to despise it when adults say "I need a wee"

[PopUpWorkshop]

or "I'm going for a wee" or "He's gone for a wee" etc.

Can't you just go to the loo without announcing it, or just refer to it as "the loo".

Adults "going for a wee" is childish and ever so common! So there!

[ChocsAwayInMyGob]

I'm sticking with wee.

[SchroSawMargeryDaw]

Loo is a horrid word.

[beitou]

Bleed my lizard

[ChocsAwayInMyGob]

Actually, I've got a Whizz so I can wee behind bushes.

I'm practically a cave woman.

[AnnaFiveTowns]

Boomba - Some people do take offence at the word "toilet". Saw it on a previous thread on here. And read about it in a novel. But I have no idea why???

[PopUpWorkshop]

Yes, I know you live in Wales. You said "ydw i" is just like "had a wee". Lovely.

[BuntyCollocks]

[Boomba]

Well then, they are mentallers anna

[Hemlet]

I'm going for a weevil kinival (sp?)

[eastmidlandsnightnanny]

My friend says off to visit Mrs Murphy - no idea why

[MrsRickyMartin]

DH says he is going to drain the lizard or say hi to John Thomas.

[Passmethecrisps]

Micturate. I need to micturate

[Nicknamefail]

stuntgirl you have hit the nail on the head. I suspected baiting at first, but when OP said how common it was for the umpthteen time I was sure.
Yawn.
Oh, and I am off for a wee now.

[Oopla]

Loosen up

[Gruntfuttock]

I remember visiting friends of my parents when I was about 11 and the man getting up and announcing "I'm just going to shake hands with my wife's best friend".

[eastmidlandsnightnanny]

Well i must be mega common as we wee on each others wee as loo only gets flushed for number 2 n at end day with glug bleach left in loo. Husband is into saving water n money.

Even my 2yr old announced at dinner daddy weed on your wee n i weed on daddy wee - he does flush though as all part toilet training

[crashdoll]

OP, at private school, children are not sent to the loo, it's the toilet. That is part of the admission test. They point to the doors of the 'facilities' and ask children to ask to use them. If you say "loo", then you are condemned to a life of state education.

[puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE]

I say wee wee

or pee

or piss

[Velve]

Now, I'm a bloody foreigner so forgive me if I am wrong, but I was taught that the term "commoner" refers to anyone who is not in possession of a title of nobility.
So using "commoner" as a derisive word to describe people of your own rank and status seems a bit dumb.
Unless you are of nobility, OP, in which case do continue.

[Clary]

Lol at work I say I must go to the loo, but at home I would say I'm just going for a wee, what's wrong with that?

I hate hate hate it when people use silly euphemisms like the toilet (which actually means doing your hair and face and teeth in the morning) or worse, the bathroom. Toilet is hideously common. Proper posh folk say lavatory.

Kids drive me mad at school when they say "I need toilet" I make them ask me properly before I let them go.

[Gruntfuttock]

Velve, you seem to be confusing two words. The OP said "common" not "commoner". They are not interchangeable.

[Velve]

Yes, I know OP said "common", it's hard to miss as it said so many times. She did also say "commoners".

It just amuses me, that's all.

[Caitycat]

It's "common" (if you care) to use a naice euphemism for it, mil always says "I'm going to pay a call" which annoys me intensely for no real reason. If you need to mention it (and sometimes you do) it is far better to come out with it "I'm going for a wee" doesn't upset me at all, in fact I probably say it myself (although as someone else has said I wouldn't at work). I hope op is slightly tongue in cheek when she says she wouldn't be friends with someone over something this petty!

[persimmon]

Men can point Percy at the porcelain.

My friend strains her vegetables.

[IncrediblePhatTheInnkeepersCat]

I never go for a wee / to the loo, I always nip. Not sure why.

If in polite company: 'I just need to nip to the loo'
More casual company: 'I just need to nip for a wee'

Does anyone else 'nip' rather than 'go'?