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??

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We were taught to only say pardon if you'd made a 'rude noise'

Only in Britain.....

If I were the teacher (which I'm not, or a teacher), I would use the opportunity to start a discussion about the richness of the English language and how there are many different commonly accepted words meaning the same thing. A bit like the Eskimos having however many words for snow.

wordsmith ooh you might struggle to fit that into the day! It would mess your planning up. Would you really disrupt a whole lesson for that? You'd never get them back on task you know.

And you'd be in trouble for calling them Eskimos.

See? Can't do right for doing wrong!

I ask for "the facilities" if we are out

I have NEVER been challenged/asked to explain :D Everyone knows what you are meaning.

Bog and toilet are tebbly tebbly Non U.

Oh the jobbies, I forgot about the jobbie!!

I think somehow overnight I have worked it out.

Oh I cannot say what? as I get back to me lightbulb and now this is getting very annoying as I have had to years of this erm..jobbie.

Okay so I think the posh people say:
"I am going to the Queen to do a Royal"

So no more toilet and poos/jobbies/shits/extracting urines/pisses or slashes.

We simply go to do a Royal.

I hope my bath is still a bath as I want to go lie in it right now! With some erm... Radox stress relief, please don't turn my Radox into something either, well you can but after my bath.

I think if I asked for "the facilities" where I live the poor erm Queen Attendant would send me to another town.

Oh no... that doesn't work either as people may think you are indeed going to hit or have relations with a Royal person. then go get locked up, all people you need to erm... use the facilities.

No quite right to call it bog (or khazi); I'd frown on calling it the crapper.

Oddly enough DW, XW and DM all diapprove of the phrase, so it usually gets called toilet/lav/lavvy

they both seem very trivial reasons for a detention.i suspect there may be more to it than your DS is letting on.

Is the 'crapper' acceptable?
Are you supposed to call your lounge a sitting rum or a living rum?

It's pretty grim IMO.

Why not have him call it "the shitter" and have done with it?

It's a loo or a bathroom

Okay so I think the posh people say:
"I am going to the Queen to do a Royal
sorry if i sound snobby, but it seems horribly common to have to shout about your normal bodily functions, why not just leave the room without saying anything?
it's like those dreadful people who have to fart or burp and then shout 'pardon' ...ewww

Pardon is one of those things the faux-upper classes detest.

nannies tell their children, "Say pardon".
Parents smirk at each other and later tell DC, "That's not what we say..."

People who say that are referred to as from "Pardonia ".

With my background you'd tend to get a barked "What!" or "Say Again". Which annoys DW who's a "Pardon"er

Wordsmith
If I were the teacher (which I'm not, or a teacher), I would use the opportunity to start a discussion about the richness of the English language and how there are many different commonly accepted words meaning the same thing. A bit like the Eskimos having however many words for snow.

And only on mumsnet? Some contrary ideas .

ooh no, bog is horrible! and I agree with whoever said upthread he wouldnt have got away with it in primary school.

however, we have a 'bogs of Ireland' poster in our downstairs loo which features pictures of abandoned pieces of sanitary porcelain in various rural locations, including one with a blackbird nesting in it. I find it amusing...

@onemorechap - my mum drummed all of those in to us! - now whatever I say is in imaginary inverted commas!

My Scottish Granny doesn't say "What" or "Pardon" when she hasn't heard what has been said.

She has her very own word for that - "Beppon", which I have always assumed is a contraction of "Beg your pardon".

I love my Granny.

I usually say 'sorry?' rather than pardon, when I want someone to repeat something I haven't heard properly

He was 11years old - plenty of experience to know that you don't call it 'the bog' in schools.

l would love to be able to leave my room but my DC keep asking where I am going.

Now I know you said sorry but I say sorry if I cannot understand my DC so are you apologising for sounding snobby or can you not also hear me erm...type.?

Oh my Gran was from London, she also said "I beg your pardon"

I don't use bog.

But I do say "I'm off t' loo" or "I'm off for a piss"

So yes I am pretty common. Do I care? No.

I'm not the only one who says this. I obviously don't stand up in restaurants and go "I'm just off for piss love, I'll be back in 2" but I will say loo.

Oh and I say "what" or " pardon" depending who I am talking too.

if talking to ex then its what you dickhead

Pardon Fanjo????