mellybrown

ok what is the correct termage (i like this word...) for going to the loo!!!

When is it a bathroom and when is it a restroom...and why the hell cant i say im going to the toilet!!!!

JEM3110

Bathroom - at home (yours or anyone else's)
Rest Room - when in a public place - store, restaurant etc

I don't really know why you can't say the "T" word???

Edit:
I guess it's polite to say "bathroom" rather than toilet. "Bathroom" suggests that you may just wish to wash your hands - "toilet" just states the obvious!

CitySimon

Restroom if it in a restaurant/bar/truckstop/service-station

Bathroom if it in a persons house (or has a bath)

TruBrit

you can.

CitySimon

I think that the "T Word", rather than referring to the room itself (as in England), is only used to describe the thing you sit on and I think is not entirely descriptive of the complete facilities.

In England, I think it'd be like asking where the cistern was.

Alternatively, it might be considered to not be very polite a word to use in conversation, as in "It is a receptacle for crap".

Optimus Prime

Big deal...so is BE.

JEM3110

Or as my father used to say "I'm off to see a man about a dog!" What????

JEM3110

where else are we supposed to go for a (brain) dump???

TruBrit

so did mine

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...an+about+a+dog

Optimus Prime

3 word thread in the Lounge.

ugacrew

I sometimes say I'm going to visit the head. I get funny looks when I say that.

Optimus Prime

We would say head(s)

CitySimon

But the difference is that I don't mind spending all day staring at this crap.


("Going to spend a penny" always succeeds in confusing a good number of Americans as well)

JEM3110

I don't like going in there, it's scary!

ugacrew

Or latrine. Military thing.