To think it's ok to call the toilet a bog?

[TambianLoco]

I've called it the bog for as long as I can remember. When I met my ex he'd always called it the bog too so we brought the kids up saying bog. Even my new boyfriend calls it the bog!!

DS(11) has just received a detention today for telling his teacher that he was on his way to the bog. This follows a detention he got yesterday for leaving a bottle cap on his table.

AIBU to think both detentions were rather harsh??

What do you say to the plumber? My bog is leaking can you come and look at it?

I was always taught that saying toilet was fine as in the noun.

But the action, as in 'going to the toilet' was graphic. Like I'm going for a piss, or going for a shit.

Each fam is different I spose

Nah - I'd say the loo in our bathroom is leaking!

English language is tres bizarre.

What some people think is proppa - some peeps think is vulgar.

sparklingbrook, yes why not??

Oh now I have been sent into utter confusion.

See we say jst going to the bathroom to use the toilet, so we really just forget about the toilet altogether and say

I'm just away to the bathroom

Why?

Erm... not allowed to say any more words.

in all fairness none of the teachers in my dc's school would say that nor would they correct them for using the words bog or loo.

bog is acceptable at home loo is fine in public in a classroom please may i be excused is also acceptable.

But what if the tt isn't in the bathroom Mellower what if you have a separate tt?

Seems a bit harsh of the teacher.

haha that's right, mellower,just like at my mum's.....lounge/sitting room/living room were all WRONG as well as toilet/loo/bathroom

Ha you think english is strange, try living Socatland where drop letters and make up words.

Last week my DC done and 8 or possibly and A on his scooter. Must ask Dc in the morning what he done on his scooter. Or his scoo-ur. Its a bloody scooter stop dropping the T's!!!

Then you to the shop and they say "tank you" again stop losing letters. Where is the H.

Yeah just call it the bloody bog then.....

See now I am losing words!!

Oh a seperate tittle-wint?

Where do I go extract my urine?

you go for a piss of course, silly

Or an outside tt Mellower.

going to the woods for a slash is perfectly fine but take a torch its dark

that is deffo a brickshithouse

Okay a seperaet T***t

I am going to the little room downstairs/upstairs but not the bathroom?

Why

I need to use the sink or the bath or the window or even the brush thing used to clean the thing we cannot say.

Sparklingbrook

I have no answers, I need some words to be allowed to use.

I heading back to woods with a torch just in-case I wee wee or -take a slash on an animal.

Don't use a brush!

Everyone on mumsnet knows they are unhygenic. Right? thats what every post about them ends up saying but I bet we all have one

By that age he ought to know that you don't call it 'bog' in school (whatever he does elsewhere). In the primary school I wouldn't accept it and don't know any teacher who would.

This whole thing is a worry. I had no idea.

it is important to learn about 'register' for school or workplace - bog at home, loo or t*** at school, still a detention does seem a bit harsh - maybe she just doesn't like him.

It is very simple-they get it very quickly at 5yrs-you simply don't listen until the DC asks in an acceptable manner. This DC was year 7 so he knew perfectly well-if he chooses to ignore it a detention might remind him next time!