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!

[selsigfach]

where we are*

[SoupDragon]

Having skimmed though the thread, I have come to the conclusion that anyone who thinks, and keeps stating, that "going for a wee" is common is a raging snob and thus not worthy of any attention.

HTH.

[gillywillywoo]

I say it in work all the time

I work in an office/technical environment and I'm the only female... The men all vary in age but I get along with all of them and we are quite a close knit small team....
If you don't announce where you're going in my work then people get a bit funny... There's one guy that just buggers off for 15-20 mins at a time and we still don't really know what he gets up to (he's new and we don't like him haha)
So the guys say "just going for a fag"... "Just getting a coffee"... One of them every afternoon says "right I'm off for a poo".. I THINK he's joking but probably not... We just all laugh.
So I always say "I'm going for a wee" and they chuckle to themselves.

[gillywillywoo]

Infact the other day in work I was drinking a lot of water and I put the phone down and said out loud "shit I might actually wet myself.. Sorry guys.. Back in a sec,.. Need a wee!"

If there were important people around I probably wouldn't say it but we are a team of 6 (me and 5 blokes who are all very funny guys) so we crack jokes all day and have a laugh...I've heard THEM say much worse so I really don't care that I say I'm going for a wee!

[MusicalEndorphins]

I don't think anyone, even children, need to announce what they are going to do in the bathroom. Cannot stand to hear a child announce, especially within hearing range of others, that they need to poo or pee. It is TMI. If they are old enough to talk, they are old enough to say they need to use the washroom/bathroom/restroom or whatever people say in the area where they live.
IMHO. :)

[ComposHat]

For when a gentleman must micturate, any of the following will do...

I'm just away to...

Unbutton the mutton

Splash the boots

Shake hands with the wife's best friend/the unemployed

Drain the wizzard

Strain the potatoes

Hang out with the big knobs

[NinaHeart]

My male (aged 25 if that matters) colleague announces he is "going to the bathroom". He is not American, it is not a bathroom and it annoys the hell out of me.

[Dawndonna]

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!
I have no idea what sort of independent schools you have attended or chosen to work in, are they those little nurseries? Because let's face it, most teens are going to the bog. Most teens will say if they need a wee, most adults do.
As the granddaughter of a couple of Lords, I use the lavatory if out, and if I need a wee at home say so.
If I heard you wittering about the loo and other such twee forms, I'd know exactly where you were brought up, and it certainly wasn't where you are trying to claim. You're not posh, just an insufferable snob.

[topsyandturvy]

I hate it too.

Whats wrong with excuse me I just need to use the loo, bathroom, toilet, washroom or whatever depending on where you are from?

[Acandlelitshadow]

Gotta love Wiki

Off to drain the dragon

[ComposHat]

Point the Pink Pistol at the Porcelain Firing Range!!!!

[Acandlelitshadow]

Ohhh. Jimmy Riddle. Used to love that one!

Re-adds to peasanty repertoire

[crashdoll]

"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!"

Major sense of humour failure, dude! As you appear not to get it, I was taking the WEE out of your snobbishness. Get it now?

[seeker]

However, I do know, for real and in my actual real life, a couple who turned down an applicant for a job as their nanny because she said "Pleased to meet you".

[AshokanFarewell]

I usually say I'm just popping to the bathroom. Or sometimes nip, like Incredible. This winds my dad up as he says it's a loo, not a bathroom, unless it has a bath/shower.

I don't really understand why people use different sayings depending what they're going to be doing as, personally, I'd prefer not to know exactly what others are doing in the bathroom, but I'm a bit of a prude :)

[ComposHat]

I hate bathroom for toilet, it is a creeping Americanism and I don't see why we Europeans who have no puritanical hang ups about pissing and shitting should start using their puritanical mealy mouthed word for the toilet.

I used to have a job at a tourist attraction and used to relieve the boredom by feigning ignorance at all the daft euphemisms for the toilet. 'Comfort station' for fuck's sake!???

[cinnamonsugar]

I wish MN would start a 'Am I Hyacinth Bucket?' sub-forum of AIBU

[orangeandemons]

My colleague says "I need to do weeing"

Is that acceptable?

[cherryade8]

Yanbu. I dislike it too, I don't need to know what they are doing in the loo. Presumably if they are being honest about their toileting soon we'll be told 'im just going to change my tampon/poo etc'.

Just say you're going to the loo, we don't need to know the details!

[YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar]

Going for a Brad.
Dropping anchor in poo bay (can also be used as a gay euphemism).
Shaking the lettuce
Cracking the porcelain
Syphon the Python

[Gruntfuttock]

Dawndonna said
"If I heard you wittering about the loo and other such twee forms, I'd know exactly where you were brought up, and it certainly wasn't where you are trying to claim. You're not posh, just an insufferable snob."

which really surprised me. I say 'loo' and don't consider that to be twee at all. No, I agree that I'm not posh but I am not an insufferable snob either. Is 'loo' really considered to be a Hyacinth Bucket type of word?

[crashdoll]

I never knew expressing the need to relieve oneself was such a minefield!

[DisappointedHorse]

I'm a nipper! I use loo and wee interchangeably but I'd say loo if I was going for a poo.

The horror of using the word toilet and other non-U words does amuse me. Just because the upper classes say it, well it must be right.

[ComposHat]

YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar

Going for... an Eartha (Kitt)
Droping the kids off at the pool
give birth to an Otter
putting up the ass jack.
building a log cabin
crimp one off.