Toilet or Loo?

[ILoveAfternoonTea]

Do you refer to the toilet/loo as the toilet or the loo?

My DP says that "toilet" is common. If I say toilet I get pulled up on it. IL's also say loo and I feel I have to watch what I say

It just seems strange as if you're in a shopping centre or restaurant the sign always says toilets, never ever loos

Fed up of being corrected

Start calling it the shitter. Then ask if they'd prefer you revert? I'm interchangeable between loo and toilet

I think it’s very common indeed to pull other people up in the way they speak .....

I say loo. I couldn't care less what anyone else refers to it as.
Tell your dh it is extremely common, vulgar and lower class to correct the vocabulary of others, and only the ill bred bourgeois would give a flying fuck.

Start calling it the shitter. Then ask if they'd prefer you revert? I'm interchangeable between loo and toilet

This.

Though, being Scottish, I swither between 'kludgie' and 'toilet' rather than 'loo' and 'toilet'.

I equate the T word with saying ‘Pardon me’.

It’s a lavatory, but loo is acceptable.

The T word? Or may one surmise that's where you go when flatulent, hence equating it with 'pardon me'? I suppose you may be referring to going to the loo to burp, and mentally using the 't' word when you visit for that purpose, but that's a bit try hard even by mn standards.

Lavatory is correct.

However if I am taken short I am quite happy to use the loo, toilet or WC but not the bathroom as I am not an American.

I have never called it a lavatory
How pretentious!

I have a bathroom and am not American

Do they not call it a restroom anyway?

Loo. The toilet is the actual white ceramic pot that you buy from a shop. The room itself is the loo or bathroom.

Lavatory or loo are the ‘correct’ terms.
Personally I use loo more than anything else. I remember being in the company of some Americans and said ‘I’ll just pop to the loo’ and they thought that was the most British thing they’d heard.

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Quite frankly my dear...

I couldn't give a shit.

The shitter?

No, I'm just kidding, I say toilet but I'm clearly common .

I'll start to say I need to use the porcelain throne from now on.

I use both but usually loo. I hate both words though. Toilet is a weird word? And 'loo' rhymes with 'poo'.

I say lavvy often too!

Bog, shitter, pisspot.

Toilet is something you do, lavatory is somewhere you go. At least that's what I thought but it's the big, shitter, widdler etc usually

Bog obvs

I use both depending on company/ situation. I’m Scottish and not middle class.

Growing up, my mum hated "loo" so I can't bring myself to use the word. It does sound pretty silly and twee to me.

I say toilet but think lavatory or lav are fine. Don't mind khazi although I never use it. Going for a slash is just about ok.

Dp sometimes says that he's going to the bog just to wind me up. I really hate that which is completely irrational because I wouldn't mind somebody using the word bog if they were talking about going for a walk in the countryside and coming across a marshy area.

I grew up in America and say toilet at home. I think of I was in a restaurant I'd ask for the restroom though. Most Americans I know say bathroom, even though it obviously doesn't actually have a bath in it...

Toilet or bathroom

We have an outside kharzi .

In the haze of waking up this morning I thought for a split second that this was a baby name thread.

This is why Americans refer to the room and not the actual porcelain seat you shit in 😂

Saying the bathroom or restroom is so much nicer than saying " the toilet". To me (grew up in another country) it would be like someone asking for "the crapper" or something. So direct and crass which is unusual for Britons