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!

[BarredfromhavingStella]

Oh dear, going for a slash is mine though I am as common as muck tbf

[Sorelip]

I have been known to state 'I neeeeed a wee!' but it's a nod to Green Wing more than anything.

[Montybojangles]

Seriously, you think any of us care enough about what you think about us as far as something so insignificant is concerned to give a toss?


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss

[ChocsAwayInMyGob]

Agree with Monty. The term Wee is used so often by so many people that you may as well resign yourself to the fact that it is now accepted vernacular.

[StuntGirl]

I know nickname, it was like everyone was politely ignoring it while continuing to use the phrase

I am recoiling in horror at some of these expressions though!

[PopUpWorkshop]

What? "Common"? Yes, it is. Very common.

Hilarious post about a test to get into "private school" involving the word "toilet"! I've always attended and worked in private schools. You'd be laughed at for saying "I need a wee". As you would in any normal state school - unless you're in Reception class!

[CSIJanner]

LMAO on this. Found an entire site dedicated to euphemisms:

Talking to grandma slowly
Changing the water on the goldfish
Draining the sleepy weasel
Flushing my buffers
Freshen my snapple
Lower the water level
Splashing the pirate

And my all time favourite given the cost of it all, paying my water bill.

I might just confuse the hell out of DC tomorrow

[IncrediblePhatTheInnkeepersCat]

I work in a state secondary and frequently have teenagers say to me "I need a wee, Miss, can I go to the loo?' Naice MC kids too. Guess they're the ones who failed the facilities question at private school .

[Irishchic]

You're right OP. I prefer to say " Do excuse me, I am just popping out to the lavatory so that I may expel the contents of my bladder."

I am incredibly civilised me.

[CSIJanner]

Irishchic Don't forget standing up and loudly announcing "Excuse me but I have the urge to defecate"

[ODearMe]

My DM always announces she is going to 'spend a penny'.

[DameFanny]

I rarely need to tell anyone at work, but if I need five minutes between meetings to get another coffee and have a wazz, I might say "off for a fluid exchange". Will that do OP?

[Doubtfuldaphne]

My mil "goes to the cloaks"
The cloaks!
I can only imagine its derived from the cloakroom but it confuses a lot of people when she asks where 'the cloaks' are in restaurants!

Also I am so embarrassed after reading this post - I never ever thought anything of saying I need a wee.. I even told my boss on my first day at work and he looked at me like something he'd just trodden in.

[DeWe]

Dm brought us up to say "spend a penny". There was a Noddy story entitled "Noddy spends a penny" which we thought was very funny. No one would understand that round here I suspect.

Or we have the latin phase:
"itis apis potan itis abigun"

[Irishchic]

CSI wouldnt dream of phrasing it in any other way!

[starsandunicorns]

I work in a office on my own if i leave i walk pass another and have to say i am leaving so they know to answer my office bell. So I shout as I am passing "going to the loo" ( which is up 2 flights of stairs)

My friend says shaking her lettece

[ComposHat]

I spent years saying 'I'm away for a Jimmy Rimmer' blissfully unaware that cockney rhyming slang is Jimmy Riddle and that Jimmy Rimmer was the Villa goalkeeper in the late 70s/early 80s.

[ToffeeWhirl]

I say nothing or, if I have to, say I'm going to the loo. Never say 'toilet' (very common!).

MIL always says she's "busting".

[BigBoobiedBertha]

Yes, wee is very common isn't it? Most people seem to use it.

Seriously, I have no problem with wee. Wee-wee on the other hand is a step to far - very childish.

I have an irrational dislike of pee though. No idea why? Maybe because the only time I hear it said in RL is by doctors so never a good thing. I also deeply dislike lav, which is very common. My mum thought loo was common too, without being able to explain why.

I have no idea why 'toilet' is common either. Again, some people keep saying it is but nobody ever gives a satisfactory explanation of why.

[Gooseysgirl]

At home my DH sometimes says he's going to 'log on', does it to get a reaction though! My DSis told me that her DH announces to her 'There's an enemy at the gates'. At work I don't tend to announce it, I just slink off... At home I say I'm off to spend a penny or I'm just nipping to the loo.

[Doingakatereddy]

I'm getting annoyed at the OP's overuse of exclamation marks, in truth I find it very common.

I've been for a pee, DH is having a slash, DS was woken up to have a wee wee and darling DD (6weeks) is farting. We're an episode of shameless in this house

[OpheliasWeepingWillow]

I always say I need to pee. In whatever company. Who cares? And common? Give over.

[OnTheNingNangNong]

Incredible We 'nip' to the loo/ for a wee too.

[seeker]

What's wrong with "excuse me"?

[selsigfach]

Where we in Wales, "dw i isio (i want) pee pee" is often used, which does make me shudder a little.
Toilet/loo are both common, right? I would ask for directions to the bathroom or just say "excuse me" if I knew where it was.