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??

I suspect Folkgirl has hit the nail on the head with her alternative scenarios.

i have just had a very strange conversation with my mother about what one should call the thing you crap into and she informs me

that mc people say toilet everybody else says loo or bog(or other such slang word for it) she had a mini rant about people who say pardon but i didnt quite follow that as i got destracted.

she also added that its perfectly ok to keep your toothbrush in the bathroom even if you have a loo in it but if you use those stupid chemical things in your loo you should keep the lid down because the dogs rather like drinking from the loo when your not watching but the blocks arnt very good for them.

this was just before she told me to bugger off and stop ringing her to ask stupid questions then hung up.

Never say pardon.

Toilet is rude?! You learn something new every day.

If DS knows big is consider wrong at school he should get detention, but I wouldn't consider it swearing.

Nasty crude word that nicely brought up girls like me wouldn't use, but not swearing.

Toilet isn't rude unless you are a certain type of mumsnetter. If it was so rude why is it used on signs for public conveniences, They don't say bogs or loos do they?

This is heading into a much discussed 'Watching the English' type thread about linguistic class codes.

To summarise, in er, advance -

Toilet, pardon, lounge, settee, tea, serviette - all non-U.

It's loo or nothing here.
Never bog!

Toilet is rude?! oh fuck yeh, if I want to wind up my bro I just talk about the toilet and the lounge....

and my kids saying pardon just makes me grind my teeth.....
I think my granny must have had a copy of Nancy Mitford's book.

if i want to wind my brother up i glue his fridge shut

op, yanbu. Some of the things I git detention for at school shaped my opinion that once even the most minor power is put in the hands of unreasonable people, they will take any opportunity to utilise it regardless of how petty or irrational their actions might be. As for the word toilet being offensive, I'm utterly bemused. If that's the type of thing that concerns people with all the other things that are going on in the world, then we truly have reached a new nadir in the thought processes of humanity.

@ pixie - superglue?

yep but i have been known to just use crappy glue then piss myself laughing when he thinks ive used superglue and he has actually started trying to cut the seal out.

disclaimer, i have paid for it to be fixed or replaced every time and he did once brick up my door whilst i was sleeping

I usually call it the loo but sometimes I slip up and say toilet, much to my sil's disgust.
At boarding school we said bog. I hate the word lavatory, a word my father used. When I'm out in a restaurant or pub I ask for the ladies. I've noticed that american visitors call it the restroom or the powder room (women only of course).

Oh my dc never what pardon they What and now I know they play tricks so I say Lightbulb......

They have been doing this to me for 2 years now I am sick of it so just sttarted doing it back.

watt=lightbulb? okay trick you back naughty DC!!

So now i say sorry - so basically I am trying to say pardon but want to say What? but evertime I say what? they say lightbulb, so now I say "sorry"? so WTF am doing here, apologising or asking?

I need to lie down in a dark room!!!

Happy wee wees/pee pee/pisses/slash/erm.... yup that's all.... everyone

at the idea of loos being signposted as "Bogs" in John Lewis.

In a slightly connected fashion number three child was told off at Nursery for announcing they were 'going for a jobbie'. Perfectly acceptable in our house, particularly for 3 year old.

Much better than, poo, number 2, keech, turd or dump surely. Or indeed a shite .

Pardon is asking for forgiveness.
What is asking for something to be repeated because it wasn't heard.

exactly dawndonna - 'what did you say' is quite sufficient.

I've just come back to this. Very amusing!

We call it the loo.

I am very worried, If 'toilet' and 'pardon' are not acceptable what other words aren't? I may be offending people left right and centre.

A trip to Homebase for example

Me-'Could you tell me where the toilet seats are please?'
Homebase man- 'Pardon?'

I don't like the new click thing. Who invented that? I only put He.

You are asking for forgiveness with "Pardon?" though, you were not listening correctly and need forgiveness, it's shorthand for "Pardon me, but I didn't hear that can you repeat?" It's not rude, it's well understood, if you don't like it, don't use it, don't dictate what others say.