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

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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??

My Dad always called it 'the library'.

I'm with Debrett's. I am now worried I am horribly old fashioned. I am 45. We have a loo, with a loo seat, loo paper and a loo brush. I also regularly call it a lavatory. Toilet is not a word I encourage. I say bog but I relish the vulgarity of it. It's certainly vernacular and not a "school" word. I do enjoy using words like "bog" and "piss" once the kids are in bed, and to annoy my husband but I would expect school to clamp down on them .

I don't even like the {insert word} brush

but

My son has a erm.... {insert a proper word} problem so the {insert word} needs to be scrubbed with something sometimes but tbh I think they are horrid, they smell, they have germs, so I may just start scrubbing with my erm {please find me something I am allowed to use on MN}.

Do those who object to 'toilet' also dislike 'toiletries'? Curious.

Toiletries is a truly vile word. I have had to wash my mouth out with a glug of wine.

Don't look

Oh dear it looks like I shouldn't have told my 4 year old the t**t roll was bog roll this afternoon then!

My Nan used to say she was 'visiting my aunt' , is that acceptable?

He probably sounded like he was being cheeky....I would think it cheeky tbh.

Doing ones toilet is completely different to using the lavatory.

Sparklingbrook please stop this, so they also use the T word!

So after a little walk to woods and a cold erm... bottom? and sitting on "nettles" no, woods are not good.

I may tray the drains in the streets next time I go for a thingamyjig!

I may also try

It's eau de toilette that freaks me out. Why would you want to spray yourself with aroma of shithouse?

Arf

*toilette.

It's not toilet. It's different.

And never, ever leave your toothbrush in the bog.

Or you will end up with someone else's poo particles on your teeth.

Fo sho.

My bog is in my bathroom. I would love a downstairs bog. When we were on holiday the house had 3 bogs-it was bogtastic.

There's nothing like your own bog though. Public bogs tend to be minging.

I'm DH and I always thought bog was 'posh peoples' slang, only the very middle class I know use it. Bog or Loo.

We say T**t or Kazi.

However the worst I've heard is an ex-colleague who was 'just off for a tinkle in the ladies' YUCK.

A bog's just a wetland surely

Oooh Bog snorkelling

I haven't heard anyone using that term for years. I think it is very much a slang word and not really anything you would expect to hear at school.
It ranks alongside "going for a slash/crap" for vulgarity.

And what is the MN hatred for the word toilet? I live in South Yorkshire and there is no snobbery about that word. We tend to say loo or toilet in our house and so do most people I know.

Has no one mentioned 'Little girls room' or the 'Little boys room'?

Binky thank you!!

I need a thingymajig but idea where to do it, of course "the little girls room" BUT I am not a litle girl, so can I use the "little girls room" please let me go somewhere to have a thingymyjig!

No shit on my toothbrush Too funny for my childish mind.

See I tend to use another thing to lean the loo with but sadly lots of Mnetters started ganging up on me for using even that. Starts with B ends in h, I think as I never ever ever use this anymore lie

CLEAN not lean on loo/little girls room/T word, bog/power room/woods, drains.

Oh blast now I am dropping/losing letters