Christian and John in Manchester, U.K. spotted this sign in the library of Manchester Metropolitan University…where the fridge thieves must be really, really ruthless (or the librarians very, very dotty).
This particular library, says John, “is where the vast majority of the university’s science and law students go. I have to wonder what sort of a university I go to if prospective engineers, biologists, chemists, physicists and lawyers have to be specifically asked not to put food in the toilet brush holders.”
Adds Christian: “I imagine a further note reading: ‘Please Do Not Poop On The Ceiling.’”
Meanwhile, in Cambridge…further evidence of U.K. university students’ curious predilection for eating while toileting.
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53 responses so far ↓
#1
cali
Urm, somebody should tell them that’s not food.
Dec 12, 2010 at 7:38 pm rating: 12
#2
shwo!
It only LOOKS like a Baby Ruth bar.
Dec 12, 2010 at 7:59 pm rating: 8
#3
thrall
Some things should be able to go without being said… And then there are those members of society who prove this wrong.
Dec 12, 2010 at 8:21 pm rating: 22
#4
pony girl
I’m sorry, but I have to ask. Just what the fucking hell is going on in that library?
Dec 12, 2010 at 8:59 pm rating: 27
#5
Sonya
What next, shit in between the books?
Dec 12, 2010 at 9:04 pm rating: 2
#6
H Bomb
But I was saving that for later.
Dec 12, 2010 at 9:27 pm rating: 6
#7
Madrias
Fine, I’ll find some way to get food stuck on the ceiling and I’ll poop in the toilet brush holders. That’ll show them!
Dec 12, 2010 at 9:30 pm rating: 2
#8
anglophile
I once had this crazy landlady who had written into her leases scores of one-time tenant transgressions: no red curtains (the house was yellow and she didn’t like the way one tenant’s red curtains looked), no hanging neon beer signs in the window, no moving furniture in or out through the windows, all sorts of stuff that would never cross the mind of the average tenant. I feel quite certain that if she worked at this library, “no food in the toilet brush holders” would definitely be added to the list.
I’m also quite certain that the lease she asks her unfortunate renters to sign now includes an item “no attempting to push the landlady down the stairs” and I feel quite proud of being the cause of that addition.
Dec 12, 2010 at 9:42 pm rating: 29
#9
HB
Do they really mean “Canine infestation”? – packs of wild dogs roaming around the bathroom? I think they might have mean “Rodent infestation”.
Dec 13, 2010 at 1:57 am rating: 12
#10
park rose
I think that the books of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Thomas Hardy are jumping off their shelves and causing a ruckus, straying all the way to Cambridge.
Mess of the d’Ubervilles
Dec 13, 2010 at 4:01 am rating: 12
#11
Mo
The last note gives me a case of Deja vu.
Is Kerry recycling?
Dec 13, 2010 at 7:13 am rating: 0
#12
clumber
Okay, so if we are agreeing that “canine” is probably supposed to be “rodent” ; what are we to change “food” to? Is this one of those SAT comparisons? canine: rodent as food:__?__ ”
Be sure to use your #2 keyboards only.
Dec 13, 2010 at 8:04 am rating: 13
#13
Shalindria
WE MUST ASK YOU TO PLEASE LEAVE ONLY COVERED FOOD OUT IN THIS BATHROOM. THE UNCOVERED FOOD BATHROOM IS IN THE BASEMENT WHERE GROSS PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GET SICK LEAVE THEIR FOOD. THANK YOU WEIRDO.
Dec 13, 2010 at 8:06 am rating: 12
#14
April
The second note just confuses me so much. What?! Canine infestation?! in the bathroom?! Food in the bathroom?! This note is like a perfect storm of absurdity!
Dec 13, 2010 at 9:34 am rating: 8
#15
Ed Depaine
Bumpass’s!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 13, 2010 at 10:09 am rating: 6
#16
Edwina the Defrocked Nun
Is it the infestation that is massive, or the canines?
I have an image of some very large dogs, mastiffs perhaps, roaming in packs, visiting lavatories and generally causing mayhem.
Dec 13, 2010 at 10:12 am rating: 6
#17
shwo!
I think Massive Canine Infestation is playing the SXSW Music Festival this year.
Dec 13, 2010 at 10:15 am rating: 16
#18
Flip-Flappin'
I keep picturing a particularly nasty case of tooth decay.
Why it should follow that others should not leave any uncovered food out in the bathroom is hazy, unless it’s just because NO ONE should leave uncovered food out in a bathroom.
Dec 13, 2010 at 12:35 pm rating: 1
#19
Canthz_B
I’d just like to go on record and say, not all Brits have massive canines…no matter what people say about their teeth (or poor Prince Charles).
Dec 13, 2010 at 5:26 pm rating: 4
#20
Canthz_B
Who is dumb enough to put food in the toilet brush holder?
Everyone knows emergency crapper rations should be duct-taped to the underside of the toilet tank lid.
Amateurs.
Dec 13, 2010 at 5:38 pm rating: 6
#21
Divvitar
Funny thing is, the sign about the Massive Canines made PAN a few years ago.
Dec 14, 2010 at 2:01 am rating: 0
#22
Niveus Pluma
“Massive canine infestation”? Fascinating. Is this:
a) The return of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
b) An attack of enormous teeth.
c) Really, honestly, an infestation of dogs?
Dec 14, 2010 at 7:08 am rating: 3
#23
Amelia
If it’s any consolation We don’t use “Bathroom” as a euphemism so I’d assume the second post was just about someone eating in the bath which is somewhat better.
as to the canine infestation I have no idea: maybe someone was washing their Great Dane?
That’s what all the cool kids are calling it
Dec 14, 2010 at 10:48 am rating: 3
#24
Tren
Hah! I am imagining packs of dogs roaming a university gruzzling down any unattended food and cornering people in the bathroom until they throw bags of monster munch as a distraction.
Dec 14, 2010 at 11:59 pm rating: 0
#25
Alicia
I would like to thank the Cambridge housekeeping too.
Dec 15, 2010 at 12:48 am rating: 1
#26
Ginger
In my experience, prospective engineers, biologists, physicists and lawyers do not go to Manchester Metropolitan University. They go to The University of Manchester, the more respected University up the road. “Metropolitan” is basically a euphemism for “easier to get in to”. This sign doesn’t surprise me at all.
Dec 15, 2010 at 7:40 am rating: 2
#27
ariane
I’m just curious about how the dogs got in the library. You can’t even take a backpack beyond the entrance, these days, let alone a whole dog. And yet there seems to be a pack of feral dogs infesting the library?? Let alone the bathrooms.
@Ginger, sounds like in UK “Metropolitan” is similar to the US “junior college.” Not, as you might think, a college for young children, but easier to get into.
Dec 18, 2010 at 2:06 pm rating: 0
#28
Cougar Allen
Well, canines doesn’t just mean dogs, you know. It could equally well be referring to wolves, hyenas, etc.
-Cougar :{)
Dec 19, 2010 at 4:04 pm rating: 1
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