105e]

Saw this notice stuck under the toilet seat of an EMT 153 today. Not seen one like this before. I suspect it is official, and if so, I have to say I quite liked it.

 

[user15681]

They're on Virgin's 390s too (although in Virgin colours of red and black writing, not EMT's orange and blue as in your picture), so seem to be spreading across a few TOCs. I find them quite humorous and a lot of others do too.

 

[asylumxl]

They're on Virgin's 390s too (although in Virgin colours of red and black writing, not EMT's orange and blue as in your picture), so seem to be spreading across a few TOCs. I find them quite humorous and a lot of others do too.

Evidently a Stagecoach thing.

 

[Busterfridge]

one of the pendelino's or voyagers on the wcml has this coming out of the speaker in the loo, heard it on my last trip to Glasgow, laughed for ages about it