50+swimming

badcompany · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:16

I want to go swimming today but the time I am free the pool is only open for 50+ swimmers only! How is this not age discrimination? I am going to go anyway and tell them they are being agist towards me.

Do you think they are being fair, a mean ok have a few lanes open for the50+ but don't shut the whole bloody pool for 2 hours

Hxc · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:20

They, as a company, can admit who they want, when they wish to. You've got no grounds.

Hades · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:20

Just insist you are 50 and point blank refuse to agree you're young. Much funnier that way.

R3DBuLL · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:21

This sort of thing happens round here too accept it's women only. Winds me up aswell

Brian8bit · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:23

Real men smother themselves in goose fat and swim the channel.

badcompany · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:25

I pay council tax for that pool I have a job and have a day so I can swim without hoards of kids and I can't ! Bloody annoying I imagine a policy barring over 50's would jumped on as agist in seconds. Double standards

Zatoichi.uK · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:26

Don't go during those two hours?

badcompany · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:27

Zatoichi.uK said:
Don't go during those two hours?

I am busy other commitments hence the day I have taken Off work.

Zatoichi.uK · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:29

Then your options are:
a: dont go
b: plan your day off more carefully in future
c: fap instead

Nix · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:33

What if he wanted to fap in the pool?

Zatoichi.uK · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:37

Well that would brighten up the over 50s day I suppose.

misterPK · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:38

Possible solutions:

a) write an outraged letter to your local council and also send a copy to the daily mail

b) put talc in your hair to make it grey, draw wrinkle lines on your face and try your luck

c) find a different pool nearby

gambitt · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:46

Hxc said:
They, as a company, can admit who they want, when they wish to. You've got no grounds.

Like no homosexuals allowed in B&Bs? :eek:

Cosimo · 11 Jul 2011 at 09:47

Zatoichi.uK said:
Then your options are:
a: dont go
b: plan your day off more carefully in future
c: fap instead

d: get in bath of cold water
e: sit in garden with hose watering you.
f: stop moaning

Energize · 11 Jul 2011 at 10:04

Council tax, forcing you to pay for local services you can't use, since 1993.

[FnG]magnolia · 11 Jul 2011 at 10:06

badcompany said:
I want to go swimming today but the time I am free the pool is only open for 50+ swimmers only! How is this not age discrimination? I am going to go anyway and tell them they are being agist towards me.

Do you think they are being fair, a mean ok have a few lanes open for the50+ but don't shut the whole bloody pool for 2 hours

simpletom · 11 Jul 2011 at 10:24

Just man up and stop whinging. Carry on like this and you'd be eligibile for mummy and baby swim sessions. As the baby.

Liampope · 11 Jul 2011 at 10:25

So a women's aerobics class is sexist, a kids swimming session is also ageist, a hall booked for 5-a-side when you would rather play badminton (but badminton is later, only you cant go cos you're going down the pub) is sport-discrimination, fully booked squash courts are contravening your human right to play squash, etc etc etc??

I think you'll find the place can schedule the use of its facilities however it likes. Deal with it

waso_dude · 11 Jul 2011 at 10:26

Go for a swim in the bath?

AtreuS · 11 Jul 2011 at 10:28

Pensioners ( over 65 ) i could agree with maybe, but over 50s is just dense. No need for it, and i would complain.

There is a need for mother a baby times for obvious reasons, and also under 16s only and possibly no kids times for serious swimmers but no under 50s? give me a break.

Its a public baths by the sound of it and he is being excluded for no other reason than his age, are you really saying thats fair?

If it was no men or no women people would be up in arms locally i suspect, so sex descrimiation is wrong but age discrimination is?

A restriction should be for a good reason, and for the life of me i cannot see a reason why an adult under 50 cannot be allowed to swim with someone who is? concessions have nothing to do with it as its over 50s and not pensioners only, god only knows why they chose over 50, why not over 60?

I would see if this is a thing over the whole area or just a thing made up by the manager of that pool. I bet it is, and i bet he is over 50 and a member of some sort of swimming club whos members want to have a bit of "exclusive" time over a public pool