Settle an argument please

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DH says I'm weird for using the phrase 'to do a shit' rather than his preferred 'to take/have a shit'.

The dictionary seems to support his argument, unfortunately. Does anyone do a shit?

Fun evenings in your household.

And they say the art of conversation is dead.

What about drop a deuce? Or take the kids to the pool? Is it really something people announce?

I would ask (if the question needed asking, eg a child tells me they had a tummy ache): Do you need to do a poo?

If I was announcing it myself (unlikely as I live alone, but I just 'practised' out loud for the purposes of this thread 🤦‍♀️🤣🤷‍♀️) I think I'd say: I'm off to do a poo!

So I'm on your team OP 👍

Do a poo ✅

How romantic.

What about Curl one out? I know someone that says this.

I know it is important for conversations to always be romantic/scintillating but occasionally they veer off the prescribed path 🙄

Thanks to those who said I'm right 😁

Both wrong. It's lay a cable .....

In our house it's "off for a baboola"

Jim Royle had it right.

The only time I’d ever use shit in a sentence would be “literally can’t give a shit” ie about something. I wouldn’t announce needing a 💩 to my dh!

How cute

I don't necessarily announce that I'm going to do a shit. I could be saying that the cat had done a shit on the rug. I'm asking if the turn of phrase is normal, not the announcement of defecation.

Stay classy

These are completely normal, romantic conversations in my household!

Since we don't use shit in this context, it's not quite the same but we DO do a poo or a jobbie.

My favourite after an impressive session is "that was like a Tuesday morning in Primary 6" ...

I prefer Tom Tit

My husband pointed out a few weeks ago that he always knows when I need/am going for a poo. I said no he doesn't. He said yes I do, if you're going for a wee you say I'm going for a wee or I need a wee, and if it's a poo you say I'm going to the toilet or I need the toilet. I realised he's bang on 😂 so I didn't really think I was announcing it but apparently I have been for the past 7 years.

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Although I don't think they would want this conversation either.

I recall some years ago, then teen DS sitting in the back of the car moaning at DH to hurry up because he needed to get home to ‘harvest his strawberries’

imagine my surprise on getting home when he didn’t rush to the bathroom but opened FarmVille once he was on the Wi-Fi.

Apparently ‘harvesting your strawberries’ was not the euphemism DH and I thought it was, although it became just that from then on.

My little dog is always in my lap and won’t move unless I announce, “I’ve gotta pee.”

It never occurred to me until just now that I talk to my dog when we’re alone and she recognizes the word “pee.”

He would say 'going to the pool to drop the kids off'.